Hello everybody and welcome to the first inaugural Wrong Hole Only Open,ought to you by complaining,
complaining it just works! My name is Sponge Nicely and I'm joined today
by one of the greatest to ever play the game, Mr. Wedge Chippington.
Wedge how do you feel about our competitors chances today?
Incredible! That's the kind of quality feedback you only get from one
of the best to ever do it.
Before we begin, we would like to have a brief moment
of silence in remembrance of our good friend Scent.
He's fine. We just wanted to remember him thank you and with that moment of silence out
of the way let's introduce our players for today's game first with the pink ball we have Blonde Cave on.
Woohoo! It's me! I'm here!
With the pinwheel ball we have JPEG
Hello, I'm...
I'm JPEG.
I bring Panache, Moxie
and a certain Je ne sais quoi.
And finally with the blue ball
we have reigning champion Gondor.
Hi, I am Gondor
and I can't confirm or deny where
I was when the Westfold fell
just saying
One final note
we encourage cheering, screaming, laughing for our golfers but
we do want to respect the sanctity of the game and request that you keep your
claps to a reasonable volume.
Exceptional work, thank you so much and with that golfers are you ready?
Ostensibly
I guess as ready as one gets so let's get started with the first inaugural wrong hole open in three
two one golf one. Golf.
Starting out on our first hole,
our runners are going to let me take over because this is actually one of
the most difficult holes they're going to deal with.
The setup at the beginning is exceptionally difficult,
and as they are required to get a hole in one
in order for the wrong hole to count
that set up needs to be extremely precise
Oh we see Blancayvon already with
a heartbreaker inches away
from sinking it. A rare
double bogey from the champion.
Oh, and JPEG
with a very nice shot there.
But hole-in-one from Gondor puts him firmly in the lead.
JPEG however likely to catch up by virtue of just being pretty cool.
Thank you for that, actually.
Blonde Kavon moving on to hole two now.
You'll notice on hole two it's a fairly straightforward shot
where you need to go.
The problem, of course is the power. Oh but Kayvon sinks it
like a master! Absolutely excellent work.
Lots of jump Excellent work.
Lots of jumpies on this hole for Gondor. Now when you do jump the ball,
you can control some of your momentum
but controls a strong word for anything
you do in Golf It.
It's more of a hit the spacebar
and pray that it does what you want.
As the core mechanic
of Golf It is also to
push the mouse
and pray that it does what you want.
It is just unbelievable
the quality of play that we are seeing from these
three, can you believe it? Hey quality of play that we were saying from these three. Don't you dare, don't you dare.
Hey, commentator
I know this is a little bit meta but would
you like to explain some of the
features that are different
from a normal golf playthrough?
What are you talking
about this is totally perfectly normal golf play through i'm not sure what you mean
i actually i've been talking plenty i think i'll leave that one to wedge excuse you thanks wedge um so how this differs
from a regular game of golf it is our players are only allowed to get
the ball in the wrong hole so if you are on the tee for hole one you are allowed
to go in any hole from 2 through 18 but not not Hole 1. If any of our players do land in the correct
hole they will be donating... how much? 50. $50 yes, $50 if you make
the cardinal sin. I'm about to do it right now
the only problem of course with this approach is that
when you are shooting for the wrong hole if you land on the green
of another hole,
the game will reset your ball to where you started
the shot. So ostensibly every wrong hole has to be a hole in one
meaning rather than normal putt-putt where our players may be able to get close
to the hole with a series of putts.
In this situation, the players have to play a real game
and really nail their shots.
Dondor now on hole 10 one of the
more difficult holes for most players gandor had a rare hole in one on this
and warm up an oh three in the actual run some
exceptional work from Gondor.
Seeing a little bit of heat coming out of JPEG is the head shape that we're working on.
Yeah, can you stop complimenting it?
I will never compliment Gondor again in my life.
Oh, that's sad.
Oh, you're beautiful.
Thank you.
What did I just say?
Oh my god, I can't focus now. Thank you. What did I just say?
Oh my god, I can't focus now.
Oh cool!
Hey um...I complained and guess what happened? It worked! Complaining.
It just works.
Now you may notice that on most
of these holes our players are getting to
a similar spot on the green of the intended hole or they're just shooting
directly from the tee there are quite precise setups to make sure that your angle is correct
that you have a shot that's possible to get um on each of these holes, you will see
for example...
Very nice. You do love to see it.
Now the bounce out is
something that can happen in
Golf It! Particularly in wrong hole only as we are using
wedges and drivers on what would otherwise be a putt-putt course.
A bounce out is of course when the ball goes into the hole
and then bounces out of the hole. this case jpeg's ball bounced back
in so it was a legal play moving her on to the next hole all right here we go. Bonus hole!
Oh, exceptional work!
Yes that is one of the opportunities
players have to get their ball into
what we call a bonus hole, which are secret hidden
holes around the map.
Oh!
There we go.
Beautiful work.
Kevin's got a really really nice oh and you hate to see it bounce out like that was such a good
lineup but Kevin always a perennial competitor is not going to let that stop him
all right we're good oh and there it is a beautiful shot from heaven except oh
that was close i'm gonna try this from the start i shouldn't do
this jpeg go in for some backup strats?
Feeling confident? Not really!
I'm just trying to girlboss way through this right now, okay?
Well
As we always say in the golf community
Girl boss
Gatekeep
Golf ball Golf ball gatekeep.
That's right folks, girl boss gatekeep golf ball
I'm literally begging.
All right, fine, I'll do the regular setup video for this. Kevin's already on graveyard so he can't be in graveyard.
Can I just write hole for like several?
I don't need to pay a mortgage or anything hey husband you're watching
two of our runners have now moved on to graveyard the main mechanic of graveyard is this large funnel it is actually the hole for
whole seven but it is accessible from a majority
of the holes in the graveyard which will allow both
of our players and very soon jpeg to be
directly into the funnel and then the ball will eventually roll into
the center and go into the hole. The problem, of course, is there are several
fake holes on
the funnel if the ball goes into a fake hole
that it's a reset because a fake
hole is not a wrong hole. Important
distinction. As we are watching these two runners drop into the funnel
a couple times you'll notice that they're trying to get close to the center of the funnel
it is possible to hit the outside of the funnel and then start to roll around the
funnel. And rolling around
the funnel is slow, it takes quite a long
time but you don't necessarily want to reset
because it isn't guaranteed
in the hole at that point.
So a difficult decision if you reset and shoot again,
or just take the time loss waiting for it to slowly
and sadly roll to the middle.
It is pretty depressing.
Very nice lineup from JPEG on this hole I think this
probably a good time for some donations yeah oh wonderful because I have plenty
of donations for you here's's $20 from Quinton,
who says, Go Golf It Team! Y'all are awesome and
you got this. Hole in one every time right? Right?!
First time every time.
Don't ever change, y'all and trans rights indelibly!
Trans rights baby!
Thank you Quentin.
My monitor just went black
Oh that's exciting.
Okay I'm gonna just turn around and try to do this on the main screen.
Oh, oh! And it went into vision... okay we're fine, you're back. Oh and I went into vision...
Okay we're fine, we're fine.
Some exceptional work from JPEG there.
Fighting bad agents.
Can you both just like hang out for a while or something?
I got a halo because I'm perfect, thank you.
That's true.
I'll wait to see her on the next map.
I do want to take a moment to remind you of some
other sponsors of this first
inaugural Wrong Hole Open The first inaugural Wrong Hole Open.
The first inaugural Wrong Hole Open is sponsored by the Mayonnaise Hospital.
The Mayonnaise Hospital,
the only legally distinct hospital...
We were so proud of ourselves when we came up with that,
and I should not have been.
I'm gonna be so real,
I can't tell on the stream,
Can y'all see the sign?
Is the sign visible on screen or should I hold it on screen because it opened your eyes
oh you could probably do a couple more donations while I'm fighting for my life.
That I can do! Here's $25 from Atelier Zeno, who says...
Oh no! I don't think any of these shots are going in the right hole.
No they're not.
That's okay. Do you have time for more?
Yes. Here is $50 from me. That's okay. Do you have time for more? Yes!
Here is $50 from Chibi Carrera
Hello wife!
They're saying hello back, they would like to say, JPEG!
What an incredible person you are.
You're an amazing host and amazing social media team
member and an amazing runner of Silly Game?
What can't you do?
Seriously, you're wonderful and literally
the funniest person I know.
Congrats on Wrong Hole Only
and good luck with the race!
Love you!
You were the one that made me survive that, thank you very much.
That is too true. JPEG is a hilarious individual. All three of these golfers really funny people and really exceptional athletes.
I do want to talk a little bit...
You're gonna call us hot!
You are?
I mean, I wasn't going to say it but yeah, like look at you
smoking. Look at these outfits outfits are you kidding me?
I've never wanted
to smooch the homies more
hey welcome
to Chili Block everybody
are you good?
yeah
yes
yeah I do want to talk a little bit about some of the core mechanics
of this golf game. Now we have talked about what makes Wrong Hole only unique,
but Golf It in general is a game controlled pretty much primarily, if not completely by your mouse.
You use the mouse to find the angle that you will be shooting at and then click to bring the putter or
driver, or wedge out whichever club you deem best
for your current situation. And then you will
pull the mouse back and push the mouse forward
in order to hit the ball
in the direction that you have aimed.
The problem, of course, is that
our golfers are fairly convinced
that there may be a power randomizer built into the game
wherein it feels like,
oh thank goodness that went in exceptional.
My soul left my body.
You love to see it.
Wow.
An eagle.
One of the best kinds of scores to get on this America's birthday.
Yeah. Come here. america's birthday yeah can we get a happy birthday america
i can't believe every american was born on this day just like how all horses are born on January 1st.
Look that up.
Not like right now, but I think.
Please watch the rest of this
and then look it up.
But yes, the power
randomizer though not proven
is believed in by many golf
professionals. The power randomizer
is the conspiratorial
belief that when you pull the mouse back
and push forward the same amount on
two different shots, it will go
two different distances
because consistency
in your performance does not always reflect into consistency
In the performance of the ball
Oh my god
26?
No it was a 36
A 36 on round or absolutely incredible on Graveyard.
You get to continue to live with me.
Congratulations.
Hooray!
Condor moving on now
to our third and final map, Pirates.
And you may notice on the pirate map
much like we had the funnel
to rely on for the graveyard
We now have the cannons to rely on
So you will see the runners aiming for
the cannon from many different angles the
difference being uh the hitbox on a canon is slightly
smaller than the hip box on a giant funnel
just a little.
I do think we could take one or two more donations at this point.
Shirley, Shirley, here's five dollars
for you from Satan herself
who says
a little birdie told me about a three-way golf it race is that
a triple bogey either way you are hitting it out of the park.
I hope you've all been in the green this whole time.
Much love from The Back Couch.
Thank you, Back Couch. We love you!
Claps for puns. Really wonderful stuff. We love you. Hi
Claps for puns really, really wonderful stuff
Can we squeeze in a couple more? Absolutely
Oh good because we have ten dollars from Madge Danvers, who says,
Thanks Wedge. Very insightful.
Wedge really was one of the greatest to ever play this game.
It is reported, though it was sadly a practice room PB
so it cannot be confirmed but it was
reported that Wedge got a one minute
record. That's right
all three maps in one minute.
I know, exceptional work and for somebody with no arms.
10 out of 10 work Wedge.
Well here we go.
And none left. Well, here we go. And you'll notice now hole 6 looking very similar to holes 1
and also 2 and also 3. It's a lot of cannon in this map
but the way that we get to the cannon is different there is one
coming up a few holes from now for our golfers where you can just barely see
the back end of the cannon between the slats
of some of the bamboo and it's a really exceptional beautiful moment
when you just squeeze through those slats
and nail it right on the cannon.
This is one in particular where the cannon's not particularly visible,
but they know in their hearts where it is.
And if you just follow your heart...
You'll always find a cannon.
...you can play golf.
That too.
We can probably do a couple more donations.
Shirley, Shirley
we have $170 from Bloop Queen.
Wow!
Who says all horses
and
all speedrunners
are born on January 1st. Speedrunners are born on January 1st. Speed runners usually around 1201 if it's a personal best. That's so true. It was my sister, High Glove Queen.
Thank you so much.
Do you have time for a few more?
We do.
Here is $10 from Atitree who says this run is like the hotel elevators.
The way I want to swipe those cardigans
y'all are looking sharp and playing great.
Keep it up!
Oh my God!
So clever.
It's really funny as to ever do it, thank you.
Do we have time for a few more? We do.
Wonderful! Here is $5 from Wolf
Plains who says this stream brought to you by Golf It.
Golf It, where any hole is a goal.
That is incredibly true. And I do want to take a moment to shout out some more of our first inaugural Wrong Hole Open sponsors, including The Concept of Jazz.
The Concept of Jazz... it's all about the golf you don't play! the concept of jazz.
It's all about the golf you don't play.
Wow, a hole-in-one
again from Gondor
really looking like
JPEG is moments away
from simply strangling the runner next to her
which well a violation not a disqualification that would only be
a two-stroke penalty for a chokeout as long as a legal hold is used my water's milk
exceptional work over here. The good news is
that the milk water does not change the physics
Mostly because we don't touch it, because I'm sure if we touched it would
Oh absolutely. Please rope I'm begging.
To be fair we don't know enough about how the physics
work to know if they changed.
That's very accurate.
We only have like 200 hours in this so...
And we still don't understand the game
and we haven't recommended it on steam
would you though yeah kind of maybe hang on if he wins no Hang on.
If he wins, no.
Yeah, true.
Don't do this to yourself.
Oh, so close but just hitting the barrier there for Gondor. 17
giving a little bit of trouble, so he's
going to try a different setup.
Ooh, 18
is right up there.
A little difficult. always harder to shoot
up than to shoot down in a game of golf but gondor just
a beautiful shot exceptional triple bogey are you serious how fast did you
just do that? Sorry.
No, that's true. That was beautiful. Kevin!
Kevin is the only one who does that hole that way.
This is the last hole for me so I'm coming up on time here in a second.
And that is time
wonderful work from gondor but jpeg with an incredible comeback already now
on hole 17 after quite the deficit early in the run. Looking like
they may be able to pull it back.
Oh, that depends on how 17 goes.
May I bring you a very relevant donation?
Yes!
You get $15 from Kevin of Computer, who says
I'm a sucker for an underdog story.
So go JPEG! Get the wrong hole not the right one!
Thank you! go jpeg get the wrong hole not the right one thank you
kevin hit time by the way oh sorry
don't look, guys!
Oh. Oh. Please.
Very close now we are going for that bar cannon and that is the same cannon as
we've used for the very first hole making a
oh i've never actually done that before
oh that has in fact never happened before
as we come up on time for our final runner, I want to make sure we shout out the final sponsor of the first inaugural wrong hole open.
And that is Steve.
Just Steve. Just Steve.
Steve!
Thank you, Steve. Okay... barely got it.
One more. Alright this is the final
hole for JPEG. Nope!
Oh? Nope.
So close.
This one you just gotta gently kiss it which i'm still not doing
too much lip so that's too much Wait, wait, wait! Time.
We need to get up stage.
Oh my gosh
did y'all like the outfit? Was that something
you enjoyed?
Oh my goodness.
And congratulations to both of
you on beating
not only
our My Practice Room PB but like beating not only my practice room PB,
but anything we've done in this game
so far.
Thank you!
Some huge PBs from our golfers.
Okay, do you want to do shoutouts first?
Sure! Yeah, I wanna thank Quintin my caddy on the couch back there
also my husband who chose to be a caddy who is the same as the caddy
oh goodness gracious um i want to say thank you to my family. My two co-runners who are
the best people ever. Our commentator Happy and everybody on the Burning Ship Discord who lets us be
completely ridiculous.
So thank you very much!
Oh do you want me to go next?
Yeah!
Oh okay.
I'm making the rules now, go!
Alright fine.
It came in last.
Alright, okay.
Um, I just wanna shout out that my-
To my friends that may be watching and then to my family that's going to be watching
later since they're asleep.
Which... understandable.
Yeah, that's pretty much it for me.
Awesome!
Shoutouts to Burning Ship, Binary Breakers, Lady Arcaders
You're all absolutely incredible
I hang out in a lot of places with a lot of people you're all absolutely incredible frame fatales i
i hang out a lot of places with a lot of people that i adore so much and
just am really really grateful for um my family who will watch this later other
than my sister thank Thank you so much.
My husband, congratulations on multi-engine today.
I love you and proud of you.
And a special shout out to our friend Skyshroud.
We love you. Kick kid cancer spot so that
you can hang out with us soon
yeah i think we're good.
What up GDQ? I'm the Retro Hunter,
Speedrunner of retro video games!
We getting silly or what?! Yeah! That's what I'm the Retro Runner, speedrunner of retro video games. You getting silly or what?
Yeah! That's what I'm talking about.
Uh...I'm going to introduce you
to a Halloween-infused
fever dream of an NES game called
Monster Party. This game is very near and dear to my heart,
lots of nostalgia teeming with charm
and just like bizarre dialogue
and bosses
You play as Mark a little boy who gets visited by
a gargoyle named bert yeah that's his actual name
uh who beckons mark to help him save his home world from an invasion of monsters and
mark very reasonably is like listen i'm just just a little boy and I have no weapons.
And Bert's like, ah, see you got baseball back there
that's probably fine.
Not even making this up
I'm not exaggerating
This is the actual game As mark you can jump you can hit things
with your bat you can hold uh the b button which will extend mark's bet and continuously do damage
if you press down during a jump he he will jut down and Mark can even
do the worm which is tech we'll showcase
in this run. Really quick there are
three items that you can get. You can get health
you can get a pill which for
time turns you into Bert
who can fly and shoot projectiles.
And you can get a question mark
which can either be points, health,
a pill or nothing at all.
But without further ado
I'm just going to let this game be the bizarre game that it is.
Countdown...
3... 2... 1... Go!
Alright so there's not like that
much honestly to the gameplay of this game
it's all about going in these doors and
fighting these bosses
There are eight rounds and each round has requisite bosses that you have to
defeat before the game lets you proceed to the next round. Real quick, look at give it
up for this guy who's stuck in the ground trying to get out.
Look at those legs!
Come on, come on.
Coming up we have one of my favorite bosses
and video game history. I don't know if you can see it,
but it's actually on my shirt. He has a lot to say... Sorry
I'm dead. Don't beat yourself
up! Don't beat yourself up.
Okay, you pass this totally not a cactaur
The stage completely changes.
There's something just in this round
we call ledge boosting, basically
we just route the
route around Mark
walking off of as many ledges as possible.
It actually boosts him one pixel to the right
Please don't pick on me, and then he attacks us.
That was actually a decent fight.
It's pretty good. so Try to get to the next round here.
Do you have time for a really quick donation?
Um, sure. Sure.
Here's $50 from Anonymous who says,
Sorry! I'm dead.
Sorry...I'm Shred.
Yo give it up for Reverse Mermaids!
Come on look at these enemies so good!
Originally there's a prototype of this game that never came out because originally all these bosses were like
Universal Studio Monsters and Hollywood movie IPs. That one was supposed to be Medusa.
You can use a couple of these, I guess we'll call them sewage pipes
To warp to different parts of the stage.
And we're also using something called bat boosting,
which is turn around at the last minute after we've
batted an enemy.
Here we have the Tempura boss rush.
We got tempura shrimp
uh here we have i think that this is a squid ring i I would call it a galamon.
Some people think it's an onion ring.
You can say whether you're team onion ring or team squid ring in chat. A little bit of the worm there, you'll see that again later though.
You gotta really showcase how awesome that
animation is.
Uh... Okay, so this boss is like a reference to the ring. You know? Like a Ringu sort of deal.
You don't want to take too much damage there because
then you get risk of death but we're pretty good on health right now.
More bat boosting...
I'll just get past you there.
Some health......and some health! I'll just get past the other...some health.
That should probably not kill that. Okay, that like all the enemies in this game have static item drops.
But this is kind of balanced by enemy spawns being affected by items that you get.
Certain enemies won't spawn if you obtain certain items
or kill certain enemies, so what we're gonna do is there's a...
This is supposed to be a vampire. We're going to do is there's a... this is supposed to be a vampire.
We are gonna kill this vampire and that will cause this vampire to spawn
and drop some health, health is good for marathons
Move it.
We can even get that health again, I'll go ahead and do that.
Okay, so I don't know how to describe this or why this happens.
Normally there are these stalactites that fall on you
but if you mimic my movement there they can fall as soon
as you scroll the screen. We a mommy here sometimes he wants hugs
sometimes he wants hugs we don't want hugs though we don't want to die
yeah stay over there. Good.
Oh wow! Okay this is great.
Like I said, Burt
when you get the pill
your only Burt for a limited time
so in a lot of areas you want to extend your Burt for a limited time. So in a lot of areas, you want to extend
your Burt form and the only way to do that
is by getting pills
and question marks
can be hearts or
pills or like nothing, or points
so there's a bit of gamble there
with getting the question mark and hoping
that you get
a pill. It actually saves 6
seconds from transforming back into mark and then
back in the bird as well so this is pretty good rnd so far
that was a good fight.
More health, and that's round three!
Alright heading into round four.
This is like an Egyptian-themed round for some reason.
We're going to kill this snake, not get the health,
not kill the snake, and then normally there'd be a scorpion that would spawn right here. And we just made him despawned And you can see that transformation phase
waste time. We want to avoid
that when we can. Cool, we got
that hit. I'll take the health.
This is actually probably one of the more quote unquote technical kills in the game i am a slowpoke here we go
that's the idea you want to follow him and uh
jut down with your bat
might i bother you for a quick donation absolutely
here's 500 oh let's go from the julie cat who's really cats
cats cats mass hysteria!
Good luck TRR.
Thanks so much Julie.
And I think I speak for all the first nights of the Retro Shredders when I say sorry,
I'm dead. Yes Julie
thank you so much. Thank you for the
generous donation
Okay that's a pretty
tough hit to get
just a little bit more insurance with health. We're going to
kill the snake, not get the health or whatever item they drop. I've never played
this game before. Which despawns the scorpion that's normally there
Kill the snake. we're looking for a pill here
transforming into Bert some health another amazing boss coming up he's gonna he's gonna try to out
shred us you can't though he can't you cannot
read me don't even try!
Try as you might...
...you'll never try. Okay, great.
Some more health for insurance and we'll actually pick up a pill here to stay in burnt form. And that's round four.
Making our way...
Okay, I'll try this.
I probably won't get it because it's frame perfect but if you enter a door on the same
frame that you would transform...
Yeah look at these sharks with the oversized fins like...
Love this game! We're gonna try to train uh circumvent the uh
the transformation phase here
i didn't get it oh i did I did get it! It's frame perfect.
These zombies beckon you to watch them dance.
You can't hit them at all or they will start all over so...
Nothing left to do but the worm let's
get some donations going oh I have a perfect donation for while they're
dancing here is $50 from not Bobby Boris Pickett, who says
I was watching GDQ late one night
when my eyes beheld a silly sight
for Monster Party from its cartridge began to rise
and suddenly
he did the smash! He did the monster smash
The Monster Smash! He beat up plants with a bat
He walked off ledges to dash,
he did the smash.
He did the monster smash!
Amazing.
Should have gotten that person on my account.
They're more clever than I am.
We can continue some more donations if you got them.
Oh, you know I do!
We have $30 from Untoasted Toast who says
Sorry...I'm bread.
I love it.
Also, $10 from Lemon Carrots
who says, oh no!
I love Monster Party.
Do you have time for any more?
Yeah, yeah. A couple more.
Sure! Here's $10 from
Shuma G who says
I went to a dog show the other day
A Yorkie took Best in Show,
a Jack Russell took second
and a Scotty took third.
I'm starting to think
that judges had some sort
of all-terrier motive.
It was very involved. I know! your motive.
I was very involved!
Alright, just real quick. Pants!
That's all I gotta say. Pants!
I agree.
This is a sort of a level, which could be kind
of confusing but actually the size
of this level is not that large.
I was able to figure it out as a kid so uh you know if you feel like wasting some time
you probably could power through it or you can just follow the exact route that i'm taking here
there's only one boss in this round,
and here it is.
Which one? It's always
the bottom right one.
Wow, we're getting some sick
RNG right now.
That's probably one of the best patterns you get from the boss okay so the next round is just like purely a vertical climb so uh doing that as mark
is not only time consuming but pretty difficult
we're going to get a pill to stay in vert form one more time with me pants And...
That's round six!
Okay, so Bert's flight speed is purely dependent on how fast you can match the A button.
One of two bosses coming up. This is a quick kill we recently came up with.
Yes, very good!
Get that pill to stay in Burt form...
Mesh of Ranch.
It's a shame it's a really good track,
but it starts over after every screen transition. It's really dumb.
Do you have time for a couple quick donations? Yes! Yes I actually do.
Because people are getting so creative. I have five dollars from the Michelin Man who says
sorry, I'm Tread.
We have $50
from Level 500
Boss who says, sorry
I'm Squid.
And $5
from Fred who who says sorry i'm friend uh how did i know that was coming
thank you everyone so much for introducing yourselves and apologizing.
Alright, only two bosses in the stage. Pretty short one.
Only one more stage to go. That was round seven.
Alright, this is one of the more brutal RNG dependent bosses in the game.
Okay, not bad, not bad. He can actually just like fly around and completely waste your time
And you'll turn back into Mark
And be all angry that you had to reset the game
Questioning your decisions about being an adult
Playing a 30 plus year old game
That no one really knows about.
It's pretty cool boss kill, you just run right up to him,
you press down...
That'll work like every time pretty much.
So there are these firecrackers that fly at you, just fly towards the top of
the screen. And when they get close
fly to the absolute
top of the screen. And for some
reason they explode. It makes this
really easy.
Another really cool boss coming up look at the skating around on his severed head so cool looking yeah it's okay. You can clap. Don't be shy. You can clap.
So we have the key. There is only one boss left.
Uh...you can only damage
this boss when he opens
his nose flap
and that can take
about seven seconds or
it can take well over half a minute so
It's a complete R&D slot machine. We're just gonna have fun and see what we get here The nose knows. Come on, let's get a good one! Time!
Just out of curiosity, oh wow that's a really good time.
That's a really good time especially for a marathon.
If you'll permit me just humor me let me narrate this ending
because it is as humorous and bizarre
as the rest of the game.
Mark destroyed the monsters, Burt gave him a gift,
Mark went home.
He excitedly opened the box.
What's in the box?
What's in the box? What's in the box?!
A beautiful princess came out!
Or...
This is like one of my favorite sprites on the NES. Look at this face melting!
Look at it!
Huge fan of the super awkward dialogue.
Mark was scared and screamed,
It was all a dream! I used to read Word Up magazine.
Mark was awakened by his mom...
Then, Mark opened the door.
Bert was there! he whispered to Mark
Let's go again!
Thank you so much for allowing me to showcase one of my favorite games on
the NES.
Real quick, let me just give some shout outs
first and foremost to my awesome wife
who supports every little thing that I do
but also to the Monster Party community, not an enormous community as you might imagine.
But some key folks in there, Joey Mittens, Burst Error Drixis and my own community,
whom without I would not be able to
be here.
So let's keep it silly for the rest of the night
and I'll see you on the flip.
Keep on shredding games
hello everybody welcome to birds aren't real the real life conspiracy that we're here to chat about. I am excited to show this little
game off to everybody. Joining me today is Crack Silver who's hiding her identity
Hello my name is Deep Chir chirp i am coming to you from
an undisclosed location live for minneapolis you are being lied to and i'm bystander Tim.
Alrighty, I'm gonna count us down if you wanna join me we're gonna do it in 3
2 1
Go! So right as we get started uh i was given this conspiracy board about 20 minutes before the run
started i have been assured that it is exclusively about the entirely true conspiracy
that birds are not real.
I will be indicating things throughout the run
that are definitely about birds."
I concur.
So here we're just doing a little tutorial to get through and
get our gear back together, we are a little beat up right now.
And so as we do, we can fly. We have a propeller
And we need to place some tracking chips on people So let's... Alright, now that the chip is properly implanted on that theorist
we are going to
take a picture, identify them.
At Surveillance Shrooms this is what we do.
The government maintains a database of everyone who has ever suspected the truth about birds.
They keep a list here as you can see
is that velocity on there
i can't see out of this mask, so I'm assuming yes.
Alright, so what we're doing here is just popping some balloons, taking down some streamers
Just you know, doing fun things
The true enemy of big nature paper products so true
and you'll enjoy this smooth jazz for the entirety of this run
big nature has only afford for this one music track.
That's not where I pointed. Alright, so now we're just going to be dealing with the most RNG segment of this run which is just
dropping some stuff on the heads of pedestrians. We need to stun them all with
different items.
You will notice that the bird
drone is picking up various forms of soda products for this segment.
Shout-outs to everyone who has been mainlining caffeine in order to see Silly Block.
You all are so real.
And by drinking way too much caffeine, you're able to see the truth as we're seeing here now.
Is that just a sugar-free red bull label
oh that one didn't work
it's okay fortunately birds are very inefficient spies
well the most important part about uh espionage is actively hitting people with objects.
As you can see, the people are too angry to see that there's a bird in front of them there we go and so now we're going to
grab the spray can here and we are going to do some defacing of some signs.
Because as everyone knows, in the real world there are many large billboards
in major cities talking about how birds are fake.
This has the best prompt of hold X to vandalize
While we're vandalizing, do you have time for some quick donations? Oh, we sure do. Go for it!
I've got $25 dollars from Definitely A Bird.
They say beep boop.
That's real bird talk right there. Yeah yeah I believe them.
Do you have time for one more? Of course! Here is $5 from Staten herself
who says, Allison is absolutely flying
through this game. She's clearly at the top
of the pecking order.
She's clearly the nest
at this game. Whether she is a bird or not
however is debated. Even more love from the back couch.
But how can there be an avian hierarchy if birds aren't real?
Thoughts?
Thoughts? hierarchy of birds aren't real thoughts thoughts
so now we're taking down some posters we're just doing lots of flying around lots of little tasks which will be used again later
allison can you perhaps explain why we're all wearing tinfoil hats right
now well they can't know the truth of
course if they see our brains they might know or we're still sponsored by the concept of jazz
that sponsorship deal was in perpetuity, right?
How else do we have the platform?
Alright so here we're doing pretty much the only glitch on the run.
We're getting them to actually attack us and we can hit the same person twice to use their tablet.
Because we need to spy on them via their tablets of course!
You will also notice this mirrors real life because birds are drones and therefore they cannot be killed by what I'm assuming are snowballs? Or are people throwing their hands at the birds?
You know, I don't know.
I'm guessing the rocks.
I mean, I was going to say something like real truthers leave their phone unlocked but throwing hands works too.
Alright so this is the final thing before the finale segment
we're going to poop on conspiracy theorists and register them because
Take a good look you at home you might be next
i am sure if i was not on a list before this run i am definitely on one now
once again quacks over everybody hiding her idea definitely on one now. Once again, Quacks
over everybody hiding her identity.
Yeah, this game is a really small game made by
a small team.
And it was a student project.
Do you have time for one more quick donation?
We sure do!
Here's $5 from TFT, who says,
Hey Allie and Couch. Can you let me know if there are any other animals that aren't real
other than birds I should be on the lookout for? Good luck on the run!
Watch out for honey badgers oh
i personally am suspicious of horses they're real
i'm just suspicious All right, so now we're just causing ultimate chaos.
We're just doing all the things
we've done already
to everybody
just to ruin this mayor because they're the ones who are against us
i guess there was plot or something wasn't there yeah the actual plot of
this game is that it's not just the fight against big nature,
is that there's this specific mayor who
was leading a conspiracy campaign.
And that's Birds Aren't Real.
I'm glad to have informed you all about the truth.
Tell your friends!
We have nothing left to teach you.
Aside from that, I stream all kinds of variety of video games.
Do speedruns and stuff over on my Twitch.
And then... do you have any shoutouts?
Thanks so much to the Alan Wake crew for letting us use their conspiracy stuff
for another conspiracy.
I guess shoutouts to the rest of Silly Block,
you'll see me in a couple hours doing
city bus driver simulator but keep watching keep supporting the marathon
and that will be all from us. Thank you. very serious
very serious spin-off of a
very
if you haven't heard of it
Wand of Gamelon
I'm the animation
we've been playing Arzett Julefermo on
casual difficulty which is going to make
the enemies easier. It's going to give us heart drops.
It's going to make the run go much faster.
On my couch we have... Hi, I'm
Brian Hall V. I was a Day 3 runner of this game.
And I lost to 424.
I'm also a runner of this game.
We have...
Yeah, so I'm not here...
You're right here! What are you talking about?
Well, virtually.
Hi, I am Seth Fulkerson, I am better known as Dothli and
I am the creator of this very game.
Shout out to Dano for inviting me!
Thank you!
Really really excited to see the current world record holder
as of two weeks ago yeah uh so we have a lot talked about but i think we're just going
to get started because we start with with four minutes of cutscenes.
Which you all unlocked! Thank you so much.
Yes thank you so much that's amazing.
And we'll start here when I hit go. Audience, can I get a countdown? In five...
Four! Three! Two! One! Go!
So like I said this is a spin-off of the CDI games.
Sudaply... why?
What makes you wake up in the morning and say,
no we need more CD-i games? Not disagreeing.
Yeah so uh...in the process of making the fan made
Zelda CDI remasters,
which this is a spiritual successor to. I learned
the story behind those games' development.
I saw a lot of unrealized potential
in the concept as well as just
kind of like early 90s CD-ROM games in general.
Uh, but yeah making my own spin on Zelda CDI
but good alongside my friends many of whom are
professional artists seemed like a fun idea.
And you know what?
It was. I think that's probably the best answer for why, other than
I might be a little crazy, so...
RPL.
So here in the actual cutscene
we get a little introduction to all of the bosses
lot of variety there, can you talk
about where this
variety came from? Cause we have
horse and scarecrow, dragon...
Cat lady.
Yeah so um
Let's see here Wow what can I say? Everybody...
Yeah so I came up with most of the characters with input from others and i gave the character design sort of to like my character designers
and let them have free reign to give them life personality yeah and they just sort of
took my
silly ideas
like you know what if a cat
lady was a cat burglar
and sort of just made it, you know...
Cat burglar! I just realized that. Oh, that's great.
Right.
Alright, we're gonna do an introduction to the game, what's going on,
what our quest is gonna be.
Here we got Arzett...
...and Dale. Those are all names I remember here.
And then that other one in the
background the king oh well what can we do tell us about uh
tell us how you came up with names for these characters because some of them
are pretty close to the uh other names that we know, I think.
Really just names or something
that I'm good at but also my wife is
good at. She helped me name a lot of the characters in
the game. I mean, yeah some
of them are
anagrams I guess
but modified of character
archetypes that are very familiar.
But yeah, for the most part I just...
Dale is a direct reference to the director
of the original Zelda CD-i games, who unfortunately passed away several years ago.
So a little bit of my tribute to him I guess you could say.
Hi.
Too late for that, unfortunately.
We got a nice little bit of dialogue here you're gonna hear
for like two seconds as we skip the tutorial.
That haunts my dreams. that dialogue had a pretty interesting uh voice actor didn't it
yeah that was yeah that was jeffrey rath original voice of Link from the Zelda CD-i games.
I was able to get him, I was able to get Bonnie Jean Wilbur,
the original voice of Zelda heard in the prologue uh they both play npcs
in that game too yeah we don't see any of them so that's
why that's one dialogue from those two that you're gonna get tonight
unfortunately all right Unfortunately. Alright.
So, we're just making our way through here. You can see pretty quickly the basic tech we have if you play this game.
Whenever you swing your sword, Arzet is not going to want to move.
So we're always gonna try and swing our sword while jumping.
We made that jump good from the stead here.
And a lot of RNG in this game with...
Case in point!
With heart drops. Ideally we are not at half a heart at this point
So I'm going to try and get heart drops to keep our health up
I'll be jumping as we do it
Hippie! Can you us a donation real quick?
Of course I can. Here's $25 from 3pup who says staying up way past my bedtime to watch the game that got me into speedrunning.
Let's go, Dino! Sending love from the back couch!
We took a little...door there. So you let the back door to this area, which lets us get some sword beam really early and actually skips a lot of backtracking later on.
This gives us red magic, which
will let us pass some things later
And the sword beam is going to be very useful
A very interesting thing about the sword beam is that you can hit things
with the beam itself
but the sword itself
also has its own hitbox
and when you're activating
the sword beam
and you hit something
with the sword
it'll do triple damage
to pretty much anything
so that's going to be integral to most boss strats especially ones where we
don't have like spare bomb pickups yes uh that's called oh there's not an
official name for what i call it sword critting
uh that seems to be the unofficial name at this point
um and we're gonna see that used uh next level we'll use it a few times yeah definitely
yeah those health bars melt
yep you don't even see the help bar they're just dead all right
we got five to go or four to go yeah so sword critting was a mechanic
that we sort of identified pretty early on as being a bug.
But it felt so good to pull off that I just sort of left it in the game.
I think I speak for all three of us by saying thank you.
I doubt the rest will be THAT easy. I think I speak for all three of us, we're saying thank you. It's very difficult,
but I think it is like frame perfect almost so...
It IS pretty tough.
Oh no! Color magic! What are we gonna do?
We're just going to enjoy this for a bit.
Where can we find magic that might be red?
What's the crowd think about this?
Please laugh.
Arzeth's reactions are in eternal mood.
Don't look so blue, princess!
These are just emotions that are also colors.
Casual instead of three.
Alright, one beacon down
four to go. Still have no jewel shards but we'll get to that eventually.
Here's our first sword crit. There you go. That enemy normally has two health.
We also have bomb drops so you mentioned that briefly, we have item bags
that are going to come across during the run. Eight of them
and we need three of them to be bomb drops otherwise
you'll have to go buy bombs So every time we get a bomb drop which is not common I'd say it's probably around 1
and 5, uh I want everyone in that audience to be freaking out and cheering and applauding, because
I had a practice run earlier that got none.
I also had a practice one that got four!
So hopefully we'll get four. That'd be nice.
Here's our first one. Let's see it.
Nope. That'd be nice. So here's our first one. Let's see it!
Nope, nope, not this time.
You can use that to buy bombs.
Use it to buy bombs, but it's not bombs itself.
I think the most angering run I ever had was a dead run and I had 18 bombs
going into Nodelgi.
I was so mad.
They must have gotten
his five drops.
The forces of evil underestimated your prowess. drops.
Dale is just in eternal mood.
He requests your presence Dale is just in eternal mood. That's not good.
Oh no, I think he's dying's dying how long you think he has
like a level like two and a half minutes Even if it were true, I can't lead a kingdom.
You will lead this kingdom to its best days!
Yes...
I'm certain of it.
I must return to my quest. Goodbye father.
Awwww. Now we have our first hard bit of the run, uh, we're going into swamp and we're
gonna do our first coyote jump where you have about a three frame window to make this jump
off a leaf, uh, to make an early cycle.
I'm gonna try to do a first try here.
First try, let's go!
Nice! Very nice!
That's really tight.
Also if you kind of just hold left through the rest
of the screen, you pretty much make it really fast
there he is yep there he is would you mind stepping aside regrettably if you go to
exclamation point donate chat you can donate to get this wonderful prize too just fyi alas i won't accept
commoner food i require fine dining perhaps situated under a porous rock You understand.
Guess what, we already have it!
We're just that good.
Bon appetit So thankfully that is a smart sword It makes people talk
Right
Only if you're friendly though
Mayor Looking at you That mosquito needs to You're friendly though. Oh yeah.
Mayor, looking at you. That mosquito needs to chill back there.
He's fine...
I don't need health.
You don't need health? What is health?
So you obviously getting help to pick up some enemies
helps make the speedrun a lot faster because you can kind of just
Yeah, you can kinda stroll through the screen and
tank stuff and be lucky later.
What makes this speedrun so challenging
is there are additional health
containers you can pick up throughout the run.
We don't.
We have free health the entire run.
There's a lot of stuff we don't pick up that will be really helpful.
And there are enemies that do two hearts of damage, so it gets very dicey later on.
Alright as we stroll through small pit
there's not too much to talk about. Can we get some...
Oh! A little lag there
Hippy can we have a donation or two?
Of course! We've got five dollars
here from Morshu who says
lamp oil, rope, bombs
you want it? It's
yours my friend as long
as you have enough rupees wait what do you mean wrong game who's that maybe
i'll have to donate more when i'm a bit richer thank you very much.
Alright, we got another little back door here
to drop us into this room
give us the Pegasus boots
which will get us a double top... Griffin Boots! Not Pegasus
Boots. I like how I knew when I first played boots. I like how I knew...
When I first played this,
I liked how I knew that door was down there
but I didn't realize you can go in the other way.
I know the names of things.
It's fine.
I didn't realize it was the red magic back
until I completed the game and I was very
nervous. Same! So another interesting property that bombs have is you can
actually hit them with your sword wave, they will explode on command. You also
can trick shot them if you
let go of the wave while the bomb is in the air
We're going to do a lot of sword bombing
Chat, can we get some bible thumps?
Bible thumbs in chat please
just sads. This is just the sad cutscene
and Dale's here too. Actually, the trick shot you mentioned in the desert when
you were in the darkness and you threw the bomb
and hit the wave, that is a lot trickier than it looks.
The bomb timing is tight but it actually lands on a ledge
But if you jump too late
You'll land on the ledge and if you do it too soon
The bomb won't
It's called a very common reset
Awwww a very common reset fail
i'm glad you're here I love you too, father. I wasn't expecting this to happen. It's called tragic relief, okay?
I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I wasn't expecting this.
It's called tragic relief, okay?
Spoilers! Sorry.
I will do more than defeat Dimer's evil.
I'll end it for good.
Now we're ready.
Yep.
Let's go jump in a volcano.
That NPC right there is my favorite by far.
Volcano's a really fun level, it has lots of nice platforming and timed sword beams.
If I can actually get the thing. Yeah, that pig was a little trolly there
And we're just gonna delve to the bottom for quests unknown
Can be got quick donation as I
fail to platform here? Of course
we can! We have $10
from LovesHorsesGirl
who says, it's been
so awesome seeing this run come together these past few months. Good luck and have fun! Now time for some vampire pancakes!
No not this one unfortunately. We will talk about Denny later.
This is Celeste.
Welcome to PlayingCeleste.
You want to talk about level
design a little bit?
This isn't bright. We just got out of a volcano and now we're climbing the mountain
Level design in this game was not done in a way I would consider sane
I designed it not done in a way i would consider sane um i just i designed every level on graph paper first
uh i'd pick a shape that i like go draft paper
yep tried to tie into the level theme. I grayboxed it.
John Lenneman, known for his work on Digital Foundry.
He helped me.
He's my friend.
He worked on the game as a designer as well.
We both decided we liked the level well enough, I would make a sketch based on
like the level collision and then I would pass that sketch onto a painter to
make it into a beautiful painting but yeah it's pretty hard to make it into a beautiful painting, but yeah. It's pretty hard to
make something naturalistic
in like a painting, but also like a level?
So yeah. That's
sort of how I was done.
Alright time to count blushes
oh yeah i tend to count blushes in the next two scenes why should i my lord if you wish to scour curse places for jewels you better come well prepared
I can give you protection against evil energy.
Oh no, the Evil Energy will die!
What a crazy random happenstance. We found
that jewel in that volcano.
Three!
Hi.
So, that's an item that we need to enter one level later. Actually it's two levels, isn't it? One in this run. No bombs. Now I'm coming across apparently what was a hard boss in playtesting?
Oh yeah, it was uh
big difficulty spike. It was supposed to be
checkpoint
kind of prompt the player to get more items.
She's basically just way faster with more unpredictable patterns
but yeah, nobody
likes that in Playtesting.
So yeah, let's see how fast can you do this fight oh there we go
and I got our first Dorito.
Unfortunately, we did not get bombs in the first two drops so you do have to go buy some which is fine.
While your shopping, do you have time for a celebratory donation? Of course. We've got $100 from the
Zeldathon team! And they would like to say Y Yippee!
Alright. We got more Coyote jumps in this level There's one there I missed
Yeah ours can't swim
This is the hardest level for tight jump timing.
We have four coyote jumps we have to do in total.
First two aren't that bad but the reset time is really long.
There we go, made the first 2. Now I have
the hard ones. We have about a 3 frame window total
on a moving platform.
I want to try to do it first time here, let's see if it goes well.
The pink candles are the... Let's go!
Nice!
Oh yeah, also collecting candles. You saw us
do a barrier earlier. We need about
12 candles total I believe.
Do you have something for me?
So we're going to come through here and grab blue magic that's going to let us do other things on this submarine.
Does that make sense?
Close enough, yeah.
I grabbed it right? oh there it is
let's go!
like i'm saying nice to my own RNG it's like good job
pat on the back
is it 1 in 5?
I did a trial
I got like 22 out of 100
figure it's somewhere around there no, it's weighted I did a trial, I got like 22 out of 100.
Figure it's somewhere around there.
No, it's weighted towards what you have and don't have.
Especially on casual mode,
It's more weighted toward other things but you're close.
Hey chat who does this look like?
This is kind of like Barney the Dinosaur.
Well trying to stay on brand I thought it looked like Velocity.
Yeah!
It unironically looks a lot like one of the enemies in Zoombinis.
I need you to know that.
Which you will see
later on.
You will! There's also incentive open for that,
you should do it.
Help us fight the incentive.
I first saw that character sprite, I thought it was midnuff Help us right now in Sanjani.
I first saw that character sprite, and thought it was Midna for a second. I don't know how that happened.
It's the helmet!
The orange hair.
Alright, three beacons down.
Making progress.
This cutscene is pretty good. Yeah it is.
Is this one with the loot? Yeah. Okay, yeah.
This one is music!
Check it out! Dimer's forces are critically Jack, can we get some dancing
notes for this wonderful dude?
Too slow.
... noise reminds me.
Some instruments in this world are magical,
laying them in the right place...
What if they tell us all this stuff like
right after we already got it?
Right?
By the way, it's this instrument
if you couldn't figure that out.
Is that what you're trying to do to us? By the way, it's this instrument if you couldn't figure it out. You would be surprised.
Oh no!
Almost a continuation of that cutscene right there.
Good thing we left it's fine.
Ah this level...
My control key is being mirrored, it's fine.
It's fine!
Blame the controller.
Control key stopped working. It's working now. Do we skip that candle now, I guess?
Yep.
I haven't run this in a while.
Do you have a moment for a few donations?
Of course.
Because I've got $10 for you from
Horrifically Melting Wizard
who says,
You killed me!
Good.
Savage. Good. Savage! Do you have time for one more?
Uh, once this finishes we're gonna go back. Sure thing.
This room we have to try to get through as quick
as we can
to try to make a cycle
which probably aren't going
to do because I just
stopped for a second.
This is probably
one of the hardest...
Yeah.
Fine, we have bombs.
Probably one of the tightest cycles that you'll have to deal with in this game.
There it is!
Ah, I got hit but it's fine.
We'll make it. Alright go for it. There it is. We got hit, but it's fine.
I'll make it.
All right, go.
Go for it.
Got $25 for you from Snorp who says,
Hi Seth, I remember years ago you told me one of your dreams
was to make a game and see it being run on gdq look at you go
you did it i'm so proud of you and i'm excited to see where your dreams take you next
i'll be with you every step of the way. Love, your wife and the puppies.
Less than three!
I love you.
D'Arsh.
Alright, here we got Beeves, a not-trivial boss but not the worst.
Definitely my favorite boss design of the group oh yeah
yeah my uh daniel did all the enemy and boss designs and he just killed it why don't killed him
let's see what i got in first job boy don't know is working on this um dopply it the fort has some great uh attack randomness with some of its
npcs if you want to talk about how you've designed or planned
them attacks especially those fireball enemies yeah and why do they keep running and all of a
sudden though they never attacked it before and it's just oh, you're dead now. They know.
So I don't
use a global timer. Each enemy
actually does have its own timer that I tweaked
on a per room, per
encounter. Per rooms? Wow!
Yeah there's a lot of randomness
regarding certain attacks
but since it's not global
it makes it harder to
predict as you just uh let me know yeah
boss patterns though those those do use randomness
next boss is gonna be fun.
No such thing as too fast.
We're speedrunners, so it's fastest fun.
This whole run is about getting those boots pretty much as soon as possible, because now we are much faster.
Use that to get through this level pretty quick.
I feel like this level out of all just feels the smoothest when everything goes according to plan.
But nothing ever goes according to plan?
Nope!
Especially this silo here where it's like hey,
I need this one enemy to drop a heart otherwise
I need to change cycle plans to not drop a heart otherwise i need to change cycle plans did not drop a
heart yeah this room is brutal like
deceptively so yeah we needed to damage boost through
that guy or each eye frame through them but we
did not so made it a little bit of backup here...
It's fine.
What is death?
It's just our Zed it's fine.
Just our Zed she'll be fine. that's what we wanted to do you have
just enough iframes to get through there
but you need the heart from that one cycle
all right as we finish up, can we get another donation?
Sure thing!
Bombs!
Here's $50 from Lightmop, who says... you a deal here's my first ever gdq donation for the game that has rekindled the kiln in my heart
uh unfortunately we will not be seeing that particular cutscene there's
exactly one cut scene in the game you can't
skip.
Oh, that cutscene. It's a great
cutscene! It's fantastic! You're
rekindling the kiln! It's when you know
Dobbly knew exactly what he was doing with that cutscene yeah my uh
my good friend and producer audie he had been wanting to put
a moose man in a game for a long time and he got his wish
very happy for him and everybody else that got the experience out
in the book of ocarin. So we're just repeating
the past? Not exactly.
Hi, you won't be there
this time. Thanks Dale. I guess I better
get going. Look,
the kingdom is counting on you.
Yeah! What he said!
Hey!
Librarians, look away.
Throw the book at him, Arty!
It's me when given a book.
Too long didn't read it. Bye!
So now we have...
Count Denny's castle.
I wanna explain Denny a little bit
she's yes that denny anyone you want me to explain it
anyone can explain katdeni if they want i feel like it's
self-explanatory he is a vampire he's a vampire
okay sure who loves eating breakfast just love this breakfast
slam dunk of a breakfast you thought celeste was the
only place to go into denny's this marathon
we're going to slice they're going to denny's
now after climbing around gotta eat some eggs, pancakes
yeah Denny's a character I came
up with alongside my wife many years ago we were sleep deprived
half delirious kind of like right now uh when
we started we just started talking about a silly vampire i love making breakfast
so you know i was making a game i was like well that character is going to be
in there all right we now have unarguably the hardest boss
in the game casually it's trivial because you have a shield that just deflects attacks back
we don't have that we have three hearts we can take
two hits before we die. You do have a lot of bombs
I have a lot of bombs, but I'm not good at
the four bomb strats. I have my two bomb strats
that I use
If you get three bomb drops, you have two bombs to use here.
And then of course
the cycles are different on your first attempt
than if you die and keep trying.
So we're gonna try to beat him in one attempt here.
Yeah, Nodelke just does what
Nodelke wants to do
Nice!
That is a lot more challenging than the animated one. It's very hard, it's a very hard boss.
Definitely one of those hard... like when you're learning the speedrun this is one
of those ones where you take some time.
That's a fate worse than 10 years of scrubbing floors.
Not related to this level at all. Does anyone have a favorite character?
Yeah... Volcano Man. For sure.
His name is Joe by the way.
I love Joe. I know Joe from early documents.
I'm a fan of the guy with the calendar.
Torque? Yeah he's great.
We're back in forest because we didn't beat the boss here yet Because it's much faster to actually come back later and run through it this quick with the speed boots and double jump uh anyone like horses no anyone like puns Very serious game here.
Yeah, it is actually pretty easy.
There's Clive.
Intended to be the first boss.
We get our fourth Dorito.
One boss left and it's going to be the wonderful Kormrad.
The only time I've ever seen a Scarecrow in another Zelda game is actually...
This is clearly your inspiration, I know it. Kakashi from Ripe and Tingle's Balloon Trip of Love
the Wizard of Oz tingle game has a scare pro named kakashi who is awesome i guess that was
clearly inspiration for corn man do you have just a moment for a quick update? Of course.
We have now met the Watch All Cutscenes Wild Libby-an Senses!
Yeah, wild libby.
Great job! We love to see that we do have four bombs you can actually one cycle uh corn
but as far as inspiration goes i mean I don't know what to tell you.
I think talking scarecrows are really funny.
He's stuck here. No legs.
How did he get there? he's stuck here no legs i think most of the bosses in this game could teleport
i think so yeah that was indeed a theme
nice I think so, yeah. That was indeed a theme.
Nice! I just pressed the bomb button four times.
Alright, last burrito we did it we can form the mega dorito now
otherwise known as the jewelel of Faramor.
I'm here to restore the jewel of faramar.
We don't even form it, we don't even form from five, we form it from one.
Can this be done?
Heh! I don't even need the whole jewel!
May I?
Yeah, so the big turning point at the end is instead of imprisoning him in the book we put the jewel on our sword to just kill him instead.
So with that, we're going to head towards
the final boss and the final rebel.
And it's some purple magic.
Probably one of the most amusing cutscenes that we will see.
Good ol' Sazzy.
Oops, I accidentally did a cutscene oh no oh no we get to meet this character I'm a big fan! You can't be dumb princess is trying to stop him.
Have you seen her around?
I want words!
Actually, thank god.
Got anything to drink? I'm crud. You got anything to drink?
I have some water.
Uh... you're killing me here. Literally.
Chris Boyle! That's actually a friend of mine I made this really terrible crude placeholder sprite for her, right?
With a shirt and blue jeans.
And then my character designer saw that said yeah I want to illustrate
that exactly like that.
Yeah, she's one of my favorite designs.
She's very good.
All right we got one more donation because they're coming up on the end
of the game here.
Sure thing and here's five dollars from Count Denny who says this game seems like a grand slam.
Denny's jokes.
Danny's jokes.
It's slam dunk, actually.
Here he is.
Budget Ganon.
I've always wondered,
why did you embrace the darkness?
Why choose this?
Why not? Power
is all that matters.
Those that don't agree deserve death.
I've heard enough!
And I've had enough today!
I will end your pathetic, peace-loving bloodline!
When your life ends...
My reign begins.
DIE!
Okay, great start.
If you insist! Those books are one-shot kills
at the very beginning. Yeah and they have a huge hitbox
And time! and time.
GG's.
Really good run.
Yeah, 33-46.
Died a lot.
It's fine. We made it. We made an underestimate. It's fine, we made it, we made Underestimate. Oh yeah that's personally Underestimate.
Yeah shoutout to Doppley, thanks for making this game
it's been a lot of fun.
Everyone in the Discord who has been working on The Run
basically since the game came out a lot of people
put time into it uh thanks my commentators here thanks everyone in the audience that
staying up late for silly game night.
Muffet crown.
And this cutscene, you know, we take down the monarchy. It's fine.
That's it! Thanks GDQ for having me.
Hope you enjoyed our ZED!
Stay tuned for more Stealer tonight thanks for watching and there's
that's in the humble bundle so yeah is that's in the humble bundles a speed run competition
going on right now if you want to try to take the world record in the next like
seven days you could win a custom side control at five hundred dollars pretty If you want to try and take the world record in the next like 7 days,
You could win a custom side controller for $500. Pretty cool!
That's it!
Join the Discord, speedruns...
Find it on the leaderboard.
I think it's there. If not,
I'll make sure it's there.
Enjoy the rest of the marathon!
Yes, thank you.
Thank you so much for coming. Have a good one.
Yeah, thanks for coming.
All right what's going on everyone?
My name isn't Conception but for the next approximately 16 minutes I'm just con.
My couch, please
introduce yourselves. Oh by the way
my name is Conception and I am just con
my job is video game.
I'm Swoose also known as Swoose for the next 60
minutes as well. My job is Google
Maps. Hi, I'm Princess
Ashfire and I'm
Bisexual Barbie.
And I'm Sharif and my job is High Barbie.
And I'm Sharif, and my job is hi, silly block.
Hi, silly block.
Alright, we're going to be
jumping into some Barbie here on the
screen you can see Existential Crisis Barbie
just a quick reset so we could see something that's
a little bit horrifying before
we get started, which is
Here we go
3, 2, 1
Yeah! Scary Barbie Here we go. Three, two...
Yeah! Scary Barbie.
So let's get that off your screen as fast as possible and get started in three,
Two, one... Go!
We got it. It's fine.
This is a very serious speedrun.
So, Barbie. Sharif you have some experience with Barbie, why don't you kick us off here?
Yeah sure, this game is a platformer and she's in a mall
So basically she is dreaming, she's sleeping before a very big date with Ken tomorrow
and she was reading her book
And this is what she dreams about
which is like getting absolutely bodied at a mall
Yeah of course Me too which is like getting absolutely bodied at a mall.
So, yeah in terms of the mechanics of the game you kind of just saw all of it
but basically Barbie can't really interact with anything um anything in her she's in a dream so she can't really interact with anything everything's incorporeal
except that she takes damage um so she uses these uh these charm bracelets on the bottom left
to
interact with things. Ooh, they're bracelets? I did not
kick my... Yeah, it's like charm
bracelets, right? The little diamonds.
And so the one that we're using right now is that left-right
one and that makes things go left
and right. First boss don't
clap! Woo!
We defeated the beach balls
by feeding the kitty cat some diamonds.
Naturally, there's a tiny shoe here
that one does do damage. Be careful
Just missed! Yeah so the question mark
block does just like various things
we'll see later in the game and the x block stops things but
we're gonna speed around so we don't ever stop so that's basically the tldr terrifying enemies
the floating blouses they're so scary oh boy this though... This boss is actually annoying.
That's not what I wanted to hit first but that's okay.
Let's see if we can...
There you go.
There's like a task quick kill that does kill that first so that's fine.
Yeah, I'm doing cast rats for
sure close enough also fun fact there is a task please hit that club there we go there we go
um i feel like this is just barbie having like an anxiety nightmare
before a stress nightmare yeah for her first first date i don't know if it's
our first date with ken but she's a special day today she was just like me for real
so relatable so you guys saw umception, he pressed down on top of a fountain and then warped through half the stage.
Yeah that was pretty cool right?
Secret room!
We didn't know about that for years and somebody found it by i don't
know if anybody knew about this they just found it right now yeah
yeah you're the first person to play this game
right mm-hmm yeah i like the chocolate little purple
chocolate walls yeah they look like straight up pershi bars
yeah vertical bricks you know
i can't judge 80s architecture. Like, go off!
Though I've always been saying the worst
part about fountains and malls is the fish that
keep flying out trying to hit you in the face.
It hurts! Really painful when they
really smack you.
High velocity!
High.
This level is actually
absolutely a nightmare
casually if you don't do
those little strategic stops
that you saw Conception
do there,
that just trivializes
the level entirely
so yeah, that was pretty neat.
Yeah, we got the right amount of health too.
We're going to tank a lot of hits in the next level.
This is like those commercials where there's
a woman underneath a waterfall.
But like the realistic version
where she keeps getting hurt over and over.
Ow, ow, ow, ow!
I'd just like to point out how tall Barbie is too.
She isn't 6'5", strutting her...
Good for her.
Go off,
go off Barbie.
Amazon.
Amazon Barbie.
Cool.
She's not like me
for real.
So yeah, if you notice the health is Z's.
So Barbie sleeping so if you die
because Barbie would never die right?
She just wakes up.
We get three wake ups and then she wakes up for good.
Lots of pizzas. Yeah.
So that's a pizza. Yep.
And that's a pizza. That's a pizza.
Also, that one. That's a pizza.
I've heard... What's that?
That's a pizza.
Okay. Pizza.
Crowds got it. pizza. Okay, pizza. Crowd's got it.
All right.
Barbie token pizza.
Is it a pepperoni?
What kind of pizza?
I don't know.
It looks raw still.
Raw pizza.
It doesn't look good. What kind of
pizza would Barbie Stris dream about exactly? I don't know. Is Barbie like a
pepperoni on Pizza Gal? Maybe she's like a pineapple on pizza.
She might be, that's the vibe actually i can see that
oh we're so bad she's just like me for real yeah
i was getting worried he's getting worried that red toucan you saw has the worst hit box
of anything in the whole game yes at the very start it says pizza but the z's look like eyes
i finally saw it and it looks yeah because that's peter it just says
pizza there's also a piece of invincibility on one of those um
on one of those tables, but it runs out
before you get to the boss.
It doesn't actually matter at all.
This is the pizza oven.
Yeah that's a boss believe it or not!
You know how in Portal 2
you shut down like GLaDOS's neurotoxin?
It's like that. You shut off the pizza generation
We have a bit of an unskippable cutscene here so we can get one or two donations
Wonderful, wonderful! here's ten dollars from augen
who says good luck with the run just know that whatever time it ends up being is Kenna.
Aww!
I love getting to work with you, and
I look forward to showing off even more
awful and silly games
in the future. Oh my god, you're a mermaid.
Yes.
So in the future. Oh my god, you're a mermaid! Yes! So as you can tell
by my sunglasses we are at the beach now
That's actually what the cutscene says
She said let's go to the beach and then this happens
Under the beach, I think?
Yes.
Very anxiety-inducing music as well.
Not the best track.
This is not fitting for a Barbie game.
Also the most annoying movement because
I have to mash A to move here.
There is Captain 8 in it annoying movement because I have to mash A to move here. Yeah, so it is capped at 8 hits
per second but that's still
considerable. You can definitely hurt yourself
playing this game. Yeah, also we only do this
for a few levels so we don't have to do any repetitive stress injuries
here.
This is the shortest world in the game for sure.
She whips it too like look at her like she's going so fast.
Take this little scene.
The animation for that is actually good.
We were comparing the number of frames compared take this a little saying for that it's like we were actually good yeah we're
comparing the number of frames compared to like Mega Man's walks I know and
that's fine we got an extra house that's totally okay yes yes clam if you will yes absolutely not so yeah so the health is routed
that they're out in this game uh the health is routed. The route in this game...
...the health is routed pretty tightly in this game.
There's a bunch of extra backup healths and stuff.
But what you're doing really depends on how much health you have.
That hit that Conception took earlier like completely nothing burger yes i like turtles sorry just had to get it
you don't want to predict what this says i'm thinking barbecue
yeah barbara options on the bar I was thinking barbecue. Yeah, another option? Bar...
Barbie!
Bar-bin-heimer.
Ooh.
No.
Barber.
A little bit of an auto scroller here as you can see with no nothing to worry about at all.
So, Pippi if we got another donation get squeeze one in here too.
Oh I've got some great ones for ya. Here is $25 from Flamin Sargege who says, that's a pizza.
Time for another quick one. Yeah, that was a quick one. See you in one more.
Here is five dollars from V Storm Courage who says how can
Con Beach if they're at the mall?
Yeah.
That's why my job is video game.
Yep.
Oh!
Established lore.
This is the underwater prison complex.
Yeah.
Oh god.
Yeah. This level's like some sort of
wind maze? I've never really fully
understood the mechanic. You kinda just
mash through it. The underwater
tornadoes are gonna be out to get us all.
Dolphin grab?
Yeah!
Okay!
Wow, I miss that about 50% of the time.
That can get real bad really fast.
I love that... Hardest boss fight, hang on.
Yep, sorry.
Quiet time. Stand down. Oh! oh hardest boss fight hang on yep sorry quiet time
king and queen crab afraid the monarchy we can't celebrate the monarchy on july 4th no that's fair no we're gone from the beach so i gotta take these off yeah
yep no more beach um all right another unskippable cut scene here one or two
donations pippi if you please.
Sure thing! Here's $25 from Swoose.
Now where have I heard that game name before?
Who says, hi Barbie, best of luck dreaming
or whatever it is Barbie does.
Shout out to the rest of the couch and don't fall into the jukebox!
Oh no... I'm gonna fall in the jukebox now.
That was explicitly a jinx which is fair yeah maybe a counter you know it might be
a counter yeah double reverse we'll have to find out look up there so we're in a soda fountain
in the 50s now 10 cents yeah yeah that's a that's an ice cream cone that's an ice cream cone. That steam does hurt you, but the nice thing about those ice cream cones is that there
are two pixels of safe space on each side of the ice cream cone so if you wanted to
be super swaggy you could do that and lose time.
Milk is five cents. I'm going to go with six cents. Okay. side of the ice cream cone. So if you wanted to be super swaggy,
you could do that and lose time.
Milk is five cents.
I like the soda.
It looks like grape soda.
Shout out to Grape Soda.
Underrated soda.
Feel free to Shout out to Grape Soda. I know! Underrated soda! Grape Soda is underrated.
Feel free to shout out your favorite sodas in the donations and we might get to read
one or two of them.
Yeah.
There's not much time left on the run to be candid.
Shout outs to Putt-Putt. Putt-Putt, yeah. up in the run to be
putt, putt.
And take some damage here on purpose. Get him back immediately
and you get a second health here too. Do you think Barbie is a hot dog girlie
or hamburger girlie? That's a hot dog girly or a hamburger girly? That is
a great question.
I did someone scream ham.
She
really likes ham, yeah.
Pineapple pizza.
Okay, so she just likes it.
Java!
That's a new one.
10 cents?
Same price as Toto.
Shout out to that popcorn you can feed it and the kernels will pop everywhere
and get you that health.
But we don't need to do that.
Who has the time?
Jelly's kittens popcorn.
That's a pizza.
I guess.
It's a hamburger.
It shouldn't be,
but it looks more of a pizza.
Yeah, than the pizzas that we saw.
I agree with that.
Java.
That's orange soda as well.
Let me get this back up health.
We are in a marathon after all.
Let's just be extra, extra safe.
Having four health going into the next one very good
spot farming here is impossible yeah this platform is so weird yeah it's a weird momentum situation
yeah soda soda Soda. Soda! Soda!
Or...
Soda!
Java!
Milk!
And now a boss.
That's good, we got the two.
That's the double.
That's going to hit.
Oh!
I should have.
It was a little too hard there.
That was the equivalent of calling your shot
and then not getting anywhere close.
That was really close to the ultimate fight.
We were so close.
Also, giant burgers that crush you.
Burger!
Okay, that's fine. I had an extra health anyway.
You needed one of the two.
Yeah, we're good.
We ideally try to get
two there but I did not
wait long enough for that
one to spawn and it just
went right through me.
20 cents for the burger
too.
Fries.
Hot dog's only 15.
Oh!
Hot dog.
We forgot we were
going to bring fries and chocolate.
Yeah, during the run.
Nothing's open right now unfortunately.
You could say that I would have been assaulted.
And that while I'm playing video games, folks.
Imagine when I'm not playing video games.
Your job is video game.
Yeah my job is video games.
Critical thinking under pressure.
Burger! Another health there in the patty. Burger. Burger.
Another health there in the patty.
For fans of pallet swaps, these fries are just a fish again but they're fries.
Literally the same.
They're not fish, they're fries.
Do you take purposeful hits?
Yeah
So you can. You can take purposeful hits
Shakes are 80 cents, they better be thick shakes
Yeah, they better be thick shakes. Let's go!
Thick shakes... This is another
boss. Another boss.
Some ice cream.
Alright we got good RNG there so we're gonna be fine.
Yeah, we're-
Although you have a lot of health right now.
Yeah I like to be extra safe, y'know?
Cannot hurt.
And...
Alright!
We did it.
That's the Sunday.
Okay. Worst level in any video game coming out legitimately i'm going to stay completely focused
here this is really actually serious okay yeah why don't you you could describe this so yes
that's fine we're inside of a jukebox jumping on these notes
and then getting hit by these coins
so you can see that moving platform underneath us
it's a conveyor belt that sends us to the
beginning of the level if we fall
over and over again. Hopefully, we won't
see it happen but every time it happens at this point
if we're this far into the level you're going to lose
20 seconds every single time you fall.
So yeah, we'll just
sort of let him...
I can't even like watch this part
It stresses me out too much
You've just one-shot that
Yeah
Oh
This is the final boss by the way. Yeah, Tiny was coming up soon if I can do this right.
You gotta keep these coins spinning for some reason.
Yeah...
The final boss is rock and roll we are in the 50s
Obviously it's the devil music boss is rock and roll. We are in the 50s and obviously it is The Devil's Music
And
time
That was a good run.
That was really good.
It's amazing.
First try jukebox.
I got married last year, but the second best moment in my life
Was that? Was the conveyor belt level oh
my gosh that's okay when i met a celebrity this year that might have been
name drop name droppet i did meet robert downey yeah iron man yeah okay well we do not want to keep you
uh the folks of gdq thank you so much for having barbie again
sharif running four years ago at AG&Q 2020.
Thank you all three of you for being here
and getting an excellent couch.
Thank you to all the back couch,
all the Barbie love there,
all my friends.
Thank you so much for being here
I shouted this out in my last run last year,
I'm also on the socials team for GDQ
So please like our tweets we really appreciate it
Yeah and that's it
Please continue to enjoy
The best block in Marath's The Silly Block.
Thanks everybody!
Alright everyone, welcome back to Silly Block
We are in the extremely
hot Japanese PS1 section
of the marathon. This is
a game that, if you've never seen it
before, could really only come from Japan.
I am joined by Ekdysis on
commentary, he's the only other person
I know that's actually beaten this game
on console before
and one of like five people
that's actually beaten the whole game period on video um so i think uh
let's get right into it uh there's a lot of action going on here and this game is actually quite hard
so if i do die that's kind of expected it's unlikely
I'll beat the game without dying but we'll give it a go here. So for ready
let's get going here in three two one go In three, two, one.
Go!
All right, so the basic structure of this game is there are five worlds. Each world has three tracks and
There's one goal and that goal is survive. Um...
There are no railings on any tracks in this game, you do have to steer the whole
time. There also is a brake button but not only
is that slow it's actually useless because it doesn't really help you.
And every track will have the
slow buildup and here we go!
Yeah pretty much
every single level of the game is going to go this fast.
It's one of those games that immediately you realize how difficult the game actually is.
Let's throw some things in. So every level
You need to complete three laps of the deadly coasters.
Laura, the game is that...
I don't even remember the guy.
It's like some mad scientist made some roller coasters
to impress his son.
So you needed to ride them.
You're not the sun, you're just some
so you're just like some people but obviously a lot's going on you want to avoid uh the bar
in the top left that is your life um You have about maybe I think five
hits in total. There
was a heal in the middle of the track.
We do grab it there so we jam
but you know what? Melee sort of kind of managed
not getting hit throughout these tracks.
Falling off does not immediately kill you, what it will do instead is take one
of those bars in the top left and count as a full hit
Getting hit is not a full hit, it's like a minor hit depending on what
hits you. But yeah! We have about 15 levels of this
we've got fun Scott music, we have the track and lucky!
So the game Lucky!
So the game just doesn't give you a lot of chops.
It tells you that you're lucky every time
you beat this stage.
I think the first time i played this game it took me like two hours to beat that stage for the first time oh yeah
it's very very annoying um so and as the tracks kind of progress
here they'll add in different gimmicks.
This track actually has a hole in it that you have to jump over
And the way the game indicates there's a hole in the track is there are these rows of shovels along
the outside on an early level like this it's pretty
well telegraphed but later in the game you can't it's not really reactable so
you just have to know that the holes are there or
you will fall in
something this level also teaches you is
actually intentionally manipulating
your cart to the left or right side
of the track, which I'm going to do in this
section to avoid getting hit by these bones.
If you just stay in the middle there those
will hit you and every time something hits you it actually sends you towards an edge of
the track so not only is getting hit bad but
getting hit makes it much easier to actually fall off
so you really just don't want to get hit and then in certain situations where i have full help
I'll actually skip that blue gem which is the health refill uh that was mentioned earlier um
i don't need it right now because i have full health so i just skipped
it and then
i'll get it on lap two instead uh just to get full use of it uh
because getting it while you're at full help
doesn't, it gives you more points if you get it while you have full health but
points don't matter for speed here so in fact
it's probably better to not do that because if you get more points then you get a higher
score and that takes a little longer but that's not really something to worry about here.
There are also three attacks you can use
there is a short, medium and
long range attack
I did not know there was a medium range attack in this game until like last year
because I just never pressed the button.
Yeah!
So if you...
Triangle is the medium range button, so
The first few runs of this game i did do not use triangle which actually makes
the game a lot harder because triangle is very good um but if you just
if i bothered to open the manual
I would have seen that but I couldn't be bothered because
I already couldn't read it so I didn't even bother looking at it.
Nice! So I got an audio bug here
You'll notice this stage ended immediately
So I'm not exactly sure how it works but my current theory is if you fire a weapon the same frame you finish the track
you will overlap audio sound effects and the game will not
play the jingle at
the end there while it tells you you're lucky.
If you get that, it saves 8 seconds
and you can get that on every track
so if you get that on every track, it would save about two minutes
total but it's very
hard. I think the most
times I've gotten it in one run is five
but every time
you get that, it saves a bunch of time.
So I'm glad I got there because I didn't want to have to just say
That it exists and I never get it
This is the first boss track
How the boss tracks in this game work
Are, you do three laps
of the track normally and then a split path will open
And then you fight the boss
And when you fight bosses in this game, there are two ways to kill them.
One is just hit them enough times and they die
and the other is that you have to actually survive three more laps
so that option is slower on every boss
So I'm going to try and kill them all.
And if I end up in a situation where I am at low health it may be worthwhile
to actually just wait the boss out but hopefully we don't...
Hopefully that doesn't happen in our each killing so there's the first three laps
and then this brick wall will open here now i go this way
and then here comes the first boss it's this clown guy.
He's not too tricky but the bosses in this game can vary wildly in difficulty like within
the fight sometimes they just do nothing and
sometimes they fill the screen with attacks that you cannot dodge um his strategy is throwing
beach balls at you i think i don't know what pounds beach balls is a thing but like
yeah he just had the end of this coaster uh and then he's dead
he just dies and that gives us great and i got the audio bug again. Lucky!
This is definitely...
Because I've got the audio bug twice, this is definitely
world record pace but it won't stay that way unfortunately
because I'm gonna need to get that several more times.
This game is hard. We are anyway
one of five major coasters down
we're on hub two especially now
so if you manage to get
through hub one and you thought like okay well this game was hard but I made it.
Then you get to this level. And if you though staying on the track was hard before
This track has ice physics so you just go flying all over the place.
On this track, way more than others I will be teetering on the edge basically
the entire time and that is because it's impossible to stay on this track.
The most fun part is that
this is the only level in the game with ice physics
Like no other level has this
This is the only one where I was like, oh yeah, ice physics
Why not?
While we are showing these just a couple of things to add really quick. We talked about the attacks
we have different ranges. We have short and medium long
which is I think square triangle as we mentioned earlier not knowing about in circle.
Which by the way I don't think a single runner knew there was a medium attack.
Yeah I've done runs of this before with commentary and i just said like yeah there's two attacks
these are short in the long like i did not know there was one joseph dm me saying there's a medium
attack what do you mean this is a medium attack like nobody knew it just yeah there's a way to attack media i actually think
when i said i told punchy that and he said how did you not know that and my response
to him was why didn't you tell me that?
Because it would have helped me a lot.
He didn't even really run the game!
You could've told us!
Well if you can read the manual
you coulda told me that
Even though if you look at the manual
It's very obvious that Triangle does something
Also I can't read Japanese i can't read japanese i
can't even manual i just thought the game looked cool i wanted to play it
that's that's how that's how i roll also another thing about this game we
talked earlier became being mean about hints and jumping
so there is one hint about
jumping and the game's not totally mean except it's really mean
the only hint is that like i think three guitars will show up before you jump
they're shovels i think they're shoveled i thought they were guitars for the longest time too and I'm pretty sure
I've said that but they are shovels.
By the way, that's your hint.
There's three little like things.
That's it.
Nothing else.
But you do get lucky.
Yeah.
I got lucky once again
so you'll notice here i did not get that bug and the music is playing and see how much
longer this screen takes to go away than it does when that music does not play so if anyone can
figure out what actually causes that and find a setup for it please let me know because i would
not be surprised if my theory is just completely inaccurate, and it's
just completely random or there's some other thing that causes it. So this level
uh...would you like to explain? Yeah yeah sure. There are two things with
this level. One, its really laggy uh and two is there's actually a
split path on this level and taking the split path saves a ton of time probably about a minute
over the course of the track because you do it three times.
You can count the frames here, it's very bad.
It's actually
difficult to take the split paths in this
game. You can't just approach
the fork and press the direction you want to go,
you have to like swing into the turn so I'm going
stay on the right here and then swing to the left
in order to go this way. And that cuts out
three quarters of the track it actually makes us
like the shortest level in the game we also land this three times now if i look easy i'll tell you
right now from experience it is not will happen very often is you're not hugging the exact
right, um...the game will just decide
oh! You want to go with the right path because I think
the right path is default and it takes
so much longer if you accidentally send down the right path
It's also that the split path has two jumps
immediately and you cannot react to them you just have to know they're there or you will fall in
to at least the first one and probably the second one too yeah with this little pat levels
you were close king i think what you wanted to say was
all right so we're on the second boss level of the game and this one...
Honestly I think this is one of the toughest ones in the game.
This guy is very aggressive.
Luckily his attacks do less damage than the later bosses, so you can just kind of tank your way through him.
One of the good things about this boss is that the laps for the boss fight itself are actually extremely short
So this is by far the most viable boss
to just do three laps
and win, um
but I'm gonna try and stay at
as high health as possible
like I did not want to get the healthy I'm going to try and stay at as high health as possible.
Okay, I did not want to get the Health Reels over there.
I tried to jump over it but I jumped too early.
Alright, I wanted to take a moment really quick
to ask not only Joester
but I guess anyone watching
what do you think they're throwing
i always thought it was oranges but like i have no idea the hell that i'd be
growing
okay health isn't great here but let's see if we can kill this like deer on a
log looking deer.
This is not good. This is the boss right here, he is quite tough.
It is awkward as well.
Oh, we got him!
That was close.
You see I didn't have much help left there.
This one's mean.
It is always one of the meanest ones because you mentioned how aggressive it is.
Yeah and that guy's consistently just... these bosses have two modes nothing
and fill the screen with an attack you can't dodge
And that guy likes option B a lot and just the way the boss will kind of
act really just changes what kind of throw you want to do there's the close throws are nice but
long throws tend to hit a lot more consistently now you get
more close throws you get more damage
if you can actually hit them.
It just doesn't always work.
Honestly the short attack in this game is kind of crap
so I almost never use it.
Medium and long range are just superior in 98%
of situations
So this track is actually interesting
in that it's deceptively
hard because getting the health
refill on this level is actually really hard,
because it's like underneath a part of the track
where you have to jump off
and it's very easy to jump over it.
It's also very easy to get hit on this track
cause those stone pillars are random um
so they can be in the middle of the left or right and it's very hard to get through
there without getting hit i got lucky on that first lap there and didn't take any damage.
Pretty much the more laps they get no damage, the better you feel about the game every single time because
some of the levels in this game
get really bad later on
oh yeah so i didn't want to get that but uh we got the blue gem early
well that's bad all right
it's all right these mine guys are really obnoxious.
Yeah.
And again, there is only one health pickup per level so I accidentally got it on the first lap here
So now I can't get it again.
Yeah that one in particular we were talking about it
It's really awkward to pick up because
I think you have to jump really early
to actually grab it. It's an awkward time.
And if you jump while you're getting hit,
you actually go flying which is fast
but then you don't get
the
that person then you don't get the uh
uh i pressed circle like five times there nothing happened so that was very cool
uh hopefully that does not become a recurring theme in this game.
Alright, we're looking good or should I say lucky?
Lucky. Thank you. if you got uh donations this is a great time here i do have donations jay sent in 25 and says ice
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I gotta say, I agree with that.
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Fight the good fight! Game fast!
Can't wait to see what silliness will be coming up next on this block.
Me neither.
All right, so this level is like awesome.
I feel like it's one of these easier levels because you kind of just go
underwater a lot of things.
I think the main thing they test you on is
1. The shark has an odd delay which we avoid
there and also there's those weird
swords that will drop down in the middle of this yeah
look at two major things those clam shells as far as i can tell are just random uh which one closes
on which lap is not consistent at all so i didn't realize there's times i've
never like switched something i think they're just big clamshells
you're definitely right it looks like that chest it's very hard to actually
make out the detail of anything in this game, which is a shame.
It's flying by! Because
the enemies and all the sprites and stuff are actually
very detailed but you can't really
tell. Like I
don't want to say it, Joseph's making looks very easy. You play this game and you feel like you can barely control your cart
A lot of people when they start, they can't control the cart
Yeah that's uh... Without the feel for how the card controls this game is impossible because you will just fall off all the time.
Yeah when you start it's a lot of like left right left
Right left right just try and stay on the track then you realize there's like enemies
And then it's rough but we are lucky
we are we are always lucky
next we're approaching our third boss level coming up here. This guy is scary.
If I'm... this guy's probably the most likely boss to kill me,
maybe even more than the final boss.
This guy...
Like most bosses
his difficulty varies a lot
Sometimes he's just
hilariously easy and you wonder
how could you possibly die to this guy?
And then sometimes you die in five seconds.
Honestly I think this is probably one of the hardest boss tracks
or bosses at least.
I actually think this track is one of the easier ones.
But the boss part is the hardest part because there's so many blind turns,
you can't see what he's throwing at you or where he's throwing it.
Usually there's one of these jumps. I think it's like the, uh...
The one that turns left
and you're on the boss spawn?
Yeah.
That-that one is always helpful.
So this track is great
because if you actually don't fire a weapon
before you cross the starting line
You'll get hit by an enemy
That one!
You got hit by an enemy that spawns on top of
you so it's very cool um and the track is rather short but they do have some
mean enemies as we go along.
Which is right about I think here is.
Hopefully
we'll get a good pattern and hopefully
have no problems.
One advantage here of the long-range attack too
is that the enemies can actually run into
the explosion of the attack because it lingers,
so that's why it's really good especially on bosses
because they just run into it
and it still hurts them.
Alright, let's see if we can get this guy
on the first go.
Alright, here we go!
This guy is like a pirate who throws waves and watermelons at you.
It's such an odd combination of attacks, but you want to see more
watermelons than the waves. Waves are the battle type.
I just actually disagree. I wanna see waves. Waves are the battle type. I actually disagree, I want to see
waves. Really? Waves are easy to dodge.
I always thought of the watermelons
as they can see but like the waves
and it's a whole screen.
Oh, I'm in trouble here.
Hold on! Hold!
Yes!
There it is!
Quite lucky if you ask me.
Very happy I got past that guy. Again, so in comparison
That second boss all those things he throws
All those like acorns and stuff
They were filling the screen they all did 10%, so you can kind of just sit there
and take it. Everything
that guy throws does 20%. So if
you get hit five times, you're dead. And I
got hit three times and fell off once which
counts as another hit. Um...so i'm very happy i got past that guy it's
you know one in three that i actually beat that guy on the first try
nine out of 15 down we are entering the final two hubs of the game
this track has the worst noob trap in the game oh yeah
and uh you'll see what i mean when we get there um because
it kills i guarantee you it kills 100 I guarantee you
it kills 100% of players
on their first playthrough.
So just pay attention
to how the track is set up
on the first two laps
and then you'll see what happens.
You'll see why.
Also we haven't really talked about it but you may be wondering
What does the score do?
So the score actually does have a really big...
also that's the trap right there
No, that's not quite the trap
I thought that was one of them
That's kind of the trap. I thought that was one of them. Uh, it's kind of a trap if you actually jump off that and you...
Yeah!
It doesn't work. You actually die if you jump there.
Wait so are you talking about the uh...
Talking about the last three things.
Oh okay.
That ones mean. one's mean.
It's very mean.
I've already been hit way too many times on this level.
Hopefully we'll get that again and avoid the enemies.
Yeah.
Enemies are a lot more aggressive here.
Oh, I jumped over it.
That's fine.
I can get on the second lap because the enemies at... It's still there! The enemies at the end of the second lap are actually very easy to deal with.
Yeah that one is mean especially when you start going through the laps
as we mentioned if you try jumping in that gap
You will just fall into the void.
You have to roll into it.
And it's so counterintuitive. It's like, oh, what am I doing?
Oh, but for
the points really quick,
points actually decide ending ending you get,
so depending on the threshold I think you hit,
you'll get a different end screen.
It's pretty minor because all it takes to beat the game is beat the game,
but if you get a high enough score,
it kind of just gives you cooler end screens.
There's some other dogs and some other bees...
So here we go.
Game slows down and puts a hole in the track right in front of you.
And if you do not jump right when the track speeds back up you will fall in it um so if
you don't know that's there good luck because it's not real i'm pretty sure it's not reactable
it's very very evil and that's funny thing you said about the end screen
because I thought it was always tied to whether
you actually beat the game without Game Overing or not.
No! It's a point threshold.
You know if you Game Over and you're not going to have nearly
as many points as someone who's getting
almost through there by just falling off at the end for no reason but
because i think i've seen like what i haven't seen all of them but like i know there's one with
like dogs there's another a theme park there's
one where they're at the beach i've only seen two of
the pictures so which ones i've seen the one
with like the bunny outfit and then the one at the
beach i didn't even know there were more than those two
yeah there's no where they're straight up
dogs.
Actual dogs.
I don't know how you get that one.
I think you need a low score.
I've even done just like the last three
levels and still gotten
one thought or picture. Might be the mid-score.
Yeah, I don't know.
Although it's funny because I thought that
but then earlier this week I had to run that game over and then got the screen that i thought was the 1cc screen so i
was very confused i didn't know how that happened
but if it's time to score that actually makes sense
all right some mad city too this one I always feel like kind of is more chill.
Yeah this has some cool enemy designs. It's got these octopus dudes that throw vinyl at you.
Also it's got some dudes in lowriders and all those things.
And its also got these...I call them smurfs these guys here
these blue guys because they look exactly like smarts um i'm sure i know the enemies in this
game have names uh i couldn't tell you what there are a. There's a whole like, uh...
Like roster, I think in like
I think it's the credits? Also there's just random pipes that need
giant pipes. It's very hard to get
through those without getting hit by any of them. That's the worst
part of this problem. I can't believe I did that.
It was a giant pipe.
Also, unfortunately it is a little hard to hear because I'm just like mashing fire the whole game but the music in this game is awesome.
Yeah that's part of a weird thing that happened in the 90s.
There were a lot of Japan-only games
that had ska soundtracks
and punk ska soundtracks
I think it was Oh No!
Oh No is a good game yeah they had the uh scott paradise in
the soundtrack and that's why i think they're like a
whole band like hey we want a cool soundtrack these songs
you can actually play the soundtrack on the disc.
Yeah, you can do that in this game too. It's the only other menu option besides playing
the game is to play the music. Anyway I think this level has been pretty
lucky! Oh been pretty lucky. Oh yeah, very lucky.
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All right, so we are on the boss level of Mad City
We're deep into the mad city
So I actually think this track just
the track is the hardest boss track it's a mean one personally yeah
i find this one very hard and i've already been hit a lot there are so many
enemies to deal with and they're just like upper y80 you have uh
my god i don't even know what to call them you have like the basketball and there's like a variety. You have, my God,
I don't even know
what to call them.
You have the basketball octopus,
the concrete chicks.
Yeah.
You have just so many
that spawn weirdly too
in between jumps
and will last a long time.
Yeah, this bear that these guys throw is does a ton of damage and
it just hit me from behind there which is very cool um so you really don't want to get hit by
that i'm not in a good position because they've already got the health refill uh and i'm only
at like 60 percent health or something luckily there is one upside to this level and in
comparison to like hubs two and three if this boss always goes a little bit easier i'm not sure why
i think there's eaten wide long hits more than any other boss uh so the thing with
this boss is if you keep hitting the boss, it doesn't do any of the really nasty
things. Now that makes sense.
Because the really nasty things are really
nasty but if you just keep hitting her she
doesn't do them.
That doesn't mean it's just easy to like you know just hit the boss right
like but it's always one of those levels i feel like it's just like i don't see the attacks nearly
as much as like the acorns oh yeah watermelon that is definitely true probably because it was
yeah spamming the so actually what do you think the actual attacks are
they're like oranges or something i always see the orange right
i don't know those they're like oranges or something i obviously the orange is right
i don't know there's a boss yeah you're sort of hitting it repeatedly
and it will walk into almost every hit
um if we're playing it right it should
be good.
There we go.
Three more levels!
So that boss again. There are two attacks
it can do that are very bad. One is
drops a garbage can onto the track
that bounces around and its really hard to dodge
like if you saw at the end of the previous level
those three wooden pillars I I had to dodge.
And then there's also this weird attack
where there's like this huge hamburger on a tether
that just goes back and forth
and it just destroys you.
So you don't want to see either of those attacks.
And luckily we did not so all right i guess a quick update on the lore uh we've gone through all these areas we're in like mad vegas or
something so it's kind of weird the plot of the game is that um i don't know the guy like dr panic
or something made 15 coasters to impress his son his son has three coasters so we're fighting his
sons coasters which are generally just like opulence in vegas so that's the theme there's a lot of gold
here yeah a lot of gold uh funny enough i think level one is one of the easiest levels of the game
and there's some hard things like i think there's a log later and like some
weird angles but when you're already doing so much it just feels like a nice break i agree this
for a late-game track, this is much easier.
It's nice.
So we've got this triple meat roller here.
So actually jumping over all three of those is reasonably tricky.
You have to time the first...
Do you have to to time the first...
Do you have to jump over the first one with pretty good timing in order
to actually be able to jump over the other two
without getting hit by them?
But I got on that first lap, which is really good.
The funny thing first lap which is really good
the funny uh you say kind of ironic part is you mentioned this is one of the
easiest tracks in the game i think then
that's sort of like
how hard it is oh yeah the next time
yeah the next one's very hard they're
mean they're really mean coming up.
This one is a nice little break of like
hey maybe we're not going to
stop it.
Okay on lap three there's an extra enemy there which can throw you off.
But I managed to kill him so...
Also the idea of the level that why it is all gold is like
I guess lore wise the guy used to design roller coasters for his son but then he grew
out of liking rollercoaster just because he liked money women and food which i get it like All right, so as Dice has mentioned this next level is evil.
So the-this next level has two split paths. The problem is that there's only one combination of paths
that actually takes you through the lap,
so if you go the wrong way in this level
you'll just go in circles and not complete laps
which threw me off the first
time I played this. You're doing laps for
three minutes, and you're like, when is this track going to end?
And then you realize you're still on lap one.
But that
is one of the reasons this track is hard.
Second is the enemies,
the nanana enemies as I call them are horrible
and third is the start section
on this level has a trillion pieces
of food that are falling down
and you almost always get
hit by at least one of them. Maybe
even more. So...
That's the luck! Here we go.
Yeah, this level always kind of reminds me Of the level from earlier in the woods
Where it's oh you want to take
The correct path
Which always isn't the easiest
In terms of the path we do want to take, I want to say
it's like two lefts? Two lefts.
You're both left on both. It's easier than you think
it is. It's one of those things that if you're not thinking about
you're not going to get it. The level does end up being
much shorter but there are just so many obstacles in this
level that even knowing the path and even knowing the cheese of this level is still
really hard.
Especially if you end up getting some of these enemies like wipe on the turn when you're
trying to avoid them,
you might accidentally take
a wrong turn and then it gets really bad.
Yeah, you really don't want
to take a wrong turn here.
Okay good. I didn't need it
but I'm very glad I got that.
Alright we've got one more lap and we are looking pretty good right now
A lot of enemies here so it can be very tricky
Absolutely. I always hear once you make the jump,
your more home free
and...
Okay, that was the last enemy we're good
We were quite lucky!
Alright, one more level.
It is the final boss.
So unlike the other bosses in the game, this boss is different. There aren't three laps and then you fight the boss. This is just...you fight the boss. And there's no survive X-lapses and win.
There is only kill this guy or be killed.
Those are the only two options.
He has his own coaster cart.
Let's just say that.
Assuming I actually beat this guy on the first try,
time will be when the characters turn back towards the screen.
When we get lucky. But it's
reasonably likely
that he will kill me. This is hard.
This is a very hard fight.
I know several people have told me they tried playing through the game and got
to this point and just gave up and i'm gonna basically exclusively use the long range attack
here because the other ones are bad so i'm just going to basically mash square for the entire fight.
Here we go!
Alright, yeah he has his golden like throne
He has a bunch of money and I guess chicks on his side
And that's how he attacks
He just throws money at you yeah i'm also a
bad start here because i've already been hit twice but um he also those golden turtles
like you know what i think hey i think that's what those are. And bags
of money. Also, I think this is
one of the only coasters in the game that has
no gem. Oh, that is correct.
There's no refill on this one. You just
gotta go for it.
This is a really...I'm probably
gonna die here. Also, I don't know of a game
that has more phases of a fight than
this game. Luckily the game
is generous if we do end up eating a death here. We can continue straight from this fight
It still is hard don't be wrong but uh it is at least nicer than having to go back to like Mad City 1
Oh yeah my estimate would be way higher if that was how long the game worked I think he's going to be a little bit more aggressive
than the one that Matt said
he won.
My estimate would
be way higher if that was how
it worked. So now the hard part starts. Yeah, so he turns into like a head and then you need to hit him.
He'll throw waves of fire golden turtles
and I don't remember if he does the money bag.
Maybe it's just those two.
No money bags in this phase.
I totally ran into that fire and it didn't hit me so the golden turtles always found
out the most brutal attack cover the whole screen so i stay intentionally stay on the
edge of the track against this guy because if he throws the golden turtle attack on while you're
on the edge like half of it goes off this track and it's much
easier to dodge it that way um that doesn't make it you know it still like can be impossible to dodge
so uh in terms of range he does go in and out
Of your intended range
However long attacks as I mentioned earlier
Are mostly preferred
Because long attacks almost always will have
The little afterburn carry over
And bosses very often run into that.
Yeah this guy in particular runs into it a lot.
He loves doing that. You can hit him with some other attacks but you have to be like
you know, you have to hope he actually gets in range which just just too long just too long yeah
i'm in a really bad shape here but um in terms of the health uh i think the larger his head
skits that's the help it was and more beat up as we go,
which it's looking pretty good but we still have a lot to work on.
Yeah, I'm not particularly close here.
I'm in trouble.
I'm probably going to die here.
Hopefully we can maybe have everyone cheer on Joester. so so so Yes!
There it is, Jeff Lissatt Panacoaster.
Woo!
My God he landed it. And I got the audio bug on the final boss there.
Oh my god, is that time by the way?
Yeah, that was time.
Let's go.
Oh my god man, that was...
Let's freaking go.
And there's the best cutting you can get
they're at the beach having a good time what a run and then the first line of
the credits they spelled executive wrong here which is very
hilarious uh executive so that's that's me very hilarious executive
that's made panic coaster uh...
i probably got a high score so all type it in the eye after the credits for
years or take a minute
um... yeah i think i've only done that So it'll take a minute. Um, yeah,
I think I've only done that five or six times ever before,
uh,
this one and like three of them were this week in practice.
Um,
so I'm very happy
I got that,
that had some
very close calls
but that was
a tense final boss
and the captain
boss was
very intense too.
Hey Joe,
really quick,
what's your PB? 3410 is the record so... Oh it's close!
Getting a 30 if getting a 34 deathless is very very hard um so that's a very good run.
Yeah, I think my PB got like
a couple more of the audio bugs and had maybe
a better fight or something on a boss.
Which is really the only way to save time.
The nice thing about the credits
in this game is you actually get to see all the enemies
in detail, you get to see what they all look like
because you couldn't really tell
while the game was going on.
It's just so fast.
Yeah,
but yeah thanks to GDQ for letting me run this game.
I've submitted this a few times.
I thought it would be a perfect silly block game because it's kind of a goofy
game, but it's a hard game goofy game. But it's
a hard game to do in a marathon
because it's very easy
to die, so the fact that I got
through without dying is...
I'm very happy with that.
Like, I was holding it at the end there
that was that was something i'm glad everyone's here and the game ends in a
very wholesome message here and the game says have a nice day
so have a nice day.
Have a nice day everyone.
So let's see where this score is going to end up.
We're going to get a high score here.
Now we're going to go... I pressed X even though this is a J game. Oops that's- alright I typed it. Hold on, I can fix it.
Oh I didn't guess you could.
I did not know you could fix it? Alright hold on.
Well now I know! I was looking gqd but gt yeah there
we go thank you number three joe number three without ron so thanks uh thanks again for having me.
Thanks to Rick Dysus
for helping with some of the commentary
because this is a game that's hard
to play and talk at the same time
and hope you guys enjoyed
the 4 a.m. crowd
coming out in full force here.
Shout-outs to all you guys.
Yeah, thanks for watching
and enjoy the rest of SillyBlock everyone. Juho?
Hello!
We're halfway into the silly vlog. How are you guys feeling?
My name is Juho Juhors I come all the way from Singapore
Today's the 4th of July
You know what that is right i think so usa usa usa usa i feel like i feel
like i'm out of character where's your hat all right know what, there's something...
There's nothing more American than a cowboy.
Alright we got
Adaisus Shmumbler, Starwind...
Sometimes Starloose.
All the horror guys.
I wanna mention to you that I literally ran here from the other side.
Stay back!
I'll show you guys one gimmick real quick before we start off with the game.
Are you saying that you were in a mad panic?
I wasn't in a bad panic, maybe even a coaster.
I like how in this game...
Okay if i could actually do this real quick
There ya go!
The further I get...
the nearer I get.
What is this game?
It is going to be a trip!
I wanna mention, by the way,
Drew told me and Starwin to literally not watch anything about this run.
And I didn't.
This was the first time seeing it.
He just told me dress American and now I'm here.
Oh yeah you guys are dressed up hold on give me a second
i don't know what this man is doing okay Yeah! Woo!
That's true.
Alright, score-riding,
can you tell me who won the bid war?
I am so incredibly
thrilled to say Rossi won the beer.
Rossi won!
The bear.
The bear?
The bear.
Woo!
All right, so this is all levels.
We're going to play through all of the levels. We're gonna play through all the levels time starts three
two one
All right, so there's lore for this if you do not know there's war yeah
I thought that our muscles were marching actually steals protein shakes There's war? Yeah, so...
A thief actually steals protein shakes and we are just gonna take it back.
Protein shakes?!
And the gist of this game is to do all these
this game is literally posing through We just have to mess about- You- you- There we go.
This game is literally posing through walls!
Well, Starwin are you posing?
I am!
You're gonna miss it!
It'll get ya!
Also, I'm not saying for the audience, if you see a banana peel like this, just go
wheeeee! Ready? Whee! heel like this just go weee ready
uh i only have to do it like this and that's about it this This is how I play in the game, so it's just pointing up... down...
Here comes another!
Dude they're just eating the wall.
But yeah, if you ever...
Oh wait.
If you've seen Hole in the Wall or played Hole in the Wall this is like the same concept
It was made by Ben Dynanko
In a week
I don't know why they wanted to make this game
in like a week, yeah, yeah, yeah.
They made this game in a week.
They were supposed to put this game
in arcades and then did not do that
and just put it on the WiiWwear so if you ever bought this game on
the weware good job it's a rare game now oh is that why we're all saying average right here
everyone just wants to be chad yeah i want to be the chad you wanna do
it dude i get it that's where the flex you know flex with the characters uh
sporetti if you have any donations you can read them right now i do yorkie said in 50 says yo
joe gdq your key here wishing you the best for an amazing run of flexing muscles
and marching your way to the goal!
Shout-outs to Yorkie.
Yorkie is a really good person.
He introduced me to this game
um funny enough also banana peel floating
so yeah he introduced me to this game. He said, uh,
Jiro, get this game, don't ask
and I played this game
Alright here we go
And now look where you're at.
Yeah?
I don't know how this happened but it does happen.
I need protein.
I can feel it!
You need the protein shake right now.
I'm getting the burn
i feel like she went to the gym before this run that's a fat man doing a workout over here
yeah you just have to like, mash the poses. There are like a few moments that I can
like... Alright
here we go. Get that alien! GET HIM!
Back up! Tag him! Hogtie
him! Alright who stole the protein this this time i know it's getting stolen
here yeah all right person we're gonna see you i would have never guessed that
it is a pepsi man guy legally distinct but he also uh he also twerks as you can tell mega pepsi
dude these songs are a vibe.
They ARE a vibe!
So there are like three antagonists or thieves in this game
Each level...
Yeah, each level there's like three thieves.
So this one is the fastest that I had to react to, because a lot of these poses
are kind of just reactive and also
uh it would juk you like so much as well yeah i noticed the alien trying to juke
you a couple times yeah yeah yeah so i have to really focus on
uh I have to really focus on when the last person actually goes away.
Here we go, focus time for me!
Alright here we go focus time for me all right here we go oh my god where did he go oh Oh my goodness. Oh no!
This really is a muscle march
Let's go He is vibing, let's go. Dude, he is vibing! Let's go!
He's trying to jerk me.
Get him!
I can't keep up anymore.
GET HIM! I don't want to keep up anymore. Get him! Get him!
Get him!
Yeah!
All right, that's one level down.
Are there more?
This is only the first of three.
Congratulations, Fiend.
Why are they allowed to dance with us?
They robbed us of protein.
All right so at the end of this
we get a result screen and that's about it.
Who is that?!
He's just... who's that he says who
is
i got the muscle gore he's oldman
muscle
yeah just a first level
uh we're gonna choose rossi again and
then we're gonna go to village um
i need your sweatband
So, we get different characters along the way just for Kappa
MSF has some great cooling towels
For Twitch chat if you wanna to just cap in the chat kappa
so it's a pink kappa as you can tell dude where did i get that underwear yo
i like do you want to know something Yo. I like...
You wanna know something?
I just like how this skinny, turtle-like kappa is making the hole and then it's super muscular and such.
You just missed tie-in merchandising opportunities for those underwear.
Uh, Sporaday if you have any more donations, you can read it. I have all kinds of amazing donations!
$50 here from Manticore says
Go Juho! This game reminds me how
I went to the seafood gym recently
I pulled a muscle.
If a crisis is brewing at a plant, that means something!
It's okay, I got you!
I'm all here for it. Are you part of the seafood diet? See, I was gonna say that!
Dude, I went to the sushi shop earlier and you know what
there was a seafood diet. i saw food and i ate it
25 here from Topu says,
Go Juho! Lots of love
from your Clocktower family.
Heck yeah.
Shout out to the Clocktower team.
Shmumbler and Starwin
are both in the Clocktower team.
Shout out to Deathstrokes,
he ran Silent Hill earlier
in the marathon, so...
That was a great time.
Imagine if Harry Mason was this buff.
Oh my god!
Hey, secret lore...
Brenda is really Cheryl.
Oh, Brenda's Cheryl? Oh no dude.
Dude, Brenda's
British and Cheryl at the same time?
Cheryl?!
Cheryl!
Listen, Sherwin. The game has already given me me a workout I don't need you to kill me too.
No, I didn't realize you get such a work out just posing.
Yeah, you do.
I'm literally feeling it.
Why have we been matching records
yeah we have to look at it we've been doing it listen i'm cool with the poses do not make me
do a dog pile though listen i was really scared that i would be freezing in this outfit but i am sweating
yeah you're just sweating on freezing man well yeah you're not doing the poses oh that's true
well Oh, that's true. I guess you need the dog pack! Drew is down here like, pose! He's like...
You have a Wii mode over there though!
It's the motion controls that help me.
One of the poses I drew from my wall.
Get him!
Alright, Sauron, you're gonna have to do that on the next level
you're going to run across the stage
and just tackle somebody
I don't think I can make it all the way over there
I mean
from that side of the camera to this side.
Someone will come on.
Just check with the router!
I'll give one quick shoutout real quick.
Shoutouts to UFOTechie if anyone knows UFOtechie.
He ran this game back in GDQX 2019 on this level specifically,
and he only did like one level.
I am very happy to continue the tradition and actually show all levels, so yeah.
Alright.
This game is such a vibe.
It IS such a vibe!
Funny enough, I think like...
I think like...
I think like Vendai Nemco actually stole these music for some reason. I don't know why.
How do they steal music?
I don't know!
I think it's called licensing to Joy. Maybe he was licensing, who knows?
All right.
You're going to hit me focusing right now.
Cheryl no!
Cheryl!
Tell you what if you want a real workout you have to do the I'm just like, look at me. That was enough. What is it? What are you doing?
I'm just like looking at the second button.
Speedrun, don't worry about me!
Do not look through your peripheral. You don't need to see what's going on.
My peripheral?!
Okay... That guy's bouncing every second by the way I put it through. Okay, hold on.
That guy's bouncing every second by the way. Oh my god!
Get up!
I don't know if I can make it.
We got one more down for the third hop. Another dance right here. I don't have enough take like that dude has.
We do a donation during this dance?
Yes, donate!
Alright, here we go,SizeN at $5 said
If you drop the protein shake during a takedown would that make it more of a shakedown?
Ooh. Yay.
I get it.
Alright last level station.
That's space station?
So we're in a city...
We're in space!
No, we're just in space.
What even am I looking at now?
Oh yeah, just in space.
Is that a rabbit on in space so two bunnies is like stacked on top of each other i don't know how
it is what it is
they stole the shake Mix or their Jackrabbits? Oh my god, Starwind!
I would jump to a controller right now and be like beef.
That's so ridiculous! jump the finals right now to tell did this on yourself.
I've been posing so much that I can't lift up anything!
I'm going to go all the way to the end here and get my poses my poses go do your poses muscle march how is it
maybe i can make it are you holding the clothes though no oh i've been holding this whole time
dude you're doing that no way we've all been doing it wow i am not looking
i guess you look more, wow.
Hey why doesn't the one carrying the rabbit
get him?
They're holding the shake mix
And now they got piled
I ain't doing that
they're not gonna get piled or how to get tackled is that a robot yes there's
a robot muscles robots well it just was that guy
that's chad jaguar it just happens they just make the sh they just make the i understood that reference
they didn't share david that's about right cheryl where joe cheryl donations go Cheryl? Cheryl? Donations go.
Alright, I got a $5 donation here from Debbie who says
Let's go Juho! Happy to see your muscle memory hasn't wavered.
Keep it coming with the donations right now.
I got a $10 donation here from Mdiv who says
Hey there just wanted to say really enjoy really enjoying these silly speed runs and i had
to donate during sorry what was that saying all right i have 25 here from the aces artist who just says wheeeee
i have ten dollars in devon dragon who says hey juho can't wait to see a flexing on
the big screen keep up the great work also amazing job to all the gdq staff i wish my name
was pedro so what's up pedroso robots don't need a drink, I'm very confused.
He wants to!
I-I'm gonna jinx this on myself funny enough
I have not lost my stamina
I've not talked about the stamina meter as well
You haven't held for it so look at the top right there's five hearts and i've
never talked about it because i've clicked all of them uh all of
those all the poses yeah all the poses all the walls as well. Get him!
Get up here!
I'm not saying
you're really muscle marching
as well.
All right,
we got the last one
and it's
Mr. Pepsi Man himself, Michael.
Oh I gotta get in here! We got a $5 donation from Loyal Era that says
Piggyback!
PIGGYBACK!
It happened!
No...I can't do it. It happened! It happened!
No, I can't do it.
Listen Starwin you gotta take one for the team.
Don't worry he lifts Sch Smuggler's Ladder.
I can't do it!
So I was about to say this...
There is a health bar or like a stat millimeter so-
Oh there we go as you could tell
Noooo
One of the walls
So if he sets the combo at the bottom There we go, as you can tell. No! I dropped through one of the walls.
So it resets the combo at the bottom left.
I just realized something is the bear holding weights?
Yeah, the bears holding dumbbells.
Where do you think he gets the muscles from?
That's absolutely monstrous.
Hey, he's gotta go ahead and get that workout in! Oh so this is gonna
be very hard for me so
I need to concentrate right here
What do you think we need the protein powder for?
Here we go!
That was actually a terrifying concept, I wanna mention that to you.
Imagine Shredded Bear, right?
I mean, I feel like we've already had a couple movies about that.
Well no, that was cocaine.
Shake Bear
Alright here you go. Last few. Yeah! I am...
...time.
Got a vibe.
Let's go.
All right.
Thank you guys for actually coming by
and walking the run. Honestly. Muscle
King! Muscle King!
Muscle King!
What's my number one rank?
Muscle God. One of these days, Drew.
Uh-huh. So, uh...
Quick shout-outs to these guys right here on the couch.
Like, they are
the horror guys as well. I'm a horror speedrunner
but we just took over those silly vlogs for some reason! we just took over the silly vlog for some reason.
We just took over the silly vlog!
Shoutouts to Yorkie
and...
Well, Yorkie, Teki,
and Harutomo. Harutomo is the Japanese runner who also
ran this game as well, so
arigato gozaimasu. Shoutouts to
the Clock Tower team as well. They are
just beautiful people. He
and he... they are in the team as well
Shoutouts to the Singaporean speedrunners
as well because, you know, I'm from Singapore
and I flew all the way here, honestly
just to
do a run Yeah! Just to do a run.
Yeah, just to do an 18-minute run.
But yeah, thank you guys if you want to check me out.
I am Juhorse and yeah,
I think that's about it for my run so thank you guys yeah juho
oh you're right
hey guys
oh Oh my gosh, thank you so much. That's not a good first sound.
Well, well, well here we are. Hi everybody my name is Bystander Tim and I'm here with... Sea Average! And we're joined by our friends, Zik and this is City Bus Driver Simulator.
I wasn't told before.
We can pretty well jump right into it.
We do need that bid war.
Oh absolutely, alright so it looks like Blue Miku really slid into the lead there. Yeah!
Let's go.
Alright, so we are going to be picking up blue miku skin
and for tech
time it is going to start since we hit next after selecting level one so why do
we get into it can we get a countdown for the crowd five four three two
one let's go!
Alright so first thing we have to do is
actually start our bus
but we can do that behind this menu for reasons
Almost everything in this game has collision except for that bus.
But like
everything has like collision, collision.
If you hit it, it does not move and
you stop. That includes even
the garbage bags on the street.
So in order to find out what could possibly be,
like, in those garbage bags
we recruited famous science video game YouTuber, Ada
to do some math for us.
I think the bear back there has some math for us
and yeah, the music just stops.
Don't worry about it.
Don't worry, don't worry about it.
We're looking at math right now. Yeah, so can you please explain to us this math?
Nope.
Not at all.
Brief explanation, basically Adaph and I crunched the numbers with
the two densest materials known to man, osmium and tungsten
in order for those trash bags to stop us dead in our tracks,
they would have to have what?
Like 79 gallons of osmium or 92.
93.1 gallons.
It's a lot.
These are the trash cans we're talking about if you look at my viewers
I see the mess of a bus down here
it's 6800 kilograms
Oh quick, I gotta park sorry
hold on, I got to park.
I'm throwing... That is not how you park.
Tim, that's not correct.
I don't know.
I got credit for it.
Passing grade right here.
All right.
Now, I'm going to move on to level... There's on to music again yeah there's music
yeah and now it's gone
oh my god so Not a game.
Believe it or not,
we actually found tech in this game this week.
Besides the fact that
we have an entire story about trying to
find out how to unlock all the skins.
If you notice on this map here, we have two waypoints up.
Normally you're supposed to go in sequential order but both of the waypoints are up
so we're just going ahead and go to the second waypoint that's available.
And the game is just good to give us credit for all the bus stops like, oh yeah,
The people got off that definitely got on the bus so you just abandoned those
People kidnapped the people
oh yeah that's your eye box looks good yeah all point oh get out get out of the way! Oh no!
The rival bus drivers are out.
No, no!
Stop!
See this is your chance in the lead the ai in the game uh it does not care about you
or really any other vehicle uh it just will do what it wants i'm gonna go
this way.
Can the AI
go in reverse?
No,
it cannot.
Bolding you
to assume
there's something
intelligent
driving these cars.
Ooh, I almost hit the restart button there. Oh, that would have been bad!
I enjoy that it doesn't pick
the next level for you.
No, it doesn't.
Next is...
Next,
you're gonna go pick the next level, not next year.
Let's go to the next level.
The other level that we found that we can just only do
the last bus stop.
So we're gonna... Enjoy
the speed tech while it lasts. It doesn't
work in any other level except for these
two because all
the waypoints are just up for that.
I swear. Bus? Bus? Bus? Bus? just up for that i swear bus but
oh he is stopping oh boy okay
all right lock in come on get through it lock in
if you ever want a game no no no oh the car doesn't like the bus i yeah i would assume that's how the road works
it sounds like all boohoo you didn't get three buses blocking here
no that that's coming later.
I already feel it in my bones the amount of road rage I'm about to unleash on this game!
So B, you've seen those little yellow markers on the map? How do you think they're made? Like, the little yellow markers telling us
where we're supposed to be going?
I don't know...I could not possibly
guess with this game.
Alright, well that's fair.
Here, I'll just show you real quick.
I would imagine it's just like a little yellow dot on the map, right?
You know, you would think that.
But as soon as we get to this – not this first one but the second bus stop
i have a little treat for you hello dot yeah
I'm only a little bit behind, only a little bit
The passengers are waiting.
Oh, that texture looks good!
Yeah, there's a whole lot of Z fighting
you can definitely see here
I definitely started that joke
a little early so that's my apologies.
Why are some of the yellow dots way bigger than others?
Well, I think there is also...I think it might be related to the thing I'm about to show you
So again, yellow dot on map, you'd think oh it's probably a dot
on the map right what if i told you that instead it's a big yellow orb in the sky
or
oh boy this video game. So it's the bus coming for you.
So how many people play this game? Us?
Yeah.
We go- No!
Oh my god! Oh yeah, yeah, yeah! We got... No!
Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Stocks are up
baby.
I don't see how to get past this though.
Just drive through the trash bins what if you're in the tungsten filled trash bins i'm gonna
be going backwards now that's the worst stay waiting baby stay winning that's not a parking job Stay winning, baby. Stay winning.
That's not a parking job.
Now there's a third bus?
What is happening over there?
Okay, well I guess I'm going this way. We love throwing!
I can't wait to find a barrier
over here.
Oh my gosh The live rerouting
You don't get improv like this
On anywhere but GDQ
These runners have been practicing for hours
Unfortunately I think they have
No Unfortunately, I think they have.
Sporadic? Why don't we lighten the mood with some donations?
I would be absolutely thrilled to
I have a $25 donation
here from them who says
public trans rights
yeah
no, no, no No, no,
no, NO!
Okay.
So fun thing about this game
is that on every computer it's a little different so uh you may
notice that the audio is like stopping and then coming. There's a key on that?
Oh!
You just ruined that guy's day.
We're good.
Okay.
So...
You're good we're good okay so you're good
uh so anyway yeah it's different on every pc
uh on this could have been awful there could be
uh tim always experiences i think about
what we're getting with the audio right now.
On both of my computers,
The audio stops at the very first bus stop
And then never comes back
Not even in the midis or anything
So that's super fun!
That's cool.
Also, Tim every once in a while might press the space bar.
I'm afraid of the spacebar because every single bus stop it does something different.
So sometimes it is a handbrake, thank you bus
thank you, thank you please move
Sometimes it's a handbrake
sometimes it honks your horn
I got a break right now
Sometimes it changes the camera angle to be super
cinematic.
True light fiction.
The game is never in dark,
so we have lights.
Bright lights at that.
Sometimes it lets you turn on your tilt controls.
Yeah, look.
Tilt controls.
What do you mean?
I'm a thorough Wii U.
No, definitely not Wii U.
That is definitely a phone where this came from.
I'll turn on tilt controls maybe.
There we go.
Oh yes, the horn.
Yeah.
Nope, that's just not going away now. Okay.
So you're gonna wait for Space Force to horn
right now?
Oh boy.
Imagine trying to break it and it just lays on the horn.
Yeah, it lays on the horn
and keeps going.
Sometimes it pauses the game. That one's fun.
I like that your tires
are just smoking.
Yeah, it was still going as we were parking.
So Tim is heading into the hardest level now
because it's a level that we actually do not at all in the intended like
routing that the game wants you to do what do you mean
and we're not going to take it oh Oh yeah, y'all can't see this
these maps they have open. They have
serious notes for this game. I don't know
what I'm looking at.
This is a serious video.
All your passengers are dead. I was gonna say
And their passengers and their passengers
Get this
No
Lock in
Just lock in, bud.
Lock in!
Oh yeah, you get the arrow with like
whatever this means. There's words
on there and they're not happy.
I did so much trash talking before this.
Well because I had like the worst thing to happen to me in
video games during practice and then you were just
oh, I used a new time save and got a world record.
But now Tim's coming up on some barricades because we're going not in
the direction it wants us to go so he can try and shoot a gap.
Yeah, try I did!
So I have a question. Why are there two Miku skins?
That's a great question.
Purple just wasn't good enough, I guess.
Yeah?
That was
one of the most shell-shocking things
I think about playing a video game. It's just like
oh cool, there are buskins why is Hatsune Miku on them?
This one is literally the default skin so by default they're just like Miku
Yeah and the game is infinitely better for it i'm also curious why every bus stop is just tomatoes
um well i mean that'd be a great answer if i knew where we were
this this this is like,
I guess,
where do people drive
like this?
Where do people
drive in Tomato Town?
No!
Oh, yeah.
We're fine.
I like that you can see it coming.
You're like, well this is happening.
I just regular crashed
I saw you
screaming turned over here
and just whirved into a sign.
These people just watch you crash into a bus like,
I'll get on that bus!
Yeah!
What are we doing? What are we doing?
I still don't know.
We're like, what level are we on? 7?
Where did life go wrong that
we're here?
See, I got this in practice. You are stuck!
No no no, we got this.
Are you?
Listen... You just need to perfectly back up.
Easy.
Barely an inconvenience.
Okay. Tim, I'm going to shut the laptop so you don't have
the map anymore.
We talked...I guess we could talk
about how we found this game because...
How did you find it?
How much did you pay for this game?
How much did I pay for this game?
Nope, wait. I'm going the wrong way.
I forgot where I needed to go.
Besides the blood sweat and tears uh
no last summer last steam summer sale because if you've been watching gdqs
i've been in like this time slot for a while of just like... Can I go to the finish here?
You've got it!
Of just, like, quirky indie games that I found.
And I went, like, okay.
I went, oh,
I have $1. cents in my Steam wallet.
Find me a bad video game and I'll speed run it.
And then Ivan who's currently taking our photos, shoutouts to photo volunteers right now
Went here you go and you know i was really struck by the steam page which just straight up says the goal is to be the best city bus driver simulator that you can be.
It's called
to you.
It's poetry,
and by that I mean what is wrong with me?
Steam has a way of once
you get one bad game,
it never stops recommending the worst games possible.
You never escape it. I mean what are we talking about?
This is a gem of a video game.
I miss the music.
Orb, orb, orb!
Sporadic why don't we get another donation? It will save us.
Alright well
Led Chef sent in $100
and says remember who taught you how to drive
I am one proud dad and happy
To support this amazing foundation
And my super son
Thanks, Dad
Not all of your dads it's my bad
we have time for more yeah let's go for it all right we got this 50
dollar nation that says see don't look. There's a bus on your right.
Left.
That one was from this person you may know
bystander Tim.
Oh.
The nod.
Might be worse.
Don't donate and drive
i was so i was so, I was so
dis-moralized by that
practice round
that um
I'm like in the back
going
I need
an edge
and then
the game just gave me
three buses
in a row And he had to gave me three buses.
Three buses!
We are on,
or at least I'm on level 8.
I don't know where C is anymore,
I'll be perfectly honest.
Oh no, the bus!
We got a good bus drift in. Some multi-lane drifting over here.
But there is like,
a structure to this game for some whatever
reason there are 10 levels and slowly
they started adding more bus bus stops. And level
8 is the peak of
that with four individual bus
stops before you park. So
this is definitely the longest level
in the game. And if traffic doesn't play nice he
definitely has an opportunity to catch up here yeah but she just got lost No! No! Oh my god.
Don't look now, there's a bus on your right.
Ah yeah.
Oh no I donated $50 for charity and am eating my words.
I'm going to the finish.
Okay.
I don't know what you're talking about.
I don't know what you're talking about. I don't know what you're talking about. I don't know what you're talking about. Oh no, I donated $50 for charity and am eating my words.
I am going to the finish.
Okay.
Cool, cool, cool.
Oh, this buzz.
Oh.
Yeah, that's the one thing is that we talked about there being no pathing.
The game will occasionally spawn barricades
in the way, and we saw a little bit of that in level 6.
Traffic doesn't like that because
they're just going to be like, well I guess I'm stuck here
and plant their feet
and find out what it will. I don't know what what to do there's a barricade in front of me
all i know is that i was told i'm not allowed to see nine and ten but
level nine and 10 before this.
I don't know what's about to happen.
You are allowed now because we are doing the run.
Wake up bear.
We have bus game to bear. We have we have bus game to watch
We can't sleep you can't sleep
No, why don't we get another donation I I feel like we're already tired of all the puns.
Sure thing, Ivan sent in $25 and says oh no!
Oh no...
I'm so sorry.
We have time for one more?
Let's go for it.
All right, the transit authority sent in $25 says we might not have gotten Hatsune and half-life but here at the city bus authority
We haven't covered good luck to both of our drivers. Remember traffic lights are just a suggestion
From the transit authority, everyone.
This city is a nightmare.
Is this the kind of city like Batman would be in?
Does traffic crime batman
oh my god let's just drove off the road okay so i can catch up. Here's an idea...
I'm trying to see where this bus is going,
and I don't think that's any language.
Oh cool the music's back.
Now it's gone. There it goes.
This looks pretty normal. So, just like we had with the giant orange orb
on the waypoint...
The second bus stop
in both... I think it's both
9 and 10 is the one to watch out for.
Because there's some very, very unique situations.
Is Batman in there?
Batman's not there.
Oh my gosh!
What is the...
what is the hitbox of that box?
He's like, I wanna be a part of this.
No, they travel in packs
No, they travel in packs. No, they
travel in packs and they collide together.
Oh my gosh.
What the hell? Did you just drive through a bus stop?
No! Cheater.
What do you mean cheater, I have to back up now.
Cheat, beep, beep.
Thank you so much crowd
by the way.
So is there a way to fail these levels? Yes!
Oh, okay so see this timer at the top?
Okay, so see how it's counting up?
You would think yeah that's just like a timer
to see how fast you complete the level.
Wrong!
What? No!
That is your timer for failing the level
because you can fail the level if you take too long
but you don't know how long that is
because the timer counts up instead of down
i just fail at some point yeah so what was that about the counter
yeah okay goodbye
i just like that the timer just rarely decides how many milliseconds.
It's flickering.
Sometimes you get one, you get three sometimes.
It's like, you know...
Hey, don't talk smack about the counter.
Don't make me tap the sign
i understood that reference wait wait no
wait wait wait no no no i'm throwing
i'm throwing how are you getting lost? It's a parking lot.
You have notes!
You don't need notes!
I also got
a little lost.
I completely... Like like disassociated for half a second with the ghost bus stop appear and
just completely forgot where it was.
I was gonna ask how you get lost but but everything looks the same. What is happening?
Conveniently me going the wrong way
All right
By the way said yeah in case you missed it before i like no this is fine no it's
a second one yeah the second stop by the way just so just so time is clear um
time is going to come up when we lose control at the final parking stop in
the next level we've already lost control
we lost control of moe we press start game tim why are you up at five
in the morning playing a bus game?
Because I've lost control of my life.
So, you guys are going to keep grinding for world record after this, right?
I already have it. It's fine.
When is the DLC coming out for this?
When is the DLC...
Nobody's there!
That was one thing we found We found so many alternative bus driver simulators, just looking up stuff. I still want to play the $200 ones though.
Why is it $200 won't sell. Why is it $200?
That's a great question!
You'll be able to find out next year.
This game is currently on sale for I think 49 cents. It's 49 cents whenever it is on sale
You can play right now and get those zero concurrent players up
that's two right now well we're not playing on steam so oh shoot
gotta get those numbers up.
Donate to Buy Tim the $200 bus game.
Please, instead donate
to the charity please?
Please?
Donate to get the charity,
the $200 buzz game.
Speaking of donations,
I have one here for $104
from Amnesaurus Rex
that says,
nice bus.
Nice bus.
Thanks Evan. Thanks Evan. I feel like that's a Tommy Vercetti vibe,
Tommy Vercetti just walks in
mmmm nice bus
Alright, I'm also on the last level All right.
I'm also on the last level now, so... It's neck and neck.
They're all at the same level.
One crash can decide it.
If Tim's keyboard disconnects for an entire minute...
I mean, his space bar could do magical things
apparently. It could.
I wish it didn't.
Let's see, what is it doing right now?
It's a brick. Cool!
Nice!
If you're not a coward
You'll do the rest of the level in cinematic mode
He's really trying let's say let's hear the final drive and cinematic mode the final drive that's right off into the sunset
it's called the final drive because you're like an unsung no well i've heard
i've heard we have one more passenger to pick up in what direction oh my god where are you Where are they going?
It's not the bus!
Would you get on that bus?
Alright, as promised.
Oh yeah.
Cinematic.
Feed fiction!
How is that useful in any way? Fiction.
How is that useful in any way?
It's a driving montage.
Okay, okay, okay. I'm gonna beef this so hard.
Sorry, we're just giving you serious time right now.
Serious time for city bus drivers
as we haven't already been giggling the entire time so it's not a serious block
the most Time. Woo! The most prestigious race victory known to man.
Tim, how are you feeling right now?
Clapping it up.
Clapping it up for an audience of one.
I've heard we have
one more passenger to pick up?
I will be setting up
a little special thing
as soon as he finishes
to show off.
Yeah, we really will ride off into the sunset together for this right now.
We are going to do that for sure! It's the most ominous thing I've ever heard.
See how you feel about losing the most ominous thing I've ever heard. See, how do you feel about losing the most...
On the biggest stage ever?
The biggest stage that City Buster
has received in his life.
His stakes were really high. I cannot believe after all of the trash talk that three
buses and a trench coat decided oh by the way oh that's time. Okay so um...
Are we bosses in a trench?
If you look at Tim's POV right now, we found this little winner.
Uh, we're gonna go-
The stumps aren't real.
We're just gonna go-
The stumps?
No! We're gonna go... The stomps aren't real.
No!
There we go!
Why is there a city under there?
It's Atlantis! It's Atlant-out Atlantis!
Oh my goodness. While I drive over
to Atlantis... See, you can't get out of the parking lot
I know, I can't get out of the parking lot. It's all over
He's so strong. We can go ahead and
give our shoutouts while I drive to Atlantis.
Obviously, I mean, shout out to you my friend for entertaining this
for...I don't know how many months we've been trying to run this game.
Too many!
Too many months but of course being a great runner,
being a great friend.
Shout out to our two commentators here
who definitely did not know what this game was until this week.
Thank you for having us here? You could say no thank you please don't do it again
look how cinematic it is of course ice paper on a variety
of weird and wonderful indie games over at twitch.tv slash
bystandertim underscore
if you want to shout out your stuff
yeah I mean also shout outs to Tim
great friend, great Destiny
Raid partner
great awful game friend, great Destiny Raid partner.
Great awful game convincer.
Shout out to
my wife who is probably asleep
and my son who should... I hope
he's asleep.
And for GDq for having this as much as we've memed on this game this was really fun and we obviously really appreciate it so of course keep donating
keep supporting the marathon it's nothing like a good celly block.
Let's keep it going everybody.
Thank you so
much by Sandra Tim timid C average.
Friends, do you see that thing
in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen?
That is your fault.
Thank you for your generous donations.
We are doing a specific game called Leaf Blower I'm going to go ahead and play the game. I don't know if it's your fault
. Thank you for your generous
donations.
We are doing a specific game
called leaf blower man this game blows we're going with We'll just... Yeah, y'all are awesome. Anyway if you want a quick synopsis of what
you're getting into? Okay!
In a world where leaves fall from trees.
Only one man can push them
from one end of the driveway to the other.
You are that man.
Or woman.
Or non-binary
or...
Let's try this again. But wait, there's more.
Ah, there we go! Much better. Anyway, we don't get paid by word count so let's begin this adventure!
So that's what you're getting into? I'm Oscar 424...
Hi, I'm dangerous.
Wonderful couch commentary here.
We have a bid war we need to officially find out who is winning today.
Well, oh my gosh! Another upset? It's
Rave Girl! Oh!
At the last moment. Nice!
Thank you very much everybody.
Thank you for that snipe.
So,
I'm actually going to be a little quiet because when you put the two
hardest tricks in the game
as the first two things you do in the game
that's a thing. So as soon
as we start let Dane talk for hot second but
We are ready to go in 5 4 3
2 1 Go! three two one go all righty so the moment we load in we are going to immediately not do our job of
blowing leaves and we are going to instead jump onto this little bush, try
to use the ramp collision off of this bush to get on the roof of this house
and then do another jump. Come on! So close.
These are the two hardest things in
the run luckily they're one second into the run so no big deal if you don't get a first try
uh but yeah this is uh going to be be the first of
a couple of times where we don't actually
do our job of blowing leaves, and we're going to instead
skip everything.
Oh, that's it? That's a good one.
So we are now on top of the picket fence and we're going to get over to the very bottom
of the screen, and now Oscar is gonna switch to keyboard and just hold down the right button
and pass by all these houses that have leaves in the driveway.
Look, I upped my rates and they didn't pay them.
It's fine.
We can't even tell the story about blowing leaves into the pool
No.
And how it's faster. But
we get ads. We do get ads. So friends,
ads.
...
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I've never been bombed with the ad.
I need this.
This is what your donations went toward, by the way.
Yep! So the ads... Actually no, before we talk about ads
Chat, friends here, can we pop off for
What we like to call intended leaf blowing strats
Wooo! Yeah! We are doing our job. This is the only time we're going to do this.
This is the only time.
We were doing the intended leaf blowing and we're done.
Nice.
All right, now we have a boss fight.
We have a boss fight now we have a boss fight
we have a boss fight right here so we have to blow bombs
back into the turret oh wait we have to blow them back in
turret well we're supposed to or you could do this I guess.
What was that?
I didn't know we had to actually use
a leaf blower. You don't have to
you just won so there you go.
Oh! Cool yeah That's the boss boss fight okay i guess we can keep going
they can't keep going how about another ad let's get into that yeah let's get another head
and show you something that i think very few people in today's world can hope of achieving.
And that is a 400 square foot inner city studio apartment for less than half what you make in wages.
Wow!
You too, can learn how to achieve this kind of life. make in wages. Wow! Sign up now, Chad.
Ooh! Oooh!
That's impressive. Ha ha ha! I left it called Tax Pro.
This isn't Turnip Boy.
So anyways,
the intended strap for this place is we're supposed to blow all the money into the circle because they just robbed a bank, of course.
I'm just going to blow off his toupee.
So we're going to instead jump on this guy's head and jump over a trigger for that.
Then we're going to do the same thing here.
That's not toupee, though.
It's a bush.
Well...
Oh!
I know what I want to do.
I want to go to space.
You want to go to space?
Yeah, I want to go to space.
I guess we can go to space. I don't go to space. Do you really want to? I go to space? Yeah, I'll go to space. I guess we can go to space.
I don't go to space.
But you really want to.
I go to space!
Oh good!
Yeah!
Alright so we're gonna do that boss fight again.
Oh this one's moving.
Oh yeah this one is moving.
No no come back, come back, come back!
Come back!
Okay that was fine. You're my friend. You're my friend. Oh yeah, this one is moving. No no no! Come back come back! Oh oh oh oh!
Come back!
Okay that was fine.
You're my friend...
I think?
Maybe?
Oh.
Hey that's the boss fight.
I broke the fringe.
You broke the fringe.
Anyway, uh I want you to meet mayor of world hello leafler person
i am mayor of world as you know everyone hates you oh oh anyway i don't care about what you
have to say now.
It's a speedrun still we have to skip the rest of the dialogue.
Oh this is an ad! By the way, this is the only actual
ad in the game. So mention the ads that
they put back into the game. game developer Kubas are who again any dev single?
May they supply of the game
Basically his descent into capitalism effectively, but this is another game that he's made
if you ever heard of Rainier Parade.
I like that snow or snow but different
because it's not rain. It's snow but
different.
Shout out to Cubizar.
He is so cool and he has been so excited with everyone's speedrun in this game.
We almost got him for the couch but unfortunately schedules didn't work out.
He sounds a little upset right now.
That might be a problem.
Will that come back to bite us later on?
No.
Okay, that's fine. So we're going to go what I originally liked to call
Leely Distinct Area 51.
Somebody in HN for a previous run did this
and it was Place 15.
So this is Place 15.
This is Place 15, yeah.
Now, I'm going to run into a cabinet because
I don't know what the straight line is but
I will warn people there's a chance we are
going to get an audio glitch.
Do you hear this very triumphant music? we get the audio glitch you're going to hear
this for the rest of the game so couch so this will find out as soon as this cutscene ends if the music ends we are safe
if it doesn't anyway we're going to space uh this is the thing and
oh no audio glitch if the audio glitch happened you'd be hearing that triumphant little ditty until we restarted
the game.
Is he okay?
He's okay.
Does he need his knickers?
I don't know.
I'm not sure what to do with him.
I think it's a good idea for him to just go back and play. Yeah. I mean, he's got some pretty cool stuff going on in there. Is he okay? He's okay.
Does he need his knickers?
Uh...
Kupuzor, are you okay bud?
I have questions.
I have a lot of questions...
He's fine!
See he's fine see he's fine yeah nothing bad is gonna happen or anything
anyway who we are um in space. Yes.
I'll let Dane talk during this part because this is not easy.
This is the asteroid section.
Fun fact, you actually don't see this
in the ad-free version.
You just get a blank white hallway
with a bunch of boxes on it.
Now the problem is that if she gets hit by any of these asteroids,
She gets warped back to the beginning so it's...
Checkpoint?
Or checkpoint. It moves to pause and wait in certain places if you feel like
you might not actually get where you're trying to go.
Yeah, the end of the section is uh
this is kind of it really depends on how big the asteroids are it's fine i swear we're not playing with fire it's okay
we're playing with leaves we're we're playing yellow
all right.
That section has killed record pace runs.
It is so squirrely.
Oh, oh, you got a new product.
New product?
Yeah.
Imagine no more ads ever again except the occasional ad for Unbounded Blocker.
Wait.
No more interaction.
No more immersion reading.
Just Unbounded Blocker telling you who to watch, when to watch them and how to watch them. Wait, I... But it doesn't block stuff? Join the Unbounded Lurker family. You have no choice, change your time. Unbounded Lurkers might be
Unbounded Lurkers is stable
Unbounded Lurkers is in the church
Join us!
Give it up for Nightmare Fuel, yeah!
Yay!
So anyway there's leaves on the moon.
We're now on the moon.
Now some of you might be asking yourself
how are you using a leaf blower which pushes air on the moon yeah by pushing
right trigger my controller yes to that we say shut up um uh so there is a wall
that keeps us in the area.
However, you can just jump over that wall? Yeah, I'll just jump over it. It's fine.
It's fine. Alright. Now
tentacle RNG would be nice.
I'm glad we didn't get the outage glitch
because we wouldn't hear the music for this. Right? Alright, so I'm glad we didn't get the audio glitch because we wouldn't hear the music.
Right?
Alright, so I'm gonna go...
to this one.
There we go!
Nice! Ooh that went about as well as-
Oh no!
I commentator-scursed it. There we go.
Now we got it.
Sorry Asuka.
However upon returning to Earth...
Something is amiss.
Wait. I didn't clean those up did I?
You didn't clean up the leaves on Earth, did you?
While you were gone,
The leaves seized the day.
Are you a bad enough leaf blower person to save humanity?
I hope.
All right, so that is part one completed!
So we are moving on to Horde Mode,
which is five minutes of...
We're here now.
Who likes vampire survivors?
Anybody fans of vampire survivors?
Give it up for vampire survivors.
That's what we're doing for five minutes.
Oh, with leaves. There are specific power-ups i'm looking
for um and i'll have dean talk about what i like to call the strat once we get to the part where
i stopped talking yeah so so do not be deceived
this part's actually really hard.
In the ad-free version there's actually
a manipulation you can do where
you can
spam collecting powerups over
and over and over and over
where you basically level up
about 30 times in
one go, and you become
not Leafblower person but leaf blower god
and uh because we're doing the ad supported version
we don't get to use that manip so uh this part's gonna get actually very
difficult uh we're gonna we're gonna pass it over in just a minute for some donations,
but I guess the best thing we can do
at this point is, much like Vampire Survivors,
every couple of levels, Asuka's
going to get access to a new weapon
and there's a couple of specific weapons that she's looking for.
And I actually got the jumper. That's what we're looking for.
Yeah, you give up damage though?
It's a bummer. So there's an enemy that's going to
spawn in at some point that is very, very tall
and forms a circle around the whole arena.
And one jumper upgrade allows her to jump over that enemy so she
can get out of there and not get badly flanked by all
these leaves.
But yeah,
this is a five-minute section of just doing this before
we fight the Leaf King.
So Sporadic, you got time to read
a whole bunch of donations.
Thankfully I have a whole
bunch of donations.
Leaf King. Yes.
You did not miss here.
Alright, alright, $75 from
Nyobari says
Asuka is a craftsman in her
run of leaf blower man.
She has nerves of steel
looking forward to running through these levels like a toro in the china shop don't forget
to include incentives in your donations to ensure your green works i love that thank you so much
tempest mask one thousand and five dollars says to a wonderful friend in oscar thank you for playing so many funny games
and shout out to express lane something i forgot to mention during
castlevania is that all forever be grateful that you opened your doors
to me to a great opportunity keep blowing onward. Aw, thank you.
Jumping intended strats right now. Keep going
You got time. Alright, peanut153 sent in $50 says the best part
of working third shift is getting to watch all these amazing runs in the silly block.
And Comrade MixitN10Dollars says,
Hey Asuka, can't believe that you're up on stage running leaf blower person helping
rake in donations for charity best of luck
i can't believe i can't believe those are the first leaf puns that we've heard actually so far i think we really need a lot more leaf buns, you're gonna kill me.
Bring them!
I love puns.
Don't leave me hanging.
I have a $50 donation here from MadNutYouth who says donating to MSF during the silly block certainly does not blow. Much love to everyone for putting on such a great event, Less Than Three.
Also shout out to sheep right there.
This is the part where it's gonna start getting really scary for me. Alright RetroSend in $25 says
Fascinated to find out that there are leaves...in space!
You learn something new every day!
Thank you Asuka and GDQ
You will notice that the leagues now have swords.
Also, these sheep are actually a weapon so every few levels
you get to pick up a new weapon, and one of the weapons is
a group of sheep will just run in from off
the screen and trample a bunch of leaves. And that's
what's happening here., there are stronger weapons.
I wanted sheep.
So we got about 30 more seconds for donations.
All right, Moe Morrison sent in $50
It says never trust leaves.
Jay sent in $25 and says can I pay to get more ads?
Yes.
Redumbly sent in $25 and says, ads! And there's a lot of love for the ads coming to Twitter where it was
sent in $50 and said I'm so glad we donated
and put the ads back in.
This is fantastic.
This is the scariest
30 seconds in it.
Yeah,
so we're trying
to tick down that clock in the upper right corner to five minutes because
that's when the leaf king spawns in so she just has to survive uh so far been doing a bang up job
there we go nice with this much health, I'm...
Yeah.
You know what?
I'm not gonna say it because I know what runner's curse is.
Don't do that to yourself.
I kind of want to do it to myself so my health bar is pretty high.
Hopefully, I don't get hit by anything.
Oh, why did you do that?
Yeah, so one of the weapons
that she picked up was doing an
AOE attack every time she jumps and
doing an AOE attack every time she lands. So all she has to do
really is just spam jump over and over
and well, this is what happens.
But yeah, now that we've hit five minutes
no more new leaves are spawning in
We're just gonna see the stragglers getting
murked until the leaf king spawns in which should be any moment will be in the north part
of the map so remember how um you mentioned power leveling for the other version?
This is a different kind of power leveling.
Carving a hole in everything.
Yeah, you form that line by moving in a certain way northward
in order to kind of funnel everything into one
line but alright we got the Leaf King leaf king here we go here's the leaf
king he looks so happy yeah he does it's fishy telegraphs his attacks by his facial expressions so
you'll know as soon as he attacks by uh
the faces he makes. You know maybe he's, you know he actually doesn't look
so happy right now it's probably because these sheep are
gonna bleed them oh i got hit well has a calculator ever quit during the middle of a run? Is that a thing?
Well, I've already said that's never happened before
once during this marathon. True
Um, I hit my quota
unfortunately And... Leaf King down! my quota unfortunately and leaf king down
all right so finale is this really long really's like six to eight minutes of
all these side quests to get these three
key cards and it takes
a long time.
But this is New Game Plus!
Oh yeah I have those cards. So we already have the key cards in our inventory
so we just walk up put them in the pedestals and we're done okay so yeah that was side quest skip
uh yeah that's that that's one of the big differences between
New Game and New Game Plus.
Can you knock over the TVs?
Okay.
Yay!
I hope they didn't anger...
Oh.
Do you know why there are all these super short levels?
No.
Why? There are all these different pointless quests... What?
I didn't do this.
Surely you realized why you had to replay the horror mode over and over again.
Look, I resemble that remark.
We did show you more ads!
You're not the consumer, you're the product!
Oh my god.
And I'm a fan of your work.
I love it.
I think we should have done something about it. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I don't know if you guys have any ideas on how to make it look like a horror more ads. You're not the consumer,
you're the product!
And I'm selling your attention to the highest bidder.
More ads, more money,
more money, more games,
more games, more ads! It's the circle of life
baby.
It's time for you to die
and repeat the cycle.
Let's dance. Oh that got a little moody so yes this is
the this is the developer the developer
made himself the final boss of this game yep and chet
you heard the man let Let's dance! I want to see those dance emotes.
There is no reason also for me to destroy these...
There IS a reason. It's fun.
Yeah yeah it is true.
I'm like Wadsworth. I like to keep things tidy.
By the way, this fight only occurs in the ad-supported
version. If you play ad-free,
you don't get this fight you get like a little note
that says oh yeah thanks for getting the ad-free version um yeah i'm just gonna go bug people
that didn't get that version and um yeah bye yeah so your your donations rng rng to msf went to this that's not gonna work a little
unfortunate yeah you can get multiple bombs to to hit him at once uh but they have to spawn
kind of next to each other because the time window is a little bit too narrow to
push a bunch at once
On the edge, um's gonna be coming up pretty
soon it'll be as soon as the last hit uh comes in and the letter probably spawned one or two more.
Oh, oh, oh!
No! That's really rude!
Kubizar, please!
Okay, that's just bad, aren't you?
But alright, that is
time. You never realize what this is.
You can't stand it!
There's nothing left to play!
Poor guy.
You thought you won, Fireman.
No! I finished the game.
Aw...I feel bad now. but we won the game
also i love the fact that it puts your uh steam name
in the like top banner.
Little things like that are just so cool
about this, but as we
literally walk off into the sunset, pay no
attention to people that start having existential
crises and walk by, they're fine.
Dean, can you shout yourself out?
Nope.
This is your run.
Everybody go follow Asuka at twitch.tv slash A-S-U-K-A 424.
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Leaf blow person, are you really
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You don't have to, you know.
We can just restart the whole game and start over from the beginning.
We could play a few more levels and watch a few more ads together.
Yeah... no.
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All right, all right. Hello everybody this is Wild Woody for the Sega CD.
Yeah, this is the game of all time! So thank you Twitch chat and everybody
who's donated for making the cutscene percent.
So you guys are going to be in for a treat.
Oh, yeah.
The cutscenes in this game
are beautiful.
It's pre-Toy Story CGI
and the animation could not be better truly it's something uh quick introduction to my
commentator brandino who has also enjoyed some time with the pencil. I have, yes
thank you so much Allegro, I am
Brandino, I'm mostly known for handheld speedruns
but I'm here today to help give commentary to
Wild Woody a game that I also run
it is gonna be a great time and I just want to apologize in advance,
I was yelling divorce during GB Robo and I lost my voice so let's make do with what we got.
I'm still so excited to talk about this run today.
All right, uh...
Don't skip the cutscene!
Yes yes.
Do not skip the cutscene.
I have a very itchy trigger finger, so...
Alright let's go ahead and three, two, one, go.
Oh, and I forgot to mention, we sketch a lot during the run.
I'll be sketching with Allegro sometimes.
Yeah, we got that ready.
Who's faster, me or Woody?
We'll find out.
Hey, Suspie!
They just wanted to thank you again for pulling us out of that Aztec coon!
Hey listen, that guy that had his spear on my shoe at some point... care for pulling us out of that ass incredible voice acting
i don't know how they can get to the volcano in time my good lord yeah like how are they calling him Each one creates a parallel universe that can devour the world. You're standing chaos to end of the moment, or...
...flexing for us though as our power can only be released...
This is kind of... this has got some guys here.
Wait a minute, it's July.
We're in Minnesota so it's probably snowing.
Oh my god!
Oh no.
Is the tunnel about to break?
Wait, no it's...
It can't!
Oh no!
You know what it is? I didn't set the Sega CD clock right.
It's probably set to Wednesday.
Oh, look what you've done now!
Oh my achin' back!
Looks like those jerks are loose again.
Now I gotta find me some muscle to bring them back.
Hmm... not much to work with here.
Say, now that one's got potential too! Not much to work with here.
Say, now that one's got potential!
Wake up pal! You and me got work to do!
I have everything in this room! Whoa... I mean, I can't do that. Yeah, Woody almost eats the camera there. Totem Pole, my fathead totem brothers have escaped my control
and I brought you to life
to go and round them up.
If you don't get them back they'll wipe out
everything! So
what do you think? Think you can save the world?
My good man. As of 15 seconds ago I was burned to save the world!
Where do I stop?
Squidlips went into that pirate book, jumping after us and look for sketches in there. Any sketch you draw. That was Yeah! Yahoo!
That was mo-capped.
Wait, no,
that was motion capture. I think
Pixar animated that dude.
Alright so we're off to a
pirate world and yeah this
game goes from 3D
cutscenes to just
2d nonsense
Um...and the sprites are
quite detailed, from my understanding they were
hand-drawn and then digitized, and you can
definitely see some of that quality come through here
The game looks great
now how it plays is a different story.
Yeah, Woody feels really putty to control and you had to commit to your dumps.
Yes! This games jumping is REALLY bad. I don't know how much it shows but every jump you make
you have to be holding a direction if you're not woody will just jump in place and you can
barely get him moved left or right not to mention every single ladder or rope in this game
is like super thin if you are not directly dead center of it woody will let go of
it and fall there are a lot of things to climb in
this game so that's really dangerous oh yeah there's some
that really scare the crap out me and
uh at this level treasure caves we're gonna pop over to Diddy Kong Racing for a second.
Um so... I don't know why but this song feels like it's chasing me.
Makes me very nervous!
Yeah, so...
This stage is
very interesting. There's like multiple routes that you can take
and they're almost equally the same amount
of time it takes to get to the end here
Recently a task was released which helped us find some new routes that we had previously unknown,
which is awesome. Any help for this game? Very recommended.
So we're on to the first boss, which is a rapping pirate!
So we can talk about how woody-damaged his enemy's here. But it's basically by jumping on their heads and erasing them um now this boss
looks pretty simple but later bosses and enemies it's going to be way more complicated because
depending on the size of the enemy in the size of
a hitbox woody won't just snap straight through them.
Woody! You made it back!
Oh we got it!
Let's move on.
Yeah when Loyal was out they got me some sushi.
Assume the position, fish boy!
Wait, what did he say?
I love that line.
And how are you calling it, fish boy?
Ah, fish boy.
I've been shamed by a darned wizard!
Alright, my creators deserve well-howin' now. Who's next?
Brimstone. He blasted into that picture. It used to be a Greek lady...
Difficulties about the jump up big here in greek world
god versus pencil pencil wins every time, I'm telling you.
Actually half the reason I'm running
this game is that I happen to have a Sega CD, and one day on YouTube
I discovered the cutscenes and I was hooked. Instantly. Oh real quick! Get ready
to headbend! This song goes so hard! Yeah...
This soundtrack is quite hard. Yeah, this soundtrack
is quite fantastic
but unironically
I really think this soundtrack is really good
It's worth noting the game's
soundtrack was composed by guitarist Ron Th fall also known as bumblefoot who
would go on to be the lead guitarist of guns and roses for roughly a decade sometime after this
game so all i'm saying is that if you make a game like Wild Woody,
You could become the guitarist of Guns N' Roses.
So don't give up on your dreams!
Um but yeah this This song is so good
Like this song absolutely
Best song in the game
Yeah
Uh I could be taking a bomb path but
I kinda wanna conserve health here.
The thing about this game is that every level
is absolutely littered with enemies and obstacles
And we're just gonna be running or walking through
them like 95% of the time.
Which is very dangerous.
So we need to make sure that
our health stays within
certain parameters so that we're not going to lose time.
So you might notice that I'm kind of standing still and the
platforms are disappearing underneath me, I'm actually holding down the erase button
so it can kinda skip the animation.
It doesn't work for all surfaces, unfortunately, so...
It seems to only work in certain levels. This is one
of them. But yeah this is a-this is kinda funny strat
So he's erasing things without actually activating the erasing animation
yeah and this stage has some weird issues uh loading like collision
yes there's low this level loads inconsistently constantly I think
just like a quirk of the early CD based console but sometimes tiles and chunks
at this level load out of order, and you'll notice it very
quickly when we enter the final
section if something is wrong. So I kind
of hope that we get to see a little bit of sprite
garbage, but that's just me.
Yeah.
This level's called Minotaur Maze That's just me. Yeah...
This level is called Minotaur Maze, but functionally every level in this game is a maze. They're all very labyrinth and huge.
And this is kind of what I mean right here where it'll just kind of refuse to uh erase things
it's actually playing nice for once but it knows man it's aware that it's on GDQ now.
So, um...
Yeah, this is funny. I swear this only happens to Allegro but the game refuses to load the collision properly.
But luckily we're at the exit.
Alright, so
we're going to be on to probably
the heaviest platforming kind of stage.
This is probably some of the most difficult platforming in of stage this is the probably the most some of
the most difficult platform in the game here
yeah i feel like brandino can take over
yeah so um there are a lot of platform cycles
in this level now luckily these cloud platforms here are solid but every
other cloud platform that he's currently jumping on if he stays on for too long he will fall
through it and it's worth noting that like the hitbox to land on these clouds is actually so much smaller
than you think it is um so you can actually clear the cloud but still kind of fall through
it if you're too far in the left or right and not in
the center so this level is really really frustrating for that reason
not to mention there's literally every uh there are
literally enemies everywhere throwing stuff at you in this level.
Like, it is almost impossible to not get hit at least a few times.
Another banger soundtrack tune here...
I'll be saying that a lot but Greek Moron
is some of my favorite songs in the game.
But there are some excellent pieces of music way better than Wild Woody deserves.
Another thing to note that we didn't really get this time about in the first boss,
uh, that song actually like evolves
into a Limp Bizkit rap. I'm
not joking. I heavily
recommend just looking up the soundtrack.
I've never been on this level long enough there's a rap
in this level not in this and uh and yo-ho oh yes
just didn't have enough time to mention that one yo ho is the pirate boss we
defeated earlier but if you heard it was like a rap song going on during it.
Only boss song with lyrics, so definitely
recommend looking it up. Unfortunately, it's also
the fastest boss in the game, so you barely get to hear it.
We're almost out of here. Leggoz. You've got a few more jumps to make.
Yeah, be really careful here.
This last section can be a little bit dicey.
If you fall here it is so GG.
Oh he didn't because
he's a pro. Alright, nightmare
fuel warning. That Xbox is a little creepy looking.
Yeah, this boss
can be a bit fickle.
You're intended to basically wait for the cloud cycle here and you can just kind of drop down on the jewel
And just erase it
The hitbox in this boss is, like,
embarrassingly small. It's so frustrating
to try to hit this and
Allegro's attempting a task strat called
A Cloudless Jump but, like you said,
he's not going to wait for platform cycle. He's just gonna give
it his all and get one big jump to the left. I'm gonna play it safe there. Yeah!
It is so much more difficult to make it without the cloud because you essentially have had
to have the perfect jump into his head.
What's nice about this boss, it's very easy to die here
because the holes in the clouds are very large
but thankfully with this boss if you die your hits are saved.
But Allegro's a pro.
Yeah.
Also fun fact that boss fight is not playing the correct music
it's just a bug in the game
and he's playing the
lighter uh fight song so hang on we got more oscar-worthy animation
you've got brimstone Look upon what used to be my mighty empire.
It's completely ruined! Hope you got insurance ready looks like a total loss
for some reason that line read.
Hang on, hang on.
What?
I thought he was about to eat me.
I know.
Bro really comes straight at you there. I was commentating for First Boy
Warrior Land earlier this week and everything
was like throwing in my face, I was scared.
Alright so welcome to
Industrial Rage a level that is
not very angry.
Yeah, so we've had a bit of a route change thanks to the task
and we were able to skip drawing
using his sketch, so
we won't be seeing any sketches for a little while but
Brandino's got a little bit of tribute i think yeah yeah
i'm gonna go ahead and sketch out real quick what you used to see in this level give me a second Oh, uh... that's weird. I kinda wrote DK64randomizer.com.
I don't know what happened there! I'm sorry. I guess I got possessed by Donkey Kong.
I think that's a good cue for a quick donation.
I have $50 here from Bitty Omega who says
Sorry to hear that Brandino got devoiced.
Here's to the Pokemon White 2
challenge mode! Just a little update
on that for everybody.
We are now up to $9,321.58 out of the $20,000 we need.
We're almost halfway there.
Y'all are doing amazing.
Please, please, please keep cooking on that incentive
when you're donating to Doctors Without Borders.
Let's keep going to the chef.
Alright so we're on the dark power plant
and there is some really small conveyor belts
and right here,
Phogos. Yeah okay if I fall down there that's a bit
quite a time loss. You might not realize it but that's one of the hardest
jumping sections in the entire game right there it's so easy to fall and
those conveyor belts move you like straight to the edge of the platform instantly so you have such
little time to react unless you want to sit there and like readjust your jumps repeatedly
and yeah this stage is
yeah there's a lot of enemies on the stage and there's going to be some toxic
ways I have to go through.
So...
Oh!
And my game senses hate this
but to end this level you go a very extended
section moving to the left.
But I always want to move to the right so this doesn't make
any sense to me.
Yeah. So we've got time for another quick donation
before we finish the stage.
Alright, Corinne sent in $25
and says, where can I wake up to?
Speak!
The brilliance
that is Wild Woody, obviously.
I'm so glad to be able to share this game
it's such a goofy Sega CD classic
This was supposed to be a swan song for Seg Up America
like imagine this being the game you're giving it your all on
wild woody yeah alright so this is the average uh sonic speed runner right here
ouch Sonic speedrunner right here. Ouch!
So we're gonna get some quick double hits here,
and we have to flip the laser on top of his head
but this is a pretty
simple boss yeah
so fun fact if you fall off into the
the pit right there after
the uh template piece has shown up
uh you can crash the game
we've got quite a few totems there's only a few left I my hey
go get him i just know the guy doing the motion capture had the best day ever i can imagine so all right guys Welcome to Alien Homeworld.
And we're actually going
to see a really cool
strat in this level
but it's also somewhat
of an annoying strat.
But if this all goes well
this will actually be
one of the shortest
levels in the game.
Yeah. I'm going gonna cross my fingers that
that missile oh my god it wouldn't leave you alone
no it would not sometimes you'll just have random stuff
just flying from far away all Alright, here we go.
So Allegro's attempting a glitch
here. It looks pretty simple. Oh my
God! Yes! Let's go!
I can't even pop off. My voice is
destroyed. That is really
difficult. We were so worried about that.
That's one of those strats that can go first try
or 20th try and there's no difference
it feels like.
Yeah, that is a really just super inconsistent strat so uh so this is infested uh we actually
are going to use some sketch pads here so I get to flex my creative muscles once again.
Yeah!
So we had to collect two sketchpads for a
specific reason towards the end of this stage
and right here we're having to deal
with gravity section and it's fairly difficult
to control. Yeah,
um so the thing with the gravity is that
okay Allegro has been attempting another trick
let's see if he can get it actually
this is a new trick yes So he's gonna... Yes!
Yes! I am so glad I got both.
That's actually really hard.
So what he was doing there is that he has to bait
the enemy into coming by the little laser door
and then jump on him at just the right time such that
Woody gets sucked behind the laser door
on top of the enemy. Because all enemies
are like slightly magnetic to Woody's eraser.
They think they can escape it,
but they can't.
Yeah, shout out to cindy who just dropped the tasks out of nowhere for this game oh my god literally weeks before we came here was awesome we got a
bunch of new stuff to show off because of it. Yeah, it's crazy.
And hey, if you're somebody out there
who for some reason owns a copy of this game
you should try it sometime.
Alright so this is the sketch mechanic
and yeah what do you get shorter? I mean And, uh, yeah.
What do you get shorter?
I need a laser gun.
Nice.
All right, hang on.
Next one.
Magician hat.
So... Magician hat. So, yeah, we didn't actually need the power ups for any reason other than to just get small enough
there that uh that little no pad there i do not want to pick
that up or else woody would not be able to fit through and we wouldn't be
able to finish the stage worth mentioning the end of this level
like bugs out hard for some reason sometimes. And like, Woody will casually
like... Okay! Hardest boss
time also a bit creepy looking
So this is Alien Love Nest
The thing about this boss is that it's kind of a quick strat so allegro wants to
jump up this uh this rope and then attack one of the blue gem and then get back onto the rope
kind of in like a quick circular motion but what makes it difficult is
that alien love dust is swiping at him with his tail for an insane amount of damage and it like
summons these little kiss shaped bats which also like I said, Woody magnetizes
to enemies when possible. So those
kiss bats end up eating most of your inputs.
There we go.
Finally got hit in.
Luckily this boss only takes three hits because they knew how bad it was.
But yeah,
it might look like Allegra is missing
it wide open but the hitbox
is so small.
Now, don't worry about dying because any hits that we've already made will stay.
Again they knew.
Alright one more.
There's like a specific height I try and aim for to jump off the rope.
Relying on Woody's
jump in this game is like,
the worst thing you can do.
Okay.
That's...
Nice!
Yeah.
Whew!
That boss, like...
that bots 90% of the time is a difference maker between runs that continue and runs that don't.
Oh yeah.
Okay! Yep. Here's a face to that. Okay.
Here's a face for that.
Come on! We finished yet?
One more job. You gotta go get Tombstone!
You'll find him there.
Remember the last time Tombstone got his smile?
People still wonder what happened to Atlantis...
...and the Titanicanic surely that was no
accident there's some deep lore in this game my ability and you have a chance. Ability AND chance! It's got nothing to do with it, bright boy!
And the name is not Betseldack! Hang on...
IT'S WADDY! WAAAAAAAHHHHH WADDY! There he goes
Hang on listen
He's still going
That's my boy okay all right so welcome to the pit this is another incredible song
i love this song and this level has changed a lot in the last few weeks because of the tasks.
Sort of, yeah.
Well...
Go ahead and then- Oh!
Yeah, you gotta do this quick sketch.
All right.
This is my best drawing of a fist.
So, yeah.
We used to have to go through quite a bit of this stage.
Um...
But thanks to the task,
We did find there was a way
To get over a pretty big wall
At the beginning there.
Unfortunately it-
Oh!
That's not a fist!
Oops!
I drew a love bust! Ha ha! it... Oh, that's not a fist. Oops. You're gonna lump us.
But yeah
the task
basically kind of revealed that we can actually
get over the wall at
the beginning, but if without using a specific power-up that we're about to use here
Which is it ghost? Yeah. It looks like this right oh
I'm sorry. that's my shopping list
sorry now it's a ghost
oh brandy no but yeah that's the wall we need to clear. In the task you can just kind of jump over it and use like a wall clip to get up.
It's a really precise trick to get over that wall but with Ghost you can just fly right
over it.
Shout out to Allegro for finding that out
because that took a lot of patience
to find the ghost legitimately.
I don't know how you found that.
Yeah, that was quite an endeavor.
Because I really wanted to get that test strat
down, but I just realized
that was not going to happen. Yeah we
were practicing it beforehand and
so it's like you can get up to the two
platforms that let you jump over the wall
but actually jumping over the wall is
ridiculously precise. And this is not
the game that you want precise jumps in.
Yeah, and those platforms I was just jumping off of
Those are very slippery, and you can easily run off them
Yes, those platforms are kind of like our conveyor belts from earlier but the moment you press an input on
them, Woody will start sliding to the edge immediately
and you have to react as soon as you possibly
can. And we're just gonna
keep jumping. This level is
incredibly big.
With the new strat because of the ghost ghost hover we ended up saving like 20-30 seconds
it was a lot of time just from skipping a lot of falling down and movement like this in the level
All right one more level left and one more boss left yep so yeah uh this next stage
is it's the last stage but is like surprisingly easy compared to the rest of
the game yeah like these enemies don't do a lot
of damage to woody and in general um like this level is
pretty short and pretty sweet. Although we're
missing this platform cycle so we
clearly spoke way too soon
Yeah, thankfully the spikes
do not cause
any horrible harm. Yeah I'm actually surprised you really don't take a lot of damage in this level
And you'd think you would because it's the last level but because we have some time to chill
I think is pretty good for some shoutouts if you want to give them Allegro
Yeah like I said uh shasta and
diviola who worked on the task big shadows and uh just a panda
who is the current world record holder ran this
like five years ago, I think?
Yeah, it was a while ago.
That's kind of what
kicked me off to start running
this. I'm kind of an avid collector,
so I like to find
weird stuff.
And you won't find much weirder stuff than
Wild Woody? Yep.
So we got time for one quick donation while we clear these pits here.
Alright, Patstack sent in $25 and said I'm so glad we live in a country that gives us a day off for silly block!
Hype for the runs and, uh...
Whee!
Yeah, what he said, God bless America.
All right, so we got another banger track coming up.
Oh, and you guys aren't ready if you've never seen this boss i'm just telling you it's the
i don't know what they were thinking about this boss design okay we didn't get it so uh you gotta
listen for the flush and why do we have to listen for the flush?
It's because this boss
is a giant toilet
that you flush.
Yeah,
we had to lure
the flying green monkey
into the lever
for the toilet.
So, to give shout outs real quick on my end I want to thank Allegro
for having me here.
I'm also an avid collector and I love very silly stuff
like Wild Woody. Um, I'm a big
Conker's Bad Fur Day speedrunner so this
game kind of reminds me of that from a few years prior
um, thank you so much for
having me and shout out to anybody who's out there running really obscure games like Wild Woody.
You're seen, and we love you!
Alright get ready on time? Time.
GG!
Sorry for the last minute.
It's okay. Alright, and yeah yeah we got one more cutscene right here
we're gonna enjoy oh yay please enjoy this cutscene Oh, man. It's good to be home.
Woody!
I can't believe it!
You're sharper than I thought!
You did it! Yeah, that's what I did with Buster Goode.
She-Ra, you just saved the universe.
Once you toss Tucson on top,
I'll put these bozos back on ice.
But first, you deserve a reward anything
you want pal you name it you want to be king of the world
he's only got one thing in mind. just toss tombstone up and you'll get your wish buy a more powerful young pencil you shall not defeat me
but it's game over well he's got the rock and dimes running up
he's at the top of the key three two one
he shoots it's good i'll see you next time the world needs
saving yeah only if we I'll see you next time the world needs saving.
Yeah, only if we sell a zillion units.
They didn't sell a zillion units.
Nope.
Fuck! You gotta see Woody's expression here.
He looks so pained.
And that's Wild Woody for the Sega CD. Again, thank you to Brandino for having like commentating for this nonsense.
I'm so happy to be here.
Thanks for letting me flex my sketching power.
And thank you to GQ staff for accepting this. I hope this gave
everybody a great morning
We still got some more silly
blogs so
Please tune in, Stuart Little 2 is going to be a sick
run later, I can't wait to see that.
Shout out to Jacksler.
All right.
Check you all later.
How's it going? I'm V and I am joined by these three lovely people.
Would you like to introduce yourselves?
Hi! I'm Bystander Tim. You saw me crash a bus live on stage two runs ago.
Hi, I'm Amberlynn.
I'm...I'm Shearer.
I am Teddy and I was here earlier too.
So because of your donations we're going to be doing voice acting instead of. So there are a lot
of cutscenes in this game and
very interesting cutscenes though.
The three people on my couch will be helping me
to bring those to life
a little bit so
as we get in here,
we're gonna get started
in three, two, one go.
Sushi!
All right. Sushi! Alright, so this is a sequel to I'm Going To Die If I Don't
Eat Sushi. There are two of these games which is
incredible. This game's actually better
and the plot is
less comprehensible so
it's gonna be a good... Okay I just missed
that.
Alright, so we're gonna need that one.
Alright so we are collecting sushi, uh...
We have a health bar at the top
and if it goes all the way
to the bottom or left
we die forever but we need to get 15 sushi on the right there
once we do that the game will be over so thanks for donating appreciate it thank you five thousand Thank you for the $5,000.
Thank you.
Alright.
Damn! Sushi is so good today!
What the hell is going on? The sushi is disappearing!
That's not all. Earth in the sky, there is a lot of them man!
Sushi lover please visit. Can you hear me? I am the great sushi will now
the concept of sushi in the universe is being rewritten by someone
the enemy seems to be so powerful that they can twist the cause and effect of the universe.
Now is the time to turn your thoughts into power! Save this cosmic sushi with your passion!
I'll do it!
Sushi lover thank you for your courageous decision.
This is gonna be great we have another like half an hour of that!
It was the one with the numerous challenges, and it's like sushi sauce! The power to dispel evil!
So it should be mentioned that Teddy's speeder in this game,
Tim and I are basically reading this blind.
And the game does not make it clear who is speaking at all
in any sort of way.
Yeah.
So if we mess up who's talking at any point i'm really sorry yeah make sure to
play and laugh if you thought that pacing was good wait till later but like you know the game
is pretty normal so far there There are just multiple earths in
the sky and we're collecting sushi to try to collect some sushi souls.
It's pretty normal at The Giant Sushi Shop, ya know? Yeah.
Now is that a normal sushi shop or are we just small?
This is a great question.
The philosophers will be arguing about this for years.
Yeah.
Tweet the developer asking.
This is very important for the Sushi Wiki.
We're going to put that on there is she guy how's your small
sorry how'd you say it so anyways this is a second so we have different goals through some
of these levels this one has to reach the goal but we want to buy something from the shop that was just shown so we're gonna do that
But we need to collect some sushi to get some points that we can turn in for tokens, that we can turn into tickets
that we can turn them for a power-up. That we are going to grab the...
In the next area which should be in a moment.
You can just jump,
you can die after you, or you can't die after you finish a level but you can jump
into the void so we'll be doing that as much
as humanly possible.
Alright, so we're gonna go over here and do this
wonderful level. As you collect the Sushi Souls more of these doorways open up
there's more options.
So people much smarter than me figured out which levels were the quickest.
We have levels like this where you pick up red sushi and only pick those up.
And yeah! I don't know what that is...
You just read Sushi.
There's a lot of people watching!
If you keep collecting sushi shells at this rate,
the lost sushi will eventually return
to normal!
Sushi is
not food.
I sense an evil force, that one seems to be the one responsible for rewriting the concept of sushi!
Oh my god at this rate the sushi of this universe
i didn't notice the face the sushi palm down and listen
sushi which existed as food has been reinterpreted
as an arms.
If things continue like this sushi
which is become a weapon will end up killing us!
Worst case scenario but still as long
as you're inhabiting the sushi soul i believe there's still a way to get
your sushi back very cool the power to travel through
the multiverse with the love of sushi let's call this verse shift
if hope disappears from this universe it is until it is found in another universe
come on let's go together hey i sushi! We will travel to many universes and bring back sushi as food!
Alright, so a bunch of planets are about to get exploded.
I don't know what those universes were, as you'll see Sushi becomes different on these universes so we can kind of like
brainstorm out a little bit on what's going on in those at least a little bit.
Yeah so... They're like 10 out though that's fine- oh nevermind.
You lost a couple at the end there!
Alright so... Looks like you succeeded in verse shift this is a different universe than the
one we came from it seems like the concept of sushi here is not seen as food, but as sport.
Even if there are different interpretations of sushi,
there must be a sushi soul in this universe.
Hey!
Hey there, sushi lover! You will undergo a new test that transcends the boundaries of this universe.
I forgot how much you were talking during this Tim!
We did split up all these roles beforehand, and we just kind of picked Arbisher early.
Yeah which means it might get a little bit weird at the end when we have the big finale of this run,
which is going to be a great time.
Okay, I don't want those sushis anyway, actually.
So yeah, there's like a pitching machine
that's throwing green sushi at us.
Green sushi is bad, it probably was something worth mentioning like six minutes ago.
You don't want to touch that. It hurts you.
I'm gonna go over here and do another little...
Actually this is probably a good time to read
a couple of donations.
Perfect! While I struggle
to keep up with the plot there's plenty
of love coming in for you NB
For instance A generous $500 donation from the Fets.
They say to sushi, silly games and new friends.
Thank you so much for that generous donation to Doctors Without Borders.
Do I have time for one more? Go for it! Amazing, I have $49.90 from The Sushi Train conductor, who says all aboard
the sushi train choo-choo! Three yellow, two red, three blue, one gray,
one purple. Thank you the Fets for your incredibly
generous gestures.
700k hype!
Hype!
Wait how many purple?
This is where I reveal how little I know about sushi and I out myself,
and never have me play another sushi game on here ever again.
Purple's usually the most expensive plate.
I was about to say that wasn't a game thing. That was a real money thing.
No!
Anyways.
Sushi.
So
I am a little bit short on cash so we're gonna go do another level and then we're gonna buy cool power up that's going to make us go a little faster.
There are all these people here when you run by them they say stuff it's probably important.
Anyways,
we're gonna go do this level.
Just a bunch of trampolines
and another pitching robot here for some reason.
I don't know. This is weird.
Let's use you as sport gear. That's true. Iushi is sport here.
That's true, I'm happy you're paying attention.
There will not be a quiz afterwards
because I am going to bed.
Yay!
Alright, we're gonna go buy a power-up over here to grab this and I'm not going to press the wrong one because if I do that, the entire rest of the run
is miserable. And we'll just sit in silence.
So you can only have
one skill on at a time, so
we're not going to buy any more.
We're in a skate park here, and there's a bunch of evil, bad sushi people that are coming after us on skateboards made out of bad sushi.
And they just kind of go wherever they want to go, if they run into me it's kind of a them
problem.
But they were really nice which is really cool
They also run towards you during the cutscene
Doesn't do anything. I never thought about it if sushi is a sport in this universe that
implies that there's like bikes and skateboards and stuff
yeah the wheels are made of worst way to get around possible
i mean some sushi could be round.
That's how wheels work, right?
Is it you?
The bullshit guy who eats sushi and is causing a stir in Shibuya
is...
He seems like yourself that exists in this universe.
Sushi is a wonderful thing
that brings everyone together!
I won't allow you to insult that.
It's time to sweat it out with sushi!
Alright, this is our first boss fight. They're doing stuff.
So the spawn points for the boss here are set beforehand.
So we just kind of, you know, you're fine.
And he eventually screams.
It's fine, it's fine! We'll eat a couple of sushi at that.
Alright cool now he is immediately our friend because we ate a bunch of sushi.
Haha! It was a good match!
It seems like I misunderstood you somehow.
I guess you somehow.
I guess you're just like me, a player fascinated by the heat of sushi.
You're passing for Sushi!
I will not forget it. Let's compete again all right so you might be noticing a trend with the new
characters in this game um they're they're a little bit similar to the protagonist which
is not a trend that's going to continue for
the rest of the game so this level is evil you have to push a ball into the net and it kind of
we're just kinda watching.
I'm not actually playing the game while this is happening.
It just goes where it wants to go and I try my best
and my best is not good enough unfortunately.
There we go.
I mean, that already found him. That was not bad!
That was pretty good!
Oh there's the balls. The balls are falling down!
Cool, alright, we're going to a different universe
all right here i go talking to myself hey we each get to have a moment of
them in this universe the concept of sushi seems to be considered technology.
Alright so what is sushi being technology mean i don't know honestly uh
i guess we'll see i don't know we have these weird robot things that have sushi chasing after us.
That's not where I want to go.
If they do catch up with you, and they will just kind of chase
the end of the earth... They will just kind of chase you out of the earth.
They will just combo you a bunch of times
and make your life miserable.
And then, like, instantly kill you. It sucks.
That's our great camera angle.
There he is! I can see his arm if you could see his arm he ate it that's true
all right this is probably a good time for a couple of donations then.
Absolutely, and the Sushi Train
is rolling along following you from universe to universe.
I have $35 donation from Lanku DC who says,
buying my ticket for the sushi train
with one plate of every color.
Choo choo all aboard!
I also have a $30 donation here from Tutti the Fruity who says,
Donating a dollar for every order of sushi I made this week leading up to
this pivotal moment.
Sushi is love.
Sushi is life. Sushi is sports. Sushi is love, sushi is life,
sushi is sports, sushi is technology,
sushi is everything.
I don't wanna say the thing
but him just disappearing from that camera
is something that's not happened before for me, so...
Alright, so th-
Whoops. There's the goop!
You see the goop yet? Is that wasabi?
I don't know, they don't explain anything in this game.
We're trying our best over here.
This level just has a goop just got accepted yeah the the goop
uh rises up during the levels so if you take too long
you die but thankfully we're doing this thing called a speed run
and i should never have that be a problem.
We only need...
Have to do math, nine more!
Figured it out.
It's early.
Not that I can do math normally.
Okay, there's actually a strat on this level.
This is a cool level.
You have to pay attention.
Unless I mess it up and look away.
So,
there's a cycle here,
okay I missed that, nevermind.
So we can use this
to damage boost off. It's the one time
where he has to damage boost the entire run.
Skips going through the entire maze
and interacting with the level, so...
Sometimes you try
to do that, and you just get hit by it
and then die, which is really sad.
But yeah, we're good!
Cool. So we are finishing
up one more level, and then we'll do
the boss fight with
the unknown sushi soul of this universe.
So, before we get to that cutscene
we'll do a couple more donations.
You got it!
And just as a reminder for everyone out there,
we are now very close to $11,000 raised
for that Pokemon White 2 Challenge Mode incentive.
I love to see these numbers climbing
I have a $25 donation
here from Morning Possum
who says save the soul of sushi
save the world. Thanks to
Envy and Couch team for undertaking this critical endeavor are you the sushi eating
man detected by the shibuya surveillance system sushi is an algorithm responsible for the evolution of society.
I will delete bugs that threaten the future of humanity.
It's time to execute the sushi function!
I love his glasses so much.
So, uh... he just tries to hit us and then we dash forward
and hopefully i don't die his different attack i don't know if there's
an order to it this is the easiest of the boss fights
um you can just get hit by everything
I don't know why the sushi's...
like, what's the difference between the sushi colors?
You have green sushi and normal sushi
you have blue sushi
I guess it's because it's technology I don't know. I guess it's because of technology,
I don't know what that means either still.
Anyways, the boss fight is over,
that was fun.
I see,
I understand.
It seems like you are creating new value for sushi using your own logic
i'm sorry for being so rude your understanding and interest in
sushi may be what society truly needs today.
The power of Sushi-Soul has opened the door to a new universe!
Well, let's go, sushi lover.
Thank you Tim for agreeing to do this.
Oh wait I have to go this way there is a level, oh wait wait wait
I've done this game before, I promise.
Just a few times.
Alright so at this level you're supposed to read
the arrows on the ground there but
if you just kinda do that and then
So half the platforms are
You don't have collision. Maybe just memorize
it and you're good
And if you don't, you die
Alright now we're gonna...
Now we're going to go to the new universe!
This one is a little interesting if you read the frame that it was on.
Happy Sushi Easter! the frame that it was on
happy sushi easter in this universe the concept of sushi seems to be considered a god I'm just going to wait until the end.
Let's finish this
normal thing levels of the game because this tornado here actively hates you okay well now i have to
yeah i never meant him not dealing with this today we're gonna try it again
so this tornado makes you move really slow when you're inside of it
I'm not going to die again
I promise
maybe I'm gonna die again i'm considering it i think i don't have to oh
we're rerouting on the fly to try to have this tornado not come after me why does this bubble music go hard too
yeah we were realizing while we were waiting none of us had sat down and actually listened
to menu music it goes on for like six minutes and it just goes super hard
for no reason whatsoever.
That was a mess we're not gonna talk about it.
Uh remember Flappy Bird by any chance? For no reason in particular.
So anyways, this is Flappy Bird.
There's just a bunch of laser beams everywhere, and if any of them hits you,
you lose your momentum forward and then you die.
And now we're falling into the void.
Remember, don't delete that off your sushi phone!
Cool, we're gonna see the boss fight now.
Just run straight in there. This is a very interesting cutscene...something.
It's you! What is the sushi eating devil that appeared in Shibuya?
I am food, you know! in shibuya ah horrible
repent
and the act that desecrates the almighty father sushi will never be tolerated
i blame you instead of sushi it's almost time to be judged by sushi
this boss fight is actually hard. If anything goes wrong, I probably just die.
But nothing's gonna go wrong... something went wrong.
Hopefully there are sushi over here. So while I've been down here he's been spawning a bunch of obstacles, which is going to be...
Holy moly!
Yeah none of the- oh no that's... I mean you almost pulled it back too.
I think technically this could be the fastest boss fight, but also it's really hard.
He shoots like giant freaking pillars of light at you and stuff! Like that right there!
There we go, that's how I'm supposed to play.
Wonderful! You showed your love for sushi with your actions. Although our beliefs are different,
Our hearts seek salvation in sushi.
The path you took was the same as mine.
Let's continue to believe in sushi and praise sushi together!
May the blessings of S upon our departing neighbors.
Yeah, the audio for the person in this universe is significantly louder than anyone else's dialing the game for just no reason
you're just screaming into the microphone all right there's last world over there we don't have
enough uh sushi souls we're gonna do some extra levels so actually actually, time for
a couple more donations then!
Amazing well you keep hunting
sushi on your end and I will
train going here we have
$10 from imgoingtodieif i don't eat sushi who simply says
i'm going to die if i don't eat sushi
i also have 53.92 cents here from Kashi Takahashi, who says one green,
one yellow, three red, one blue, one gray,
one purple and one strawberry Ramune.
I hope everyone was keeping up with that. Thank you so much for
that generous donation. Is that with tax?
Time for one more? Yeah, go for it! Keep keep going i also have 40 dollars here from gaussmark2 who
says here's my ticket for the sushi train with two blue two gray and one red. Best of luck, Envy!
There's a guy with a gun here
He likes to airshot me out of the air for some reason
Wasn't Sushi Guns in the last universe?
The serenity of his face.
He's very focused, is that what Sushi Salvation was like?
Ascending through a universe cool all right we're going back to
the arms sushi universe oh boy here we go finally back into our universe.
With the power of the Sushi Souls you have collected,
let's restore the concept of sushi that has become a weapon to its original state!
Thanks to you, sushi in this universe will be saved!
Thank you very much.
Dead.
Sushi is not food. What an ironic fate, the last person standing in front of me who has always hated sushi.
I never thought that my other self who loved sushi was my enemy.
Hey, another beef! The fight ends here! The time has come for the imp-
No wait, that's not my line.
Don't judge yourself why on earth is this happening if you're like me there's no other reason you don't like sushi
oh come on look at universe there's no way anyone could like sushi man my hometown was burned by sushi
my older brother the only one in the family got sushi stuck
in his body sushi is the worst weapon with the miraculous power i was given on
the brink of death i saw sushi from other multiverses
food sports technology god yes the concept is different but sushi was loved in every universe
Cannot forgive there are countless types of sushi that continue to be loved i will not allow this multiverse
my only purpose is by unifying the concept of sushi through the universe's as
arms i will make the entire universe deny
the existence of sushi
sushi reflect reflect Reflect on it!
You said eat sushi. That's good, I'll feed you plenty
Oh wait that is your line
Take these!
The strongest sushi in the universe! Time to get burned
to death by Sush!
... What? Gameplay.
There we go.
I tried to die quickly,
I was not gonna die unfortunately.
Alright,
We're dead.
I win! The whole universe! It's time to sweat it out with sushi
it's time to execute the sushi function it's almost time to be judged by sushi
why who are you guys here saving the maximum firepower of sushi
why are you alive
it's easy sushi is fun i completely understand sushi that's a natural result.
Sushi is always good and cannot take someone's life,
I believe so!
That's it!
It's still you. that's it must be delicious
dear sushi lover i believed in you You're a seriously lover.
I believed in you.
Yeah!
Whether it's sports, technology, God or weapons
It doesn't matter.
Ali... other weapons. It doesn't matter. I'll eat all the
sushi! Woohoo!
It's time
to bring back sushi!
Yeah!
Alright, cool. We get control for like five seconds and we go back to cutscenes
so... that was fun
Good evening I'm Frank Disadvance Gaming.
I'm practicing. If this happens, I'll become a weapon myself!
Then we too...
will be the hope
So this is a final boss of the games The time is coming up when the finals sushi soul appears, so we're infused with that power of the different multiverses
Of ourselves.
So we have different abilities
we're going to get as we go through this boss fight
We are just kicking these guys
Oh, there's a guy! Hi!
Stop doing that
Cool.
So now we have the power to sushi convert, so you turn green sushi into normal sushi.
Once we've converted enough of these, next phase of the boss fight happens.
Some more hopefully soon...
There we go! So he spawns here and we get the last power which is to deflect his projectiles. But if you put them right in front of him it immediately gets blocked.
And uh... you do this so time is coming up we have one more cutie here
if the bash a whole bunch.
And...
and.... I forgot it was this long!
Time! I forgot it was this long time.
All right, unfortunately we probably do not have enough time to watch this cutscene because it's like six minutes long.
In true anime ending fashion.
So y'all will have to buy the game if you want to see whatever is happening on the screen right now. But thank you to everyone on my couch
for putting all this effort into voice acting this,
we appreciate it a whole bunch
and with that,
we're gonna sign off.
Thank you all for all of the donations
and the 700K, hitting that right
before the run was really cool so
keep donating, keep supporting the marathon
Let's go sushi!
Alright Hey what's up everyone? I'm Amarlyn.
Um...I'm dressed like a Zumbini
That's why I painted my face blue
This is totally normal for me to do so don't worry about it
On my couch i have monkey man air angel pork chop most people just know me as
ivan excellent so you might be wondering what full randomizes normally i'm allowed to pick
my grooves and beanies but for gdq i offered to just hit the rando button and let it roll.
This makes it way harder than I anticipated.
I genuinely wasn't sure how hard it was going to be.
There's a few things that get extremely difficult.
Before I start this, I want to shout out From Dark To Light There's a few things that get extremely difficult.
Before I start this,
I just want to shout out from DarkHell really fast.
He fully decompiled this game
and let me look into all the RNG for it
so I actually understand
a little bit better of what's going on.
I'm gonna explain some things, and then these three are just here to either roast me or be very nice to me depending on what they feel like.
So with that said let's get started in 3...2...1...go!
Alright. So I've randomized my full crew. This first part is allergic bridges.
Basically the bridges pick one thing that they're allergic
to. One bridge only
allows that thing through. The other bridge
lets everything else. Okay, so it's...
Uh...
Okay, so the problem is it's randomized.
So might be eyes at this point?
This is the most fascinating gameplay you've ever seen in your life.
The top bridge is two seconds faster person than we knew,
which is why I'm really hoping that the top bridge is it.
Critical thinking skills chat, let's go.
Okay, oh, it's here, okay, nevermind.
Great, we have only a few baldies out here
so I can send them across the bottom bridge
That's not bald bro
Okay they got a little sprig
More than I got.
All right.
So...
You get a bridge to yourself, bro?
That's awesome.
While we're waiting for the Zumbinis
to cross the bridge,
Quacksilver,
do you have any quick donations
for us? Absolutely, and this is where i
confess to my age somewhat because i'm not sure if there's a cadence on here i have a five dollar
donation from chantilly that says hip-hip zumbini can i get your best hip-hip zoom beanie so
i have a template absolutely hip-hip zoom beanie
they liked it.
That was good.
I really liked it.
Alright, you also have to not click too fast otherwise these beanies will get left behind which sucks.
This is basically the same thing as allergic bridges.
One of these...oh thank bridges one of these fast one. Okay, one of these middle rocks is
Will never let anything through so you just go there
And the other one will let it through
The ones on the side do the same thing as the bridges
They pick one thing they're allergic to
and they never let it through
So, might be feet at this point
Don't be shy if he knocks this okay it's not
oh it's green nose okay that's perfect i can just put that guy there. Yeah, so with a preset crew it's actually
a lot faster to figure this out because they generally all have the same attribute minus like one or two
things.
How's this going for all y'all watching me? Be smarter than roughly a second grader?
Dude, you're doing way better than my young cousin I'll tell ya right now.
I hope I didn't just screw myself up. I gotta let this play. way better than my young cousin i'll tell you right now
whatever you are,
make me a pizza!
Alright.
What are you, Monkey Man?
We do have pizza.
Oh my god!
No way!
What?
That literally never happens.
Nothing but skill, baby.
Wowsers! That's wild.
Incredible, alright.
That is unfathomable.
We're taking the top route
The bottom one is bad
Don't ask me why
I hate doing it
This is
He still can do it
This is...
This is who's Bayou, okay?
It's- this is normally really easy if you go with a preset group.
But the problem is I have to find all of the attributes that...
Zungidis have to sit next to something with a common attribute.
It doesn't matter what it is, just has to be one thing.
He said he didn't care though.
Am I still up there?
Ah, sure!
This guy's so sassy
I love him.
It's gonna be a problem...
Nope! Wait!
Sure!
He says sure!
Lies.
Lies and slander.
Yep, there we go!
Okay, whew!
Wow, good job dude that is tougher than it looks.
Alright, all done then.
We've got Ariel Joel on couch who going to bring us some frog facts.
Oh boy, well I focus really hard on this actually
Frog Facts... you know when I was like
five I genuinely thought frogs
actually came from flowers.
Um, yeah
I know one can dream okay Twitch chat?
That'd be cool as heck though. Yeah it's true.
I mean that is more of a fact about myself but um
turns out i don't really know a whole lot about frogs outside
of uh that they don't in fact come from flowers which
well i don't have frog facts. I do have donations if you need to make the tag.
Yes, thank you.
Absolutely!
I have $10 here from Bravest3mo who says, this donation is from my fifth grade self. Here's hoping Runner can get to the end of the pizza level before recess is over.
Apparently so!
Amazing.
I also have $10 here from
Bocelli who says,
It's the best to wake up to silly block
the morning brain fog mixes so well with the gaming shenanigans
i will say i've been doing a lot of practice i really haven't gotten
a like immediate pizza in forever.
Dude, we got all this pizza here
now though.
Alright, we got breakfast sorted.
Oh, thank you.
There's two.
Okay, so the way this works really fast
just so I can explain it while we keep
rolling on various things is
they create
paths across the things and you
only reuse each frog twice, which means I have to be very careful about where
I'm placing my frogs because otherwise they'll just get stuck in an infinite loop and not actually
able to finish getting across,
then I lose as a Zumbini.
And the category is done.
Thankfully I have backup in case we lose the category
but don't worry, we should never get there.
Where was 4? Was this four?
And before you leave, look in the top left and bottom right.
These are Giganto frogs.
It's easy to miss it.
These things are beanies.
I was wondering where those beanies actually were.
They're like little guys down there.
Yeah, they're just little guys.
So this is the prequel to Pikmin.
Yeah, this is the manga fauna.
Okay, that was actually surprisingly good frogs
I'm not going to lie
getting everything across roughly That was actually surprisingly good frogs, I'm not gonna lie.
Getting everything across roughly in the same category?
Pretty good.
This one is another one that's made harder by The Randomizer
Thank you Twitch chat for donating
for that! Again, normally everything kind of matches
and it's really easy to get through but in here
they have to match specific attributes which you can see on the thing between them.
Nope that guy doesn't match any eyes...
Oh also if you miss it, they get electrocuted.
I mean of of course.
Shows violence this morning.
Okay, I'm off.
So I need...
Sorry, little Timmy,
you got the logic puzzle wrong.
Your zimbini pet
just got electrocuted.
Uh, I need a hair match...
Gosh, the amount of anxiety I have right now!
Oh, I don't have any sleepy eyes. Okay, wait, do you have sleepy eyes?
No.
They already matched on that one.
Oh my god!
This is where it gets difficult.
You got this.
Oops!
Let me just electrocute that one. Doesn't matter. at this All these on here. So everything does eventually work, I just have to figure out a way
to get there. Crack that brain, big boss man!
Look at this. So it has like softlock prevention?
Yeah, everything does eventually work
While you juggle Zimbinis can I offer
some love from your community? Please
This one's stressing me out
Absolutely I have
104 times 2
that is $208
from Evinosaurus Rex.
They say first try pizza.
Locked in, get it twisted.
Come on big dog.
You can do anything.
Do anything.
The world is your playground.
World is your playground.
I also have $50 here from Artea who says,
shout out to my boy Amarlin.
I remember him talking to me about wanting to do Zoombities for ages
and I'm so glad to see
him smashing it.
Thank you, Tom.
Very much appreciate it in this trying time
i wish i could offer you like any assistance from back here but trust me i i wish we could too bro i'm trying i'm really trying got time for one more absolutely this is gonna oh wait wait old old let's go
so that's what the randomizer does by way that's why that's so hard
also i had zoom meetings parked at those
in case i flubbed anything at any point
uh don't worry about it
all right
uh this one this puzzle is actually easy you just organize them and nose All right.
This puzzle is actually easy, you just organize them in nose order.
It's on the Sphinx there.
Of course.
I think we have time for a couple of donuts while we rack this up, yeah?
Yeah.
Absolutely!
I have $25 here from Lazarus who says,
FLEENS?!
You're not fleens!
Whoever you are, make me a pizza!
Love zoom beanies as a kid. Glad to see it at GDQ
Bottom right top left? Bottom right of the mirrors?
Nah Different nose color this is why he's up there
dude eight-year old me would be such a big help right now top right second
too bad 30 yearold me is dumb.
Get my true education from Zubinis?
Oh yeah. Absolutely.
There are definitely children out there
who are like, yo I played Zoombinis in my elementary school.
This guy's a moron.
There we go.
So again this is really easy with the preset groups. You just look for a specific set of attributes and it gets way simpler
Yeah NASA scientists will see you do it with random Zoombini's
I am doing it with random Zoombinis
I'm not talking about you! I'm talking about the guy who's saying you're immoral!
Yeah, second grader whose fake tits are so easy. Let's see you do it.
The children NASA scientist?
Yeah!
The judgemental children scientist?
Yeah what's that kid from Big Bang Theory?
The Zynga Guy. no that's the game oh
so by the way the brakes are fully off on this. If a Zoombini whiffs it at
this point that's not my fault. You know accidents happen baby.
I actually can't get another Zoombini past this point, that's why I had all of them lined up at the various checkpoints.
Thank you for your service, goodbye.
There's gotta be people in Twitch who are screaby at me right now.
Nah man, they're all like this dude is a wizard.
This guy from Mensa? He's killing it.
Is Mensa still a thing? I think so.
Supposedly. Nope, that's not it.
Where is the other one while I was...
This is the craziest picture day I've ever seen.
For real, for real.
Except that the photographer messes up, you fall into a pit of despair. Yeah! So actually what happens is that crystal doesn't go down and they slam into it and die.
Oh!
Hey life comes at you fast.
At least you have your hair looking good.
Thanks mom.
Here we go...
... Yeah, this one. Wanna do a couple townhouses?
Yeah Quack let's do a couple more while I'm finishing it off.
This gets way easier now that there are fewer of them around.
I'm going to tell my niece and nephew this is the Ark of the Covenant.
Oh no, I got distracted and didn't look at you.
Sorry! Well, maybe here's a donation that will help motivate you i have fifty dollars here from captain stitches who says
worry not for those left behind they'll make their way back to safety.
Wait!
Amaryllon's not going to abandon poor sweet innocent Zubidis right?
I would never.
Right?!
Never forgive him. Alright, so this is the
final level.
There's always one...
This is a bubble path.
There's always one bubble path
that will instantly kill some attribute it was meaning so to do
it marathon safe i'm gonna do the one that kills them first
wait but you said you'd never i I would never, so...
You see that little vortex right above here?
If a non-twin tuft goes that way they die immediately.
Okay. goes that way, they die immediately. Okay... I need to do...
This is an aggressive way to teach children how to
not ponytail. I don't know, do a maze? What
is this?
You have consequences of your actions.
Survival mission impossible.
All right, kiddo.
If you float the puzzle, one of your 16 Blorbos just dies.
No pressure.
This is the fourth grade
all right i need to do something and then not ponytail
because they dodged that right there.
Also, if they bonk into each other, they die.
By the way I should mention that. That's why I'm being very careful with this.
I mean...this could maybe That's why I'm being very careful with this.
I mean, this could...
Maybe PB just because of the pizza alone man.
No my PB is like 9 minutes.
We missed that a while ago.
What'd you do in the 9 minute one then?
I just walked up and slapped the troll off his stomach and walked away.
I'm pretty sure my PB did have, like... first try trolls.
So then you were lying to us earlier when you said that was the first time you'd ever gotten a 1PB.
Oh no.
Whew!
Black ships passing in the night.
Yeah, broke.
Okay, once we get past a certain point
We're good because then we don't have
I need to do a knot ponytail
While were in the victory lap,
I have a question here from someone donating if you've got the time.
I've got so much time.
Amazing! We've got $50 dollars here from Dr. Valentine who says
Zumbini's was a huge part of my childhood
it's still my favorite edutainment game
where else can you help an exodus
of enslaved blueberries reach the
promised land through logic puzzles i do have a question if i wanted to start
speed running zoom beanies is there a community i could join uh no well okay Uh, no. Well, okay...
To be clear, I don't know!
But I do want to actually shout out the one runner who really inspired me
to start this. His name is Danzel Glovington.
Shout out to him, his runs are
truly incredible! He's definitely the goat
of running this game. I think
he's got World Record in a bunch of categories
So just ask Dan, honestly.
Yeah. Oh I missed the
twin puffed here. But yeah
just go to speedrun.com and look up
the world records and just start doing it.
That's what I did.
Okay. and just start doing it. That's what I did. You yourself can lock in
and go to a sleeper.
Yeah, you could absolutely
lock in.
Okay, this one should go
up
and then it's not a pony tail. Uh oh.
We're probably fine?
UGH! Ohhhhhhh!
It never worked.
Alright, so that's it we just gotta roll this to the end
I also have to wait on clicking the final button because otherwise
uh it doesn't count the 16 zoom beaties so we're just going to roll this out at
the end y'all got anything to say that's right having me that donna made
me think that they get to like zumbini villa whatever
there's one of the magical technicolor dream coat let my beanies go and time absolute killer run man that was
honestly like i was not expecting that.
Dude we had so much pizza already!
So many leftovers.
As soon as they cut our mics, I'm going to town.
So yeah this counts up to 400 Zumbinis,
That's what the 4% is about, we got 16 of them here. So yeah, this counts up to 400 Zoombinis.
That's what the 4% is about.
We got 16 of them here.
They get little houses and stuff over time.
You can go play Zoombinis for yourself.
It's pretty accessible today. Yeah, shout out to
Tom Artia who donated
Shoutout to Ensemble
Danzel Glovington thank you for inspiring me
Shoutout to my parents who might be watching
I don't know hi what's up uh my wife who's back there and sorry who
my wife and everybody from the community for watching this first shot pizza let's go
keep watching gdq and keep going to that pokemon run i'll see
wow can't believe we're actually doing this okay good! Good morning everybody! I am Jaxler and it is my distinct
displeasure to be bringing you some Stuart Little 2
at any percent or as I like
to call it, Stuart in the Secret Rings
No! Or as I like to call it, we have mario 64 at home so if you've
never seen this game before this is a 3d collect-a-thon platformer that was
released on the ps1 and like 2002 which is after the PS2 came
out. So that's funny.
This game is a piece of work
I will just put it that way but before we get into
that... Well actually this is a great time
to mention that you're gonna. While we go through introductions,
this demo is going to completely desync and stop working.
Would you please introduce yourselves friends?
Alright so my name is Astani
I have watched this guy play this game far too many times, and I don't know why but here
we are.
I'm also on a 24 hour uptime here so I'm feeling pretty good.
I'm Helix.
I have watched this guy play this game like, I don't know, once two years ago
and then never again because when I asked him to do
commentary he said yes. He told me I wasn't allowed to look
at this game, so I'm going in blind.
I'm Cabasco.
I've also never seen him play his game
and we're all on no sleep except for Jaxer.
So there's gonna be a difference.
Jaxer's the only responsible one
and that's okay because he has
Well I don't know if playing Stuart Little too for the PS1
is responsible
but
The jury is still out on that one
Alright so we're gonna go ahead
and start hopping into the game
But time's not gonna start right away.
It's as soon I gain control of Stuart in like the first sort-of tutorial area.
You're going to notice these loading screens are very funny. Alright, 3...2...1...
Go! 3, 2, 1, go!
So the game lets us just skip the tutorial which is awesome.
The rat doesn't need any training. He's got this. Stuart is prepared
Oh yeah. And so just like any good 3D
collectible phone platformer, we're going to start with
an auto-scroller within the first 15 seconds
of the run. I thought this wasn't good though.
Yeah, so this is like...
This part is comically easy.
So we're just gonna be vibing here and I'm probably going to skip a lot of these stars.
So we can salute the sun during here are you okay back oh i don't know
what do you mean we're stewing back here this is story little none of us are okay
so it's actually really funny because like there
There were so many meme memorable moments
But at the same time this game has tech
You're not seeing any of it right now because
this part of the game sucks.
I thought that panic goes through already happens!
Photography is taking a picture of this, thank you Billy.
Oh my goodness Are you yelling at me for missing one of the, like, bajillion stars here?
Okay.
Thanks, everybody.
Look, if it were me, I would have missed way more.
All right.
So that's going to give us our first jeweled ring.
We're going to take a spider bite from a black widow right here.
One of the big things about this run is
doing deathwarp, so I'm going to be taking
damage over the course of the run in order
for you sort of set up some deathwarps here
You're also just going to notice that
every time Stuart does his double jump, it's one
of the worst things you will ever hear in your entire life.
It sounds like he is being punched in the gut.
That's what watching his run feels like so far.
Emotionally, that's what it's like for him on this game at a high level.
From whatever it's about, that's what it feels like they're in it but uh yeah
it's very good!
The repressed memories of watching you run this game two years ago are flooding back.
Alright so to give you a kind of rundown on some of the rings that we are collecting.
The Jeweled Rings, as Tor will call them
multiple times over this next 30 minutes of hell
You can get them by doing those mini minigames or there's a couple others that have like special requirements.
We're gonna go get the secret one right here and I'm going to ask everyone to be quiet for this beautiful voice line.
Aha! I have the hidden treasure! Yo ho ho, and a bottle of milk? Milk.
Classic.
Alright so first major skip of the run, I'm gonna do a coyote time jump just to get over here.
Nice we hit it. That's not that bad but if you're not paying attention then you just fall and it's embarrassing.
Oh boy!
Nothing else here is as embarrassing.
Alright so now we are going into the aeroplane. at the point of the flight. Nothing else here is embarrassing.
Alright, so now we're going into
uh...the aeroplane here and
so, uh...
Raskin Flux?
Yeah!
Legendary Jackson clip if you know
you know.
I don't know!
We are not going to elaborate...
No one can elaborate on that.
You know, you know. The real ones
know, but...
I'm so vaporized.
Yeah, so know right?
So this plane...I'll just go ahead and spoil this right now
the vehicle sections in this game on average
not good
But that one is actually decent. That one is actually
okay to control. We're going to see one in the next
level, Central Park. So in order to beat this
game you need 30 out of the 36
jeweled rings in order to beat the game. Those are like, the stars in your Mario 64 right?
Yeah!
So we're able to skip six of the slowest ones.
Wait, guys I saw you skip a cutscene
was that pre-rendered movie cutscene
that you just did? Yes. Oh my god.
And it's in below 144p, it's incredible.
If you're gonna come and lander estimate can you take
two seconds to let one of those play a little bit i
can look well i can let the ending cutscene play
if it's cool with the producer because i don't know if it's going to get flagged
for copyright oh because remember this is a movie
tie-in game so it's one of those kinds of situations yeah the clips are
actually from the movies which is um okay yeah that's not my golf all right so this
is the first time we're going to see us pick up these face blocks so something i'm out that's good i needed
to take damage but sometimes he's there and sometimes he isn't um so something i'm gonna be
doing is speed tech over the course of this is like whenever i'm landing for
the most part with some exceptions i'm going to be doing this spin attack as
i land back on the ground because like stewart just kind of like takes a minute
to like catch his footing whenever he lands on the ground but i can actually
like continue with the run button once i land on the ground and so we're gonna be collecting
a couple of these let me be very clear cat biscuits I know they look like goldfish but no
They are legally distinct cat biscuits
Okay
That will become important in a little bit
And now we're going into
We're driving a boat!
We're driving a boat, and this boat
I would like to argue is maybe one of the worst
vehicle sections in a video game I have ever played
If you know the kind of games
that should concern
you, this thing takes like
full second to start turning
It's really bad
You know, I like joke on this game a lot, it's not as bad
as i'm probably going to joke about it but this vehicle
section is actually just the worst and the worst part is that
its fast so we have to do
all the vehicle sections
and on-rails bits
because they happen
to be faster
than playing
the fun parts of the game
which is why
Hundo is the
category
but
here's what it'd be.
I know it is in fact the greatest category of any speedrun ever and it's not close to more voice lines, It's just beauty on it.
Modern art and motion, although
how modern is that anymore?
Although the interesting thing though about
Any% is like because we're not getting everything
there are some cool skits and stuff that
we can do. But all of those are in the late
game so we're just going to be kind of memeing it up here
for the first little bit. We'll go over a
little bit of routing as we make our way
through here. So it's going to look like I'm coming close to time,
even though
it looks like I don't...I'm not gonna
make it on time. The finish
line is just going to pop into here because the draw
distance is so horrible.
So we're going to get another jewelry.
No one
is saying this.
None are saying this. None are saying this.
Alright, so you saw me get what's called a restart point
It's just a checkpoint
I don't know why they call it like that
But we're gonna do a lot in this run is do deathwarp's in order to cut back on backtracking because these are up.
These love, a lot of these levels are actually pretty large to traverse and like not always wrap around each other or wraparound
Back where you can kind of go at them in any angle
that's the other uh my favorite voice line is just marglo with like those sounds despair
and her voice being like you got a face block
you're gonna hear that at least like 20 more times than this one
no i'm going to be hearing this my dreams
yeah yes stewart little two is real and can hurt you.
Alright, so this ant is going to give us a handshake
And that's gonna teleport us back to where we got that checkpoint
And so what I'm doing as well
anytime I grab one of these face blocks
is I'm doing a spin.
Um and that's really important
so like right here
normally whenever you grab a face block
like stewart does a hard fall animation and the the margolo uh i'm very uh tired
uh facebook voice line doesn't pop up until
stuart is considered not busy.
So by spinning, you get Stuart ready for that cutscene a bit earlier.
So this is the first boss of the game.
This is the bench of doom.
Oh, never mind. Of course.
The bench of doom.
I'm actually going to take a moment just to line this up,
just to make sure.
The collision here is not great.
Okay, we got to here.
All right, that's the first boss.
Nice, nice, nice.
It's not a boss!
This is something you don't like. No, it's a first boss. Nice! It's not a boss! Is this something you don't like?
No it's a boss.
Some would argue the entire game is a boss fight
Yeah...
We're gonna get the secret ring right here. Hence the name Stuart in the Secret Rings.
Wonderful, Stuart!
No, it's called a hidden ring though.
A new level? Oh my god, yay!
So I need to make sure that I am getting damage boosts in here.
And so we're going to do a little bit of new routing.
I want to shout out some of the other runners of this game, like Ryan Pointless,
Vsour, and Tadishrest who have been actually
despite what you're looking at here
putting a lot of work into this game
because even though it's a giant
meme, it's actually kind of fun to run through
in a weird twist of fate.
I always tell people that this game has
way more tech and sauce than a game of this caliber deserves to have.
So huge shout-outs to them as well for, like, really, like, taking this game under their wing
and, like, really kind of breathing new life into it.
But these on-foot sections are pretty straightforward.
The one quirk of it, you'll notice a lot...
My movement is restricted to the gay pad
because this is a PS1 game it lets you use like the
analog stick but its eight way movement the camera is not however for some
reason so what i can actually do is use like
the camera stick in order to
actually turn with the reasonable degrees of freedom so
i can actually like try to control stewart um keyword tribe
yeah key word try but they made analog movement for the camera keyword tribe. Why? Yeah, keyword tribe.
They made analog movement for the camera
but not restore it?
Yeah,
I don't know.
Well they also
made the game
when the PS2
was like available
and it's for the PS1
so not much forethought I don't think.
While we are marveling at the design
decisions, can I chime in with some commentary
from donations? Go right for it!
I have $50 here from flimbob84 who says,
It might not be your personal favorite but I think we can all agree that Stuart Little 2 is objectively the best video game created by man.
Just look at it, I think it speaks for itself.
See those photorealistic graphics on the PS1?
That's the ray tracing.
Can we please get a
$5 donation train of testimonials
for how Stuart Little 2
changed your life for the better?
Let's make sure that Pokemon
Challenge mode gets met.
People have been sent.
No, they haven't.
They are now.
Yeah, either send us a message with how this game has changed
your life or your favorite Stuart Little fact? Because the
Stuart Little rabbit hole
goes so deep, it's
slightly distressing. Yeah, did you know
he's actually a human?
Yeah. Also, double fun fact
did you know that he owns a car and his car can go
invisible?
Wow! Really cool. I do have another
Stuart Little facts here if there's time for more
Yeah we're only in an autoscroller so go for it Amazing! I have $25 I'm going to go ahead and get some shots here if there's
time for more.
Amazing, I have $25 from
Xcog who says did you know
Stuart Little and Shadow the
Hedgehog use parts of the same sound library,
making the sewer level and Rude Westopolis canonically linked.
No!
Good luck on the run, Jax.
Thanks, X-Cog. One of my best friends helped me survive grad school. You're the best.
So yeah we are doing another one of these again so...
Please tell me that Batcouch is also doing this!
Oh yes they are!
It's a bad panic coaster i can no longer see past the back couch
so i wanted to give you all uh for the two two of you all who have really not seen this game.
How emotionally are you doing right? Are you okay like what are your thoughts on whatever this is?
No!
That's a valid thought.
I feel like I just spent 23 hours in the Detroit airport again.
If you know, you know.
If real ones know.
At least three of us know.
Speed it up now! Keep up!
Alright, and we're out of there.
I'm so glad I didn't sleep because because seeing this after staying up through all of Silly Block is perfection.
I didn't think the sushi game could be topped.
I don't know if I'd put this if I put this above Sushi Game,
but I appreciate the comment.
Sushi was really fun.
Sushi Game is...
All right, so the game's going to lag
really hard right here,
and I got the ledge grab.
Okay.
Sometimes the camera in the game
lags so bad there
that it can actually cause you to drop your
ledge hang. So we're basically
this is going to be the shortest level in
the any% route just because
like, so many of the other rings are
just faster. Like, there's a couple levels that we're going to
basically all but 100%.
I have the hidden treasure!
Yo ho ho and a bottle of it!
Milk?
He sounds so scared about milk!
He's terrified.
So am I, eh?
Yeah, so if y'all like autoscrollers we're going in for another one
Uh, so this is like a-a
Like, I would call it a real shooter, but you're kind of just
chilling in one spot
Just like... So here's
the funny thing. I've been playing
this game in some way shape or form
since I was five
so I'm like
unbelievably cracked at this for
no particular reason.
Like I just have all the things memorized and I guess
you know it comes with the territory because I guess
I've been running the game for a while. But like... You guys.
I just have this psychic sense of
oh, this is exactly where it needs to go.
The psychic
sense of Star Little Two? Yeah.
Yeah, so... He's one with stewart i yeah in order to master the rat you
have to become the rest like, a mouse?
Well...
Oh sorry, I think she meant my bad.
Yeah, he's a human! He's a human!
My bad, my bad.
I just think saying rat is objectively funny.
Oh it is.
He's a human that just looks like a mouse and acts like a mouse, but don't worry he's actually a human.
Yeah!
Yeah.
Okay.
Don't worry about it, don't question him.
You know what Quackzillman? If you have Stuart fact for us, that would be a great time.
I have truly so many fun Stuart facts and I'm a little scared.
We've got $25 here from Hasfar who says,
Fun Stuart little fact, he is 100 feet away and also real quick want to
check in on that pokemon white 2 challenge mode incentive because we are so close to 75%.
$15,000
raise out of 20,000.
So please make sure you are
clicking those incentives when
you donate. We appreciate it so much
all right so as I'm grabbing this last ring here the the golden key ring um
as thanks for being on my couch and also as a reward for...
Hold on, let me load into the level.
What is he doing?
On the house! Congratulations you are now the proud recipient of a
Stru-a little tootin'.
I don't want this!
Well it's your problem now.
It's your prize for winning bingo.
So what you're saying is that we have to take this home
learn the game and then make short little two bingos.
Oh no, you don't have to learn the game because
this doesn't work.
Thank you. Now I'm actually happy
Well wait wait wait no!
I gave you the cursed disc so
that disc right there it works just fine
except...it has these really bizarre audio bugs
Oh no! these really bizarre audio bugs um oh no you were telling us about this yes that is the first disc so when's short note two bingo please stream this
no i want to hear the audience all right
so while we were memeing there
I actually managed to hit a really tricky jump
So something that I haven't talked about
is controlling this game kinda sucks
because whenever you're trying to do running jumps
which is pretty much what you want to do...
You are kind of just... It's like a super...
I forget which retro game has the same thing. But it's like Castlevania where
you were committed to trajectory of your jump and there is nothing
you can do to control your air drift unless you do like a walking jump.
It's really weird.
You're so upset with the curse for this game!
Are you okay?
No! I think you need a broken one if you prefer that.
I can turn this into a broken one.
People have been saying...
You found a face block!
You found a faceblock! You have found a face block!
My bad, you know what? So for this
faceblock right here I'm actually gonna go ahead
and do like a very high jump so that
instead of having to do the really awful diving down
into the water mechanic. The game will just
put me enough
into the water, and then I float to the surface.
And then we're going in there skateboarding, which is actually
a really fun minigame.
So the way this works is that there's a bunch of stars that I have to skate through
and there's a specific order I'm going to try
to hit. I'm going to beef it
because they suck, but
it's really kind of fun to mess
with in improv if you end up doing something that
you weren't really expecting so. No, that's yours dude, you gotta keep that.
Damn it, get out of the way for me. He gave it to you not us. That's your problem.
Okay I hit the perfect side ball today!
I have not hit that all week!
I'll take it
all right so now we're coming up on one of the harder skips in the run this is a
uh a bit of a shortcut to get to uh
the secret ring here a little bit faster and so we're
gonna damage boost over here and this is going to be a one frame
trick let me see how quickly i can get
this enjoy the grunting sounds.
Yeah, this trick was not cooperating with me in practice so...
Come on, Stuart.
I cannot hear the audio cue over all of the in general.
It's just the back couch!
It's not us!
There it is, okay? We're so bad!
Perfect tricks in Story Little 2.
And that's...that's not gonna be the last one. That's like the really
important one though. Um so
alright, so there goes that roach
Bye roach
So it's funny because like
The first part of the run is pretty straight forward just
Optimized movement. Once you get to sewers
Like, the game actually starts getting really hard
Because of the skips that got found
Um...the next one we're gonna
Try and set up for You're going to try and set up for, so you're going to notice eventually that
We are going to be 1 space block short of a full 6 that we need to construct the path
And thanks to the work of the stuart little two speed running community
um a skip was discovered that allows you to do it with five instead of six
um and it's really hard i'm probably gonna beat it
I almost just fell and lost like 30 seconds
i'm just going to make sure i don't completely torch this real quick but we should be good
pretty solid cycle okay we got through and then we're gonna do a foot race um with uh
uh basically similar to the one that we did uh in central park at like
carcara that was actually Central Park by the way. Important
war bomb right there
but yeah
I mean there are a lot of rants in New York
So as we go through this foot race
here and as the game inevitably lags uh quack silver if you've
got time for like one quick stewart fact quick steward facts i have five dollars from army of
dragons who says fun fact this game was sometimes distributed on pc in cereal
boxes that's how i played it smiley face oh what I do not win. What a horrible thing to receive after your cereal.
What are you doing
to people? I really hope that's a demo
and not full game, because if that is full game
that has irreparably changed
the fate of stewardship speedrunning forever.
Because this game's, like these consoles aren't that bad but
being able to play this game without lag would actually make it tolerable.
That sounded too crazy.
Alright actual serious time here though.
Yeah so this is pretty hard
movement because essentially you're
normally supposed to have these face blocks
travel back and forth but because we're skipping one of these face blocks
exactly you have to have a really long jump
and you have to use all your coyote times to get that very very well executed
i think in the madness we've forgotten that Jaxxler is actually just crack.
Alright and were gonna pick a couple of extra lives up here
for two more death warps that were going
to do so um im gonna gonna go one two three we're
gonna head the back alleys and for all the crap that i give this game uh mostly
jokingly this level's music is a bop
we can't hear it over the crunching
sounds, I'm sorry. Yeah.
Stuart is really
putting in the work. I also just gotta mention as well
like with the red sweater and like the blue
t-shirt underneath, it's like he's like really trying to be mario
and it's very funny i don't know i can't unsee it anymore after like someone in
the practice room pointed it out to me we have mario at home yeah it's Mario 64 at home like I said.
Sure. Alright so the
first bit here is we're gonna
basically get every ring
in this level and that includes
uh... So in order to get the ring
that's related to these cat biscuits
you need 60 out of the 80
in order to trade them for Snowbell
for another jeweled ring.
Oh I need that one desperately.
Desperately needs a cat biscuit Oh, desperately. Um... Yeah!
Desperately needs a cat biscuit?
Ooh!
So many of these tricks are hard in their own right but they're even worse because Stuart is yapping about
a jeweled ring or something and you can't
use... Because it's in the way
of Stuart's seat which is what you really want to use
as a visual cue for like, hey where
am I right now? So
hitting that is really nice because it means I don't have to
push the box to take out and I can use
that as a platform to save a ledge grab.
Not only do you start yapping about it dildering but we're over here
yapping about...
How else are you gonna just
how else are you going to drown out the pain of experiencing score two live no exactly
that's when i have to hold a disc of it i hope you enjoy that later no
all right so we managed to get through there uh it's it is really easy to get knocked off of course there and what i'm trying to set up for here
is a jump uh it's not that bad of a
jump, but I'm gonna do an angled jump off
of here. Nice we got that one
There's an easy backup for that if I miss it
But right here... We don't
Yeah In the store 2 community But right here, we don't miss. We don't... yeah.
In the STORT 2 community,
we are incapable of missing.
People have been saying this.
I've been saying this!
One person has been saying this in the entire world.
Yeah so the SORT2 community's been saying this.
Damn! From what I heard it was at least three people.
Yeah no that's... not trying to undermine the work of-
That was a joke to be fair work of... Yeah, exactly.
No that was a joke to be fair.
So that's the funny thing right?
Is you would think like a game would be like oh this is just a funny meme game but no it's
like we have had so much love and work poured into this game. And it's really just made it cool to
like, I don't know but the run looks kind of sick and I hate that.
The best part is like IMO Hundo is even more cool because it's like
you know all the same auto-scroller stuff that you're playing because its fast
and then you get to do like even more cool platforming
and actually play my favorite parts of the game.
Cause this was a question i always get asked and actually play my favorite parts of the game.
This is a question I always get asked, it's like why do you know about this?
And this is one of the early...
I remember not even me playing it
but me sitting with my brother and dad when i was three years old
Watching someone play Stuart 2 for me
And then because its a PS1 disk get like inevitably scratched
and that was bad um while you slowly but surely
while you slowly but truly convince helix to play this game can i share a
quick update oh yeah go for it!
We have just crossed $15,000
raised on that
Pokemon White 2 Challenge
mode upgrade! Thank you
so much everyone who is making that happen while the shenanigans unfold on your screen.
Do not imply that I'm playing this game, I got Monkey Ball to play.
Super Stewart!
I don't even know if there's science between all of us i just know story yeah time it yeah
look sometimes we just need a minute with this game speaking of needing a minute uh
we got this driving section right here which is i don't i go back and forth between whether
i hate the boat or the hot rod more here but they both suck oh god and i also am a big fan
of the walls that are always at the same distance away from you at all times it's a great
you know it's just great you know what quack this would be a great time for even more stewart fest
this part of the game actually just sucks. Just let it rock.
All right, I can't let it rock.
I have $10 here from MZ who says,
Jaxler mentioned the Stuart Little rabbit hole.
I would like to point out that it should
actually be a mouse hole. R joking about that earlier who's we uh me
as i understand it many people have said this. I also have $25 here from Aaron Gray who says,
I've never heard of Stuart Little 2 until today
but I can confidently say it has changed my life in the last 20 minutes.
Mine too.
Time for one more?
Go for it.
I have $57.20 from Ashkarp who says,
this is a lot of fun. Donating on
behalf of Minchino, a Pokemon
that looks a lot like Stuart
Little and is from Black &
White. Let's keep the momentum
going. I couldn't agree more.
Let's see that challenge mode upgrade.
You've got time for like maybe one or two
more, Stuart. Add one more Stuart fact.
Amazing! How is a Stuart testimonial?
$5 from Drew A Conclusion, who says...
Did you know that Stuart Little Two's ray tracing capabilities saved my marriage?
Let's go undivorced!
We would need a saved marriage after what happened in Chibi-Robo.
We have done so much
for like... Marriage?
For marriage community.
Community!
Yeah, let's call it that.
Alright, I'm gonna avoid pushing that box of leftovers right there and get the ledge grab
Just a little bit
of optimization. I've been trying very
specifically to route my health so I can
take a death warp. Okay, thanks
game. Yeah, this game's really good by the way.
I heard someone in the back. You see it. I heard someone in the back say, you see it, I hate you.
I'm sure anyone would think that right in front of me.
Yeah, you can't not see it.
I also just feel like Steward is a game that you hear before you see as well. So it's like
Like the music here just goes so hard
like it'll just cut out
for Margalo to say whatever nonsense
she has to say and then it just comes
back in and it's like emotional whiplash
Yo shall I put a flush emotional whiplash Yeah, so if you haven't already realized that's the fastest way to climb things in this game
is to just grunt up the wall.
Grunt up the wall exactly it's called... It called brun- no it doesn't have a name.
Alright so I am actually one cat biscuit short here so that is normally where I would do
the death work.
So I'm gonna go in a bottle of milk.
I've got it!
What?
They run it back to back and you get it back to back.
You get it back to back so much.
Okay.
Awesome.
I have another one.
Because I had to go and get another cat biscuit because
I misrouted it. I just decided not to...
Oh, wait, this will have
some slight implications.
You know what? It's whatever.
We're going into
the primary platforming level, and is by far the hardest um this
uh there is one we're going into the other airplane section
there is one really tight turn in there that I am going to go for.
Because you gotta, you gotta, you got to really rep the Stuart crew
You know? You've got to ball out
All this swag in the game you're about to see yeah and be the rat
something's something i'm just a rat in the cage anyway um so it's not coming up
just yet but i'm gonna tap in real quick
Just to make sure I don't screw this up because um well
It is very funny to watch the plane crash animation in this game. Yeah, okay? Here's the time
Oh we're so back
That's really... The plane turns on a dime
as opposed to the absolute
dumpster fire that is the boat and car
We keep talking about this, it's the same thing as Whiplash where we keep talking
about these ridiculous things and then you suddenly switch into
like professional speedrun commentator mode
and do something really sick.
That's another one.
Oh I beat it.
You get the idea.
So...I did hit that though and that's really hard
because again there is a text box in the way
Text box in the way 10 bucks away it's also like suit a couple of frames to get off of those
slippery slides it is actually just a true one frame
oh of course why not more one frames? Ooh that was a big black flag! Nice!
Alright so I'm about to do
an image boost strat for
Skip in a moment, so I'm gonna shake hands with this mumblebee
right here if he'll let me.
Oh dear!
Yeah?
Okay... interesting.
And so we're going to do this skip right here
around the corner.
Nice! Uh oh. skip right here. Around the corner, nice!
Uh-oh. Good.
Okay, so this will be a little dicey because I'm at
1 HP but
it doesn't end here. We're going to be doing another one of those like
uh one frame slope jumps but this one has a really good setup so probably shouldn't be that bad
there we go nice i'll take second time. Nice!
And I think for safety, I'm going to just go ahead and grab this.
Oh yeah. Ha!
Oh yeah. Milk?
Oh, that's rough. Okay so...
I just needed the face block at the end there and I just completely torched it, so...
Truly underfunded.
That's rough to me watching this
This entire time.
The funny thing is that my PB
is from before a whole lot of routing things
for this game
Oh god, okay
This is terrifying.
Should be fine.
Yeah, exactly.
This game is terrifying.
People have the thing.
So thanks to the efforts of like
again Ryan and Sour
there's actually a new route for this back half
of Garbage Bar so we used to go to the other side first. We're actually going to go
take a turn this way and so the idea behind this is that the final ring
that we're going to want to pick up is the faceblock ring.
So, we're going to get a restart point
turn around
and then get the rest of things that we want
And then we'll come back around later
Okay so this is skateboarding this is
like legitimately like one of the hardest sections to do like
the optimal strap for so i'm just gonna lock in here like all
of this is actually just like legitimately
difficult to nail down so not this first part those first parts just easy money but
after that it gets kind of funky Almost missed that one, okay. Good.
Okay, that's the really scary part. We'll see if I can link it all together.
Not to be confused with Link from Zelda.
This is a Mario game, go ahead. Oh that's true. People have incentives.
Alright! That's really hard!
This is one of the hardest things in the game and it's just a lot of running skills.
Alright if I can get quiet for just a sec
let's go that's really hard
that jump sucks because like you have very little runway and if you beef it, you get put in that slide state. And it's just the worst every time
you popped off has been followed by that thing.
All right. Well I'm going to be writing some balloons here while
I go grab the golden key in here
so Craig have you got any more fun
Stuart gaming facts? This will be a great time
I will keep the Stuart little facts and testimonials coming
i have 25 here for blackthorne wolf who says good morning gdq and happy fourth
i'm pretty sure i played Stuart Little 2 in a fever
dream from an amazing pic of
renting from Blockbuster as a child
doing my part to
spread the Pokemon love. Let's
go challenge mode! Let's go challenge mode!
Let's go bingo. Let's go bingo.
Let's go bingo.
People have been saying this.
I also have $25 here from Perfectly Cromulent
who says, Stuart Little fun fact in addition to writing the movie M Night
Shyamalan also wrote all of the dialogue for The Stuart Little video games I'm not a fact checker
that sounds good to me. Close enough.
I mean, one of my bits was gonna be
give us your best story facts
wrong answers only so...
Yeah, no
I know for a fact that
that one is correct.
Okay, good.
And as we're on our way here I got another dis to pass by Okay, good. Of course you did. Oh, okay!
And as we're on our way here...
I got another disc to pass off.
Oh wow!
For my ride or die!
My goat Nostani!
I'm scared now.
That's the one that for sure doesn't work but yeah it's
not even to play this game all right so this is the final boss falcon boss you might be
wondering like what the lore behind this is uh you can look it up. No.
Oh, so they're not wondering. Okay.
It's because I'll be playing the game myself with this disc he gave me.
Exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Congrats.
So the way that this works is that we just need to grab these battery packs and then press X to charge into it.
But you really need to not do any turns, otherwise you'll just whiff.
And it's really annoying.
So there's very specific spots I'm going to try to do this at
so that's one of them i did have to miss that battery though should be fine um if you
do everything perfectly um you basically get to save like a cycle of
like going through apart with no batteries whatsoever
um so i don't even know if we're on the route for that but we'll see
how did our lives end up like this.
There's two more hits coming in, I believe so time is going to be
on final hit
Oh! This is the end?
Yeah, you're the end! You're almost free from it.
Thank goodness.
This IS the last head.
I don't even know if...
Am I gonna have the battery here?
Nope, I am not.
Okay.
So... Pretty cool.
Yeah. Carry on time and...time!
This is- this has been so different from Whiplash because
Whiplash changed my life but with this i feel like
i've just been dissociating for the past 35 minutes 56.6 seconds whiplash was one step
forward steward was two steps back oh right right we'll just let this as long as i wanted That's bad. Wait, hey! Skip that cussing!
Oh right right right right right right.
We'll just let this-
As long as I wanted to see it.
Yeah.
Yeah, as much as the people needed to see
that um...
I oh,
I thought I had a third
Stuart disc for you Helix but unfortunately
I guess I don't so...
Nisani, I think we might actually share it.
You want that right?
Actually hold on Kobe give me that real quick there's something wrong with that desk oh i thought that was oh people
i was actually thinking of playing that.
No you weren't, no you weren't.
With my card of story level 2, I will rise to new heights
On that note once again again, shout-outs to
Totetris, Ryan Pointless,
Vsour for, you know,
competing with me and against me and just helping make this game
actually fun to run. I've been Jaxler.
You can find me at twitch.tv slash jaxler1. Thank you so much everyone who's
been here for Silly Block, this was so freaking awesome! Keep watching, keep donating, keep bringing
in your Stuart 2 facts, I'll read them all at some point thank you all so much have a great rest of
this event
ohio gazaymas everyone um welcome to Ohio. As you may have heard, the silly block is over.
This is serious gaming for serious gamers such as myself.
I've got some serious gamers here on the couch as well.
We got Blahaj there, very serious gamer.
Happyby3.
I forget its name.
Nonetheless welcome and Killing Pepsi.
Serious Gamer?
Thank you.
All right, so yeah this is Jitsuro too powerful
Yaku can slug Yamada also known as Slugger Yamada
also noticed third person game template
that's just what the process name is because it's amazing. This is my favorite game of 2023, one of my favorite games of all time so I'm very happy to be able to show
it off here. So let's go ahead and get started. I'm going
to go to the actual main menu. This is not the main menu, I just wanted
to show you this because it's one of the best menus in a video game also.
I tried. All right, let's get started here.
Three, two, one...
Let's go Yamada!
So this game is in its own universe mechanically speaking Let's go Yamada. Let's go Yamada.
So this game is in its own universe mechanically speaking, there's really nothing like it.
If you're a bit confused just remember that it's a bit like baseball.
Close your eyes and imagine a baseball on your head
and then rotate the baseball. it's sort of like that um so we have
two phases to our combat we have batting and pitching we're in batting right now as you can
see we are swinging our bat i don't know why my clips aren't registering nonetheless uh it's fine we'll carry through
part strat here gonna spawn both tanks double back one swing unfortunate
um if you time that exactly right you can get both tanks in one set of shots.
But it's all good.
I think because I had to do an extra swing
On the little dudes back there
I ran out of Time Stop G, which is in the bottom right.
I don't think I have time to fully explain that,
but nonetheless, there's a lot I don't have time to explain.
Doors in this game open sometimes
you have to destroy a set of enemies, sometimes you can just walk
towards them like this one and get them to open
and then whenever we get to the end of the level we're going to click the menu
to skip the ending sequence and go right to the menu here moving on to our first real
level of the game i just want to give a quick special shout out to this
over here. Just
incredible environmental storytelling
really asks
a lot of questions and answers few about
the game's lore. The lore demons have invaded earth or something or aliens
i'm not really sure we have to become the greatest slugger in the universe and also collect the
ultimate ingredients we got the first ultimate ingredient right here, it's
the crab sticks. They also give us the power of the crab which is the side step look at
Yamada go right there very nice they're going to be pretty useful I'm gonna do our
first stat upgrade here after some dialogue, and moving on.
So...I have a great movement speed there because it's a speedrun.
I'm gonna be able to cancel the ending
part of my shot animation
here with a sidestep.
I'm also going to do
like,
a little flick
to try and make
it go forward
so that was pretty decent
but probably actually
save time.
You really love
to see it.
Yeah, the upgrade menu contains all your normal upgrades for this sort of game,
you've got attack, defense, speed, meat...
Everything you expect to see.
I'm also going to be focusing on score early in this run.
Increasing your score determines how fast you get these unlocks,
and getting unlocks earlier is usually better.
So scoring is dependent more or less entirely on your batting average,
real by the way that's not a bit I'm not a funny enough person to come up with bits for this game
that are funnier than the actual content of the game which is great um so i'm
gonna be trying to hit as many things with each swing as possible to bring up my batting average
uh one survive there and then that's fine.
Ideally I can destroy all of those enemies with just that combo there
The inning change is happening on a timer
Though I do also have the ability to change innings manually. If I run out of innings
game will end Yamada will die permanently but that should never happen with the current str, I rarely go above like three innings.
Yeah, the only exception is sometimes we will go above three innings on purpose to get more of those little flaming baseballs you see.
You want to talk about Kidama?
Yeah, so every time you switch
you get another Kidama there
They're used for these special abilities that Sean just unlocked
they are bound to the up and down scroll wheels.
Those will be used for special skills, which we can equip
to up-and-down scroll wheel. It's where I would choose
to map things. It's a good choice.
We're going to use our first one here.
It costs four Akidama, and
we're going to use it as a sort of
power shot aim check.
Hey! I love to see it.
So if you rapidly change your aim there,
you can make some shots go to one tank and some go
to the other, avoiding having to clean up
the second tank, which we got there.
That's honestly really tricky so I'm happy I got that.
Going to get a bunch of unlocks here,
so donation?
Absolutely.
The Pokemon fans are waking up.
A donation train is very much brewing.
I have $14.30 here from Lily's Dark Materials,
who says 143 for my best boy Snorlax.
Time for one more?
Um,
I don't think so, unfortunately.
This game's moving at a rapid pace.
Doing one more speed unlock here and we're going to move it on
to a very important level.
So we need to get 15000 points in this level
for the S rank bonus which gives us a special skill called the
Rocket Start. It lets use rocket boosters and is going to become our main form of movement
throughout the run once we get it. Just sort of have to go through here if you
run through this as fast as possible,
We should get the S rank easily.
Make sure that we get all these speed power-ups
And then don't get caught on any of these enemies
Very nice!
More important than the rocket boosters is this. We just unlocked a deck system.
It's called Yugo.
This game is now a deck builder,
and we now have a dual disc installed inside of our bat.
Real lore.
It's in the readme.
I mean, it's an indie game made in 2023.
We knew it was a deck builder that's so true um so we can change cards uh it says sr
on the top right because she's a speed runner
um and different cards have different properties
and they only last for a certain amount of innings.
It's hard to really explain why we use the cards we do,
just trust me on this one.
But we are going to go equip them right now
so let's see if I can do this menu well.
This game has far more mechanics than is reasonable to explain in 20 minutes and we don't even use all the mechanics
We were just introduced to the gacha system
You can roll for new cards
to build your deck, but it's slow and
puts RNG into the run so we just avoid it altogether
There are cards that save time in the gatcha, but a single gatcha roll takes about 10 seconds and there are not cards that save 10 seconds.
Doing a bunch of stat upgrades there.
We think maybe theoretically if you got an absolutely perfect gacha roll...
You might be able to
save time, but it would dig into the maybe.
I'm gonna
move back here and try and move all these enemies
towards this choke point. Enemies only
move towards you when you're looking at them,
so I'm trying to keep them all in view
so that they all move towards me.
I just had one short cleanup there,
but otherwise that was pretty alright.
The least threatening form of Weeping Angels.
You just look away and you're safe,
which we will be doing later. It's an
important strat.
Just gonna clean up the end here.
Hopefully going to be able to get either three
or four of these guys to go to the tank, and
then last one going to go to that tank
looks like it is. Very nice.
Nice work.
And finishing this level and moving on to our...
Oh, we also got the Cup Ramen second ultimate ingredient.
It doesn't give us any ability but hey it's ramen.
Yeah, it's always a good time for ramen.
That's true.
We are going to be moving onto our first boss level of the run.
Killing Peps, you want to explain how bosses work?
Yeah there is two kind of bosses in this game. The first one is a helicopter which we will see a few times.
So when I build up Archidameter IV, wait for it to shoot a bunch of shots and then reflect them with the big pickaxe swing.
And immediately cancel that animation with a card switch right here. This card right here gives us two extra Kidamas,
we have four, which is perfect to
figure out one more swing. Perfect.
There we go. Bunch of cutscenes here, so
maybe one or two donations? Absolutely!
And a very important update, we are just under $2,000 away from that Challenge Mode COVIDON Lite upgrade! Keep the donations coming y'all! I have $100 here from Benny Omega who says,
This game looks batty.
I hope you aren't sluggish and hit that home run!
Donation goes to Pokemon Y2 Challenge Mode.
Alright, um...I did get an upgrade here It us plus two keydome at the start of a level.
I did a specific strat on the boss to give me something...I gave myself a ton of score just to get that
because it lets us do an extra rocket boost for free basically which is quite good
um someone needs to explain this level i need to focus yeah so at the start
swing and get the enemies behind him into this robot here very good and try to hit
this one here we'll see if it goes. That was a tough one,
we get a real quick backup that needs to do. So this is my one contribution
to the speedrun. After you destroy these three robots,
the one on the right there's gonna to open and at the very end of
the opening animation, if we run
against this wall here...
Rip roll bracket.
Oh, you can see it.
The angle for getting that is pretty finicky,
and it didn't want to give us at that time
but we get another chance with the aim check here
and that one looks really good.
Watch the radar?
Yeah!
So as you can see Watch the radar. Yeah!
So as you can see, The way they kind of keep you on track in each level is by having these little walls on the side
But we're speedrunners
There we go So go say about 15 seconds
we don't fully understand why that door stopping its movement pushes you on top of the wall,
but it saves 15 seconds so we're not gonna look a gift horse in the mouth.
It's better to not ask questions with this game, just take it for what it is.
That's a good rule of thumb with Yamato.
In this level though think of...
...that first gap you run over completely randomly
You just fall in sometimes and then a shark eats you
So always a little scary
Oh we're playing tennis now.
So we are so good at baseball that
we will play the hardest form of it, tennis.
We'll run up and knock this ball over the net
which is going to set us up for a quick kill
a little bit later. It's worth trying a few times
There we go, so that'll get us a quick kill on some enemies at the end
But first thing we're gonna do is run over here
Do some normal enemy hits and then
we are just gonna swing at the air a bit.
The problem with Sean is too good at video games
And if your batting average is
too high and you get 500 thousand
points at the end of the game you get a bonus cut scene and extra cut scenes obviously lose us quite a bit
of time so we're just swinging into the air at
that point to lower our batting average and lower
our overall score,
because that's kind of the only time we can do it for free while we're waiting for some other stuff to happen
and not lose time by doing it.
These helicopter kills look so easy the way Sean does them, but they are in fact really,
really hard. I struggled a lot with all of those
in my casual playthrough. The casual playthrough
this game has a lot of knowledge checks that if you haven't played
this game for over 100 hours, you're not really going to get.
I'm not showing you the casual experience here at all.
Fun fact about the sniper tanks in this level, they are legally required
to send us a notification before the attack
but they aren't even going to get us time to do that because we're just
going through too fast, but it's just funny lore.
Yeah they sent a text message your phone to be like hey I'm about to shoot you just so you know.
Sharks?
Shark by the way.
Shark!
Let's go sharks.
That's why we have blah hush here i specifically asked
and they uh kindly obliged i'm gonna be doing my final stat upgrade here. Just trust me that this is better,
I am not doing a bit.
And moving on to the first...well, not really the first boss fight but
first of this type of boss fight at least.
We're going to start off by shooting an up special here with a quick shot
Immediately cancel the animation with a card switch
Another shot also gets some HP damage
And get one more for three
Sean's gonna do four four-hit combos here.
Switching names twice really quickly
you'll be able to do a four-hit combo
And just like real life how physics works
we hit it a bunch and it does more damage
If you hit the baseball multiple times, it gets more points.
It's true.
That's the rules of baseball.
That's exactly how baseball works.
You can trust me.
No baseball player is good enough to actually pull it off, unfortunately.
But someday we will reach Yamada's level.
That was the shark man.
He's a really cool boss.
All bosses are really cool casually
I recommend trying them out
but unfortunately we just kinda...
Well fortunately, we kinda melted him.
Nice. There he goes.
We're gonna get some cheese packets here, it's another one of the ultimate ingredients
don't worry about it. It doesn't do anything. The trap stick is actually
the only ingredient ingredient that actually does something.
And we're going to be moving on to our next sports level.
All of the levels have been baseball so far because this game is baseball, but now it's really baseball.
As you know, the way you play baseball is to immediately go for a home
run and then uh murder the pitcher and that should kill everyone cheers watch the radar
that is okay scary. I'm gonna switch to uh the wolf here and change some innings because any changes with that card heals.
Sometimes those enemies attack sometimes they don't and if they do it can get kind of dicey.
All right now we're playing my personal favorite form
of baseball which is soccer.
In this as we mentioned earlier these enemies only move
toward you if you're looking at them. So we're going to run over here
look away, wait until about 4 seconds on the timer
and then start the fight. That just sets
us up to get all these kills in the quickest
safest way possible
And as you know, the primary rules of soccer are run to the touchline behind your
opponent's goal, wait until there's four seconds left in the half and then kill the goalkeeper.
So that's exactly what we're gonna do
just gotta get a soccer ball and some of the shots here and that should be enough
to kill very nice and then we're going to get one
of these guys shown up here um something we didn't mention is uh
there's a headshot mechanic in this game why did i do this oh
no just gonna work um what's the play here i think it's uh this probably
um this is sketchy but this should work i think i switched to the wrong card please work please kill it should
oh that's oh no no no, no. We're good.
It'll be fine.
I believe.
Yes.
And we shouldn't get 500,000 here?
Good job.
Nice!
Just under 500,000.
So moving on to the final boss here.
So I just want to talk a bit about this game.
This game is of Dalaran dollar and steam it's one of my
favorite games ever you owe it to play
it because it's just that good
it is very rare to see a game uh pun
intended swing for defenses on so many
different mechanics
and pull them off so effortlessly.
So please give this game your time.
But time, by the way, is coming up very shortly.
This might not kill.
As soon as we killed this ultimate champion of baseball.
Time. So that's it for that.
If you do want to run this game, there isn't really a community or anything because it's...
This game has like 20 reviews on Steam. It's not exactly known
but reach out be happy to tell you anything about this game. I am
obsessed with sharing things about this
game, so please do
so.
If you need to find the game, because it can be hard to
because the Steam title is written in like kanji. So if you don't
know how to write that could be tough so just go to speedrun dot com slash Yamada and there's a link
to the game here there it's only a dollar um you get way way worse things for a dollar. You can get way, way worse things for $1. And you can get way worse things for like $60 honestly.
Anyways here is our ultimate food.
And like all good cup ramen it transforms instantly. Incredible cup ramen, it transforms instantly.
Incredible cup ramen, heck yeah!
Yakiniku now for some reason.
Anyways I just got some quick shoutouts to do.
I need to shoutout every person who's played this game, don't worry it'll be
quick. Shoutout to me for playing
this game, shoutout to Killin' Pepsi for playing this game
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for playing this game.
Shout out to Joel
for playing this game.
Shout out to PotYahoo
for playing this game.
Shout out to AtagonN
for playing this game.
Shout out to Betty Magro
for playing this game.
Shout out to LionCatch
for playing this game.
Shout out to Andronian
for playing this game, I think. Shout out to DonTale for playing this game. Shout out to Andronium for playing this game, I think.
Shout out to Don Kale for playing this game,
I think, I don't know.
Shout out to Nico for playing this game
and shout out to Digimeth the developer of this game
for playing this game.
Big thanks for all them for playing this game.
You may not know who I am, you may never see this run but we share a powerful bond.
On my sheet here I have Powerful with like a TM next to it.
If I didn't say your name and you played this game, sorry.
But also reach out.
I think we'd get along.
And one last thing.
Genuine question.
If you are an artist or you know an artist who knows how to get Yamada's hoodie strings
or make Yamada's hoodie strings, please reach out to me. I will pay basically any price you can scam me whoever however you want so long as I get those things.
Thank you for having me.
Sorry, that's the first time I've seen myself on a screen.
Hello everyone! I am the Shaded Master and I am
running Celeste 64, Fragments
of a Mountain 100% for you
so I'm a former world record holder
if my couch would like to introduce themselves. Hi, I'm a former world record holder. If my couch would like to introduce themselves?
Hi, uh, I'm KingJ0444
I am the former-former
World Record Holder of this game
Uh, My name is LordyBunnykins
I am the former-form former former former world record holder of this game
i'm kind of like the day one we're kind of big deals yeah and on call we have
kevin right here on call we have have Kevin at Power Up Audio.
I did a lot of the sound for this game alongside my team here in Vancouver.
And I guess technically, yes,
I am the former, former, former, former world record holder during playtesting. So thank you very much.
Stoked to be here.
So real quick we'll let Kevin explain what this game is.
Yeah! This is kind of funny. We had the Celeste Pico 8 version that appeared on SGDQ from Sex Rex years ago.
And now we have another Game Jam version of Celeste
on SGDQ years later, so pretty cool it's here at all.
Thank you so much for myself and the rest of the team
for running it at all thank you so much from myself and from the rest of the team for running
it at all tsm amazing um this is gonna be quick so depends what we're talking about before the run
begins so this was a game jam game it uh i was on discord like on the xok discord looking at when we first made
this channel for making this game in the first place it was january 17th was day one channel
opened we shipped this game to the world on January 29th.
I learned of it personally on January 22nd, so I had one week total in which Noel was
saying, hey, I know you're running a business over there and stuff but we are making this silly game for week. Do you have time for us?
And he said, You know what? We gonna drop everything into these things.
It's Celeste of course!
But yeah...
We made the whole thing in a week
I guess Noel was saying, hey listen man, like, we're gonna work
through it and it's gonna be very silly.
It's mostly a meme game
so it doesn't need to be good.
Don't live and sleep same over-end.
But then Lena rolls in and is using like,
the sound fonts to make a new soundtrack
And I mean, in classic XOK style
They say, ah, it doesn't need to be good
and then they just made it good!
So I had to keep up
And yeah there was a lot of lost sleep from the whole team
and a lot of just
good laughs and fun times making a silly thing so i'm stoked to see you here on stage
yeah so got a few things also to say before quickly. So first donations, there's not going to be a lot of time for donations during this run but if you want to tag along get a train going, there should be eight intended debts throughout the run
and if you want to do donations for all of those deaths
but for any unintended deaths that I take,
I will donate $5.00 for each.
I'll hop on that.
I'm down for that.
Yeah.
I can probably hop on that.
Just don't die too much.
Oh yeah.
Just at the end,
dive like 15 times.
As well as audience participation, there's two things we can do.
First, there are only 30 berries to collect
so after each one has a fanfare kind of like SM64 when you collect the star. We can clap at the end of that fanfare and...
And there's also a special song with some of the levels that we can sing along with.
I think a lot of people are going to understand me when it happens.
I expect some dancing from the back coach!
Real quick, since you said there's not a lot of time during the run, can I share some good news before we begin?
Go for it! We have hit the Pokémon 1-2 Challenge Mode upgrade!
On cue.
Thank you so much, everyone who made that happen.
Thank you Quack and with that I think we're ready to show what the game is actually about!
Yep, we're ready.
Alright. Wanna kinda demonstrate?
Absolutely. So...
First 3DQ run. Let's breathe.
You got this!
So we're gonna start from 5,
4, 3,
2, 1...
Go! So like we said 2, 1, go!
So like we said this game is short. Like starting off
here's one berry of 30
Yeah so a quick explanation of this game is we have the same general toolkit as Celeste.
We can dash, we can jump, we can grab.
Where it's different in how the dash works because the dash is a little bit more restrictive.
We can dash in any direction we want but we can't really do much vertically.
If were in the air you'll see me dash a little bit up and that's pretty helpful.
However, there's
also dash jumping which you can see at the start
of this room and you're going to see all over the run
which is simply just dashing and then
jumping out of it and
you move faster.
Yeah, it's like the extended supers
in Celeste
Yeah there is a good showcase of it here
And there is also no
stamina in this game compared to Vanilla Celeste.
Real quick... Madeline goes into square hole.
Yeah, there's a lot of momentum You will see us fling ourselves
multiple different places
Yeah it's a lot of fun. That was one part
the routing was with this. It was changing
every day for like the first week.
Absolutely yeah and a lot
these cassette rooms are pretty simple
even if they have like a weird trick to them,
They're gonna be pretty short but
they're definitely one of the harder parts of this run compared
to the like the overworld movement
and here we see our first intentional death of the run. There's a lot of varies where after you either want to warp back to a checkpoint or you get put in a bubble that puts you back to a checkpoint and that bubble animation is just really slow, so we never want to watch it
if we can't.
I don't know if we mentioned or not,
this game is free.
If you like what you're seeing
and you want a quick
10-ish minute run
to pick up, or 15
second run if you run any percent.
Definitely try it out.
I think it's largely
open source as well actually.
Yes, it is! It's very easy to make custom levels as well
I know people have already done that
so...
That always means there's technically infinite game in it
Here's a big
launch yeah that was nice so sick
now we get all the big launches in a row oh yeah he's another one
here's another one we keep our speed by jumping here.
Nice!
That was very nice.
It looks so clean, I love it.
I knew that one.
There you go, nice, perfect.
There is another really hard launch we we're gonna be doing later, and we're gonna get some serious time for it.
But you have to do it without dashing.
This room is going to start our tradition of really just not caring if there are keys
in an area.
Yeah, you can side flip here and then...
Grab on the side!
Oops, okay.
I thought you were gonna jump past.
Yeah, that's what happened during development and informed Maddie,
she's like yeah I know.
So the golden feathers translate kind of similar to
The Dash into 3D where there is no vertical aspect
To it you can of move horizontally.
This fairy here, there is a small gap between the floor
and the spikes, and Shade just dashes over it.
Nice!
But the feathers are pretty simple so
here is a good time for one quick donation before we do a small skip in the upcoming set room.
Oh boy! Do I have the one donation for you? It's $250 from Lena Raine!
Let's go! $150 from Lena Raine.
Who says, wow my favorite Nintendo 64 game! It's always a pleasure to see new things
run on GDQ and best of luck with the
run. Straub get! Thank you, and best of luck with the run. Straub get!
Thank you so much, Lena.
The amount of people I've heard ask if this is
on N64 is crazy.
Also remember that thing
I said about hating keys? Yeah we hate grabbing keys.
Yeah that one... like a lot of these were found very quickly and again they were intended so
Yeah the Straub Get ref from Lender right now.
Basically Maddy had a loose plan slash desire to have it say
STROB GET on screen when you get one um she suggested this while in a plane over the
atlantic ocean that's and uh noah was like go to sleep maddie you're like stop working on the game
also for the record i asked none of us know why that feather trick
yes but when you dash into that feather don't do that shred
i don't know how it works
it just does yeah also this is really good
unfair okay also again once again we no need the switches because
just jump to the end there.
Yeah, we skip these again.
So this part of the area...the city map here is kind of divided into these like quadrants and each of them focus on their own things.
So we were already in the momentum and the feather quadrant, this one I like to call
it the double dash quadrant because there's a lot of carrying this
double-dash crystal with different berries. We can skip carrying it
to this one with that big jump,
but then do you want to talk about pins?
Yeah I think we'll let it speak for itself
first and then we'll explain it after
see if you get this first try let's go that is way harder than he
made that look yeah so usually if you don't do that jump, you have to like walk around the entire map.
Yeah.
And you bring a double dash to that panel and it's once a
very,
yeah.
And you need to do,
you need to keep both your dashes so you can't dash at all
for that.
So you just had to do like a quick double jump
to keep uh through momentum and get enough speed yeah we tried to find a way to achieve
that challenge and just failed to find one, I guess.
This cassette's pretty simple we're supposed to grab on these walls
to make them fall
We're just gonna dash into them
Yeah this is like my one contribution that I found
People were grabbing the walls
and like, you can just go over them! Excuse me? Yeah! Wait okay did I not find a shoe?
You didn't no you didn't. For the runners
who didn't make it to the game.
Yeah, so now we're going to be getting
the final climb to the ending area. We're not
gonna be done with the run but we're
gonna be where the game would
technically end in any percent.
We probably have one more donation during this climb.
Absolutely, I have $5 here from Dew who says,
good luck on the run Shaden,
it's great to see you on stage and running a tough game.
So yeah one last thing we should mention that we haven't yet is version differences.
It's 1.0.1,
right? Yes.
The reason why we're playing on that coming up
in the final cassette room there's a skip where we need to climb into spikes.
And...there was an update that it's very good for casual players. It's not good
for us.
It makes it so that
it will not let you climb
up into spikes
or turn a corner where there are spikes.
Oh, dang. So yeah, we... where there are spikes. Oh dang...
We hit the credits!
That's the reason why we're
playing on the old version, is to make sure we don't
Or we can climb into the spikes for that skip later
It does make the climb a little bit harder because there is a chance
We climb into the spikes during a skip on the climb, but it's worth it for the time save
there's a nice little one in the box here that that one with the uh the the falling platforms
i think that's like always the hardest berry to find casually yeah it was a
lot of my friends last one and seeing the last one this is the second-to-last cassette before
the final set of the run uh it uses the set blocks from the original Celeste, which are tied to the rhythm.
We're just gonna skip over here... Nice!
Okay so do you want serious time for this, Shady?
Yeah. How are you feeling?
Yes...
Okay we're gonna be quiet. This is the last cassette. It has three really hard skips
Time will be
very soon after it yeah it'll be after our death warp out of the cassette so Okay, looks good.
Let's go!
Yeah, that room takes a long time casually. Just a casual
sub-nine minute, like there you go
and time!
That was
really good. That beats both of our
PBs? Oh no, not mine.
Subtle flex but no.
I have a sub 8
This will play out
Created in a week-ish by The Celeste Team...
A week-ish?
...Nol Berry, Amora B., Pedro Medeiros, Lena Rain, Heidi Mata and Kevin Regime
And Jeff Tangsock of Power Up Audio
Maddie would like to thank Sarah and Z
For their love and support thanks yvonne for being chill and cool amora would like to
thank kiki zach rose and phil for being so loving and fun. Pedro would
like to thank Iza for saving his git
merges, Pedro Damasceno
and everyone from Shinela
for helping him learn 3D
Jeff would like to thank his good friend stelmac kevin thanks zoe for her boundless support
okay okay
there's one i do want to see this This one, I want to see this one.
Thank you, Bobbin for being a cat!
And lastly thank you to Celeste players everywhere.
Your love and passion for our little game continues to inspire us.
That's us!
That's you! Thank you so much.
It was said at the start of
the run but this game is free
we kind of skipped over NPCs
here they have cute dialogue
Madeline, Theo and
Granny's down in the bottom left.
And also Normal Celeste is $2 on Steam!
That is true. Right now!
You should play it. It's a good game.
Uh...
And of course for my shout outs. Shout out to everyone who has come here to watch and support
Here in person and online
Thank you to Kevin especially for getting back to me yesterday.
To join the call.
Sorry about that but thank you.
Also a quick shout out to Noel Berry on the XOK team.
I was climbing with him last night and I was like,
yeah so it's confirmed that I'm doing a commissary for Solicity 4 right?
And he's like oh cool wait until then.
Like Friday morning he's like I think it's tomorrow morning thank you so thank you noel
uh i i think just shout out to the celeste community um
there's two different um discords uh there's one for like
the 20 2018 celest and then there's one for
like the itch.io
celeste game so the one by sex or exit and this one as well
so if you want to run any of them uh there are multiple different places
that you can go and there's plenty of uh people who are willing
to help you out learn the game and get used to it so yeah. And I don't have much to say other than
just another shout-out for the Cel Celeste community really it is a great community
and uh shout outs to trans rights.
And I got one more thing, of course, follow me on Twitch. We had Hizo Galaxy yesterday and we mentioned the 602.
I will also be joining that next Saturday.
I will too!
That's King Day as well.
Ah yeah!
But I think that's everything I need to say, so...
I guess last shameless plug is the ExtremelyOKGames
is now working on EarthBlaze!
Let's go!
Thanks for your patience in that one. It's coming along.
Thank you so much, Kevin.
Yeah, thanks all for having me and thanks so much
for being on stage as always.
Cheers. Thanks, GDQ. Last to be on stage as always. Yeah, cheers.
Good morning, GDQ! How's it going?
My name is TTS4Life. I'm here to play White 2 for you guys, and I know we had a little bit of an incentive
To upgrade the challenge category a little bit
So did we meet it?
We absolutely met it! We are playing challenge mode.
Awesome. So I'm going to go ahead and set the challenge
mode key here quick for us to get started.
And we'll explain what this all means as
we get started in the run. Yeah.
Alright, so challenge mode set
This one is going to start with a little bit of RNG
manipulation here, so I'm going to be setting my date and time
to very specific hour and minute tier,
And I'm gonna let our wonderful host read a couple donations, because this countdown's
a little bit long. But for those who like obnoxiously long countdowns...
Here we go! So 35, 34, 33...
We've got $10 from HeadBob who says best of luck on the run TTS
from the back couch so happy to finally see you
on the GDQ main stage.
You deserve it so much.
May the odds be ever in your favor. We also have
$10 from Zypotic, so happy
to see you make it to the big stage, ETS! It was
fun and very impressive watching your grind at this game
and I hope that two statics and Elisa's gym works well
enough for ya.
Alright, so time is coming up here
in about
5...4...
3...2...
1...go! Three, two, one. Go!
So this is White 2 Challenge Mode. I'm joined by a wonderful couch.
Do you guys want to introduce yourselves real quick? Sure, I'll start.
My name is Tucker and I'm the current world record holder
for Y2 Challenge Road.
Oh, big shout out.
Whoa!
My name's Ed Shee.
I've run a lot of Pokemon games over the years,
and I've run this game as well.
If you recognize me,
I just ran Pokemon Diamond at AGDQ this year
so that might be why.
I'm Swiftaloo. I, I run some book one games but more specifically people know me for Gen 5.
Uh, I ran Colosseum last year at SGQ 23.
Yeah!
Yeah so your first question right away with this category is what is a challenge mode so
challenge mode is one of the two um extra difficulties that were added exclusive to black
2y2 they're the only like, official difficulty settings that were ever introduced
in Pokemon. The process
is kind of convoluted. You saw me kind of do
something in a menu and there was
some mention of key settings and stuff like that
Basically, there was a whole thing
with the infrared feature
that the later DS cartridges had
where you could transfer keys between copies
to unlock keys and stuff.
So you actually unlocked challenge mode
by first beating Pokemon Black 2,
and then to run challenge mode on White 2,
you didn't have to use the IR
between two different cartridges
to send the key over
so that you could then play challenge mode in Black 2 I.R. Between two different cartridges to send the key over
So you can then play challenge mode in white 2
It's really awesome and it's why nobody knows about this feature
Yeah, it's a bit of a convoluted process
And i know as a kid when i played these games casually
I was kind of the one that always liked to hold on
to my save file after I beat the game
and never really reset it.
So I never got the opportunity
to play this as a kid but
When I came back to this game as a speedrunner,
I've come to fall in love with this category.
It's definitely one of the more challenging ones
is what the name implies.
Do you guys want to go into it a little bit
as to why it is challenging
and what makes challenge mode challenging?
Yeah, so in challenger mode quite a few things change.
Mainly the levels of the opponents pretty much all the opponents get at least a one level
boost
and uh especially for the boss trainers
the boss trainer is getting extra
pokemon
their ivs which are kind of attached
to your stats are all set to pretty much max or set to 31
or a 30 out of 31 and um they also get new pokemon did i already mention that and uh yeah the eye is also good um as usual
and uh they might have good items better moves and so on anything to make the run more challenging
yeah and we'll go into detail on this specific changes
in every fight as it shows up
The interesting thing too is that you do
unlock at the end of game and you can't just make your save file
a challenge mode file and everything else
that you do in the game is challenge mode harder but uh they
didn't make it so if you do reset you actually everything in the game is harder even like
the third gym leader or whatever so like it was built in mind to actually play from
the beginning even though it's very hard to do so yeah i imagine
most people who enable challenger mode in their gameplay did not have it on before beating
the game itself no especially since you needed the opposite cart from what we're playing to do that.
Why are we playing on white 2?
Oh, perfect!
So there are two major reasons why we play on white 2 versus Black 2. The first one is actually,
we have a required fight. Charles, Heartbreaker Charles
I'm sure many people know him and are a fan of him. He's actually
triple battle in this game which is where you do three Pokémon at once on the field.
Kind of similar to a double battle just adding an extra one.
But in Black 2 he's actually a rotation battle and
The AI acts really weird and very slow when it's a rotation battle where it's like one Pokemon, but you can switch freely between them without taking up a turn.
There is also an extra trainer that you have to fight in an area later which is Reversal y2 doesn't have that so that's pretty much the
reasons why we do it if you really want to play back then you could obviously but it is slower
so yeah he'll be running by two here today and we we're seeing TTS just get a starter, Tepeg
here as the main of choice
for most of the early game part
of this speedrun. Tepeg
fire pig guy
What's special about Tepig?
Well, Tepig is definitely better than
Oshwod and Snivy. That's really what's special about it, just
better than the other one! I mean... It's serviceable until
you know we can switch off of it which
we will be doing about
like 50 minutes into the run yeah. Yeah, i mean it's special because
it's the third firefighting type we got in a row!
And we're not even gonna to get to the firefighting,
the cool part of it.
The big guy.
Well,
big night's firefighting.
Oh true.
But we're not getting into
the big,
big guy.
No,
he didn't either.
Um,
so yeah,
so now it's time for
the royal fight again.
Normal kind of standard Pokemon story stuff.
White 2 is a sequel to the original game so
It isn't based in the same region but everything
Is out-of-order in terms of locations you go to
And the stories take place what two years after right yes
two years after the events of black and white one yeah so uh still the normal pokemon stuff
we're gonna fight our rival and this is already challenged no taking into effect normally your
rivals only level five here already juiced up to
level six and still just loses excellent stuff
and as a result of uh the opponent's pokemon being higher
level you will gain more xd than you would in normal mode
yeah and fun fact with that too there is also
an easy mode if your curious that's what you unlock
when you beat white 2 and that run
more annoying because things get less experience
Yeah it's actually harder
Nobody has really done easy mode. No. Really quickly while TTS is just focusing on movement stuff we can do a couple donations.
Yeah you got it!
I just want to shout out We Are Over 11K
on that Fight Cynthia incentive.
Y'all are doing so good.
Wow!
We just started.
And I also just want to remind everyone, we've got a bid war right now for Drilbur's nickname.
We're going to be seeing Drilbur coming up in a little bit.
Right now, Blahaj in the lead with 1118.50 but not too far behind 861 is my cat
don't leave an exclamation point fun fact with the blahaj
is uh we actually can't put that A character in, so if you want to bid more to outbid that
So we have a legal name for the DS, that'd be cool but also Blahaja's cool
Honestly both great plans Is Bl's your pokemon though it is now yes okay
we've also got a donation 25 from the shaded master
says i forgot to show but I took five extra deaths
so here's $25 for buying fruit gummies.
Save the world!
My final message, Bergy.
Time for one more? Yeah, do it.
$25 from PhoenixMellior says may Alisa be kind to you TTS! Also hey Switchaloo what's your favorite grass and ghost type Pokemon?
Pumpkaboo!
Thank you.
So yeah, so more movement stuff here again. TTS has to focus here.
This is part of the kind of RNG minute. Do you want to explain just how the orange human that was working right now? Yeah, so basically TTS kind of set his time
To a specific date and time because RNG mid up is actually based on time, or at least setting the seed.
So TTS knows what he gets based on setting all that early in the run
and now because he has RNG mid-up
hopefully he carries it until
Until he gets back to his first ship for the first gym
He will have no encounters that are unnecessary
He will encounter hopefully a Pidove and a Psyduck.
He'll catch them so that we can use him later
And he has also already ended up the Tepig stats
to be pretty much max IVs and a good nature which is rash,
which boost your special attack and lowers your special defense
which is not needed. And that ends up being the best
nature for you you know,
the fights early on.
Yeah, the minips in this game are like super...
Explaining everything about how the RNG minip works
is super complicated and super time consuming
so we're not going to do that but yeah basically
TTS just has
to be very precise movement and inputs for this early section
doesn't hold it super long.
It's not too bad.
And then the other unique thing with Gen 5
is that you actually have to make
your own minute for your own ds because
your ds's wi-fi card influences the seeds you can hit it's very uh annoying but it's kind of
a cool thing about it too as every runs everyone every runner's kind of the cool thing about it too, is every runner's runs and minips are different as a result.
There're some slight variations but it does add that barrier to entry
to running this specific category with these specific minips.
So if you were hoping to run the game using TTS's
manips don't because it probably won't work.
But the thing is Swiftaloo does have
a video on how to make your own RNG manip.
So if you are curious, you can always check that out.
If you do see this running and you're like,
This is really cool. I want to do this.
It's not that hard.
It's just time consuming.
Or for the right price, they'll sell my DS.
There you go.
You could have a GDQ used Nintendo DS system with the capture card built in for $499.99 right now or donate and we can,
you can take a picture of it. It's a beautiful dark blue, you definitely want
it. It is electric blue as the DS is called yeah no that's
the technical name for it. That was my child at the S2
but getting into another battle here these battles are are very straightforward, nothing too scary.
Again still holding the RNG nymph here but we'll be catching a Pidove pretty soon as Tekka was mentioning.
Yeah so this fight is pretty simple it It's just a two-hit.
We actually have Ember as opposed to normal mode because we are level 7.
And thanks for the rival experience it actually matters already which is amazing.
Yeah and its really good because that's a fire type move
because there's a mechanic in this game called same type attack bonus when you share the same
type as a move that you use you get a boost to it, which means you're doing
a lot more damage.
Tepig is mostly a physical attacker
because there's two different types of attacks, special attack
and physical attack.
Tepig's more of a physical attacker but because um of the same type of
deck bonus uh it just does so much really good crit which are 1 in 16 by the way and do double
damage in this gym double damage and they ignore any negative stat
modifiers. Yeah, that'll be relevant later.
So yeah, funny movement here.
Again, all part of the manip. And if you're wondering is that
critically it was manipulated? No, we're not
manipulating battles. You can't really reasonably do it.
I think TASCAN but...
Oh shoot! We already talked about critical hits before this?
Yeah, here we go.
Okay, you used up your crit luck on the previous one.
Yeah, you don't want to crit this because you actually
are trying to catch it.
HMs are still required in this game.
This is Gen 5.
This was before they removed them several Gens later.
But the key thing is that there's very few HMs
you actually need to use in speedrun. They calm down after
Gen 4, so got the Padove
no problem. We need Padove for Fly
and then we're also going to get a Psyduck for
Strength and Surf
and that's all you need for the run. you don't need Cut or any other ones.
Yeah. And a crit-or a 1 in 16 high roll
which we'll get into later kills after Dove
and luckily he got the catch. It a 96 with that rule and now it's time to fight
another rival uh which once again tps will kind of steamroll uh fun fact with this rattle fight
i think in the first one too, it has like throw AI.
So if you just try and...
If you just spam Tail Whip on it
and deliberately not trying to knock it out
it will also try to not knock you out
because it wants you do this KO-It for you.
It's very funny. That's kind of common in a lot
of Pokemon games but this is one where it's like
very extreme, like oh I will not do it.
I didn't know that!
I've run this game and I didn't know that.
Uh...I know in like Let's Go P, Pikachu and Eevee they try not to but if they can still
crit you when they don't plant them...
Yeah, that's the case in Gen 5 too because they don't disable the crits on this
channel for the rebel bites.
Right right.
And even in Let's Go sometimes when they- they don't want to but sometimes they just will because you're taking too long or whatever.
But yeah really quickly while more are moving here we can do another donation room too.
I would love it! We've got $25.10 from Perpetual Sheep, donating 251 for one of my favorite Pokémon, Backwards Chikorita! People are getting creative with these. We've got 2540 from Azamal, with a haiku.
You know the grass sheep such prank greatness, such fluff.
Whimsicott my love."
Oh!
There it is.
Look at that.
This is like a Halloween scary one.
I love it! It does have the glaring wheezing hat thing, anyway we can do another donation
Sure thing, we've got $10 from Bungie to
The Tree so proud to get to watch you run White 2 again on $1,000 from Bungie to the tree.
So proud to get to watch you run white 2 again on a big stage.
I think TTS stands for the top golf superstar.
Yeah.
This guy? Okay we got the Psyduck awesome this is like the big thing you want to make
sure we get them in it for its not guaranteed to catch again the battle orange he's not
manipulated but yeah TTS really good at soft golf he brought his like golf glove and his own clubs and stuff yeah the golf hat
uh hardcore but this is a 72 or it's just 62. this is um closer to 60.
Yeah probably 60 would be my best.
This is... this can happen and this really like kills top level runs.
These breakups are very slow.
It's not enough just to have perfect movement for 20 minutes this guy can also just say nah yeah reset yeah and as we said before we can't really rng manipulate battles
um i actually found out recently from casualualPokerPlayer that the touchscreen affects battle RNG, so
that's really cool.
Thanks Cpp!
It was like touching the touch screen?
Yes!
Cool!
Love that!
Alright, so you want to explain spinners?
Yeah, we just passed a spinner right there. Right now he still has RNG minutes
So we kind of know what he's going to do
As you can see there
He obviously knew that he was gonna turn
Which is pretty sick.
But most spinners in this game...
We don't have RNG Miniforce so we're gonna drop it pretty soon
but we have guaranteed methods to pass spinners just by using movement tech
because we know that they're on
specific timing cycles.
So, we know basically
whenever they're going to spin or
whenever they have the opportunity to spin and we can safely check.
There's also spinner setups which we can safely check. There's also spinner setups, which
we can use based on entering an area
and just knowing when a spinner is loaded in
and having a consistent timing. It's kind of the same
thing, really.
We'll see it in action pretty soon.
You don't want to hit a spinner because it's an optional
trainer.
That's time loss.
Who's that guy in the funny outfit earlier
what team plasma oh didn't see i don't know i He asked me if we ever heard of him, but I have no idea who that is. Yeah, we'll figure it out.
I'm sure he won't be important.
Our characters shouldn't know...
Well, I guess they might know.
Depends how old they might know. Team Plasma from the news, right? I don't know.
Depends how old they were two years ago.
I don't know what age it is.
It doesn't really look like Team Plasma anyway.
Anyway... They completely changed their outfits right uh we're gonna
learn how to play pokemon now so uh we're going to go to trainer school
where we're going to learn a couple things really quickly though tts is going to pick up an
x speed i will explain this more in detail later but basically x items
boost your stats if you've seen a pokemon shooter before you know them very well i have no idea how
to play pokemon because someone told me um they're gonna tell you right now. Oh, okay! I just know TTS is going kind of fast so
i might not be able to keep up with this. Yeah reading is hard but um...
I think they're trying to teach us tight matchups. Yes is this is like the hot moment but as a whole
like set of two fights several dents earlier yeah we're gonna fight grass type and then water type
so you can use ember on this one in super effective hit it and then use the ember
on the watermelon you're like're like, oh no!
It doesn't do that much damage. So we're going to tackle that one instead.
Something to note here though is we almost
got into Blaze but we did not actually
do it. What is Blaze?
So Blaze is when your HP is below 1 third of your max HP.
When it is you actually get a 50% boost to your fire type moves
On top of that same type attack bonus, Stu you're doing a lot of damage!
It's really useful especially for some of the early game Pokemon runs where
you're not getting free heals everywhere but we're going to be using it a few times in this run until we switch off of our poor
Tep Pig here.
Yeah, and of course it does have the danger of low HP means you will faint much easier
And in challenge mode it is much scarier a lot of the time because
things will just destroy you out of nowhere but a lot of times the risk of being in blaze
is kind of worth it tts would probably heal a little bit extra than he normally
would because obviously marathon run and i promise you
tts will be able to speak soon because our argument of stuff is almost over very soon
uh so we can do a couple more donations while Tethios wraps this up.
We have so many donations, it's incredible!
We are over $14000 on the way to that Fightsympia incentive!
Also my cat! to that fight simpy incentive. Also,
my cat is creeping up
in that bid war
and I think we don't have too much time left
so make sure
to bid for your favorite Drillbur name.
We've also, I don't know how the couch and runner feel about puns
I'm generally split on them
I love them
But Pokemon, okay great
Well we got $250 from Dumbbell who says how do you fit 10 Snorlaxes onto a bus?
You poke them on.
Oh!
I don't get it.
A devastating groan from the audience! Also we got $52 from Psychoper who says,
Here's $52 for Meowth. Just a cool cat.
I agree.
$25 from Aveline says, got an idea watching GDQ and I had
light bulb-a-saur appear over my head. Is there a light bulb Pokemon?
There's a candle Pokemon.
Oh, yeah.
The new one.
Thank you audience.
So the RNG mask is basically done now. You can technically adjust it I forgot. Right, thank you audience.
So yeah the RNG mess is basically done now.
You can technically extend it.
TTS will not be doing that.
He's just gonna wrap it up here and not worry about it mostly because he has to save for the gym battle.
Because turns out our hometown is also the town of the first gym leader, that's why we're coming back to it.
This is Charon from the first game
now has his own gyms all grown up
and like most
gyms in this game this or at least most gyms in this game, this gym sucks.
The first two trainers are usually not
terrifying but they can just
cause time loss and you're very unlikely to die
unless you're taking risks like Blaze or whatever.
But the real issue is Charon, but
anything noteworthy with these
trainer fights?
Not too significant, but
as you mentioned, the first gems are
usually the toughest because the level gap is not that big um
because we're not steamrolling yet and it's challenging a really even higher level too so
it's just amplified to give another level're on an uneven platform because of
they all get an IV bump, cause
as the game
progresses usually
significant trainers like gym leaders and E4 kind
of get IVs like bumps slowly throughout the
throughout the game but uh in challenge mode they just start all at 30
at the start which is extremely bad situation for us,
because we already use our G-Minute
to have our Tepig be as cracked
as it basically can be.
And we're basically just on even platforming
with some of the trainers.
So you want to talk about IVs a little bit?
Yeah, you kind of mentioned it
a little bit but yeah TLDR
It goes from zero to 31
It's basically just a description of the ceiling of how your
stats can go and how good they are in general.
So 31 special attack for example is
the best possible one. It doesn't mean that
like 0 to 31 special attack at level
5 there's not that much difference but over the course of
the game as he is like 100 the gap is massive um so yeah our type here is basically max ivs very
very important to actually doing a lot damage but more importantly not dying which is the key
point of challenge mode um there will be lots of safety saves yes yes especially in this early
game yeah can you imagine doing this without like a minute
early game would just be brutal it's we cannot stress out bad these early games and leaders but
we're getting up to chairing here uh sharon has an extra Pokemon, right?
What's the extra Pokemon?
Oh gosh.
Yeah!
We're really quickly though, we're learning defense curl.
Very rare I know in a Pokemon suit
you don't actually learn a defensive move. A move that doesn't do damage and also doesn't increase your attack it's wild
but i assure you it is very necessary for this next fight
key thing with this is we kind of just spam Ember on it.
We just spam Ember and Fray. Spam Ember and Fray, but we're going to start with the Defense Curl here or else
we are gonna get the healing up, save... I believe you also give a
Oran Berry right? Yeah we do because we're kind of tight on healing and especially mid-battle healing.
I do have one Fresh Water given to me by Clyde at the start of the gym
which is actually really clutch because otherwise like a potion would just not
cover our healing situation here at all. Yeah the defense scroll is
really nice, because it does lower their overall damage output but because you're
four to five shotting these things they're also getting a lot of hits in on you,
and again...
Can lead to critical hit.
One in 16 chance to crit,
double damage if it goes,
and he also goes completely through the defensive roll
as we kind of mentioned earlier with both the stages,
so crits are awful.
Not to also mention that Channel Send-Up, Pit Up Blast and Pit Up
actually has the ability Super Luck which doubles the crit chance
from 1 in 16 to 1 in 8.
Yeah so most runs die to this pit up.
An overwhelming amount yeah if you're alive at this point your pace is okay yeah you make it through 20 minutes of perfect movement you go
through uh like a 60 catch chance on the side upduck and then you die to the Dofus.
Yeah, so that's a really good roll for Rat. This Rat is like an 84-ish
percent 3 hit I think? So it's really nice to get
first rolled to do a ton of damage there. It also helps
minimize the amount of damage I
take from Patrat because it just makes
Lollipop a little bit safer, but I can still
just get owned on a win by
a crit here so... Okay,'s awesome really good in our favor
yeah the scary thing here is we're going to be going into blaze pretty soon
uh which you do want for the bedove however uh okay okay
by the way to get that.
You like to see burns in this fight?
Yeah.
Burns half of the opponent's physical attack damage and they all use physical attacks.
Work up there
yeah normally you take like 6 damage It'll do 18
with a critical hit
We'll explain how the amatiles work right after this fight
But yeah that's what happens This is again how most runs die
and most friends that get past this point
will probably die to the next gym leader
and most ones I guess at that point
we'll probably die to them on it for that.
It's just a, awful category.
Big shout-outs to Tuffer and TTS for grinding it as hard
as they have to get really good times in it because
someone who has grinded it is awful.
It is very taxing mentally speedrun.
Really test your patience.
But the good news is once you get past like
the really bad stuff it's pretty chill for the rest of the way.
I don't know what you guys are talking about
but I never had a challenge for this one
and I'm always having a good time!
It's like the meme where two people are riding a bus Always having a good time. Yes, any person is nicer.
It's like the meme where two people are riding a bus and you're in a happy sunshine.
Yeah!
Exactly it!
Also one crossroads from Yu-Gi-Oh with the happy place and sad place.
One side's normal mode,
the other one is challenge mode.
And then easy mode is like further off on
the side. Easy mode would be
just that underwater meme where it's like the skeleton under the water.
Yeah, welcome to memes 101 with your coach here.
So there's more ember here did not get as many crits or burns, but now we're in Blaze
But this HP is really low. Yeah, this was an instant heal for Pidove
So at least it won't die to crit so that's cool
I'm gonna just use a potion because I want to keep my health low for the next gems
Which is like basically right after this one which really sucks because it still puts you in
Interesting spots for quick attack to completely on you. So that's the normal click attack damage
You're seeing now.
And now we're in blaze, which is exactly what you want because then
you can two-shot from here and there we go.
Perfect.
All right.
There we go.
We'll take second try.
Very nice.
Very nice. And HP. And we are we're learning a new move, Flame Charge.
It is a 50 base power physical fire move that boosts speed every time you use it
and considering that Tepp topic is a physical attacker,
a fire type and is slow. It appreciates all of that. Yeah and you'll notice we completely
abandoned defense curl like immediately after fighting Jaren. It's literally just this, yeah.
You could get an X-Defend in
the gym and use it on that fight and get the same effect
but we really need the X-Defend for later
so we're not going to be doing that
and we also got Workout which we'll talk about later.
But we can do a few donations to celebrate our victory here.
You got it! I'm gonna try and speedrun some of these.
Yeah.
We've got $59 from Kazumi who says Gen 5 is my least played generation so we're looking forward to seeing it in action. Also 3 plus hours of potential dex donations? Sign me up! This one goes to BestestBoyArcanine.
$328 from TrapinchManiac happy to be attending GDQ for the first time.
328 for my favorite Pokemon! Remember to use one hand
to support your Trapinches big head at all times.
$171 from Anonymous. Here's 171 for the cutest electric
fish, Lantern! Super excited
for the white 2-run.
You should just cut me off whenever I'm gonna keep going.
You can keep going for a while.
197 from Stars Eclipsed,
sorry that's $197
to be clear.
Umbreon Poker Dex
donation for all those
Pokemon prizes,
excited for the
Pokemon White Run!
So,
a bit of a routing challenge that Echi kind of implied with his mentioning the XFM there and how we can't really use it for this fight.
We actually get access to X items extremely late in this game compared to a lot of the
other Pokemon runs. We can't buy
X items until just before we get to
the seventh gym, but the game at least
throws us a bone and gives us one of every
battle item I guess is what they're
generally called that we can pick up kind of along the
way especially in the early game to kind of help out
later so we do pick up the x attack, x speed and x defend because they're
the three that are most useful for
us in order to survive
some of the more challenging fights.
We'll mention where they get used as we go along
but it's just an interesting
routing challenge that you have to deal with, and also it's why
it makes running a lot of alt mains which is a subcategory
that we like to do for a lot of different Pokemon runs where
try to use different mains and what's just the fastest
just kind of like a challenge speed run kind of thing it's also really messed because in black
and white one you're able to actually buy x items in i think like the third town, like Nvema
or no not Nvema sorry, Necrin
um
yeah they're still there. You can buy them
but that's post game so you're not
visiting that anytime soon
Yeah and the messed up thing is so you're not visiting that anytime soon. Yeah.
And the messed up thing is like, even though
you can't get them out to the 7th gym
we're just not gonna do it anyway because it's too slow
and we don't need it anyway really. Right
We just barely don't need them. Yeah, if it was like right there maybe you could buy them.
They're in a Pokemon Center probably but not really worth it so...
Can I jump in real quick?
Yes please.
I just want to say our bid war for Drillberter's nickname is down to $1 between the top two choices.
1123 for Blahaj and 1122 for my cat!
Amazing, how are we doing on Cynthia?
We're doing amazing on Cynthia,
$16,593 out of that $40,000 goal almost halfway.
You all want to see the super boss of the game,
you get to hear the mean piano music that everyone loves so...
And I know that estimate makes it look like a long run but its gonna fly by so make sure to mark those donations with the fight cindy incentive for sure as you saw there we
do have repels now so again more reason to not need rng minute we can just skip all their random
encounters and we will be doing that for the rest of the game. And there is one nice change
that uh yeah so in Black & White 2 specifically they made the change where you could actually
refresh your repel without going back into a menu it is an amazing feature
i'm so glad they did this because it has been present in every other pokemon game but so now
that we do have repels that does um help us not have to deal with
encounters because you can't really hold on g minip anymore
except for in one case where an encounter can show up anyway
yeah i'm sure that won't happen now that
you've mentioned it.
Yeah, right. So now that we beat the first gym there's actually a mechanic specific to Gen 5 known as Phenomenon
so every 20 steps that you take there is a random RNG check
to see if a phenomenon should spawn nearby.
And it happens quite a lot in this run,
and they can be kind of trolly because sometimes
they pop up right in front of you without a lot
of opportunity to react with.
So Swift here has your wonderful whiteboard for us.
Which I need to write a phenomenon on, So Swift here has a wonderful whiteboard for us.
Which I need to write Phenomenon and I don't know how to spell it, so someone donate
to tell me how to spell it?
Do you want to mention the spinner setup thing while you're here?
Yeah, there's a spinner that You can barely see her next to the stairs there.
Her name is Len and she is the worst spinner in the game by far.
I made sure to enter this route on a specific tile
So that I will have an easy opportunity
to check. Unfortunately, she turned
so I cannot get past her here
There would be a way to
if she was facing away
just walk into her vision and then run out of it and
that would let me get by without her being seen but instead i kind of
have to back it up doing what's called step back
which is basically i'm two steps away from her first tile of vision
um and then i will wait for her to turn away to where i'm trying to pass her,
and then I'll flash my menu real quick to see if she spun back because between the time it takes
to lock that one tile and just natural human reaction time.
I can kind of check to make sure that her cycle for when
she's going to check the spin again is long enough
for me to take that next walk tile into her vision,
and then I can just get out of it without encountering her.
It's a very easy trick, anyone can do it at home
and it works in both Gen 4 and Gen 5.
Yeah, obviously we can't do the Gen 3
trick of just opening the bag to reset
the spinner cycles, doesn't work so you have to do that we're entering uh i
don't remember the name of this perfect burbank city uh this is the town of the second gym leader
roxy right there on the screen. She is the poison type
gym leader which as you all can probably assume that means
it's awful so going
into this, this gym sucks as well
and uh you saw
TTS actually got some free Petra Berries whichBarris, which is really clutch and immediately equipped them.
Yes.
Petch-A-Barries immediately heal your poison if they are equipped and you get poisoned
and that is really important for a gym where basically everything can poison you.
You know, you've got room on that whiteboard for a death counter too. That
might be a good idea because there's going to be quite a few I would imagine. There's already one?
Yeah, we're ready at one. So I encourage everyone at home to do the same. For each phenomenon that appears,
I'm going to donate $1 in five if I have to go into one or like
if one just goes infront of me and I get screwed um and i will donate five bucks for every day
so uh if anyone wants to match it at home feel free we'll keep track you know
so you don't have to do it yourself nice stuff touch. So this is the second
gym, it's a poison gym which is
really nice that the game throws us a bone
and gives us the petra berries because basically everything
has poison gas which is AD
accurate and if it does hit then we just get poisoned.
So the barriers kind of help us trim having to use an antidote
to heal or like buying antidotes or anything like that.
You can get crit here because I'm using Blaze
to try to, like...
Why would you say it?
Oh! Okay. That's another one for the board. There we go.
If you're wondering why TTSK is for a random gym trainer, that's why.
Yeah if you have money attached to death count... I'm sorry.
Can I jump in real quick on this reset?
We have a $1,000 donation from anonymous.
Thank you so much.
Also my cat has jumped into the lead in that big war with 1224.
Blah's lovers. you know what to do.
Look at this cat! Is this a cat? You can decide.
But here are donations.
I think it's Blahar.
Is this more cat-like or less cat-like?
Is that a cat?
Yes.
This is a cat, yes.
What are the defining features of a cat?
Please let us know in the donations.
Okay, didn't get crit that time!
I almost said it so I'm glad I did.
But yeah these coffins are so annoying
They're like so bulky
Without Blaze you can't two-shot them
So they just give more turns to poison you or troll
you or just be annoying.
If you get poisoned all the time, you have to keep
equipping the Petra Berry which is really slow and
you don't want to heal too much here because you want to keep your
Blaze but if you're not healing too, you're going to die to crits
and it's just the whole thing. Yeah, high
Blaze is like pretty much the best HP
that you can do. So you can take a hit and then
still feel good. Yes.
And again, Blaze is 1 third HP or lower
so if you're exactly 1 third that's usually like
a perfect place to be. Except sometimes
you level up out of Blaze when you don't want to
so it's specific thresholds in
specific situations
Good dodge! Awesome! Yeah, Poison Gas misses specific thresholds in specific situations um good dodge awesome yeah point the guest
miss is actually really huge there because if i took damage here i'd have to kill for
coughing because both of them combined will vote me if they choose to attack so
these uh gym trainers have random ai so it's random what
they do the coughing um has both tackle assurance as attacking moves along with poison gas so it's
two thirds i'm gonna get hit basically And the Grimer only has Pound
but also has Disable which is annoying when that happens
and Poison Gas
And now we have to evolve! Which is something
that doesn't normally happen in any computer
Thanks to the extra Pokémon that Charon has and the higher level Pokemon in Challenge mode, we get to Pignite.
And Pignite's useful on Roxy.
Very nice to have this for the Gym Leader, for sure.
I'm going to keep my hand as far away from the B button
as possible, because canceling evos is extremely bad in challenge mode
As Swift mentioned we're now fire fighting type
which can be relevant depending on what types are hitting into you
You can learn arm thrust but it sucks we're not gonna learn it because i just don't need
fighting type or like anything yeah we're going to teach um a move right away which is the team
that sharon gave us his workup um it's a setup movement gives you uh plus one stage in physical attack and special attack.
And it's gonna be...
Just kind of our carry for this fight, because we're going to use it three times in the fight
and then sweep everything.
Yeah, because of the
30 IV problem that I mentioned
Roxy's additional poke
which is a Grimer is extremely bulky
so for us to one-shot it we have to be both plus 3
and emblazed to
one-shot it. and one-shotting everything here is very crucial
um because i have to go all the way down to blaze um roxy can just crit me in any of these
three turns that i'm standingming work up here, so hopefully
that doesn't happen.
Why would you say that?
Well...
You'd just like to add to the death counter!
Yeah yeah yeah.
It's more money for charity.
What's gonna be higher by the end, The Phenomenon Counter or the Death Counter?
I sure hope it wouldn't be the death counter but...
Yeah so as long as you don't get carried here
it's pretty chill. Just this turn in particular.
I've got some clarity on the phenomenon spelling.
$25 from Lexological! How to spell Phenomenon?
F-I-NOM
NOM MINIMON
Very true.
They know what they're talking about
Wait, hold on this is too small yeah it's like a digimon name so basically in this place you kind of see like kind of the structure of how
most of the boss battles are going to work in this game, where you're
setting up on the first convenient one that you see and then you're sweeping through everything
else.
Maybe there's something that can give you a problem in the rest of the fight, but generally this is how it's gonna go.
So...the threat is usually what you set up on.
That was very not scary.
Yeah, yeah.
That was alright.
That was okay.
Considering how often I get crit and the last turn of setup there,
I'll take not having it happen here.
Did I do it right?
Phenomnom. Yeah!
Something that hasn't come up yet
that we haven't explained but probably should
explain it now is the way damage rolls work.
Did you want to talk about that?
Yeah so damage rules in this game
range from like 1-16 or because there are 16 damage rolls. It can be between 85% of your attack
to 100% of your attack. Basically think of it like rolling a 16 sided die
I like to compare it to D&D die because if you roll a die,
you do more damage the higher your roll is.
And you do less damage the lower roll
it is or you just miss out right at that one.
Yeah so whenever we say something is like a 4 out of 16 range that just means there's a 25% chance to knock it out in one hit.
That also means we usually don't simplify the fractions from like 4 out of 16 to 1 in
four, but we can sometimes do that.
It kind of just is random.
I'm sorry.
What's one out of 16?
6.25%.
All right so just remember that.
Write that down on the board and then you'll know if we ever see that.
What do you want me to write it down?
Right next to Phenom Nom.
But yeah, this is the part of the game that's awesome.
This part's really cool.
It's actually like a seven-minute donation block.
Yeah. It's awesome.
So we're going to watch a sick movie here
and then TTS is going to participate in a movie
and act in a movie on his own.
So while that happens, let's do some donations
oh i would love to we have 156 dollars from
tustin2121 time for some pokedex donations
here's one for quilava, my all-time favorite Pokémon.
Yes! I love Quilava.
Quilava's great. $196
from Army of Thalia.
Hey GDQ, special thanks to the awesome
sound and production crew who worked tirelessly behind the scenes
To make GDQ run so unbelievably smoothly
Here's $196 for the best Eeveelution
And my favorite Pokemon, Espeon
Best of luck to the runner Espeon. Best of luck to the runner.
Espeon's alright.
Oh!
I got some moves back there. You got it on your
pants and two. I know, I speedrun
a game where it's used. Hating on it! That's why.
So, I hope you all brought your popcorn because we're gonna be watching a major blockbuster hit here.
Yeah, be sure to add this to your letterbox after.
We have $11.12 from not a clone 11 and 12 cents for the combined dex numbers for my partner's favorite pokemon gallade and volcarona8.90 from Reanimator,
donating two of my favorite
Pokemon, Garchomp, in honor
of both the life-size Garchomp plush that I should
be getting any day, and Cynthia's Ace.
Let's get this Cynthia's fight in, shall we?
And we are at
$18,000
$18,528
excuse me, almost
halfway to that incentive.
And Blahaj meanwhile has retaken first place by over $200.
Fans of my cat you had your time in the sun do you want to take it back? You still your time in the sun. Do you want to take it back?
You've still got time.
We have $35.90 from Archduke of the High Bears!
359 for my favorite friendship-shaped Pokemon, Absol.
It's not GDQ without Pokemon so this donation goes towards the fight with Cynthia Incentive.
Let's get more Pokemon!
Alright Bryson man let's go.
Kind of a strange film I don't get the block here is there gonna be a sequel or something?
That was like a YouTube trailer will be yeah
We got slow credits. Unlucky.
Yeah, there's three different kind of credits that you can get.
You can get the text scrolling on the right.
You can get the text scrolling on the left or
you can get like the whole background to be grayed out with the text.
It's faster if you get the one that's grayed out, so it's like a
1 in 3 to happen.
We should explain why are we doing all this before we can leave the town? Why is
it required?
Oh, the lore! Where do I begin? So there's a sailor.
Yeah.
How does that song go?
No so Roxy's dad is kind of going through like a midlife crisis
and wants to become a movie star.
So we kind of get shoehorned into his attempts at becoming
a famous movie star.
And that was kind of his attempt,
and it kinda flopped actually.
I thought that was a great movie!
You're right, I'm sorry. It took some really creative directions, like speedrunning the movie.
I think that was less than a minute long movie.
Yeah.
There'll be a cult classic later anyways.
Yeah.
So the guy that's next to us, he's like a talent scout.
His name is Stu Dio.
That guy is Stu Dio right in front of us.
I feel like your donation puns.
There you go.
Yeah there's also like Sergio Pokemonski or something.
They got some really creative names in the credits to kind of fill the spot. Anyway, so this guy to our bottom left here is a talent scout that watched us beat Roxy and was really impressed.
So he drug us here to see what PokéStar Studios is all about,
and then now we kind of have to shoot our own movie.
So I'm kind of nervous.
I haven't been on like a film set before,
So I'm really hoping that I don't screw this movie up.
It's all the green screen you're fine.
You're right but like I'm just a terrible actor.
All right, let's see if...
What do you think this is?
The Riolu.
My favorite color is blue.
New Maine?
Blue and blue.
There is one.
Oh wait no!
Awwwwwww...
That counts as a death by the way.
Noooo!
So you can't actually freeze in that fight
with Ice Punch and it immediately ends it.
It is really funny. Yeah, I could hear a different ending
like what in tarnation? What just happened?
Isn't there something funny about this though sir uh yeah so if you don't have
a cell file present this save is only saving movie data so she's never saved before this point um the
safe doesn't actually save any data so yeah if you turn your game off and on,
it's just gone. It's awesome.
At least assuming you're in PB attempts. I'm not going to
prove it for science here.
I'm sure this happened to some 8-year-old
10 years ago.
While we're running out of here like eight year old, like 10 years ago. Probably. It'd be very sad
but while we're running
out of here
we're done now
finally it is over
and we can do
some more donations.
Absolutely
we just got $200
from
tell me if you
recognize this name.
Thomas Patrick WS.
So proud to see on the main stage and your crushing it!
$200 for all the Ogre Pond cards
we pulled during the Violet Run.
And what's that? A special message from Ogre Pond?
Thank you for saving me, Twitch chat!
My trainer and I have gone on so many adventures and battles in SGDQ
Hopefully you can save a legendary
Pokemon friend too, perhaps
Churum? Good luck TTS!
Thank you TPAT, love you.
We can't actually catch it.
We can save it. We can't actually catch it. You can save it!
How can we save it?
What I've learned from the violent run is that
Save can mean a lot of things
Yeah, because there's the thing
that prevents you from using Pokeballs in that fight
so sorry about that team pet.
Banger alert by the way this
is a new Team Plasma being Got Protect, that's awesome.
These are new team plasma grunts.
We're going to fight them a bunch in this game.
I was going to say it's less probably than Black and White 1 but it's probably not.
It's probably like the same amount of grunts.
I think it's way less.
Is it? Okay. There's one area that I'm thinking
of. Like the pyramid and stuff?
Yeah, Dragon Spiral Tower. Oh yeah
that's possible.
And they all suck and have like one Pokemon.
They also love to scream plasma, I don't...
They're just very patriotic about their evil doings, I guess?
This game is not as...
It seems like it's not much different time-wise
from Black and White 1 but
the annoying sections are cut down
it's more spread out balance type stuff
especially in speedrun.
I was gonna say that it's funny you say patriotic because it's July 4th. Also, this game is based on America
That's why they put us on this day
It's another spinner set up here
The spinner is not cooperating
Lynn is her name
Everybody hates Lynn So there's the dire hit you told me about that I learned like two days ago?
Yes, yes! There was a Dire Hit right there.
I didn't know about that one.
Alright we went to go look for this Team Plasma person and we're gonna fight them as well.
Just had Patrat. Patrat is one of the common team plasma grunts
pokemon there's a very annoying evolution of it that we'll fight later oh no this is a purline
yeah okay whatever this one had like sand attack and a couple other annoying Yeah, this is the per line. Okay, whatever.
This one has like sand attack and a couple other annoying moves
but because we're faster in rune plays
so it's not that bad.
Y'all, we have passed the 50% mark on that Fight Cynthia incentive.
That is $20,000 for charity!
And we're nowhere near halfway through this run. You guys are killing it up there.
Yeah, TTS was telling me before the run that if we near halfway through this run. You guys are killing it on the nations.
TTS was telling me before the run that if we get halfway through and we hit the Cynthia incentive,
he'll do the fight with a Purrloin instead.
What?
Definitely donate for that.
But he did say that.
He did.
Yeah, that's right now. I feel like I'm being gaslit on stage. But he did say that. He did, yeah!
Let me get my photoshop out real quick
and I'll get the proof out
Oh that's a double battle by the way. Did we mention
that? Oh yeah, I dumped Pidove
and Psyduck in the box after being
chained because that's otherwise a mandatory double
and because I only have Tepig in my party
it is no longer required because they can't fight me with one yeah very standard
thing like all the pokemon games so most people are probably aware of it but figure you should
mention in case you were not aware uh but now it's time, we're gonna go to New York City
in just a moment.
Yes, so you are running out of time
for the Jobar nickname incentives
So if you have been waiting to snipe a name
You're going to want to start thinking about it like right now yeah
five minutes we're going to be catching it my cat 200 behind five minutes i think we got a race on
our hands all right so why are we why are we catching Drillbearer?
Why is Tepig not good enough?
So it's not that
Tepig isn't bad
but there is a couple reasons
One of the big ones is entry animations, so Emboar is a very big Pokemon both in terms
of size and weight, and what that means is when you send them out into battle they basically basically cause like a like a shaking
like earth effect where a bunch of like clouds
like spurt up underneath them when they land uh that is actually really slow
so we would like to use a pokemon that avoids doing that uh and it just so happens that extra does not
have that problem it is light enough that it doesn't like shake the earth when it comes out
into battle um so that helps save a lot of time over the course of the run.
Also, Excalibur Drills gets a very cracked moveset
It's gonna learn both One Claws and Swords Dance throughout its natural level up
which makes it just really cracked for taking care of a lot
of fights because if our attack is not good enough usually a sword stance takes
care of it especially in the late game. So it's just really good
bond to use.
Yeah,
I think
most of
it is
probably
just like
one
Exudrill
is just
much better
as a
Pokemon
and
it's self-sustainable with
a better set of moves that we'll see later
and also the
matchups for Pignite if you were
to do the game with Emboar
you'd run into problems
with like Skyla, Marlin, Chantal.
Like these trainers are really hard for a pig night
where Exit Drill doesn't really have
two turtle of a time on anybody.
Honestly, it's just
such a broken Pokemon. It's so
good! This game is really hard, but
Exeggdrill actually makes it look manageable.
Also, there's a lot of triple and double
battles that we have to use so
Excrital gets some really cracked spread moves
that we can use to take out multiple pokes at once
without having to rely on our doubles partner
whoever it is. Yeah but its not used in Black and White 1 because
well we have access to Iron Head actually
in this game
It doesn't actually learn it by level up naturally
believe it or not
And yeah it doesn't get any skill type moves like in white one so yeah you also
get it like way too early to like even try the main drillbert because it's jilber's move set
early on is just really bad yeah dribbller is bad. You don't get digged for
like ever, you still like metal claw.
Yeah, you'll notice
earlier I went into a building
right after getting the bike to pick up the EXP share
it's really clutch that it's actually that easy to
pick up the xp shared in this game because
drillber on its own is not good enough to take care of the next gym leader
who's berg so even though we're going to get drover before burg um it's mainly
so that we can give it the EXP share to
help it out, get as much experience
as possible, to get to Exeggurill as fast as possible
while Pignite is still
the best thing to use, especially
versus Burg.
And then the Cacelia Sewers here to use especially versus bird it's in the stellia sewers here uh we're gonna be joined by our buddy hugh just to do one single double battle here uh you're going to get there's like other things
you can get you can't do that in this series if you didn't get your pd of earlier so there's like other things you can get. You can have Zubat in the sewers if you didn't
get your Pidove earlier, so there is a backup if you missed it for whatever reason.
But we're actually going to do this fight now. It's usually faster to die right?
Yeah, it's faster to die because if you die here, you don't get EXP
and then by the time you're done
using Pignite, it doesn't level
up and try to learn
Rollout. So that's actually a pretty decent chunk of
time. Yeah. It's kind of investing a little bit of time loss
to die in this fight
and watch Skraggy get Moxie
because Skraggy would be
the one that kills us
in order to not learn
rollout at the end of birds.
Dying is not so
incoherential
because you get
a free kill after this fight.
Yeah, and it's a true double so you don't wipe it off.
And he gets to die.
Okay that's chill. Totally fine.
Honestly you don't die that often in this fight.
Did I crit that?
That's the best fight. Yeah, that IS the this fight. Did I crit that? Yeah, you crit it so... Okay.
That's the best fight.
Yeah, that is the best fight.
What were you saying?
I was gonna say shoutouts to PitEv on that fight.
Alright TTS!
Uh yeah, uh I've seen some really wonky fights there where Q's duet hits self-confusion like half a dozen times.
Oh yeah!
And I'd say that Q has backups including a bit of...
If you want to see the clip you can go to tts's channel
uh yeah gen 5 jerry it's a lot of funny clips so definitely check it out.
It was really funny.
So TTS is going to set up the RNG unit for the Jailbird.
We can do like one donation really quickly?
Yes.
You've got it!
We got $200 from Austin!
$200 for my cat because a close race is a fun race.
And now it's a very close race.
And you can do one more.
We also have $33 from SyJay, so great to see White2 on the GDQ stage!
The Gen 5 games bring back so many good memories for me.
$33 for number 330 Flygon, good luck on the run tts let's hit
this india battle thank you side jay um see we're gonna need to drill her name in like 45 seconds
or a minute something like that last call last you got hurry right now get that donation in asap
uh do you want to explain what we're about to see here yeah so basically
um we're gonna try to spawn on the drill bit is not a normal encounter it's actually
a dust cloud encounter which is a type of phenomenon i'm going to owe five dollars
man we should have thought about that more take the category i should have thought about that more.
I should have thought about that a little more.
Maybe. I don't know. But yeah, basically
it's stemming from Manip
and
Dusk Clouds are kind of spawned in based on your step count since loading in
And so sort of stats to drill group. They're kind of manipulated on the frame that
you encounter.
So what's going on right now is we're weakening the drillbert with a flame charge,
it makes the catch rate go from like 33% to 50%,
and he actually got a fairy swipes dodge so if you can catch it nice all right
yeah and he goes to heal us after this tip really nice
do i count do i count the dust cloud phenomenon and encounter separately?
Probably make it easy. So what's that nickname for us?
With a last second snipe, it is my cat.
Okay so what's your cats name?
Well its seashell but that's not what they donated for unfortunately.
I think its all lowercase MySpace space cat. That is exactly right.
M, Y...
M-Y space C-A
T... Exclamation point.
Just like that? Yeah, just like that.
All right.
Awesome.
Thank you all so much for donating to us.
Especially my cat!
Our favorite feline friend drill bird.
Do you want to tell us about the drillber?
Yeah, so this drillber is meant
to be perfect in just about every way
possible. So it's level 19 which
is the highest level that we can get in that area
It's also specifically to be a female because there are a couple of attract
users that we're gonna have to deal with, um there's basically two-there are two female attract users and
one male attract user that we have to put up with um and because the male
one happens first and the other two female ones are a lot worse to deal with. We specifically
made it for female, it also has the ability sand, which boosts its ground type moves in a sandstorm.
But it's only specific for like... or it's only relevant to one very specific fight and
it's not like a revolutionary reason why we have it.
It also has an Adamant nature, which is plus attack
minus special attack because we don't really use
any special attacks at all. We're going to be basically
all physical. And it's also got perfect IVs
and everything except special attack because
we don't use special attack at all as I just said so yeah entering a
Berg gym now. Berg is the bug type guy type guy and as per usual this gym sucks uh actually the gym trainers
are like pretty chill in this gym the problem is really bird also kills a lot of runs yeah
this is another one we're kind of getting into like the mid game here in the mid game is probably the most we set heavy part of it mainly because first off you just had a driller catch which was pretty hard as we mentioned earlier it's like a 50% chance to catch at about half health,
like I had there.
Another problem is that Berg has quite a bit of a team shakeup actually.
So normally gym leaders get just a simple addition to their team in challenge mode, but Berg actually gets another member of his team swapped.
So normal mode he usually has a Swad, Loon, Dwebble and Livanni. But this time in challenge mode he actually gets a
Carablast and ditches Swadloon for Shelmet so he's gonna have team four
He's going to actually lead Dwe, which is like worst case for us because
Dwebble has the move Rock Blast, which is a multi-hit move.
So basically that means it can hit randomly from two to five times.
Each hit has a chance to crit me.
You can already see
where this is going
and each one does
10 damage
with a 1 in 16
chance to do 12
so you basically
pretty easily divide
my health by 10
to kind of see how many hits I can take before
um, I die to rock blasts. It is very common
to get 2 and 3 they're both split at 37.5% each for
75% to do either two or three hits.
It's most common for a 3 and 4, isn't it?
No, 3 and 4 are both 12 1⁄2 of the last 25%.
So you'll most commonly see 2 and 3
and 3 and 4 are the more...
Or sorry, you'll see most commonly 2 and 3 and three and four are the more or sorry you'll see most commonly
two and three and then four and five of them are rare ones.
Yeah so basically uh Pignite has 75 HP
and uh you can take seven hits so we're kind of relying on those lower rolls uh for our
blast yeah for safety i am gonna equip my last ornberry that I have because it'll give me 85.
So that just makes it very consistent to get past Brayden.
And we will save again.
Yes! Because if we die here, we do wipe all the way back to Aspersia and that's a long haulback
and we don't want to
do that yeah the double also sturdy too right yes the double is 30 so what we're going to
do is we're gonna work up and then use flame charge and then use two embers to finish it off.
Yes.
Flame charge gives us that speed bump at least.
Yeah.
Yeah. If we get to Blaze on the turn that we use our first Ember,
we can basically one-shot it with Blaze.
The thing is that Dwebble has the move Rock Polish and
AI likes to use
speed raising or lowering moves
to try
to get the edge on you so we basically get a free turn of setup
because it's going to use Rock Polish Turn 1
and then that'll give us our ability
to use Work Up
because we need that
to boost our attack attack a little bit more. We're also going to make sure that we use two Flame Charges before Livanni comes out.
Livanni comes up third, and we want to be faster than it
because its got some really punishing moves
including Grass Whistle which can put us to sleep
and we don't really have any healing items
to cure being asleep
so if you get put to sleep
in a case like that, it's just
not good.
But we basically just skip all of that by going to plus 2 speed before Leagani comes out.
Even with the double lead and stuff,
you might think maybe you should have used Drillburn instead.
No, Drillbur gets absolutely destroyed in this fight.
It's really bad.
Drillbur has no shot in this gym even if it is as cracked as it is.
Yeah. Its time will come soon.
Yes.
So there's the rock polish. Here we go.
Not too bad.
I still have my berrys
So i'm pretty much going to only die
To a 5 hit and crit.
Oh, that's fine.
This is kind of awkward so I'm just going to
super this.
You wanted
Gendar Blaze there
but...
Yeah, also
just being at 31
is a little awkward
because I'm like
75% to win which Okay, I would've
died there if I didn't heal so...
And now we
play the waiting game. Yeah, it's really kind of awkward
with the rolls here. The thing is
if he attacked without Blaze right now then it would put Double under 25% and then Bird would just heal.
That's another one for the death counter!
That was a 12-and-a half to live there so that was very unlucky.
Those are just the games you have to play against berg it is uh very annoying very awesome and it's not even the
worst gym leader no can i stop in the blow with a quick donation?
Of course.
We've got $15 from Stu Dio.
Stu Dio here, and wow!
I'm seeing a lot of good talent out there.
Looking for some new stars to help me bring the time
on my next movie down to 16.xx
seconds.
You can keep going, this
is gonna be the same thing that we just saw.
Great! We've got $28 from LavableMan, 28 for TheBestLittleGuySandslash.
Shoutouts to Swiftaloo and Ecchi. Two of the best Shrek 2 players
I've ever seen.
Just don't let ecchi do the Hero Time.
No, that's Sparkle!
That is Sparkle!
Anyways... So more shenanigans here.
We are in Blaze but we gotta kill this because we hold out.
This isn't a much better
situation than the last one. Yeah, Rock Polish does
boost the speed by two stages here so it's
just gonna not speed us every time here uh not what you can do
about it it's not worth boosting more so okay dodge is cool all right the dodge is nice
and a two hit that That's gonna be heal.
Yeah, that's too much.
How does the heal range? It's 25% or lower.
I think Blaze will kill from here.
Let's go! The boss monster has been defeated and the rest of the fight is easy yeah
yeah the shell that's actually cool because it just dies also dies
and they have the levani as long as you didn't lose all your buffs for some reason
You will just one shot it. It's not a big deal
Yeah level up even keep in blaze so totally fine
Alright go ahead with a couple more donations
I would love to Alright, go ahead with a couple more donations. more optional for the memes and prolonging Pokemon stage time by fighting Cynthia. And we are over $23,000 on our way to that
40k goal! Let's keep it rolling...
We've got $44.20 from Aceret and Slayer who say,
It's been over a decade since the COD zombie days!
It's amazing that we have all finally been able to meet in person
but be careful as Ace might ambush you with his harmonica
here's 2210 from each of us and on your five x world records good luck with the run
we hope have us reunited for future gdqs
of course of course thank you guys Yeah, so you're a Pokemon
speedrunner right now but that wasn't
your origin story, right? Yes, it
wasn't. I played Call of Duty Zombies
High Rounds for a very long time.
How many world records did you get in that?
One, in 2019.
I held the highest round on the Zombies map 5
and Blockups 1 for about nine-ish
months in 2018 or 2019-ishh somewhere in there the timeline gets fuzzy and
how did those skills prepare you for your pokemon speed running journey uh patience
that is a very important that is actually the most important skill in Pokemon speedrunning.
So that makes a lot of sense but now we're leaving Castelia City this strange blonde man
Is approaching us his name is Question Mark question mark question just wants to look at
her pokemon it's kind of weird he's kind of mumbling some weird stuff you see easily a
little bit weirdo his name's colores a yapper. We're gonna fight him
in two seconds, so teach him a lesson.
Wait, it's been two seconds and we haven't fought him.
I'm sorry.
Speed around the math. The time doesn't work out.
One minute is like two seconds to a guy like me, so...
Oh, seriously?
You can get candies from this clown here if you talk to all of the clowns
which we actually do in Any% but we don't do it here because
we got these sports anyway and it's also really slow to
get it and like obviously like extra level cool extra experience cool uh but the level doesn't
like make any real big difference for us.
We're still gonna hit specific level thresholds and move
thresholds, and evolution thresholds at the right times anyway so
it doesn't really matter. I worked on a safe
route of challenge mode to make next gym leader not awful and it literally
involves like four minutes of time loss because you have so many extra fights just to get like
rock slide for the next gym battle which is awful so yeah. This is like the most...
You kind of just have to take
a big risk on this run
which makes it cool but also
awful. Yeah so
this is the only fight where we take care of Sandforce like I said.
We're just going to be using Mudslap which is a special attack move but it's just because
it's the best for Magnemite.
There's no point in using Dig here cause it does have Sturdy and Khorus will have
a super potion to
like heal it so it's just best for us to like double mud slap and with um the just a little bit
of special attack ivs that we have um and the uh boost from san force this uh just kind of guaranteed two shots so
you notice a couple more donations fantastic we have 272 dollars Fantastic. We have $272 from DS and Jaycopter who says,
Here's $260 plus $12 for my wife's and my favorite Pokemon Swampert and Butterfree. Let's get to 1 million
today!
I know that seems... Yeah,
that's right! We can get there.
We are creeping up on that
750k, and today is stacked so I believe in us.
Yeah TTS was also saying if we get a million during this run he will fight Cynthia with only mudslaps.
I also heard that yeah with two hands
tied behind my back yep
yep so in that fight uh you might have
noticed that we hit level 22 and we
learned home claws home clause is a setup move and it boosts that we hit level 22 and we learned Home Claws.
Home Claw is a setup move,
and it boosts attack and accuracy by one stage.
So both of those are useful
and we love to not rely on X items
that don't exist.
Banger alert. So this is joint avenue uh it's not relevant
and speeder we have to go through it i like it i'd like so like i never played gen 5 as a kid
so i missed something like all the multiplayer feature stuff.
What is actually Join Avenue?
So Join Avenue... it's kind of like a cooperative thing.
Yeah yeah yeah.
It's semi-cooperative but there are also a bunch of NPCs.
Can we play it now if I had a ds you could do some stuff with
the online only yeah you can you can like work on it as solo apparently you can get like master balls
or something you can't it's from the lottery um it's basically the equivalent of like
festival plaza from gen 7 if people remember that one yeah they're basically like cotton paste it
into gen7 interesting it just has a better song too, so that's cool.
Yeah. You can also change the floor.
Really? To what?
Yeah. So it's different patterns. I guess it's the ceiling actually but it's reflective
But it's really cool like mine has purple stars I think
And it's time we're in the embossed oh man we're in the gym for anyone who
knows they're gonna get really excited about
what's about to come up but But for those who don't,
it's just roller coasters. That's it.
There's no other pain. There's no misery.
I'm not going to be crying for the next 10 minutes.
I'm not going to press Y.
So yeah, this is... i'm not gonna press why
um so yeah this is the nimbasa gym we're going to fight some trainers do some stuff maybe read some donations read some
donations while you're doing this. I'd love to!
We've got $35.80 from Doodlebee, who says can you get Pokédex shoutouts for favorite
underrated Pokémon?
I have a huge soft spot for Chimicho especially after the side quest in RCS Legends
where you help rehome one.
What Mons do The Couch and The Runner think deserve more love?
Excadrill gets enough love.
I gotta think about this one.
Like an under-raid Pokémon?
This guy, Garbodor!
I love Garbodor.
Honestly unironically cool guy.
The GMAX form of it is super cute uh actually trubbish is probably better though but like
people like troubles fuel i hate trouble as much but garbodor definitely deserves some more esper
espr i love espur It is a very...
I love Esper space, it's so funny.
Yes.
Do you want to explain what you just did by the way, CTS with the funny movement?
Yeah, there was little bit of shenanigans that we can do
with these coasters
to make the cycles a little better.
Don't ask me exactly how it works,
we just kind of messed around
a little bit with hitting the buttons at certain times
and it just kinda works.
We used to actually flash the menu before that coaster
that one guy just came out of in order
to kind of help reset the cycles a little bit.
But Minnow actually found a newer setup
that saves a little bit of time,
because we don't have to flash the menu anymore.
Cool. So, Swift uh Swift what is Static? Oh yeah I love static! So
Static is an ability on some of the electric-type Pokemon
We're going gonna be fighting.
It's a 30% chance to paralyze you!
Now, normally Drill Bird cannot be paralyzed by stuff like Thunder Wave
because it is a ground type and immune to electric types
but that doesn't mean
its immune to being paralyzed.
And paralysis just sucks!
You are 25% to not be able to act during your turn, and your speed is significantly lowered
I don't remember by how much in
this quarter it's quartered okay that's so bad
it is really bad um i always thought it was half until uh
then i learned that there was a change that it was like changed to happen i'm
like oh i guess it wasn't always
half. The issue
is compounded with paralysis because
our primary move is going to be dig
because it's super effective and that's a two-hit
move so we basically have to go through
two paralysis checks to make sure that we can actually land the attack yeah so
as soon as they get paralyzed i'm basically going to heal it immediately
because it's just not never you're gonna heal immediately and then
immediately trigger static again.
Yep, yep.
That's everything...basically everything you're going to come in contact with
in this gym is going to have static.
Like every trainer has like a static thing pretty much.
Yeah, with the exception of Blitzel and Zubstrike
everything else has static.
Yeah so that'll be like Flappy, Elekid, Emolga...
That all have static.
It's awesome!
And for reference you can just not get paralyzed by it
but you have to use a move that doesn't make contact
and all of Drover move that doesn't make contact, and all of Drillbur's moves currently
ALL MAKE CONTACT! Maybe that's why
he went 4 minutes out of your way for Rock Slide.
Yeah yeah yeah, Rock Slide does not make contact
and also obliterates Emolga
which is awesome. However getting to level 29 is really
hard. Something we haven't mentioned in this game too is
this is the gen where they changed the EXP scaling
stuff. So it's
much harder to just grind your way to
a level because you don't get the same amount of experience no
matter what.
It changes based on your current level so if you're lower-level you'll get more
experience from stuff and higher levels will get less because it's kind of balanced
out in a way I think mostly to help you catch up
if you're low-level Pokemon or something.
But that just makes it really hard
to do things that you could do
with other Pokemon's figurines, so...
That was the fake gym.
We're now in the real gym
and this is where things get real.
Yeah, so there's going to be one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight static chances throughout the remainder of this gym. so feel free to place your bets in chat at 30
the average is i think around two-ish maybe slightly higher than two yeah that thing is
between two and three yeah so place your bets in the chat right now or donations.
Spam numbers in chat actually.
Or you could just be cool
and get no static like yesterday in practice.
That was interesting.
This is a split that's such a big, like, variance split in the run.
You can save so much time here or you just, like, barely win the fights
but still your run's dead because you just lost so much time to the statics.
Like it is such a wide range of events that can
happen in this and already get into static.
Can we get a WU?
I'll donate $10 for every static. That will make it better.
Oh my goodness!
So yeah, immediately let the heal hit and this thing can also
Static us but fortunately isn't really a threat
We actually can slash it too
The next one we slashed yeah so
the ella kids actually don't have a attacking move that's not um electric
so they actually can only sit there and spam light screen which is really nice
so we can never have to take damage from them
yeah that's why it swapped out.
It can sometimes swap out if it just has nothing
to do with... Yeah, the AI is smart enough
to realize I can't do anything with this, so I'm gonna
pivot to something else. Yeah, oddly enough
that's one of the only good AI quirks for some of these worse trainers in terms of the AI ranking.
That Flaaffy was also at 11 and 16 so that was nice to get that range yeah we can do a couple of
donations while we're getting statics here sure thing we've got 74.30 from orabot
here's to rubambbee, the cutest Pokemon
ever and also to Unlocking the Cynthia
fights.
We've got
$250
from Anonymous. No comment. Thank you so much. We've got $250 from anonymous.
No comment, thank you so much!
$10 from Jesse Aylin.
Cynthia's theme is the biggest bop. Let's go!
So we haven't talked about it yet, but
probably because it is coming up really quick
so Alisa is by far
the worst gym leader in Challenge Mode
She is going to lead her
Emolga and in challenge mode her Emolga gets a slightly altered moveset
In Normal mode it usually just clicks Pursuit
And Quick Attack against you because
It can't use its signature move Volt Switch at all
In challenge mode it gets Aerial Ace
Which deals a buttload of damage to us.
So this is where our X-Defend is going to come into play
because we need to bulk ourselves up
to be able to tank Aerial Ace
a little bit better
because otherwise it
does like over half of
each one and it's just
not a good time.
On top of that, after
we take care of Emolga
Joltik is Elisa's new Pokemon and Joltik is Alisa's new Pokemon.
And Joltik is really,
really bad because it has
Energy Ball which does like 75% of our
total HP and we're never going to have the opportunity
to be full because Emolga is just always faster
and you can't use our XP here.
So if I get paralyzed by Emolga on the turn
that I take it out,
I am absolutely screwed
and have to basically die in Revive
And hope that I can set up in some way to win the fight again
It's just not a good time
Woo! again it's just not a good time with all the statics i've gotten already surely it's not going to happen on elisa yeah sure we're at three so far
so we're already ready over so we're already slightly up.
I got you.
You learned Slash
there, right?
Yes.
We learned Slash
to slash that Elekid.
In normal mode
we'd dig it,
but...
We need the PP
for...
Yeah,
we need the PP
for Joltik since the extra poke here.
So because I got an unfortunate static,
I'm a little lower health than I'd normally be.
So I'm going to
super potion up here
and I'm going to hero heal
to get rid of that... Yeah there's like so
little things you can do to make this fight better.
There is a Cherry Berry we have to go the route west of this town and find an optional trainer
to get the Cherry Berry.
There's also one in the east too.
Oh yeah? Yeah, there's one on the last one for us which one to the east too. Oh yeah?
Yeah, there is one in like Lhasa and Forest which is to the west
And then there is one on Route 5 to the East
Everything is super slow
Just don't get unlucky right?
Yeah exactly
Everything is a significant enough detour where your only option is just get lucky yeah and
i will say uh tcs only said like half the bad things about this
there's more that can happen and we'll see yeah mocha's not
the only bad one yeah but it is this lead here this
this this gym leader they way they tweaked in travel just like so built to destroy
you trying to choose a side of like a ground type or something like
gold takes what the grass move. It's disgusting.
Yeah.
Super fast and super dangerous.
So like mentioned, going to start off with the X defend here
to get some more favorable rolls.
Again, crits just go through that so hopefully
that doesn't happen.
And then we're gonna start start Hone Clausing.
Get the attack and accuracy boost. Pass
the heal now.
If I had an Ornberry,
right? Yeah.
If I had an Ornberry, I could go just above aerial ace because i could bait quick attack
um on the heel turns and that would be really nice but i kind of just have to wait for the rolls to
happen in my gear between like 12 and 30 hp you want to heal so that
a aerial ace will bait out a Quick Attack.
The AI in this game prefers priority moves,
So if it sees a kill with a priority move every time
then it'll use that priority move
Using Quick Attack is pretty good because
it's much weaker. Yeah, so if it crits you're like
oh it's fine I don't die.
Heal get, Crit attack guaranteed right here.
We see it right here, gonna heal full
Hopefully he just 1 doesn't get crit and then two
doesn't get static done that's it that should be all the home calls right
here we go
all right that's only half the battle.
The worst Pokémon is still coming.
So now we're able to kill this one without Paralyze and not get Energy Balls.
No fear whatsoever, just gonna dig it.
Okay... crit? Dude! Epic crit.
Flurry coming out now.
That's basically the only issue with this thing is
you can cause static on the next Pokemon if
you really don't want.
If you had gotten stacked by Emolga then
you would have to set it up on Fluffy which has
Takedown and it would do like 35
which is half your HP all right here's
that strike of a nightmare Pokemon this thing is strong yeah it's faster than
you in the stomp so it can flinch you 30% yes there's a clip of me where I take
like 15 turns on those fight and then I die at the end to a crit
because it just keeps flinching me every turn, and I have to keep healing.
One turn! One turn to go through.
You have to heal here, this is a nightmare scenario.
At least we get to listen to the good Jim theme.
Alright. I love flinching through 30 by the way
yeah this is a thirty percent this game is affectionately referred to as
the french game because there's so many opportunities where either you're trying to get a flinch or someone is trying to flinch you.
So it's just a war of attrition in that regard, but we are four badges down! We're halfway there.
Alright, we're almost done with the awful stuff.
There's still...
The next fight's like fine
and then after that
there's one really bad fight
I hate that fight so much.
I think this whole split is
This upcoming split is bad.
It's just a con but I don't like it.
Yeah, this whole section between the start of fighting Berg and the end
of Clay's gym is just densely packed with crap.
There are two really bad fights, and then it's mostly just weight with just crap. It's just like,
there's two really bad fights and then it's mostly
just waste to lose time
beyond that.
Yeah, once you're past Clay
it's a lot smoother sailing
but there's just
a couple of very
fights here or there
that are not likely to go
terribly bad but they can so you still kind of have to be aware though is the watchdog
the first fight here yeah it's the second oh yeah yeah there's a pushover trainer.
Alright so we can do a victory donation here.
Sure thing in honor of that electric gym we've got some love for
Electric type Pokemon $59.50 from
Kieran donating to the littlest of little guys joltik yeah
i've also got 26 dollars from yonki have we started the pokemon number tradition yet
either way here's 26 for my best buddy Raichu.
Love you all and here's to doing games done quick
for Doctors Without Borders!
Alright so this rubbish is a joke
where I'll just use dig and one shot it
but the one that comes out on the next plasma fight is actually really bad
the watch hog and hold with me here has an absurd move set
it's so funny so it has super fang which cuts your current HP in half.
Uh... it has Hypnosis,
which is 60% chance to put you to sleep.
And its third move is Confuse Ray
which is guaranteed to confuse you
and then if you're confused
it's 50-50 to give yourself a confusion. So there is just a smorgasbord of ways
that you can get absolutely owned by
that thing. The most,
the worst scenario is hitting yourself with
confusion and dying because
then you have to stand up like Pitidove or Psyduck and
Dribble absolutely needs the experience. So if we, like,
have to do that, like, well revive thing, we kind of have
to wait for like Pidove to die or something. And the problem
with that is because Super Fang only cuts your
current HP in half, the only way for it to faint is for it to hit itself
confusion and then then half the time
it could just be asleep.
So you're just sitting there
waiting for it to wake up
to hit itself to die
unless you're 1 HP
than Super Fang.
Yeah.
So we're going to dig it
in the ideal fight
is just against Super Fang
or Hypnosis Miss.
Whoever came up with this at Game Freak,
kudos, it's hilarious.
I mean, it IS funny because
the Watchdog can't actually kill you on its own.
Yeah, it's so silly but that was okay enough, totally fine.
Unless you're at 1 and super fangits...
That's the only way it can kill you.
So if that was more than acceptable for
a watch on the plate. The green is always
super fang as you come out of dig, but
if you're on cult pace, you can always
rock slide it and go for the flinch
and then use dig to finish it off.
Because you get the 30%.
But you also introduce
the risk of missing
because rock slide is 90% accurate
And unfortunately
Rock Slide is a move we're going
carry through the rest of the game
cause its just really good
especially in
uh double situations but the problem with that is it's only 90 accurate and every time
we need to use it it's usually really bad if we miss it all right before
we can get into the next really scary fight,
we have a little detour here.
As long as you use Fly which we're not going to be able
to use for a bit but...
Actually, you could use it right away.
Okay well, we are not going to use it.
Well, we are not going to use it
but yeah in Gen 5 you can use HMs
as soon as you get them.
Yeah, but we're gonna learn about hidden grottos which is
not really gonna be relevant for this category.
Not relevant for this category,
but for a normal mode that you can manipulate a hidden grotto at the beginning of the game to contain
a rare candy after Drift Veil City.
And that actually helps you just early on skipping using Drillbert in the Berg fight.
So it actually becomes a lot more similar to the Challenger fight where
you just use Pig Knight.
It also skips the whole like running around
talking with clowns thing because
80% does go run around and and talking to the clowns thing, because any percent does go run
around and talk to all the clowns
because it's worth it to get that candy.
Yeah, but not this category.
It's just in this category, it's just not worth it.
That went over your head that's fine so goodbye
to the cinchino there gonna knock touch it and then we're gonna go fight charles which is what
you were talking about earlier right yes it was this is a fan favorite of so many runners and it is also
a very big run killer. Yeah I know we just went through like 17 run killers but this
one's another one. So yeah it's a big run killer at least in any percent.
He has an Arcan Sigilyph and Teotuga
And Arcan is not really that big of a deal you usually one shot it
The sigilph is honestly
one of the most scary things you could have because it could just confuse you and hit
you so much.
And you could miss it too if you get to rock slide there.
Yeah, you could just crit with Air Putter.
The tier 2 bit doesn't seem to be always the smartest from what I've seen.
Yeah, this is a triple battle.
We did just learn Rock Slide which is a spread move which is cool.
The positioning here is very precise for a reason.
It's so true you can't just kill
our Drillbert early on here
because of the Alkogen move. You basically want to
KO these two and then deal with that. Perfect, yeah. You want to KO these two and then deal with the Chieftuga after.
Totally fine.
And ideally Sigilyph doesn't side beam confuse you
why didn't she say anything we were so close to being in the clear
why would you say that so i mean like 10 confused yeah so tris can't attack
here just has to keep wide guarding because we're too far apart basically please hit through oh okay
okay still confused i, still confused.
I'm still confused which is a problem.
You can't snap out next turn.
I could!
Keyword is could.
We're gonna see the auto center here
So now you're healing Salt 2 because I moved from slot 1 to slot 2.
I have killed so many runs to
healing the wrong Pokemon, it eats your turn
when you do that in this game.
It's a little scary.
Also my guard just pulled. Yes!
Okay.
Totally fine. That was a
unique Charles fight.
I was not worried.
That's a new one on the list of unique Charles fights
that I've ever had, so...
Isn't this game so fun?
It's wonderful!
New and unique situations.
I told you guys this was a challenging mode.
What's our death counter at?
Like three already?
We got...
We got three, yeah.
Three, okay.
Well, four plus the theater one too.
Oh!
That was a phenomenon.
On this bridge you can get little shadows
they can be...
I don't know what they could be on here. It could be like a ducklet right?
It's just ducklets.
Ducklet or item.
Right.
Feathers.
You're lucky I caught that we all would have missed it.
Feather is significant for the six-throwing hangman.
So we are reviving everybody here why are we reviving
everybody um so it's for safety we're also gonna just need them in general for the next spike
we are going to have to do a manual swap at some point.
So just taking care of them now helps us have
safety for the next really bad fight.
I know you're probably sick of hearing this is a really
bad fight, but... Yeah,
that's a run.
So what's coming Yeah, I mean that's a run. Yeah, it's kind of a run.
So what's coming up next is Rude.
Rude has her deer that hits like a truck because of the level boost
but we're kind of about the same level
that we would be in normal mode actually, so we're kind of at a
more unfair advantage and challenge mode here
compared to normal mode.
So we're just kind of dealing with
trying not to get
absolutely honed. The other problem too is that the Swoobat
Rude sends up next, is the attract user we have to deal with as a female Drilbur
so we can just get stun locked by Love.
It's 50-50 if you hit your Love.
Attract is I believe 100% accurate right?
Yes.
Yeah.
It also has Air Cutter which is a high crit move.
It has Imprisoned which is nice because it basically does nothing.
But the problem on top of all that
is that Swoop has a 10 and 16 range
that we cannot improve because
it has the ability Unaware, which ignores any stat
changes. So even though we got hit with Intimidate,
we're not going to bother to use Home Clause
to get rid of it.
That was a great flinch by the way
because any damage from Courier
just makes Swoob bag that much sketchier
so what you're saying is rude is rude that's right rude is smooth i'm gonna be rude and
jump in real quick to tell you that we've passed $26,000 on the Fight Cynthia incentive.
And like I said, I know it feels like a long run but make sure let's keep that momentum going
Let's get 40k for charity yes please help us out
all right so that was an interesting swabat but i didn't get severely punished anyway
so we take those and now we're finally in extraadrille so i think things will level up a little bit but
not quite yet yeah we're steel type along with ground type now uh which is very relevant because
we're out to learn a steel move we're gonna be getting Iron Head with the red shards we picked up
in the Poblon Center, way back in Mbasa
Iron Head as Swiff kind of mentioned
it's an 80 power move. You can also
flinch. Very strong, very useful
for a lot of things in the run.
It's also important to note that Steel-type is one of the best offensive types
In pretty much the entire series but especially this game before it was nerfed literally the next gen after
Yeah because of uh...
The next game dark yeah um because it started or it lost
uh its resistance to dark and ghost that's what it is right So it still resists 12 out of 17 types in this game.
It's really good.
It does make fighting type moves scary but there are not that many to deal with on the
run.
We can get a free 0 here but we're going to say no because we don't need it.
It doesn't do anything for us.
And then we are going to go learn Iron Head and enter Clay's Gym so we can do some donations now.
You got it! We've got a $925 donation for Mousehold family of three.
Kokex donation for 925 Mousehold we've been watching for 10 years and this is the first GDQ we could share with our new baby.
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I like the four.
We have $282 from Ryan
Here's 282 for my favorite Pokemon, Gardevoir.
Let's see that Cynthia fight. How much
harder is the special boss in challenge mode?
Um, it actually doesn't change
too much. It does get a level up. You're supposed to say it's really
hard. Oh, I'm sorry uh it's very very
difficult yeah i'm very lucky to like survive it it's and you're leaving the mud flap on it too
yeah Yeah, I'm Per- I don't know how Perlo is gonna do that!
Mudslap's slightly illegal but it's fine.
It's actually assisting mudslam.
Pretty sure this strategy does not work with a Zootopia, right?
Anyway.
We'll assist Gravity as well.
Struggle!
If we're desperate, yes.
Alright so we are getting into Clay's gym here.
Clay is another one that's kind of interesting.
So as we mentioned a little bit earlier, I believe,
AI, if it can, will try to get the edge on you in regards
of speed by either trying to drop your speed
or raise its speed as much as it can until it's faster.
So Clay's signature move is Bulldoze
so everyone on Clay's team
is basically just gonna to spam it and
that's really bad for us because ground is super effective to us and
it's basically gonna do over half uh from most of clay's books which is
really bad so the ideal plan here is to
do a quick swap
in and out of Excadrill against
Clay's lead, which is a Crocoroc
because it has Intimidate. So we'll do that
to get our attack back because using a Horn Claws
is just not feasible,
because we'll just take a Bulldoze and our speed will get dropped
so it's not ideal to do that.
So we can one-shot at plus zero
so that's what we'll do to take out Krakarok, but then we'll be setting up on Onix
comes out next so we're sitting up on Onix because Clay will send out a Sandslash next.
And for Sandslash to be as simple as possible,
we have to be at the plus 3 attack
which means we have to use three Home Claws
If we don't and we only get plus 2
it's 9 in 16 range and if we only get plus 2, it's a 9 in 16 range.
And if we only get to plus 1, it's bad.
So Onyx has both Rock Polish and Bulldoze so we're praying for Rock Polish
because once it raises its speed
It will no longer consider Bulldoze to drop our speed.
And then we'll default to using Rock Slide
which isn't a big deal
cause Rock Slide does like nothing to us
but because it's faster
we do have the deal with the flinch chance
I should've saved for this. It's fine.
But on top of that
the problem is
that Onix is basically
a ticking time bomb because its last move is explosion.
So it can just blow up at any moment, so we're trying to set up the plus 3 as quickly
as possible before it blows up. Yeah that's basically the strategy
Just try and set up on the Onix.
Hopefully it explodes and you're ready to start attacking.
And no suitor!
You pretty much don't expect explosion until we hit it because that's kind of how the air works.
Like you don't,
it doesn't explode at full HP.
All right.
So we're going to see that one shot with the iron head right now.
Rock rock going down.
No problem again.
The extra drill just gets such a big buff from evolving that you
can stop one shot things like this and you have really strong moves here comes the onyx
i'm gonna set up on it enough for the best nice okay that cuts out bulldoze. That's nice.
Two is to release up the range.
So that's actually perfect because we get the plus three now.
If I got flinched that turn
and then it blew up, we'd be going for the Ranger
and that's just awful. So that's actually
like a perfect clay fight right there
Yeah, that's a great rare explosion
That's like... yeah That's perfect. Yeah, that's very top worthy because
that's huge luck on our side. I feel like the only way that can get better is
you're at plus two and your forced to go for the range on CSLash
and then you actually get it right this, right. This is perfectly fine.
I was never worried.
Didn't even need to save.
You knew all this
was going to happen
before it happened.
Exactly.
Very nice, very nice.
So yeah, getting more levels here and getting really strong pretty fast
And then we're off to the Pokemon World Tournament
That'll be so fun to read donations for
We have a couple victory ones on our way there now to read their nation score. Oh, yeah.
We'll get a couple victory ones on our way there now.
Sure thing.
We just saw them.
It's $28 from Armadillo64 for my favorite Pokemon,
Sandslash the OG Exadrill.
Can you dig it?
We also have $39 from Remi Jets donating $39
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I'm gonna try to do this.
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I love it.
Banger.
And $25 from Lori D. Bunnykins,
somewhat late contribution of my $5 per unintended death
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If that's your hot take...
Gen foreheads stand up, now is your time.
Everyone who's annoying about HeartGold SoulSilver please we need you.
Yeah, she hates it. We need you. It achieves it.
We need you, Tucker.
So going into the Pokemon World Tournament they even abbreviate
it here. Isn't that fun?
Yeah. So this is a facility
that really shines in the post-game.
We're kind of forced to go here as
part of the story. This area used
to be cold storage and black white, but they bulldozed it over
And turned into a PWT for more tourism.
Capitalism, you know?
Yeah right! Capitalism at its finest
The whole gimmick here is that you enter into eight person
bracket of tournaments and try to go to the top.
And when obviously we don't actually get any XP while
we're participating in this facility,
we're doing a very specific cup known as the drift veil cups that's the one that's required for us to beat the uh i'd like to continue the story
but later on you do get access to fight all the gym leaders of the previous
generations here as well.
As well as the champions
once you've kind of cleared all the gym
leaders enough times. There's a whole
process there before. There's a run that's done, it's like 10 hours long.
It's very impressive to watch because there's a lot of decision making
that goes into the battling.
It's a very fun category if you're super nerdy in the battling and stuff.
Yeah, it's just a cool piece of post-game content too
in particular but mid run
it sucks. You're not getting experience
from doing all these fights
so we have made it past
like the worst of the run generally in terms of like the reset points a lot
of the hardest fights are over yeah but it is still very easy to lose time do not worry
yeah there are a couple of fights yet that can still give us quite the headache.
But TWT here is not too big of a deal. In normal mode, Duat has a 13 and 16 range
but since we're doing challenge mode in the extra XP that we have
it does make this guaranteed, so
it's not a big problem for us.
The rest of the PWT is pretty simple
but there is one little gimmick here
and that's that abilities are actually randomized
So if Pokemon can have two different abilities,
it'll actually be random which one it has.
In my experience with running this category,
one tends to be a little more preferable than the other.
Not 100% on the RNG at the top of my head
that causes it or whatever,
because it's a whole process you don't want to get into.
Basically two abilities that are notable here
is Charon's Stuntland.
By the way, we're always going to fight the same three battles here.
They just kind of fill in random NPCs.
The random NPCs are always going to lose very sad.
Sorry, Clarissa. We're always going to fight rival Charon and Colrus in that order.
So, Col- um, Charon sorry has Stutland as the lead
and Stutland can either have Intimidate or Sandrush I believe is the other ability
that Stuttlands can have so
we're hoping for no intimidate because otherwise we'll have to use a home clause to get back to
neutral attack and then we have just a 1 in eight range here up from 1 and 16
to normal mode to one shot it so hopefully we get that
i always like good luck yeah i also like not losing time
yeah right how about some donations for
some good luck i would love that we've got five dollars
from spoink who says spoik point oh would you look
at that no intimid intimidate. Perfect.
Get the donation this point for it.
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At least they don't have static hi from the back couch
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He's just a baby having a tantrum, I love him!
My heart like sank for half a second because I didn't realize that Chino can have Cheek Charm and I watched it proc
It's so weird how
we can proc when it's dying yeah just never relevant yeah that is one of the lesser known
ability quirks uh there's one more in this next fight.
Colrus has a Magneton that can either have Magna-Pole, which
is the one we want or Sturdy, which you know
You can't kill it on 1 hit as a Gen 5 and acts like a Focus Ash
This is the gen where St where sturdy is actually good now.
Very unfortunate because there's a lot of sturdy in this run.
The problem as well is that Megabaton has Mirror Shot which
has a small chance of dropping our accuracy and it also
has Supersonic,
which may confuse us. I really like in VGTS where every time we just list everything that can go wrong
and of course it all happened.
Yeah, we just expect that.
Yeah...
This category is great.
I have died to this fight before.
Yes, I've died to Cholrest chorus you have to restart the whole thing yeah
really you're not like supposed to like continue if your confusion just switch a
sack and you can't stay between these fights either yeah awesome there isn't just too strong
if if you're confused you can swap you can't risk for it i've done both it's sad it depends
on things so yeah it depends on pace hopefully you it. Now we got the sturdy...
Oh! The dodge though!
55% accuracy.
Very very missable.
So yeah, the rest are easy. Just Iron Head this and victory.
Yeah so I guess victory for PW2 donation! Alright, so that's GWT done.
There is one important thing to note. So you get a battle point after you beat PWT,
You give all points in this game by beating PWT
In any percent we actually buy a Carbos with it
In challenge mode you don't buy anything!
Because apparently you don't need it and I didn't know that.
Yeah, it's just because
you're getting more levels so
you outspeed the one thing that you need
the Carbos or the Greatness of Elygon Makes sense. you need the carbos which is great in svalagon yeah yeah you can get some cool stuff with bp
in this area uh unfortunately they're cheapskates so you get one yeah for winning a tournament
whatever who cares like a lot of the competitive moves
you can get here for a VP
and they're pretty stark amounts
so you can't really, like,
justify getting any of them
in,
like,
a speedrun context.
The one VP that you get
can only get you
one vitamin.
Sorry, I owe you a victory donation
Yes! Go for it!
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I don't remember what Bidoof sounds like.
I heard someone do it in the crowd.
That's my best impression of what I heard from here.
The Badoof noise is just badoof!
Badoof!
Oh...
We also have $100 from Blue Magma.
It's no Tentruel, but I guess
Axe-cafell is pretty cool too!
Thanks for showing off a great run today
TTS and everyone involved!
Thank you, Blue.
Alright we are surrounded here what's going on?
Uh yeah so we saw a Plasma Grunt um kind of run around uh and you got
really upset about it I guess we never
really explained like his lore.
It's about as deep as a slightly bent sheet of paper, but basically he had a purloin stolen from him
as kid or at least it was his sister's purloin I. And that flinch is actually kind of clutch.
But...
So he's kind of on a mission
to get that pearline back
so anytime he sees like a plasma grunt
he basically just swells up into a fit of range and wants
to
beeline it straight towards
that plasma grunt and get as
many answers as you can about it. He's very anime
for sure. Yeah. He doesn't know this but we actually stole
the court line for uh cynthia so that it could use months left exactly i was trying to think
of how to tie that in but you beat me too.
Poor Trubbish, sorry. Trubbish time is over.
That grunt right before the fight
was like hey it's Trubbish Time
and every time I read it
I just think of Morbius
and now its like Morbin Time Yeah its Trubbish I just think of Morbius. How it's like, morphing time?
It's trubbing time.
So now we've got some true double battles here.
The general rule for the true doubles
because there is going to be a lot, especially in the latter half of the game here.
Q is a horrible doubles partner.
Everyone else is just fine.
So the idea here is that
I'm going to rock slide, hope I don't miss the
Golbat range or just don't miss it at all.
And then Stoutland should clear up what's left on the field
assuming you get the range on Golbats.
Oh, lingering there.
Missing quite a few ranges...
The Stoutland, the
Bofang and that base.
It's not a big deal.
Just time loss because you're not in danger yeah if we can take care of
both on the first turn then uh me and salem can still take care of both on the second
turn so kind of save a turn by not having to wait for the croc rock to come out separate here
yeah that's that's the general theme of a lot of these fights especially the true little battles were just like you can't really lose them, but you can lose time.
Yes.
Not too bad though.
But yeah we're going to get off this plasma ship.
Plasma frigate?
Is that what it's called?
Yeah it's called the Frigate.
Pretty soon here and then we'll come back to it later.
He was talking about the Perlin
and Aspersia. Is that Aspersia?
Aspersia, I say.
I call it Aspersia. I've heard Aspertia
before and I feel like that's all.
None of that.
So yeah, more poison types! Yay! Yeah so I'm gonna Iron Head the coughing
and pray that Duat does the right thing
and water pulses the coughing
The coughing can blow up with self-destruct or just attack,
I would like to take as little damage as possible throughout these fights. Why would you click
revenge? Thank you G1! the world would you click revenge?
Two poison types in front of me?
Revenge.
Yeah.
Like Water Pulse just objectively does more.
I think this is...
But if Juwak got hit it would have done double damage so thinking about
that i think he did get hit it did double damage all right so that's a little pretty
chill so awkward on the way out
but it doesn't matter.
That's still weird
because a quirk about the AI
is that it's never guaranteed to do something
unless it's guaranteed to kill.
So that applies to both you and any fight that is dealing with me, if I am below what whatever move I'm scared of like does at minimum, then I am guaranteed to get that move.
I can't be in a range to die and know
that's going to happen so it is always kind of an awkward
situation balancing that in Gen 5, because AI is unpredictable when it's not predictable.
Which is basically only when you're going to do the die.
You learned the best move of all time in that battle.
Yes, we learn Earthquake which were going to take heavy advantage of
Yeah, incredibly strong ground type move
100 base power spread and move on both sides of the field
so it'll suit your allies if they're not flying
type of course and uh yeah we're gonna be spamming it a lot for a lot of this run and we're gonna
be iron heading basically everything else and it's no contact, which is really pretty. Yes. Yeah, would have been nice
earlier, but still nice
to have for now. Now we're done with this whole
town of Driftville City. We're going to do
a little bit of shopping here.
This will be our last shopping of the whole run actually we'll get just enough
heels and rappels to get through the rest of the run um and then we're gonna get to in my opinion
the most interesting part of the run movement wisewise. It's like a whole long string
of really rewarding to pull off movements,
so I'm gonna shut up and focus on it
and these guys can kinda give you
the lowdown
of like all the
different pieces
of it here.
Yeah, so
this is going to
show off one
of the
spinner setups
that we have
kind of
manufactured
and So as long as he gets kind of manufactured.
So as long as he gets a pause on the second tile
here, okay...yeah that was a safe check but unfortunately
the spinner looked in the direction of him um spinners are kind
of like a one and well that's winners can spin spin four different ways.
So it's a one in 16 to look at him and
It kind of decreases with the amount of directions
That the spinner can actually look.
If he can look three ways and it's one in 12,
if it's two different ways
then it's one in eight.
I can't look at that
door entrance cutscene
without thinking of the clip
that Minnow has
where it's just infinitely
zooming in on the door.
It's so funny! I know what you're talking about yeah it's so weird
did even like didn't go back to the game or did it just like get to turn off
softball again oh That's so weird.
This is really funny.
So another quick little fight here.
Again I'm just going to one shot it no problem and then we'll go back to the cool movement
stuff.
Yeah, so this right here is actually not even like a setup.
It's just like a run the bike.
It's just a
thing that we can do because we know that the spinner is loaded in already
and running in that direction of the spinner makes it turn right
and then you have a few frames of leeway where
you can get on the bike and then just blow past it.
So as long as you execute it is 100%. Yeah and something to point out too
is like a lot of the spinners setup stuff are
just things we've figured out are relatively recent
like discoveries yeah i think it's like up until like 2020. yeah no there was no
spinner tech in like gen four or 5. Yeah, back then people just
ran it.
I think Middle was the one who broke ground on
making like spinner
mechanics, using the
spinner mechanics to get
down spinners.
Yeah, can you imagine running this like six years ago and on top of all
the variants of less than stuff, you also have a variant of oh well I'm just going to hit half
the spinners in this rush.
Yeah it's really fun,
just like all the RNG Minip shenanigans as well back then too.
True, true.
Well the RNG Minips have also come a long way since then
we have dust cloud stuff now
which we'll actually go over later well it's more
like the consistency of the timer zero but that too yeah i'm not gonna get into
that that's a whole other technical explanation but it is just really complicated it used to
be awful to just rg minute 4 back in like 6 years ago
So again right there
another spinner setup
He got it and then he did another run of the bike
Yep so
more movement there trying to make sure not to hit that standing trainer.
Yeah, so this room...
Oh!
As long as he doesn't...
All good.
I'm pretty sure he bonked one time, which is enough time to lose so that scientist isn't looking up.
And we're at a chargestone cave! Yay!
Only a little scary.
I'm impressed how few phenomenon we've gotten,
I expected to get absolutely small amount of them.
Especially with my monies on the line.
Just wait for Giant Chasm.
You always guess them in there.
Any cave is always a nightmare to go through
because of the odds of clouds
basically just being everywhere.
Gonna talk to Professor Juniper here, who's gonna
give us a Master Ball, which is cool, but
we also got something way better from her in just
a little bit. We're getting the Lucky Egg
which is a very broken
item that they just love throwing at you in gen 5
and some other gents too, but Gen 5 they're like
here's a free lucky egg have fun and lucky egg just boosts your
exp gain by 50%.
So we're gonna equip that immediately
and just start skyrocketing in level.
But before that, more movement
that'll test you.
I'm just watching for phenomenons you honestly this whole split phenomenon
this whole split is just like it's testing your movement
i didn't hear one okay now we're like hallucinating
kind of schizo-ing?
So entering the...what is this place called again?
Celestial Tower.
Yeah, so Juniper just somehow beat us here.
And we're going to get the lucky egg from her.
And then with that lucky egg, I'm
going to equip it on pretty much immediately
and then we go back and fight Skylo, another gym leader.
Yeah dude, XMO can never do it this easy giving you a lucky hug like that oh
true that is the other hand that does what game do you get at the earliest then um i don't even
remember where are you getting Black and White 1.
It's at the beginning of Charged Time Cave.
Oh, yeah, I guess that would be a good way to get in.
Yeah, it is.
I don't know when it is in XY.
Um...
It's like two hours in right?
It's after the fourth gym.
Oh I don't know what that is time-wise
You've ran it
But I don't remember right now
I think it's about the same time maybe earlier
but the thing is you have to get like really like not unlucky sure sure
that's why i said it yeah and i don't think uh i don't think any of the earlier gens used to just
give it to you i think he just had to steal it from a chancy
i was looking for phenomenon there uh yeah
in dppt you literally use thief on a minute
chancey that has lucky egg yep yeah that is so cool oh that kind of
yeah that's not the game giving it to you
uh see how that guy just slammed into us uh hopefully we don't
slam into anybody in this gym yeah it's also kind of annoying
uh yeah even more uh difficult movement let's see what he just does here okay
he's going for this frame perfect um movement bit it's actually pretty easy because
you know movement is just like you buffer it and then uh
you know it's just gonna be expected to work but yeah if he had wasted a frame more after going for that blue protected bank from the, from these wind tunnels. Then he'd like be blown back and then slam into
the trainer and they'll fight you so that you really don't want to mess up here.
Yeah this Jim's really safe. He does it perfectly.
That is really hard by the way.
I can't do that so that is worth clapping for.
And safety save because we're going to use our X speed here
and if we die and don't have the X speed And safety save, because we're going to use our X-Speed here.
If we die and don't have the XP that's a big problem.
This Gym fight is annoying especially
because the Unaware Shubat
is the first Pokémon here.
Again, Unaware if you missed the explanation earlier basically just means it ignores any stat changes on you so we can't even like try to buff our way through
it uh it will just ignore it the other Pokemon won't notice though but
the the Suubat will so it is kind of annoying.
It's once again a Suva just ignoring
the home clause and then being
in range, and being able to miss...
I have max HP don't I?
I can go for the high HP stuff, you know?
Yeah. There's two different strats here where
You can homeclaw once or you can homeclaws twice
Homecalling once makes Sigileth a range
Which is the extra poke that you get in challenge mode.
So let's see what happens here...
Seems fine?
Oh, not fine! Not fine!
That's a sh- I don't know where! Oh, not fine. Not fine. Classic.
That's what you're going to do first.
I was just excited
to click on close.
So we're going for the plus one.
This is going to be arranged.
Yeah,
you want to XP first
in case it doesn't really cred
and you have to change your strategy.
Oh yeah, and for reference, if you're wondering why that missed after three home claws with
the plus-three accuracy...
Sky was gonna heal.
...Smoovebat has unaware.
Unaware ignores all stat boosts.
It is...
It stinks.
Yeah, it stinks.
It really does. But also ignores the accuracy boost as stinks. Yeah, it stinks. It really does.
But also ignores the accuracy boost as well.
Yeah.
That's how you miss anything.
So Iron Head, knock it out onto the Swanna.
Yeah.
Swanna is why you need the XP, if swanna's faster than you,
If-if you give it a turn it'll like...
Quick surf and kill ya.
It'll bubble beam or...
Or yeah, surr
I guess it loses like what? Feather Dance from normal mode or something?
Something, I don't remember exactly what feather dance from normal mode or something something i don't remember the other dances bad whatever it has in here is
bad um this is also arranged uh i went to
plus two so yeah it's a 75 if I didn't go to plus 2 though.
Yes.
And then the last Pokemon is Skarmory which you don't have
a super-thin move against,
so you're just going to Rock Slide it and hope for the best.
Yeah, I'm gonna do do a footwork slide with this
with this little street skirt.
You're getting so many flinches!
I know, but the flinches are actually pretty nice because...
30% by the way!
Oh my gosh! it's actually really good because uh skirmory has agility to boost his speed to become faster than you and then he'll start spamming steel wing which has a very small
chance of raising defense and if it does raise defense you kind
of have a problem yeah that's at ten percent i think
yeah i think it's 10% I'm not sure
donate now to tell us! Yes, please. We need knowledge.
Knowledge in the form of money.
We may be really good speedrunners
at this game but as far as our logic goes
it's about as deep as the speedrun goes.
Yeah so I guess it's victory donations time.
That's right.
You got it! We've got a $1000 donation from Kaylee.
Who says drill go brrrr?
Doctors go no borssss.
We also have $15 from Bearfish, a Pokemon speedrun. That's what I call a rapid dash.
A little bit.
Oh that's a Pokemon.
It is a Pokemon!
Also $25 from Rappelart.
Which Pokemon could also be a pirate?
Arrrr-ceus. We're just hopping on a plane here Stius.
We're just hopping on a plane here and seeing the cutscene, so we can do
more for sure. Sure thing!
We are still seeing one of these Pokemon
puns. We have $13.60
from Myropid.
Pokedex getting fired up for best Eeveelution Flareon.
Hype?
HYPE!
Flareons okay.
Oh no hype for Flareon. What is your favorite, I hate the flareon!
What is your favorite Eeveelution?
Jolteon!
I'm a flareon girl myself so I get it.
S beyond clears.
What is going on? Let me think about this for a second.
Also while TTS is thinking about this if you notice we're in a completely different area
from what's in Black and White 1 so the progression
If you haven't noticed i thought it was pretty obvious
but if you have a progression in black and white two is different from black and white
one the first like few gyms are like the middle jibs are the same but then
like it gets a little bit different gym before to six is
like the same order yeah but then like some of the other gyms get swapped around i don't know
where that cloud was i just heard it and panicked. Shaking grass?
Or shaking grass, yeah same thing.
I didn't hear it.
Hopefully no clouds here.
I couldn't see where because...
We'll see like six clouds here. I immediately looked down at my DS to see it. Hopefully, it's just one out of the way and then we don't have
to worry about it for the rest of the way.
Yeah!
I'm just watching so carefully now.
So funny movement there just to make sure that you
don't hit this trainer.
Yeah, it's nine frames that you need away.
So that's two walk tiles plus anything else.
So a bonk is a bonk.
Just watching this.
There's no dust clouds! Where they at?
This is an anxiety mountain.
Okay!
Alright, so we got into the double battle.
So like all these potential spots for dust clouds
kind of makes you have to focus up
so that you can maybe react to a dust cloud in your way?
Yeah, and as we kind of mentioned earlier
this is actually one of the areas that makes
White 2 faster than Black 2.
Even though we kind of have to make a big swooping
U-shape to get around here
in Black 2 it's like a straight
V line across the top because
what paths are open and closed to you
are a little different between the two versions.
And also in Black 2, the mountain here is blue.
I got a blue view cause it's like dormant and then in white 2
it's like red because it's active or whatever.
But the big point that I'm trying to get at is that
in black 2 when you're taking that path across
the top they actually plant another double there that
you have to fight in order to get through
the mountain. So, that just makes White Sheep
had to fall faster because it's easier to make
that longer route through here
but I only have to fight one double.
If it's active, why are they letting people go through it?
Um... For the adventure. Yeah.
Doesn't seem very safe. Or the challenge!
Ohhhhhhhhhh!
We're like 10 years old and we were allowed to do just about anything you want.
Are you concerned that they're not going to let people go into an active volcano?
Yeah, I'm worried that they might catch on fire.
I mean, we have an extra drill that can cause earthquakes.
It's whatever. The drill could also catch on fire! This is true.
Yeah this is true.
We just take advantage of the Earthquake destroying there
pretty useful. Um so that's a true double
because or at least I should say more like a true double, because... Or at least I should say it's more of like
a following double is what I like to call it
because Bianca has partnered up with us.
And that means we got a free heal after that fight
just like we got a free heal from you and the sewers earlier
cause he was following us so it was like a the following double scenario here
but now we're kind of coming up on
the absolutely worst
rival fight
So, the problem here is that UnPzant has the move Taunt, which stops us from setting up
and we want to get two plus 2 attack for one-shotting Samurott otherwise
you kind of have to deal with Aqua Jet range shenanigans
that are kind of sketchy to work with.
Yeah.
So I'm kind of praying for a detect to turn one and not taunts.
Yeah, one of the worst feelings is getting through all the garbage
of early game and then losing your run to this fight.
Like it just feels so bad. That taunt yeah i didn't go first
so um i'm gonna be chipping with rock slide then praying for a flinch but
it's more likely going to pick aqua jet so I'll just be faster because of priority.
Also if it picks
Revenge and
I don't flinch it, I just take a crap ton damage
too. But the plan here
is to just take really low Aqua Jet roll into...
That's good.
Yeah, that's pretty good.
So another Aqua Jet does not kill me unless it's a...
Don't say that!
Okay so T, you actually got
the minimum that isn't
the min roll.
I got like the 2 out of 17
smallest roll, which is
perfect. And we get a really strong move now. We say goodbye to Hone Clause and get Sword Dance
Which was just what if Hone Clause was good?
So now we get two attack boosts instead of one
The first time we use it
we're just doubling our attack straight up.
We do however lose out on the accuracy boost that Home Clause gave us
So Rock Slide misses! Yay!
But Swords Dance, the attack was just so worth it
Yeah, makes sense that you really don't need X-items at all.
Yeah and X-Evil is going to be fast enough for most things anyway generally
So we're just gonna chill out
And spam swords dance and Earthquake
And win most fights that way yeah the combination of swords
dance good moves and like good speed just makes extra like so good you don't have to worry about
like buying x items at all uh there's no other pokemon in the game i'm pretty sure that can like just
not get excited so they have to take it like chop at shopping mall nine
so actually you're just like it's just so much better than everything else. Oh! There's another one.
Okay, and the max ether here to restore our PP later?
You'd much prefer a water
one instead of grass one. Yes,
grass ones are always scary because it's really hard to see where they are.
Especially when you're biking at like 4x speed.
Yeah, if it's in your way then I'm lucky.
Yeah basically. The bike in this game is so fast cause it doesn't have any acceleration or deceleration curves if you
have two states either stop or go yeah it's a little kind of an insane bike it's it it
is extremely fast but just the top speed of any bike in Pokémon series without the drawbacks.
It's hard! It's really hard to effectively use it because like...
I've struggled so much with those one-pile entries.
Yeah, cause at least like the mock bike,
it has a little bit of windup.
You can prepare yourself for what's about to happen,
but this is just like zoom, zoom, zoom.
Yeah.
Another thing,
just to update everybody on the lore here,
so we're kind of following Professor Juniper around
because she's trying to figure out stuff about Legendary Dragon
and I think some Team Plasma stuff at the same time,
but she is really more obsessed
with the Legendary Dragon stuff.
However it is optimal and stuff. However,
it is optimal to just act completely
clueless against Juniper and have no idea what
she's talking about. It's kind of funny because
a lot of times in this beer in particular
is that you are actively sabotaging the good guys
and agreeing with the bad guys
in order to move around as quickly.
Pretty much yeah.
Yeah generally your dialogue
is always just like saying Just saying yes to everybody.
Yeah. Whatever who cares?
But then a few times you're like a Team Plasma apologist
Speaking of Team Plasma
We are going to fight some people here pretty soon.
Once this heal is done. Yeah I gotta
heal up here because this is a little too sketchy of a health
to try to take care of
things until my next menu. It basically just comes down
to how well that rival fight goes, whether or not I need
to do a quick heal here. Here Hugh says have you seen
Team Plasma? And they immediately show up which is awesome. What is
this guy's role again in Team Plasma?
He's kind of like the man under the boss.
Yeah, he's kind of assumed to be the head of Team Plasma now that they have disbanded after the plot of PW1, all the Sages have basically retired except for Zinzalon.
For some reason he's willing to stick around for round 2 Electric Boogaloo so...
Sure sure sure willing to stick around for round two electric boogaloo.
The plan here is just a rock slide. Friar Goodall has
laughably low defense, so it'll
always die at a rock slide. And then we're
just kind of hoping that Samurott is in any way helpful whatsoever.
It often can go for Ankh-Vor, which is absolutely useless.
Aqua Tail? There it is! Let's go!
I don't think it has Aqua Tail yet but it will go for Ankh-Vor.
Yeah, it'll Aqua Jet here now because it'll actually see the kill on Golem
before it wasn't to kill.
I mean otherwise this fight's pretty easy
if we have any donations.
We absolutely do.
We have $25 from Swift Red Box.
Says good luck TTS.
Loving the amazing runs this year.
You're all making such a difference.
We're so close to $750,000!
And it's true we are right on that cusp.
We were also almost at 30,000 out of
that 40,000 to fight Cynthia.
We're getting there!
We need help.
We only have a little over an hour before the end of this run.
Oh and half-push?
The sooner we hit it,
The uh-the sooner TTS can start preparing for the mudslap strategy.
Mentally.
So the sooner we get there, the better.
Funny you say that, we've got $100 from Crane who says
Hoping for that one mill, I to see that mudslap fight.
He's going to do some more, I think.
Great. We have $75 from
Mustique who says, I want to say hi from France.
Been following all GDQ events since 2017 and I'm finally able
to do a donation. I'm finishing my studies in two weeks and I wanna say a big thanks
to the crew behind GDQ, from runners to volunteers.
I'm so happy to give a bit of my first wages to this wonderful event.
Love for all of you, love for Pokemon, and above all, trans rights.
That guy there at Village Bridge that was kind of hanging out by the fences near the car well sometimes
he can just be clipped into the fence for some reason
I was so hoping that he was, but he wasn't.
I was hoping it was too for the content.
Legendary Pokemon! You gotta catch it!
You have a Master Ball!
Sorry, I'm busy.
So yeah, we just don't need it.
Exadrill is so broken.
I cannot stress how good exadilll is and you're going to see
even more in this end game now where it's going to be
over leveled pretty soon.
Exadill will just... Man such a good Pokemon. over leveled pretty soon. Exodrill just,
man,
such a good Pokemon.
There are still some problems in this next gym
and we'll talk about it
when we get there but...
Yeah,
it's kind of funny that
um
in Black White 1
they kind of keep the uh the Swords of Justice.
This is what they're called.
Kind of like post-game, I think.
But in Black White 2, they just shovel it at you.
We literally see all three of them.
We've seen Kabalian already, but he's on screen for
like 3 seconds at most
so you probably missed him
But yeah, we're gonna see Tarakion
at some point too because this game just
really wants us to befriend them throughout our journey or whatever.
And Gen 5 is like peak unsafe gyms, so I wouldn't go on this if I was a gym trainer.
This isn't good for me.
I would probably fall off, yeah.
Can't beat anywhere with some black and White 1's Mr. Alton gym.
This is true. Well Skyland has a dangerous gym in this game
AND the last game. It's hilarious.
Yeah, Osho would like to have a word with a couple of these
gym layouts but...
Anywho. Miss Fracture is most likely gonna be dance turn one and
if it does it becomes a speed tie i would like to not lose the speed possible oh worse fight
unfortunate but fine Oh, worst fight! Wooo!
Unfortunate but fine. I'm gonna have to do a menu coming up anyway so it's not the end of the world
It's just time saved to win this VTi obviously
Yeah as per usual very non-dangerous fights generally but just lots of ways to lose time.
And now you get to pick which direction you're going in.
Why are you picking the direction you're going in? are you picking the direction you're going
here
so this gym is kind of laid out similar
to
norman's gym and gen 3 but not nearly as
complex
so the two options that we're given
here is offense versus defense we're
gonna pick offense because it's a little better
to like one-shot them.
Um, we are gonna be faster than this Fracture
no matter what so even though
we're gonna set up a Swords Dance
to be able to one shotshot these. It's not like
gonna punish us in any way
because we're still faster and it's
not going to click a move to attack us.
The defense ones suck, I promise.
I think they have protect or something. Yeah, they do! They suck!
I have routed stuff and then
I have to go fight the defense one because this one just
hurts and kills everything.
So...the option here was offense-defense
we picked attack. On the top...
That's a big one.
Yeah, the next one up is actually going to be
triple battle versus rotation battle.
We're gonna pick triple battle because
rotation as we kind of mentioned before, is significantly slower to handle.
So we're just going to deal with the triple one.
The triple one kind of sucks though
because he's going to have an axew,
a fracture and a dredigan
and the dredigan is going to be in the middle
mirroring
Excadrill. So I'm going to be doing
some menuing here to actually put Excadrill
in the second slot of my party because that translates
to the middle of a triple battle.
I'm also going to Candy and Carbos here, because now is the
most opportune time to do all that stuff.
So then
the plan will be to set up
Swords Dance with Exu Drill turn 1
and watch
Exu in Fracture turn one and watch
XU and Fracture take out, both put up inside.
Hopefully! Sometimes they can get a little
wonky and double target Excadrill for
some reason and throw a whole wrench in the plan, but
Injured Spik will take out literally
everything on the field after Swords Dance. So that's
the dream here is that
at the very least
Piduff takes damage and dies because i can't eq to kill that up flying type
so yeah we're just gonna earthquake the world here.
How about a couple donations while I rock the world?
You got it! I hope I'm not stepping on Kizeran's toes
but we have $12. 40 cents from jinx who just says
that was good we've got 25 dollars from squirtle who says war turtles that was a
figure I like that one
all right yeah Jordan it's gonna
prevent okay but that's the worst just with a little lower health but it's not low enough
for me to be concerned yeah luckily in uh challenge mode you are stronger than you were
in normal so the dragon is not arranged yeah. Yeah, it's at 75%
in normal mode which actually makes it
very punishing like range to miss
If you miss it, you just die
You usually pick Revenge and Revenge
is enough to completely annihilate you.
Yeah.
Not all the time, I guess because it doesn't see that revenge is gonna be 120 base power
It could go for like a Desert Crunch
Right
The possibility's there
You can get lucky but it's not something you ever want to bank on having to deal with.
But your HP is fine now?
And now I'm straight in time which is honestly less scary than some of the gym trainers.
What, you forgot to save!
Oh no...
There we go, shoot.
Yeah, Dragon Type 01 are really powerful so this is gonna be pretty scary.
They're only weak to like two
types it's itself and ice types and hacksaw has like a billion attack and speed yeah actually
kind of over already so we might need to just prepare the next run, honestly.
Yeah, might need some donations
for luck.
I would love to give you a donation for luck.
We have got
$440 from Azulog, who says hop, hop, happy.
Oh, happy.
We also have a $376 from Elle for my favorite Pokemon, Metagross.
The smartest metal... spider? Dog? Spider dog.
Cat! This hack's actually faster no okay
we also have 31.70 from poisonous puns hey tts you swalot to try playing this even faster that's 3170 for the best toxic lump 371
swallow out swallow it's underrated for sure big family very uh huggable pokemon oh here's the axorus breaks the mold
okay funny enough in both normal mode and challenge mode this is by far the easiest gym leader
you just set up so much dance and sweep with Iron Head it's a super free fight.
The only concern is making sure that you actually like pick up the necessary carbos that you
need to boost your speed
to outspeed the Flygon.
Otherwise, it has Earth Power
and will just kind of wreck your day.
It doesn't actually have an answer
for 4x Drill,
it's just we're faster
so we're fine.
Yeah, right.
Folks, we just passed $750,000 for Doctors Without Borders!
Let's go!
Alright, 250,000 to go. Let's go. All right, 250,000 to go.
Let's go.
Yeah.
We got an hour.
Let's do it.
What do we have for Cynthia?
We are at $30,885.
And 33 cents which means that in the next hour or so we've got
$9,090 to go
I know that sounds like a lot
but there's a lot of you out there. And every little bit helps.
Oh, we'll get there no problem.
Yeah, if people start donating a $5 train,
you know? Might reach it!
$5 for Gen 5?
Yeah! Oh, I love that. Let's see it, folks.
Where are my Gen 22 fans at?
Where's
my Gen 1924?
My Petra Rutt fans in the chat.
Where's my Gen 10,000 fans?
So yeah this is just cut scenes now.
Yeah so
What's happening?
We're gonna get a huge lore dump here
Professor Juniper's research
has led her to Drayden, who kind of knows the gist
of Kirim. So even though this game has
like Reshorm and Zekrom, this game is actually more focused around
Kirim, which is
a very powerful ice-type
Pokemon that can do a lot of
damage with
freezing things over and stuff. Surely it's not going to cause
anything in the next five minutes. No, nothing will happen.
We're basically being taught about how curam is like a former shell of what it was and there's this particular item called DNA splicers that can help restore it to full under the right conditions.
Right conveniently as all this is explained to us, terrorism.
Whoa! It's like Final Fantasy!
Very true.
Nothing is going to happen here. Just flying over.
Just a blimp in the sky.
No big deal.
Beautiful sunny day.
The sun is down honestly. Beautiful sunny day. Music's great, but it's not messing at all. Look at the power of these fully 3D cutscenes in the Nintendo DS!
This game released very late into the DS' lifespan so this is like the peak
of graphical power we're witnessing.
What was it doing?
2012 release and 2004 for console as well.
That's not nice.
How does this work?
How is it not melt immediately?
Winter in July, more crystal than ice I guess.
But there's also snow or ice so...
It's definitely ice now!
Yeah, huh?
So Team Plasma is
now aware of and
after the DNA splicers because we conveniently
just learned about them so now they have to have conveniently just learned about them. So now they have to have conveniently
just learned about them,
so they're going to do anything that
they can to get a hold of them.
They know the Drayton actually has them
so they are basically going to hold
the city hostage by laying it in ice and demanding
that um, they hand over the DNA splicers and team plasma so that
They can continue about their nice stuff.
Because in this game they kind of got rid of the charade
of freeing Pokemon to liberate them
and get rid of the Pokeball,
all that kinda stuff.
Now it's just straight up like we want control of the Pokeball and all that kind of stuff. They're just now straight up like, we want
control of the world.
Now it's everyone's favorite part of Pokemon Ice Puzzles.
Yeah, so this city
and actually the two routes east and west actually turn into a little bit of slide puzzles.
You won't see the slide puzzles on the routes
but this whole city kind of comes
into a whole ice puzzle thing that we have to slide around.
First to progress in the story
we have to fight three Plasma Grunts and then
Zinzalon will appear in front of the gym.
Once you kick his butt and do one more
thing with
Shadow Triads, then we can go off towards
the 8th Gym. We've a little bit of time for donations
here if you'd like to read a couple i would love to we have 206 dollars from dan who says
if dunsparce has a million fans i am one of them if dunsparce
has 10 fans i am one of them if dunspurs only has
one fan that is me if dunsmars has no fans
that means i am no more on the earth if the world is against the dunsparce i am
against the world fun fact i actually did a run of dunsmart's alt? I like it, it looked okay
It wasn't really that good
I've expected
Wow, I'm so surprised
We also have a hundred
dollars from Caron who says, I'm donating $100 from Carant, who says,
I'm donating $100 to fight Cynthia because
I innocently fought her on my white playthrough
having no idea who she was. It was
my first completed Pokemon game at the ripe old age of 34
no less.
She let me think I was beating her first Pokemon then healed up
and crushed me into dust. Avenge me TGS!
Avenge me! I'll do my best!
Leveling it through quick, how much does Weavile Ice Shark do?
You have to heal before this next trainer.
Oh okay.
We have $28 for Mad Riddler! Here's a Pokemon
hot take! The starter Pokemon shouldn't
be Fire Grass Water. Why not something new
like Fighting Psychic Dark? Thoughts?
Yeah? That'd be interesting.
Yeah, what
starter types do you want to see?
I think one of the triangles you can do is
flying rock fighting.
Ooh.
Yeah. Well we did like, uh...
Exegrel, exegrel, exegrel
Speed ties galore
Yes Speed ties galore. Yes.
And I know we saw them just a minute ago,
$6 and 15 cents from Gadroch who says,
I heard we were discussing overlooked Pokemon 615 for the cute little Cryogonal.
Did you know it used to be able to learn Attract but it would always fail?
Let's give Cryo-
Cryogonal some love.
I know, it's a mouthful.
Yeah halfway through I forgot how to say it.
That's how underappreciated it is.
Ugh, I'm part of the problem.
We're almost done, two more fights? Yeah, two more fights.
We're gonna fight Zunzalon again.
Past Krag and Ulz, we're just going to destroy them.
Oh, I feel bad now! Nooo...
You should let him win.
But I gotta go fast!
We need to speedrun.
We do have to speedrun, we do have to keep the marathon moving.
I'm so sorry for the Ford donor.
Noooo... It does have kind of a cute face when you look at it with those. Don't worry about the donor. Crab them all, no!
It does have kind of a cute face when you look at it though.
What?
No I see it.
Oh there's another one.
Yeah, do you see like the eyes where it's blinking and stuff? Yeah.
It's like a robot face.
Yeah.
And it's always frowning, which is so sad.
We do more of this.
Time for going in there.
$50 from Flying Penguins!
My two-year old daughter demanded
to wear my Pikachu socks
today, so here's $50
for 2 Pikachus.
$58 from Balamb Soldier, adding to the annual Pokedex entry
for the sweetest of boys, Growlithe!
He's just a cute little guy. Less than three. Big fan, big fan.
Love Growlithe.
We've got $25.40 from Meteor Bower
for my favorite Pokemon, number 254
Sceptile! Good luck on the run and
Trans Rites!
That is a great choice too
for a Pokemon. Very underrated
Hoenn starter IMO. Oh, what are these guys?
Yeah so Drayden went into the gym to get
the DNA splicers in his infinite wisdom while people were actually looking for him
He also- A lot of fake also... Yeah, he just shows up
so quickly after he leaves.
It's like it's...
He had it right at the front door
in case of emergency
break glass
and they're just
like right there.
So the Shadow Triad
have our just insanely agile ninjas that just fly around and stuff, so they immediately swipe it from Drayden's hands as soon as he gives them to us.
So now we're kind of on a chase try to get them back.
Spoiler alert, we don't but yeah so that makes it um
a little awkward that now we've given
Team Plasma exactly what they're
looking for in order to try to
cause world domination.
Yeah, surely we won't have to try to stop them soon.
Surely!
Oh wait, we just finished the seventh gym leader in a pokemon game
oh that's exactly what we're gonna do right now yeah i know we just fought an abseil
i've heard some people say that it sounds like ooo.
Oooo? Like a cry? Yeah.
I wasn't listening, dangit.
Well now you'll get another chance!
You will get another chance. Perfect, perfect.
Let us know what you think in your donations.
Speaking of which can I drop one donation real quick?
Yes. We have
$1,490
from Bluejay
donating
for my favorite Pokemon, Dragonite x10.
Cynthia here we come!
Thank you Bluejay.
Time for another one? Yeah, go for it.
$78 from Lydia.
This may be unicorn-y but it's time to stop horsing around and get ready
for Cynthia.
This is $78 for the best pony and my favorite Pokemon, Rapidash.
How are we doing on that incentive?
We are at
$33,257.
So we need
6,700 more before the end of this run.
Why don't we just fight Cynthia now?
We don't have enough money. Just keep going.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We're not ready yet.
We'll get smoked.
So now Team Plasma,
Now that they have what they want
They kind of bailed to the northeast end corner
Of the region so we are hunting them down
Now and going back to
kind of new territory yeah um this is marine tube which has one
of the sickest things. Well it takes a second to build up
Yeah just trust me. Can I leave when the best price starts?
Can I drop a donation on you? Yeah, go for it. $113 from
Shenanigans! Hello GDQ, send here with $113 from shenanigans
Hello, GDQ. Shen here with the 113 purple sweets that cold ate during the old-school runescape run
Also TTS mom said you can totally come over tonight
My house is just to the left of the Pokemon Center in Umbilatown, can't miss it!
You could go there right now? I'll be right over.
Also $25 from Gary who says Gen 25 easily going to be the best gen.
That's right.
That is where the Gen 5 remakes will finally come out.
All right, gym leader time.
Very exciting.
Yeah, so this gym is a little interesting.
So Marlin actually has a team order mix up here.
In normal mode he leads with Karakasta which usually isn't a big deal
but in challenge mode he leads with Wailord
Which is a much bigger deal
So Wailord has one or two moves that it'll click and leave the clip brain dance
which is beneficial for us because we can take care of
We learn two no problem uh the other move it has is scald
because that's um okay oh that's fine uh because that's um clay or not
clay who am i who am I fighting right now?
Marlin.
Fighting Marlin.
Marlin's signature move is Scald and Scald is a really bad move.
It's going to do over half our health because we melt to water.
Yeah.
Water is not a good type
to go against so i guess what it's 30 percent
yeah 30 to burn on top of that and burn is just really bad
so the the cope here is that uh i never see scold and i either just flinch or waylord
in caracosta like pick something else and i do not see it exactly if you can't see
it then it doesn't happen right?
I don't know if we've explained burn too much but
It's a status that literally halves your physical attack
And because we are a physical attacker
It really sucks!
I don't like it. Yeah, so we might be doing some dying in this
fight. Unfortunately there's no full restore available to us here. Well,
there is one but you have to go around the town and then go back.
It's just not worth it.
Yeah, a detour that is never worth it.
And then you unlock horror stories after beating the gym because why not?
So normally what most people do
is just eat a death
on that fight
because it's kind of
almost expected
with how much
it stacks against you.
We are looking
to get rid of
Pitub at some point
here before we kind of start the last plasma sequence in Giant Chasm.
So it's not the end-of-the-world if we have to sack Pidub at any point, but we'd like to be as optimal as possible so that just kinda depends depends on the situation what happens yeah reason being
there's a double battle and you don't want to have involved yes because earthquake doesn't
synergize well with it right i know just getting a ton of levels which
not good yeah levels despite how fast the battles are in Gen 5, um,
The like actually leveling up part is like
the slowest part by far.
It's so bad because you have
the level up zoom in on the Pokemon
and then it's like leveled up.
And if you have multiple of those
that does it multiple times,
It is very slow.
It's also like Level 2
and everything else right now
is like Level 50
So we'd be sitting there for a solid 3 minutes
The EXP scaling would also give it like just help me catch up even faster all right so here's where lord praying for rain dance or
flinch here scald is bad um yeah just flinch that's that's all it
is in this game it's just like
oh my god that is not great okay no burns i can kill it um the, that's fine. I can kill it.
The next one coming out is Paracosta.
I'm praying that it uses Shell Smash but there's no reason for it.
It should Scald.
It's gonna Scald yeah.
So I'm just going to end up Scalding.
Flinch is the only way out here which game
or a crit okay that's actually not helpful.
Alright. No luck going so far. That counts as a death by the way.
My cat! What?
Even though it's basically planned, but...
I wanna talk to my refs about what counts as a death.
Pidumb dying also counts as a death so...
So does the deaths on Charles
count as deaths?
Oh, true. All the triple battle deaths? Yeah!
Okay, okay. Maybe we're getting a little too late.
I feel like the debt collectors have just started knocking at my door.
Wait what about in 3 it's Jim?!
Or Coble because yeah, Charles... just started talking about my greatest gym i'll be good No big deal. I'll do it. Yeah, and Jellicent there's two paths you can do.
You can either flinch with Iron Head or you can go for a six in 16 ring- oh three in 16
ring sorry.
We're cool around here
it's fine to go for because it has a citrus berry
oh wait that cost me money crap i shouldn't have done that
i mean no i did it for the charity oh exactly oh this is like get it back up
because you can sign us okay okay It does come in pairs.
Yeah.
It's kinda messed up.
So this is an outfit where you just lose a lot of time even though you win it and
it's like a safe fight technically.
It sucks.
Yeah, it's not usually usually always winnable fight
But it's just very unfortunate when you're in an awkward situation with skull there
Basically just depends on what Wailord does. If you miss rock slide and manting then you can actually like just wipe
but it didn't happen.
That's the only really scary thing.
We got all eight badges! Surely we're near
the end of the game, right? Yeah, that's it.
You're like an hour
underestimate, dude.
You gotta beat the e4 and then you're done yeah that'll be like 15 minutes right yeah surely nothing bad will happen
surely we won't get sidetracked for 45 minutes i'm getting the dna splicers no big deal
uh they won't do anything evil with it goodbye yeah he's got a really funny like
so he exits from the back, but...
Yeah.
But just wait.
He's a fast swimmer.
Olympic swimmer out here?
Olympic swimmer.
Wait.
He is like sprinting right now yeah
it's you waiting still there oh hey i thought you went the other way what it's also really funny um this
conversation with marlon is like hey have you seen team plasma and he's like who the heck is
team plasmo he's like whatever my problem yeah he's like the water I've done my problem. Yeah he was like the water...
Everyone in the water is my friend are you sure that
Team Plasma is bad and all this stuff?
For how much lore they put into Black White 1
making the gym leaders involved in stopping team plasma it's such like a weird
contrast to just see marlon be absolutely i gotta revise
side up but it's just a weird contrast seeing how absolutely clueless he is
about what's going on with Team Plasma stuff.
But anywho, we're gonna revive Psyduck there because we do need Psyduck alive to
actually have a double play out as a double otherwise we are gonna get two single fights
back-to-back so... We're gonna're gonna revive side up there. We're going
to be doing something that's actually really new to White 2 mainboard categories
it's called Trainer Skip and there's a very equivalent in Black White 1 known as Plasma Skip.
But basically what's going to be happening is we're going to be manipulating Phenomenon
to effectively skip two trainers' field of vision.
So the catch here is that with like,
the shaking grass and rippling water
and all that stuff,
trainers can't actually see through it
so if we put one between us
and a trainer
we can effectively skip them and not
have to worry about battling them.
It only really is useful for these two trainers
here because they're the only ones that
have tiles of phenomenon that could happen.
And we're not even there yet.
Unfortunately, this is going to cost me money but...
Yeah I also want to make note
that this has not been seen before at a GDQ
I mean I ran Black and White 1 back in 2021 with Pulse
and White 2 was run way farther back than that. We knew of the phenomenon
back then but it was just too hard to find it.
Now it's a lot easier so this is really cool.
Yeah TTS is the only one who does
this so far in either any% or challenge mode.
On the English boards at least there
is one Japanese runner who has done trainer skipping.
There's obviously a pretty big risk with going for this.
It doesn't save you a tremendous amount of time but it is pretty good if you get it because yeah
obviously you're skipping trainers but you're doing this whole saving quick thing which also
eats up a good amount of time yeah so i would like quiet and please stay quiet until my couch
says you guys can clap which will be after the second phenomenon and the second trainer skipped so just
quiet mode for right now please I'm not sure if this is the right way to do it, but I'll try.
This is a a good idea.
And now we're back at the start of the game!.
That is how you do it.
It's really cool.
This strat saves about 20 seconds if it goes well.
There are still some after effects because you skip these trainers and lose like,
Some experience. And some of the fights become a little more difficult but ya know...
Yeah couple rangers becomes slightly worse but just get the ranger and it's not a problem right?
Yeah.
You might have missed the range anyway before so
It's not like making a range that wasn't arranged into a range, it's just making some ranges slightly worse
Right, and its by 1 in 16.
So that's how much, Tucker?
Oh 6.25%.
OK I don't know what you're talking about.
You got to make sure your mind is still sharp back there.
Yes yes. I can rattle off all 16 if you want but
you know...
Alright, I guess we get
victory donations for that too?
You've got it! We have $310
from Syflux.
Long time watcher, but first time catching GDQ live and able to donate!
Unfortunately I'm at work and can't watch the Pokemon run
But here's to giving hope one doctor at a time
Let's start by sending Cynthia's Pokemon
to Nurse Joy.
I like your thinking!
And we are down
to just about $5,000
away from that goal.
So we're getting real close.
Let's keep that momentum going Twitch chat.
We can crush it.
I know for sure.
We have $83 from Rustclad King for my favorite samurai duck Farfetched proof that birds are real and have swords
all right so this is frigate two because it's the second time we've been on the frigate
um here we're basically just going to
rock the boat for a while until we get kicked off.
That's kind of a trend for some reason. They just
let us hang around for a while. I forgot the max
speed there but that's not a huge issue.
I just have extra earthquake now.
But the whole stick here is that we're gonna have to figure out what the password is there's like a whole puzzle they're basically like
the worst trained in cybersecurity team I've ever seen.
Because we can just walk around and they tell us how to do everything, it's so great.
What is my password? great.
What's my password?
I don't know,
you never told me.
I'm getting stage fright.
Really?
Maybe it's Reshiram.
Hold on, hold on.
I can help you here.
No.
So it's one of five things... It's 2202.
There's one of five things that it can be.
It can be 2202- 7707, 9909
the words Reshram or the word Zekrom so obviously the number passwords are
the fastest because they're really short only four digits long
and the number ones are really long because um obviously you have
to punch in way more text and also because the default keyboard is like a b c d e f
you can switch to a 40 keyboard along the bottom if you want,
so it's much faster.
But ideally,
you just have a password that has a better password than fresharmers.com.
I don't have an earthquake.
That is actually a problem
I'm just gonna Ironhead
Baratheon
Did you just say the numbered passwords are really long?
I might've missed something
You heard it here first, folks.
The numbered passwords are really long and you don't want them.
Let's get some Regeram and Zekrom passwords out there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Samurott dying is like whatever
hello and president nice to meet you this is new knowledge
just gonna iron head trap yrapadour because I know I can kill it.
And then hopefully Unfezant does literally anything.
Surely we'll pick an attacking move here.
Oh, not that one though!
That is not the one you want.
But that is a two turn move.
Alright well we have the max ether now
We can use that
Actually my iron heads are kinda screwed from that
I'm tempted to just take the bed heel.
Oh yeah you can do that.
It's probably fine then, yeah?
Actually no, that's a terrible idea because the pit-up is dead.
I should not do that.
Oh my gosh.
I am sorry. I'm sorry.
Yeah it means you gotta donate more money if that happens.
True!
Yeah... yeah.
Oh I think that uh Samurai Death counts by the way.
What?! It's not even mine!
It's not even mine!
No! It's not even mine!
It was under your watch.
At 830, it wouldn't have happened.
I still probably would've killed it.
That would've been
your fault then
which I guess is worse.
Can we do like a half That would have been your fault then, which I guess is worse.
Can we do like a half? You can put a half.
Like half a tally?
Yeah, I'm gonna add a few tallies when you're out looking so...
There we go! Half-tallie.
Tucker, I'm trusting you to keep those two honest back there on the counts.
Looks good to me.
I don't know.
We're getting information by just battling these trainers.
Again, we do just know the password, but we can't put it in yet.
Yeah.
So this one gives us the key card and just says figure out the password by yourself.
There's a bunch of others that you would fight to
like actually get clues.
It's supposed to be like a
whole puzzle thing.
I didn't mention it before but
how do you know your password is actually
based off of your trainer ID
so when you're routing your TPG minutes at the beginning
You always have to keep an eye on your trainer ID
to make sure that's a password that you're acceptable using
so mine just happens to be the most optimal 2202 is the best and 9909
is the worst of the number passwords because um zero and two are like right
next to each other so it's really easy to punch them in.
Another clutch thing about Gen 5 is that as a lefty, like menuing is so free for me because
I get access to all of the ABXxy which do a lot of functions for navigating
the bag and stuff it's just you know left hands just have it built different here yeah
because sometimes you want to be able to like mash do touch screen menus, but right handed players they just
kind of have no ergonomic way to do that.
I was born for this game.
Yeah left-handed...
I didn't know you were left handed.
I am.
You've been staring at my DS for like two hours.
No, I've been staring at your screen for two hours.
Oh, this is fair.
I can't see anything on that DS.
I don't even anything on that DX.
Anyway, so this is another true double with Hugh.
Hugh has Aqua Tail now and he'll actually be inclined to use it
The only problem is that Aqua Tail is like 85 accurate?
890 accurate, which means
its zero accurate because its Hugh
and Hugh is just not a helpful partner whatsoever.
Yep.
So the dream here is
that he lands both his Aqua Tails,
and then I will Earthquake the last two
to kind of clean things up?
I'm gonna say
before I hand it back over to the host.
If you're worried about your account, you can always just PC heal on your way back?
Uh...I could.
I think I'm okay because I'll have the elixir and I think the elixir will carry me.
Okay, you're good for donations?
Fantastic! We've got $25 from Bulbasaur who says
Buh buh buh buh buh sir! who says we also have a hundred dollars from Sterner sterner stock voltorb is number 100 but consider this 100 bubble swimmers
yeah cts was kind of low on Iron Heads now.
I think with the extra EQs that I have though, I should be okay.
I'm just gonna prioritize using EQ more later.
And if I need to, I have Rock Slide in a pinch normally you want five iron heads two eqs
like one of each of them that's not my fault that's another half though.
I guess. That's a full tally, I guess.
I guess.
Oh hi Simisave.
You got a full one? You should kill that too!
No!
Get the rockslide there, get the bug
Save some TP side there because the bug. Yeah, I pretty nice say some EP either killed
Samara before no camera wasn't
missing Aqua tail because of course it did
yeah, so normally like
we like ends cleanly right?
Yeah. Usually you get Spolipede and Weavile at the same time
And then just Q and everyone dies
Although weaviles like a 14-16 I think
You just never bank on that happening
So anyway, Q and Zunzalalon are going to go back and forth about Purloins, DNA splicers, naughty stuff.
How about some donations while we watch Team Plasma snap all their backs collectively as they shoot out of the sky.
Absolutely, we have $25 from OmegaMurr who simply says fight her and we are 4214 Fight her.
And we are $4,214 away from that fight Cynthia goal. We're so close!
Five dollars from Hivemind who says, I just love GDQ.
I get it, Hivemind, I do too.
$26 from Graheim, always have to donate for my favorite Pokemon Ra Raichu, during any Pokemon run.
We also have
$25 from Symphonic Guy.
We cannot let a
Pokemon White 2 speedrun go by without being terrified by those piano notes on Cynthia's theme.
Let's reach that goal!
P.S., Absol's cry does sound like owo.
Oww...
Hello.
I saw we're almost at 36,000 for the Cynthia right?
We are yes that is right we are at $35,796.19.
We can get there.
We can absolutely get there.
I believe in you chat.
We have $48.70 from A Veritable Feast who says says, Donating for my favorite Pokemon,
Giratina.
When a game allows you
to pet a mythical winged demon bug,
it's easy to fall in love with that.
Is Giratina a bug though?
It's kind of like centipede-y.
Honorary bug, yeah.
I've never thought about it like that before with the six lights.
Hytrakion by Thracian.
Had to be at least one in a Gen 5 run.
Phenomenon, baby!
Yeah, this is one of the areas where it's so likely
to just like...run into the grass
because it's just so narrow
and you can't really get out of the way.
Yeah, there is no time to react.
More of this right now.
Also notice how it's like one tile wide here?
Nothing bad will happen I'm going to go one tile wide here.
Nothing bad will happen, no? No, no, I definitely won't give up another $5.
I've already given up so many at this point.
You're basically paying at this point to do this run.
I know!
Time for a couple more? Go for it.
We have $39.30 from Top Water-type Trainer,
in honor of my favorite Pokémon Piplup!
First in person GDQ and I'm having a blast!
Let's have a totally easy time fighting Cynthia!
I didn't hear
that one.
We gotta check the tapes.
Yeah, roll the tapes back on that one.
$8.45
from Bookworm214, a donation for 845 Cramorant.
His head is empty but his heart is full of love.
His mouth is full of Ericuda and Pikachu.
We have five dollars from scoodaloo who says second time donating here
but i just had to donate for the second time during a pokemon run
and by the way what does an electric type pokemon say when they get gassy while drinking milk?
I'm Zapdos
Intolerance.
What?
I don't know why that one really gets me.
Oh my gosh.
Oh my
gosh.
You guys are haters.
I can't explain why of all the puns
that one gets me so much.
Oh!
That's actually clutch because that gives me an Iron Head back,
so that's really nice.
Maybe we should be counting deaths for all those times TTS kills Pokemon.
No!
So yeah, we're just fighting...
Can we fight Zinzalin again here?
In a little bit, yes.
There is going to be a double coming up
that we call an ambush double because
it happens right as you go through a door
and the Team Plasma Grunts make like a big deal
out of ambushing us.
They also have like the funniest dialogue ever.
I'm gonna mash a little slower so that you guys can see what they say
because honestly, like the quotes live in my head rent free
and I didn't even realize I quote them so often as a kid or even like today until
like, I started running this game again and like oh that's where I started getting those
phrases from and stuff. But anyway...
I have a funny story about this place from when
I was a kid. Go ahead. So in Black and White 1
I had no idea Kyurem was here and when I was going through this
and got to the end, I got jump scared
really bad just screaming.
Am I just like here?
I'm just chilling out?
It does its cry in the middle of the place
when you get to a certain tile.
And that scared the living heck out in the middle of the place when you get to a certain tile. Oh yeah, let me do that.
And that scared the living heck out of me!
I forgot about that, yeah...
Yeah, someone's like
Quai has been
ambushed or something. Something really weird.
Here's the fight
where it was really important
to have a very specific
party set up here, yeah?
Yeah, if I have
Pit of Alive
then I can't take care of it.
I could burn a turn
with Swords Dance
and just let Scraggy
and Trubbish
take care of it but it's really slow to do that.
And I'd still have to kill Psyduck so it's better to kill it up earlier.
It's much better to use as a double battle so we're keeping the Psyduck alive. Yadda yada yadda.
Yeah cause even if we had one Poke Alive
it's still a required fight so we would just
fight them one-on-one.
So it is marking the side of.
This upcoming Scrafty is
one of the things that benefits from Challenge Road. It's no longer
a range. Yeah, this thing has high jump kick
and would absolutely demolish me at this health if
it wasn't. It's a range?
If it was a range in normal mode, it's not in Challenge.
Without Swords Dance because
yeah, a lot of But without Swords Dance, because...
Oh!
Yeah a lot of people do Swords Dance
Yeah a lot of people Swords Dance
In Normal Mode to get rid of the range
Which is perfectly understandable
Oh you should have learned Fissure for Cynthia
You can't escape that Can I buy a bunch of X Accuracies too? I'm going to say this one a little out of order, it's a $7 donation.
How about some love for the trans icon Sylveon?
Also...fight me!
Is that donations from Cynthia?
She's throwing it down we are 3200. donations from Cynthia.
She's throwing it down.
We are $3,277 away from that goal. Let's get
there! Yeah, let's do it.
How do you like Sylveon?
I like Sylveon i like sylvian okay
i think it's not a complete hater of everything
eevyolutions you literally called them all like awful like two seconds ago
they're like if it's on Jolteon, it sucks.
I think I'm being lied to.
So this is the Plasma Frigate again but inside of it now.
That guy can be kind of silly because there's a one one tile kind of range there to get past them but this is
kind of just a puzzle section obviously tts knows how to do the puzzle so
just kind of executing it just has to hit all these buttons to turn off
the barrier you You just gotta
be really careful with your movement here, at least make a small
mistake and actually find a trainer
but other than that, pretty fine
I do like this area a lot, it's pretty cool
It's got a good theme too.
Yes.
Makes me nervous.
Time for donation?
Go for it.
$78 from Malice.
Listen up!
My favorite Rapidash, it's
cute, lovely
smart
plus amazing
You think so?
Oh, yes!
It's stunning.
Kindly love it, hug it when sleeping.
Warm and cuddly, spectacular, ravishing...
Oops, look at the time I kept you for too long thanks for hearing me out I want you to have this I deserve a candy for that
thanks for the bike voucher oh hey there's a thing.
Yeah, ignoring that physical latency trying to get up on the platform
there and get the elixirs.
That was awesome.
So Zinzalon is really easy.
Ice Shard is a bit of a problem because it's priority that we've always kind of had to deal with that with, um, Lui Val at this point.
I'm gonna be doing a heal for Chorus after this cause my health is kinda on the worst side so...
What actually am I sitting?
Oh, I'm sitting fine in terms
of PP because I'm just going to...
Actually, I could Rock Slide Weavile and do Chloris Elixir
but that's not worth it here except
for the deal. Do you have three earthquakes right now uh yeah no yes not two
i can still rock slide we've always gonna take them both away because pressure you could rocks
like we've allen kill it but i'm not going to do chorus elixir basically um there's a strat
where you can elixir during the cloris fight instead of right before it and it gives you
one extra earthquake because um your one short otherwise don't have to make it up
but because i have to heal already
It's just not worth doing it because
I'm still likely gonna have to heal at some point anyway
And doing both the heal and the elixir like outside of battle
is faster than doing both in-battle so
Yeah. In this case it's not even correct to like do chorus elixir right
folks we've passed 37 000 out of that 40 000 goal
we are so close you're doing a great job. Let's keep it up.
Awesome. Did I see four fresh waters?
You only get four in the run. Did I just never use a freshwater?
That's funny.
Apparently, I'm all out of supers though.
I think you used one on the Charon that died.
I think that was it.
Oh yeah.
What's this guy doing here?
What the heck?
Yeah, I thought
this guy was like
flying.
Thought he was a good guy!
Chicks.
All right,
so now it's time
for counting with Chloris.
I hope you guys have studied.
Yeah.
See, he's actually with Team Plasma, but his whole thing was a...
I don't know.
But anyway, we're into Chloris.
I love this theme
This theme is awesome. This theme is amazing
This fight's pretty chill, there's just like
sturdies annoying mostly
Sturdies and air balloons keep me from one-shotting most of them
Air balloons! It's usually just Iron head and earthquake and you know pray for flunches
what is air balloon so air balloon prevents a pokemon that would normally be hit with a ground
move from taking any damage until the balloon gets popped. So we'll use
an Iron Head to pop the balloon, and that will kind of ground
Kling Lang, which is who has it
so he can actually PQ it and kill
it off.
Yeah, pretty cool item. We're getting to that late game part where we're just going to see more items on these bosses and they are going to be pretty annoying especially because we're in challenge mode.
Right.
Yeah, it's just these little splinters that like save you two seconds. Yeah yeah yeah.
They add up through the run.
For sure.
So nice!
My four three two one more any chorus theme enjoyers in the audience
oh yeah there's the air ballooning to the sex pop-up yeah so fun fact you can, you can see the text pop up. Yeah.
So fun fact, you can go into play with an air balloon like Zarua that looks
like Pignite and even though it says the text on screen,
Clay can't read that and we'll just keep trying to
bulldoze your air ballooned zurua that looks like a fake knife and you can just 20 shot all this
pokemon i may or may not know this from experience
if it doesn't take like what 20 times to do pwt even
like you get hair balloon without doing yeah yeah you can get it from uh
yeah it's in that it seems it's in the same building where you get the iron
head it's like upstairs oh
i did not know that i'm learning new things every day
what are some good dude learning about this game?
There we go, and that's Colerest.
Pretty chill, that's the big bad boss of Team Plasma sort of.
We will fight another big bad boss pretty soon
but we gotta go through a bunch of grunts again here also this girl runs away
because he realizes you're too strong very smart that's the smartest character in pokemon history
he has no pokemon also check out gets us a sick gamer style.
Dude...
Count the monitors!
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
You got fifteen monitors!
Think about all of the GDQ streams and restreams that you could be watching
right now. Shout out to the restreamers, by the way.
Got time for a victory donation?
Of course. $59.50
from Arisa. My donation for the best pokemon joltik he's just a little guy
a little guy that'll ruin you after you get staggered
and 25 from canthia donating in solidarity as a fellow person who got jumpscared by Kyurem.
$10 from Flocker 10.
Snorlax is the best because they're just so real.
So real for that.
So real.
Snorlax is so real
for that.
I know we got a
Snorlax in there
right here.
I do love Snorlax, he's a good Pokemon.
You know what else is a good Pokemon?
My cat! Yeah!
We in fact have a donation from
my cat, $25
for my favorite Pokemon Haunter.
That's not its number, but it evolves from Ghastly at level 25.
I think we should have a ghost Pokemon themed game
because ghost Pokemon need love too.
Absol listen.
Oh my god!
They just...
That is amazing.
It was pretty funny.
How are we looking on that Cynthia?
We are so close to $39,000.
We're at $38,900 and 49 cents.
We are closing in.
Let's do that crowd.
They want that Cynthia fight.
We all want that Cynthia fight!
She's taunting us through donations!
We are now only $400 away from that goal!
And TTS did say if we hit the incentive, he won't use any setup moves during this round.
That's true! I heard him say that.
What can I do at this point?
Win.
Zora with pink night!
We have $250 from Danielle
My cat go brrrr! Trans rights.
$194
from Luna Mora donating for the
one true favorite whooper.
Let's show Cynthia a super-whooper good time and show that champion she is no
big whoop. $25 from Pikachu.
Pikachu! Pika, Pikachu!
Translation, this goes to the Cynthia incentive.
I want to see a good clean fight.
Yeah, no set of moves,
no X items,
no healing,
no cheating.
So lore update.
It turns out that one of the Shadow Triad members
stole a purloin from his pressure like two years ago
and it just so happens to be here.
That purloin is kind of hanging out at the top of the screen as uh he was and he's kind of like shooken up at his uh this quest has finally
finished but i am getting punched by an Felgor with me first.
Okay, anyway.
That's fine.
So we're coming near the end of Routine Plasma stuff.
Almost.
Oh! Oh! Close.
Real quick, we have a $700 donation from Muriel. Best Eeveelution, Sylvian! It's very good. Understandable.
It's the one... I almost called you Eevee. It's the one Swiftlight. And a $1089 donation from Ed E. Ott
I couldn't choose between Salamence, Rotom or him on top
So i'm just gonna donate for all of them
I'm going to go for swag stairs here.
Swag?
I don't know what that means.
Oh, I didn't get it.
Those little stairs there you can
You get traction on them again so you can go down
with the full speed of the bike to say like a couple frames
but if you miss it and you can go straight back down yeah that's a lot
more time the first time i tried it and no
I don't do it again. I got it in practice yesterday, or two years ago for the fun of it but...
Anyway. Getsys is very annoyed with us at this point and has taken Kyurem from
the ship
and put it into a cave.
Because I guess for some reason in this cave,
its just gonna have to power
to freeze the whole world or something rather.
I don't know, I don't play Pokemon.
I want to point out by the way
that this is the only time
where a character actually tries to kill you
in a pokemon game that should count for the tally but you don't actually die wait oh spoiler
y'all ruined it.
But it is wild to see this from a Pokemon game.
Fusion player!
From RushRam?
No, it can't be that guy.
Who could it be? It can't be!
It's the best theme in the game!
Honestly true though.
Only plays for like 5 seconds of Black and White. Yeah yeah for all 40 seconds it plays
it's uh it's the little green here guy
you know this character this alwaysuses me because at the end of...
We just hit that incentive!
We are going to be fighting Cynthia at the end of this run,
thank you so much everyone,
that's $40,000 for Doctors Without Borders! Thank you for doctors without borders thank you
thank you guys are all amazing let's go
we got a floating olive to celebrate yeah or
or orb oh What is that?
This looks good.
This is three minutes of cut scenes
I get to finally rest my hands
While we're doing these
cutscenes, I have a question for you TTS.
Yes?
You've been Gen 5's strongest soldier for several years now right?
About a year and a half.
Why have you been running these games as long as you can
and put yourself through the misery of this category for as long as you have and put yourself through the misery of this category
for as long. An unhealthy addiction? Okay.
That's fair. No,
I loved Gen 5 as a kid.
I kind of started falling out of playing Pokemon right as Gen 6
started and Gen 5 was on the way
out the door. And I really liked
playing White 2 as a kid, but I
never got to play it as much
as I wanted to. So kind of started entertaining the idea
of getting into speed running pokemon i was like hey uh why not i just pick the absolute hardest
one you get started in yeah and uh And, you know, a year and
a half later I'm kind of the guy that everyone goes to
now with minute questions so it's
pretty fun to see how quickly you can
progress in a run in such short
time so if you've ever been, ever been scared of running a game before
because it seems so intimidating,
You can do it!
You just gotta give yourself the time and patience
to explore and try things out
and ask questions and try to figure things out and ask questions
and try to figure things
out on your own.
And most importantly,
engage with the community
because I was really shy
to engage with the
community at first
but once I started
to get to learn
some of your faces back here,
and even on the lovely couch behind me
through all due support
it became a lot easier
to get motivated to play this game because then i can compare against a
lot of the people that i uh used to watch before i got into speed running although i will admit
that transition from being like like a hardcore likeurker viewer to most of you and then become on equal footing with all of you was weird as heck.
Because showing up at GDQ and being like, hey...
Hey, I know you now!
Yeah, I followed you for four years.
You have no idea who I am, but I'm starting
to run the game. Yeah, I remember.
I didn't know who you were and then one day
I think I saw you in a chat or something or I saw you doing
a run and I just checked and was like, oh, you're already run and I was just checking. Oh, you're already like top four in Black Might 1?
Okay cool!
That's awesome.
Good lesson there.
Pokemon Speedrunning is awesome is awesome community is great definitely
check it out we'll talk more about where you can
learn more at the end of the run but yeah definitely check it out and uh
now this abomination's in front of us yeah it is funny too because like
i know that you got into speedrunning
Ecchi from watching this run specifically.
Yeah well I got into Pokémon speed running from watching the GDQX
Run of Challenge Mode, cause I was looking for a new run to learn
Cause I'd just been running KH3 and I saw the
run live at TwitchCon, so I thought this is cool.
I'm going to try Pokemon.
And then I did it for four years.
Funny how that comes full circle.
Yeah weird. I don't like it
turbo blaze turbo blaze not just blaze it's like her like buffed up has no relation to blazing
this isn't a range and challenge mode right um it's very like yeah so the kiram has random stats and if
it has like absolutely cracked hp defense in a plus defense nature it can live an iron head
but in challenge mode it's a very rare thing to have happen because you have
a couple extra levels compared to normal mode um but it still technically can't
happen i don't think i've seen anyone in challenge mode...
And I never missed it, no. Yeah, I've never missed it either so...
But there are also not a lot of Challenge Mode runners because of the absurdity of this category
as evidenced by my tally count okay so far like the category is
awful plus like you need uh some way of playing black too as well which isn't it yeah but now
we're finding dennis so that's cool.
Let's get the text.
All right, that's good if I burned an earthquake there
I would have had a bit of a problem
But we are all good here.
That's funny
Hope you all have your Dennis chats ready.
True. Also, you do get fully healed here before this fight.
Tripped up on my words.
So yeah super chill. If you haven't noticed by the way we're already like 10 to 15 levels higher than basically everything at this point
The lucky egg is finally really kicking in here and showing what an extra 50%P boost does over the course of like
an hour and a half.
Yeah, we're just going to be pretty high level for the rest
of this run.
I guess Cynthia will be a little more normalized but even with
all the extra levels doesn't mean these fights are free or safe
they still can be pretty scary
yeah
that Electros
is particularly scary
because it has
Flamethrower
which does do like
three quarters of her health
because of course it does
and because Flamethrower
also has the chance to burn if we get burned we're in a really bad position
because both pittov and syduck are dead right now so i'd have to do some shenanigans
you're fully healed yeah they are, you're right. Thank you.
But it still would have been an awkward process to kind of get set back up because I don't
have like easy means of using Swords Dance at least without risking another burn chance so... and then he's like, I'm gonna go to the back of the tower.
And that was a nice thing about
sword dance at least without risking
another burn chance so it's just
a nightmare to miss that
Electros as well trying to get out but there is Dennis Dunn which means Plasma is no more.
Would you like a victory donation? Of course! We have $10.06 from FoxAct. Hello SGDQ, happy day! have ten dollars and six cents from fox act hello sgq happy to be donating for another great year
these 10.6 are for the true robot trans icon iron valiant who says you can't
be who you want to be, even if you're a robot
brought from the future with the intent to destroy things? Trans rights!
We also have $70.40 from anonymous, donating 70-40 for the coolest dragon of them all, Komo-o!
Pokemon Black and White 2 are truly incredible entries that help show me the value of all the little things
in games. Let's go throw mud slabs
in Cynthia's face.
240,000 to go, chat. Can we get there?
Alright, so Team Plasma's done.
We're gonna escape rope out.
It might have looked really weird when we first entered
that I kind of went to this exit here
but it's just the escape rope brings me a little closer
because we have to leave to the left side here
So if I didn't like checkpoint that before going through the whole um Oh, you just want to take my money. Help me.
Oh my gosh.
Hey!
Actually in practice I had one spawn 1 tile above that
as I went to talk to the water, so I had to say no and
change where I was. This is my least favorite spinner.
I hate this spinner. He's passed him twice
and you have like one tile leeway.
That's also
like the one there with a little more right there.
There's one more thing I think that was the same one.
No, because I got on the water.
Does anyone have it?
I think it stays though.
I thought I heard the water one again.
Yeah we won't count it. It didn't go away when you got home. I think it stays. Not so. I thought I heard the water one again.
Yeah, we won't count it.
Okay.
It didn't go away when you got on the water.
Oh, never mind then.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I just heard the effect and I thought it sounded like the one because there's
a slightly different noise when it first spawns,
and then it kind of has like a slightly
different noise that loops endlessly.
And I thought I heard the first noise.
Anyway, badge check!
Yeah, the spinner you pass is
the annoying one is like the worst one to hit too. I'm going to go with the badger. Badge check.
The spinner you pass is
like, the annoying one is
the worst one to hit too.
It's got a Moga and Jellicent disabled moves and time lost by you.
Yeah, the correct in like it
like has an emoga that can't hurt
you so it should like withdraw
into jellison so like
You should be clicking earthquake on
Emoga and it's weird because of
It just doesn't move bro right yeah yeah except an early operation there but you have all eight badges you did
it yeah we can finally enter the Victory Road.
I think that this victory road theme clears like every single other one
especially the black white one with the badge build up.
I like I will swear swear that is the objectively best
hero team.
I'm glad that one agrees with me.
I like the Hoenn one better.
Hoenn one? It's okay.
Hoenn one's okay. It's better than
Sinnoh.
Nooo...
I think the Gen 1 one is worse because of the generic one.
Anywho this turn is pretty good. Yeah. The rest I don't really remember.
Anywho, this Drifblim's gonna spam Stockpile.
I've had this Drifblim go to like plus 3 defense with Stockpile
and then use a move called Batten Pass
to swap into Claydol And that's really bad because Claydol is super bulky defensively. And putting additional defense on top of it
is horrible especially when this thing has Earth Power. That's kind of like one
of those freak situations though where you have to to nest two rock slides for that to happen.
But it's still one of those things that you're just like... why?
Anyway, so here is the only reason we need to use strength.
At least one of two reasons we need strength is for this push boulder here.
This Psyduck's so strong.
Yeah, Psyduck is a tank as evidenced by the death counter being half Psyduck
Alright very chill spinner there. You have to be pretty precise in your movement here, it's a little bit tighter than it looks.
Yeah you can only be one tile away from the tree
Yeah you have to be up against those trees to not get seen
Funny movement there not get seen
funny movement there to get the spinner set up 100 not safe but we're just going to go for it this winner is deaf so you can
run fast yeah full restore on the rock and we're gonna fight
this trainer because uh the one on top spins but this one doesn't so i have to fight them
and then a little tricky spinner pass after this fight.
Yeah, this is the last spinner though it's just kind of unfortunate we don't really have
a good setup for him because of like how its set up here
It's too narrow to try and do anything crafty
Yeah, Zviker Road's pretty fast overall. There's a bunch of fights
but the movement sections are really, really quick
between the fights.
So how about
a couple donations for us?
You got it. We've had $25 from Jay, loving the event so far.
I have been watching PDQ for years but this one feels extra special
for me as its the last one before I become a dad.
I can't wait to have a little buddy to watch future events with! Keep up the awesome
work, let's get that Cynthia fight which we did! Thank you again."
Congrats on Spitterless!
Thanks. It's actually really crucial to not get extra XP in challenge mode.
Too much can be a problem with the E4.
This is the one scarier room, this is where true gamers show their colors.
Totally fine.
It's so hard.
They, of course, shrink your vision in a room that has like It's so hard. It is so...
They, of course, shrink your vision in a room that has the most amount of turns possible.
Yeah and dust clouds too.
You could just hear one and have no idea where it is, just start panicking.
Yeah because how much... So like an item's fine
but like an encounter in a desktop
is like 20 seconds right?
12 to 15 I want to say it is
Like 15-ish
is usually what I just lump it to.
That kind of stinks, so that's not good. You don't want that?
No and only the dust clouds
and like the shadows on the bridges can give us items
everything else is guaranteed to be an encounter
If we could getting a a like steel gem from
the cloud would be actually really sick. It's possible to manip one but
the time it saves versus the time it takes to manipulate just doesn't seem worth
it on paper at least time that I've kind of
peeked at it. Sturdy there, so
we're rock sliding to try to flinch. Didn't work
out. The challenge mode you are still faster
after a rock slide. Yeah, that's actually really
nice here because you want to have more health.
We're at level 70 by the way!
And we've not started the Elite Four just for clarity.
It's kind of crazy how high-level you for this category with and again all the pokemon are
higher level too and they're still not even close to where we're at yeah which is pretty incredible
so how about a couple more donations to take us through this fight?
Absolutely! We've got $25 from Katie Ghosty.
$25 for my favorite underrated trans pride slug baby shellos. Pink and white or
white and blue, all forms are perfect.
Shell, shell, shallows!
Okay, east or west form?
We just said all
forms are perfect. I know but like like which ones are you fitting there?
They're perfect! But you gotta have a favorite.
The pink and brown's so cool.
Oh that's not great. Okay don't remember which one it is.
Okay the pink and brown one whatever that is.
Alright, flinched anyway.
We also have $501 from Eric asks
I've never played any of the black and white games but
I did choose 501 Oshawott as my starter in my playthrough of Pokemon Legends RCS.
Same!
I was Cyndaquil.
Oh speaking of Cyndaquil we have $25 from Podling152 joining the favorite Pokemon bandwagon.
Cyndaquil's the best Pokemon by far.
It's the Pokemon I care the most about and I will own it for the rest of my life.
It drives my decisions in any game that has it.
It alone could send Cynthia's team to Lavender Town."
Alright, last rival fight here. We only fight them five times which is nice
because in Black White 1 you fight your rivals like half a dozen times each.
Just praying for no swagger here? Alright that's unfortunate. I have full heals to take care of it though.
Otherwise, everything else is pretty easy. Everything goes down in one shot here.
We're kind of coming up to the E4.
The E4 is where the
challenge and challenge mode really starts to ramp up again.
The teams and movesets
that are in
E4 are absolutely cracked
Um, the first one we're gonna be
taking care of is Mars, just because it's...
We're kind of in the best situation for the best outcomes
for dealing with that fight. Basically what we're gonna be hoping for
is that we flinch as much
as possible because in a similar situation the clay uh
marshall has speed dropping issues that you have
to be careful of.
Mainly with Bulldoze and Rock Tomb off of throw, so we never
really get an opportunity to set up
because we're going to have to swap to get our speed back and immediately after
um throw is me and chow with high jump kick which absolutely annihilates us so
he can't set up on me and chow either. So then third comes out Conquilder,
and Conquilder is a problem because it's holding
a Flame Orb and has the ability Guts
which means that it deals a crap
ton of damage when it's burned
because Guts instead of penalizing you for being burned
actually doubles your attack power or something
ridiculous like that. So
Conquilter just does a crap ton of damage
to us. So we're really praying for the
flinch here. If we don't flinch,
We are praying that we did just not enough damage with Iron Head
Such that Iron Head plus a tick from Burn will cause Marshall to heal
Otherwise we'll lose more time
This is absolutely going to be a safety save here because I can
very easily get wiped here.
Very scary fight.
You could run through all of your 5s.
This was like the scariest fight in the rest of the game.
This fight is such a make it or break it fight in KPSM.
I mean, I know myself, I've flinched three times in my World Record games.
Your World Record run was quite a bit behind going into the E4 wasn't it?
You just completely clutched it out with getting every single range and everything that could happen.
Well, it wasn't perfect but you know this is what I want.
TTS saying it's all luck and no skill
hey i've been trying to take the record it's just been a little slow for me
anyway yeah martial time
as described.
Very scary.
A lot of sturdy.
A lot of
bangs for flinches.
Banger theme
that induces
just complete anxiety.
Yeah.
It's so good
and then the red barb thing ruins it true i know that oh
that's a great oh we need to flinch with that let's go.
See, no, that was skill.
Okay.
No luck involved needed.
I don't remember if I got a crit in mines, but you know... Hey.
This is looking like better luck here. Hey. Anyhow.
This is looking like better luck here for TTS.
Better skill?
Better skill, sorry.
All right.
Okay no such luck that time.
Yeah, that's going to be healed.
That's gonna be yeah that's gonna be down that's going to be healed for sure actually
so there's the flame orb that was mentioned by tts now the attack is even
higher this poor dove he's going out though i already got it perfect so using those
max values really clutch stone edge storm It would have been bad.
Yeah, okay.
Marshall's healing.
Yeah, so we're going to heal here because now it is below 25% HP.
Is it just Floor Restore or...? Yeah, it's a Floor Restore.
Oh, that's actually cool.
Yeah, it's fine.
Getting rid of the burns and no more guts i mean we're getting
that we're gonna get it back yeah yeah yeah well take the team right right all right so there's
conqueror done so just like the gym leaders,
The E4s all also get an extra poke except for the champion
Because she already has a full team.
Marshall's new poke is the Kario but the Kario is a joke
He just EQ'ed onink guys. Yeah, steal type moment.
So it's basically the same as normal mode except you're begging even more for clutches and crits so...
I would really like a flinch here,icking at full HP would be really clutch actually.
It's good that the gift you max revives because all these attacks do more than half.
Yeah, the max revives as a gift is actually really clutch from Root and Giant Castle.
They give you a lot of nice items in this run just for free,
just doing the story stuff which is pretty cool.
Yeah, which is nice.
Which is why we don't have to do any shopping
for like full restores or anything at the end.
You shop at like the one-and-a half hour mark
and then never
yeah it's ridiculous well that's marshall
yay the fear one down four to go yeah one death is not too terrible.
So Grimsley's going to lead,
Lippard has fake out and it's always going to click at turn one
so on the fake-out turn I'm just gonna use my Max Elixir
to get my PP restored and that'll take care of the rest of the run here um it also
has a normal gem which will buff fake out a little bit but it's not going to be too big of a threat
um it'll just start clicking night slash after fake out as well so tight great
chance there i'm just need to be a little bit higher health so that um i don't have
to worry too much about the last pokemon that'll come out which is uh bishop
bishop has a quick claw of all things so it's just got a one in five chance to outspeed me naturally
yeah this life heart becomes faster because of Unburn and its ability.
Oh! That's the crit.
Yeah that's the crit. This is gonna be...
Okay, it's scary.
Yeah I'm just going to heal on Basharp to be safe.
Basharp doesn't actually do a ton of damage but
Just because of the 1 in five chance to like get hit with uh yeah xd
definitely definitely want to heal this.
You have to heal anyway for the next fight.
Yeah, it would just be nice to heal on the next fight.
Depending on pace you might consider risking this but
It's a rough situation to be in i don't remember
exactly how much the shark does so we're gonna hear it again oh that's right yeah grmsley gets up so in challenge mode again
jenna's supposed for the not giving me that knowledge
all right so here's that heal.
You could use your fresh waters finally.
I could!
Oh, good call.
Yeah, keep forgetting this is the gen where high-proportional
to still 200 HP.
Super, super powerful.
Gen 6?
I know it's definitely gen 7 but...
I think gen 6 is where it got nerfed.
But that's two dams, so we can get victory donations.
You got us!
We have $149 from Don Juan, who says donating for the cutest dragon
who could still destroy buildings, Dragonites.
Yes. This fight is kind of slept on, quite literally.
Gen 4 reference by the way because she's technically in the battle frontier
in gen four and she's in this game too which is wild yeah but yeah she came into late four remember
it's really cool yeah caitlyn she's sleepy so her leader's masharna masharna has hypnosis
but it's also holding a um zoom lens is it that increases accuracy yeah it's holding a zoom lens, is it? That increases accuracy.
Yeah.
It's holding whatever the lens is that increases accuracy.
Wide lens?
I think that's what it is.
Wide lens, yes.
So yeah, so it does have a little bit higher than normal hypnosis hit accuracy yeah so kind of unfortunate here but it's
okay i'm just really hoping that it clicks dream eater now instead of reflect uh well
that's perfect because otherwise I would have to set up another sword stance.
And then risk it for hypnosis.
Right.
In challenge mode, Musharna has hypnosis but in normal mode it has yawn and with yawn
it is pretty much a consistent fight
yeah yon is a little more consistent yeah because you just set up twice and then full resort
he's so great maybe should haveed through this fight now, right?
Yeah everything is a one shot now
Caitlyn gets a Metagross
in addition to her normal mode team
It does hold life orb
but we never give it a chance to attacks but we don't have
to worry about that as bullet punch you could but like
it just yeah it has bullet punch if you ignore healing
but you need like less than like 30 hp for it to click bullet punch because
you need to be below the mineral.
Otherwise it'll just go for, like, Hammer Arm I think is what its most powerful move is.
Did you mention why you're doing
the E4 in this order?
So we're doing Marshall first, because we're in a nice range where we aren't just going to throw Conkeldurr into healing right away.
Because that's supposed to be a big problem.
Grimsley is second, cause he's kind of a free fight and lets us use our Max Elixir to take care of everything else
because otherwise we're going to run out of moves.
Caitlyn is next just because it makes the most sense
because the last is Chantal.
Now, the reason that Chantal is last is because we're basically all the way up to this point have been making sure that Excredible gets all the experience and EVs that it needs in speed, because this chandelier is holding a Choice Scarf,
which drastically improves your speed
at the cost of locking you into one move.
And Chandelure has Fire Blast
and with the special effectiveness it'll absolutely one-shot us with it.
We can't really stall because that's way too slow to do it.
When we do Chantal last like this,
we barely outspeed the Chandelure depending on our level.
Like we outspeed it by one or two in raw speed.
It's very close.
Yeah, it's really cool that this gen lets you actually approach the E4 in whatever order
you want.
There are some cool routings there and even reroutes have happened.
Blacklight 1 changed fairly recently so it's cool to see.
Again?
No, well...
Oh!
When you did it.
Oh yeah, like I...
That's a couple years ago, I guess.
Yeah.
That is a great crit because this is 11 and 16 range down from 12 and 16
because I skipped two trainers after Marlon.
So getting that range by
guaranteeing the crit is actually really clutch.
Did we mention that Chandler
has a choice score? Yes.
You can keep mentioning it, though,
because it deserves all of the attention.
Because it's easily like,
the worst poke that we have to deal with.
So, because we got the Koffer range
We didn't have to worry about Will-O-Wisp burn
or Shadow Ball
or anything like that
which is really sick
because you can go into
Iris full health
without much of a problem.
Uh,
Iris is a bit
of a tricky fight
to navigate
and it's not always clear what the best play is.
There's basically two different ways to handle the fight.
There's leading with Swords Dance just so you
can one-shot everything, and then there's one where
you basically just YOLO a Hydreigon
range under the assumption that you just won under the assumption that you'll get it or
that you'll flinch it, because it has Focus Blast
or Fireblasts so don't miss one of them either because they're
70 and 85% accurate. so it's pretty common to not
take damage just between
all those different factors.
That's what I'll go for for content because I believe we're doing
really good on time. I can't...
I don't have access to a timer but I I think we're doing good on time right?
Yeah it says 3.55 right now
Well guys, it was great being up here
We can do one quick victory donation before we get into this fight.
Yeah, because I'm going to do a safety save just in case the worst happens for some reason.
Is there any good donations?
You got it. We have
$5 from ISBN girl, I want to hear some Pokemon puns
so how about a $5 pun donation train?
I'll start.
Which Pokemon often gets lost in the wash?
Sock.
Oh!
10-5, Popicle. The crowd liked that one.
Also, I personally think
this is the best champion theme in the game.
Do we have any Irish fans out back here?
I don't know why from the left that's
slower, but whatever.
So good.
I was going to say
which Pokemon do I
usually do in my runs?
Throw.
I couldn't think of
a better way to phrase that in time.
Anyway, Iris time.
Look at that.
Look how cool it is.
It is crazy.
That's definitely one of the best champion teams.
It's way up there, so...
It's such a huge step up from Black and White 1!
Yeah, Malders isn't
that great but
anyway, Malders is still good.
5-16 range by the way.
Gets these? No problem.
And I get every time!
Mostly chilling now until the Haxorus comes out.
Yeah, so because I took no damage from Hydreigon that's really good
because Haxorus does actually quite a bit of damage
If i took any damage from Hydre dragon then i would have to like type around
aegron because aigran isn't as threatening and
usually we'll pick the move called automatize it's like a setup move
so that basically gives us the free turn to heal before we deal with hacks
because hax is by far the most threatening thing on this heal before we deal with hacks because
hacks is by far the most threatening
thing on this uh team
so it'll come off right after a grunt
here
this one has sturdy, right?
Egg rotten does not have
sturdy but Hatcher's
does have a focus sash
so since Iris
is not healed yet
this is actually kind of free
because I'll just earthquake
to proc the focus sash
it will probably pick d dance probably
is the keyword here um and then iris will heal it and that'll just give me
the free turn to knock it out there's a focus on track today and there's the D dance.
Basically free from here at this point? Yep, yep.
Alright, GG's.
I just have to not misclick against Archeops.
That is really hard.
Yeah. That's really hard. Yeah, right?
No throwing for content.
Whoops!
And with that we are the champions of Unova. Time's not yet!
Time is coming up.
Yeah time will be on the fade out after um the trainer card stuff pops up
and it shows a congratulations yeah
congratulations your champion so yep you're good
all right i guess we can kind of start working on some shout outs here
yeah shout out to the dspsr pokemon community um we are all super helpful and
anyone who wants to come and join the community and start letting him speak on we have a lot of
resources available we have a discord that you can join and ask about. Shout out to everyone that's kind
of helped me get to the point where I am today in speedrunning
That is pretty much everyone on the couch here,
everyone on the back couch, everyone on the back couch,
everyone in my Twitch chats,
friends, family, all that fun stuff.
It's been a really fun time speedrunning.
I've been watching DDQ since
2015 so
to go from
being a long-time viewer to all of a sudden
being on the couch, well not even
on the couch, on stage
doing the run. Yeah I'm in the hot seat
doing it. That's
pretty crazy seeing both sides of
you know the GDQ stage.
It's really humbling
and an awesome experience
my couch has been absolutely amazing
give them a round of applause
they've been giving some talk to your commentary My couch has been absolutely amazing. Give them a round of applause.
They've been giving you guys some top-tier commentary.
All right, time is coming up here.
Time is coming up on the fadeout here once everything goes black.
The world's slowest fadeout.
And time!
Easy mode, yes!
Which is actually harder!
So are you guys ready to run it back?
I think I need to grab some food.
Would you like to know your time? Yes please.
32458. That's not too bad.
That's pretty good.
We had quite a few deaths.
For all the saving and deaths?
Dude that's really good.
Yeah we had a lot of deaths.
I mean we first tried Elisa which I think saved a lot of time because
that's the most taxing fight to lose time on.
You guys got time
to do some shoutouts? I'm sure Tech is going to need a minute
here to set up stuff for Fight Cynthia, so
if you want to do some shoutout results...
Ummm shout out just gonna start getting into it yeah uh um
shout outs to skoa and uh shoutouts to you know as well for finding a bunch of stuff with this game shout out to those uh they were the firemen yeah there is a lot of the white shoes
just absolutely i don't know what we would do without those
uh i was gonna say oh. Make sure you follow TTS4Life on Switch. He streams this game a lot and also Black Ointment 1.
Maybe some other stuff in the future too. I don't know. maybe some COD.
But yeah, he streams a lot go check him out Go support him
My only plug is if you want to see more DS Pokemon speedrun stuff
You can watch my Diamond Any% run that's super glitchy from AG2Q this year
That was a good time Very different from this run and much better I haven't any percent run that's super glitchy from AGDQ this year.
That was a good time.
Very different from this one and much shorter, so... Right.
All righty, so are we ready to do something?
Sure.
I think so. I think we are. All right, you're just going to start the timer when you...
I can just give a countdown.
So in 3-2-1 go!
Do you have a shout out, sucker? Oh sucker? Oh I guess I want to shout out TTS with Nechi
they've all had a GDQ run now and that's pretty awesome. That means you're next, right? I guess so!
I did a hotfix.
I'd like to be on for maybe Hard Cold Soul Silver
that would be sick.
Everyone's favorite video game
Shoutouts to Truly Discord favorite video game and uh shout outs to shouts are truly discord they know who
they are those my dogs for life shout out to billy's blog
all right so it's a cynthia? How are we going to go?
You gotta relearn Mudslap.
Yeah, I better find a hard scale and relearn Mudslap.
Anyway, so
We've got some post-game stuff here that we have to deal with quick
I'm just mashing through it The it's not a big deal. The Perlin Evolved! Oh my gosh.
Yeah, that's right. Wow!
Um, but we do need to go do
some shopping. Uh, I need an X-Speed in order to
win the fight because otherwise Garchomp outspeeds me
and it's a bad time.
So I gotta go do that
And then I'm gonna buy a couple forest stores for safety
Um so we can actually squeeze in a couple donations while I run around here real quick
I would love that
We have got 885 dollars from sky donating for my favorite little friend creepy also hey
trans rights creepy. Also, hey! Trans rights!
$282 from Chris M
for my favorite Pokemon, Gardevoir.
So excited to finally attend a GTQ event
and see these awesome runs in person.
Shout out to all the awesome people behind the scenes
that make these events happen.
Yeah this is where you'd have
to go buy X items by the way
as you can see it's. This is where you'd have to go buy X items, by the way. Yeah we're finally seeing it!
We can do a few more while this happens.
Sure thing!
We have $130 from Addy Joe
A donut for my favorite glow-up Pokemon
and go to sweeper Gyarados!
We Dragon Dance into victory!
$250
from Filamence, what a prize set! Front Loading My Donation is here for Pokemon and Ruby's Mom's Blankets. In case you've forgotten all of those incredible Pokemon prizes, you can be eligible to win those with just a simple donation
right shout out to the community members who donated i know um greta ice vixen
donated a bunch of furlers for you guys. Yeah! They did an amazing
job with them. Shout out to everyone else who
donated prizes for this segment. Who's ready
to fight Cynthia? Yes!
Oh, whoa.
What's this?
What's your name?
Oh, you didn't save.
No!
I didn't teach mud slap either. Come just trying to come on we gotta redo it then
this one doesn't count as well no furloin no mud slap
just spear too this is about making us win, man.
What's your strategy here, TPS?
Well first thing I'm going to x-speed because
I need to become faster than Garchomp
otherwise we're gonna have a severe problem
Otherwise I'm going to set up 2 plus 4
That's not great for setting up here
But also...
Double team!
Good player just hits
Oh and Hypnosis
Go get hit! Let's go!
All skill.
Only goats can hit through double team.
Yeah, this seems... Is it the exact same no it's it's one spot
i mean no it's uh it's glaceon over right right right yeah i forgot it's
the white two teams right Right, right, right.
Yeah so basically the Gen 4 team though if you aren't familiar with that.
I guess all of our teams are different like between Diamond and Pearl, Plat... Oh true yeah the plat team.
Basically the plat team yes.
We got like more or poorer ones. out-levels us by the way! Finally out leveled for the first time in two hours.
There it is, the big scary Yarshramp level 82.
And without breaking his sweat!
I don't even know why we paused, there wasn't even a ring.
I'm just trying to add some dramatic tension.
True, true.
This really is an excuse
to listen to the music, honestly.
Honestly.
This is very good.
As far as Super as super bosses go like Exodule is just so broken
it's not like the red fight where you're just so much lower level and your
Pokemon are just straight up worse in the speedrun, I still can handle everything
in your actually equivalent level. So it's totally fine.
Alright, well I guess time is coming out.
Yeah, time will come up on the fade out.
And time.
Thank you all for coming out, it's been a blast.
I love the crowd, I love the passion. Thank you all who showed up.
I've been TTS4Life. You can find me at Twitch at tts4life.
You've seen it on the screen below our webcams the whole time.
Make sure you follow My Amazing
Couch as well at twitch.tv slash TuckerTheRat
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Is it just Etchy these days? I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. Just Etchy. Sorry, it's your Twitter that is etchy okay?
All of them on Twitter are etchy okay.
Okay, exactly.
Thank you all.
Thanks GDQ for having me.
I hope to be on stage sometime again soon.
Have a good one y'all.
Thank you so much everybody.
Thank you!
Give yourselves a round of applause.
No! I was not expecting that strong of a reaction.
Well done, TTS for Life.
Good afternoon everybody.
You're watching Summer Games Done Quick 2024. I am MrGamingShout
Hello my name is Abel I'm a Mario Kart DS player from the UK.
I'll be running the 32 tracks main category which consists of playing through every track in the game against the CPUs
I am delighted to say that on this fourth of july
i'm joined by two of america's finest players in commentary
puddings and mikey would you guys like to say hello hello okay so before anything i just Hello? Hello!
Okay, so before anything I just want to show off this in-game decal which current Time Trial World Champion MK Dasher created specifically for this run so shout outs to you check
out his youtube channel he's an amazing mario kart ds player
okay and i hope everybody
over there is doing well we're gonna go straight into versus mode
and select our car and character dry bones of the egg one
and set the correct settings to thirsty tracks in order takes a little while okay i think we're ready to go. Are you guys ready?
Let's get it!
Alright, let's get a countdown in 3... 2... 1... Go!
Woohoo! Let's go! two one go
okay so mario kart ds here we are uh so the first thing that we're gonna be seeing here is abel's going to start blasting out some mini turbos
uh if you're familiar with anything you Abel's gonna start blasting out some mini-turbos.
If you're familiar with anything
that you've heard about this game,
we do a lot of manual mini turbos
and we're going to see our first technique here
which is snaking.
So Abel is alternating the direction
of his mini-tur rows back and forth,
And that is in order to keep this boost on straightaways
And go just a little bit faster.
If you were familiar with any kind of insider forums
In the early 2000s you hear people
complaining about this all day but we're still doing it
yep 20 years later been used a lot online um so yeah they also gonna
explain why Abel's using the combination that he's using right here.
We have Dry Bones and the Egg One. Now the Egg One is not necessarily the fastest in terms of speed
but it's generally considered the best kart for all 32 tracks.
It has very high handling,
high acceleration which also allows
it to mini-turbo for a very long time
That was a very nice blue shell dodge.
Along with Dry Bones it has very low weight which also gives
it very high speed off road and we're going to be going off-road quite a lot during this
run sometimes its faster to just go straight
through a turn and go right
through the off-road instead of taking
a turn in hand. Two blue shell doggies
in one race, incredible!
This is very, as you could have told already,
a very RNG heavy speedrun. So we're going to have to adjust accordingly
The next track is Yoshi Falls. It features a giant Yoshi egg
in the middle, and recently
in Mario Kart Wii
a very cool tool assisted speed run
has been performed of the Fast Lap.
Do check it out! I believe it goes under
10 seconds.
Yeah, they just bounce off the egg in the middle and just complete the lap in like around 7 seconds or so?
Very cool. That's incredible!
But unfortunately, the egg here is both two-dimensional
and non-solid,
so we can't achieve our dreams here.
But what we can do
is kind of explain a bit of item strategy that Abel's gonna be using.
So first off thing... The thing is, Abel's going to be using. So first off, the thing is
Abel's gonna constantly looking at his bottom screen checking to see what the items
of the computers are getting but also he wants to cycle through
if it gets like a fake item box that's not gonna block any shells so he really wants to get rid of that and he wants it off his racing line.
So...he's just gonna keep on cycling through items until he has something like this
And...complete the race as fast
as possible. That's
one other thing I'd like to mention. I am playing on
real hardware. You might be a little
confused as to why I'm looking at my monitor
I'm just using the capture preview window
I can see everything
much clearer as well as items
that are coming and in general it's
just much, much clearer
So this is Cheep Cheep Beach
it featured in Mario Kart
8 Deluxe, sorry go ahead Mikey
Yeah so now we're on Cheep Cheep
Beach again it was in 8 Deluxe
very fun track, um this is the first track where we're gonna
start seeing cycles so there's going to be
a lot of obstacles on our way on these tracks
whether it be enemies like Goombas or
crabs or sometimes its just natural stuff
like water. So you'll see here, once we get
to the water section, uh, the tide is going to be
coming up and down, and every obstacle
like that is gonna be operating on a cycle
which means if we know, um
if we keep track of what the time is on the timer
on the bottom screen then were able to figure out where exactly these cycles are gonna be
so as you can see right there Abel went into the water while it was low
he knew this because of a timer, and this allows him to
go in. It goes a lot faster when
it's lower, so we're able to cut that turn right there.
And we're going to be seeing a lot more of that
later in the run sometimes if we slow down
because we get hit with too many items,
we won't be able to use certain cycles.
But that's just another part of the run.
It requires a lot of improvisation.
Thankfully,
we're going to be able to make do.
Yep.
So, okay. Yep, so...
Okay, unfortunately that time
we were not able
to dodge the blue shell
So I guess we are gonna spend
a little bit of time
and explain very quickly
how we dodge blue shells
in this game
And it's very simple,
you hold your mini-turbo when
the orange sparks out and
when the blue shell is about to go down
and hit you, you just release it
and jump, and you dodge it pretty much every time.
It's a very large window about seven to nine frames or so.
So here we are at Luigi Mansion
based off of the GameCube launch title
And we got a
fun fact for you, these stairs that Abel's
going up right now, if you
were to stop on them and then try
spin in place, the game will completely
hard crash,
at least on console.
Due to a missing sound effect.
So if you have a game right now,
go boot it up and try that out. It's pretty
funny. Incredible, and besides
that not too much going on here there are
these moving trees which you have to watch out for
again they're on a cycle and then
carefully navigate around the mud
Besides that there is not too much going on in this track so let's just enjoy
some very clean driving lines from abel as we hear our first few set of donations thank you
definitely we have it so much love coming in for this run right now.
As a matter of fact, we have $25 from Puddings!
MKDS forever. It's such a blast showing off my favorite game
of all time here at GDQ. Thank you, Puddings!
Thanks, Puddings. And we also have $5
from SouloftheMedley that says, Hey Abel, Puddings
and Mikey, good luck on the run today. I know it's gonna be a good one.
Make sure you get all the blue shell dodges and no shocks!
Also Waluigi pinball shortcut in 32 track attempts when able?
Today. Maybe today, we'll see.
Today will be the day.
Do you have time for one more? Yes.
Yep.
Great!
We have $50 from Matster of the Universe that says, So hype for Able's Mario Kart DS run.
Mario Kart DS was the first game I played on the DS, and I spent so many hours racing online.
Though not nearly as well as I hope we'll see today!
Also hype for the PV run! Much love and support for the runners, cast, and crew. Less than
three. Thank you so much, Master.
Alright,
so here we are. We have made it through the first cup.
We're here in Flower Cup, and we're going to see Abel doing a technique
here, hopefully, called prb or prolonged rocket boost
we lost it unfortunately but uh what that stands for is the prolonger boost and by getting the
perfect start boost which is a three frame window and maintaining your mini turbo
so getting your next mini turbo out
before the boost from your previous one
expires. You can
basically keep your immunity to off-road
indefinitely until you are either too slow or you miss a many turbo
and this was actually discovered on christmas eve 2005 by a japanese player
by the name of ninsan, and it's
the greatest Christmas gift we've ever been given.
Oh boy!
Yeah PRB personally one of my favorite
techniques not just in this game but in all
Mario Kart is just so incredible to see.
It's very demanding on the hands too.
You can't lose your boost for even a single frame
otherwise. Say you're doing a time trial run
where you want to hold PRV for the entire track
you're going to have to start all over again, but
yeah, for Desert Hills
very cool track with some very cool
mushroom shortcuts we can do at the end if we have
them, but Codings I believe you had something to say
about this track? Well actually first off it's not a very cool track. It's actually a very warm track
That's true
But all of the skyboxes in this game rotate very slowly
And Desert Hills is the only course in the game whose skybox rotates clockwise.
That will be on the quiz later.
Thank you, Brains!
Okay.
Alright so...
We're going to go to Delfino Square?
Yup, Delfino Square. This is personally my favorite track i love this one um this
one's based on death penal closet and super mario sunshine if you've ever played that one uh so there
was quite a lot going on here Not only do we have this beautiful scenery
going through all these little buildings right
here, but we're gonna see quite a few different shortcuts
on this track. So first
Abel is gonna go over here and he's gonna
cut into this little mud section
and perform this without a mushroom. Carefully
mini-turboing through. There is not a lot of room for
spacing right there so it's very precise but Abel has performed
it very well. And we're gonna to see next left, another shortcut that we like
to call the Dock Cut. So if you look to the left once you get out of the town section,
you'll see there's a little surface that has a jump
that goes onto the dock below.
You're actually able to jump on
to that dock and it saves
a little bit of time,
and is going to perform
right here.
Very nice!
That is much harder than it looks, and I guess one thing also to point out with Delfino Square in general Is you saw that the bridge was down right there
So a nice thing about going fast on this distracted is you actually get rewarded for doing that
um it is the faster you are the more likely it's gonna be that the bridge is down when
you get to it and hopefully we're gonna i think we're well on pace to get three good bridges yeah so far
so good we didn't get lightning which is a um huge time loss so looking good oh
failed us there and we've got another blue shell
coming our way and that's a dodge
And as you can see the green is still
flat. Luigi's not for
blood tonight. Oh yeah
This is really good pace, yeah.
135... or 134!
Excellent!
Yes, the other thing I wanted to quickly mention
Is that as fast as we're going
It'll be very troublesome
To catch up with the tail end of the CPUs
because they'll be holding very, very dangerous items and they will
be able to knock you around anyway. Yep. Alright real quick Abel let's not forget we're gonna slow down
right here this is Waluigi Pinball. The mobile we've all been waiting for. Ab we're going to slow down right here. This is Waluigi Pinball, the mobile
we've all been waiting for. Able's gonna slow down and get an item
and hopefully...ah that's not what
we want to see. We wanted to get some mushrooms
because we wanted to attempt something
very cool that was recently discovered in the last few months.
Right here, if you jump off of that rainbow boost panel and move a little bit to the left
there's a little trick you can do where if you line up and hit the wall
and the grounds at around the same time,
then perform a hop right
as you hit the ground. It has to be the exact
frame. It is one-frame window
Then move it to the right,
and hopefully if you do it correctly
you'll jump forward and upward
very quickly, and hopefully clear an invisible
wall, and that will allow you to go
all the way down from the pinball section on the bottom.
This was discovered just a few months ago,
and it saves around 8 seconds. It is incredible!
Yes, so... uh...
The shortcut... I mean really kind of
the flashiest thing if you've seen anything from Mario Kart DS in the past few months,
it's probably this shortcut. It was discovered
by two players, Zumo de Capaya
and GuanlongX.
Shoutouts to them. And since
then, since April when it was discovered the world record on this track has gone from a 1.55 to a 1.35.2
So huge time cuts overall
It's just incredible yeah so i'm holding a star here just in case um any of the cpus use the lightnings i'm keeping also an eye on the bottom screen here.
But I may as well just start using it in a second
Yeah!
and then we're gonna use it right around now
See? I know T-Sh coming in from the left as well?
One last thing I guess we can point out
on this track that's not a shortcut is Abel's also
mini-turboing into these bumpers,
and if he releases one and then comes into it,
It'll expel him outwards
And it will save just a little bit of time
over driving normal lines forward.
Did you see those two pinballs that he almost hit?
I did yeah amazing
all right shroom ridge so this is a track that has a very tricky prb uh strap We're going to see if Abel can hit it...
No, it's fine! So there are a lot of things to contend with on this track. There is a lot
of difficult terrain as we're gonna see but also the cars are moving in both directions
so it's very difficult to kind of know where you are on the track cycle based
if there's any chart that is cycle-based it's this one one. You constantly need to be aware
of where the
trucks and cars are going to be
depending on where you are in the track
and luckily we usually drive this track
the same amount of time every time,
so we know what to expect.
Yeah, although typically at the end of lap three
on one of the very last turns there's a specific blue car
that could be just right in our racing line
and it's very challenging to deal with
especially on time trials if you're on a really
good run. You know, you get really nervous on lap
three and you have to worry about this car.
You have to go on the inside of it
and just be on the very edge of the turn almost falling off.
It's very difficult, but we usually see it pulled off.
Yes so now we're entering lap 3.
This isn't such a bad pace...
Oh actually I was just going to say this isn't such a bad pace
Is that our first lightning?
We've had one or two before I think
Okay
So this will... Okay now we've got a blue shell that needs to adjust too that's
so close 100 percent uh no we missed one as well
yeah cheap cheap beach
never nothing ever goes perfectly well here yeah
my job to keep you honest
so closing out here we're going to be finishing the Flower Cup and moving on to the Star Cup.
We are about a quarter way through the run and our first track here is going to be dk pass also shout out to this white finish
uh so on dj pass it's a very kind of polarizing track in our community a lot of people really
like it a lot of people really hate it. It really has to do with
your opinion on the downpour section, really. But we're going to
hopefully be collecting a little secret. We're gonna
when we're able to get up the mountain, dodging all the
snowmen and snowballs on his way up. That's the magical item box.
Yes. This item box is
very special. As you can see, it gave Abel a
star in first place! So this item box in total
can give a few different things, usually a star or triple mushrooms which we
really love in first place. Especially the star.
But it can also give a single mushroom, or be dreaded 1
and 200 red shell. Speaking of red shells...
We just got hit by one right there.
You think it was from that item box?
Perhaps. One thing that is
kind of notable in this run is that red shells are honestly more
of a threat to us as racers than blue shells are.
And that is because the red shell AI
is just devious.
It's purely... it was designed
by someone
with very bad intentions, and
they can track you down no matter what
and they will always have a tendency to come at you
from the side as opposed to behind you.
So even your bananas behind you can't help sometimes.
Yup, they'll track you down no matter what except for when they don't because
there are a lot of times where
sometimes they'll just give up. We've seen before
on AbleStream a red shell
is coming towards him and all of a sudden it'll just move straight
and fall into the water or something it's it's hilarious just how polarizing the red shells
are here oh yeah there are times when the red cells on Rainbow Road will do exactly just that.
I would joke...I'd say they've gone into interstellar travel basically.
They'll reach another track in 80 thousand years or something.
Yeah, they've evolved
beyond us. Nice motion right there.
Okay, so this is a fairly
average DK pass.
A good time here at World Record pace would be
under
150 times, so 149-111 world record pace would be something like a
under 150 times so 149 148 something like that
for reference the time trial world record is at 142.3
by japanese player taiga look him up tiger is very incredible i'm sure we're going to mention
him at some other point during the run but uh here we are picked our clock so this is another
track that is very uh cycle based uh so we're going to be seeing a few different things, mostly
clock hands this pendulum and the spinning gears here um and we just need to again know kind of
where we are on the track and what to expect like am i going to go to
left of the pendulum this lap or I'm gonna go to the right uh but in all seriousness
I think this is a pretty straightforward track in terms of racing just kind kind of got to know where you are
when you are.
Yep and we see some very cool tech
We move back and forth on the cogs
below down there We always move on the onegs below down there. We always move on
one that's moving forward, so it boosts us just a little bit. And then at the end you'll see
those two spinning cogs. Sometimes they'll go back and forth between which
ones are going backwards but um we always
go on the one that's spinning forwards and that'll propel us pretty fast usually so it
saves quite a bit of time yes i'm normally id oh no! A front blue shell.
So that tends to happen sometimes depending on the pace you have.
But yeah very annoying and difficult to adjust to in this run.
Good tackle though, managed to go inside.
It's faster to just go straight through the center of the clock right there instead
of going around and hitting the boost panels.
We're already lapping the computers, this is insane so... Oh yeah?
Yeah we did kind of mention it earlier but there are some characters of interest that
we are not big fans of speaking, here's one of them right now
Rob in the introduction to this game
he is the heaviest character in the game
and by even touching him in the slightest
you will be sent into the
shadow realm instantly
More on that later will be sent into the Shadow Realm instantly.
More on that later, but now we're up to Mario Circuit
and we're hopefully going to see some PRB from Abel right here
he does need to concentrate because this can be very difficult
to pull off, and then hopefully right
after we're going to see a very cool shortcut yep so as i explained earlier you just kind of keep
your mini turbos pace them out right and you just get to drive on off-road without any problem at
all yep very nice prv right here and now anvil is going to enter a shortcut and hopefully make
it this one's very difficult yes so right so right here he is going to try to
perfect! Wow! So that works
because there is a piece of geometry right before the wall that kind of
raised it up a little bit and by doing
that you can press r right when you're about to go off
of it and save a significant amount of time over
the normal way uh enables me missing out a lot in
practice but you know we love to see it.
Yeah, it's also worth mentioning usually what happens is
You'll jump onto the wall and get like stuck on the edge just a little bit
and I need to hop on.
But right there, Abel just perfectly went straight over it,
which is much faster than getting stuck on it.
And sometimes when that happens, if you don't expect it,
you'll just go right into
the wall coming up after. But again, that was just executed absolutely
flawlessly, so huge shout-out to Abel right here.
That was very impressive.
It's looking like a sub-130, which is quite surprising and awesome in a marathon setting.
This track's going so well
that Rainbow Road can go even worse,
don't worry.
Oh no.
As it historically does.
That's a 1.31,
but it's still very,
very good.
Yeah,
that was amazing.
Awesome.
Now moving on to Ashley Fortress
which is based off of Super Mario Bros 3
Alright um so
first things first Abel's gonna drive through
this Bullet Bill section they have very strange
responses which we'll explain later and now um we're moving on we're going to see
some rocky wrenches now we've got to mention before but um so that shortcut you saw in
waluigi pinball was also a similar shortcut that he could pull off
on Luigi's Mansion and Del Pino
Square. Those are much harder
and save around 1-2 seconds
And there's also a shortcut
that's been theorized through Tool Assist on this track as well,
but unfortunately no one has been able to pull it off just yet.
But besides that there is still a lot going on in this track so I mentioned those Bullet
Bills from before. These guys are really funny, they actually...
As you saw right there, it got pretty close. They only have a hitbox on the front
so if you hit them in the middle or like on the back side of them
then you won't get hit at all because they only have a hip box
in the front yeah former world record uh the video upload of it has like dry bones clearly
inside of the bullet bill and i think there's somebody in the comments who's just
like uh excuse me and we're just like no no it's all right yeah i'd said the trickiest
thing about this track for me me personally, is the spiral.
Having to adjust with very specific
hopping in order to not get
a very wide line. But anyway, we're into lap
three now, almost done, and heading into
the Special Cup.
I think we have probably time for like one or two donations
at the end of this drive?
Fantastic!
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We are smashing it! Please
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Alright, Warrior Stadium! So here's gonna be a track
we're going to see a technique called PR PRB reset. So, we already explained
PRB but you can actually obtain PRB again by...
Okay never mind! But you can obtain it again
okay by going off of a mini-turbo and going off of a boost panel
And it will reset kind of our PRB state
And allow us to continue the technique
That's brutal right there, wow!
Yeah, red shells can do that too.
They can hit you from forward sides anywhere they want.
Yeah we call this Red Shell Stadium
because for some reason
red shells just seem to happen at a rate much higher here than anywhere else.
Yeah, there are certain tracks which allow the CPUs to cycle red shells more effectively
I don't know why but this is Yoshi's third and we're only
a minute in so
I'm going to attempt to do some PRB restart
here. There you go
So I'm cutting the off-road and I'm going to try
and do a full lap
Also, we're going to try and do a full lap.
Yeah, so also we're going to hopefully see
April set up here for a shortcut
at the end of the lap. He wasn't able to do it because they're red shell.
But by doing main turbo
Oh my god!
Come on! by doing a main turbo and gas oh my god oh my god come on i thought we paid them off enough
apparently yeah no we need more donations for that uh if you guys keep donating we'll have the best luck possible for Rainbow Road.
Which historically everything goes wrong there.
With enough donations though, we're going to see a lot of cool stuff.
Come on everyone get in your donations so we can see a fabulous Rainbow Road!
Yes and Emma's gonna try prv one more time hopefully be able
to show off the full prb yeah so there's kind of a meme in the community where it's just like okay
why drive wario stadium when you can just drive around all the obstacles in the mud instead?
Nope. I think we'll be out of lightning by the time this workout comes up though.
Yeah, it should be okay. The main goal is to really just squawk and run.
Oh, this is really awkward. let's see if I can...
It's possible?
Yes!
Very nice!
So by going over the wall there we're able to trigger a checkpoint
On the other side of the track and respawn there, and that takes
about a second to a second and a half.
Yes! And then another
blue shell at the end. Okay great. Um so
moving onto Peach Gardens uh we didn't get to mention
before this is- We're now in the Special Cup and tracks
get a lot harder from here on out
these are some of the most difficult tracks in the whole game
right here. So right now we're on
Peach Gardens. This one's rather
simplistic but still quite a bit going on.
We drive through that little flower bed right there
It is much faster than just going around the whole turn
We also have some runaway Bradens in the maze
So shout out to Chain Chop Braden,
Super Mario Maker player for making that appearance.
Everyone chat please say hi to Braden.
Hi Braden!
That was a fun pair of gears.
Yeah, not much else to say about this track except I do want
to mention really quick shoutouts to the current world record
on this track which actually holds PRB for
all three laps and it is just incredible. Only two people have been able to hold PRV
for so long, and it's an amazing run so do check it out. Yes, MK Dasher and
Tiger. Tiger is the current world record holder I believe with a
1-22 5-1-1 if memory serves me right
They are essentially
being messy
and Cristiano Ronaldo
of Mario Kart DS
Time Trials
do check out
their world records
on mkworldrecords.com
Yep,
and as we drive this last lap of Kishgaran I think
We have time for a couple donations. Fantastic! The love continues
To pour in for this run. We have $63
From HD Rookie that says,
Had to drop a donation for my favorite
Mario Kart game. Any other
Mission Mode enjoyers out there? Well,
here's a dollar for all 63
missions. If that crazy pinball shortcut
somehow gets hit, perhaps I'll add a bit more.
Best of luck, Abel. You've got
this. Thank you so much
for that donation. We also
have $25 from Charles that says,
did you know that you can still play Mario Kart DS online in 2024?
Thank you for the generous donation to Doctors Without Borders.
I have time for one more.
Uh, yes?
Great! We have $15 from Dragon Sighted that says MKDS hype!
I've been so hyped for this run.
Mario Kart DS is such a formative game
for me. I remember nights of walking down
my street in the evenings after school looking
for Wi-Fi to play on or getting a ride to the library
to play MKDS and RuneScape.
Oh, how the times have changed!
It's one of the first experiences
of a game I was ever actually able
to really see progression get faster at.
Huge thanks to the MKGS community
for holding it down
for so many years,
and here's for
so many more to come!
Good luck, Able!
Thank you so much!
I wanted to add something
real quick regarding that. I wanted to add something real quick regarding that
I used to do the exact same thing when i was much younger
When I first started out playing this game back in 2006
I would try and look for Wi-Fi hotspots.
We're getting a really badly timed blue shell,
not enough time to drift there,
and yeah,
AND a red shell is adding insults of injury.
It's fine, it's right before Rainbow Road
we're getting the bad luck out of the way.
Exactly. I would try and look for a WiFi hotspot so desperately to play this game online.
This was before most people had wi-fi connections at home so yeah times are very
different back then anyway we're on badger castle right now we have only one more lap
so we'll explain this quickly. Very, very challenging track
there's a lot going on here
one of the longest tracks in the game
at almost 1 minute 50 seconds
so you really have to endure
for a while and there's a lot of obstacles and tight corners
like this spinning bridge right here.
Yeah, I think I saw some people in chat
freaking out about the fact that
he was even performing a drift at all on
the bridge there. It's incredible yeah it takes a lot of uh control and technique
to be able to do that but um abel is one of the greatest players in the game he has a top 10 time
on this track oh unfortunately missed the shortcut
at the end here so what you can do is jump off the last
turn right there and hit the finish line as you fall into the lava
skipping the last turn saves a tiny bit of time we always do it at
the end of the race. And now here we are Rainbow Road, again historically does not go well at live
events but we're gonna see some magic happen today.
Yep, we're just going to hope that Waluigi backs off
just a little bit, gives us our personal space
there he is, he's dead
So we are going to be doing hopefully two different shortcuts
showing off to you today.
I think we even have enough time on lap one to do it here.
I think so, I'm going to give them the first one.
Here it comes!
So we're gonna be turning around here...
We're gonna be falling off here.
Or go for it left too, but
give me a little bit of time to explain I guess the first shortcut
So the first shortcut that
uh...I guess we are gonna try and attempt
is the loop skip which was discovered
in 2014 by MK Dasher. Shout out again to him
and we're going up to the spiral, and we'll be turning around
hopefully, if the items let us
If the items let us... That was awful.
Like we said, never goes well in live events.
Yeah, and we're going to be turning around
And launching ourselves off of the spiral into the loop directly.
Hopefully
it will line up just right.
There we go!
No!
That was still very impressive.
Oh, I thought I was gonna make that.
But anyway let's see if we can try and do the pipe shortcut here.
Usually when you fail that loop skip
You either hit the bottom of the road up ahead, or
you just immediately fall out of bounds.
So getting up to the
end of the loop-de-loop, even if you fall off
is still very impressive.
Yeah, so we also just saw the pipe truck up
there, uh,
so by going to
the last of
the rings,
turning around
and then kind
of yeeting
ourselves off
the road for
lack of a
better term.
What do you
think?
Should I try
it again?
Yes! We got it.
Nooo
They just don't want us to try
It's legacy continues for speedrunning marathons.
I don't know why this always happens.
We still got some air there, I was very impressed.
Yes! Uh... we should still be able to do the out of bounds skip one more time. Here we go.
Yep so as were following through the air here, we're actually passing
through a couple key checkpoints. Yes, they
work in this game and
any MKW fans out there
we do have a functional video game, and it allows us to respawn right near the corkscrew
there and finish the track. So even despite all of the obstacles on our way there, we still finished well in first.
TPUs don't have a good time there either.
The first track of the Retros, SNES Mario Circuit 1,
the very first Mario Kart track of the retros. Mario Circuit 1,
the very first
Mario Kart track.
Sadly I hit
a wall there
but what you're
meant to be doing
here is
cutting across
the sands
and basically just avoiding
the regular terrain, and it saves a bunch of time.
Yeah we've...PRB is very
strong especially on tracks like this where the most direct route
is clearly a straight line across the offroad.
So people have been doing it since the beginning and I think we would call one of the best practice tracks for PRB
because you have a very easy open area to work on it.
Yeah, it's actually the PRB sandbox of the game
for players that are starting out learning advanced tech.
And if you hold PRB for the entire track, then usually you'll be able to complete
a whole track in about 38 seconds which is incredible!
Yep. So Moomu Farm, this is a kind of again polarizing
and very annoying track.
So we have a couple things to contend with
other than of course the computers
as we're to be going on
walls next to the fence on the right
and we are just gonna try to stick as close to that wall
as possible throughout the entire track. We also have
our lovely friends here at Moles
and luckily unlike MK64,
these moles do operate on a consistent cycle
so we know kind of when they're gonna come out
and also they kinda forecast their movement
a little bit better.
In 64, anytime you go over
a mole hole
there, you're just rolling
the dice. But
we are going to be doing a bunch of different mini turbos
back and forth, and we are also going to be doing something bunch of different mini-turbos back and forth, And we are also gonna be doing something called a slip drift.
Which is basically kind of using the momentum from falling off a surface in landing
And we're just gonna immediately start a drift instead
of having to hop to start our draft yeah so slip your thing save just a
little bit of time every time you do it and um before we go we just need to say
hi to the cows really quick they're watching us from the grass right over the fence,
so everyone in chat please say hi to the cows.
Hi cows!
Hey.
Okay, so moving on now
to I believe Gba peach circuits um very popular track
from mario kart super circuit yeah this is uh my favorite track in
the game just i think a lot of people really enjoy this track very
welcoming for beginners but we're going to be seeing obviously a lot more pw racing
abel's going to be using the track as a suggestion and kind of going wherever he pleases.
And this is actually, so this was the intro track in Mario Kart Super Circuit
or aka in Mario Kart Advance, and I think it's probably the best track for beginners in terms of wanting a challenge.
You know, there is a lot off-road and I personally am a bigger non PRB fan here but I will tolerate PRV for today.
Yeah we gotta respect the PRV it's just one of the coolest things you can do
It takes a lot of skill to master and Abel is just airing the track up right now. PRP already lapsed very fast time.
Yeah, we always gotta worry for those computers though.
53 seconds! That's amazing.
Yep. Alright... so... That's amazing.
Alright, so we have GCN Luigi Circuit from Mario Kart Double Dash So this is another very PRB friendly track
We're going to be doing a PRB reset once again off the boost panel there.
Or we are gonna get Destroy by Waluigi... No! We still kept it!
So this track is very chaotic especially in uh versus runs rta oh i think if you stay to the left a bit more
of the red shell what it is was thinking about that just there from the screen, Waluigi is right behind us.
Yep and he's got another one
and we can't even buy any of them
for a 1. Oh my gosh
Yeah not sure if we mentioned before
but when we're in first place the only items you can get are bananas, green shells, fake item boxes and triple bananas if we're lucky.
And out of all those items the fake item box is the only one that we cannot get rid of red shells with. So whenever we get one,
oh my God,
that is brutal.
Whenever we get a fake item box,
we just want to throw it away
as quick as possible
and hopefully put it somewhere
where it won't get in our way later.
But yeah,
besides that,
we just want to hold on to our defensive items and
more red shells! Oh my gosh!
Yeah so things I was going to mention are obviously you're gonna be doing a lot of PRV
reset off these ramps but also the kind of chaotic two-way
racing you're seeing in the center of the track
is opens us up a lot for like a fifth or sixth place computer just
launching a blue at us with no time to react so it's something where you always got to be vigilant
okay okay we gotta i got out alive and i accidentally pressed x um to drop that
banana there um unfortunately i've been doing that for a bit of the run sadly.
Now Donut Plains 1 is another flat track from the SNES
with the aim being just to hold PRB for all three laps.
I believe one of you wanted
to touch upon the world record history here?
Yeah, so PRB as you can see abel had prv for about
the first half of the lap um brb here usually typically done with
the dry bomber it's a bit slower than the egg one but
has much much higher control i can go a
bit faster off-road so we can hold prb with the egg 1 here
but we have to take much wider lines it's a little bit awkward
but um as of a couple years ago the egg 1 now
had the world record for PRB on this track.
It's an incredible feat to see. Some very interesting lines are taken
to hold PRB and still take the turn as tight as possible so just huge shout out to again mk dasher and
taiga who have been able to perform it and um also we wanted to shout out uh canadian player
cole edwards also known as dr mario for having the non-PRB world record here
Even without PRB this track is still very technical
There's a lot of really cool turns you can take so shout out to all of them
Yeah the staff ghost sneaks on that track.
So Frappe Snowland, one of my personal favorites out of any Mario Kart track
I'm gonna see if I can do the trick here
Okay so what I did there was um and i believe a red shell is coming
towards you wow this isn't unbelievable what i did there was some maintain prb
um go across the edge of the dead zone and just cut across it.
You may have seen on the bottom screen, I cut quite a large portion
there so it's big time safe. And then we do that laps 2 & 3
slightly more to the right as
we don't have PRB in our speed, so yeah.
So really I think the only other thing of note kind of on this track other than you know
the myriad obstacles is we need to kind of adjust our driving in order to deal with
the lower traction terrain. So adjusting when we release things so they don't get snowmanned.
Yup! We also just go over that little snow pillar right there to save a bit of time
and not much else to say about this track
So I think it's a very good time to relax, grab
a nice cup of hot chocolate even if its July and we're just gonna enjoy some
driving from Abel as we hear more donations.
Definitely! We have a $5 donation from Red Shell Inc that says, I'll see what I can do about delaying the next red shell delivery. Thank you for that. We also have $5 from Jojo07, who says Mario Kart DS was among the first games I ever played.
I hold it dear to my heart and am glad to see it being run at GDQ by such a talented runner.
You're doing great, Abel, by the way.
Can we get some love in chat and in the audience for Abel right now?
Abel is just incredible, yeah. Thank you so much we also have a 500 donation from
anonymous that says mkds is still my favorite and let's crush that Trackmania
incentive! Go MSF! And just as an
update, we only have $4,260
remaining of that upgrade for the Trackmania
Sunrise Run. So if you want to see that run and I want to see that run, go ahead
and get your donations in now! Alright so actually
good segue there.
We just were on the wall there.
You're probably wondering what that is.
So that has a strap that we like to call it the Zagato!
If you know of this cyclomic chant or the Seglemmik Yell.
It's kind of like that and we named it after a former world champion from
The Netherlands Miguel Rodriguez aka Zageto
And he just kind of pioneered the strat of skipping that last booster panel
uh, and just going over to the wall.
And it saves a little bit of time fraction of a second
and we like to go for it and chat him out.
Smash Bros Melee player might I add from back in the day yeah
um yeah going back to uh some of the donation comments
um yeah i can see that mkDS is one of the first games
that people played. It's certainly one that evokes a deep sense
of nostalgia and it's the game that got me into
competitive gaming,
introduced me to the speedrunning world
and here I am almost 20 years later still playing it
and happier I couldn't be.
Yep we love
this game. We the three of
us have dedicated a lot of time
into it. We love the community too. Shout out to
everyone in the community and
very nice PC too right here.
Real quick, we just need to mention there's only 7 item boxes on this track
so not a lot of items, just a fun fact.
Thankfully. Speaking of items...
Oh yeah well before that I quickly just want to shout out Lasertrap in the audience as
the Mario Kart DS backup runner in case anything happened to me in the last couple weeks.
But thankfully I'm here and just wanted to say hello to LaserTrap
in the audience.
So here we are at Baby Park. A fan favorite?
We hate it in this game though.
As you can see, it's a lot kind of a downgraded
version of its Double Dash counterpart.
Only five laps and everything is kinda muted
And we don't even want to talk about this track anymore
So, maybe have another donation or two
I certainly do! We have $250
from Biscuit Pakes that says
tight gameplay, engaging commentary
and a skeleton turtle
driving an egg. What more could you
ask for? You all are amazing. Thank you for that donation, Biscuit Cakes!
We also have $50 from Sessirous that says
no more red shells? No more-no more red shells. Wait, wait that's not it!
I mean, no more red shells!
Thank you for that donation.
Actually that reminded me of we have a community member
who donated earlier Charles
who his actual license plate member, who I actually donated earlier, Charles whose actual
license plate is egg one.
He got a custom license plate.
That is amazing.
MKBS imitates life.
Now we're on Koopa Beach 2
which I believe Abel still
has PRB right here
unfortunately, okay yeah so we can use PRB to go just a little bit tighter and go over this grass-seedweed lily pad
We still don't really know what this is, it's just kind of here
Not too much going on in the track, it's a very quick one to just glorify the circle and right here at the end we're gonna jump into the water
Very similar to Bowser's Castle there is a finish line that extends outward
And you can jump into the water and save just a little bit of time.
Okay, now moving on to N64 Choco Mountain
which I'm sure many of you in the audience
are probably asking yourselves
Will he do it? Will he do the weather tempo? I'm
sorry to disappoint, there is no such thing here. For reference in Mario Kart 64 there
is a glitch shortcut you can do at the beginning in order to trigger a lap count over the wall.
But instead, we get to appreciate the sights of Choco Mountain
in its entirety.
So Choco Mountain is a very technical track
especially at world record level.
It's got a lot of narrow kind of pathways and not much going on at least visually
So it's hard to tell where you are and what you're doing
Especially with those boulders at the end,
knowing like okay can I
beat this boulder or should I take a wider line so
don't get hit by it?
And this track has seen
a fair amount of strap development in in the past, I'd say five or six years or so.
We used to do much easier Strat pioneered by the Scottish player Matthew Utter who is probably this track's biggest fan in the world.
It's just saddest to him if he's still watching and but
In 2018 a Brazilian player, Likudki, who you may know from Super Mario Bros 1
speedrunning,
former world record holder there,
actually invented or kind of created and theorized a new strat that we use in the world record today
and is able to go a whole second or more
faster than the older Strat that we used.
Yes, now heading into lap 3
I believe there's a red shell chasing me. Actually,
no, a blue shell. I just heard it.
Not sure exactly where it is.
Hopefully, I'm not going to be in the air here.
Oh, this is tight.
Nice. Hit the wall? That's okay though.
Wall hits happen a lot here though. It is pretty tight track
There's not a lot of room for error right here but we're gonna drive it very well
And ending the run we are just going to bounce off these
little mountains and very nicely done moving on we're going out to gba luigi circuit
yes pda at a region circuit we call it call it LC2 because there's the second Luigi Circuit in
the game and this track is very difficult especially for newer players
There are a lot of off-road, a lot of difficult turns.
And a fun fact about MKBS history for you
this will again be on the quiz
Back in the day when you played Wi-Fi
You could only play on 20 of the 32 tracks in the game.
And this was not one of the tracks that was included but
uh...when it was picked online by people who had a special action replay code
A lot of the Japanese players would refer to this track as
the maze because they would always get lost on it
and then we'd slowly be adopting including at domains as well
yeah there's a lot to watch out for on this track. Like those puddles we come close a little bit.
Aw jeez and lightning too.
Yeah it was really bad weather here, a lot of puddles too. I think someone needs to put a wet floor sign here.
Abel can you go ahead and press the bottom screen please?
Certainly.
There's our wet floor sign. As you can see
the minivan looks like a man falling
down.
Might I add, I think that looks like a dog stretching.
It's up for interpretation.
If you see something there that is not the lead floor sign of a dog stretching tell us about it.
Donate. We're the donation team. sign of the dog's correction tell us about it donate do the donations let us know we'd like to
hear your mkds theories yep and uh real quick before we end this track uh i just want to shout
out this truck for now being the only track where the dry bomber has the prb world record as
we mentioned before uh donald plains one now use the egg one perprv but um this is not the
only track where dryber is the fastest.
Again, some really tight turns we have to really go out of our way
to hold on to PRB and keep our
mini-cervos as tight as possible.
It's very cool to see.
Mushroom Bridge here we're gonna hope
not get pwned by some computers
at the beginning. Luckily
we are not face first in the wall today
Yeah they can have a tendency to kind of knock you to the left and ruin your line starting out.
So here's Ocean Bridge! It is from RMPD, and it's a little bit of a downgraded version
from what you may be used to
We can't drive up on the bridge and there are no
secret sort-of pathways
But, there is still a lot of fun driving
to go on here. The cars are a little bit easier because they're all
traveling in one direction,
and this is actually the site of
the final boss battle in the game in mission mode
against Wiggler.
Wait! Spoil spoilers for no one who
beat all six missions!
Come on! Not everyone knows
that if they didn't get all three stars or
just one star.
It's okay.
Now I'm going to get banned from the NKDS community for spoiling the game.
Before we get too far with any spoilers, can I cut in with a couple special donations?
Yes, please.
Wonderful. We have $25 from MKDS1992
that says,
Hey Abel Puddings and Mikey, good luck
on your run, Abel. Keep going. You are
doing awesome.
Can't wait to destroy our opponents at the World Championships the next week.
I'm sure we will win this year.
Hope to meet all you guys soon again.
Much love, MKDS
forever. And we also have 25 from mikey that says let's go abel this one has been so
incredible much love to everyone here and just as a real quick update, we only have
$3,500 left of that
upgrade for the Track Radio
Sunrise Fund! Let's get those donations in!
Thank you
Jay Glenn. I just wanted to quickly say that MKDS1992 is in fact the current world record holder on Waluigi Pinball.
So do check out his run on YouTube, I believe's a 135.2 something like that yep very incredible ron
is the shortcut all three left yeah i've only done it one lap so anyway.
Luckily we're showing Chaco Island to you just in respect that it deserves this is a
very difficult and very unlike track in this community where these bumps here kind of send you off on direction
and ruin your momentum and we don't like them so luckily we don't have to talk about
the track because it's already over that's the best outcome.
Okay, so Bamsi Boardwalk might be fair to say
for my community this is home to the unofficial
or official whatever you want to call it able mascot we're going to see him
right here he's present in other mario games it's bubble of the fish there he is
yeah anybody uh say hi bug say hi to bubba in the chat or if you have the emote,
spam it. Don't spam it too much but we love Bubba here.
He is kind of a beacon of both RTA categories in this game,
32 tracks and all missions.
And he appears near the end of a run
and kind of cheers you on
and gives you the motivation to finish it out
and finish off strong
and do your best.
So we really love Bubba here.
Absolutely, and I see that Abel has a banana right there
I think we're going to try to feed Bubba really quick
Exactly, I was just gonna say that
Oh! That went in his mouth exactly i was just going to say that here you go bubba
that went in his mouth that was insane
yes uh we have to add that boba has no collision so
that's why unfortunately well that's the thing though
he's a very kind soul he can never hurt anyone he can't hurt anyone he's just not able to but
uh that's just why we love him he's just such a supportive friend
and um so we're about to finish Bansky Boardwalk right here
We have one more lap up. This is a pretty
difficult track. There's not a lot of
room for snaking on somebody straight away
It's very narrow and sometimes there's not a wall
to protect us but we're gonna do to do our best, we're also just
going to cut off a little bit of the corner right here
and ah! Hitting him again,
amazing. That'll be wonderful.
But yeah besides that
not too much else going on here. We will say our next track is gonna be GBA Sky Garden
and we're not gonna talk too much during the race because Amble's gonna be performing PRB
he's gonna be trying to do a very difficult shortcut that, oh my god
Robb! That is brutal! Oh no! This is exactly why I veto
Robb at the very beginning of my runs. Unbelievable.
He does...he is a troublemaker.
But yes, anyway
we're moving on to GBA SkyGarden
and Abel's going to be trying some PRB
to do a very difficult shortcut
so let's all give Abel the best luck he can get,
and let's see some PRV!
We have $32 from Enforest that says congratulations on pulling off the Mario Circuit
shortcut, Abel! Best of luck to you in the rest of the run!
Shoutouts to Enforest and the Balloon Battle Boys
Alright, Abel has performed a shortcut
Very nice shortcut
Abel is going to hold PRB and
hopefully do it two more times.
Yeah, so this
is a very difficult strat
where basically Abel needs to space all
of his mage heros out just right so he's releasing them
right before he's about to go over all these gaps and also you know maintaining this while
driving through all of these crazy obstacles across different terrain.
And this is very good so far, but we have some computers that are going to try
ruin our fun here hopefully. Okay. Still hanging
on down the well right now.
I think we're going to see it. We don't see this often,
especially on able streams. It's very rare
to see a 3-4-3 but here it is baby!
3-4-3 PRB shortcut!
That is what we like to see!
Oh my gosh, that's just incredible. Again, we don't see it often.
Yeah PRV saves a ton of time in this track
There's a 7 second difference between the non-PRV and PRV world record here
Yeah so... difference between the non-prv and prv world record here yeah so it really is the make or break of the entire speed run because that's
the second to last track, if you're on a world record base
the nerves are kicking in. It is just hard for you to see but um we're
now on the last track this is gcn yoshi circuit we're going to see a pme shortcut at the beginning
right there very nice uh fun fact this track is shaped like Yoshi!
So I think... I want to give... so this is the last
track that they're on and we'll be calling time at
end of third lap. But I wanna give a quick
shout-out or just encourage people
to get into MKDS.
It's a really fun game,
we have a ton of people in the community
our main discourse server
is Mario KartGS Network.
We have people who play Wi-Fi,
we have people who play time trials,
we have people who do a lot of versus runs
or 32 track runs.
We also have a new kind of task community
that's really been getting off the ground recently, thanks to all of the new discoveries.
And you know there is a ton of people willing to help you. Some of the newest people, some of the best people in our community right now, joined as recently as last year.
So there's really never a better time to get into MKDS
and join us yourself.
Yep, Inventor MKADDS stats right now.
Just incredibly valuable, sentimentally of course
but yeah while we
wrap up this last lap I just want to give a quick
shout out again to the entire community but also
for me, Abel and Puddings
you could follow us on Twitch. You're gonna see Abel stream on Twitch
he'll play Mario Kart DS most nights, he plays it a lot
And you'll also see me and Pudding stream every now and then as well.
We all love this game, we're all very happy.
Well, I've got to check time.
Time!
Woo-hoo, congrats!
Awesome, awesome. Oh so that's
Mario Kart
DS Thirst 2 tracks
thanks guys for having me
first and foremost
summer games done quick for having. It's a real privilege to have been chosen to showcase the game I've loved most and especially when fundraising for such a good cause so please keep donating this is fantastic um
would you like to say something in addition puddings
um i guess our last kind of thing that we wanted to shout out is,
We currently have a WiFi tournament going on right now.
And you can join... well you can't join in anymore because of submissions but
There's a lot of high level gameplay to be going on for the next month,
especially in AbleStream and some other streams
in Mario Kart DS community. So check that
community on Twitch, see if there is anybody streaming
some high level matches
and give it a watch. Yes, as for myself
you can catch me streaming runs
every day on twitch.tv
forward slash abel
I'd also like to encourage
you guys to check out a feature-length mario kart ds documentary on youtube it's called
mkds 2021. check it out just one more thing really good watch yes go ahead all right uh
really quick before we end i want to wish a very happy birthday
to alberto he is a professional mario kart 8 deluxe player he might be here watching in the
chat right now but um either way we want to wish him a very happy birthday. Happy birthday, man!
Happy birthday!
Sorry we
couldn't be there in person.
I'd love to attend a GDQ event one day.
Thank you so much to my co-commentators,
Puddings and Mikey Law
for being here with me today.
You guys carry
the commentary
also
for our host
who did a brilliant job as well. thank you thank you for having us thank you
i'm kds forever So, uh...
I will, eh? Oh, sorry. I thought of... Hello everybody! Bonsoir from France.
France has taken over Game Zone Quick at the Independence Day of course for all Americans.
I've got the american
flag in the back uh we will be running a truckman sunrise second track man again
to be released back in 2005 that was 19 years ago time flies and i will be shortly presenting the category because it
will be very packed especially on the puzzle board so we're going to play two game modes
but are not very usual in the trackmania franchise which is a simulation arcade racing game
we put the puzzle again mode where we will be playing through 33 tracks
so trackmania is known for its in-game map editor, so
this was the editor back in 2005. The goal would be to build some
routes and drive as fast as possible in order to climb some meadows
Right now I will need to do this
puzzle part in any person so we only need to get all the silver
medals and 10 gold medals but if you reach the incentive game
program, I will need to get all of the medals i might come back
to some tracks if the incentives made in the round the
route can also change on some other tracks
because we need to optimize mapping time and driving time
and then we'll have a stunt portion which will be very
different, and very nice! So without further ado
I am ready to go in 5... 4...
3... 2... 1... Go! four three two one go so welcome to it i'm sorry to break in i have a super exciting announcement
we have met that incentive we are going to do the puzzle 100 plus stunts any percent run thank you
thank you very much so this track is a bit hard i'll just switch to keyboard i don't know why
i will go back to my truck and get open middle because it's a bit difficult but we
have already started building uh the tracks so you have different strategies that you can use
i'm using the numpad to switch between blocks and it's very important to optimize
building time on this category
This is why it's so different from
other TrackManager categories
I think that I've played out a bit right there
So, I'm not going to get the upper middle
I'm just going to restart this one because it's a bit right there so i'm not going to get the upper middle i'm just going to restart this
one because it's a bit of an easy one so i'm just putting the two boosters next to one another
because oh sorry i'm a bit uh okay i need you stay focused so i'm not
keeping the boosters next to one another because you would get a
lot of acceleration from it and things like i am
a bit um a bit sweating but this one definitely we've got some weird action with the
game uh right there so you see that the island car okay let's uh let's go back into the track.
And I think we got it on a win-sink only 100.
So let's go again.
It's not easy when you're shaking, but I will fill it in just a couple of seconds. I wasn't expecting on this track, but there is a bit too precise.
There you go, we finally
got it! Nice! Alright so
We'll be switching to
further tracks
So this is divided in sections of five
maps So we will be going through three different
cars, right there we'll be using the strat for the Oka middle which is not intended
by the developers. This is a bit of a faster strat. i will get it first right perfect so i can save up
a bit of time so just bump into a wall in order to fly into the finish after that we have a track
with a lot of elevation changes so we're going to use two types of blocks
these uh this hill box and the straighter block so i'm just gonna place all of the dots
right there and this is not the optimal path for what we call
it, but this is a safe path
so you really want to optimize
mapping time and
driving time in this category which
sets it apart from all of the trackman speedrun categories and this is why
i like this category so much especially for any percent where on some tracks will only place a
couple blocks because it won't be enough to get a
server middle requirement this one will be another track where the
alpha model is a bit tricky because in attractmania
you can have some um landing bugs so the game is a bit amnestic which means if
you do exactly the same inputs you will get
it we all get exactly the same results but sometimes again
is a big mistake just like this for example there you go uh i just barely missed the jump
i was full accelerating and the game decided to just make me do a front flip but this is
called what can happen in this game i'm gonna do an air brake right there in order to land flat
and missing it by a three hundred of seconds so we'll come back to you at the end of the total
section just going through all over tracks after. After that, we will be
going to another car which is
the Island Car
a very fast-paced
car as you will see. Right there
we are using concave and convex blocks just to show you that
you can build transitions in trackmania this middle is very easy some of your
formulas will be much harder to get which is why the incentive should have been increased by about 10 minutes.
This one very easy we just want to go as fast as possible to the finish line so we're going
to go into a straightest time possible
two of your first checkpoints so click minutes again made of the checkpoint so you have a starting
block some checkpoints and then a finisher or you can have as well multiple of
finished lines and you need to get into the
finish time either fast as possible this track it's very interesting because
you needed to build up a specific amount of speed in order to make the jump.
I'm going to play it on keyboard and not on controller right now,
because i had some weird issues on controller where i lost the gear.
In this game you have a gear system
with different gears on regular Trackmania
it's usually 5 gears but in some of these games you can have way more than
five gears and usually in Trackmania,
you don't want this gear when you have the gear shift
Rather I was a bit unlucky
I hit the finish which is not enough for
the Opel at all
So we'll go through it again and just release a little bit at the ending of the map.
Trackrunner is a game where you can play with a wide range of input devices.
Most people will play on a controller pad, but you also have a lot
of competitive players that play with a keyboard with only four keys right there. I got this
right here just by listening. Nice! and you can also play with the steering wheel
just like granite which is a journal player that is very well known within the trackman community
and right now we're switching to one of the more terrible maps
in terms of mapping because you have
a lot of different blocks
which you place, and you have to build the smoothest
path possible so that you keep
contact with the ground. Because time that is not spent on the ground
is time that you are not accelerating.
This is going to be a bit of an unsmooth transition
and I can just let my hands apart because this is a press forward map
if you don't know what first one maps are in checkman these are maps with
just price forward and we did some people have been able
to make some crazy sense. So you've seen
viral Trackmania videos on the internet, it was probably some press-forward maps
This map will be very easy, only going to use four
different platform blocks on the very flat surface we have it
down here right there what we're gonna reuse uh right after getting through this checkpoint
as we will climb up here do a bit of a blind jump just aiming for the mountain
in the distance so this is set in a pacific theme you
will also see some buildings as well with
the island bar this car can easily slide out, so you have
to be very smooth with the steering
which is why controller is
preferred than
keyboard but on some other cars
it's completely fine to play with a keyboard.
So we got all of Ponegal Driver on this one, and now we'll switch
to the third card of this game. This game as I said was
the second TrackMinding game released back in 2005. it introduced a three
new cars after the original original game back in 2003 and this is probably
one of the weirdest track manager where where it slides out very easily and this car is set in
the french rivera in the code dazio and yeah it's a very difficult to handle on the next track you will need
to be a very precise with placing the different blocks we have six different block types but i
think we're only gonna use four of them as i'm going to place all the books right
there and i have to be very careful not to miss about because i will only realize that on
the driving part and this will be very important
on the later tracks as you'll see that we will need to do
a lot of driving.
Sadly in this game the pointer that you see
is not removable so I need
put it away from the screen if I can think of it during
a run.
And next track is one of the hardest in terms of mapping because you have to remember very
precise sequence of blocks on where to place them.
So I'm trying not to mess it up, this one should go here
and this is also a hard one for the author middle so i might just
try it once and then come back to it at the end of this puzzle section
but if I could get it first that would be amazing. And we have time for two donations.
Wonderful.
I have a $1,000 donation from archive and
it says the older track Trackmania games have some very
interesting game modes. It's cool to
see them here at SGDQ!
We also have $500
from Anonymous that says
Trackmania or Bust.
Thank you so much for those incredibly generous donations
and also just very, very quickly wanted to say
we have a new incentive open
for our Rabbit & Steel run
which is the 4-player Lunar Red Darkhouse.
If met,
the runners will showcase a lunar difficulty run,
which was very hard of the Red Darkhouse stage
after the main Rabbit and Steel runs.
So go ahead and get those donations in.
Back to you, Raskatz. back to your rest by two tenths but we're gonna come back to this track a
bit later on but you can switch to the others
uh next one is going to be only the left line on this one we're going to place
a very few blocks a few blocks of any percent trust we only going to place a very few blocks uh few blocks on the any percent trust we only need to place
um three blocks but just to be safe for at the 100
route i'm gonna place a couple of more blocks because the first checkpoint is
placed on the ground but the second one is placed in here so you do need a
couple of blocks that you reach it i'm gonna have to be very careful we
can't just see that right well so they're gonna have to be very careful the car just hit that right well so gonna have to be
spawned and i tried to uh get it clean
so that's a nice one short on this game with some um
with a couple songs
oh okay we got it okay and we need to finish within 15 seconds something 15 19 should be enough i don't have my last hit on the side, so I can't really check for all the times.
I forgot to set that up. Now we are back to Tangram 2 which is very similar
to Tangram 1 that we played before. To get the alpha medal
We're going to place two additional blocks compared
to the any% route which are these two blocks
which will allow us to go faster into
the checkpoint. This would have up to one second
and I'm gonna tap the acceleration in
the corner right there, try not to hit
because this car as i said can easily slide out
So I'm gonna release very early here and then
we'll accelerate i don't think this is going to be enough for uh upper middle
but we might come back if needed 2319 should be all right by a few
yep we just got it.
So now we can switch back to brainstorm which is going to be the fourth part
of the run. We are going back into Bay
Wait... did it work? Probably. We'll check. Nope! Okay I just forgot one single block right there
Very important to put a red block so that you don't have the fence at the end i'm going to
up stop accelerating then keep accelerating again and finish in five seconds 73 this is
probably your shortest track didn't get 80 so i can retry that try to release a bit less up release boom
reactivated and now you can see that it will be a bit faster 560 which is a pretty decent time
and we will at the switching to a mini g3
this is also a bit of a nightmare to mark you only have two different kind
of blocks but you have a lot of elevation change
a lot of scroll wheel
usage. So I'm going to
place all these blocks like this
and we are only two people
running this one at the moment
We just optimized the building and the driving part and the fun park will live
exactly in the same city uh in france didn't get to meet yet so shout out to a ventilator of course but also been running this
category and some other people have also been uh running it because last year we organized
a huge event for the 10 year 20 year anniversary of checkmania
so yeah this license is already 21 years old maybe some of you have discovered
the license through trackmania nations power which
was a free to play game released back in 2008. There was also
Trackmania Nations ESWC back in 2006 and now with this new track we will
find a new mechanic called Tunnels So I'm just going to be
very careful right there, so this is a very precision-based
run. I am not very good at precision as you may have noticed
on one of the first tracks, the nerves
were
pretty high. So number five
is going to be this downhill block that I
will place here. I'm going to not forget
to place a block at the exit of
the tunnel right there else it's not going to work there you go
and now we should have more than enough blocks to get
via off the middle with any percent uh you just place a bit less box in order to
reduce your building time you could still get the upper middle with the n-percent trial but
it's a little harder so i I'm just using this writing set
so that I don't have to read this value there,
and I can smash my search into the wall
and then drag straight into the finish
which is what we could call a war ride.
It's not a vertical war ride but at least it's an horizontal
wall right this next work is going to be rng first as i said this game is deterministic which means
that if you do exactly the same inputs you have exactly the same results but it's a bit of a chaos theory
game where if you have slightly different inputs you can add very very different outcomes which is
what we could see right there i will try to get it first
right so this is the next job that is going
to be very hard because you have to aim pretty well and then you can
you're gonna have some weird stuff happening to the car
I'm gonna release a bit and then just hope to make the jump okay
i made it the car is very bouncy it's a 4x4 suv
uh so a familiar car but very lightweight and bouncy
and the camera here is also giving you motion sickness
uh on this track a lot so i hope you're not getting a dv and then we might get bunny up
from the car oh no that was just a tiny no. But this should be
more than enough
for
the ultimate goal.
My bad!
We missed it by
300 of a second.
Welcome back to it
Leica
once we are done
with all of the tracks.
This track very, very interesting called Aim for the Top. As you can
see, the finish is very high. Let me count those
straight so we can use these ramps in order to get out into the air
and you have the world because strategy on this track is absolutely insane it uses a
bird called the uber bug which some people from the TrackManor community might know.
And that is more prevalent in TrackManor Stadium,
The main environment.
But right there we're just going to flip into the air
same here we're gonna do the same thing do uh
this backflip and then go straight into a finish line
on the second jump i could have gone as straightly into the finished arm but you
can have as well some bugs and i decided not to risk it since
i'll also wait quite a bit of time uh on the start of the run this is one
of the trucks where we optimize the build the most.
We only place just a couple blocks, so these are
not the optimal aligns for what we call, you place almost
all other building blocks
but this will be moving enough to get at the uh 80 medal
this game was developed by nadia i think that's a little french video
um and yeah the community in this game is very nice.
It's really based on a community
sharing maps. We have some community website to share
maps with some community competition as well.
Very friendly communities so if you've never played Trackmania you can give it a go
It's very encouraged.
It's pretty hard to pick up game
Easy to play but hard to master to be honest uh right there okay this is the booster that i need a two hour place so this is
the strat that i use for 100 it's faster than any person, but the
building takes a bit more time. We're going to do
180 right there and we're going to need
approximately 12.03 seconds
which is going to
be done right so.
After that, we will switch to Drunken Tunnel
another map with some tunnels
I'm going to enable the tunnel game mode
with W key
and then play this track. On this track,
the World Record track is also a bit crazy because there's some Yubo bugs as well
Because as you will see on the next part we are driving on grass and
we are instantly slowed down by a lot i didn't land super flat so i'm not sure if this will be 80
i could uh drive it again because this is a very easy map that will surely get its
tip and try uh this would never happen like i would never fail it twice surely
never happens with marathon runs and then i just aim straight like this
get a good landing airbrake in order to stabilize the car
this is very useful uh in a checkpoint again because of that button
and there you go starting over half a second just by getting
much cleaner landing. After that we've got the track
called The Left Speed so our first strike was called The Right Speed now it's
The Left Speed and same here we just going to build as much speed
that as we can in an overall pattern
so maybe there are some NASCAR fans
in the chat and in the audience at GDQ
So you can cheer if you wish.
And now we're just going to try to remember where
to exit, so drive smooth, exit here don't go for another round
around the clock then get a mask for that jump drive on the reverse boosters
getting a speed and finish of the map with at the alpha middle final map of this block
will be a pillar of summer, so in this one you have
a lot of different strategies to collect the checkpoints. When I discovered the run
I had a lot of trouble getting the upper-middle. I of trouble to get the upper middle
i was trying to get the checkpoints from uh this side
up to the other side but the fastest way is indeed to get them
just from top to bottom and we will have to be very careful with landing
bugs right there, which can happen. Which is why I'm going to do an immediate air brake
right there. Hope that I don't use a lot of speed. Hope that I make bad jump as well
Nice! And then
I can drop here, this is another ground jump that I will have to do right about
here, try not to slide out, hope but I didn't forget any blocks
and then I would be able to uh finish that map
and boom all right so 24 made six with pillars of summer after that is done we can go to mystery we are back on coast baby
back in france alia trance and now we have some roadblocks with holes,
which we're going to use to drop down
two other checkpoints at the start.
I'm not gonna steer for a second.
I'll just like the very first frame
and then I stopped steering so that i can have a gear shift
else i will lose a lot of speed because if you still bring your gear check
you do lose quite uh quite a tremendous amount of speed
whatever i have to be a bit careful i don't think this is going to be enough
i lost quite a bit as well i still got it nice so i won't have to come back to that map simple line
you have a lot of different strut on uh that one and I think the word we could try to use it with all the
rules so the blocks don't directly connect into the finish okay i messed up on that part
i used block number two instead of block and number, so this is why you have to be very careful with the block usage.
Same here, going to steer and then not steer for about a second
and keep on driving in order to get the early shift. Tap acceleration
multiple times in order to not slide out as you can see even at speeds of 100
kilometers per hour, you can slide out with the cost bar.
This one is also very interesting. You have a lot of different
solutions for the map. I'm going to get the checkpoints
in this order which you will as soon see okay for that just
like this like this jump down there and then so we're gonna do one two four three
from right to left and i think that what we call does the opposite but this is very
easy to build and to remember they're easy to start out apparently as well
so here gonna be careful what we're gonna be careful.
What we're going to do here is use the display to do a very fast 180.
There you go!
And then drive it straight into the finish line in 23 seconds of flat
we got the upper middle a stretcher motif this one is also pretty cool you have two uh levels
we're going to connect the two levels with the slope blocks. I'm going to place
the blocks here. We're also
going to place some roadblocks right there so that we can
exit at the upper level to drop
down to the lower level, and
we're going to claim all of our checkpoints in a clockwise pattern,
so first this checkpoint then this second one and beating the rod very safe right there
This root block that allows me to jump down to the lower level,
I could have placed one block early but then I could have gotten way more
landing bugs so I'm just paying it super-suff in order to get the offer manual
and then up we're just gonna get the last checkpoint
and finish your map
nice music out well very repetitive music sadly there's only like
five or six musics I think in the game
This is probably one of the most nightmare
team-up as you can see we have a lot
tunnel blocks to place
so absolutely very easy to miss out on the one block and if you only below us
40 seconds into a run you are a very very sad trust me it has happened
uh many times before when i was at this category so i'm gonna drop down a debug right there try to
not forget a single one of them this one is unforgettable go this one as well. Go down into the ground
surface, play some of the road dogs. Same here, the checkpoint
order is not optimal for what we call but this is the fastest to build for
speedrun. So usually the first checkpoint,
this is the one that you're going to get straight away,
that's easy peasy and then second and third checkpoints
are switched on the what we call route. What we call, they go way further to the left
get to the other checkpoint then will go back through this checkpoint
with the corridor and I'm gonna brake right there in order not to slide out
Then i can drive into the grass.
So, graphics for that game are pretty good for a 2005 game.
I don't know what you think in the chat. Oh! We got a nice clip but we
have the checkpoint so we can immediately respond and then uh drive through
the map into other finish in 38 seconds up there you go, nice.
And the final tracks of a run before... Oh sorry!
I started building it during my test stream so this one
is called Final Speed, it's very similar
to the left speed and right speed track but this time
we're going to use a booster and twice in order to build momentum
so I need to place all of the blocks right there.
The path on this map for
keyboard and controller is different
because it's way easier to slide out
on keyboard. So a ventilator
or my friend that also ran this game was using the keyboard strap and he
was using about three to four seconds
and right there we're just gonna get a lot of speed up to 868 feet maximum speed in check manner is 1000
kilometers per hour some people have managed to go over
that limit but it's mostly one thousand and now look at this absolute monstrosity
other track driver focus where we have so many blocks to play
so you have to be very precise
to aim pretty well which is not my
best qualities in iGaming but
there you go as you can see I just clicked slightly off track
we'll place these blocks i'm going one two three four and then eight
seven six five in other block's order so
this one okay i forgot to press one block
so i'm gonna have to place book seven here
this is not my usual setup i usually replace the uh but number six a bit earlier but this will be
absolutely fine and final bug probably back number seven not looks good! We can start driving on it
And we have time for two donations
Wonderful I have a couple quick ones
We have $50 from Nightwig that says
More Trackmania?
More Trackmania!
I also have $100 from RaiderMonkey that says,
upgrade please and we did in fact meet
that incentive upgrade so thank you all so much.
We also have $50 from
Liftam1 that says more Trackmania
please, and a very quick
$25 from HaikuTrain
woo woo! That says says puzzles 100 stunts any percent incentive met just in time thank you
for all of those fabulous donations yeah thank you everybody for all of the
donations shout out to all of people donating to
medicine and doctors without borders
and boom 48 i played played it very safe.
I usually drive in 46 seconds. Final map of the puzzle section
we're going to drive it very safe so
We only have one type of blocks on this map which are these um sloped
blocks uh what because just goes through the checkpoints in a very
weird order but for uh this speedrun we just didn't get the checkpoint from top to bottom so i need
to count with two checkpoints two again here after four checkpoints that will drop down
to a lower level start to be very about four and then either down to this level
I get six checkpoints now. So one, two, three maybe you can count with me in the room five
six i'm gonna break right there get the checkpoint
uh after that this is a free check one so this is number two
then this will be number three and we'll drop them to the final levels so
these points do quick 180 and then finish the map and then we'll go back
to all of them where we didn't get the off-limits so that you can complete
that puzzle 100% from, hoping that I will not
fail two threats and that I will be precise with
the inputs.
That should be around 157575 that's more than enough
and four of the medals uh boom boom let's see how many maps we have remaining so
we got one here and we've got one here high end news and we've
got two here uh so i'm gonna start with some of the
easy ones we're going to start with a double jump hoping that we get
um nice bounce but need to be very precise here I hope to
clean okay a lot of these kids and then how she started so if someone is
opening up to the odd this will made by the creator of a trackmania elise
and yeah back then they were much harder than now
now in the seasonal campaigns on 2020 video formulas are 2020, the auto-medals are much easier. Except for
the last campaign that just released on July 1st where we had
one medal but was only met by 7 people after 12 hours
if I remember correctly. so that was absolutely insane high
end news is going to be a bit of trouble so what we're gonna do is do uh how programs hope that
we get good rng on this one remember this is the track where we missed it by only
0.03 seconds
so we'll just hope that we can get
it clean. Problem with this map
is that the RNG
port happens after 25 seconds so that's a lot of time.
As you can see we lost 0.5 second on my PB
I mean my PB is 0.5 second behind sorry
Really quickly just want to jump in and say we have gone up
to seven hundred and seventy five thousand dollars raised four doctors without borders
during this run thank you so much for all of your donations. Thank you very much, maybe we can reach 777
thousand and seven hundred and twenty-seven to bring me more luck for the run but it'd be cool!
Yes that sounds perfect donate for that! You can tell me when we reach it.
Absolutely will. Alright, so this one we got, nice
and then I think I only have two remaining which are the
two orders. So we're gonna start with base starter i will
have to drive very close to the wall on this one you get an 837. oh i got it first try! Let's go!
Okay my start of the run was very bad especially on the second track
where i had a lot of trouble but we made it nice. I'm getting more and
more confident, and this one may only be 0.2. We have our goose
to help us know if you're on track or not to get it. So
let's go to the uptime right there. there you go, I can already save 0.24
but my second half of the map was pretty good. I'm gonna full release here
and tap acceleration do a turn around
oh and let's slide out out okay i see that so
we're gonna have to restore this is one of the pretty hard turns
uh on the map after that we're going to switch to stunts which will be radically
different i hope you will enjoy it okay this is not very fast okay i can get more speed
from the exit should be good nice then we'll release this is one of my favorite song from
the soundtrack of a game. And I tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap.
Okay this is,
this was a slide out.
Can I still make it?
Nope okay this will not be enough
so we might restart again.
Ah! Come on. Let's get it i don't have you
okay okay
this is not good but i'm catching up here and then i can i can get speed through here okay i'm catching up nice
yeah but i want me like inside the model so Okay, I'm catching up. Nice.
Yeah, but I want to like inspire them on those two that then come on,
come on, I drove in all this is not going to be enough.
Ah, I missing one punch now.
OK, come on. Just a few attempts and we'll get it
i just need to get a bit of a clean start on that map
okay this is a real fix all right you don't lose me a lot of time this is a drift. It's alright.
Didn't lose me a lot of time. This is very clean.
Full brake then immediately steer like this.
Point 3 ahead.
Tap tap tap acceleration
and I think we have it! Okay, puzzle part of the run is done in i don't know how many minutes and we will do a ds10 section right now
which will be very different so there you go
all green medals on the puzzle campaign we can
go to a stance now i hope you're ready to fly high in style
have uh yeasted and so
we will need to get all the silver medals on this match and three gold medal as well. So
the scoring system for stunts in trackman is very, very weird you have different kinds of stunts
You have a straight stance just like this you can also have adi stand where i will just
switch the direction at the very last moment so right there i switched from
left to right at last moment but it still should as a straight jump
slowly i will get the gold medal on this one because it's
a very easy middle to get and just finishing right in time so you want to chain uh your
stance and to diversify them in order to get as many points
as possible. This one I have set up
for a silver medal, I'll try to get it first try
so full right, full left
up and then land flat and hope to get 81 points i got more than enough
almost get 81 just with that single stunt
we can then go through the finish line so you have a timer if you reach the
finish line after the timer
You lose 10 points every second
And this is the moment that I fear the most in Yataro Run
A track for the chariots theory
and it's the most random track you can ever think of
Last time i did this category in American,
I had to try it 10 times.
So yeah, we'll just hope to get lucky
at 100 points. I don't know
if this is really good or not.
We need 178. We're just going to pray to get a good or not we need one seven three eight and
i'm just gonna pray to get a good second job please
this piece of space and that's unlucky we have to restart
probably we only got 168
and this is like super random
There's definitely not a step up
on this you just gotta go straight
and actually pick prey so if she could send
some prey emotes in the chat to encourage me, maybe this would be good.
Oh wait! Maybe if I get lucky with a second sprint and a finishing point,
This could be 178 points
i do need to go quick but we could maybe do it i just
need to align myself pretty well like such
can i get some good flips?
I'm missing it by 8 points.
I told you this track was an absolute nightmare!
And this is only the silver medal, so imagine the gold and the alpha medals!
The founder of the game really Edith really cooked on all of these resistant medals. Okay...
117! This is much better than what we got before. We only need 61 points, surely we'll get them.
Surely we will get them. A lot of motion sickness with the camera.
Oh this looks good come on!
Oh it's nice!
We got it! Amazing! And now
we can finish just in time
Okay, now we can sweat
as you can see in french and
now we can go to uh one of the light tracks so we
go to the second section so track number four five
and six and in the audience,
Minneapolis maybe you can share a couple of jumps like
We're going to land 540 flip
If you keep on steering during the entire jump, this
will be a masterjump but it's very
difficult to achieve so that is why
you have to stop steering most of the time
So I'm just going to soon right there, so...
Of course on World Record Runs they always
get a Master's Stunt because
we start over and over again
On this one we're going to get the Gold Medal
because it's very easy to get so there you go and we have one final gold
middle together and after that we will only need uh the silver medals uh strats for this map
are very easy if you wanted to get a gold medal as well.
You have to do 180, keep on accelerating
like this and get 37 points
then you will stop accelerating
right at the end of the booster so right about
here. Keep accelerating here and then pull a 360 like so
then on the booster and then finally do another
360. and this is your tutorial to get a gold medal on aquaplaning
hopefully, this is enough. Yeah there you go!
Amazing! Boat ride
This one is also pretty nice with the Bay baker as you remember that car is very bouncy i'm gonna
steer at the very last second river do a 360 hope to get enough point okay 75 points is pretty pretty good i will aim about here
i think yeah this is good and i've got 97.4!
Okay, so I don't have to go for the flip which is a bit orangey at the end
I just barely got this silver medal. Nice! Amazing! With 7 seconds
to spare. Wonderful! Just real quick wanted to break in with a 500
donation from luna rexy no comment but thank you so much for your generous donation
and remember uh rastats asked for that 777777
For all of the luck on these runs
So if you want to get your donations in for that
We would love to have them
Exactly. I'm going to do a hand-in-pride there
So we're gonna go to the left and then upsteer to the right.
Do a very nice leap.
And as you have noticed these are custom cars made especially for this run by Min
A lovely member from the United States of America
So shout out to me if you are watching
around, he made some fantastic cards
I wanted Tom Card with a
sunrise film because the name of the game is
tracking the sun rise and look at
beautiful lights that we have in the back absolutely mesmerizing
lines. We get enough points on this map I could have done a 360
in between the pillar and rocket but it that was a bit risky i just wanted to
i get this server middle and i got gold so i'm fine with it
all right this one another day car map so what we're gonna do is a full 360
right there what because try to just hit uh onto the
wall of the building next to you and then hope to get a lot of points
okay i completely messed that up but this is 100 points so it could be good
i think this would be enough let me see i need to think fast
i mean 206 point this is a very clean stand yeah oh it's going to be way more than enough
and then i just do another 360 at the end or this one beautiful
look at this this is some t old with cars but still amazing uh flip flop or the this one
coast car so i do have to break at a very specific moment.
So full accelerate, then up four lees
and then left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot
you only do one flip.
I could do two flips
but sometimes they only do one and half flips
and you just land on your back
And then the last part is also a bit RNG so I'm going to try to
get some good luck line up properly, get a good flip seems to be good
Then get another flip by jumping behind and then i need
uh this is what we call the turtle in checkmania in some case you can save it but with
these very heavy car you cannot save it so i will have to start again
they're very nice because on the stadium car you can drive
on uh when you are on your back it's a very
and nicer mechanic slowly as second time with the charm i just need to aim perfectly here
okay maybe if i start like this and then jump like this i can flip well okay i don't have enough points so we'll
have to be thought sadly i was not actually the point system so this is one of the tracks where
i feared that i'm not getting it first try i knew that this was going to be one of the tracks where I feared not getting it first try.
I knew that this was going to be one of the hard tracks.
76 points is good,
I only need 72 points now
so we'll take it very safe and then get speed here
i mean just pray there you go this is a lot of people
amazing what a flip 107 points nice uh and this is only silver medal so imagine what you need to get
in order to get off a middle and so now we are at the six elasto tracks of
the instance campaign this one pretty easy i just need to aim
pretty precisely gonna do a backflip and then
one of the biggest stunts so far up there you go
going to do a lot of flips, I think this is an 80
stunt? Maybe. Let's see...
Oh! 720 almost. Now i'm gonna do another small jump
like this.
274, and now I just need to jump straight into the finish, and
this will be more than enough for Silver
Medal. You're going to release in order not fly
out of the map but don't release too early else you would just hit
at the top of that building.
After that we go
to a medallion
which is also a very easy map
because you have two minutes which will be very different
from the map right after, which is one of the maps
that I've still missed as well. You'll see why.
But this map, 2 minutes
is more than enough time in order to
get still the middle. So first jump we got 117 points right there
one we're just going to do a classic as stand so we're just gonna
change things like this i'm release, try to aim properly
do the full stunts... Yeah that was not the cleanest landing you've ever seen
but that will do the trick then i'm going to do a Hallyu right there
and this is not going to be enough, sadly.
Okay and the car is starting so that was a bit unlucky
I said it was easy but then of course something that never happens before
It had happened before but not
no open so we'll have to decide again i can respond on these maps
if there are any checkpoints but i would use 50 points for
a near respawn which is uh why i didn't try it i'm not even sure if there's
a checkpoint or not maybe that's one at the start of the map and i didn't really see
it okay so i need to read this right now because i'm jumping super far
there you go this is clean keeping one more speed than before then this value will be much more
thin i'm going to stop it right there not gonna try to do another rotation but would be a
bit too risky after that i can do another
stunt for 70 points i guess let's do another stand here
okay that landing won't be hard.
Come on!
Nice and we got more than enough points for Silver medal so I can just drive back straight
to finish time which is right about here and now
now the despair the complete despair on this track called spin hell
it is literally a spin held so we will have some time to read donation in the moment but first i'll
show you what i will try to do for the next three minutes on that map so first we're gonna do backflip
after that is done which we're just gonna go straight
and keep doing the same stuff over
and over again until we have enough points.
Right there I'm going to full circle left
then open a good line in here
a good flip
And now you have time for some donation wonderful we have 20 from faulty mentality that appropriately
says thank you so much for that donation we also also have $25
from Tomato Walrus that says
we love GDQ.
Thanks, Tomato Walrus! So do
we! I also wanted to give you
a quick update on that four- player Lunar Red Darkhouse incentive
that we opened just before this run.
We already have $1,193 for the $15,000 needed for that incentive if you want to see
really hard rabbit and steel you definitely want to get your donations in
for that we also have a real quick 25 from beastie that says greetings from the uk second year in
a row attending this fantastic event and it's always so much fun love to support
such a great cause keep up the good work
all right we are doing pretty good for now we need 600 points in about three minutes
so i'm going to try to get these remaining 200 points very cleanly.
Okay, I need to get a good landing because this car can also...
Woo! Almost had heart attacks and so do you dude.
Alright, okay nice
now we're just going to keep on going we need one minute to get 150 points i'm the full state right here
Hope to land clean here as well
Okay, and now we need
40 points for Mene
We should get it first try but that is absolutely
amazing! We should be well within estimate despite the mistake
oh we have a quick seven dollars from anonymous
that says let's get a seven dollar train going to hit that 777 777 let's go
i'm only missing three points for address and just one great simple jump
there you go and just go straight to one of the finish line there is one
located right about here and after that it will
be a last three tracks uh off of the run
maybe some of the viewers in the chat can donate to our 777. and this track a lot of rng especially on that fusion sometimes you get the double
flip sometimes you get a simple simple clip or no feet at all i just got it clean right
there i'm going to do a very safe stretch here.
So this is the first car clearly not of the car made for stunt because as you remember,
this is a very slow car that 190 points then this stunt will be deterministic for the end of a run
just gonna hope to get a clean landing i'm going to stabilize the car as much
as i can okay nice we've got enough point so that
would be your first try amazing so yeah i was feeling
very shaky at the start of a run i've done plenty of my little martin runs before but
last one was a long time ago oh yeah you can uh you kind of need to get
shaky even without the pressure of a cloud
but now it's uh we are doing better and we will get the two
final trucks after this run with first a press forward start but you
can easily get 130 points so i just can raise the controller and not do anything
and waited to get some absolute free points or maybe 273 i think no it's we'll see what's that
don't you remember how many points we get it is indeed 273 points.
I'm going to switch the camera right there,
then we're gonna do some halyups here...
Get a lot of speed!
Okay, I'm gonna try to aim it here.
Can I jump well? Nice! so you have different cameras in the game this was
camera number three which is called interior camera this is camera number one which is uh
pretty far from the car and then your camera number 2 that is a bit closer to the
car. Right now the game won't say so go to the left but just to play it safe I will do
a jump on this platform, so that's going to be a huge jump.
Surely the biggest jump in the entire run
and I could have done even one more flip
and after that it's done, I can directly drop down to here
And then I have more than enough points for the ramel doll
and cross the finishing just like so
Boom boom boom
Alright, Giant pinball
which is gonna be the final map
There's a bit of adaptation
on this map. What we're going to do
is an airbrake right there just when
the car becomes full backflip.
I don't really remember what that was.
Land flat here after that is done right there, we're just going to do a chain flip here. I can probably stop rotating here so
then i can adjust and probably landing too far yet i'm gonna have to
restart that was a bit too greedy right there
i just got a bit too much speed so up air brake right there back flip okay this is not going to be a good
backwards i'm gonna restart again but it's not press forward you really need
to get a good timing very car is tilted a bit more towards
the ground so that's good. Now I can land here
and do very simple jumps here then. Okay this
should be more than enough. just do the jump stop steering and then aim full release
full full in order to land right about here then go straight switch back the camera i'm going to release here
then do a 180 right about there line up the car because i need to be completely straight right about
then I'm gonna break, not go on that open platform
what I am going to do here is another stand
so we need 828 points, so this is good. We've got 662 only one minute remaining
which will be more than enough then another jump like so but it's gonna be 759
need to be pretty clean here 790 and for the final huge stamp of a run uh you go you can cheer and then we will go straight
into the finish line with finishing at 360. so that was Chuck McGonagall's puzzle. 100% instant and 80% valid time!
I hope you all enjoyed that round despite the sloppy start, we should say.
But there you go! We all
finished that stream campaign!
Thank you so much! Is there anything else you want to say before
we go? Yeah of course I would like to shout out the entire
Trackmania community. Of course
at different restreams especially
the French Restream where my friends Cousin
and Slipthroat are commenting
on the run right now.
This game, I didn't mention it but this is a very old game so you can't play it on Windows 10
because of some patch issues but someone made a new patch for the game
and now you can download it
so you can download it for free. It's one of the best Trackmania games even
though it was released back in 2005, it's mostly a solo game you have the
race tracks which are the normal trackmania trucks
then the platform tracks where you need to
finish your track with least amount of tries possible
we have a lot of different platforms jumps and then you have two different game modes that
very weird and unique called Crazy
Extreme Rage. So yeah,
a very good game! And then of course
if you want to get into newer games
you have TrackRender 2020 which you can try
for free right now. download it either on steam or
ubisoft so thank you very much gdq for having me
for a third time on one of my favorite categories i hope
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. are you ready to go It's time for Think Fast, the speedrunning game show of fast times and sharp minds.
I'm your host, Corbin Maye.
And I'm Smooze, also your host.
Tonight, Shell's Kitchen!
A delicious trivia trip
through dinosaur land. Our contestants
Shubda and BK.
I'm sure everyone knows the rules but just to be safe
this is Think Fast, the speedrunning game show
our contestants will race for the best times in Super Mario World Food%
And let's give up Sixth Exit
Who would catch? Boost and I can interrupt you whenever we feel like it percent and let's give up six exit with the catch
this night interrupt whatever we feel like to ask a trivia question
if our runner answers right it will take some seconds off their final time
there's no penalty for guessing wrong but focus too hard on answering the
question then your run might suffer
bra you lovely folks watching feel free to play along and chat
how are both of you feeling going into tonight's race oh i am so excited. Hungry...
...physically and metaphorically.
That's good that you're hungry!
Do you want to just get into it?
Let's do it. Hello, Judy-Q.
Without further delay, it is time to think fast in 3... 2... 1...
No no wait wait wait! Hang on hang. We gotta talk about the food percent.
We can do that during the beginning of the run? You got this?
No!
Oh okay.
We have to do the ritual showing of the wares.
So hello GDQ!
Many years ago two speedrunners by the name of Brams and Isofreeze came up with what's called Super Mario World Food%
The premise is there are all these food named levels in the game
And every time you beat a food named level, and you have to beat them all
You eat the
food associated with the level um for example when you when you beat
a level in donut planes, you must eat
a doughnut. A full-sized donut. No donut holes,
no miniature donuts.
When you beat
Soda Lake, you unlock the ability to
drink a 12 ounce can
of soda and you can only eat or drink
on the overworld. And this
can be drank on the overworld but it must be done by
end of the run.
For vanilla dough
you must drink one teaspoon of vanilla extract or uh water bridge is
one of my least favorite parts of the run.
For each Butterbridge level, you must consume 1 tablespoon of butter.
For a Cheese Bridge area...
...you must eat one thing of string cheese. For Cookie Mountain, you must eat
one big cookie. This cookie is large, it's 6 inches in diameter
For Chocolate Island you must eat one square of chocolate
Cannot eat in levels? Must visit every food theme double
must eat the food item on the overworld after getting each exit and every food
this comes out to about three thousand to 3500 calories of food depending on the details
that's bad literally do not try this at home please don't all right i'm ready without further delay it's time to think fast in three two one go 3, 2, 1, go!
Alright.
And in Super Mario World fashion you begin by waiting for the uh...
...the pe detect to scroll by
okay so yoshi's island you need to eat a Yoshi right?
Yep.
I mean you could eat an egg! That's like a Yoshi thing too.
True but it's not immediately food-themed level.
Yeah that's true.
If you were doing Food% with Yoshi's Island specifically would you have to eat an egg for every level? I don't want to think about that.
Egg is not a terrible idea.
Adding 3 eggs to the run? That's not awful, that's doable.
Some people whenever they
watch us do this
suggest really inane things that are not humanly possible,
and we have to tell them to do the vanilla run first
and then talk about what they think is feasible.
I wonder how well this could be expanded to other Mario games.
I took a poll and shoved this chat earlier about whether I should do all the speed strats that I know for this game,
And I'm extremely rusty. Like several years
rusty. And her chat
decided that I should just go all out and
have no regard for marathon safety.
So that's going to be cool.
Thanks, chat. Thanks for having us chat. It is worth noting that food percent
Is actually vegetarian safe
I don't believe it's vegan
Safe though there is like vegan butter
You can use so I think technically it is, but
it was made... Yeah, it shouldn't
be too hard to make this vegan friendly. Just replace
all the dairy stuff with like the vegan
equivalents.
Yep. Yeah, because when you have butter and a cookie and chocolate I guess.
Cheese. Cheese.
Yeah.
That's not too bad.
Are there any levels with flour in the name?
Not in this game, no.
That's surprising.
Neither is spelling a flower.
It's like if you had that
then you're actually pretty close
to having... You're like getting there to the ingredients
to make a cake. I would much rather eat some kind of flour than
have to eat raw flour, that's just me.
You shouldn't eat raw flour anyways
that's absolutely right that's one of the trivias
don't eat raw flowers should you eat raw flour? Yes or no.
Do you have an actual food trivia for us this week? I can get you an actual food trivia.
Gimme a second.
During the autoscroller? Alright.
What popular chain used to be named Southland Ice Company and Totem Stores?
I have absolutely no idea. Is this a Midwest thing, Shubt?
Is this familiar to you?
No, but it is... it's on the right track
it sounds familiar but yeah I'm completely blanking
There's a reason we asked this today
Today is
7-11
That's correct
Thank you There you go. That's correct? Okay.
Hooray!
Happy 7-Eleven, all those for Silver. Those of those were celebrating them until 1946 when the chain rebranded their stores to 7 11 to reflect these 7 a.m to 11 p.m hours seven days a week.
Which are not their hours anymore, I don't think. Probably not.
I don't think so!
I feel like the ones that I've been to have been opened later.
Yeah... Yeah. It should rename to just 24
That's probably copyrighted by something, by the show
1212? that's probably copyrighted by something by the show 12 to 12.
12 12. 12 12? That's pretty fun
Take a mic check.
Have you died yet, BK? Yeah in the second level trying to do box jump.
Oh okay. That's it then.
I died in the first level.
I'm sorry.
That's okay!
How many exits are going to be done in total? I believe 44.
That's a good number.
Yeah, definitely one of the categories.
You won't see 44 in the save file after you reset there because the last exit does not give a save prompt.
The one before it does though which is Choco Port How did you die in the first level, Shepton?
I missed box jump.
That's my excuse.
I wasn't fully paying attention and I ran into a Koopa? You know what, that's fair.
Everyone has been there. I've told people from my work that this is happening, and I hope they watch and have immeasurably more
respect for me as a result.
I forgot to eat a
donut.
Actually, I forgot to eat a donut actually, I forgot to eat two
so
shall we say
after this exit
I just
pump three down my throat
on the overworld
is that cool with everyone?
We'll save it
for a trivia question for that yeah you gotta clear the backlog
um in fact maybe well maybe we'll maybe
we have some donut questions planned. Who could say?
I don't know, do we?
I mean, I guess we'll just have to find out.
If the hosts would like to keep us on task for eating the food, feel free.
The reason I don't have
world record is because I forgot a vanilla
shot during my otherwise world record run.
That is
a tragic reason to lose it.
Yeah, I was never more upset with myself than that.
Who decided on vanilla extract and not just like something reasonable
like vanilla ice cream?
Bramsen ISO freeze 2 vanilla superfoods reasonable vanilla ice cream.
Brams and I are so free as two vanilla Super Mario World
runners of old.
Yeah, I guess they're a big fan
of vanilla Super Mario World.
Alright, so I need three doing three here we go all right while you're doing that
what is the world record for most powdered donuts eaten in three minutes?
Oh, wow.
Seven.
Three minutes?
Higher.
30 minutes.
In three minutes.
I'm going with 17.
Lower than that.
15.
Lower. that. 15 13
14
12
9
I think i can do that.
Powdered is...
Well, that's a donut every 20 seconds.
Yeah, that's hard.
Non-powder donuts? Maybe.
Powdered doughuts? Wild!
For those wondering who it was by, it was by
LA Beast.
Everyone knows who that is.
We have a beast in our community i don't think he does that though he does other bc things yep
i don't think he's uh ever consumed that many donuts. I could not. I...
That's a lot of donuts. Oh, that was too much donut.
Um a month or two ago? I did a 5K race
sponsored
by the donut place
in my town. And halfway through
the 5K you had to eat a dozen donuts.
That's not easy.
I got through like
nine in like 15 minutes.
I've done both of those things independently
I would not want to intermingle them under any
circumstances. Yeah, yeah
I don't think I could and you had to do it
all in under an hour which i was like oh that's easy i can do a 5k in like 35 40 minutes easily
i could probably get those donuts and then you get there and it's like no no i can't all right as soon as i finish this third one come down back Alright.
As soon as I finish this third one,
we're going back into the game.
You kind of forget how quickly you get through the levels and donut planes which makes eating
the donuts a little more like trepidatious yeah that wasn't the right word yep all right Alright, alright. Here we go. Back at it.
I would be interested...I wonder if you were allowed to eat during the levels?
Currently.
I wonder what the meta would become in terms of like tool assisted eating mechanisms like a root goldberg machine that's last length of the level.
Just have someone shove it in your mouth while you play?
True.
Well, then it's a co-op run.
There's actually a co-op run for this already
which is just each person needs half the food
more or less
because some levels have only one thing.
That seems...
I like that there's
an entry-level category.
Can I propose an extreme food percent?
Which nobody should do. so for example you cleared donut planes to
need the two donuts from that level no i'm not yeah i don't know. This is not medical evidence.
So speaking of a dozen donuts
there's a mythical version
which nobody has completed and only one person
has attempted all 96 exits.
So right now we visit for example every donut level but we don't get every
donut exit since the rules just say you need to visit every donut level once. But at 96
you actually have to get every donut exit.
Which, fun fact, brings it up to a dozen donuts and...
One person has tried and failed. No one's ever done one.
Cause it already is what? 8, six or eight. I forget.
It's like eight or nine.
Okay. You know that doesn't seem that much more but then it is when you think about donuts.
The challenge becomes like geometrically increasing effort. but then it is. It's not... When you think about donuts
The challenge becomes like, geometrically increasing after a point
It's not in here all the way
Are you allowed to choose the type of donut, or does it need to be plain? As in the name.
Any full-size donut.
So my strat is jellies and creams just to make it a little more liquidy, so it's not as dry.
There is a question in chat that I did not enjoy of
can the foods be blended?
Nope. That's good.
I'll do another donut question.
Aside from Dunkin'
and Krispy Kreme, what three brands sell the most donuts in the United States?
Oh gosh.
Walmart, Kmart, 7-Eleven?
No. None of those!
I just guessed like big retailers?
These are distinct, like, confectionary...
I see.
...somethings.
I struggle to think right now, which is the point of any other dedicated companies who even make donuts.
Ummm... um
yeah i'm completely blanking too
so one of these like donuts are is the thing I would think of them as their main thing. Two of them...
It's a donut.
I've definitely had donuts that they've made, but these are all like donuts you would get in the grocery store.
Yeah, all pre-packaged stuff.
I'm sitting in sugar and filth in my office chair.
We're only 13 minutes in.
We have fun here! How you doing, Sheldon? Doing alright?
I'm good.
I hear you're consuming a donut Alright, so one of these three is... what's a hit we can give that doesn't give it away?
I'm all for giving it away.
Are any of them... Let's start there.
Wait, what does that mean?
That is the term for like donut companies?
One company's probably most known
for their cupcakes.
Hostess? That one.
Entenmanns? That's one. That's not a bomb! No.
Entenmanns?
That's another.
That's another one!
Oh, um...
You got this.
I don't remember which exit goes where, which means I am at risk of having to eat an extra donut if I get it wrong.
YOLO. I like that while this is happening, chat is talking about whether or not you can get drunk off of the lag.
Yes! It's the right exit! The third one is more famous for Cosmic Brownies.
Cosmic Brownies?
I've had those recently.
Oh, Little Debbie! Yeah there you go. That's right!
Running for BK time for Sheldon
There is a
significant drop off after those three with tasty cake and dolly madison selling
significantly less what is bone matters of the united states i don't think it's that one.
Alright, I'm out of jellies, switching to creams.
They're owned by Hostess.
That's cheating.
That does feel like cheating.
They are most well known for, like...
promoting themselves via
peanuts
like the comic strip
okay
today I learned
tasty cake I have heard of though. We have a donut trivia now.
I think we only have those two, right?
I think there's one more!
Is there another one?
Oh yeah, third one! That's so much, that's so much donut.
I could be wrong but I thought we had a third one.
We gotta do all the donut trivia when we're in Donut Plains.
I've got two donuts left.
Also, nobody knows this one.
Well... maybe our contestants will? You don't know!
There's only one way to find out
before rebranding to duncan donuts and subsequently duncan
the original store name focused on its coffee with what name?
I just want to hear your best ideas for a coffee shop name at this point
it changed the name 74 years ago so you're not expected to actually know
this to actually know this.
And it also lasts him for two years. So, you know, well-known stuff.
That's some good ones beans that's a good one just like in the 40s.
Oh, let's go to all beans.
I like that. Get being an idiot.
... idiot
dr robotnik's mean bean machine
that's my that's my idea, no one can take it.
Yeah I've never heard that before, that sounds good.
Is the door still open? The donuts don't taste good anymore.
I'm so surprised!
Just in case anybody watching was curious. See, you gotta make it sound awful so you discourage chat from doing it at home.
Somebody with a very low tolerance to sugar,
I am like getting a headache thinking about it, so...
Alright well, Alright, well... I don't think anyone's gonna get this one.
This is very difficult.
It is Open Kettle
Started in 1948 Rebranded to Dunkin' Donuts in 1950. So, you know, I'm kind of surprised that he didn't know that. Everyone knew the original store in Quincy Mass Back in the 40s.
I was not gonna get that one.
Yeah, I've definitely never heard of that.
If the Hypertext Coffee Proc Control Protocol was released today it would be called Open Kettle. That's a good reference. Shoutouts to IETF, April Fool's RFCs.
We asked that question last episode.
Oh, Last Donut!
We're always asking about...
...HTC http control cases their status codes yeah
good luck on the last donut. Thank you, I'll need it.
I'm fond of the TCPIP over carrier pigeon...
Over avian carriers.
I love that one!
Also TCPIP connoisseur as the text goes yeah also tcp i think all programmer jokes should be bird theme
this plays to my interests There was a Kaizo mod released recently, and one of its cape levels was called RFC whatever number that was
No the cable
Alright so for Morton's Castle you have to have a bunch of salt right?
That's not a bad idea but no. Fortunately...
I think it is a bad idea i think it's a bad idea
i mean you don't have to you don't have to have a bunch of salt
you could just you know have like a sprinkle one grain of soul
which is thematically correct unfortunately we
we have nothing after Morton.
It's a break before the hell that is Vanilla Doom.
So this... I've just consumed like 80% of the calories of the run. That's all Donut Plains.
I'm actually gonna close my Donut Box here. The rest of the stuff is like...
Yeah really it IS surprisingly
front-loaded huh? I guess
that's good?
The rest of this stuff is gross but
not as fun.
Um...the great thing about this run is that all the serious Super Mario World runners hate it and won't do it or can't do it,
And it's just us DJens who don't like really run vanilla Super Mario World,
Who can put the food down.
And if there is ever a person who can do both they will just bury this category.
So if you're like grinding out like pbs
so if you're like grinding at like pbs
so if you're like grinding at like pbs you just order like eight dozen donuts
you just order like eight dozen donuts
you just order like eight dozen donuts and just hope for the best oh god
that's the interesting thing about this
that's the interesting thing about this category. You can't really practice it.
Like, imagine getting to you know, the level that I'm on right now and you die
And you're way behind pace.
Reset. Eat another 8 talents.
I can't think of what games
you could do a similar thing in
that would be
perhaps slightly less
oh no.
Like, Quartz been running the Fresh Hops
Mario
SMW Kaizo? And that one seems fun! I would do that.
Actually, I don't know how many eggs it's turned into. Maybe that will be a bad idea too, I'm not sure.
The donuts are done. No more donuts ever never eating another drone
congrats thank you it's a rematch next month
i can only think of one way to celebrate.
Please no more donuts?
And that is Mario trivia.
Alright, thank god.
What is the name of Yoshi's Topsy Turvy outside of North America?
I don't even know what that is inside North America.
I love this one.
The Yoshi's Topsy Turvy, you like tilt...vy has a tilt sensor.
Yeah, it's a GBA game.
My sister had it. It was actually pretty cool.
There is like a Kirby one, I think.
They use the same thing?
Tilt and tumble, yeah.
Yeah.
Is it Yoshi tilt and tumble?
No.
It is not.
It is way weirder, Dave.
It is a very weirder name. It is a very, like... pretentious name.
Kind of.
It honestly rules!
It's so funny!
It's kind of a meme?
Which is why I thought of it. Just because it's so like... quite...
It very much sounds like
Like an 18th century
Physicist would have named it this
Um
Like they discovered
A true fact about the Mario universe.
Alright, are we ready to start the vanilla?
Nope.
No?
Nope. No?
It burns so good!
You think you could do like a Celeste all red berries run.
And just eat 200 strawberries.
Oh that sounds good actually, right now. Alright. Alright, Yoshi's Topsy Turvy outside of North America is Yoshi's Universal Gravitation.
Yeah! So good!
What?
Yose.
Yeah, I think there's like a popular meme where it's two kids and one is like
Oh boy, I can't wait to play Yoshi's Topsy Turvy
And the other one is like, oh boy I can't wait to play Yoshi's Topsy Turvy
the other ones like
Mother. Bring me...
Yoshi's Universal Gravitation
I must play
But the game is good. Would recommend. mm-hmm
hey you know i like it despite reading the rules in this recently i did forget for a second that it is not in fact a shot of vanilla extract, because that's what you all kept saying.
It's just a tablespoon.
How many ounces in a tablespoon?
A third? Is the tablespoon one ounce?
Two. So it is... so six
Wait, yeah, so six tablespoons is a shot.
One tablespoon's one half of an ounce.
Yeah, so it's two tablespoons per ounce.
And a shot is usually three ounces right? Or is it four?
Three, right? It's like three right like one and a half
but you're getting teaspoons right
it is one and a half all right never mind let. I'm completely wrong. So how many vanilla extracts are there? Is it six?
Sorry man, I can't do math right now. My mouth burns.
It's MORE THAN THAT!
Let me go to the paste bin.
It's like an ounce and a an answer, which is still a lot
so it's nine
I think it might be 10 because you have
to do one of the levels twice. Oh, it's 1 fourth teaspoon!
That's not a tablespoon, that's a lot less.
It is not in fact three shots
of Vanilla X-Packpack that's what i was concerned about
personally i think the vanilla shack burns very good after the donuts.
Nope, it does not burn as bad. I don't like it.
Have to do it again.
Speaking of vanilla... It's dripping all over my desk.
Vanilla comes from what family
of plant? Vanillin.
I think that's the
chemical that gives it its taste.
Oh yeah, you're right.
... the burn burn burn plant mixing up One Piece references with this. Gumbu gumbun no planto? Yeah...
Sheff knows, she got up to
episode 18 before quitting.
It's not somehow part of the, like,
cocoa plant is it? Your
cocoa family? No.
Yeah okay. It's kinda like a normal
flower. Oh, spoilers
that is a flower but
It's kinda like how strawberries are in the Rose family.
Are they?
Yeah.
The only clue I know how to get for this is Dota theme.
So, I'm not gonna give a hint.
At least it's fast! It's faster than a door.
That's true!
Um... Alright, so
What is even up here?
Yeah I mean this is another instance where if you could
consume during the levels
it'd be interesting. You could have like a camelback. You got to repeat her
yeah i would not be able to focus on any like mentally intensive
strat while my throat is being burned by a vanilla extract.
This...
this is a wonderful experience, I hope y'all are having fun i'm glad we're here
oh it's on my mask now cool
ah It's on my mouse now. Cool. Only two more, only two more.
This is not a lot faster than the donuts.
It's true.
Yeah, I don't really have much for what this is. Apparently it's a cosmopolitan plant that
is found in every habitat on Earth except glaciers. That obviously narrows it down.
Interesting. It's the dandelions. Obviously there is a down. Gandalions?
What else is there about this flower? I don't know. Any botanists? this it is the orchid oh yeah
orchid okay fortune.
Okay.
Vanilla means little pod.
Makes sense.
That sounds Italian or something then.
Hold on... Someone check Adam online?
Spanish! What does the word vanilla come from? Vanish! From Vanilla. Meaning little pod.
Don't continue that sentence. Okay!
Yeah, that analogy is
definitely
interesting.
Anatomical imagery. knew this i knew actually that one from latin class
butter
butter are we on butter now?
Is it time for butter trivia?
I think
we're taking a different route from one another.
Yeah, do all of the top before going
back into Vanilla Dome.
You can save vanilla for later then how many liters of milk does it make
does it take to make one pound of butter
16. yours 16
Cure!
12
Cure 9 4 You are? Nine.
Four!
Ten!
And for that, ten seconds to BK!
Yay... 10 seconds to BK. Yay! I only got it because
I'm flying over a level.
I don't know if we have any more butter questions,
It was kind of hard to find butter trivia.
That's fair.
What's your favorite type of butter? I hate
butter.
Is margarine
accepted for the category?
That's not true, I only hate butter today.
Usually I like some nice salted butter and some bread.
Butter definitely seems like the worst part
but i guess there's because how much is it i guess you don't have as much better right yeah no the original rules stipulated you uh
you take quote a sizable chunk out of a stick
of butter sizeable and we were like this is one
problematic and two it's subjective so we're just not going to do that
oh magic cooper get out of here magic could be get out of here i need to get in this door.
The good news is I'm done with butter for the run
Very happy about that
Kind of a a time machine to go back to Nintendo in the mid-90s,
and be like... early 90's,
it'd be like hey do you wanna name a single one after a vegetable please? Yeah this is what we need in Mario. Vegetable themed lands.
Exactly!
Are there vegetable-themed Mario stages? Surely yes right?
There's a bunch of bunch in SMB2
US but
nothing has names, right?
There's no overalls.
Newer Super Mario Bros. DS has
Pumpkin Boneyard, according to
the newer Marios. This is a
real thing. Um,
Super Mario Land 2 has pumpkin zone.
Yeah. You know what I wouldn't give for some pumpkin right now there's also mario zone so do with
that way you will if we were to do new Super Mario Bros. U,
you would need to eat an acorn?
A layer cake?
Um... a giant skewer? So that's like a kebab.
Um...
I guess that's it.
Not as bad!
Galaxy, you have good egg
You need to specifically have a good egg
not a bad egg. Okay.
There's sweet-sweet galaxy... I feel like that's an easy one
Where you just eat two sweets, I guess?
Bad Egg would be more interesting
You wait for one to spoil them
whatever the definition of bad is please no i don't like that uh fun fact at gdq i did have a candied pinecone. So I did succeed at
whichever game that was.
You said
pinecone, right?
It was an acorn. Acorn.
Maybe it was...
Whoops, I got them mixed up.
That sounds very
Minnesotan.
Thank you, Minnesota.
So for Galaxy
you would also need to have Honey for Honeyclan Galaxy.
Something with Goldleaf for Goldleaf Galaxy.
Snow Caps for Snowcap Galaxy.
That's good. I'll do that i think that's it you need to eat a frozen flame Oh, sorry.
It looks like Galaxy 2 is just mostly honey.
Very honey-themed in Galaxy 2.
Alright, what did I just... Cheese Bajorana.
Sunshine would be actually fun.
Gelato?
Corona? the beer.
That's it!
That sounds great!
I could go for that. That'll get me running, Sunshine.
Be right back.
I've never had cheese that was more delicious in my life than just now.
What kind of cheese is on the docket for this?
It's just some mozzarella string cheese.
But after everything else, it's so good.
It's like getting out of a 30 year stint in prison and just
rolling around in the grass.
Yup, exactly like that!
You're a poet, you understand the power of figurative speech, Shonda?
I absolutely do. It's true.
I said figurative speech because I forget if that's a simile or metaphor.
One of them explicitly uses like, or as...
Simile uses yeah.
So that was a simile not a metaphor bram's whole mario galaxy all the moons at fall food
brands uh who co-created this category just fell in
that one tile hole during i think it was a 960.
Either a 96 or a 960.
And so we named after him and that's the Brahms Hole.
You can simply hold B to run over it but brahms did not
a 960 by the way is where you do 96 exit 10 times in a row
did you know that they wouldn't let us add food percent to the SNW category extensions because of leaderboard integrity?
Wait, it's on there though.
It is now.
That's good.
I'm glad it's been free.
I just reported a small donation to the community prize pool.
Now you gotta do a 10x food percent.
Speaking of SMW, you want to give us a question that might break the question viewer?
Oh boy this might break the question viewer.
What are the entries in the SMW Central Hall of Fame Class of 2023.
2023?
One of them's Frog Soup.
That's correct.
Frog emoji, soup emoji.
What else came out last year?
I could give you a 2018 one because I wrote the review for it.
This is something they should technically know because i'm on the committee
that votes for them but right now i'm so full of garbage that my mind isn't working.
Oh yeah, so since I beat Soda Lake I'm unlocking my ability to drink the soda
but I am not yet drinking the soda
but I can now if I want on the overworld
that's good you don't have to do it all at once
just trying to think what else came out last year
that was good because a lot of things came out last year just not all of them were great
i say this as an smw central moderator we both are Um...
Nonsense, maybe?
That's another one.
How many are there?
There should be like five, right?
There's eleven.
What?
And I'm shocked that they are showing up correctly on our question display.
It looks good! All right.
Should we start giving hints?
Yes please.
One is a misspelling of a unit.
Yeah I guess so.
What?
A unit used in electrical engineering!
Oh, OHM... O-H-M, yeah.
Well that's not the name of it though.
It's an enneagram.
Oh, it's O-M OMH right? Yes.
Yeah.
Next tip!
What?
That is the mid-quo. There was a hack called R-Ack,
and then the midquel is
OMH so it spells out ROM Hack when you put them both together
Ohhhh Does he put them both together? Oh.
Next hit, dystopian novel sequel. What? 19. what 1985.
the sequel to a famous dystopian novel it finally came out
2023 finally came out 2023
one of them is a Minecraft block.
That narrows it down.
That's true! Another one is what this might become by hour two into this.
I already guessed nonsense, though.
No, it's already... we're already there. I already guessed nonsense, though.
No, it's already... we're already there.
Oh hey one of these is food related.
Oh no. I'm looking at the water across from me and i'm filled with dread
is one of them um what's it called?
I'm blanking on the food name.
It's not nachos and fried oreo, it's an older hack.
Those sound great separately. separately
all right cookie down oreos with nacho cheese is apparently good but i do not
personally believe it all right are we going All right.
Are we calling it, Swiss?
I think so.
That'll be 15 seconds for ShubDip
for getting three of them.
The rest of them are Brave New World 2
Cold Sweat and Tears, Day at the Turkey Races, Faraday Near Dismay, Mycelium, Seek to Discrepancy, Tired Mario World and Throop-a-Dool.
I probably spelled that wrong.
Yeah, that should have been...
Last bit of vanilla here.
Okay it only kind of broke the question, did it?
Yeah, it broke it a little bit but it did pretty good given what we threw at it. I'm impressed.
Good job Question Bureau.
Truc Badoul by the way is French for thingy.
Yep. Oh! the way it's french for thingy yep
get in my belly, okay.
What if you just have Yoshimi perfect for you?
That is the best idea I've heard so far today that would probably be good
is that like google system it might be we kind of missed a window for this one
but we can do it now what is the most consumed type of cheese
in the world mozzarella that's correct that was
at the exact same time got it yeah so you both get 10 seconds
what is the least consumed type of cheese in the world? Oh no, there's more vanilla. I forgot
this path is also vanilla.
Um
Blue cheese.
Would be my guess, but it's probably not.
Sardinian maggot cheese?
I hate that it exists.
Would you like to put a buck on the one US bell?
It's illegal here, I think because of the maggots yes something with uh
creatures in your food not being legal, I mean come on. I'm going to go ahead and do that. If you could eat these foods in any order, what would you pick?
Honestly the order isn't super bad. Maybe spread the donuts around.
But, um... Yeah, the fact that the calories go down towards
the end is good at least
I think so.
Um there's a route you can take, which is the
route that I'm taking where you unlock the soda right before
the big cookie and so you don't have to eat a big
cookie drive. That's really advantageous for me i always do that when i run this
yeah i'm pretty indifferent to the order as well i just go
with what it then if if i had to like come up with my own order
it might be donuts last just just get it done all at once but at the end. Makes sense.
Do you think we should add had this in mind while making the game?
100%. Alright, I have unlocked my soda.
Oh! Soda? We've so many soda questions.
Let's ask a soda question.
What was the original name of Pepsi?
Pepsi Cola?
It is completely unrelated to the word Pepsi.
Okay. Unfortunately... to the word pepsi okay unfortunately um oak sucks It was named after a person.
Dr. Pepsi!
Dr. Pepsi would be pretty good.
I need to make sure to cap the original name
yeah
i could go through some of this Alright, actualized vanilla?
This was...
Pepsi under this name was originated 131 years ago and it went about as 1890s
As you would expect for the original name.
It was very uninspired.
Good Cola Company?
It is even less inspired. Mr Cola
It doesn't even reference that it's a cola.
Baron Munchhausen.
No, that's not it. I feel it in your voice.
No!
I'm dying. Oh my- holy crap
thank you bk for what that made me lose it. Oh, okay.
I don't know how we get more hits for this one, Swiss.
Uh, you know.
The answer is Brad's drink.
You would not have gotten that in one year.
What was it?
Brad's drink.
Oh.
It's funny because the person who created it,
his last name was Bradham, not even his first name
all right so it's just part of your last
names drink
yeah good for you i'm a big fan of
brad's drink.
It's a fun name, they should bring it back You know how they do like...
Retro?
Yeah, bring back Brad's drink
I'm all for it. Ready with another soda naming question? For some reason
we have more than one! Sodas have rich name history.
What was the original
name of Pib Extra?
Does it still have something to do with Pib?
No, it does not not more closely related to a different soda
bonus pepper
pretty close that is the correct reference.
Ah, this sort of makes the butter
just a little bit less bad.
Just a little bit less bad. Just a little bit less bad.
Um... better pepper! Better Pepper. It was also not, please Mr. Pibb is my father, call. Pibb is my father. Call me Poob.
Unfortunately... That's the next one.
Alright butter.
I ain't that eye! Um... I think that they should follow Pac-Man naming after Mr. Pibb, Miss Pibb, Pibb.
Pibb World 2
Pibb Jr
Pibb Champion Edition DX.
Oh, I hated that.
And I can't tell if you all are tied.
It's hard to tell because we took a different route, I think.
Yeah.
Exactly.
But I can say the original name of Pib Extra was Peppo.
It was changed to Mr.Pib after Dr. Pepper sued for trademark infringement.
Oh, no! infringement
at this point how many food-related stages are even left?
Is it just the chocolates?
Um...
Yep.
Just the chocolate.
So really, the food part of the run is over and it's up to how we play the game after this.
More or less.
Shubzit did you get Ludwig Cycle Skip?
No. I'm going into Ludwig right now actually
Cycle skip! Alright, if any of my...
I just got it.
If any of my SMW
Vanilla Runner buddies are watching
that was for you.
... for you. I'm gonna, I'm gonna drop my soda
as soon as we get onto the overall
and then just got my
chalky bits.
When we were at SGDQ, at some restaurant Shubda ordered chalky milk verbatim
and we laughed at her
then the waiter came in and said here here's your chalky milk, ma'am.
That's true.
Was it good? That's good. It was very good.
You know, do you know how many cocoa beans are required to make one pound of chocolate for use in Choccy milk?
64.
Right.
So does that.
128. 128.
Even more!
More and it's not a multiple...
It's not a power of 2.
Oh, 200...
4
2000
Less 500 less one thousand less 500. was that but wait 500 i said 1500 yeah it's
less than both.
That's it?
Correct!
Nailed it first try.
Again during a flyover. I don't think you need an entire pound of chocolate to make chalky milk, but... I could. That would be more like...
It depends on how much you're making!
Like milkish chalky. You have to invert the adjective in noun
And add milk to your chocolate? Yeah
🎵 him Are we approaching a point where we can take our first break, by the way? Um...
How long of a break are you thinking?
Just five minutes. Give the people time to go to the bathroom.
That's going
to be in
like 15-20 minutes, I would estimate.
If that's too long then we can figure something out earlier.
That should work. I mean, we could just pause at the same time and resume at the same time if needed?
That's kind of what I was, uh...
What we usually do.
Are we like 15-20 minutes from the end of 3%% yeah that's what my estimate is based on I did not know we were that close this is going surprisingly well all things considered
for me anyhow and there's a lot of things to consider the donuts printer
just consider the donors
a fun fact last time we raised food percent we had a third participant named Link.x2 who decided to
in order to make the
food go down better, especially
the donuts, decided to do jumping drags.
That was not a good idea. Oh! to do jumping drag It's going to send a trivia question.
Let's do the Mario one. Which games were released in honor of Luigi during the year of Luigi?
New Super Luigi U.
That's one.
Was there a Luigi's Mansion like this? Luigi U. That's one. That's one?
Was there a Luigi's Mansion 3 or something like that?
There was one of them.
Dark Moon?
That's right!
Was there more than those two? No, That's right. There are two more now.
Ooh, where is the nearest cape? Might be the checkpoint in FLY1. I have to do Roy Fly.
I have to do Roy Fly for the vanilla speedrunners of this game, my brethren.
I have to show them respect.
I'm gonna do Roy Fly.
Don't you worry fellas.
Just gotta get this cape.
There are two more Luigi games! games the one where he's sucking up ghosts no
but that one's older
right
that wasn't already said yeah Yeah, that was something he just mentioned.
Alright here we go.
So... so yeah one of them is part of a long-term luigi related series and the other one is a luigi version of a game that used to have Mario when it's time.
A pretty old game at that.
It's not like Luigi is missing or something, is there?
No but that would be awesome if they made that. You know what?
That's most of our right flight. We take those.
Oh yes.
Woo!
Woo! um i'm thinking i'm just I'm good. There's also like technically one extra bonus but not really
Since this is
technically a speedrun I should take a minute to talk about the actual speedrun tech that I performed there.
There's a very long blocksnake ride through the castle which is the intended solution and it saves like...
...I don't know, a minute if you just fly through it like that.
You gotta time the initial fly in particular because there's
that cluster of photobows which will get you
And what you want to do is you want to dive at about
the fourth column in the background,
that's the visual cue
that most runners use.
As a reminder, we are doing this as fast as humanly possible.
Sometimes we forget that in the midst of eating all of the food. What is the current world record of food for slack?
For this category?
Yes.
Shovita has, what is it? Like high 130s.
Yep, something like that.
Oh this is very good pace then!
My almost world record where I got disqualified for uh what do you call it missing a vanilla thing when
i eat chocolate permission the thing of vanilla was a 134 so all right I'm not sure what the game is about, but it's a pretty good idea.
The other ideas for Luigi games?
I am blank and only had the two in mind.
Close,
that was the year after.
Dang. The one in the series, that same series
is getting another game this year.
No, no game this year. It's not a Mario and Luigi
game, is it?
It is!
God, which one came out that year?
Inside Story?
No.
Partners in Time partners in time partners in crime I always forget this one exists. Another piece of chocolate. Yeah, I don't think I'm gonna be able to get this unfortunately.
It is Mario and Luigi Dream Team!
Dream team... okay, dream team.
And the last one is Dr. Luigi.
There was a Doctor Luigi?
I did not know either of those.
Yep, it's just Dr. Mario but Luigi's there and there's like another mode that works.
Where do you go to medical school?
Um... Is it accredited? Where do you go to medical school? Same thing as in Reddit.
Is it accredited?
Yeah, maybe.
The little bonus one was like Luigi Bros that's in Super Mario 3D World.
That's kind Super Mario 3D World. That's like, kind of there.
They also took over a CTA train here in Chicago and called it the Luigi Line
And I would have counted that.
My favorite game was The Train.
The Train?
I never got to ride the Luigi line.
I'm very sad about it,
but I never will because Nintendo's too cowardly in the year of luigi again they
knew it was too powerful we need more year of nintendo mario
we're over due for like what what if we What if they make a year of Toad?
There's so much to Toad games.
Yeah, we had Captain Toad
Exactly!
And that's it Yeah I guess that's it?
Yeah, I guess that is it. What year of Daisy? Give Daisy some names
That is 20 seconds though
for Shubton.
There you go.
Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon and New Super Luigi U. Speaking of Daisy and her only appearances ever... That's true.
Which sport has the most games with Mario in the title?
Tennis?
It is tennis.
That's right!
And for Shubda, there are eight Mario Tennis games,
golf is second with seven
as nes open it's called mario open golf in japan and there are six mario and
sonics at the olympic games i guess olympics would have been
third place I guess Olympics would have been a weird place.
Yeah, that's a lot of tennis.
All pretty good games too.
Then there's Ultra Smash
Hey, no, 7 out of 8 ain't bad
i never played aces i don't know if that one was good
it was okay it was it was just okay
i wish they were like i wanted to do another oh that was really good sports rpg nintendo they're so good almost fell in the dunkachino pit shout outs to truman shout outs to gim gim now Shoutouts to GimGim now.
And yeah, for purposes of the question Mario Kart does not count
It's like technically a sport but like
i was interested in the question as well. chalky island 2. Mushbert can be found only in what Mario spin-off game?
Mushbert? The character Mushbert?
The character Mushbert.
That sounds made up.
Are you sure that I know some of this?
I feel like this game was made up.
Super Paper Mario? No, no. uh super paper mario no Um... It sounds surprisingly familiar.
It really does, but like when you figure out the game it's from
it probably won't. Fair.
Music oh If it helps at all, a mushbert is a known fan of the hit TV show Toad Force 5 and enjoys finding collectible memorabilia from the show.
Is it a Toad's treasure trove?
No
Was the question a Mario game? I guess that's not technically a Mario game, right?
Yeah, this is specifically a Mario spinoff
Let's see Yeah, it is specifically a Mario spin-off.
We blocked Doopin', by the way... and I ran out of shell
to block Doopin'. why are you duping i had to get a cape yeah all right so so I'm still thinking.
Is it the Mario game for the Virtual Boy?
No.
It's after the Virtual Boy.
After the Virtual Boy...
Before the switch.
Nice, easy ramps.
Choco Fort All right, I'll chug them for you. Ahem! I'm going to do a lot past this level let's say
for me
i believe the series this isn't this game is part of,
like side spin-off series has like 14 games in it.
If that helps at all?
I might be slightly off. It's at least
13.
It honestly might be more.
There is a Mario side series
with 13 games and there's a
he said toad bird mushroom one two three four
five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 games in this series.
If you include the one that is to release later this year.
What? Really? later this year. apparently. My goodness. Um,
all right.
Uh,
uh,
Paper Mario 64.
I wish there was
Paper Mario does not
have 19 games.
I want to live
in the timeline
you're living in.
I was figuring we were counting all of the RPGs as one series for a second. I I have no idea though, unfortunately.
Some moles fall on you from the top. Don't get hit by them.
You made a mental out of that but that will be my best.
Mushbert is from Mario Party Advance.
Oh no! Yeah, that is familiar.
Apparently at the end of the game it is said he outgrew Toad force 5 and started watching koopa quest Apparently there's a quest in Mario Party Advance where you have to go to Mushbert's
apartment to get a rare Toad Force 5 DVD, but he doesn't really care about giving them away as
he has 49 more. And then after completing the quest you find out that only 50 of
the dvds are made so it is implied that much has all of them a true fan honestly
mario party vance one of the worst rated mario party or worse rated mario games
of old time you're gonna be coming up on time for me as soon
as I finish eating
this piece of
chocolate.
Yeah, I think we need a year of mushbert. I agree. The world is ready!
They're gonna be coming up on time for me too, after overworlding eating this piece
of chocolate.
Time and world record.
Congratulations on the World Record for food percent live here.
Live World Record
on Judy Carey.
Actually, we have never had that happen
on our show where we try to make people
mess up their runs by giving them trivia questions.
I don't think we've ever had a PB before.
Time and PB.
And we've had two.
Double PB!
Actually,
since this was close,
we're supposed to add up the quiz bonus.
Yeah! That's true! Let's see...
This might be one of you getting world record but the other
one running the race which is a wild thing to have happen on our show
all right your final trivia adjusted times are in.
In second place with an adjusted time of 1-1334 is BK and because of trivia first place for this race with a 113 21
is shoved up so congratulations off of trivia i'm winning the the event, Shubham.
Thank you. Congrats on world record.
I guess if you want to submit this
to the leaderboard.
Despite not winning the race,
you do have a world record.
Normally we joke about people submitting their trivia
adjusted times to the leaderboards and like oh you get more record if you submit your
tribute just in time just petition them but no you just did it for real easy
uh don't go anywhere gamers we have another race coming up right after this
that's going to be the most before that delicious glass of water i've
ever drank please yeah we're gonna let we're gonna take a break so that uh both of them can
like get some water walk around for a bit. Think about something that
isn't nine donuts
Before then we got a couple announcements, isn't that right Swoosh?
We do! Such as
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We're back with yet another race! This time let's give up 100%.
Nobody has to eat anything this time and they got through the last one so quickly that we have extra time.
So he changed the category to 100%.
A lot of not giving up.
If you forgot how the game works, it is not enough to simply beat
the game the fastest our runners are answering our trivia questions as they play and the more
questions they get right the more seconds to take off their time all of you watching at home feel
free to continue playing along in chat how y'all feeling after race one and before race two?
Good, I assume.
Pretty full, yeah. Took a bit out of me.
Y'all just want to get right into Let's Give Up?
Sure.
All right, and without further ado it is time to think fast in 3-2-1 go! 3, 2, 1, GO!
So tell us about this Super Mario World fan game game oh so i made this and the lore is fairly concise here's yolo yasi
chan an icon of the speed running and modding community.
And he doesn't think Mario's endeavors worth it,
and he advises Mario to just give up.
More on that later.
I mean, honestly,
I'm here for it. If it sucks, hit the brakes.
You can just leave.
There are two people that I know of who have quit this hack and have kept up with the yellow
yasu chan's advice to them among the maybe 100 i know here finished it they're the only people who got the true ending yeah
so i assume shop is doing the same route as me.
But if not...
This is post-game content and for routing reasons
I am probably choosing Lys is also doing it first.
So this trick where you toss an item
and try to keep the light, which is what I'm trying
to remember how to do here
is actually pretty tight because
we need to do it within a 7 frame window which starts at 9 frames after a kick pump.
And since this game runs at 60 frames per second, that's you know like tens of milliseconds.
It's not great there. I pulled one off, I have to do three of those without dying
to beat this fight and also not collide with these
boos in the Boo-Ring.
I guess worst case, you could always just take your own advice.
Could.
Already clenched that one war record today and could just quit while I'm ahead.
Can you just get another world record?
Not happening, uh, World Record has two deaths for this category
And I have died several times.
Ask Two Scott a trivia question for us?
I do.
What is the name of the bulldog mascot
of Mug Rootbeard.
I didn't know that had a name.
Uh, Bully.
Dog.
That was very close.
Close? It's not just dog is it
one second for some of that oh my donuts are coming up
i'm actually like the like the don draper meeting when they came over that genius advertising play So as BK alluded to, we start with the hardest levels in this category.
You're going to see a lot of deaths to start off and then it's gonna level off before getting hard again at the end.
But uh... This level is pretty good. getting hard again at the end but uh this level's a levels pretty tough a lot of capes it seems oh
this is uh this is a cape mod so everything is i see, you know, dog.
Dog from Mugger Beer has lore.
Oh, OK.
How can we tell this story on tech that PepsiCo dot com?
Who is the dog is more than just a mascot he's the beloved face of
the mug root beer brand solely focused on one main mission of seeking satisfaction
in the form of mug group dog. Dog is bold and determined,
but also loves to relax
and socialize with people.
Despite his rough strong exterior
dog is an emotional character
who just wants to feel comfortable
and loved.
I feel like I'm reading a hand generated text to feel comfortable and love
i feel like i'm reading an air generated dating profile
that's you got like a dm that just says all that
so next time you look at what group here now you know dog just wants to be left
that was such a mug moment we all shared ask those who makes mugroot beer.
Pepsi?
What is the name of Pepsi's competitor to the Coca-Cola Freestyle Machine?
The what?
I honestly did not know they had one.
I didn't know they have one either.
So you know the Coke Freestyle Machine?
No... style machine? Like, create your own Coke
flavor thing.
Kind of?
Yeah.
Pepsi has their own version of it what is its name
the fc creator now pepsi go
pepsy girl would be a pretty good uh mobile game i think so
i would not have guessed this one if you, to be honest. Imagine that Pepsi was a roguelike deck builder.
Sway the Pepsi!
Quite the opposite.
No, kind of the opposite.
It is Pepsi's fire.
Oh wow as Pepsi Spire. Oh, wow.
10 seconds for Shabda.
I feel like Coke Freestyle
is a much better name.
Oh yeah, 100%.
But Pepsi Spire Oh yeah, 100%.
Pepsi Spire sounds like...
Like what their headquarters should be named. Meet me in the pepsi spire apparently there are 3148
pepsi spire locations in the u.s i've never seen I have never seen one either.
Where are they?
Apparently, Subway.
Except...
Never mind.
It has served in many subway locations
in various countries.
In the United States,
most that are under contract with
Coca-Cola do not use this." Well yeah obviously but...
Okay well... So subways
that are contracted with Pepsi I guess?
Interesting explains why they're receiving them Yeah and Interesting.
And they have Mug Rupir
They have Sobe Lifewater
and Dole Kiwi Cocktail, and then like everything else. I didn't know Sobe still existed either.
Yeah. You gotta go find your local Pepsi Spire.
When you say a Pepsi spire, I think of spires as the uniform Starcraft
but instead of spilling out the green
homing missiles, it just
spurts Pups in.
Alright,
modders, you know what to do.
... down. Shubda, have you beaten and then
died by now? Yeah. That's what I
thought.
I'm just Yeah. That's what I thought.
I'm just finishing a slip mantra now? Yeah.
Before, like an hour before this began,
I predicted that I would win food percent and Shubda
would win this.
And I think it is coming to pass.
So where are you?, sorry. Go ahead.
I was just going to ask
where the nearest Pepsi Spire
is through SGDQ?
No, I'm not going. that a pepsi spiral locator
i'm not going to that with you don't take it okay where's the closest one to AGDQ?
Assuming it stays in the same location
as last time.
I actually don't know.
It's a bit more relevant right now, yeah?
Apparently Pepsi Peeps is a thing now. Unrelated, but...
I don't think there's a Spire locator.
That's messed up.
Let's see what the Pepsi subreddit has to say.
So, fun fact BK here is from New York City
and when he
I just lived here for 30 years
okay, he's
essentially from New York City.
And
when he came to SGDQ
he had me
who drove an hour and a half
to get to SGDQ because I live in Minnesota.
He had me drive him down
to Rochester, Minnesota
to try New York
style pizza
so that he could have authentic New York
pizza in Minnesota.
That's a very good thing.
It's true.
If I knew it was going to be like that,
I wouldn't have made her drive all the way.
Their Stromboli though
was actually top notch.
A pleasant surprise.
It was good enough
that he bought two t-shirts
to celebrate.
I'm wearing one now.
My Pascals of
Rochester, Minnesota
t-shirt. If you guys want to sponsor
me,
here's your chance.
Go to Pascal's for
banging stromboli and alright pizza.
What?
We have alright pizza.
There is a Pepsi Spire locator, but the page doesn't work, so...
So it's not...
So it's not... Spire stock's
not on the up right now now is what I'm hearing.
Yeah, this is from official.pepsispider.wiki
I hate when I build the Pepsi spire and then all the sodas have to be translated into different languages.
All right, Mario games have been featured on Think Fast five times across four episodes.
Who were the winners?
Shoujo won one, right?
Shoujo didn't technically compete against anyone.
Yeah, that's why I was counting this so she doesn't count oh I'm not sure who else.
If I had to throw a random guess,
I'd go like 360 Chrism or something.
We can also pivot the questions into what Mario games that we have
super mario world mario 64. rpg all right we have that mario rpg
none of the other ones.
Well, we had Mario World today, but that was real fast.
Also,
you cannot guess Shubdom as an answer for this. Not in the system.
Yeah we didn't know earlier on the question.
Did Void win the SMRPG one?
No.
For the SMRPG
one, we had Remake vs
Original and it was
Pidge vs. Headstrong
I'm gonna guess
Pidge won then? Incorrect
Oh, then it's Headstrong alright
Correct! Alright another game I know it's headstrong, alright.
Alright another game we had on was Odyssey
Fur?
No Out. I'm not sure how this runs...
How does he...?
Grand 55, Truman?
Out! Grand 55. Where's our... Truman? Nope.
Wow.
That was our first ever Mario and Food episode, we have in fact done this theme twice.
Yeah.
Oh no!
And so that one was more like culinary instead of food, but...
Because the person who won that episode went to culinary school we just didn't know that.
Uh huh.
Uh, vodka soup?
No. Okay. Oh, huh. Uh, vodka soup? Yeah, probably.
I mean... if we also had bird trivia they would have done very well as well.
That's true! as well So that one was dangerous. dangers oh okay okay
i also had paper mario on
the original tape farm I'm going to go who runs paper mario that one was jacob
we also had Super Mario Sunshine.
Panga?
Friends?
Nope. I'm just naming the only people I know who run it, in hopes that one of them is notable notable on it. That one was SB.
And then 3D World was our last one.
I guess it is 3D World and Bowser's Fury.
That is true, it was and Bowser's Fury.
It wasn't Office Blitz, was it?
No, it was not. was it I was just saying.
Who? Did you say 3D Warhammer?
Jocelyn.
Okay.
We are unfortunately stuck in our little SMW hidey holes, as far as knowledge goes when it comes to mario games yeah more or less
i'm a little bit more aware of other people that you know how about real world people as if those are people um so this is a multiple choice so you will both get one guess and then if
you both get it right, you both get points.
Who of these are not featured in the SNES
version of Mario's Time Machine? choices are plato marco polo
george washington or mahatma gandhi uh Gandhi.
Just to be different, I'm going to go with Marco Polo.
It's George Washington.
I remember the Marcole one was definitely in there, because I played it and wasn't sure about the other ones.
Thomas Jefferson represents that time period instead,
And his artifact is the Declaration of Independence.
Gotcha!
Ghandi uses the Flag of Indy,
And I don't remember what the other ones are.
When I was young,
I didn't know how to play that game so I just drove
the time machine over the ocean for hours
at a time like a dumb child.
I thought it was about the manual that game is very hard to find yeah i tried passing it and i just got bored tried passing it, and
I just got bored of
passing it.
Oh no.
Um, basically for
those who don't know
the loop- the gameplay
loop of Mario's time
machine on the SNES at least, is you do homework. I believe it was called homework in-game.
And basically it gives you a fill fill in the blank essay about the given person.
You fill in all of the blanks and go surfing over like i don't know something you collect a couple each
left hand shells you go to that place and then you
like talk to the historical person. And that's it.
And you do that
like 15 times.
Oh wow. I love video games!
Why are we having that on Think Fast?
Also in short runs. We need to have an educational game on the show
i love playing that when i was like already so i had like two sets of
homework one of them was my video game moment, and the other one was my across-the-mole.
I think we do an educational game episode
And then instead of us asking trivia questions
We just ask like uh how certain game mechanics work
reverse i'm not readingiding your curse.
We'll workshop it. Hey, this one's recent news.
This one?
Oh yeah it's true!
What indie game just recently outsold the original Super Mario Bros.?
Oh I just saw this!
Undertale? No...
Oh, uh, Terraria?
That's right! Nice! Terraria is
sick, I love that game. Good for them.
Winning for Shabna!
They've sold 58.7 million copies so far and their last update is coming soon.
This one for sure.
Yeah, it's gonna be the last one.
One more update, trust me!
One more update!
It's 1.4123...
I think the next one's 1.5
Wow, wow! And then we're gonna get 1.5.1
At this point Teria is like what it's like 12 years old
was it 2010. it definitely came out when i was in 2011 so 13 years than 13 years old?
We're just going to keep them coming, I guess.
Yeah, go for it.
What university was Gatorade developed at?
University of Florida.
That's right!
Why do you know that, like immediately?
Because it is the Florida Gators.
Oh, the Gators are there?
Yeah.
I didn't know whatever the notes say
the notes say court closing frozen flag reference triple question mark yeah, you gotta remember I played high school
football. Do they teach you about the
history of Gatorade?
Heck yeah.
I like this one. According to the Food and Drug drug administration what type of soda is dr pepper
its own pipe isn't it and what would that be uh god Uh... God.
I used to know this!
... Oh, you hate to see it. I'm not going to be able to come up with the type name unfortunately.
It is more direct than you might think
is it just dr pepper no it is a type of soda technically but What are the types?
I guess like, Cola would be one.
... This one's unique in its own way it's more obvious of an answer than you might think I hope not.
Could you bake with it though? Could you make a Dr Pepper cake?
I have seen it done before, yes.
I've seen 7 up several of them okay
that's the thing so why not doctor pepper yeah that makes a baking soda Yep.
Oh, no way I got the fast strat here first try.
Let's go.
Gaming. And then I die? and then i died
all right officially dr pepper Alright, officially Dr. Pepper is considered a pepper soda.
What's on? Yep!
Pepper as in the vegetable this season. Alright, what else do we have? This one's good.
This one is good.
What are the different relay race team names that have been featured at mainline GDQ events?
Groovy Goomba, Funky Fuzzy, RNG Dolphin and Double Jump Dinos
And One Tile Men and Lunar Magicians and double jump dinos and one tile men
and lunar magicians.
That's all six?
Yeah, that's it.
Were you on every single
one of those?
No, I was on two of them.
You got a three.
30 for Shepton. of them got a three okay
30 percent done
uh yep i thought that would take longer dude
what soft drink was replaced in 2023 by Starry? um crush
is crush even a soft drink i don't even know it is okay
all right i really need to use the restroom so I'm still gonna win this race but you gotta give me one minute.
So smug!
This is your perfect opportunity to win a series. Give us solo question, if you just know what soft drink was replaced in 2023 by Starry?
I...yeah. by starring. I start with the same letter.
Was Pepsi's
competitor to Sprite?
Well, no. Was it?
It was. Sorta.
No, just-it just was.
7UP is an RC Cola, right?
It's Dr. Pepper
I was also thinking of that
Hang on, isn't just 7up this one?
Oh no one i also had a very similar name to Mountain Dew in a way.
Similar name to Mountain Dew? Yeah. I guess in term of location plus type
of water?
Wait, why is she being so smug?
I just kicked her over to stream. She's not even that far ahead!
We're tied now!
There you go!
We'll be the best? Give me your best location plus water, or type of water names for sodas.
And now I'm ahead. I'm thinking...
Fjord puddle. Pundra fog.
Pundra fog is good!
That's like a
store brand,
Yeah
... yeah sewer bilge is very bad chat no points for that one i hate it boston
slut ocean spray oh this location and sludge. Oh, Boston is a location.
I wasn't thinking
of a proper down location.
What is Boston?
Geographical feature.
Archipelago
drops archipelago uh drops
mason moisture Mason moisture.
Anyways, this was Sierra Mist.
Oh yeah. This was Sierra Mist. Oh!
Yeah, it was one that I
was actually aware of but could have conceivably gotten
had I been thinking about it
Alright, y'all want the easiest one we have?
We're going to Sierra Mist.
Yes, please.
Oh, you're back.
Hello.
What are you so smug about winning?
We were like tie when you said that.
Oh for the meme okay what u.s state produces the most cheese wisconsin
it's wisconsin i think you both got that.
Oh, chem for both?
I don't think we have any other ones that are that easy.
No, this one is. Alright you ready for another extremely easy one?
Yep.
According to the Harvard Dialect Survey, what is the most preferred term
for soft drink in the United States?
Pop soda. It's probably soda. soft drink in the united states pop soda it's so good
okay for bk pop is like if you're british maybe
i say pop yeah pop is like a northern u thing. Or like northeastern,
northern midwest I think.
Good to know. Cause I know they say pop in western US.
I meant like the soda slash pop interchangeable bubble
and in the south it's just coke god damn it oh Did you ever get really mad at yourself from like four years ago?
I can't say i have
yeah listening to bk practice this in the practice here but gdK was great because he would just be kind
of cussing himself out.
Who made this?
Yeah we got the fast sticky, let's go. What else do people call soft drinks um
there's like a there's like not a there's some
like international not terms
uh there's dizzy drink cool drink brad strength soda pop drink. Brad's drinks? So to pop
the carbonated
drink, fizzy juice, lolly water
seltzer coke tonic and
I like lolly water
I'll try remember that and just order
that
and then like sprite is called lemonade in some countries
huh some countries. on it
speaking of uh geological formations and states of water
mountain dew was intended
to be used as a mixer
for what liquid?
For what liquor?
Vodka.
No.
Oh! no oh uh moonshine
i guess technically
it's kind of what the branding made up to be.
Scotch for me.
Box is closed!
Whiskey?
Yeah.
Yep.
Playing for BK.
Of all the questions I got right, it was an alcohol one yep playing for BK
of all the questions I got right it was an alcohol one
off character, it's off brand
oh I'm not sure if you can see this, but the game is pretty much just a bunch of random enemies that are all in one place. You have to be careful with these guys, because they're very annoying and will make you lose your mind.
The only thing I know about them is that they're really easy to get into, so it's hard to find them. I don't think I've ever had a Mountain Dew whiskey.
Me neither.
I sure haven't. How many X's are there?
Eight in the hack and this run.
And game?
That's what was said,
we all heard it.
Which one are we at?
I don't know where Shub is
at... i'm at
the second to last one same
i just entered ross's house of switches and waffles.
I like when places have very specific names.
I think more places should do that.
You know exactly what you're getting?
Speaking of specific places...
Where does La Croix originate from?
La Crosse, Wisconsin maybe.
That is correct!
Holy cow!
20 seconds!
What did you say?
La Crosse, Wisconsin.
I did see that was a city there.
I was just looking for Wisconsin, honestly!
Yeah?
That's right! I thought that was gonna be on me.
I did see that on the flight map on the way to and from SGDQ.
I didn't think you related to the drink.
Where does the game Lacrosse originate from?
That, I have no idea.
I actually, I don't actually know.
Oh okay. It's like indigenous native North Americans.
Ah, yes! That is correct.
Could not be more opposite. Hehehe. What's everyone's favorite, uh...
La Croix flavor?
Hint of hint
of strawberry. Whis hint of strawberry.
Whisper is doing fine.
Low battery banana?
You made that up, they don't call their stuff that. No don't you're right they should have fun
i like the key lime one
i've been drinking a different brand. They have a Blackberry Limited one and it's killer.
Interesting.
Really good. Into the lava Yeah, Shams to Wisconsin. Making cheese and also the curd.
A bit more of a knee dance?
And we're Hank Sinatra and Eon live.
Yep. Not a bad state. so so all right
you still have so many questions you don't want a food one or a Mario one.
Gosh, I am indifferent.
Let's do Mario.
All right.
We go on. an easy Mario or a hard Mario one.
Oh, a hard one?
Okay.
Who has pork fries? um and i can't i can't remember the name of the guy Bob Hoskins is one. Yeah, Chris Pratt.
And I can't remember the name of the guy from
the TV show but...
Uh... Oh! Um...
Mmm... Damn.
I would know this if I weren't doing this. Like, lose something alright? Yep. And there is also a third one oh from a coleco vision commercial
i don't think you're gonna get that wrong but the uh the t the super mario super show
one is new something
no i'm thinking of the hulk aren't i was Blue... Origna? No.
I'm thinking of the Hulk, aren't I?
That was the Hulk, yeah.
Whoops!
Bumps, I guess.
And it's Captain. Captain Loose-something they call them. That is exactly it, yeah.
Last name begins with an A. a
i think i'm gonna have to end up losing this question To try and salvage this room
I can't do both at the same time
When we do say an intro
Focus too hard on the questions, your run might suffer
And we also say for those playing or for those at home feel free to play walking chat
that's the two things I say. What's the thing? Think fast.
No. Oh, okay.
How many times is think fast said in
the intro?
Captain Lou Albano!
Captain Lou Albano! Yeah, there you go.
That's right.
Good, because I completely got ruined on this level. It wasn't worth
10 seconds, I'll tell you that
i lost like two minutes thinking of it the last one
in the calico vision commercials is harris shore
because we both got one that is 15 seconds for both of you.
No one answered my bonus question.
What was the bonus
question? How many times do I say
think fast in the intro?
Was it twice?
It is twice, but
it could also be three times if you include without further delay
is time to think fast so you're both right the interview of Bob Hoskins talking about how he discovered what his Mario movie world was actually about is iconic.
How I think, his daughter or granddaughter showed him like what the source material was and he's like
i performed in shakespeare plays i played hamlet that look
look at you now mario mario mario mario Mario, Mario. Mario, Mario!
That's one of the movies I want to play.
Of all the levels in this game,
I did not think that this one
was going to be the one
to bot any,
but here we are.
So it goes. Where are you at on the run, Shudder?
Is it the switches or the waffles that are getting in?
The switches are getting me.
The lore says we're actually out of waffles and since...
Oh no, it says that in the first room. I can't even show you anymore.
But yeah, the message box says they are out of waffles for today so switch is only.
I'm in Disco Dance dance after party answer your question yeah you are
i got uh two switches and a waffles we're out of waffles the switch is okay
marauder kookaboo
you gotta get it from the Brad's fire though.
Is Pepu okay?
Oh my god, finally! Get in there! It's one boom.
He keeps popping up, huh?
So this game has
42 rooms and exactly 50% of them, 21 rooms are big blue boss fights.
I'm quite the fan of those, they're very versatile and easy to modify.
Hmm... of time so i actually wanted to change this because it sucks because there's a phantom
but had enough time.
Looks like Shep didn't have
too much trouble with it, let's see if I will.
I'm struggling here in the after party though.
You know?
Are you all both still in Waffles?
Nope, I'm in the next level.
She's post-Waffle, she's on what is the last level in the room?
The Post-Waffle era.
She's on the last any percent level
since we did post game first for routing reasons
the routing reason is uh there is non-skippable credits after the last
80 level which unlocks one of the um-game levels and we don't want to have that contributed time
in the run so we do close game first then go back into any percent and finish with minutes I think that's where I have the other two pipes.
Just break, break the mentalization.
Who are the non-Mario franchise characters featured in the first Mario Kart arcade GP?
Pacman! That's one of them
that's the only one i know the other two extract boy
yeah the other two are also Pac-Man characters.
Oh, Inky?
Not Inky...
It is Ms. Pacman and Blinky.
And Blinky's the other head for bk 20 percent done
mario kart arcade gp wow i cannot say that game right it has to be there's no way it's not um
the most recent mario kart arcade gp features chen from taiko that rules i think it's just
dumb chin and pacman so it's pac-man
i'm gonna ask you to cue that tyco has a Splatoon melody, and it's very fun.
I wanted to write a question about Mario Kart Live Home Circuit, but there is really nothing interesting about that game yeah
hello we've kind of written some questions about um what's it called
about world tour all right since this is food percent and i've just finished
rostro's house of witches and waffles i'm gonna have a waffle. Oh my goodness!
The preparation!
I think that's worth 20 seconds.
Thank you!
Also, the second Mario Kart
arcade GP game featured, um...
It featured Mamechi.
From Kamagachi.
Oh!
And also Blinky Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man.
Do they have my favorite mario character in it though
that being mushbert no unfortunately messed up bring back mushbert incidentally enough this level is the one where
one of the people who quit on this room more specifically
hardest room in the game confirmed it's quite the difficulty spike tech wise was
thinking of things that are shaped like spikes in what country was the largest ice cream cone built uh iceland netherlands norway
norway yes i knew i knew it was one of the Nordic countries.
Yeah, yeah.
20 for BK!
It was 10 feet 1 inch tall or 3.08 meters and included 1080 liters of ice cream.
Oh my god!
I want to go to there.
Now, like can you imagine it's just a permanent fixture.
They have to keep refilling it
But it melts similarly, what country consumes the most ice cream per capita?
US.
No!
Oh.
Canada.
No? You gotta pump up those numbers. There are more countries, as a reminder. Wisconsin.
Japan. Nope Can we get a hint?
It is an English-speaking country.
Australia? No. Really?
English speaking country country South Africa.
Nope, nope.
New Zealanders.
That's right!
There's one more.
It's time for me to...
Yeah, both of us
give you clues
at the same time
and it'll be a really big clue.
Yeah, that narrowed it down to just a few.
So according to worldatlas.com, New Zealand consumes 20... the average per capita
28.4 liters per year in new zealand the us is 20.8 liters
28.4 versus 20.8 yeah dang that's like a lot more.
And then Australia is 18.
Alright, Australia, step it up.
Australia is third.
No! Oh, that was so good.
And then I beefed it.
I think that was my chance gone. I believe. Sheldon, what room are you in?
Just after getting yellow Yasu-chan.
Okay, yeah she's basically done.
Not if you get N1 Lens of Perfume on a stack. I don't think we can but... Yeah. All the really hard stuff? And one more unsupervised thing.
I don't think we can, but...
Do you have ten more minutes?
We can mess with the numbers.
You got more waffles to pull the fall out of nowhere i've got
i've got three quarters more waffle here all right if you get this one in
one i'll give you three minutes what which i mean
it is it is open for both of you to get it first try.
Which Mario game was released today in 2003
in Japan? The game was released in North America October 20th, 2003
No idea... 2003 let's see that was October 20th, 2003. I have no idea.
2003... let's see that was GameCube era
I think
What Gamecube Mario game? Sunshine?
Mario Strikers
Neither of those are not three minutes wiped away normal time
it's not gamecube oh uh yes or whatever at the time i I forgot they had mobile systems
on their consoles.
Not Mario Pinball Land,
is it?
It's not.
It is a GBA game yes as i say as a reminder the ds came out in 2004. so um
mario and luigi superstar saga no
it is kind of a trick question if i'm gonna be honest hey it's a game
it's kind of a remake
oh mario 60 no ds came out in 2004. uh never mind so Got any more hints?
Remake Remade game
GBA
It's in a series
Of other remade games
Uh
Oh
Super Mario Advance 2 oh here she's on remake i don't know the full name super mario advance four it is four right
okay it's four yay and for shanta the ocean
super mario bros three remakes The Yoshi's Island remake, what was SMA? No it was the Super Mario Bros 3 remake.
Oh yeah I think the first...
or second Super Mario Advance was Yoshi's Island
No the third one is it goes uh two like
the us2 and then world
world 2. yo she's ireland and then 3
very weird
I think it just had
E reader support for 4
shout out to
Arosa Fae E, shout out to Erozefay.
Also shout out
to Astrogen.
Shout outs
to Astrogen.
Other important games released today include Goof Troop and Kirby Air Red I love Kirby Air Red huh i love creepy right
and also charlie in the chocolate factory
oh I think the original MyMai was released on July 11th. The original what?
MyMai, It's a rhythm game
The cutting room floor description is
Welcome to MyMy, the first of Sega series
of
and then crossed out washing machine shaped rhythm games
they kind of do look like a washing machine. Seems a lot more forgiving.
During the concerts, Gideon Lee from Rush
would have a bunch of washing machines and other home
appliances to his back because the guitar player Alex Lifeson would bring his own gear
but Geddy Lee would just use the house PA system and didn't need anything behind him
he wanted to balance the aesthetics of it
so you have roadies coming in like putting clothes on and taking them out
of their washers and dryers as the show is going on from behind jamie it's very good time.
One back using our limited remaining trivia questions.
Please give us a trivia questions
please give us a limited rm- give us this one
what baja blast spin off flavors were released for a limited time
in 2024.
Ah,
nope.
In the current year.
I'm afraid not.
One of these is a Doritos flavor.
That made it worse!
Alright... no ideas?
We got Baja Laguna Lemonade which is a mango lemonade, Baja Point Break Punch
which is like a berry punch I think and Doritos Baja Fiery Mango which are spicy mango doritos baja fiery mango which are like spicy mango doritos i like that some of them
all right here's one that's not as hard. What is the most popular cheese-related recipe in the United States?
Grilled cheese.
It's not grilled cheese.
Not grilled cheese.
Nachos and cheese no mac and cheese yeah I'm not sure why this is so hard to get.
This is a pretty good level, but it's also very difficult to get through. I guess I I lost my
eye.
I got or I guess like one of our sun shade
that's branded Baja Blast and it came in the mail today, so
hey guys and it came in the mail today so hey
wait the world is that a world record for this gets it in two days yeah that seems that seems right Yeah.
That seems ridiculous!
The runner for it, Calco2 is a notoriously proficient runner at whatever he puts his mind to.
Before he played in Grandis,
he was actually known for not being proficient
in the cape in Super Mario World
and he decided to play this game
to his words learn kate and then he i see ran it into
the ground you know
i guess that's a good way to do it yeah
good old captain so
wanna run through some more questions?
Sure. That are probably not about
Baja Blast. Unfortunately
You didn't Even more expensive than vanilla, what is the most expensive spice by weight in the world? Oh...
I know what that means. oh
i know what it is If it's what I'm thinking of, it has like no flavor and it just tinges your food goldish. It is not that.
It's not that.
What type of Brazilian has he used um like
yeah it's in like Indian and Persian food. Ayala uses it famously.
It's also a Pokemon location. so I'm not sure. Think about your canto towns so Is it bad that I didn't really play much Pokemon?
It's hard, it's bad for understanding what the answer is given by hand.
That's fair.
I think we're gonna come up on time here right now.
Alright!
That was pretty good, that was close. I don't know where you got stuck. You must have gotten
stuck somewhere because I got super stuck in one place and it was still pretty close.
Yep. I don't even know where anymore but
i definitely felt stuck in one spot or two
all right well this one is Saffron oh yeah saffron. Oh, yeah.
Gotcha.
We have our final compile times?
I believe we do.
Yep.
Coming in at second place, BK with a 59-14.
Sub hour!
That was my goal 36.
thank you so much for both uh i don't know subjecting yourselves to this?
Do you have any shoutouts you'd like
to give?
Shoutouts to LinkDeadX2
for not doing this
with us because he is a better man
and better person than both of us.
He's not better than us, I know your worth. That's fair
Well, he's a better man than I am, but that's for
a different reason.
Because you're not a man.
Trans rights.
Thank you again so much for being on our show. Thanks for having us.
I hope you had fun!
We did, definitely.
Thank you for having us so much.
Congratulations on the world records in PBs and whatnot.
I pulled chat out, someone asked did BK just pull out a waffle?
I pulled out the last three quarters of my waffles
I pulled out the first quarter after
The waffle level in the name
Because it had waffles in the name
That's a little bit of post-race waffle
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I am going to be your host for the rest of the evening
Pleasantly Twisted, you may have seen me on SGDQ
SPT. Thank you so much
to Corby May and Swoose
for your wonderful showcase of Think Fast,
although I can never watch those
because I am just not smart enough.
They ask questions and I'm always like,
I thought I knew Final Fantasy.
I don't know anything at all actually
so I'm just going to go ahead
and mind my business and let
everybody else do their thing in speed run
but we are going to be showcasing some fantastic black speed runners this
evening for what we're lovingly call calling the
run back so if you're, I am also the organizer for
Unapologetically Black and Fast along with Juneteenth
but we kind of felt like
we need more black speedruns
More speedruns are
needed, they're necessary. I need them
to live, so we're going to be doing some one-offs
this evening and
having some of our usual runners
come in with some of their other ones that they work on
but before we get into all the fun stuff
just as a reminder if you've missed any of our shows any of our events we just
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And catch all those!
There's gonna be nice and organized in the playlist for you
We're going to have all the runs from the last event
All the interviews
We're going to have everybody stuff
From Juneteenth, UBAF
all your hot pick shows. If you've missed it we've got you covered. It's over there
hanging out. Now if I'm looking at things correctly
we should be getting ready to do some
heck and dang Mario Kart
I actually really love
Mario Kart, I'm going to have to harass peas when we get
over there because I need to know the most
important question of the entire Mario Kart run
I don't care about your actual. I don't care about your actual category,
I don't care about your time...
I need to know who you play though. So uh
P's, do you want to show us some Mario Karts?
Absolutely PT!
So this is Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, but we're not exactly playing through the whole game.
We are going to be doing some of the DLC tracks.
We will be playing the latter half which released early last year and actually this is a good segue to talk about
which character i'll be playing as because usually i'm a bird domain because burtel's
like my favorite one of my favorite mario characters of all time
nasty but because
but because uh the next couple runs uh feature
uh primates i'm gonna actually play a character that was introduced or brought back in Wave 6
by the name of
Mr. Diddy Kong himself
Yes, Diddy Kong
Okay, that's gas
We'll allow the Diddy Kong. That's acceptable.
Specifically I use like Luberto but this time
we're going to be playing as Diddy with
the same combo. They actually have
similar stats but
Diddy is slightly slower but it's fine because he makes up for
by having a pretty solid
mini turbo stat which we'll explain
as we get into the first track here.
We're going to be using the Bitty Buggy.
I usually use blue rollers, but I want to match the whole red vibes for us, the Red Rollers and then we have an option of cloud parachute flower and paper but I'm you use cloud because it's my favorite client in the game.
So our rules are set.
Now you may notice that my CPUs are set
to normal
because there is actually one
track in the DLC where I need the CPUs to hopefully
not screw up my cycle.
But we'll get into that, and actually
Hey Limey would you like introduce yourself yourself real quick? I forgot to give you a quick intro there.
It's okay. Hi! I'm limeytrscoresaur.
I am the host here on Shtickothix with The Block Events.
I'm quite the regular if I do say so myself.
I'm happy you didn't introduce me because I was in the middle of a nasty game with Bellatra, but I just finished.
I've played a little bit of Mario Kart before.
You can't be telling everybody that you're playing Bellaccio!
Yeah, Bici ruined my life.
Oh no...
I did! I introduced it to
Bellaccio. I've done
my part. Well, I have a big favor to ask of y'all.
Could you give me a quick countdown?
Don't trust me.
My counting is not great.
This is going to be 3-2-1 anyway anyway but i don't want to count that maybe
like just dead anyway
i think limey should do it since they're doing the first thing now um 100 000. 99 999 oh my god you're 99 get out of the way those numbers work anyway
all right, Pisa, you ready?
Three, two, one, go.
Already a mess.
Oh, trust me. Mario Kart is... This game is going to be even more of a mess.
I forgot to mention we're not going to be using items
so this is going to be pure driving
and just a little bit of friendly banter because 100 skill yeah exactly
because with the items there's a very good chance that the cpus could mess me up
and i did not get full startup because uh fun fact i'm actually playing with
with not just my game audio um like going through so i'll have a little bit of delay
so that's if i don't get full start-up it's it's because I actually used an audio cue to make sure I get the full one.
It's okay. Speedrunners know... He's SMB is an Elgato capture card user, so you all know how that is.
Oh... That says all of it, nevermind.
See? I have the John lined up!
Also can I just say it?
Thank you.
Now, I love that you're using Diddycom
because even though
while Chad is correct
Birdo is her
she's the one
for reasons that everyone should be aware of because you know
her canonically is she's our first trans character. But nonetheless
I have always been a Yoshi and Toad main, so whenever I see the small characters get love
I am a very happy person.
Yoshi isn't very small but Yoshi is my bae
I love him to pieces
Well...
The good news is that yoshi's actually
the best character to use in competitive mario kart so
yeah play me a mario kart you won't please focus your speed one don't start playing yeah
if y'all have ever seen a stream on peace s and push out tv slash psnv
uh you all might see that the entire lobby is just the same cart, except for sometimes there's another one.
Yoshi... but at least there are different colors of Yoshi so that's fine.
But yeah, Yoshi is like...
I don't want to say by far the best but he's like the best. He isn't a character that has annoying noises
So how does it work that you are actually going to sit here in like straight up skill
mode and you're not gonna play items?
Do you ever get stressed out?
Do you ever have moments where the computer tries to beat you up or did you turn off items
when I missed that completely? Yeah. did you turn off items so yeah i do
i do turn off items because i do not want to get owned by the blue show
or get hit by lightning yeah it's no it's not fun for the speed run um because there's
actually a couple of tracks where you want to have really good driving
in order to hit a certain cycle and if lightning happens, you can kiss that split goodbye.
That's basically six seconds of time lost, so no thank you.
It's only 6?
I was gonna say like lightning is annoying.
Yeah because...
It feels like it. Because it shrinks's 20, but you move so slow.
Oh well that's fair.
So basically the way that lightning works is if you throw this behind
You'll basically shrink up faster than the people in front of
you. So if you have a lead, you're going to be small for at least six to ten seconds
and it's not fun.
No that's violent.
That's absolutely violent.
Like if you had to pick an item
that is absolutely
the bane of your existence
everyone says they hate
the blue shell
and it's like well yeah
you hate the blue shell
because you're in first place that makes sense
but what is the item that when you get hit with it it's like no calm no chill only violence because
i think lightning is up there, but I feel like whenever
I hit a banana specifically,
there's something about the banana peel
that's so explicitly disrespectful
because it's there
and you could have dodged it
but you simply didn't
and now I'm just like, nah,
I'm just angry now.
Well in my opinion and this isn't an item
in this game,
But oh my God when I get hit with a static cloud
in Mario Kart Wii i oh i get mad i get mad
yeah same thing i forgot about the static cloud the
static clouds are annoying like if like in market we like if i get run over by like
the um like the mega mushroom is like ah that's whatever right like
i couldn't really avoid that to an extent like i could have could have Jawns, it's fine, but like the Static Cloud?
Oh.
I just hate that item so much.
The Static Mounds is obnoxious.
Like, I know that people are always like, oh, but shells.
And it's like, yeah, but shells is like...
Sometimes you get lucky because people got skill
issue. Other times
you might be throwing. You can dodge
instant stuff like static clouds, bananas
lightning bolts those are gross
bullet bills I don't even think they're obnoxious
I just think they're funny
imagine minding your business
and someone comes screaming past you
that's fine and someone just comes screaming past you. I'm like, you know what?
I deserve to be hit. That's fine.
Yeah, I'm a chronic camera flipper backer
so I never get hit with the bullet holes.
Oh that was...
Yeah, so that's the
infamous DK Summit double cut and
somehow got a pretty decent
adjustment. So
this I was going to say say This is a fan favorite
But in the competitive scene
This track is terrible
Online
So that cut
Is one of them
The caveat to playing the bitty buggy for example
is that it's lighter than than the teddy bunny which is actually
the fastest and and a better car but i use biddy because
it has a better mean from his dad um but the thing
is people like to get you can basically just
get bumped at this cut and i'm gonna have to play it safe because i messed up here so
that's cool we didn't fall off though we did like all i care about is not falling off
is it possible to overshoot and then go out of bounds i've
i've done that a handful of times. There's actually something called
Smart String which you can turn on, at least online mid-race
and basically it prevents you from falling off the track but also
prevents you from taking shortcuts so um competitive players basically obviously
those speedrunners are very good at minuing so winnie master plus L+,
You basically just pull off the track less.
Wait, I thought it was an R! Oh...
Because this is on L that makes it feel so much worse, I feel.
Cause like, the game telling you
like oh smart stealing steering is an l
but my favorite parts of your streams again everyone in the push chat go
follow twitch.tv psnmb subscribe um yes my favorite
parts of your streams are just like when you're like playing lounge and you're about to fall off
because you like mess up a skip and then you just like kind of yell for a second
and then turn on smart steering and everything's fine.
Yeah!
Like, I can make an
entire, like, club combination with just that.
It's my favorite.
I feel like Mario Kart is the perfect game too because
I've never approached it from a competitive side, obviously
but I've always played casually and even playing casual
you can get some of those nice tips and tricks going
You can accidentally find some good shortcuts
that are like, nah I'm going past everybody
And then you have your intentional shortcuts
Everyone at this point, I'm just gonna say it plainly
If you're playing Mario Kart at this day and age
you probably are pretty good at drifting and whatnot.
I remember when they first introduced drifting
I think it was... Was it 64?
I don't think it was 64. It might have been.
Is that when
they started giving you the clouds
that changed colors and let you know how you were drifting?
Yes. Yeah, yes.
That was 64
And then they kind of amplified it a bit
in Double Dash onwards
I mean Super Circuit is kind of...
I forget how the drifting works
in Super Circuit. It's roughly similar to
64.
Yeah, it's like a mix of 64 and
Super.
Okay. So So 64 and uh super.
so this is actually the track that I should have the CPU set to normal on
because
i need them, I need for them to hit
the cloud
so that I don't have to do all
all their hard work but i'm gonna i'll go for basically the setups three times
anyway uh just in case they don't um but lap two
i don't want them to get it because that's gonna mess it up.
Okay, they didn't hit it. Cool.
So now...I just need to put it there
And then now lap 3
It's optimal for them to hit the cloud
At first- I don't know the exact time as to whenever
the cloud goes away
but the good thing is it's not RNG
It's basically execution
as to whether or not
you'll get it based on how good your driving is.
So... I just caught the delay on this stream and i saw the dude in the back and this
is a Yoshi stage because i remember that face. It's Yoshi's Island, I love it there so much.
This is one of my favorite tracks in the game and in the DLC
So this is where I'm gonna play safe and trick
I'm going to safe and trick.
Gonna hold down to get some height, there we go.
Nice!
So if you miss the cloud, uh, you can kiss four seconds goodbye.
Oh no, I hate that.
But I have to
go ahead and say it for everyone.
What I don't hate
and this is where I become a toxic
Mario Kart player is when you start lapping other
people because it's like hate that for you
you should you know your gas is on the right
guess yes it's on the right.
Please don't ever play Mario Kart with me, I am very toxic.
So we are in the latter half of Wave 4 starting with bangkok russian micro tour i forgot to mention
so the tracks uh i'm pretty sure if you play the dlc and you would already know that um a lot
of the minecart tour tracks actually almost every single track from tor is in the dlc
as well as a fan favorite courses um i think they did more of that this time around versus
um at least like... Actually,
they did it in every single way.
Like, Coconut Ball is in the DLC
I'm trying to think of others
There's also Waluigi
Pinball, that's one of my favorites.
Even though they just copy and pasted from Wario Stadium which is obviously the same but like
They didn't add a funky remix or whatever at least they added in the
item roulette from DS, so
that's pretty nice.
Other than that,
um... The rest of the
DLC, like Wayport onwards, I think they did a really bang up job with
with the track choices and some some of the unique designs um because most
of these tracks are also in mario Tour, which is the big inspiration to keep this game.
Because in 2022 we could have gotten a new Mario Kart game but since this is like the best selling Mario Kart game of all time
they made the smart business decision to add
on to it. So...
I feel like
there's someone out there that heard that
and is literally
in shambles.
Just straight up...
And then the next Mario Kart game
is going to have 32 tracks
and everyone's going to be like,
what?
Right.
Actually crying
and throwing up everywhere.
Because honestly by now everyone has a Switch they're throwing up everywhere. Because, honestly,
by now everyone has a Switch.
So...
They're kind of...
I mean, a Switch 2 is obviously
in the works, so
the next Mario Kart game is definitely going to be on
the next switch or i should say at the next console because no we don't even know if it's
gonna be this one that is gonna be a switch but very vague when it comes to these things.
Yeah, I know that somebody was talking about it and they were just like, oh we're going
to get news on the next Switch, and it's like okay well that cat's off the back I guess.
That's awkward for all parties involved, hey switch to switch oled i remember was the
idea for some people they're like it's gonna be sweet wait i recognize this course hold on
a second no i'll be'm going to be quiet.
I was like, wait, I recognize this course!
So I love Mario Kart.
I only have played
a little bit of 8
but the last time
I played heavily in earnest was on the Wii
when they introduced the motorcycles.
And it pains me that
I'm the lone motorcycle appreciator
I feel like.
I love the bikes so much! They're so goofy and they're just fun to ride, but yeah
They are actually really good and I wouldn't say broken
But they're out there with AT atps and actual cards so fun fact the baby buggy and mr scooty
they share the same stats but they have slightly different driving styles um personally i play
both but i drive so much better on on viddy
but i use scooty because it has a smaller uh hitbox
so really yeah it's it's it's like matters
it's so strange and you can even have a higher chance of wall-dodging red shells with Scooty,
So that's why I personally play over Bitty Buggy.
Granted, I drive slightly slower on Scooty which is... bad.
Well this was not ideal in the racing game yeah exactly um there's
actually two different types of bikes there are there are outside drifting bikes
and there's also inside drifting bikes. So
the best bikes at Mario Kart Wii are actually
inside drifting, but they
altered it quite a bit
in 8 Deluxe
to... It's basically not Mario..., well it's almost like Mario Kart
Wii but the
drifting style is so much different that
it's not even close to
what Mario Kart Wii
is. So say you played so much
like Funky Kong
Flame Runner or Daisy Mothbike
you would gravitate towards playing
Yoshi on the Yoshi Bike or something
like that. But yeah, that's a thing. Yoshi on Yoshi bike.
I mean it makes sense but I
can't talk because I always was playing
Yoshi on Sugar Scoop. That was always my one
of choice. I don't know.
I just enjoyed saying Sugar Scoot I think and then my first car i wound up naming
it sugar scoop because of that there's a good question oh no that's unfortunate burnout yeah
i did it way too early because again i'm on that delay so my timing's
a little off but that's fine what one gift sub for burnout please oh god oh that's funny Oh, God.
Oh.
That's fine. Everything is fine.
This is all fine.
It's so...
I'm commenting still on the run itself.
It is so odd seeing the carts without chaos like there's no shells
there's no nanners there's no like bullets flying by there There's no, excuse me, angry clouds.
I
this is like almost
jarring. Oh that was cute though.
I was trying to get a drift but
my uh, I guess Diddy decided
not to drift at that
angle. But it's fine.
This is actually a really hard track too to play anyway
At least at a decent level
Um so this why time- why time traveling is your best friend to getting good at these
courses um even still uh we're also prone to driving errors and whatnot so i mean if you really want to get better at
mario kart like you really want to take it serious you should honestly just play your
favorite track over and over and over because you'll learn so much more fundamentals about driving.
And then you can understand how the item works, and I still cannot get my SMG there but that is okay.
As long as you're in first place and you about to lap
what is it are you about the lap donkey kong no
you're not laughing don't you are you laughing
that was female village that i laughed okay yeah female villager that I lapped.
Okay, yeah, female villager you just lapped.
Are you getting ready to lap Princess Peach in her kitty cat suit?
Oh yep, Cat Peach! There she is!
Bye girl!
Shoutouts to SuperRoy3World.
We were talking about that before we got live.
Surely I should get this right.
I believe in you.
There we go.
That's what I wanted.
It was the principal after a certain point.
So someone had asked us about how
the pinball map is sweet.
I would like to know what are y'all's favorite maps?
And it could be from any Mario Kart because, transparently,
I forgot all of the names of the maps.
I can see the map in my brain.
I just don't know its name.
I know it's yoshi something but
what are y'all's favorite maps um i think my favorite map of all time
it's close between donut plains and d DK Jungle Parkway from Minecraft 64.
Fire.
It-it's really close, um...
I don't know, I have too many favorites across the franchise.
Actually believe it or not, I've played Mario Kart for many years
and I barely play Super Circuit so I haven't played Lakeside Park.
I think
Yoshi Desert?
Yoshi Desert's pretty good.
There's one that's like a
Rainforest-y style level that's like a... There's, like,
a Rainforest-y style level that's on the Wii
that I can't think of
but I know the name in it
has Yoshi as well.
Yoshi Falls?
Oh, thank you so much!
Yoshi Falls is
one of my favorite ones.
I just liked looking at the map
also was one of the few ones that i could like immediately identify shortcuts on and
I was like oh yeah I'm going through all of this it's fine. Yeah my favorite is...
It's Sky Gardens from DS because I really like the movement in Mario Kart DS.
And that track is just so open and you can do so much. It's so fun.
Oh, look at over there.
It's funny that you mentioned Sky Garden
but it's in the DLC and this game
but we don't get to play it unfortunately. I'm a little
sad about that.
For what it's worth
while we were in the planning stages for this show I did ask you.
Yeah, we need like an hour or so and I know entire DLC is about two
So just take your pick of the ones you want to play
He was like oh wanna, I want to do
4 through 6. I'm like, okay, cool. We'll run it.
We'll run it up then.
That was not a cut by the way.
It was me correcting a mistake.
And I got away with it.
I'm going to call it a cut, because if it's correcting the mistake and it still swags then it counts.
It was a bit swagged, I won't lie.
But yeah, I didn't realize there wasn't going to be skyguarding. I thought it was in six.
Is it in three?
It's in one.
It's in one?
I for real never played it in this game.
I'm not gonna lie.
I just love the shock
and your voice where you're like, huh?
All right so let's see we've got in chat
We've got some love for Baby Park
Baby Park is pretty solid
Like that's a really good
warm-up course for me. I love Baby
Park.
Baby Park is good but like a favorite?
The real question
is which Baby Park is better? There's only one correct answer
As to which Baby Park is better
There's one person that differentiated their Baby Park
With that being said
I did have a specific Baby Park
Yes, what's up
I think Double Dash Baby Park is the best because Can I say a controversial opinion? Yes, what's up.
I think Double Dash Baby Park is the best because
Double Dash is so slidey
That- that is correct
And it makes it so much more fun cause
It's just like bumper cars
Instead of it being like you have to actually voice stuff
and sweat,
ugh! It's so much harder. But yeah in Double Dash
you will just hit stuff and that's okay. You've also got
a Yoshi Island. Oh wait, I think that's just saying
well, I mean Yoshi Island as a game is great
You know what? Both are fine
This is perfectly fine
Yoshi's Island is actually one of my favorite games
You already know I love joshua
you say what oh my god you already know i love yoshi island
i adore your shes island so much uh we've got the cruise ship map
i know exactly what you're talking about i know exactly what he's talking about
yeah daisy preserve yeah guess what you're gonna about i know exactly what he's talking about yeah the daisy cruiser yeah guess
why you're gonna see it in this like in this run fantastic daisy cruiser lovers rejoice
you get to see one of your favorite maps love that for you the og bowser castle oh man og bowser
castle with the womps and stuff yeah you'll get to see that in this dlc too
oh my god everyone's eating well everyone's eating well
um what do we have here calamari oh i remember calamari desert
i remember calamari desert now just want calamari though
you got one you're making me hungry for calamari though we got well you're making me hungry for calamari oh i love calamari
like it's calamari is like one of my favorite appetizers yeah it's pretty solid diaz choco
mountain was my goat.
Oh, I forgot all about Chaco mountain.
You're not wrong.
That's in my top few for Diaz.
I love it.
Is it Chacomountain?
I always said Cocoa Mountain.
Um...
Oh there you go.
The pro set is is Chaco Mountain.
My life is a lie?
Probably.
That seems to be the case.
Moonview Highway and then we've got Maple Treeway.
Guess what?
Maple Treeway was gassed too.
Are we going to see some highway action?
After Daisy Cruiser.
Nice!
Nice! Nice!
So now the bigger question, though.
Because I have to ask it.
How many Rainbow Roads are we dodging?
We don't have to see that tonight, right?
Oh.
I thought there was like two.
We are going to see one tonight
but it's actually everyone should remember from the week so wrong, that's true
I remember those tables and all the shy guys were just trying to mind their business
having lunch and getting ran over.
Like imagine trying to eat calamari
and then someone just like drives by and takes it.
I would be so happy-
Yeah, I'm seeing a chat comment right now saying peace is amazing
i know you're in the middle of Iran but people should follow twitch.tv psmb yeah you should
probably follow that it's independent if you can't find it. We've got you covered.
Go ahead and click that pin, click that purple link
And then click that there Follow button
They even made it simple now where
If you click people's names
You just click their heart and it is taken care of. We love an efficient process.
It's also in the title. Just click
in the title, it's that easy.
We've got lots of options depending
on how or where you like to click
you should go follow Kuz.
You can also support the Juneteenth and unapologetically lock it down.
Hello DK.
Oh no, we're locking people again.
So since we're all talking about some of that stuff as well um
yes there was a question about it in chat this is a one-off now i'm not going to tell you how
to live your lives but i'm just saying if it gets an opportunity for myself but
i'm just throwing it out there that you
should do
X-Match
Point UBAF
if you need
more information
about
lot speed
running events
here at
GDQ
we have
everything up
on playlist
I want to
say June
10th
2023 and
24
22 3 and 4 all up UBAF 22,3 & 4 are
all up. We've got some of our fantastic runners showing up in
chat too everyone gives some love to Anarchy hanging out
and chat because Anarchy, absolute GOAT
and Wolf of Sion games pro UNO player and also just A plus human being here
to support P's because of course she would.
Of course and also Sprinkle Theory
was in chat earlier too.
Oh my gosh,
that's Mrs. Sprinkle?
Hi Sprinkles!
Oh I see her now!
Hi girl!
Hey!
Sorry.
Oh, oh!
I've seen this track too.
Which track is this? What highway is this movie it's moved your highway yeah i was gonna say i remember this check okay so someone said this is their favorite
i have a confession to make i am like lukewarm on this track because
i would get so irritated when i would get ran over by cars that somehow would
come up behind me and i'm like but how? But how, but how? That doesn't make any
sense! I'm being beat up, and for what?
Why?
There were also times
when I was actually just bad.
This is perfect.
So we just got the time trial cycle
from Movie Highway
and that's like my best and
favorite cycle. So here is your unfun fact this track has some
RNG layouts to it so if you pay attention
where the boost tiles are placed,
um... You can either just roam on them for free
or just use a mushroom to
basically stay tight and skip past
them. So that's like the only gripe
that I have about this track is that there's RNG to it.
But other than that,
this is a pretty solid nightly drive,
if I want to say.
And maybe that's why I had problems with it
because I thought I would have a route picked
out and was like nope jk that route don't that's not there no more oh we got one more
sliding in for Toad Highlander.
Oh, Toad's right over gracious.
I almost hit the car.
Yes you did.
Does Diddy Kong have insurance?
Is Diddy Kong old enough to have insurance?
I always thought
Diddy Kong was like
25 or something.
Whoa!
I always thought he just looked young, you know what I mean?
Like that exists in real life.
Everyone say hi to Birdo.
Hi, Birdo.
Why would you hit her?
Well, uh,
that wasn't my fault.
That was the game running into her on purpose, I had already finished.
Diddy Kong is anti-Dwamaniac here and if you in chat are pro
level then you can go to uh can type exclamation FF
in the chat
to find out about
Fatales.
There's another
coming up soon.
I don't know
what the announcement
is for that.
No, it's
Flying Fatals.
It's coming up.
It's going to be August 2nd.
Actually, someone should do X-Ray Point FF.
I think it's the 25th.
I know it's after my birthday.
But nonetheless, regardless of what it is
Train fatales, flame fatale, frost fatales
go out there support the women and mostly
non-men speed running teams they're gonna be
raising some money for some other charities that you should
also go support we just did great with actually let's give them the same love
over at prank of tiles yeah yeah you should really like
support the other people doing the things yourself
worth events on gdq hot bags thank you 18th and 25th oh no yes importantly uh
remember remember self-care because this track
racing in the bathroom you know what my skin is oily right now that's so disrespectful.
That's so rude.
And now she said her skin is oily.
Whoa!
The toothbrush is in the bathtub.
I have some concerns.
Wait a minute.
No, no. That's their cleaning toothbrush that's okay you know what that's real that's real like who doesn't have
a cleaning toothbrush you don't even if you don't know what that means, don't admit to it.
Just leave it be. You have a cleaning toothbrush now.
You have a cleaning toothbrush now.
I have three clean toothbrushes.
You have three cleaning toothbrushes yeah i've won for like my controllers
yeah then i have one oh no i'm through toothbrushes one for my teeth one of
my controllers one for like brushing stuff to clean itself.
Oh, that makes sense.
I like how you put the one for your teeth.
Yes.
I clearly don't auto-count so it's fine.
Well we're laughing Peter Perrona.
Oh, the three-yard teams.
All right, so can I just say that I kind of hate that the soap suds
are an obstacle.
Low key, low
key.
Like what do you mean
I wanted to clean myself up and I'm being
penalized hello
hello
just don't hit them or don't get close to them
yeah i wanted to wash my tires they'd have messed it all up someone in chat mentioned
ribbon road and i just remembered that i like love river road i feel like mario kart as a
game just has so much variety in their tracks and it's so much versatility that
it's really hard to be like oh i absolutely hate a track like even for
how much i was like complaining about rainbow road earlier there are still
certain aspects of certain flavors of Rainbow Road that I'm like
you know this is fine.
Until it's the things where it's like hey I fell down and I missed my skips so now I'm
behind by like 40 seconds and I'm actually in eighth And I hate it here. This is LA, right?
Yes
Yeah, I remember this because
I remember one time around the
Time this came out, uh, Piz was playing this
In a voice call, right? And I was like watching and I was like
this is not LA.
This is like
not LA at all.
Yeah.
And yeah.
See,
on the topic of
tracks that we hate
This is one of them
Uh-oh
We found a track hater
I just don't like the gameplay
Of this track
And then it's also like
Oh yeah, this is supposed to be L.A.?
No, it's not Is it is supposed to be LA. No it's not.
Is it actually supposed to be LA?
Yeah. This goes super inland and then it's like okay
now there's oil everywhere. That's not LA.
That doesn't happen in LA.
Not the false Angelus, whoa!
Whoa! That's out of control.
False Angelus is so real.
Outta Control.
Santa Monica Pier, so to-
that's not LA though! Right? Like...
Y'all about to make Limey upset
Also I just love the way- Yeah and then this isn't LA either.
This is like
Fresno Bakersfield.
That's four hours away from LA.
Maybe it's just under construction
you didn't know about.
Although, I do have to agree Maybe it's just under construction you didn't know about. I don't know.
Although, I do have to agree with people
who are saying there is no traffic.
That's like if somebody said this track is St. Louis
I would be like
I don't see a Walgreens or an Emo's pizza
so it can't be. That's not
real.
They just got palm trees here.
This is stolen Californian valor.
I'll say it.
Whoa!
That's the only cool part about LA Labs was that...
No, once you go on the 405s, you're out of 10. This is what I'm saying!
Thank you everyone.
So now we know that GDQ chat regulars
either are not from LA
or they are and they don't like it
Basically AI constructs LA I mean, that's the same thing Basically, AI cosplay.
I mean that's like the same thing.
You know...
LA Cosplay!
That's fair.
Stolen California? Wow.
That's heat... I'm stealing that
That's in my vernacular
That's my note
Speaking of oil oh no they should have done tucson arizona not
la there's a lovely 50-ish mile bike route
they could have used 50 mile bike route homie whose legs is doing all that what do you mean
oh that sounds scary i was gonna mention how this is like a dinosaur track with
like dinosaurs and it's supposed to be like
oh wow dinosaurs are so cool
and then there is oil
because there is no more dinosaurs right now.
I know this has nothing to do with Mario Kart
but i need everyone to know that the Gritty Goose
is always out of pocket always out of
pockets i've never seen this emote before
my jaw's on the floor.
Oh, hello PD!
That's a Twitch emote? How old is this?
It might have been with the most recent wave, if I recall correctly.
I'm gonna start using that.
Um... Usher would never point it out.
Oh no! Now everyone's using it.
You know what I'm actually surprised i haven't seen for the course of peas is running chat
anyone who has steering emotes question Question mark?
Yeah, his gritty not working.
Oh, it's because it's a limited time only
emote. I think you have to participate in something and use it.
That's so sad!
I've never been so sad to
not be able to hit the Gritty.
There is a new level 5 hype train
emote. Yeah, you need hype train emote.
Yeah, you need a hype train.
I feel like I have it.
There they are!
There's the steering steering emo set we love
to do all of us all i'm saying is if we hit
if we hit a level five right now like can we get it
like that's how that works
you can just hit a quick and dirty level 5.
I regret to inform everyone that I do not have the Gritty Beast, but I DO...
...have the Barb Rigi.
The Brinson Shot? i'll put it there the bard grigey
i i'm appalled that this exists as well one you know speaking of speaking of steering i forgot
to talk about the most important thing
about this game
coins
oh yeah i was gonna ask why your about this game? Coins.
Oh, yeah! I was gonna ask why you're getting certain
coins and stuff because are you like...
What's going on with that?
So, back in Mario Kart 7
they actually reintroduced coins and basically coins make you faster. Having
10 coins puts you around 2.5% faster than your base speed without any coins so uh you could literally um
Like be like pass someone because they have like zero coins and that's happened
So many times in my competitive Mario Kart events
where either I'm the
either I get punished for not having enough
coins or I just straight up pass
someone because they have like 5 coins
and I have 10. That being being said there's some strategy to it where you can
uh trail an item and just basically force the person to slam
the break so that they don't get um trailed by a green in left line.
Literally, but for time trials and speedruns it's very important to have coins
That's one big thing to keep in note of if you're ever trying to be faster in this game. Just always go for coins.
In all the years I've played Mario Kart, I never knew that coins made you faster and now
I feel like the biggest dunce.
Is it even explicitly stated anywhere in-game?
AHHHHH! The last time I checked I
The last time I checked the like being a manual out of boredom, I think so actually
I've never read the in-game manual my my life checking your in-game manual out of boredom is
real that's so real i think that's like the same energy as like like your parents drove you to
like gamestop to like get a game and then
you like open it up and you obviously can't play because you're in the car
on the way back home but like you're looking at the manual and you're like excited i think
that's the same energy but no no game manual will ever beat the Sonic Heroes
game manual in my opinion
I don't know actually I'm going to take that kind of correct
because the Sonic Heroes game manual is pretty good
I've always gone completely off tangent but also we're
gonna get back to talking about this heck and bang video game you're playing
one of my all-time favorite video game manuals has to be break into musashi
one of mine i can't believe i'm trapped in a call with two sonic fans talking about
the sonic games yeah
tonic game manuals excuse me i mean have you looked at some of them anyway we're playing mario
kart 8 here games done quick um what's going on with this uh course right
here what kind of stuff you got to do
so i like to call this
Spamcoover
Atrocity because
this track's
name is called
Vancouver
Velocity.
This is a
beautiful night
course with
some slippery
paths or
whatever but if you're playing this online
you need to be careful of your surroundings because you can
eat a bunch of spam which is why i call it spam poop atrocity um shout outs to battle vc spam proof and trust me.
Shout outs to Battle of BC
specifically
lap three is
very scary
high for the shy
guys here
and so this so for for Ice Shrink
you basically go through the ice rink
but that's actually
the fast way of
making that turn. The next time
we're going to see that turn I'm gonna going to go for a mini-triple trick
which is much faster than just drifting off of it
It's just due to the nature of where
we are turning
I always thought it was weird whenever
I was first learning how to play this track fast
because I would always just go forward and then wonder why I keep going slow, and running
into a wall.
And oh inkling girl all my fishes shout out to the vancouver canucks
i can't wait for october
i just want to take a moment to special shout out the fact that there's a Piranha Plant in this one.
There's a Piranha Plant racing!
Oh, yeah.
I'm established about eating a piranha. Oh yeah. I missed that memo in your product.
Oh my goodness! Good ol' Mr. Petey himself
and I believe we are now into wave 6, so we have eight more courses to go
seeing 17th race is actually like my brain hurts reading that because i
feel like if i had to make it past six races and maintain my first place lead,
I would be stressed out.
I'd be so stressed out.
Well in competitive Mario Kart we actually play either 8 races or 12 races depending on where we are in the tournament.
So basically...the normal is 3 three grand free so uh 12 races and honestly if you do it like like
like more like just quite a bit don't get used to it.
But yeah, the scary part is maintaining the crown
which is really cool like it's
really cool feature in this game
because
it shows who is MVP but also
shows who y'all need to target so that
they don't win the lobby.
This
is why I'm toxic in Mario Kart
because if I'm not first place,
understand that everybody got a target on their back.
Vanessa, that person is third place.
I don't care they in the way from my first place.
Everyone has to die every single person
as I love how you got chat to talk about sports but go ahead please yeah i was gonna say
me mentioning hockey one time made all of chad talking about hockey this is my favorite yeah i mean to be fair racing is a sport uh it's true
it's a sport so this is true This is very true.
You've heard it here, Mario Kart 8
Deluxe is just as good as League of Legends.
Whoa! Time out! Hang on a second.
Oh wait a second.
I was trying to keep the conversation on track but now you're actually being
toxic like what are we doing right now being toxic, clearly.
Obviously!
Oh, excuse me.
We all agree that we don't like the Golden Knights not the players, the organization.
Always an important differentiation.
Listen, Anarchy, that was violent.
No, I agree
with the Golden Knights message.
I feel like
a lot of the takes in chat are just like the most
like oh yeah no i watch hockey and this is what everyone thinks but also like
i still appreciate that i still appreciate me mentioning one hockey
team enough people just come out of the works be
like yeah i know i don't like the vegas golden knights i love the players about their
organization you know what i mean like my favorite that's kind of gas though
i recognize this track too this is
i'm not gonna try.
It is DK Mountain.
I would've got it right.
Like I said,
I know some of the tracks.
I have to be real when it comes to Mario Kart, it really does become a case
Of no thought
Only race
And then I recognize
The track that I'm on and it's like
No, but go ahead
This track is literally like no thoughts just race because them on, and it's like, ugh, no. But go ahead.
This track is literally milk past its brace because DK Mountain
is one of my favorites and one of my best tracks online.
See that? That skip right there?
I will never be brave enough to do that.
Ever. Ever, ever.
I've entertained it
and I just eat dirt or
I guess pit every
time.
Pit would
be the more appropriate thing.
You were actually worried that Hit would be the more appropriate thing.
We were actually worried that Nintendo was going to basically ruin the track by getting rid of the cut,
but when we played it and found out they they left the cut back we were all so happy and like this is literally like top five favorite tracks
for me yeah this one is such a fun one
So please here's the new plan.
At the next big event so like
AGDQ
something like that
where we have more of the
fun events
that are coming out
like we had
the really cool
Evil Zone tournament
your objective...
You're gonna make a Mario Kart tournament.
Oh my lord!
You're gonna run it.
You can even test run it as something like PAX West
which by the way,'m hoping to be at.
So if you're going to be going to PAX
West, make sure you keep an
eye out for all the information and things
and stuff around PAX West.
We're gonna have a schedule coming up here in a couple of days, make sure you use
XHPoint PAX and chat to get more information on that but nonetheless you should put together like
Mario Kart tournaments for one of the events. can even use like i said you can
use packs as a test run i'm not going to be there so you don't
have to worry about me screaming at people
but if you do it at agdq the violence absolutely out of loving
i it's gonna be foul and I'm so sorry to
fans. Oh yes, ooh
Here's hoping that
A I mean I'm even able to go because I shouldn't go to the last event.
Just time constraints and life so hopefully I'll be able to go to hdq and hopefully um i get some pretty good submissions
i believe in you you'd be having that good stuff yeah like good stuff
now see some people when you chat i know you're not on the course anymore but talking
about some of the more cart meta stuff because you know we're just sitting here and obviously
he's going fast but But are there any specific things
you want to call out? Let's say if somebody
here, it's me, I'm the newbie now.
Let's say if I wanted to talk
to you and I want to get into more competitive
Mario Kart stuff, I want to look into more competitive mario kart stuff i want to look into like more ways
to be fast and good these tracks what are some things that people highlight
for cart tech that people should start picking up
so carte tech um the nice thing about about Mario Kart Deluxe is that there's not very much difficult tech
you would need to do in order to be faster. My favorite one, and the easiest
one to explain is something called a slide jump
but I like it called the Kusan
Slide because it's named after
um...like the best
Japanese Mario Kart 8 Plus player of all time, Kusan.
Basically all you do is whenever you land from a trick
You charge a mini turbo for about half a sec-
no not half a second
Like throw it
Actually let me show it right here.
So just slightly charge your mini turbo
at least until you see the blue sparks
and then you hop
hence calling it a slide jump
and save at least 0.2 so um but again that only works once
you land from a trick it's basically how your cart is aligned whenever you're
whenever you're charging the miniature.
That being said,
you also have to buffer
a drift as you land
from your trip.
I think another thing
is well, of course understanding mini turbos because they're
very important. Like you can obviously drive in a straight line but that only gets
you put so far. So understand when if you charge mini turbos and especially
if you get hit by lightning, um... If you basically do a staking pattern
charging your minitur trouble from left to right
you're going to easily pass somebody who's just driving in a straight line
um i think those are two pretty pretty straightforward uh details to
getting good at Mario Kart.
And for this game in particular,
we do have a
lounge that Zlamy has mentioned
earlier.
It's very large, like literally over
20 thousand people
play
lounge daily
At first it's a little daunting because the Japanese community makes up
a very large portion of the server and also you can learn how to fight against them in those world lights.
Many people who have seen my run or I even mentioned Mario Kart
they're like oh I could not beat...like, like, robots are so tough. And then
I just tell them there's something
called a lounge server, yada yada yada
and if you do this and this and this you'll be able to
beat the Japanese and they're like wow
Wow Like that, I had and then they're like, wow.
Wow.
Like that... I had to process all that for a second
and I was just like, huh?
Oh, okay.
Okay.
Okay, dude.
Mario Kart 8
deluxe is cut
yes
oh my gosh
I should
this makes me want to
boot up my switch
and like
put in Mario Kart
it's like maybe I should go pick this back up.
So I think I have...
I'm gonna lock in real quick because
there is a very important NISP coming
up and I've not actually practiced
on the hot minute so let's so let's go get it.
I believe.
Oh, I got it!
That was my goat. My goats never misses.
That was actually gas. Like that...
And it goes on Twitch.tv, so...
Twitch.tv slash P's SMB
Note the P's is plural and then it says SMB
Follow us
P's SMB subscribe says smb follow the subscribe
this slash describe is out of control because we're on twitch
oh my gosh.
I don't think I've actually seen this level, and this is stressing me out
I hate it here
Yeah, Front Black Cove is pretty fun. There's actually another version of this called Piranha
Planet Pipeline but that was only in Mario Kart 12. Both these were in Mario Kart Tour
but for whatever reason they chose to not bring this back in Wave 6.
Or bring Pipeline back in Wave 6, but they brought back Coke instead.
But regardless, this is a really fun track.
I think we have four more courses left? Yeah, we have four more courses left?
Yeah, we have four more courses left.
I've not been keeping track.
I just play the game as I usually do.
This is like your casual Thursday night chill session.
You're chilling out, you know, chilling
out on some Mario Kart. Like that's the tweet right there.
It's like casual Mario Kart come hang
and then people come in they see you like
skipping entire
triple hairpins of maps and stuff. You're just like,
yeah, so we're just talking about hockey teams
and that's it.
It's like, what is happening right now?
Also...
I put the chat into a state of chaos and i i have to take full responsibility for it
i used to be a sports ball girly and then i became a no-ball md and it was like okay
fine whatever but the only thing'll always hold dear to my heart
is with football specifically,
my favorite team is anyone who beats the Patriots
and I must just die on that hill for a turn.
That's my goat.
I don't care about anything else who's playing the
patriots i'm their biggest fan i'm your number one fan give me the jersey i'm the one that cheers with
them now but yeah that's all that's why i started though because like with hockey it's
like well i don't really know who i like yet
but i know who i don't like so it says whoever plays against them and then
beats them my favorite fan or their biggest they're
my favorite of them or i'm your biggest they're my favorite people
all right so yeah i think you do have oh my god did
you just drive through that whole plaza what are you doing yes yes
got this again Yes. Yes. Not this!
Again, a casual day, minding your business, eating some cheese curds.
And someone just zooms by and takes them.
Sir!
Sir! Sir!
What are you running around here?
But yeah, I think this is...
I think we've got like three more after this.
Yeah, three more tracks
after this one. This is actually the last Mario Kart Tour for the run.
Actually like the last city tour track that they have made
so no more Mario Kart Tour after this.
And we still gotta see that is rainbow road really gonna be the last track as his
tradition yes
okay i guess
i just love that oh we're in the rocket league
no we're good we're good. We're good.
That would be a dope new minigame for Nintendo
because they have all their sports spinoffs
but where is the game where you use the shoe?
We want that one.
Honestly, before anything
I want Mario
well, I want another Mario baseball game on Switch.
I skipped Super Sluggers, because it didn't have motion controls
and that was a big baseball game
so Mario Baseball is the reason why I started
playing baseball anyway,
but
it kind of sucks that they haven't
made another
Mario Baseball-like game.
Apparently, I can't remember another Mario baseball-like game. Well, apparently it's...
I can't remember if it's in Sports Mix?
Um...
I also did not play Sports Mix.
Even though
it's super underrated,
I remember when the first game was
and some of my friends had it.
But even then,
I never really played it myself
but we did get a new Mario Strikers, but unfortunately that one was just...
Basically if you had online, you would enjoy Switch Sluggers. I did not. That was like a waste of $60 for me oh
i hate that for you i hate it so much i hate this turnpike
that you're doing too because this is again
me being high in anxiety the way i could just see myself falling off of that.
Okay now...
Ice World... This is
this track? Um
I used to- this was my least favorite track mario kart 7 but then when they brought it back
in this game um this is literally like one of my favorite tracks for running first that's another
thing too if you play competitive Mario Kart there are certain tracks that people like to pick for first so they can get an easy breakaway.
There is also tracks where you can easily catch up on due to the nature of item item set or essentially like how how the beginning is
so like this beginning if you drive
so close to people, you're getting pushed off
or drafted off the track. That's what
you don't want to happen.
Can we talk about soft drifting yet?
Oh!
Yeah, we have not.
Actually, can you explain soft drifting, Ryan? We have not. Oh yeah, actually
can you explain something about Wyoming?
Yes! The one thing I don't want to explain. Yes!
It's my time.
Okay, so
you can kind of see he is drifting a lot because the way that we have to play
the game is very focused on mini turbos.
To maintain a good line, especially as he's snaking through these straightaways
He will do this thing where you start the drift
and it'll kind of hold a very shallow
angle like along the top of the stick
instead of just kind of holding like straight
in because it will help him
charge like the mini turbo still faster
than just holding neutral,
but he'll get a shallower angle
and that's very useful for a lot of lines.
It's like very, very important.
I hope my little demonstration was
admissible, but yeah that's basically top drifting and this beginning is very tough
because you guys starting in first puts you a little bit closer to
um that ramp there basically you're
trying to get an empty trick and the
cool song slide into
each one of the tricks so it's very like
it's very tight like...it's very tight.
So this is...we call it BCP but this is Bowser Castle 3
Not to be confused with the one in-the GBA version
Not to be confused with that be confusing this is the original
i'm just impressed that i was able to keep up when you said that going to that ramp is dangerous
because you're gonna try and get a trick out of a Puzo slide
right away. And I was like, oh my god,
I think I'm learning. I get it.
I see what's happening. That
was dangerous though.
That was...
I can't say that I want to, but that was very close.
Yeah.
Fun fact!
If I was a little faster with my driving,
I could actually not worry about that cycle completely.
But this is the safe lines that I take just
to make sure I'm able to get through this part
and ensure that I get the double trick there.
Oh, that was perfect! That was perfect!
And now that lava doesn't come up I need to make sure I don't fall off the track here
because it looked like I was just about to.
I mean, your last laugh
didn't look like you were about to.
That's why I was like...
Oh, Ethan, girl, please.
Okay, cool.
She was in my line.
I'm seeing some love for the lines and chat please
All I'm saying is if you love the lines
You should follow my go
My push to be a slash please has to be a social thread
Someone just booty bumped me It's in the pinned message
And it's also in the title
It's all a piece
You can also watch his runs
Whenever he inevitably gets accepted to another
Unapologetic black and fast
exclamation UBAF.
Yes, it's true. It's very true.
Go get those. I think if you go
to the UBAF playlist or the Juneteenth playlist
hold up one of Final Race everybody lock in never mind it's
rainbow road everyone hates it here you don't have to lock in um you can see some of pisa's
runs because i think lucky or log out i'm taking that oh my god i am taking that. Oh my god!
I am taking that. Actually,
I don't know if SJ is in chat.
I'll take it after the next time we do Elder Ring co-op.
Lock in or log out.
One or the other has to happen.
But this thing where you keep dying,
I'm not about it.
I'm so happy that this is going
to start catching on now.
I love that.
I was going to say,
P's,
I think for UBAF and Juneteenth you
ran Puyo Puyo a couple of times
I think you did
there's like a...I forget what it is but it's like
Puyo Puyo and Tetris and you did the Puyo Puyo
side. I believe you've done some Hecandang
Monkey Ball, which by the way
if you're enjoying
Pease's runs, you should hear his commentary
he's going to be on the next run doing some Hecandang
Monkey Ball. And I think
those are the main
ones I've seen you
run,
and I think
there's one
out there that
can't remember
what it's called
in the past.
It was Pokemon.
Ah yes!
Pokemon!
How could I forget
that?
It was probably
Pokemon. I was like how could I forget that? I was literally about to say it's probably Pokemon.
I'll say how could I forget that considering the fact
that I was commentating it and I had to explain
in a chat how I don't play Pokemon games
and people were like, how are you on the couch
And I'm not on the couch on the host
yes and i was just like i don't know any of what's happening
i just i was like that actual auntie just going that's nice sweetie
for a lot of it.
Is this Mario Kart Wii Rainbow Road?
I don't know. Yes.
Yes it is.
It's a lot different because this is 100 anti-gravity that's another thing well then
again marker has been like after 10 years everyone should know that this is like this market but
this is only the marker game with withgravity and you basically go faster if
you hit somebody or it or if you try to run into somebody. And actually which brings me
to this neat little now well, it's a fun fact but I can't remember the exact name
But the reason why they actually made it so that whenever you run into someone on anti-gravity um it's
it's it's some japanese
game i think like not a video game but
something in something like
like we're like racing um and i think someone compared to the beyblades
or something like that i don't exactly remember but
um bro i love beyblades don't even get me started
oh i was on playground oh i was i was undefeated for a little bit
um so something's asking i don't know if you did it already but
did you do a rail skip?
Are you going to do a rail skip?
Uh, well the only thing I'm gonna
Do is time
Oh fantastic
Not that she ran off the edge For time too
Okay so I think we got one more question
Before we let you do like some minor shout outs
Because you're going to be back on here
So I don't see any reason for you to be like
I'm gonna give all my shout outs and then i'll see you in two minutes
um someone said what was the reason behind the cart and wheel choice sure uh so the
reason why i was using ditty on the bididdy, is because
I want to maximize
the mini turbo stat as much as I can.
And it's also easier
to crank out drifts and mini turbos
versus using a Teddy.
So... mini turbos versus using a teddy so um and and also the glider choice as well uh it's it it's one of the lighter ones
so it basically basically allows you to crank out the drifts versus using a heavier glider where it's much more difficult to uh basically handle so and then i think of video yeah something
um well why are you thinking about someone a lonely neuron would like to know
are you a total boss online
if you if you watch my lounge streams, yes and also no.
Now the reason why I say no is
one of my favorite
flaming people jokes
is I like to call them Lil Bro.
So whenever
I'm getting mad at someone for
making a very weird play,
I'm like, Lil Bro really thought
he could get away with it.
Or I can flame myself whenever I fall off the track
or get punished for making a mistake.
Then I'm just like well,
I just made a lowbr play. That's so cool.
All right.
I'm going to do one more question for you.
Then we're going to go ahead and hop over the break.
Project Zero Oana wants to know how long have you been playing
there you go that's your answer oh oh That's a lot
of hours. And that's
only for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.
Oh, that's a lot of number.
That's high number.
That looks like a number I get upset when I play in Bellatro.
That looks like a number that I'm glad
that I can't track it on things like my Bloodborne
because, I was telling other people i think
bloodborne is the only game i have that
has a comma in it
so i'm just like i'm so grateful but i
can't track that because it's not on
steam libraries and nothing like that
and ps5 now is trying it, and I'm like,
hey, I need you to mind your business.
Why don't you go over there and give me
themes again or something? Because I need
you to stop tracking how long I play stuff.
But yes,
since the both of you are going to be on
here again, we're just going to be swapping
some positions. I am going
to say thank you so much P's for that
Mario Kart race. Thank you also for just like the
entertaining run because I know
that we talked about tech and
stuff in the latter half of it,
but nonetheless,
it was a really nice chill time.
It was very,
very just casual.
Hey,
we're going to go play some
Mario Kart and like hang out and kick it that was
really really needed because this week has been chaos for me i also had like a bag of goldfish
while it was happening too it was great so we are going to take a small break just a small break to get set up for our
next game and whatnot i'm gonna go ahead and give you your self hecking care reminder this is a good
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should have called it. So we'll just call it a missed
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you see me holding my dark chocolate here that was
my self-care i'm eating some 72 cacao dark chocolate because I
was feeling like a little bit sweet but a little bit
bitter as well so I believe our next one is going to be with Limey, who's on comms.
Limey's the runner now.
Doing some Super Monkey Ball.
What was it? Deluxe 2? No, it's deluxe.
Well you're doing super monkey ball too. Is it deluxe to you? No, it's deluxe. It's deluxe. Do a Super Monkey Ball.
Well, you're going to do the Super Monkey Ball thing
and I'm just gonna panic the entire time
because Super Monkey Ball is stressful
but this is UMPs bag of chips
so Imma let you two take it away.
Yeah, uh Ty, I was just on comms for the last Mario Kart.
Uh, I am limey underscore SR,
I'm a monkey wall runner
and currently doing the worst challenge that I've ever thought of. This is actually really hard, I have to walk into this.
This is a PB well done.
Ah never mind.
I was trying to bounce on the striker from
the stage striker as many times as I can and that was like five.
So, that was cool!
Yeah, I'm a Monkey Ball runner
I am here playing
Super Monkey Ball Deluxe in Super Monkey Ball 2,
which is just a fan-made port of Deluxe
that was only released on the Xbox.
Don't worry about the PS2 version.
You will never know about that.
It was ported onto the gamecube with like
the good engine and everything yeah and this is great and we're gonna create time doing this uh y'all just met peas but if future, like teachers or something.
Sure! Hi everyone! I hope you all enjoyed awesome Mario Kart.
I mainly run Monkey Ball games as well
but funnily enough this era of Monkey Ball is actually my favorite to play at least casually.
A lot of us grew up playing these games but Deluxe is definitely the one that I have
the most memories with.
Well, the combination of 1 and a lot, so...
Yeah, before we get started,
I just want to give a quick shout-out
to the Monkey Ball modding community
because they create a bunch of levels all the time
and they do level jams.
It's very cool.
It's very accessible to get into at this point uh shout out specifically to brandon smb who was i think
they were the person who led this project of getting this supported
i have to interrupt you for a second,
it just dawned on me that P's
SMB is for Super Monkey Ball!
I am leaving! Oh my gosh!
Got it dude I'm not going to lie to you.
Anyways, yeah so we're gonna be playing through story mode in this version of the game
when they made it
they couldn't get all 20 levels from MonkeyBot Deluxe's story mode into the game.
So there are just 10 and there is all of the exclusive versions of the levels.
I'm going to be playing through all of those. And I am not gonna be using Post Tracks, so...
Hopefully, I don't bungle anything too badly.
Yeah. Full transparency,
I'm running this because Bobby, love Bobby.
He had to drop Semi last minute and I was like well I mean
Monkey Ball is always a good time.
So it's gonna be great.
So yeah we're just here to have a great time. Pisa is already on, so it's gonna be a great time. So yeah we're just here to have a great time uh still if you're watching Bobby or watching this later we love you to pieces
Love you yeah um but would anyone other than me like to give a countdown?
I did the last countdown, P's you gotta do it
Alright, I got y'all
3...
3... And TP says it's your turn on the countdown. Oh lord.
3, 2, two and a half…
One…
Zero go.
The energy is ugly.
This is Monkey Ball, if you've seen Monkey Ball runs before it's pretty similar to all of those. We're going to be using boosting to get,
To do a lot of these levels really fast and gain momentum
Really quickly because this game pulls inputs in a square.
You can kind of see an input here on the top right
I forgot also shout out Compose Flame
Because I'm using practice mod for this game input here in the top right. I forgot to also shout out Complex Flame because
i'm using a practice mod for this game. Yes, there's a practice
mod! Um yes it is also really good um but
uh like I said you can kind of see that the game mostly puts in a square.
So the further away from the center of like the square,
the stronger...
I have to lock in for this.
This is a little difficult, hopefully we get the skip.
Oh!
Yeah...
So basically another thing too is that...
So one of the things So basically, another thing too is that... 1-2 in Deluxe
these games are
deterministic meaning that whatever
frame
you're on,
you're always going to get the exact same
outcome.
But since we are
playing Pauseless,
we're basically...
Yeah, let's go
gambling.
We're hoping to
get clips and not
sorps, so... Yeah, and there's a couple of levels i'm gonna be trying
to just do basically like put the pause strap but posless where it's like a handful of frames
i get to be able to do this if i't get it, I just kind of have to restart
until I get it.
It is a little bit painful
but I do like playing process.
It's very fun
and it's pretty accessible
for new players as well
so you get this.
I'm bad at doing this version of the strat
okay nice meanwhile you get it on the first attempt
yeah this game is a baby game for. That's all I'm trying to say. Wow!
I mean, I guess...
I can't play these for anything.
I remember I tried to play there as
a mobile game of Super Monkey Ball.
This was like 874 years ago, y'all know
I'm ancient
and like
I love the Monkey Ball mobile games
I'll say it
I'm bugging you so bad
but quite literally I remember trying to play a mobile version of this
and i was just like so angry all the time all the time and i was like this game
is a baby game for babies and i'm so bad at it this is garbage especially if uh you don't
have like built fundamentals just from playing thousands of hours at this point
uh it is a very difficult game hopefully but nope, I don't get this.
Oh yeah,
yep.
I go for that every time
and I've gotten it
maybe once.
It doesn't lose
that much time either,
it's like maybe
one second roughly?
not bad.
Just going out of your way to try and go into the clip
uh yeah for storybook there's 10 10 worlds with 10 levels each um that was the first one we're already done I was under 30 minutes
So making good time
I'm going to be going for this boss strat
It is 3 frames
Nope, I missed it
Oh yeah
Yeah, that's whatever I've gotten It's right in there. Oh, yeah.
Yeah it's whatever.
I've gotten most of the way once so I think it's funny to try.
So if you recognize any of these stages they're actually um mainly from super monkey ball one because the way that they did destroy modes in deluxe so obviously there's 20
stages half of them are lucky well two stages the others uh consist of the swp one
stages and some include the the stages that exclusive to
deluxe and composition is is one of them there's
actually a handful of them in the first world,
but
your Monkey Ball tidbit of the day...
There was originally going to be a Monkey Ball 3
it was actually trademarked at some point
but it was cancelled due to unknown reasons.
But they actually ported over some levels that they had already made
for this third game of the GameCube over to
Xbox and PS2.
That being said, there's also a brand new Monkey Ball game that y'all should definitely
pick up! I was actually about
to lead in with that comment.
I was gonna to say,
like they just released
a new Monkey Ball game
because I am
actually kind of
mutuals with
the main Sega PR guy
and I remember
seeing him talk about it
he's just like
oh I'm terrible at this
and I'm still going to play it and I'm like oh i'm terrible at this and i'm still gonna play it
i'm like that's real that's so real i don't know if you're dedicating that because of your job or
because like you actually feel that way but either way yes was. What is it?
Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble?
Yeah, Banana Rumble.
Mm-hmm.
I can't wait to see y'all
actually get to that.
Oh, awesome.
Get to speedrunning
that in specific
because there's going
to be like all types of
new stuff and i'm still looking at it be like yep
this is me being stressed all the time all the time
oh that whole skinny walkway?
This is me being stressed.
I'm kind of tweaking right now.
I would like everyone to know this.
Limey convinced me to buy Marble Mage like 20 minutes before Pisa's run.
Oh, so you took the Bellatro influence and just spread it in a different direction? I see what's going on.
What's a marble mage?
It's basically just um banana rumble but you can't be forward
you can't move forward yeah so you have to like depend on your charge a lot it's very cool
oh so i so basically a better version of sonic labyrinth got it yeah ooh sonic labyrinth is the throwback yikes yikes, yikes. Oh that makes my brain
sad.
So are there...
Go ahead.
No you go. I was going to ask about some
of the strats and stuff for this because
is there... Obviously
you can see like the controller there and you're
using the analog sticks to
move the board around and stuff. Are there like any type of physics
strats that you have to implement in order to make sure
you do certain things? Like, do you need
to fall from a certain distance to get a certain jump
bounce height and stuff or
what kind of other things do you do to like make
these go the as fast as you do because i know
sometimes it's like a flick and now all of a sudden your entire board has
like turned around yeah there isn't anything that's like super
super crazy in this game but um yeah a lot of the stuff will kind
of be self-explanatory especially as we get into like some of them more
complicated levels uh this pack starts very very like
uh
yep Uh, ah. We'll try that one. Oh, yep, yep.
Okay I'm gonna try the older version.
Ahhhh That was like a brain one. That's ugly work.
Whoa!
Yeah I just did the one where you're laying in the bunch and it's so funny.
Okay. It's bullying you.
Close enough.
It's almost hard.
Oh no, please.
You're chasing it! Just like, back wait time out i'm gonna try this once actually
oh that's a five-pack window.
That's another thing as well.
The cycles are extremely different
from Monkey Ball 1 to Deluxe
and I think this is basically
a fan game
that's one-to-one
to Deluxe's cycles?
Yes.
Some of the stages are a little bit slower Okay.
Some of the stages are a little bit slower than the, well some are faster and some are slower
then SMB1's due to them like basically making
their cycle start start well before
you know
like the goteks shows up
and this
is one of them as well
yeah
um one thing that i totally just forgot to mention is
uh i'm kind of doing some of the new style
menuing where uh it was found out fairly recently
actually that if you hold down the R analog
all the way
you can
make the menu cursor advance
at a full speed before the menu is even
pulled up. I'm going to try this a couple of times.
Okay, nice!
It advances uh the menu cursor basically faster so you can just buffer the we try input
and then peas if you'd like to quickly talk about like the stage select
and uh retry
i gotcha so Yo, I got you. So basically at the beginning of each stage we pause and retry because it loads the stage much faster than just holding down the A button and seeing the names and all that stuff. And the reason why we stay select is for
that same reason because there's, we're basically skipping a lot of
animations. That being said you can accidentally exit game which
you have to go through a set of menus and actually in Monkey
Vault Deluxe with the PS2 and Xbox, those versions are actually updated
versions of Monkey Ball 2.
And same with the Japanese version of Monkey Ball 2
where there's actually a glitch
where you can exit game by accident
and then
menu out in order to retry the stage or go back to station like and that's
actually uh the glitch that we performed for
the 80% category.
Even though it's really super easy to...
I learned how to do this today by the way, so I'm just...
This stage is actually really cool and Limey is definitely aiming for that part
Just so you get that specific bounds and we love these
that's my god right there
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It's in the title too.
Jesus.
That's my girl.
That has the same energy as a Nostani's...
People have been saying this.
Also shout out to the Stani, oh my god. The SGDQ 2024 schedule I was on it right after the Stani.
This is true, this is very very true. I was on it right after the Sony. This is true, this is very, very true.
I was on your back couch!
You were?
Yeah, you were on that couch.
That was a fun one.
Oh god! Hold on... oh okay i'm not oh god it's fine yeah hold on oh oh i i see it i see this
okay no like this is
stressful.
I just realized
that all of those are thinner
depending on which one you go to. That's nasty.
What?
You're so close.
Okay, now I'm pretty sure...
I was trying to do it for the swag.
So if y'all don't know, warp goals do not work in story mode.
Basically, the menuing in story mode. Basically, the menu in story mode is basically practice
mode but as an actual
adventure mode style thing.
So warp goals
you don't skip stages in story mode.
You have to play them.
But if you want the extra score points
by all means go for it.
I see someone in the chat making a comment on looking at the chat.
Yeah, I mean, I'm a chat looker-atter like of course that was a phrase you said those were some words
A chat looker- her not a chat reader
a chat looker at her
oh no what an uh no no. See, this is stressful.
I also love all the screams and shrieks of the monkey too.
Just like literally panicking
as you're still just navigating around.
Yeah, I'm confident.
I isn't but it's not my first time.
I mean, to be fair, like Lorabro is literally just being bounced all
like everywhere. Of course he's gonna be worried.
Getting into the next world, there is going to be a lot more random and complicated stuff where I have to make sure that I do my inputs right to like
make certain cycles uh there's a one stage called uh chaser
that was really big for that because it is pretty
difficult but hopefully we'll land at the goal once
I get there um
There's like a little uh
Like these little ramps that I can like hit off with hopefully this first try
Oh okay, this one too
this is stressful i know calum it's okay jammer bar moment right
yeah and uh it's the same with this level but with much smaller ellipses. I can be trying for one frame perfect input and then that was too early.
No! The freeze frame of that though the monkey looks so happy
even though it's falling to its death one perfect input until i get three frame window
it is very difficult but there's a posture up here that like takes you all the way to
the end my promise version would take you about halfway it sucks don't do it
i also love how homie is just rolling on the side. Did we explain boosting already, Limey?
Yeah.
Okay.
I do want to make sure because
I probably
didn't hear the word boosting
I did hear like
controller
inputs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. i did hear like you know like controller control inputs yeah all that stuff oh also
uh hope everyone in the chat likes rng i'm not in japan but I enjoy RNG.
Oh, you mean RNG derogatory?
Yes.
Got it.
Oh, that was gross!
That was actually a little toxic.
Yeah, so these slips are so close to the ground that it's almost like human ifto-RNG trying to get try to get it so that you
get a little clip of it uh it is very difficult
but i can avoid the last one i was just going for swag on the last one.
Yeah, this is that level I was talking about
where I just attempt
to fall into a goal.
You'll see.
Oh! that looks so old that was i was like that was close though yeah then
i back up a little bit that was a little bit too early. Yeah, this is pretty specific.
And also to answer the...
Oh no!
Nice live.
What do you mean?
Well, we just take the other color.
Okay fine, it's fine.
So to answer the age-old question
are we controlling the monkey or are we tilting
the stage? The answer is
uh...we're... we are tilting gravity
um so how you can tell that you're tilting gravity is
you're actually also controlling like
how the party ball is moving
You can get a shot in the background here
now like the goals in this game at least your speed runs are
a complete bully especially if you're doing falling strats you have to make
sure that you hit the tape and not the party ball um which is why i'm really glad in
actually at least an adventure of the party ball oh rip i was screaming like I'm playing!
You can break the goal just by hitting the party ball but for most modern Monkey Ball games you could just pass through the finish and you're over there.
But no, you're not exactly controlling the ball
it's gravity that you're controlling.
Shoutouts to the party ball for that one.
I was too focused on looking at
the party ball and then I died of the rain.
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And this is the run back that you're watching
with Lightning SR doing wild monkey ball things
I literally can't deal with this game
but Anarchy is correct
because I was actually entirely locked in I am not playing this game but anarchy is correct because i was actually entirely locked in
i am not playing this game and i am just like i have to focus on what what am i focusing
what are you even doing?
Difficult stage coming up, everyone.
It's so hard.
Really hard, it's like one of the hardest- oh.
We're halfway through the game now!
I'm so glad we did that wait oh no another difficult stage you have to like go all the way down the swirl. Wait, what? Oh no!
You jinxed it.
To be fair, that can't happen.
Commentator curse.
This isn't my fault, Fjord.
There we go.
Okay to be fair goalposts suck in Monkey Ball.
They're not as bad
in Banana Mania,
but...
Iron Golem,
if I can call it.
Yeah.
Did you all know that there's actually other Monkey Ball games aside from this and Banana Rumble?
Did you know Super Monkey Ball Junior exists?
I would not talk about that.
It's my worst enemy
why do you dislike super monkey ball junior i won't like the free education please
so the junior right it's basically like a souped up Super Nintendo. They made a fully 3D game on the Game Boy Advance and by golly was it impressive!
Yeah, it impressive? Yeah.
It was so cool. It does not play well,
not remotely. Nor did
Age Roll either. However,
it did give us Touch and Roll.
Yeah, Touch and Roll's good.
Touch and Roll is like top five mobile games us touch and roll yeah
i know the last time i commented your run of monkey Balls, you were joking about me picking up Monkey Ball.
But maybe I could.
I feel like this is my level of irritating for what it is.
Oh message in chat is every monkey Ball game super? Fun fact! No! There is one Monkey
Ball game that's not super and it's the original one. Yeah this is the original arcade release
with uh nana joystick and everything. That is the only one that is not super...
Arguably, that is the most super lucky ball.
Exactly.
Okay.
A little bit sad.
Also, shout-outs to the stage that I'm on right now.
Oh, nice! That's all I was going to say.
Yeah it's a nice stage, I like it. It plays well.
This next stage that I'm going to be playing,
I have to lock in a little bit.
It is one of the big goals for people who've played Super Monkey Ball 1
for the Nintendo GameCube. It is Expert 7 if you're aware
of that, it's called Exam C in Deluxe. I have to play that. I'm not allowed to skip it.
Playing this stage with the PS2 controller is a nightmare.
It's genuinely awful.
I'm gonna just take this a little slow, so I can make sure I can do this quickly.
Okay, now that you've died,
I get to drag you.
I'm going to take this a little slow
so that I can do this quickly.
What even are words?
If I, okay
if I die 8 times
right but I get like
30 left on the in-game timer.
That's fast, but it took so much time with my death.
If I finish with a 5 on that game timer then it's like...
I did it first try funnily enough uh this stage got a slight
rework in banana mania they they upped it to 90 seconds and
they also changed the shape of
the wire.
Honestly, the time is not a problem. It's literally
A where its placed, and B, the wire.
Originally there was a Japanese trailer of this stage being shown as one
of the master stages which you would unlock by not getting a continue at all in like
during the run. But alas for whatever reason they decided to slap
this as a seventh stage of expert but thankfully you know they adjusted it for
newcomers and then there's also a special mode. I'm talking about Inbananamania by the way,
i didn't already say that. There is a special mode in Mad Mania called Original Stage Mode, and...
...I should probably be quiet here.
So Adam just take this look.
I can do this way faster but I I really just don't want to die.
But like, give it a while first try...
There we go. Nice!
Yeah so I have a couple people in chat-
Yeah, I have people in chat
calling me out for the fact that I rage a lot at TarUnite's
what is the actual mode called?
What was that?!
Oh, ball race.
Yeah.
So for those of you in chat who want to get the Monkey Ball experience but
you notice that Steam only has like two Monkey Ball games,
you should check your Humble Bundle.
Which by the way, they're wonderful and I think... I don't remember if we still have
the SGDQ bundle up there
but if they do, you should go grab that.
But um,
they have something called Ball Race
and it's pretty much Monkey Ball, but instead of a
cute little monkey with like
cute clothes and a pigtail and stuff
that's in there, it's an avatar
that's made on the Steam Workshop. That's why mine is
always going to be the Darkest Dungeon
Plague Doctor. So,
yeah, I get kind of toxic
on Ball Race, it's true,
but I will never be as toxic as
Ak-Ak, who we met at SGDQ.
He was the lone
not...
He was the one that at
Bogo de Chalmime
is accountable for
one of these things and he is not like the other.
Oh, you weren't at FOGO because
you had other stuff going on. Well yeah
so I got to meet him but no
he gets stressed. Not stressed
stressed.
But yeah, I mean
I don't think I'm that bad
it's just when you're playing on levels that are
very hard difficulty, it's
stressful. But it is fun.
Ball race is super fun.
And then Laz Lotus
between ball race and golf
that's probably where I spend my most time. And then we make fun of one of our friends who wastes all their money on a wheel of money
because they want the Ice Moon Condo, and they'll never get it,
and it's very funny.
I should play this level a little bit fast just
in trying to make certain skill by the end.
The stage is also much more difficult
in this version because
it starts differently compared
to Monkey Ball 1's.
So,
actually, literally for the rest of
this game, it's just SMB1 Expert.
Yeah.
Oh! The SGDQ bundles should be one expert
oh the sgdq bundles up for another week y'all should go like snatch that up it's got a lot of good stuff in there sure does
sure does
i'll go grab you that right now while we watching some hecking dang monkey ball oh this is anxiety Not bad. World is like the hardest one, because it's like the hardest stretch of...
Yeah, it's the hardest stretch of stages in Lucky One World Expert except for that one.
That was an extremely challenging level.
Wait a minute Limey isn't-
I'm pretty sure this is the part where like
um, like this is the longest stretch of Monkey Ball Stages
where you start facing towards the goal.
No it's the best last ones.
Oh, oh, oh, ass ones, yeah, okay.
And it's only because in Monkey Ball 1 there is one bonus level that has a goal and it
is right in front of you.
Oh yeah, duh!
Okay then again I forgot that
bonus stages exist but they're playing in story mode so they don't exist
yeah oh please okay thank you anarchy i'm gonna need you to stop bullying me in the mods.
Ooh! Oh, so in that... There's a few more hard straps here.
A couple of those like- well, I'm just going to keep trying
the pause strap pauseless until they get it. like well i'm just gonna keep trying the
cause strap pause list until they get it
y'all know the vibes
i was going to say speaking of vibes in
that their bundle there's this game uh
someone on the stream might be familiar with it
it's called nickelodeon all-star brawl 2. it's in
the humble bundle for sgdq what's that uh nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2.
Are you familiar with it?
Yeah I've never heard of it.
Oh that's weird.
Yeah.
Thought you would have known it.
Do you know a goat named Limey underscore SR who is kind of cracked at NASB?
Not at all.
Oh, okay I see.
I do play multiverses though!
Oh my god, you're so gross
you're gross you're actually toxic on hotfix i can't believe this
i just love how my plot fighters move at the pace of like maybe like a snail
that's just sega by the way what made you say that
peas
i literally looked over from the humble bund was just like oh that's the sega logo
surprise did you know sega made this game
no way really wow segoe would never make, they just make the Dreamcast without the...
Yo! That's actually
toxic! Why?!
Why did Sega just catch that stray?!
I'm going to my neutral being like yo you're catching
strays on hotfix bro
sega knows i love them because i love monkey ball and also i like the sonic
stuff pretty sonic is pretty good
i'm the only person who will defend forces other
but go ahead please speaking of sega uh did you all know that uh sega actually made a
first ball they helped develop a first-party Nintendo game in, I believe 2003?
Either 2003 or 2004 by the name of F-Zero GX.
I've never heard of that.
You're so guilty!
Um... but yeah-
Unironically though, I do love SROGX
It's so good, but uh...
Yeah, that's not my racing game well if i want to play extra gx i'll just play marquardt ds okay maybe as you. I'd say Richard actually ate you up with that.
I hate to report that in.
I hate to do that to you.
That's so over here.
That's actually toxic behavior,
and by the way, Chad, if you're enjoying this toxic behavior don't forget to follow and
subscribe to our channel because all that
stuff helps with...
Awwww that'd be cool
All of that stuff helps!
Wait Hold on I can't focus oh that still helps wait
hold on i can't focus
just the way you bounced up that was so
so
that's a two frame perfect strap by the way.
And I was close enough to say I almost got it.
Oh gosh, yeah so subscribe to our channel.
Are you gonna do the, but on this side?
Oh.
Yes, you are.
That's my girl right there.
I have a posture set up for that if I just do that pose.
Oh, wait. Wait. I have to say hi to Bobby Byrne!
Wait a minute.
I almost pulled the ultimate boomer move
but I started saying out loud when I was going to type
I'm so glad I caught myself.
My favorite what i was gonna type i'm so glad i caught myself my favorite but yeah we're getting until into a more chill part of the game
somehow this is uh world nine
the last two worlds of the game? You say that and then
yeah, oh, are we gonna play
the stage? I don't wanna
play the stage but I'm probably gonna have to.
Okay, I'm going to try it again.
This is just RNG.
I'll tell you right now,
I boost the beginning of it.
Good enough.
For some reason I do like a weird hold up
Where it's not actually a hold up
And I'm just outside of the notch
For some reason It's much more consistent in Deluxe.
Oh! Speaking of which...
Now there is actually a slight-
Hopefully?
So... Hopefully? Hopefully. So, oh...
You're gonna do the thing?
Hopefully. Maybe?
Okay.
I got this first try earlier and I haven't played a stage since
earlier.
There's like a small,
three quarter of a second time save there where you can kind of just hit off that corner
and then bounce into the goal
instead of having to go all the way around.
And this saves almost no time.
So, fun fact! This stage on the original version
I should say... There's actually a reflection
On the 360 version...
Well if you play this on 360
The backwards compatibility did not port itself too well
So the game just lags
Yeah, this is one of the easier levels on 360 I'll say that
Yeah So so this is one of the easier levels on 360. i'll say that yeah so if you would rather like you know do like in like a vanilla like deluxe run you would just play the original
xbox version um because it's much faster, but also
you can play with the Xbox controller
which is not that comfortable.
Do you not like
the Xbox controller or is it just for Monkey Ball
and you don't like it? For pausing, it's really bad.
Oh, okay. That makes perfect sense.
Because of where the Start and D button are placed
especially on the original Xbox S controller
It's fine but not for pausing.
So you have to use the Duke in order
to get reliable pause frames.
Which like sucks.
My hands are too small for the Duke to be able to play the game
It's just so specific, like the way you're just like this sucks
Yeah... I have crushed it.
Yeah, Antlion is super-rushed for a 2 frame
posture where I would just kind of bounce up
and then do like a weird adjust to get into the ball.
It's not that bad of a strat but it's like again two frames
and each frame has a different adjustment so it's like still difficult for what it is
yeah almost done with world nine here i'd rather inform everyone that while this
has been happening i am on the actual struggle train because
I cannot find my humble bundle login.
Oh no it's over.
It's actually over, I can't believe this.
Oh the work is ugly.
OH! I got in!
Oh...I was gonna say colon open parenthesis but now I'm going to say colon closing parentheses.
That's why I love the level and I love this level's name it's so good.
I don't even know where it comes from but...
It's a good level name. What? Pirates? Yeah.
Probably like because of the base
of a pirate ship. I dunno. That's actually
probably right. I have to lock in so hard right now.
You did it.
You did the thing, Proud of you.
Richard, hide that smit. Let's change history.
Hit you with that smooth exclamation point,
not exclamation point,
question mark.
Actually the fact
that this doesn't say
like estimate
ball percent
is impressive
because usually
the estimates be out of control too.
Richard, I know how you operate.
I can't get this! Oh no.
What do you mean you can't get it? Yes you can.
There ya go.
Yeah that's a two-frame perfect ish...
I messed up so bad.
Two frame perfect ish Ostrat to get up here.
You can get it pretty frequently, but to have enough speed
to get all the way like I want to get is very hard.
Oh, okay.
Yeah because I'm trying to bounce off of the corner Oh, okay. I...
Yeah, because I'm trying to get a bounce off of the corner
so I can make up for it.
I was thinking,
I'm pretty sure you full send it
and give me that bomb.
Yeah, I have not gotten the frames
to go to full send it yet.
Got you.
So, I'm just gonna play it.
This level is difficult.
This is one of those where it's like...
If I don't get the ones there's not really a good alternative other than just doing this which is quite a bit slower. Yeah, I've seen in the chat lock-in or log out.
Wow! Anarchy said that.
Oh, Vayne said that. Never mind.
Well you see it instead of logging out i just put my pc on hibernate
not bad you said lock in or sleep mode. That's heat!
And occasionally, like whenever I go on a trip that's when I shut down my PC
but other than that you know
I usually don't log out.
So I'm always locked in.
My anarchy's saying quote.
I can't believe it! I'm making guess making estimate because I hit all of my silly frame perfect
strats that I have to do.
You should go for the green one.
Okay, I could do that.
Let's go.
That is so cool! go. Let's go.
That's so cool. We get to skip two stages. Oh, wait.
Bad news.
Stairs and ball game.
Okay, because I run banana blitz
I'm inclined to love stairs- funny, inclined
Yikes! You're not supposed to call out the bad jokes
you're supposed to let people put it together.
No, but actually this level is toxic!
What do you mean steps in ball game?
There we go. That's what I was trying to go for and, I just messed it up twice. It's fine.
That was ugly. Yeah there is only a couple more levels left
before we are done here
Before anyone makes fun of me in the chat, I did say, Bobby...
Love you man.
Had to drop so...
This is a nice rest thing okay?
And I don't play Castlevania.
So you don't stand at ledge and then press the B button
take this, throws the axe.
You didn't talk about that strat,
that's not cool.
I'm like the only one who does that.
By the way time is coming up.
Yeah, time's coming up... in time!
I can't believe that was a 35 sec. That is so impressive. Thanks for watching.
Oh my god you're messy.
That was also like also like the quickest smash
roast jokes i i've ever made and then the throw was over
i don't even know what to do with jowl anymore you're messy
all right i've never been messing my life anymore. You're messy.
I've never been messy in my life.
Wow, and you're a liar!
Okay, great. So anyway,
thank you so much both of you for your fantastic runs.
Thank you for Mario Kart, and then thank you for super monkey ball deluxe
two games that i am absolutely garbage to your app well actually i'm not garbished at
mario kart i'm just not peased here which is a very different conversation piece.
Do you all have any shoutouts or any love and support
that you want to give to people who
have supported you on your journey or maybe
hang out with me this evening?
... you on your journey or maybe hang out with me this evening. This is the part where you do like the closing thing.
Stop focusing on the balls and actually do your close out what are you doing what are you doing
that oh my okay you know what? Alright, I promise y'all
I'm not focusing on the name
Anyways
If you all want to
like stay up-to-date as when I go live and whatnot
Follow me at twitch.tv slash PCSMB
that is also my Twitter
I think everywhere else as well
Blue Sky, anything
that's like not toxic
it's just PCSMB
shoutouts to you not toxic communities is fake but go ahead
uh yeah shout out to the micro community shots to my community
shoutouts to all like all of you ohouts to all of you
in chat and to those who are watching
in the future
Upt for
hosting this, and Limey
for calming
and y'all just being
epic, yadda yadda yadda. I think
that's it
Not yadda- okay anyway
Limey what you got?
Besides your name
for fourth place
um like i said uh shout out to complex
playing for making the monkey ball 2
practice mod it is genuinely pretty easy
to sign up with follow instructions
uh if you want to learn this game,
absolutely download it and try it out!
Also for this fan game
shoutouts to BrandonSMD one time. Shoutout to Piz
Thanks for being on commentary
Shout out to PT
thanks for putting it on the block events
Thanks for getting me on and help me
um the people that will help you plan and stuff etc all that
um did i just hear a cat yeah my cats under
my desk oh Oh! It's going meow, meow, meow.
Um... And then,
uh,
yeah,
you can follow me
at pushouttv
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Uh,
I'm also on Twitter at Lemmeet underscore SR.
I have a comic show with Keyleth32todunderscore called Parallel Universe, you can do PU in
the chat to see what it's all about.
It's just community-created content like this, but also generally a lot more of it.
But yeah... I'm on comics all the time so I don't really need all of that. Just watch
PaleoUniverse and support GDQ. Oh yeah! I was going to introduce an extra
runner but it's like well...I off the post. You shouldn't do that
Oh yeah i was going to say
I'm the one that's technically doing
The things and stuff
Thank you so much Laszlo though
For the x-ways point PU for Parallel Universe
Because it's true
In fact Limey has a show here on twitch.tv
and it is parallel universe you should go watch that whenever limey is running it i hope
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i affected with that and this is where you live now and i don't feel bad about
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your host pleasantly twisting you can just call me pt i'm over here just finishing up some of my own
self-care i had some yogurt or chocolate chips and a little bit of honey. I hope y'all
got a snack too, but we're going to keep
you from waiting for that extended break. Hopefully
you had a chance to go get yourself a really
nice snack or a good stretch in
because we are ready for action with Ryan Ford
on some Donkey Kong Country 2 and he's going to do
my favorite thing in the world which is beat Mario
because everyone who's seen me host before knows
I'm a Mario hater. So, Ryan
let's see you beat up Marioio what you got going on over here
hey i learned something new did you not know i was a mario hater because that's like
actually accurate i knew that you loved sonic but i didn't know that you hated barney
oh shoot so yeah what's up everybody
so as introduced to brian ford and um and get me running Beat Mario,
also known as the All DK
Coins category.
I'll talk about what beating Mario entails
in a bit.
Okay so
alright so Okay, so...
Alright.
So we'll count down to get the run started.
I got my fingers up.
3, 2, 1
Go!
So there is a small chance that I could reset it at the start as well
What is this? This is like
a side category which allows the use of
this DK coin.
Sorry, Cremcoin cheat, which
normally if you wanted to
get all the DK coins, aka
beating Mario, then
you the dk coins aka beating mario then um you would need to do all of the bonuses in every level and beat uh every main boss to get each of the prem points to be able to access
The Lost World, which
their bonus levels
also have a DK point
in each and
the extra boss that you fight as well
has one so
we can uh access all the lost world levels thanks to their cheat and not having to
you know full complete the game with that it's pretty fun. And yeah, so
beating Mario is basically...
If you've ever seen When You Beat the Game,
then how the credits... Or right before
the credits,
Cranky Kong is trash-talking as usual.
Just like in all of the trilogies.
He has a podium for Cranky Kong's greatest video game heroes
Mario's at the top of the podium with 39 DK
points so they have to collect all 40 of them
to like out it's out place in the on the podium and on that podium isn't there it's like what it's sonic
mario oh god i'm trying to remember third Is it the third one Crash Bandicoot?
No no, so there are
Sonic shoes on the ground
beside a trash bin which is kind of funny
but... Right.
It's Yoshi and Link are the other two.
Oh my gosh, yes.
Okay, fantastic.
And yes, for your knowledge
I am a Super Mario hater.
I actually don't have any problems with the Mario games
and whatnot
and it has nothing to do with the mario games and whatnot
and it has nothing to do with the fact that i am like a very big sonic fan
is just it's not my bag of chips
i would rather play a danky Kang or Kirby. This is
your reminder, I will be putting out the petition
make Kirby the new Nintendo mascot, please.
And
you say what?
I'd be down with that.
Yes,
I'm game for it.
Mr. Shasta's in chat awakening as we speak
just like excuse me
hi yes hello
I am here to support
this petition
please sign
the summons
right actually summoned it's like i'm awake but nonetheless that
that is your deep lore for today and i do have to agree with chat donkey kong country 2
is probably the best one and it is arguably my favorite one because i started on donkey kong
country 1 but the the duo with diddy and dixie actually kind of unmatched it's actually kind
of a match oh thank god that uh the end of that level sometimes you can
uh cause a soft lock to happen where if you hit the goal too low the camera will like
infinitely scroll down so i was a little worried going for the faster strat there.
I thought about just not doing it,
for Varakon's safety...
If you're a big Mario fan, I am NOT sure what to say Oh my gosh.
If you're a big Mario fan,
I am not trying to like yuck your yum I promise. It's very fine.
I'm just very extra.
I'm aware of who I am as a person.
And also perfect RNG for the swipe that was it that was actually really smooth
that was great yeah the crow he um on those last two cycles when he hits
the nest you have like a 50 chance to get a real or fake egg on those
last two cycles yeah happened to win the coin flip twice in a row so um
the odds were not my favorite but yeah just wanted to point out that I got lucky.
Hey Marathon look!
Don't- you can't curse it!
Now you done messed it all up!
Now you're gonna wind up in a spot that's like
Oh yeah so this is really easy skip and then all of the sudden your entire
controller was going to stop working at that precise
moment.
That's so possible, oh my god.
That's what I'm saying! Like what are you doing?
You can't be taunting luck out here
like this.
Oh sorry.
Whoa did you just fall into that lava
for a hot second?
Yup, yup.
Fortunately it's like a pit at the bottom so you can
get partially
into the lava without
taking damage or anything like that.
But yeah,
that roll is slightly
faster but we also
call it a swag roll there.
Oh, fantastic!
As it should be called. Death and like that bee is right
there too on top of that so...
Love that. I think it's cool
No, it IS cool. Like it looks
really cool. Especially imagine being like young and seeing that happen
for the first time you just know that someone's mind was immediately blown immediately blown well
and it's the same thing too that kind of happens when you're
looking at things like when you cartwheel off
the edge because while I don't run this game
there are some tech pieces that I do
kinda use when I'm even playing it casually
in the fact that
When you cartwheel off the edge
The game maintains your momentum to let you continue cartwheeling
But you can still jump out of this
So you kind of get like a pseudo long jump out of it
And that closes so many gaps. And then,
of course later levels are like oh you should do that! It's like but
you never told me I can do that... Like why would I
think of that? Yeah what's weird is that uh okay so
it's a tech- It's the same tech in Donkey Kong Country 1 but
I'm pretty sure that in that game it doesn't tell you but um
In this game like... Okay so I'm also guilty
of this as a kid.
Not reading but... Oh no!
One of the
What's it called? Cranky Kong.
One of his levels on the map, you can pay him creme coins to
get... sorry, pay him banana coins and he'll give you
tips but he does tell you about rolling off of the ledge
in this game particularly.
Yeah DKC1 also has that tech, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't tell you
anywhere about that stuff. And then someone in chat's asking i'll go ahead
and answer while you're focusing up um someone said what's the beat mario condition so beat
mario in this category is getting all the dk coins because at the end of the game they give you like a
three-person podium that has like his first second third at the top of it it's going to be mario with
39 coins so beating mario means you get 40, which is also all coins in the game.
Yep.
All coins in the game.
Yeah, we also do have two other side categories.
So beat Yoshi, which you need to to get like just enough to be basically so he has 29.
So you seem to get 30 for that category and then on beat link with she has has 19 so getting 20.
Oh yeah that makes perfect sense. This is why I don't remember it
correctly. I just put all the mascots of
time on there and it's yeah you're right
they're all Nintendo mascots and then they have
the Sonic shoes by Trash Can
my poor child couldn in disrespected i
couldn't believe this you know right so my fingers is it rayman's gun or earthworm jimmy
i think it might be it's earthworm gym it's earthworm jim's uh pistol yeah i knew there was like also by the trash bin too
yeah no hopers with the texts because
yeah they're like trash talking I guess like the second best
Yeah well it's really
funny too because we were talking
in other channels elsewhere
about advertising
in the 90s and how Nintendo, once upon a time
used to be about that life
because they actually were spicy with their stuff
And that was some of that same timeline
where it was like
They trash talk Sega
They trash talk Sony
There was a moment in life where
nintendo didn't care they're just like we're better than you and they just rocked with it
it was like i don't know what's happening but, and everyone was like that.
That's what was even wilder.
Yeah, make it spicy to sell
and stuff, and they're just like, we have to be
bullish, and it's like do we also shout out
to uh rhino and other people or other animals that you get to use
that have in-vone frames and can murder everything
we love that for you all.
Oh, go ahead.
Oh, sorry? Go ahead. No, please. You're talking about your run.
Fat fingered the wrong button there.
Okay, it's fine.
Yeah, I was going to that yeah this level is uh...
Normally in runs for this category
it's a pretty big reset point if I
die after the halfway point
or lose Rambi after the halfway point or lose randy after the halfway point then um it is very slow to
beat this level without randy oh also just loses time but just doing it for uh swag
because you know some of that oh it's backwards i just saw that
that's dope that's dope also i wanted to highlight
for everybody the fact that you were using
uh he said he's rambi yeah Yeah. Okay, you were using him and
while sprinting, jumping
right after that sprint it looked like so
you're getting all the momentum and just kind of boosting
forward because otherwise you would dash
forward. Exactly.
Yeah.
But someone in chat has a question for you.
I don't know if it's a question for you, but we're going to go ahead and pose it for you.
Do you think this is the hardest DK for SNES?
And if not, what is?
I think... decay for SNES, and if not, what is? Ooh.
I think... Oh my gosh.
I think three is harder.
I think they intentionally tried to ramp up
the difficulty in that game relative to the other two. So I think by
a natural progression of it being a sequel, they wanted to improve on compared
to the uh other two games. That's why my vote is for free.
Chat, today I learned that the parrot can spit coconuts to deflect stuff.
Are you serious? Oh my god!
I'm so irritated
Yeah the enemies hooks and uh big guys the cannons you can block their cannonballs with it
I am so annoyed that I never knew
That
No, I'm actually
Like salting a
Little bit
What do you mean?
I could have just
Blocked stuff
I think I didn't know that during my, at least my first and maybe second playthrough of this game.
But I know I figured it out later like on my own over the years the years. But for sure
within the first two playthroughs I didn't know
either.
Not a work as nasty.
Hopefully I don't die to this hover as well uh
i believe messed it up twice yesterday and i was like oh my gosh that's like a really rare
uh death for me in general everyone's for the scale john oh no't know that boy like barely
hovered across and made it
but um there is like a consistent setup
to uh
to make it work almost every time
if you know how
to execute it.
There's a video
tutorial on the
Donkey Kong Country
speedrun with me,
so I just used
that and learned
how to do There's like two other strats I learned So I just used that and learned.
There's like two other strats I learned
that I would mess up all the time
And then there was one that was labeled as
Here is the consistent strat
There's someone talking about explaining how it works
and everything that was more in depth.
That one was extremely good so
I recommend it 100%.
Especially since those last two hits
you had literally dude just walked into it
and we love it
when bosses walk into killing themselves
like let's be very, very real
Let's be extremely real right now
There was like one extra
swag thing I wanted to show where
could have had Diddy kind of floating in the air
after getting the last
hit, but I
barely hit that boss slightly too late
but I couldn't do it. It doesn't save time
or anything, just like a
neat little visual thing for Swag.
Sometimes you just need swag
this is a speed running event
while we are going fast swag is also acceptable
always enjoy it always is acceptable we endorse swag it
is always morally correct to have swag.
Just saying.
I hope I made this one going to be close.
Okay, got it.
Oh my lord.
I love that you have like Oh my lord. I wish you had the extra momentum from
the barrel too, just to be like hey shoot me a little bit further.
Yup!
It's very easy to lose time going for that barrel and shooting it if you um
if you rotate it too slow but um it's another thing that like
you know it's such a small thing but i've like practiced it a lot so i'll be soon
but yeah that's definitely the one of the ways to improve at uh something that you're passionate
about right stuff things that seem very trivial or maybe like kind of boring in the game
like you gotta practice also i got agree and chat with slayer super show uh with
the themes and the music somebody else mentioned that OST for this is a banger.
This is probably the only time
you will ever get me to say I like
being underwater because the underwater
themes are almost always
bangers, especially in the Donkey Kong series.
There's also a bonus of the fact that you don't
drown. That's kind of nice.
That's super cool.
You can definitely breathe forever?
Yeah. Somehow you can breathe forever and we love that.
It's a video game. I should be allowed to breathe forever in every underwater level but let me not.
I think one of the later games like Bongo Blast or something um...
I forgot which game uh but I'm'm pretty sure like DK's in like outer space
or something.
It's fine without a spacesuit
apparently.
I love that for him.
I thought you were gonna say
that they actually changed it to where you could drown
and i was gonna be like that's toxic but that's not toxic that's actually very good i love that
it has this even deeper like not needing to breathe situation.
What do you need air for? Air is for chumps, you're fine!
Everything's fine. Not for chimps but for chumps
And they are for chunks correct
can't believe you're trying to set me up a failure
you think i will talk about sweet child diddy like this
unbelievable absolutely unbelievable right Unbelievable. Absolutely unbelievable.
Can't believe this.
Yeah, this level...
It's pretty easy to die when going for the optimal strats but especially
if you're new like honestly a lot of the faster strats don't save that much time.
So you could very easily just kind of coast through the level
by skipping out on some
of those rolls that I did to skip longer gaps
and stuff.
Generally save like a third
of a second or something, so it's like not that much.
Wait, why did that level just... Hold on a second.
Time out. Time! You gotta
explain what just happened.
I don't know 100%
of the details but
there actually is a video that was uploaded while we were at SGDQ in the DKC speedrun discord
That apparently explains why that happens, but I haven't watched it yet.
But as far as I know...
The enemy, the Cutlass with the swords
Oh! I think actually that was the first wrong work I've done in this category
There will be more coming up later but it's i'm used to
an any percent because all of world one and roll two you do uh wrong works on like most
of the levels but um the properties that makes you a wrong warp out of a level like the way
that you've maybe seen in any percent runs, when that Cutlass raises his swords it has
the same properties but for whatever reason if you take damage with Dixie
and shoot out of a barrel
while he's putting his swords upwards
then it causes the same
things as a wrongful
faffing.
I gotta look up that video to see what the full
explanation is, because I'm curious,
because I have pretty limited
knowledge on
how it works.
That's fair.
No, that's
fair and like me being a
game dev I could probably make some educated
guesses but that doesn't
mean that I'm going to be correct so I'm not going to do that but instead what I'm going to be correct,
so I'm not going
to do that.
But instead what
I want to tell you
is while we're
talking about videos
this is your reminder
by the way
you're going
to be explaining
this
that you can go
find all of our
videos and runs
from SGDQ
Ryan Ford who's running for you right now
has a run in that playlist. He also
has runs in the Juneteenth and
UBAF playlists. You can find all of those
over at youtube.com
slash games done quick. If you want to go ahead and expedite your process do youtube.com slash games done quick if you want to go ahead and expedite your process
do youtube.com slash games then quit slash playlist
and that'll take you to all the playlists so you can get all those runs nice and curated
you can find all the ryan ford that could handle. Now what in the world is going on
here?
What is happening?
I love it too, this is like unique to
this category as well so
one of the things I loved
about this category having a bunch
of tricks from all the four major categories
that we run and then has its own
unique things. So the first thing I did
at the start of the level was the super jump, which people might know.
When you swap Kongs in the water and take damage out of them, then when you regain control the second kong after you uh lose the first one then you um
the game still thinks that they're underwater so if you hold uh jump
you'll just like fly up really high kind of like water physics uh water physics while not in water sorry
and then um the uh when i shot myself to the top of a level so
i did one of those invisible object setups, which
when I was mentioning about the
natural...the normal way that we often
do runwerps like in Any%
so normally
like an Any% run would have done the same setup where I'd throw the invisible object and
The bonus barrel will just shoot you. Would just wrong work you out of the level and let you proceed to the next stage.
But for whatever reason
when you do those setups with invisible objects
you have to... If you throw it
to the left, it causes the wrong-warp to happen
but if you throw it to the right
the barrel will just shoot you up causes the wrong warp to happen but if you throw it to the right, um...
The barrel will just shoot you up really
high.
And uh, if there's a ceiling above
you normally if you wait awhile it'll eventually
wrongwarp you out of the level. But there...
The level doesn't have a ceiling at the top so it just
shoots you as high as
you can possibly go until you hit the top
of the level. And the DK
coin is right at the end, at the top of the level so
so we use that to skip it you know that worked out beautifully because that was perfectly timed
that entire last level you did nothing exciting happened with that. So there you go because
you kind of just was like oh I know where bees are and just kind of jump over all those
nerds and you took a barrel got to the bonus cannon.
Yeah just cannon and did all that stuff so that was nice and straight forward.
Oh I remember doing this level as a child
And being like I don't know what I'm doing because
I had small child brain at the time so it's fine
that's fine
when i was like five years old or something right just
like i don't understand and it's like it literally is just a pattern. Please
stop.
Please stop shooting back
and forth in the same areas.
Oh, you clip through those
vines. Wait a minute.
You know, Wait a minute. Yup.
WAIT A MINUTE!
Compared to going the intended route I think that saves like 15 seconds?
Yeah, the vine clips... so a trick that I did in World 2...
Oh and also in the third level of World 1
in this category
called Team Throw Super Jump
or The Big Boy
If you team throw your kong horizontally into an
enemy and as they're coming back to
you if you um
uh
jump let go of the jump button then re-press and hold it while you're in there as they're coming back to you.
Then it'll give you an extra jump while you're in there a really high one as well. So then because of that you can hit the top
with the brambles which some parts of those brambles don't have
like a hitbox to damage you with so then
the start of your team throw animation kind of...
When they start, it throws the Kong a little above like a ceiling and stuff.
If you throw it at the very top pixel that's fine too. the ceiling and stuff.
If you throw it at the very top pixel,
like at the brambles, then
it kind of clips them through just a bit
that you can squeeze through.
I love that this dude's entire
fighting tactic is,
which is misleading
because considering
he very obviously doesn't do leg day
it's surprising he can jump at all but then his weakness is barrels
right it's impressive because i feel like his weakness should be kneecaps
but that's just but that's just me
that's just me i could be way out of pocket i don't know
yeah he causes um so most of his stomps on the ground
if you're standing on the ground you get stunned for a bit and shake
for awhile. That's why I'm always jumping most of the time after you jumps and stops down
which is funny because he does a baby stomp to make the tnt appear
and that one for whatever reason doesn't count for you yep yeah i don't know why it gives us the free opening Yep.
Yeah, I don't know why he gives us the free opening with that...
But I don't know.
It's like he's preparing his jump.
He's doing one of those mini squats like you do in the gym.
Where, like, you're gonna jump squat and you're not actually squatting
You're just jumping and lunging down a little bit
Yeah. I don't go to the gym.
I don't know what you're talking about
I used to go to the gym, but not in recent honestly
Yeah well it be that way sometimes
I definitely should go again, honestly.
I mean, I should go again because
I have the perpetual problem of
I am aging therefore
I need to go to the gym
Oh hey! It's spider boo i love the
spider the spider i think is my favorite just because
i have decided that canonically he is wearing yellow jays
and i won't be taking questions I am not going to be taking comments
and no there are no forums that are open at this time
to talk about it. He's wearing yellow Jays
he's got eight of them too
yes exactly them too. Yes, exactly.
Fly kicks.
The common contest
is who has the flyer shoes between
Mr. Squitter
or sometimes the community calls him Shoes as well
I love that
You should call him Shoes
Or Espresso The Ostrich from DKC1
He also has some fly shoes
Now with all of the
We'll say friends that you have
They don't always give a DK coin
Right? Like sometimes they'll give
Other things. They'll give like 1-up balloons
Or they'll give like a bunch of bananas which is useless but that's not
always the case and that's it looks like your meticulously you have it memorized which ones
get coins and which ones don't yeah so oh shoot i'm trying to think of which outside of…
Okay the first level in World 3 with Rambi
I got a DK point from that one
when it went through the no-Rambi side
I was trying to think of what other stages
might have one with other cons
Since I definitely autopilot through the run
and I'm like... No that's super fair
and valid
Cause sometimes you just gotta- Well unfortunately since we're on an autostroller it's like
I can kinda think about it now right?
Yeah. I was gonna say
when you get into so many speedruns
and someone made this comment earlier jokingly
but also very seriously that you do a lot of runs. When you have
just like that much information in your brain
sometimes you don't even just think about
the extra parts of oh I know
exactly what's going on here and I know exactly
what's going on there and it's's like, dude, do you understand that
Ryan Ford...
Ryan underscore Ford 522
by the way, you should follow him on Twitch.tv
slash Ryan underscore
Ford 522. That's also in the title, but
Ryan has to his knowledge
Donkey Kong runs for
beat Mario which in turn means you
also have beat Yoshi and beat Link
which in turn like you also have 80%.
I've seen you do Donkey Kong Country
1. I've seen you do
just like... What is it? True
Ending or not true? It's not True Ending
per se. Oh okay yeah it is a true ending. Cool.
But yeah, the number of runs that I've seen
you do for this game alone
is very substantial. So being able to
remember every single one of those is like
uh... no.
Yeah, there's like... I think I have
times on nine different
categories for just this game.
That doesn't surprise me.
And I think I named what? Six?
Because there's three or five yeah i named six so yeah it's it's whatever and then that doesn't even include like all the metro ones that
you do because you got a couple of those categories in games.
I know that someone mentioned you're also a smash
runner, so you've got that stuff going for
you. I love when her ponytail
stays up. It's like one of my favorite glitches under
the sun.
I'm trying to think what else you've seen.
We've seen some Zelda from you, we've seen a couple
of Zelda categories, we also have Little Samson
Little Samson
got some love in one of the most recent GDQ events for either UBA or GMC that I don't remember off the top of my head.
I think the only thing...
I forgot which one I read it for!
Yeah, listen, the way you are with runs is how i am with all
the events i'm like listen there's things that happen
there's some stuff i just if you run it through and say jog your memory
i could think of it but if you give me details i'm like oh
i have no idea dude
i couldn't start to tell you um used to memorize by heart but uh now that i've run for so many
events and like a lot of different games like i'll shoot yeah sometimes i forget yeah um i think the only
thing that we haven't seen on the block events from you is gimmick oh Is that true? Oh my gosh!
Yes, that is true.
The only thing I haven't seen from you is gimmick.
Well, I was going to say, you've submitted some of the
smaller categories but you told me at one
point, you would give me the full gimmick rundown
category where you're going to do every gimmick
category back-to-back because then it was something like
two hours or some nonsense.
It'd probably be, like,
40 minutes-ish. I was gonna say it's something where it's, like like 40 minutes. I was going to say, it's something where
it's like 40 minutes an hour.
It was something like that.
Something like that.
Doing each one back-to-back
That would be pretty spicy too, because it's definitely hard to be in shape for some categories while trying to be in shape for others at the same time.
You'll definitely bleed muscle
memory over, um,
in the same places. Yeah,
especially since like, in some cases,
the difference between a run is literally
like, hey, 80% of the run is the same and now this
is where you're gonna fork a different way and now you're on a different run
and it's like oh did i do that run already okay we're just going to watch
it again it's fine exactly that will 100 be me he's
like i you know we're just gonna watch 80% a second time sorry y'all!
Pretty much it's up to level...
Yeah I guess up to the Boston level for it so like
about halfway through the run,
it's the same in pretty much each category.
Also, what a chest
he's got! I love Brian Ford.
That's so nice of you.
Brian Ford is very nice,
very wonderful runner. I got the pleasure
of meeting him in person
last week.
Same with
Cyber Endemic as well.
It was chill.
It was super chill oh oh no
it's fine it's an early death right this is fine this is fine
we also have all kinds of lives this is fine. This is fine. We also have all kinds of lives.
This is fine.
Oh, my gosh.
That was a really early death stuff.
It's not too bad.
See?
Now the way that you just fell in that water though terrifies me.
Also, the cat tails 0 out of 10
0 out of 10
I actually dislike
them so much that I actually know their name.
All these other dudes, these are just dragonflies
and buzzards. But no, I know the
cattails. I hate them.
I hate them. Speaking
of, that's a question I have for you. If you had to pick
out of the Danky Kangs
that you play
who is your most hated enemy
and why?
That's a good question.
I'm trying to think really hard about that actually right now. Well don't
think too hard about it until you mess up your stuff, think when its on like a loading screen
or another auto scroller?
That's such a good question.
Yeah, I never really thought that hard about it before but there definitely are some enemies that I despise.
Oh, Donkey Kong Country 3 Buzzards.
DK-3 Buzzards.
Okay, okay.
Yeah, the big bees, like the red ones particularly that are like...
But not Big Bees the runner, just to make sure we're clear about that.
Oh yeah!
No, no, Big Bees is chill.
Okay, sensational. Not Big b's with two e's
okay okay okay i see where we're going that's what we're doing yeah those are pretty ratchet
this is true this is an accurate assessment
this game so no enemies can be hated incorrect i
literally hate the cattails i hate them so much they're annoying
they touch you jerks they're actually a jerk and they throw you around
and stuff and then also we got like random chance which direction they threw. On top of that.
So I'm going for another kind of spicy trick
if i hopefully get it, using another
invisible object to corrupt that barrel
that just shot me
really far across this area.
Which skips the whole auto-scroller,
so I'm going to be trying the same
thing again.
Alright, cool.
Nice. Sensational! So that life loss earlier is fine?
Yeah it saves... Each one of these I think saves like roughly
20 seconds so they're pretty huge to hit.
I got a PB yesterday when i was running because I didn't fail these this time
So I kind of had a well quote unquote free time saved by hitting this trick nice nice
getting them out of there yeah i don't know what the timer is at currently, but...
I know this might be a small jinx,
But like, I think I'm around close to TV cases right now.
Just like I told Limey! Chill out on trying to jinx stuff!
What are you doing oh my god also somebody was like
thank you uh slayer super show uh someone came in
to be like it's actually a cat of nine tails. It's like
the shorthand is Cat Tails
but also that's
the beautiful thing about doing these runs and stuff is that
sometimes even if you know the name
once you get the run going those names
completely irrelevant because they're
probably gonna get named something
else entirely yep like we call them
sonics
i love that you call them sonics too. Even though it's like
for all intents and purposes, it doesn't
quite 100% line
a line
Just said they're blue
and they have the big black have like the big black nose,
like the big round nose? Like Sonic?
Yeah. Oh my gosh I'm trying to think what are some of the other ones too
because I know when I'm doing my Bloodborne
and Dark Souls runs we just start making up stuff like there's names there's lore yes that's important i guess but listen all you need to
know is that we need to know hit Daddy Gassy.
And everyone knows exactly who I'm talking about if I say Daddy Gassy.
If I played it, I bet I would know.
Yes.
Sonic Bluetooth enough.
Exactly.
Oh my god.
Listen!
It's where you get things and we figure it out.
Oh my gosh.
You hate the puffer fish? Yeah yeah pufferfish is annoying too pufferfish
no not sonic at home! Not this!
They said you got Sonic at home.
No I am gonna say what I wanted to say
That's got the same energy as like
The original Sonic movie model.
Oh my gosh!
That's so good.
Oh my gosh.
It was like a frame off on that shot, but I recovered this pretty well so...
That Rhino- Someone in chat is commenting about how your Rhino speed and precision
is top notch!
Watching you on the Rhino I think is probably my favorite bit thus far
truth be told because there's just a lot going on with that that's super cool
like the parrot you get the cool vine skips and stuff, but the Rhino with the dash jump
is quality. Actually quality.
Not Teemu Sonic.
Next you're gonna say AliExpress Sonic, if y'all don't stop it...
Oh my lord!
Get that bum outta here. Especially considering like it looks like a sonic and bubsy
like hybrid it's like they couldn't decide who they want to rip off so just
there you go we're going to take both of them now we have both now what
is crossing multiverses ugly sonic is great
ugly zonic has legacy and there's nothing anyone can do about it
you have to put respect on ugly sonic's name depending on what
you're talking about that's the asterisk depending on what you're talking about okay so now i have
a new question for you as you run through this section why did you skip that dk barrel to get
dixie back why are you choosing to do this solo with diddy oh um up until this point
okay so uh whenever there's barrels on the ground that uh you take a little
bit of time to pick them up and then to like throw them or bash them into an enemy but
because there's that one floating in there then um since you just jump into it then
uh it saves a bit of time by just touching it compared to picking it up and picking
one up and throwing it gotcha okay pretty much the only reason
that's fair that was like that seems very specific
it seems very very specific ghost Ghost Ropes was up.
For time save, I forget how much it saved.
I think it's only like 20 frames or something
like that. Like a third of a second, roughly?
Hey,
all time saves is important here. Well, not not all of it but the overwhelming majority
of it will say yeah exactly this um game in a lot
of categories are pretty optimized as well, so.
If you're going for like top times then
yeah it's in your best interest
to try and squeeze out any
reasonable tricks that save
a good amount of time
but first there are some like tricks that save a good amount of time.
Of course, there's some things that are probably borderline
not humanly possible that
might save a chunk that
we don't go for and things like that. things like there now to the test yes now something interesting about this
level that always frustrated me when i was younger
was the fact that you did your earlier auto-scrollers and closed doors
meant death. Now all of a sudden, you're on an auto-scroller where
you're expected to go through the closed door
And it's like oh yeah, it'll just open
It's like bro, I need some consistency.
Also for the first time ever I just noticed that
each of these ghost bandanas
are different colors. Yep.
I did not know that.
Did not know that at all.
That's to show the difficulty I know that at all. To show the difficulty, I made
that up, Betchen.
It's like this was...
How is there a difficulty when they're
all the exact same?
I don't understand.
Oh, that was terrifying Oh yeah we hit like 0-0
At the end too so
I forgot that like
I'm so used to it but I'm like, yeah this is normal but it actually-
Oh! I was gonna say no! Why?
There's a way you can slightly mess up your movement there too where
you'll get hit just barely before you get through the door.
You do have to be careful too with uh how you jump from that room
oh now this is a level two that i forgot about there's a lot of precision and
time and it goes on here.
So for those who have never played Donkey Kong Country 2,
I don't know if you can actually notice it but the leaves
are blowing on the screen depending on their direction
as how the wind is actually blowing.
So if it's blowing against you, you move slower
and if it's blowing behind you, you move faster
which sounds dope until you go to do a jump in
and all of sudden you're going way further than you expected yep
yeah the wind cycles are uh proximity based so uh with practice it's like you know how
it's going to blow. Fortunately, if
it was RNG though my god that'd be a disaster now. Yeah,
That would be horrendous. So it's
based on where certain points
into the level that you reach
when the wind will blow a certain way.
So I don't know if this question actually did get explained, and it's much more of a general
question so I'll go ahead and ask him if he did explain it.
I do apologize.
The runner probably explained this earlier,
but how did he get all those bonus room coins
for the special world so fast?
Oh, it was the thing you were talking about before.
I think it's... Oh God, what did you say it was the thing you were talking about before. I think it's a...
Oh, God, what did he say it was? Go ahead.
It's an in-game cheat.
I was doing some weird movement
in the first level that spent probably
about half a minute
getting to level that spent probably about half a minute getting
to get this
one floating creme coin inside
when you go in the
indoors part of K. Rool's ship at
the start of the game, that has that letter telling you how
he kidnapped donkey kong then um if you do a bunch of like kind
of seemingly random movements in there then um
uh in and around that room then you'll
uh you'll get this one creme coin that
uh actually is worth 75. and that's enough to be able to do all
of the lost world levels because they cost 15 each and there's five loss road levels
but perfect 75 nice so we have a new question in chat for you this is a fun question so if
you need to focus by all means go ahead and do so but i want to just get
it out there because it is i do endorse fun questions so chad if you have fun questions
please ask them because i will do my best to get them integrated in
so rayleigh says this game takes place
on Crocodile Isle owned by King
K. Rool. If you were stuck there for
24 hours what would you do?
Ha!
Oh shoot I almost died.
Okay I'm alive I Okay, I'm alive! It's important to know your backups.
Oh wow that's a good question because um i like that the continuity for this game is... The start of the first level is where you fight K Rool at the end of Donkey Kong Country 1, so it like perfect continuity.
Oh my god, that's a good question though.
I would hopefully try to find the horde of bananas that he's keeping
so I can live comfortably
at the very least.
Just decided
to bypass off and was like, hey I'm not here to actually
do the
gaming, I am here for the bananas
that's it.
That's what I'm here for.
Alright, had to be careful there
because uh... kind of flubbed my movement a little
but um... better
to try and survive rather than
save extra time there.
And so I was actually gonna... Go ahead! Sorry to interrupt,
that DK coin only flashes for 11 frames and then it goes to the next item
So if you miss that shot,
then you have to redo this whole level
and it loses like a minute and a half.
That's disgusting.
If you're going for PB, your run is probably dead.
The devs knew what they were doing.
They put, like,
the extremely difficult,
like, cruel level
and then, like,
you know,
tease you with a DK coin
right at the end too?
These guys are jerks.
What a bunch of jerks.
Oh, I forgot about the ghost condor!
It feels good, I regret to inform you
The runner cannot go slower
because unfortunately we are trying
to speed run. So,
we are going to keep going fast
but I do suggest
that if you can
you could probably
go find the OST
and be a
jerk like me
and just blast
the game OST's in your car
like uh like a child uh it's very interesting when i'm in
the middle of traffic and i'm blasting like the katana zero ost
but also it smacks like you'll never change my life so i have another question here
from goomy ghost which animal friend is a favorite aesthetically
we love squitter and the 8Js,
but that's not everyone's favorite.
Listen,
the 8Js go hard.
Yeah, I think
Squitter's a cool
buddy because uh hey one second
you're trying to show something cool as well but i failed it a bit
but that's okay it's okay
i at least survived that's the uh important part
oh yeah um yeah i like splitter a lot because
uh those instant web platforms
that was doing to clear through web woods earlier.
That's one of the most notoriously difficult levels casually for people.
I've seen videos on youtube where
people are like the worst main stage in donkey kong
country history and like stuff like that it's
like always at that level but because of the instant web platforms
thing that we do it's um
it's a difficult level but it's like fast i feel like it's fast fun and like
you know there's like actual like cool mechanics
to it as well so because of that I like
Squitter and um...I like Ratly for one
of the later levels coming up, uh
Toxic Tower which uh
hope I can show off the gamer skills
but... I believe in you.
I believe in you.
Yeah, here's hoping.
Like, I'm usually decently consistent at it but
you know, right there could be the
famous last words but we'll see.
So we have another question if you have
the space and brain specifically for it,
from a very well-known individual in chat.
Happy by three.
Ryan, any pro tips if I'm a big nerd and want to learn this game?
Also, heck, Rambi, thanks.
Thank you. I'm Rambi now
so perfect timing
Yeah advice for
if you want to learn the speedrun of this game
then yeah we've got
Donkey Kong Country speedrun
wiki and the speedrun
discord as well is like
very helpful. I see people reply to the help and strategy sections all the time for tons of questions for new runners, veteran runners even.
Stuff like that.
Between the wiki and the Discord I 100% recommend both.
People are very welcoming
and they
have a lot of good memes as well.
Memes are important for a thriving community, this is true
This is very very true
Your memes don't have to be dreams
You can simply join a community that will let you embrace
them, unless your memes are not funny
then we can't let those slide
Sometimes people need
to know their memes aren't funny
I'm going to stand on business with that one.
So now you gotta put them in their place?
Listen, your meme's
not funny. I regret to inform you of this.
Um, so we
have another question from Itz does ryan like donkey country 3.
so i know earlier you might not have been here welcome on in if you weren't and if you were
i apologize but thank you for lurking um It was mentioned that DK3 is what Ryan feels
is the hardest,
But the question is do you like it?
It gets a lot of hate and this individual does enjoy it.
It's so true.
I like it a lot personally
um i do want to try to speed run it i've been saying this for the last like two years at this point that i'm going to learn it i learned a small amount of any percent, but
I haven't finished learning it yet.
Eventually! It's in the works.
I just have so many
games that I've been running That uh you know
Kind of spread myself thin
A lot
Trying to do it all
Listen
Busyness knows no bounds. Also
we see some love and chat for it looks like
Ratley saying that they're pretty good with them
as well. And then we've also
got a little bit of love for Perry the Parallel
Bird.
But I have... for parry the parallel bird but i have um also we got some loving
he also has a love and chat from just john gaming saying ryan you're doing an amazing job keep it up brother hey thank you thank you hell yeah brother sorry that was me being corny
i apologize um speaking of bad memes don't take meme advice from me ever i am a very
very unfunny person please don't ever listen to me i've seen the i've seen the tweets
what do you mean not you calling out the twitter whoa hold on a second it's the feets are fine
oh and then in terms of...
I got to chuckle a little bit
Oh, I get to chuckle a little bit sometimes
This is fine
Also in terms of people asking about how to get started, there
was a comment made about how there's
a site called DK Atlas which
provides full maps of each stage in Donkey Kong
Country 2 so very important
Very, very big W on that because if you're very analytical and you need the
information,
absolutely look at your maps and get that stuff all kind of played out in
your head.
I'm one of those types of learners where i need to see maps so i can know exactly
what i'm going with stuff yep um yeah god what is it i think
it's also looking called isn't it i think
it's dkc speedruns.com i actually forget i just usually click the thing in the Discord to find it.
So I've actually typed out the website.
There's a secondary name for it but I'm not allowed to say that on stream.
Links to the wiki so... word, but I am not allowed to say that on stream. Oh no.
Links to the wiki.
Also while we're here if you're enjoying the run and enjoying the commentary
as well, make sure
you follow Ryan over at twitch.tv slash ryan underscore forward 522.
The name is in the title, it's in the pin.
We're going to say it again before he heads out for the evening.
Everything's going pretty well thus far, but if you're enjoying this type of stuff
Ryan does speedruns on his channel all the time
so you can always catch him practicing
speedruns, learning new speedruns and just
doing cool stuff. Make sure you go follow
that channel please k, Kthanks.
We do have another question.
What are your favorite
songs in all of the DKC games?
Oh my gosh. I had this list before, and I forgot off the top of my head there.
For this game it's... oh my gosh.
I like every song, but uh...
What's it called? Is it Disco Train?
The target terror level, the circus-looking levels with the minecarts and the tents and stuff in world 4.
okay so i'm not sure why i keep failing this wrong warp uh
this week particularly um sometimes the warp is just not in the cards um i am very familiar with this as a
soulsborne challenge runner some days it's just it just don't be that way it just don't be that way.
It just don't be that way.
Oh! Yeah, it's weird.
I've had so much consistency with this
trick and then like...
I had a long stream yesterday where I was grinding this run for the showcase pretty much, but...
I failed it more times in runs yesterday than I have in like two years at this point yikes i failed it again so
yeah i don't know what's uh wrong with me now with that that's okay
like i said sometimes it just be that way tm. I know I was feeling a bit of
away when I did my Bloodborne Hit List
showcase even because
I had practiced so much for
and got to the point where we were almost
doing consistent no-hits across out of the eight bosses probably
six of them and then when it was time for me to do the showcase i think i know hit two
and when i didn't get my no hit on daddy gassy i actually was like heartbroken
i'm gonna let you focus here for a second
no you're there you go yeah yeah i'm not sure why that uh fails so often for me
too but and i got it eventually by doing a more technical way to do it, I might just commit to doing the hardest shred more often.
Makes it easier if you hit the tree.
Also shout out to Cee used to cool off water for lava and is now freezing
water got that good like icebreaker gum we love
to see it i'd love to see it?
Oh my gosh, I'm stealing that icebreaker
gum! He's got icebreaker
gum... or no he's got a what's the chat
help me out here there is a couple of brand names
of gum that have like cool ice as a flavor or like winter's breeze
Or some nonsense like that. It's like that doesn't make any sense
What is the winters breeze. Explained immediately, but
there was another question
I wanted to ask you. Ah yes
from Pro Beef saying question
since Breath of the Wild 1 and 2
do you think Link could place higher in a dkc2 end game standings
and beat mario i like this question i think this question is swag based on sales right I think it's possible now.
I don't know, I think Mario is still a more popular franchise though but...
Well we're not asking about popularity,
We are asking whether or not Link has it in him to surpass mario period period true yeah because
huh yeah cause mario does have like low-key a lot of like
i was gonna say world breaking feet smells like wait that's not true it's what kind
of like anti-physics feats some like i'm being too like nerdy and analytical about it now
well if you feel any better chat has us covered because uh the gum i was thinking
of was winter fresh that's it the seal the winter fresh on deck locked in
right i've seen those commercials a lot when i was like
uh pre-teen and like early teens
that tracks
he knows how it feels to chew 5 gum
listen I'm gonna just go ahead
say something controversial
5 gum sucks um I've had it I'm gonna just go ahead and say something controversial 5Gum sucks, like it sucks
um, I've had it
huh?
It's actually garbage
like, I don't know
who got the promo and marketing for that but yeah
and yes corpus as someone already answered in chat this is basically all dk coins
but the category is called beat mar Mario because of that.
Yeah, cause he beat him in the podium at the end.
Assuming I don't forget a DK coin somewhere which could happen.
Well if I distract you feel free to be like Vanessa shut up.
No you're fine, you're fine, you're fine.
So...
The first visit of this level when I filled that Castle Crush run with...
If I got that first try,
I think I would have still been on PB case
because I failed that game.
You burnt yourself up!
You can't be doing that.
You can't be taunting the gods, they don't need to know
that you're actually thriving okay? That's not information they need access
to.
Yeah I think I um...I think i legit went into the barrel like a single frame too early or something.
Probably gonna watch back the VOD because it looked fine but I have no idea why it didn't work. So...
Yeah, gotta iron out that with the-
You know if you wanna get better,
Iron out the mistakes and stuff.
It's always the practice.
Always with the practice.
Good ol' invisible wall. We love to see those.
Yeah, the occasional secrets where there is just like...
maybe a single banana that's like pointing
to like in the wall and you're like huh i wonder what's there why is there a banana there
oh that was a bad thing but she'd be okay i missed the days when i heard like the subtle hints like that
because again going back to the dark souls roots it's just me constantly
rolling in the walls being like but is this a wall that I can roll through or
or
it's a problem.
Oh, that was actually nice that you was able
to skip all those chains
like rolling rolling rolling down nice
when you're rolling off of a ledge then
um... You're automatically moving forward
during your roll so
I had to kind of like wiggle in between the gaps
to like uh not
hit the wall because if uh
yeah like if I wasn't holding forward I'd just like go straight into the wall. Yeah, like if I wasn't holding forward
it would just go straight into the wall and then
It kind of ruins the roll
going downwards
Oh there's snake stuff I was talking about
Snake bro! And then just
to make sure, Alice for your question is this a kind
of glitch that can be stumbled upon accidentally?
The glitch that you're referencing
were you talking about the wall bit or
were you talking about something else that we have passed if it is past i apologize
for not catching it sooner oh i just realized that water was green yeah toxic tower let's name
it a level also minto's gun is pretty good Yeah, Toxic Tower. It's name and the level.
Also Minto's gun is pretty good.
Mentos is pretty decent.
Eat fresh?
No no the mentos is for a good is that for a good no that's orbit sugar-free orbits gum
that good clean feeling orbit gum sucks too just fyi um i've never heard of it before
oh god keep it that way it's gross wonder if it's an american
thing particularly oh it might be this up a little
um Might be. Mess this up a little. Okay, fight it safe there.
I'm good.
Oh, the Castle Crush glitch which can brick
the cart.
Oh, yeah, the wrong work that
I failed the first time when I was talking about how I killed my PB chance by failing it the first time.
That wrong warp again has to do with what Kai mentioned about the Cutlass's swords when he's pointing them upwards.
They have like the same properties that cause a wrong warp to happen.
But by taking damage and dying there then for whatever
reason when you die from that
and take a hit, it causes the wrong work to happen.
I still don't fully know why
I just know how to do it.
This is again fair and valid by the way street fighter 6 andre thank you so much for reminding everybody that you should absolutely subscribe
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By the way, if you have any... No, seriously!
This has been great because
you're fantastic at The Run. You know what you're doing.
You know what you're talking about with all that
stuff and you know how to commentate but i think it's been really nice to actually get some funny
questions about hey let's dig into the brain of ryan ford and donkey kong what are some of
your favorite things so again if you have any questions we
are coming into the end of the run we're getting close we're getting
close so if you have any final fun questions
throw them out there i'll see what i can grab and get at
get answered and then i'll just we'll just take it from there
There's this level
And then the final boss
So, there's not much left for the run
Let's see if there are any other ones Oh Mhm. Mhm.
Let's see if there are any other ones... Oh, we're still talking about like Mentos the Freshmaker! That's
what it was! Mentos the Freshmaker!
Thank you, that was it. Also, Richard
you out of pocket for that comment!
No!
Because Richard said
Subway Mentos, same difference.
Wow!
Wow! Yikes! Oh, you're in close.
Also can we get some love and chat BT dubs?
BT dubs for tech homies?
Can we get a love and chat for tech homies and tech crew who keep this joint running, keep things well
oiled, situated. Help us with our tech
issues. Help us with our internet issues, the whole
nine. They're the reason that we're live
right now getting to things and stuff
like getting that entertainment that you're enjoying on your thursday
night getting ready for your weekend and getting ready for that extra long day friday because
you know friday the last day so he's just gonna be tired and ready for the day to end. The disrespect of Mentos!
5Gum had the extreme marketing
to appeal to teenage boys
You know what, that makes sense, Metroid. That makes
so much sense. It seems
like intense and sporty and stuff.
Mm-hmm. Same energy
as Axe Body Spray.
Thank God I didn't get grabbed by one of those sonics oh my gosh i was a little on edge
about it no it's it's i seen them i forgot that they were in this level and this level
they're particularly dangerous because they can literally just throw you into the lava.
It's dreadful.
When
you get grabbed, they sometimes just happen
to slide enough to fall off in the lava
with you.
No to fall off in the lava with me whoa
no actually so like aggravating that happens that's actually toxic wow
wow i don't think i've ever had that
happen i'm grateful for that.
But if I saw that happen, I would probably throw up a little inside.
If I messed up any of the strats right before getting to this bonus
I might have had to rely on hoping that they would throw me into
one of the barrels to get to that bonus and um there's a chance that could have
happened where they might just like drag me off like with them like i've had it
happen like more times than i care to admit so no it's it be that way sometimes again
that speed running life in a nutshell also somebody asked what are the weekend plans everyone
i'm gonna keep it a stack with you hermyish um here in den, it's 100 all weekend. I
am staying inside in
my air conditioned holes
and I'm not going anywhere!
It's so hot!
It is so hot! It's so ridiculous! I can't
even do, like, a daily walk
right now. I'm in shorts and a tank top.
I do a lap around my apartment complex, and I'm like,
bro, I'm sweaty. What is
happening? What is going on all right over here in Toronto it's uh so humid even
though like the temperature is like not that high I feel that about like getting sweaty,
like just going for a walk
and stuff.
Oh my gosh.
Right?
Like I think about outside
and I'm sweating
like this is disgusting.
Right?
Absolutely foul.
And yeah, this boss...
I guess I get to do the easier version in this category since
I happen to be leading with Dixie
for this fight so
you kind of hover over a lot of stuff.
Compared to if you're running true ending
then you're probably going to be Diddy during
the fight, so it's like a little tighter
I guess. Is that because
you would only have Diddy available?
Yeah, cause you had wrong warp in that pre- oh time by the way.
Oh fantastic! It's time!
Sensational!
I was just rambling for so long that I forgot.
No it's fine, it's fine. I was just rambling for so long that I forgot.
No, it's fine! It's fine!
I feel like I completely missed most of this fight too because I know this fight and I was like wait,
Was that the last one? Oh, that's the last one!
Yeah we were really out here just vibing
yeah because in this category uh with cabriel one you just get a creme coin
which because i use the cheat i don't need it from them
so then um uh we don't fight uh k rule
uh one at all and just go to a cable two right away because he has the last
dk point that you need yeah the fights is
one really long cycle that's like a minute and fifteen seconds? Something like that.
If you miss the throw on that cycle, you have to do the whole cycle again so it's also like a run killer if you
flub the throw at the end.
Gross.
I threw it really late on purpose
just to make sure I didn't lose.
I've done that in a couple marathons where i like missed the throw and had to
do the cycle again or i'm like oh time's coming up in like five seconds so then
jk lose a minute.
Alright, so how close were you to PB?
Right now on the timer it says 1 hour, 1 minute and 13 seconds.
Um...
Behind by... Wow.
So my PB that I just got is
1 hour and 18 seconds
Prior to that, because I just PB'd yesterday. Prior to that my PB was 1 hour, 1 minute and 17 seconds so...
Oh! So it's the second place PB. It's diet PB.
My second fastest time ever for this category.
Fantastic, and that was even with a couple of flubs here and there,
so I think that's great.
I think that was wonderful.
I'm going to see if we have time for one... Yeah, three deaths or four deaths.
Yeah, I'm gonna see this like one more question in here and
I have to choose between two because they're both kind of ridiculous. Okay,
I'm going to put it like this. Do you want to talk about food or sleep
oh my gosh both of them both sound great so you gotta pick one uh all right food since
i'm gonna be awake for a bit all right fantastic so shinkari
asks if you have two lasagnas and you stack one lasagna on top of another lasagne do
you have one tall lasagna or two lasagnes oh my gosh I feel like both sound right but then again I guess the bottom of a lasagna is
like different from the rest of the layers so I guess it is like
I would still call
it two lasagnas
you still think
it's two lasagnas
I mean what if
they have perfect
layers though
like they have
a perfect layer
of like noodle
cheese sauce
meats noodle cheese sauce meats. Noodle
cheese sauce meats
It doesn't change
So then at that point it's one tall lasagna
If your lasagna is consistent, it's one tall lasagna. So if your lasagna is consistent, it's one tall lasagna.
If it's inconsistent, it's two lasagnas.
See, Tag and I
are on the same page. We're on the same page.
And DJ Dota, I saw
your question. Do you want me to... You know what? I'm going to ask it.
We have a little bit of time and then we're going to get out of here.
So
DJ Dota says, does
Ryan pretend that he is Diddy Kong in his mind
as the last thing before sleep, in order to get into a
happy state and prepare to drift
off. Imagine he is flawlessly defeating
baddies and racing through the world seamlessly.
It's an ask it.
I saw that, the ask ask it like there was a demand
I was getting threatened
Definitely not since
Since i speedrun so many games
That...I can't be method acting for all of them at once.
That's too hard.
It'd be like 14 whole characters,
at least.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's a lot.
So it sounds like you just go to bed as Ryan Ford
Yep, the Mario 64 speedrunners
probably
think that for Mario
Well
well
That being said do you have any closing remarks, comments or shout outs that you want to make?
Yeah. Um...
Oh shoot what was I gonna say?
Yeah! First off, I hope y'all enjoyed and uh...
yeah thanks PT for um...
yeah for holding it down so
yeah I was able to kinda like autopilot that run which was pretty nice
So good. Good relaxing run run, which was pretty nice.
It's a good relaxing run.
Which I like that a lot about
DKC2 particularly is that
I feel like there's not
a lot of parts that are hardcore focused.
Now, now that I've improved a lot at it but also because the game doesn't have that much RNG in it as a whole which is why I it's a really good speed game to pick up as well.
But with
that, yeah if you want to shoot me a follow
on that Ryan underscore Ford
522 on
Twitter or Twitch and YouTube and on yeah Twitter Twitch
and YouTube
um
yeah my Instagram
got hacked recently
so I know you said
oh whoa
we don't talk about that
hold on a second
respray
no no
we don't talk about
IGZ getting hacked up whoa
yeah exactly so donna don't interact if you happen to see my account on it or report
it if you want either okay hit that with the hashtag yikes but and i am going to close out as well
i have been your host pleasantly twisted again you can refer to me as pt
i am the organizer for unapologetically black and fast and Juneteenth, and I have been your
host this evening for this
one-off special of The Runback
featuring black speedrunners as
we get ready for UBAF 2025.
I saw a lot of people asking
is this gonna be the only time we do this?
And who knows.
We'll just put that in the stars as a strong maybe
but we do have other things
that we have here on Hotfix
and we have lots of other shows
that we wanna showcase showcase in future while
we're talking about all these other
things as a matter of fact i want
everybody to stick around here after
we're all done because we're going to
keep replaying summer games 2024 if you
missed
all those runs we do have them available on YouTube for
you to watch over at youtube.com slash gamesunquicks slash playlists.
Grab up all those cool runs.
Again, Ryan Ford has a run in there.
Every person who was featured tonight
has been featured
in a Summer Games Unquick
or an Awesome Games Unquick
but they've definitely been featured
in unapologetically
Blocking Fast and Juneteenth.
Last little reminder
I wanted to give you
make sure that while you're supporting all those VAR Last little reminder I wanted to give you.
Make sure that while you're supporting all those runs and watching those runbacks,
that you also support Flame Fatales.
They're going to be doing Flame Fatales August 18th through 25th.
Exclamation point FFN chat for more information around that the schedule i believe today or unfortunately yesterday was last day to sign up for volunteering
if it was yesterday i'm sorry if it's a day get out there and go volunteer. It was two days ago.
I'm just like all over the place. Well nonetheless you should still go support.
You should still go support. Please Kthx. They're here.
They are waiting for your love and support.
And they want your donations from their charity efforts as well.
We are going to go ahead and get out of here again is gonna be some more summer goes down quick 2024 reruns
and make sure you come back tomorrow at 7pm
Eastern because we're going to have some more of those
hot pick shows that I mentioned. Most notably,
we're going to be showcasing Going Places
and Passion Project and I'll see
all of you tomorrow. Well, I personally won't see you
but here at Games Done Quick
we will see you tomorrow! so so so so so so Hello everybody, this is Tetris the Grandmaster. There is not really that much to explain it's
Tetris but I will talk you through it as we get to it i'm gonna uh start
this run in five four three two one go so uh touches the Grandmaster is a Japanese arcade version of Tetris. It came out in the 90s. For many years it was somewhat inaccessible because it was only in arc the arcade there wasn't any home version of it
uh just within the last couple years though the first two games in the series have been
released on playstation 4 and nintendo switch so this is absolutely the best time in...
pretty much since the game came out to get into the games.
This version of Tetris is really cool! You can see it's pretty fast
The pieces move really quickly.
One thing that you may notice... It's not super apparent in the
early parts of the game where the gravity is pretty low
but when you rotate the pieces they kind of maintain their
bottom so it's like they're rolling across a floor if you can imagine, the piece that is
being contained in a box or rolling across the floor of that box.
This means at higher speeds, the pieces are going to
maneuver over terrain relatively easily
and as we get into higher speeds, that will be
more relevant. In this early part of the game, because
this first game doesn't have any hard drops you need to actually
push the pieces down all the way and as a result
of that, uh, you are wasting time every moment that you're spent just holding
down to push these pieces down. so i try to build the well
fairly high uh so that the pieces don't need to travel as far down
uh that was a little higher than i would like to be on a no-reset run.
Usually, if I'm trying to just get it run done
I'd like to be about half screen height for the most part
But for a PB attempt
If you watch really high level gameplay of Tetris
You will see them just up at the absolute top of the screen
And you'll hear the beeps and warnings all the time
It's kind of funny um but yeah so
a little high again okay let's just take that touchless oh two line pieces in
a row this game is being so nice to me right now. I must know that I'm at SGDQ.
So another thing is that every
line clear you can see there's an animation
that plays. It's relatively long
it's like 2 thirds to a second or so.
And I kind of think that is the unskippable cutscene in this game
every time you get a line clear and so
You want to try and make sure that you're clearing as many Tetrises or Triples
as you can, just to like make sure uh that you're not spending as much time
watching that line clear animation. Just because uh...you know the time that it takes for
the line clear to play doesn't change depending on how many lines
that you clear but you clear more lines i also explain the level system so you can see
that we're on level 209 right now there at the bottom
210, 211.
So you get a level every single time
you clear a line and also every time
you place a piece the overall goal of
the game is to get to level nine nine nine uh there's a few other
mechanics there but they're not really worth getting into unless you're playing
yourself uh the point is uh you want to get into unless you're playing yourself.
The point is, once you get to level 999 within a certain time
threshold, the overall time threshold
is 13 minutes 30 seconds.
Along the way to that point there are a few like checkpoints basically
where it checks to see if you've gotten so and so far in the game within a certain
amount of time, so the very first one that's gonna be coming up is level 300 which we're going to
need to reach in under i believe it's four minutes 15 seconds or something like that
uh but you can see that we're like pretty on base to get. That first checkpoint is kind of not super relevant for getting a Grand Master Grade, which is the overall goal of the game.
There are also grade checkpoints, so you can see at that top left corner I have an S1 right now
The S1 is the first grade that's like... Well it went from 9 to 1
and now it's at S1. It's going to go off-cast 9.
Let me just put it that way.
And so once you get S9
the next grade won't come until you actually finish the game.
And if you've met all the time requirements, then you'll get the Grandmaster Grade.
Which hopefully I can show off to everybody here today.
So far so good
can we get a quick donation in for you?
By all means.
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the thing you need to know about TGM players is that none of us
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Thursday. It's been real helpful.
Thank you so much MetroidFan!
Thank you MetroidF, Metroid fan.
Thank you, Metroid Fan. Shout out to the Tetris book club we read Tetris literature find Tetris literature from all of the best Tetris literature repositories online.
We study them very closely.
But yeah, so we've passed level 300.
The next gate that we're going to be trying to pass is at
level 500. We're going to need an A grade of S4.
And we're going to do that in under seven minutes
and I think it's 30 seconds.
That one is a little bit trickier.
You can definitely fail that on an otherwise decent run, but right now I'm on a fairly
decent pace.
I'm at S3 going into level 400 so generally that's about the pace you want to see.
I'm going to have to just kind of cover that hole right now,
I don't have a great immediate solve.
One thing that is nice about the way
that the pieces work in this game
is if you cover your well
and then just kind of get that garbage to the bottom, as long as it's not too much
garbage, you can kinda ignore it for a while. Because the amount of time that it would take
clear those lines, just going out
of your way to clear lines and not
stacking would
sort of cost you a lot of time.
I'm so
sorry. I'm gonna break in really quickly because we have a $5,000 donation from Fangamer.
Thank you, Fangamer.
It says, hey everybody, Fangamer here.
Thank you to everyone shopping
the Fangamer SGDQ 2024 collection
where 100% of the profits from sales go
to GDQ merch directly supports MSF's humanitarian mission.
Your purchases makes these donations possible!
We'll be taking orders through the end of the event,
check out the full lineup at fangamer.com slash gdq
Thank you so much, Fandemer!
Okay, the line of views came- Oh no!
Uh, alright, so
bit of a situation right now.
But we have made the grade requirement
for level 500 as well as
time requirements. So we are still on gm pay so this is a bit of a rough situation
uh if you have more donations right now i'm gonna try and focus up oh we have so many donations
coming in lots of love from tetris lovers in the Tetris community alike.
We have $50 from Anonymous that says,
let's go TGM.
We've got...
Oh, I'm so sorry.
No, no, it's fine.
Um... Oh, I'm so sorry. No, that's fine. Yeah go ahead.
I don't really have time to do another
full run given
the estimate.
I'm just going to start at 20G mode, which is
going to be the same speed as if
I had made it all the way to
level 500 so that I can kind of talk about the 20G
mechanics and show that off at least.
Awesome you've totally got this!
Alright So uh, 20g Alright, so 20G if you make it to the whole game is a bit embarrassing.
But the rules kind of fundamentally change.
20G is referring to 20 times standard gravity, basically
and so 1g would be when pieces are falling one row per frame
And so 20 G is 20 row per frame, and so 20g is
twenty rows per frame. And for the eagle eye you'll count that there are
twenty rows on the board. So the pieces basically just spawn at the bottom
There's a few things that are
different about this. The main thing obviously is
that you're not going to be able to
maneuver the pieces willy-nilly
wherever you want super easily
and the big result of that is that you need to be more concerned about
the physicality of the pieces so because the pieces don't go up, they only
go down in TGM.
You need to make sure
that you have a stack
that's kind of pyramid-shaped so you want the middle to be the highest
point. That way, you can sort of slide the pieces down either to the left or to
the right and be able to get it to wherever it needs to go.
Do you have time for a quick donation?
Please do.
We have $20 from Manager that says,
this is Manny from the Dread community.
You've got this Charlotte line him up Grandmaster style
you're doing it so fabulously
we also have $25
from Lurker Spine that says
it's always amazing to watch top-level Tetris.
Good luck, Grandmaster!
Thank you so much
for those donations.
Shoutouts to the Metroid Dread community. That's sort of
the place where I started Tetris Book Club. They've been really supportive
and weirdly for this unrelated game there is a very
strong Tetris community there. So you know
if you want a strong Tetris community
maybe think about Mephid Dread
Time for a few more?
Yeah please do. Wonderful! Well real quick I wanted to give you an update on that 4 player Lunar Red Darkhouse incentive
We're already up to $3,976 of the 15,000 needed
That's 26% of
the way there for that extra part a rabbit in steel and we definitely want
to see that but in the meantime we have ten dollars from mr. Aardvark
that says my wife and I love GDQ
and we're hyped for Tetris.
Stay safe and beautiful
and speedy.
We also have $250
from Laptop765.
No comment but thank you so much for your generous donation! We've got $10 from Poetics that says, I cannot believe the amount of skill required to speedrun Tetris
while giving such deep commentary keep it up charlotte this
commentary is fantastic thank you for explaining all of it oh yeah of course thank you i appreciate
that a lot.
So some other mechanics that are interesting about Tetris the Grandmaster specifically
There's this system called IRS where effectively you can initially rotate the piece.
There is an IRS for initial rotating systems, so if you just hold the rotate button as
the piece spawns in it it'll already be rotated.
Which sounds a little bit useless until you think about
The fact that the physicality of the pieces matters so much at 20G
So sometimes, you know, the pieces default spawn location because
In this game the pieces spawn like
pointy side down. The default spawn
location would kind of get stuck on the terrain
in a way that wouldn't allow you to maneuver
the piece in a way that you would want to
but if you have the piece rotated
already on the first frame then you'll be able to get it into places
that otherwise will be impossible and it's little things like that i think
make this version of characters really special just like
everything was really crafted around the
idea of like going fast and like you know really being careful about how
you stack clean and fast Perfect.
Alrighty, so I'm perfect all righty uh so um you know i'm a little sorry that i couldn't finish out
a full run but hopefully this has been an enjoyable showcase of tetris the Grandmaster.
These high speeds are really,
really cool and like I said at the top
this version of Tetris used to be
inaccessible but now it's available on PS4 and Switch.
So never been a better time. There are so many healthy, great Tetris communities online
And it is a really fun version of Tetris so i think that everybody should definitely give it
a shot if you're interested at all in playing tetris fast or even just playing like an interesting
version of tetris the second game in series has a of cool modes, it has like a two-player mode
and like a mode where pieces spawn in weird ways or you get
weird items throughout the game so it's a really cool series, I highly recommend it to anybody.
And I would like to give a shout out again to the Tetris Book Club, the Metroid Dread community.
My friends in Michigan and Arizona
And everybody who has supported me
on my Tetris journey,
as it will.
I was very,
very bad at Tetris
three years ago
and now
I have a GM grade
so shout outs to my wife, shout out to my girlfriend, shout out to
all of my friends. It's been very helpful.
Wonderful, thank you so much. Anything else you want to say? Are we all good to go? I think we're all good
to go. Well, thank you charlotte for that fantastic showcase
i know i learned a lot and i'm pretty sure our chat and audience learned a whole lot
about tetris too thank you so Audience chat, can we get one more
hi for Charlotte please?
Alright, thanks so much All right.
Thank you so much. Hello, everyone! Welcome to Rabbit
and Steel. I'm Akko also known as a Chocolate Orange.
I am this pink bunny over here. I am frozen black wonder, you can call me Kort
and I'm the green bunny up here!
I'm Spirialis, I'm the yellow bunny down here
And I'm Coral Reef
I'm the cyan bunny over here
But we know that's a little hard to follow, so
we brought a little visual aid
for y'all.
Thank you very much!
And before we get started real quick, Lana could you tell us what won the Trinket bid war?
Yeah absolutely. Let's check in on that trinkets so we had Bunny in the lead just barely
Just barely
By three dollars thanks to everyone who supported that
that's one of my two favorites the other being the frog just because of how well
it matches with quartz palette anyway with that said we'll be starting in three, two,
one, go!
Steal yourself.
Alright, so Rabbit and Steel is a
co-op raiding roguelike.
It is essentially inspired by Final Fantasy XIV in terms of mechanics, and inspired
by Touhou in terms of the sort-of core gameplay.
You'll see that I have this little circle at the center of me,
that's my hitbox.
And I'm moving around in this 2D plane and dodging all
these bullets and attacks.
We each have four abilities that we're using to defeat
these bosses,
or enemies generally.
The primary and secondary which are your usual rotation
and then a special and defensive
which makes you invulnerable for a short amount of time
We also have these items to augment those, so let
me see what I want here... You want Grandma's sphere right? Or oh no no no! No I don't think it's not.
Uh i'll take this. So yeah, random pool of items come out
of the treasure sphere there and we all get one?
That is the roguelike element alongside shops
which you will see later. Right now
we're just in Kingdom Outskirts so
we have some random encounters that involve enemies
from the various areas with somewhat subdued mechanics.
But now you can read a quick donation, Lana?
Yeah, absolutely! read a quick donation lotto yeah absolutely so we have fifty dollars
from space explorer unit who says rabbit and steel is a phenomenal game
we have to see lunar mode y'all i haven't even beaten the game on hard yet
shout outs to percy who got me into the game thanks bestie less than three just want to
shut up that we are at seven thousand one hundred and eighteen dollars towards our $15,000 incentive.
Almost halfway there folks
so let's keep those donations rolling in
and we can see this Lunar Red Dark House
incentive get met all right?
Yeah y'all absolutely do want to see that.
That is the hardest difficulty in the game.
We only have three HP in that mode
and the mechanics are very punishing
so you'll wanna see that.
Absolutely. We can take this time to now
talk about our characters and why we've chosen these four
we're going into Kings Arsenal Arsenal. So, real quick
I am the Bruiser. I'm typically
trying to get primary items and use this ability
called Berserk that lets me attack
really quickly
I'm playing the yellow dancer bunny.
This bunny is kind of the support class
of the game. The main thing about my
class is that when i use my defensive it
gives the whole team a 20%
damage buff for 5 seconds.
So it just increases
the whole teams damage up by quite a bit
My bunny is Spell Sword Bunny.
So the main gimmick is that I have a resource that I can generate with my secondary
That makes all of my abilities hit twice
And what I'm looking for is mostly either a rapid fire build or more of a kind of like
nuke that happens every 10 seconds.
Wind did
not let me dash, my bad!
Hey!
Whoa!
Yeah so as you can see your teammates are just as much the obstacles As they are your allies when it comes to...
My defensive lets me dash but Winn screws it up!
You could still dash. My defensive lets me dash, but Wind screws it up!
You can still dash.
But yeah I'm playing the Ancient Bunny
I am very much the most cooldown focused character
of the four here and I would say any of the four here, and I would say
of any of the characters in the game.
Ancient is all about
juggling between different cooldowns to
reset or decrease other cooldowns.
And yeah as you can see I have
this augment on my
defensive now that's the fourth ability
you can see next to my bunny
which allows me to press it every four
seconds and give me a charge on my secondary.
So that's one of our other main tools
when it comes to increasing our damage,
is in the shop you get these gems
that change how each of your abilities work.
Alright, here's Tasha! Yes, Tasha is everyone's
favorite character. Say hi, Tasha!
Hi, Tasha... Thank you!
She does a bunch of cleaves, and she puts one on almost every one of her sometimes.
You'll see in this next attack there are going to be four of her,
And there's a lot to read on the screen.
This is even harder on Lunar by the way,
There's like four cleaves,
three circles. It's really hard to read.
It's a lot. But it's
also a lot of fun and Tasha
really enjoys... I believe it's up here, right? Yep.
Okay, nice. That was a hard one.
That was small space.
Yeah, as we're finishing up Tasha
it's probably good time
for another quick donation or two.
Yeah, we actually have
some love for Tasha here.
We have $500 from Tom
who says
Tasha uses simple attack i do want to shout out as well that we are
at 8 348 towards that 15 000 incentive already putting us at 55% that is incredible work folks we also have
$50 from Amarlyn who says go court Akko's Spirialis and Coral.
Y'all got this bunny!
Bunny!
Thank you so much.
That was crazy.
Wonderful donations.
But yeah we are in the wolf area right now.
Nice!
And the lore of the wolves is that after whatever evil thing happened
in the kingdom they all started fighting each other
for control of the pack.
Oh my goodness. But I have
Emerald Defensive.
So I take it anyway, right?
Yeah, why not Yeah why not.
Another thing that happens when you get an item is
you get a heal of two in hard
so even though I took off 2 health
from Miyadaka we're back in business
Wait...I have pigeon bow I have Pigeon Bow?
I have zero cooldown Pigeon Bow.
Let's go.
Here is Miran, the area boss.
Combines a lot of the other mechanics that we've seen so far and will also see
a phase two. So every area boss has two phases,
and then they transform
and things get a little spicy.
So as I mentioned before
they were fighting each other
for control of the pack
and Miran has constantly been winning. Tasha came all
the way from up north to try and win control of the
pack as well, but hasn't quite managed
beat Muran yet. But don't worry, at the end of the story they become
friends. Spoiler alert!
Spoiler alert everyone becomes friends at the end. It's cute. Buy this game, play
this game.
Go ahead and read a donation right now if you have the chance.
Absolutely, we have $100 from Nost who says Rabbit & Steel is my Game of the Year for 2024.
Let's get that incentive finished.
Y'all do not want to miss Red Dark House Lunar!
Yes, absolutely. We are going through three areas
in Hard Mode here. We're going to be going through King's Arsenal
the Wolf area followed by Emerald Lakeside
The Frogs and then Churchmouse
Streets which three guesses on what
that one is
but there's also two other areas
Red Dark House and Scholars Nest.
And I have been told that if we have time
if you meet the incentive
we can show off both of those areas
so make sure to get that money
and you might get a little bonus along with it
Yeah would you like an update on it quickly?
Sure absolutely. So we are at
$8,438
56% of the
Way there. Nice! For, we had this $40
from Crystal Ships who says
Chat can we get this Lunar Difficulty
incentive funded? It's very impressive
and these 4 gamers are so
skilled in cool! So you will enjoy watching it.
Shoutouts to the Celeste Community Channel!
Hi Crystal!
Shoutout to the Celeste Community, shout out to Archie Khan.
I have to keep wiggling, I did not find a safe spot.
So this is Miran's special signature move
Each area boss has some kind of a special move that they do during their second phase
You'll see that she has
transformed in her into her true wolf form here um
and she uh her special move is that she makes us
do this micro micro adjustment sort of
style of
play, you get this
temporal slowdown sort of effect
and you cannot use your defensive.
It says no invulnerability but I believe if you no invulnerability, but I believe if you have
invulnerability on something else it would still let you do it right Spirellis?
Uh...I believe so. They might've changed that most recent update.
We're playing on a branch
that the devs specifically made
for us? Yes, huge, huge
shout out to Mino, the solo
developer of this game who when I reached
out to him was like yeah totally, I can make a branch for you
so that we can set the order of the regions that you're going to. So
we can showcase it exactly how we want to. It's amazing! Can we get some cheers in
the audience for Amina?
Thank you so much.
Absolutely.
It's been great for practice,
we can just set like triple dark house, it's awesome.
And that's Farron.
That's the first area down, pretty good pace so far.
By the way I didn't say anything but in the middle of that
I totally pressed defense.
Alright what do we got?
Oh this is Emerald Lakeside
Here you're gonna want to turn the music up a little bit
This area is filled with artists You have have Blush the Painter Frog, by the way.
I'll pet Asha again.
You've got Blush the Painter Frog, you've got Lene the Songstress, I believe? i believe mad the seamstress um and av the starry frog
um so i'll go bot top top oh where am i going? It worked!
I was too busy explaining it.
Coral's the new shot caller now.
You'll see that we get a couple of new mechanics in each area. Here we get introduced to matching colors as well as this sort of chain tether that we have.
Wait! You can actually go fully outside there? That was chill.
Hello there, people! I think that was chill. Another thing you see us do
is obviously like trying to position our characters for damage
so me and Coral are trying to be horizontal with the
boss as much as possible, to do our attacks
And it's really important the positioning for us
to be able to go as fast as possible, do as much damage as possible because
you can just get mechanics by killing early.
And the next mechanics we're introduced
to here are keep Moving and Stop Moving.
They do what they say on the tin.
Pretty much.
Lana, you want to say something?
Absolutely! Let's chat.
So I have a little challenge for everybody, actually, because I see something
really snazzy here. So in order to meet our
incentive, we need $6,362
remaining. Now if you
see our donation total towards Doctors Without
Borders, we're at $790,000.
Which means we are well on our way
to hitting $800,000 and
by meeting this incentive, we can get
even closer there. So how about we work together
and try to get as close to that as possible, alright?
We also had some love. $50 from Josh
who said I've been playing plenty
of Rabbit & Seal. Hard is
pretty hard but Lunar is just
another level that people need to see.
So you heard it here first, let's get that incentive folks
and let's work towards 800,000 shall we?
Yeah, let's get it.
Thank you so much.
Here we have a lot of fun matching colors to do.
Blush is one of my favorite fights in the game.
Mm-hmm.
Blush, as you might see on the top right,
is the Painter Frog,
so of course she gives us some extra colors
to work with.
It's worth mentioning
and we didn't mention this before but each area has
two basic encounters which are random between two variants
and then there is the mini boss which is what we're in right now followed by
final area boss!
And each, generally what happens is that each of the basic
encounters introduces mechanics,
uh...the mini-boss gives you a slightly higher complexity version
of something and then the final boss puts it all together.
I just pressed defensive but its okay because we're about to win.
And there she is!
After each
mini-boss, we do get one additional item.
Again, that is part of the two
that's one of the two major roguelike elements of this
is that you have these items as well as the shops as your options
for how to progress um i don't love any of these if someone else wants queen's crown though uh
i cannot watch crown yeah can i buy you for it you want a all right here
all right Rock paper scissors shoot!
Alright you got it.
Thanks man.
So this is Aby the Starry Frog, you might have noticed that in
rest of this area there was a lot of singing happening
um...Aby is a very famous artist now and doesn't have time to spend with her friends, don't really collab with her smaller artist friends anymore.
And that's the main story, but don't worry
they become friends in the end.
We already spoiled that!
Yeah a lot of keep moving stop moving going on we also have these little spreads so you have to keep
moving but not run into your uh teammates which is hard to do but yeah that's a good time for some
donations as we do phase one yeah we have some love here so we we have $50 from Corvimey who says,
Hi, Cortnaco.
Really excited that this run is finally here
so that you can stop practicing the whole time
and start playing FFXIV with me.
Yay!
Slightly faced. Donation goes to Runner's Choice And start playing FFXIV with me. Yay! Smiley face.
Donation goes to Runner's Choice, assuming the Runner's Choice is Lunar Difficulty.
Oh it absolutely is. We'd love to see that get done.
I did download Final Fantasy XIV and start playing with me. So it's over.
Come on, Court. We are at
$9000 already. Over the
9000 towards our 15000 so that's
60% of the way there. Let's keep pushing
folks. We are doing so well.
But time is short I do want to point out that the estimate for this run
is 35 minutes and we're already at 14
So let's keep pushing alright folks, time is short
We're actually doing really well on damage
so it might even come in under that
Get your underpins in now!
That Queen's Crown really helped, thanks Hako
Alright phase two! This is a really, really fun elaboration on the
fall of the color tag. As mentioned before she's a singer so
of course she makes us play osu!
The approach rate's pretty low though.
It's honestly harder because I always try and over-shoot.
My headcannon by the way in this area is that
Aby herself is singing
Emerald Lakeside music
because as soon as you...
As soon as you get into Oh, I was not. I'm in the middle, right? Or is it... I think it's me.
Oops!
As soon as you get into the boss fight
the saying stops.
How do you explain that, huh?
Makes sense to me.
Fantastic.
Time for another
donation or two.
For sure. We have $50 from Amber Loves Archie who says
Shoutouts to my friends on R&S from the back couch
It's been awesome seeing y'all go from chaos and voice calls
To coordinated gameplay on
the big stage. Shoutouts to the city,
let's see some more Lunar!
Shoutouts to the city.
Thank you so much Amber.
Do you have time for another one? Yeah.
We have $10 from Bree12am who says,
Extremely goaded Rabbit and Steel team!
Best of rabbit luck to
everyone!
My Lunar Duo with so much fun learning mechanics with you
We gotta see the Lunar Showcase
Come on, let's reach that incentive!
Oh my gosh thank you so
much both of y'all.
We have a server where we've been learning this and playing it together.
Alright there it is! That's Aby.
I'm winning by the way.
You're winning?
Just so everyone knows.
Our damage numbers are pretty uh
pretty evenly spread though yeah it's that it's that uh queen's crowd
yay oh i just got a the Rabbit Luck upgrade.
Which is going to go crazy with that Golden Katana.
So what Rabbit Luck does
it changes the buff that I give a team
from...it used to be Warcry
which was just a flat 20% damage buff for the whole team.
And now instead gives a buff that makes it so any percent chances anyone on the team has during
that time will always occur.
Yeah y'all are gonna see some silly right now.
It also increases crit chance
which is also going to be really good with
Coral's Queen's Crown
which increases crit damage from the base
of 30% to 60%,
so it just doubles that chance.
I also have Red
Tanzaku, which we didn't really talk about,
but it has a chance to do
a few random miracle effects.
I don't know if there's any way to affect that with rabbit luck.
Interestingly enough, I wonder...
Mino, if you're watching this...
Let us know! Can you tell us?
Alright but yeah we are here in Church House Streets the gimmick of
this area is that we have like heavy and very heavy that you can see
happening here but also a lot of the fights are like duo
fights in the area boss you're going to have they're gonna summon little mice to fight us
it's really cute i love this area um mati the boss of this area
is a paladin mouse
and the lore
is that
these mice
are trying to protect
the streets
of this kingdom
that we're in
and anyone
that they perceive
as an intruder uh is according to them, so they will attack.
Mati very valiantly tries to fight us and all her friends will come and join in.
Can I give a quick update on the incentive? Absolutely! friends will come and join in. It's really cute.
Can I give a quick update on the incentive?
Absolutely.
So we are at $10,779 which puts us at 71% of the way there, which means less than $5,000.
Folks let's get those rolling in!
We had $50 from Dusty Tome saying donating to see more rabbits on stream.
Let's go, Lunar Difficulty!
Thank you all so much. We've been practicing
and we really want to show it off, so please get the donations in.
God our damage got so much better yeah my numbers is gonna be very silly time for another donation yep we have fifty dollars from
chernsel who says rabbit and steel is an awesome game let's make lunar happen
we also had 150 from brianp who says, gotta see someone
do Lunar because I can't.
Thanks for your honesty.
We appreciate
you so much. Really good
damage. Whoa!
There's the red Tanzaku that I mentioned before, it gave me a heal and I didn't need a heal. It gave you full health but you both hit less.
Obsidian Rot... Is anyone taking that one? Do I have Loot Cooldowns? I can't. I'll take Mountain Staff then.
No one else wants it so I'll take it and hope.
Something else to mention about this area
are the specific mechanics that we saw.
You noticed that we had those tethers
that we had those tethers that we have to stretch. If
you are not far enough away
from whatever your tethered to,
typically your allies
you
will simply take damage.
Similarly a big focus of this area is these knockbacks
as we saw right there
as well heavy and very heavy status effects which makes it so that
your move speed is set to a specific value. That was tight.
I pressed
defensive again-I'm unbinding it after this fight.
Alright, this attack is really tricky.
Arguably harder than the Lunar version.
You gotta get to the right color and then wait for the moose
to pass and get in there very quickly.
It's cool though. I like this one. wait for the moose to pass and get in there very quickly.
It's cool, though. I like this one.
Nice.
Nice?
Sweet.
Sorry, go ahead.
We're just going to line up here and then we don't really have to move much, and then we'll be getting into phase two soon so a quick donation here would be great.
Yeah for sure big update we are at $11,000 towards our incentive.
Less than 4,000 needed.
We are flying folks.
Listen I am so proud of y'all okay?
You're making great work.
We have $1,000 from So who says,
Lunar Difficulty!
Hi, So.
Thank you so much.
Oh my gosh, thank you.
The mouse heart gone by.
We just switched to phase two.
Maddie transformed into a mouse and called on all her friends.
But we have really good AOE. We have Rabbit Luck alongside the Golden Katana
which as you can see is dealing 500 damage every time court
presses primary i believe it's even hazard right yeah yeah so i took a very
selfish thing it has a massive aoe and so it just hits all of
the mice on the screen,
and just demolishes them.
Right, to explain that combo a little bit more
I explained Rabaluck but
The Golden Katana itself
Just has a 5% chance to deal 500 damage
every time you use primary or secondary. So, Rabaluf
turns that 5% into 100%. Are we ready? Let's practice!
Wait hold on.
Oh I went too fast!
Hold on.
I don't remember what this looks like.
OK, OK, OK.
I think I got it.
I didn't do right either.
We love doing our MSP diagrams for these...
I'm just standing out here, I don't feel like rotating this time!
It's worth mentioning what the smaller mice actually do here.
Each one of them is summoning
one of the mechanics that you see on screen. Unfortunately we're killing them so fast
that you probably won't see them but maybe we'll get to see one of them here? Yeah! You'll see
one of them put these tethers on us and we've cleared that
and then one of them put the line on us and that just got clear
and now we just have a one i didn't even see where the last one was i'm so confused
all right here you need to be up here, Coral!
No, all good.
What if I ran up in the middle though?
Just what if?
Oh right my GCD is like extreme. I forgot.
This is a good time for another donation!
Yeah let's do a little check in so I do want to update that we are now over 75% of the way there.
But we have
10 minutes to go!
So let's keep those coming in and rush
for it. I apologize about this next one,
but we're getting into Pond Central here.
We have $25 from Rissa who says,
What happens when the party gets tired and needs to stop for a snack?
Rabbit end meal.
Thanks so much for your donation, we do appreciate you! Alright this is the final shop
So basically you heal up get any last upgrades you need and spend all your money on levels
Each level will give you one percent boost in damage so it's worth spending your money on levels um each level will give you one percent boost in damage so it's worth
spending right uh real quick as court mentioned this is the final area we're getting very close
to the end of the run so if you want want to see that Lunar Showcase, this
is your last chance to get those donations in.
I know we're super close.
We'd love to showcase
that. We've
won like a million runs in our own practice, and we just wanted to show it off.
Alright, Pale Keep! All of these bosses are transformed so you'll always get backstab on them if that's something you have.
And they're mostly just DPS checks, making sure that
You have a solid build and we definitely do
So it's not something we need to worry too much about
Do you have time for a quick donation? Yeah! Absolutely! So we have $25 from Akoma
who says, donating for Lunar Difficulty and for the civil plushie
on the right side. Two of my favorite indie games from
the last year thank you updating that we're at eleven thousand five hundred
and ninety nine dollars come on folks who we can do this
time is short but we are also making great
progress towards the 800k mark so let's try to get those two goals at once shall we?
Absolutely. Did I hit you?
Uh...I walked away.
I didn't take damage.
You can go ahead with a couple more.
For sure! So we had $20 from
Carleo who says,
Tasha only donate $5.
But watch!
Tasha is now four.
More donations.
More bunny and steel.
We also had $100 from Kalt who says, rabbit and seal.
I am sold!
Indeed.
And that puts us almost at $12,000.
We are making great progress. Let's go folks you're doing great. We got this I believe!
Oh alright just the best item for me in the last job
Yeah let me pick the one that makes me use my defensive
Good idea.
Something else I wanted to mention while we were going through Pale Keep
is that all of those enemies are like objects, right?
There's an axe, there's a sword
a shield, a spear
and as Court mentioned
you get backstab on them because they're
considered to be transformed
and that's the same state as on them because they're considered to be transformed.
And that's like the same state as other
bosses when they transform into their
animal forms, you get backstab on them so
what I'm saying is that implies the existence of spear girls shield girls axe girls
harp girls uh and all i'm saying is uh you know you've gotta get us some art
of that.
I really want to see that.
Alright, this is Shira,
Rabbit of the Moon.
This is the final boss.
It's a really, really fun fight
and it's the only time we actually fight a rabbit.
Her story is that she was lonely.
So she came and she made everyone evil.
Oh, I'm doing the Lunar move for me?
She came and made everyone evil, then went and came to talk to the moon and
said hey I'm lonely you wanna hang out? And the moon rejected her so now she's mad.
But it's okay we become friends with her after.
Of course we do!
Yeah this fight combines basically a lot of the mechanics that we've already seen.
So he's got the cleave here I'm gonna like dash into the cleave and spread out
And make sure we have enough room for everyone
I always like running into the cleave because then I don't
I'm bad at leaving space for people so this time
I just get away from them as far as possible.
The Bruiser also tends to be the fastest character in the game because it has high base move speed
As well as the Berserk buff which increases your move speed and decreases your HP.
My cooldown is really fast, yeah exactly.
We got cleaves, we have the boxes here from Red Dark House which we haven't seen
yet but we're hoping to see!
Oh we could see!
It's all clear!
Let us show you up there.
It's so close.
Oh oh hi.
Oh I didn't see that.
You just got booned.
Don't say that. Oh my god.'t see that. You just have Moon.
Don't say that!
And we made it folks and we've hit $800,000 for Doctors Without Borders.
Amazing work everybody!
Thank you so much. I thought y'all were cheering for Kurt saying we got goody.
It's both, it's both.
Oh my gosh I'm so happy.
I didn't want to stop playing the game already.
Ah! It was too fast.
Yeah this run is going to be coming in pretty decently under I believe.
We basically pleaded all of our health before the phase change which was awesome.
You'll see because generally phase change happens a little under half HP on the bar
and because we dealt more
damage than that, Shira starts
with less HP on the second
phase.
Can we have a quick donation quickly? This one's very special
We have $1,000
from Nino underscore
dev who said
Let's go Lunar!
Thank you so much for your love. We appreciate your game so, so much.
This is offensive.
Oh, thank you so much.
I can't use my defensive anyone want to help me out?
She's charging an unavoidable attack. you need to save your defensive for it i have two
charges of it so i never have to worry about this but it's a common thing that gets us in lunar runs
when we're trying to do damage there we go and we get rabbit luckaluck for it! Thanks, Spirialis!
Yeah no problem.
Alright yeah we're coming up on the end here... We have to have two people on each side
with spreads um all right we should be able to build before the second
uh what's it called yeah for, before the second attack.
Second unavoidable Yen.
Just like each area boss has a signature move
that is Shira's signature move.
And now it's time!
Wow, 1,812 ports.
Oops! Sorry!
2820. That's a really good run. We got some really good items.
Thanks, Mino!
But with that we are going to be going ahead into the Lunar Showcase
I want to once again shout out Mino
for setting us up with this tool
that allows us to select which areas we'll be going to We are very grateful to our team at
Meno for setting us up with this tool that allows us to select
which areas we will be going to. So, we'll be starting out in red
dark house and assuming we do still have the time seeing as
we came decently under, crossing my fingers.
We will go ahead and show y'all Scholar's Nest efforts
so if you all are ready
we'll start in 3...2...1
Go!
Alright so immediately what you'll notice
is that we only have 3
HP.
And there's one of them! Um, and when we go to a treasure chest in hard you heal 2 HP. In lunar...
I unbound my defensive!
Oh no.
It's okay, I'll solve that after this fight
The treasure chests only heal once
so damn it, health is always a concern here
And you will see that even in Kingdom Outskirts
there are more mechanics going on
than some of the basic fights
in...
That was gonna be fun.
Do you want Storms or both Spirit Alice?
I could take both.
Ummm....
I don't have any percent chances right now, so I think I picked Bone.
I guess I'll just grab Elegy?
Nice opening item set! Carl you wanna talk about Book of Cheats?
Okay yeah, so my character along with Darkspell being a resource.
My special has three uses per cooldown so since the Book of
Cheats has random effects every time I use it's special, every cooldown I get 3 uses
and I get to cheat three times.
Not really cheat but you know.
I actually don't know what
you get here.
If you could say the full pool
that'd be really cool man.
I want to say
that like...
I wanna say
you can get effects
that would sometimes be on other upgrades
Like I've seen it change the number of times that an attack
hits before, but I don't know if I hallucinated then.
Um...I will take Stonebreaker Staff absolutely unless
you want that. Carl? take care of him. Carl?
Hydra's blob, I think. Okay.
Spiral Alistar getting the stone skin.
Granite skin, not stoneskin. Not bad!
That was a recently changed item that gives you damage immunity for, I think it's the first 30 seconds before it wears off?
I believe this one just lasts indefinitely and also gives a 20% damage buff while I have it.
Don't leave me! But it also slows you down greatly until
you lose it we'll see if they're much slower than everyone else in the team right now
yes that's outskirts take me back to my previous build i'm place now. 605 and 672, wait what's going on here?
Alright so this is Red Darkhouse.
Uh Red Darkhouse has either the first or second hardest mechanics in Lunar, I would argue.
Let me grab one of these real quick.
Yes, yes. I'll pet Asha. Thank you!
Well, I'll take a regen potion. It will heal us up too throughout the area just for safety
I think we'd all agree that...
Oh, we got the hard version.
Oh boy.
No, the granite skin man.
Alright cool, well we're chillin'.
We'll explain after this one.
We might have to focus a little bit on Lunary.
Mind if I interrupt and help you focus for a second?
So, I do want to tell everybody about a new incentive that we have open for the Halo 3 run coming up.
I do need a little audience support though.
Does anyone know the exclamation from Bluey?
What do we all say with Bluey?
Hooray!
Stunning! So,
we have a Bluey mode that is open if you're a fan of confetti and hoorays. This one adds
a skull modifier that causes a burst
of confettis along with the big hurray every time
a grunt gets a headshot.
So if you want to have a party
with the Halo 3 run coming up, we need $5,000
We have about 200 already
Y'all noticed it so let's work towards that.
I do want to shout out for our last incentive
we had $3,000 from So who says
okay Lunar for real though.
Wow!
Thank you so much. Thank you so much. I just saw that one! Thank you so much, though.
I just thought of that one.
Alright this is Carsey, very famous
mini boss in this area
she basically starts out transformed I need to get the heck over here!
And you are bound in this circle
so it's a lot of stuff that is just...you can really pay attention to where
you are going. Yes, Fearhouse being slow might not help us out here but it's
okay you have granite skin so i'm coming oh my goodness i totally just walked into the center
because i was talking to scooch yeah um so what i was trying to mention earlier is that uh red
dark castles probably the first or second most mechanically difficult area i think
everyone would probably agree that uh church... Hold on.
Y'all need to swap. No, you two are!
Did you take damage? No I didn't. Nice!
I think everyone would agree that Churchmouse is probably the hardest, purely because of the DPS checks involved.
But in terms of the actual mechanics you're dealing with it's usually Emerald Lakeside or this one that's the most challenging for us.
We've done a lot of practice on this one so hopefully's the most challenging for us.
But we've done a lot of practice on this one
so hopefully we'll be able to get it clean and showcase it for you.
Yeah. This also features... We have numbers
that help us with the mechanics
very important on Lunar.
Meetup? Yep. Alright here you have to alternate having a
circle and spread so we typically just have the person with the spread go
first and then the rest of it kind of works out.
Unless you forget which way that thing is rotating,
which isn't very easy to do.
But now's a good time for
a donation. Yeah, for sure!
Also there's Carson.
We have a very donation yeah for sure
we have a very special 15 from kwan who says couldn't catch void stranger but needed to donate for rabbit and seal
spheria co-fly goral my goats. Special shoutouts to Coral my pooky bear.
What is up my pookie bear? What happened man?
Hey there Quan. Quan is another one of the players in our server where we hang out and play bunny...
Oh! What did we just roll on?
Ninja Robe?
Not bad.
Spirialis has 100% chances so he won the role.
He gets to get luckier all right this is ronalee she is the princess
and the former ruler of this area before um before uh shira showed up.
That's what I was looking for.
She combines all the mechanics that we saw just now
and makes them way more complex,
so we're probably going to need to focus on this circle again ah sorry
i'll be the sacrifice not sacrifice the team i wouldn't want to do that
all right close here yep I wouldn't want to do that. All right.
Close here?
Yep, sounds good.
Oh you're so slow man!
So true.
Close again.
So another thing in Lunar that we didn't really see and hard at all is rage.
Close, close.
You have to do a certain amount of damage before the boss will just own you. Close!
Oh, where are we going?
Going in the middle.
Alright!
Everyone on them.
All good, all good.
Come right.
I'm over here.
Talking and playing this game is very hard, but Lana you can talk while we're doing this.
Oh my gosh! Sure thing!
So, we have $10 from Elysium
who says, Rabbit in Steel is the game I never knew
I needed until I played it.
200 hours later,
I'm chasing no-hit Lunar for the last achievement.
Tasha is best wolf
and Ancient is best rabbit. Yeah,
Ancient! Woo!
Can I get some cheers from the crowd for Ancient?
Yeah!
Oh, I'm going out here.
My bad. Okay, no, you were in the right spot.
I do just want to say also we have a big hurray towards Bluey Mode putting us at $632 already making really great progress folks.
I see the love.
Bottom left?
How'd you get all the way over there?
I don't know, she just pushed me.
Red right?
Alright.
Am I wrong? No, you guys were wrong. I followed Spirialis! That works 99% of the time!
Right. I'm defensive-ing. Thank you to my team for letting
me follow them. Top right?
Works 99% of the time.
Top right again.
Thanks guys.
That attack is really tough to learn, though.
We're doing good damage.
Yeah.
Oh, I need to go, I need to go, I need to go.
Nooooo!
It was barely outside.
This is going to be rough.
I don't even have a defensive.
So tragic.
We have a knockout timer, and i will be up in a little bit
this actually is going to make this attack a lot easier
would you have time for some donations? Go ahead. Of course.
So we had $25 from Shift who said,
More Banui!
MORE BANUI!!!
And we also had $10 from Noxshy
who says
I was pleasantly surprised to see this game on the
schedule. I know you will all steal the show and have some good
rabbit luck on the Lunar Run! Thanks so much for your donations
we appreciate them. Oh man
Rotating center
Alright Spirials we got this
Woo!
We're the same color, yes
Alright I'm going to slide.
Oh this is chill.
Great. Okay.
Thanks Mino.
Alright we should be good.
A little bit sketchy.
Definitely had cleaner ones than that one but...
Wait! We can get the swag!
You got it? Get ready...
Yeah!
You get an achievement for that.
Really nice, and just making sure we still have time,
We can go ahead and show off Scholar's Nest the fifth and final area of Rabid & Steel
Let's see.
I'll grab one of these.
Alright, it's my last area.
Spending all my money.
Oh, I don't have enough for that.
Oh, pattern! Right have enough for that.
Oh! Pen her right, right, right, there you go.
Woo!
Thank you for keeping us honest okay?
Scholar's Nest this area is fun, has mechanics like teleports and
it's great. This area is really
pretty to watch. Everyone here is a crow
Their lore is
that they like shiny things except
only the first two. The other two are sisters
and one of them is really into the stars
and the other one is like, hey, when are we going to hang out?
Yeah, here we're purposely spreading out
I need to be here.
You can go ahead and make a couple donations mom for sure I do want to shout out that we had $1,000 from
nuclear cheese who was supporting us here thank you so much for your donation.
And we also had $20 from Tooth Knows All who says
those rabbit ears just totally made my day! Here's five dollars for each pair, y'all are the best! Thank you so much!
Yeah when we showed up I surprised them all with the rabbit ears and
i think it made it, I love it. I could not see there,
there was text all over my rabbit
So here we have these
binds that lock us in a certain
plane and we have to be paying attention
to who has the spread, who has the line
and make sure
we're not hitting each other
but also trying
to be positioned
in a way
that we can do damage.
So it's really fun fight.
We should kill here?
All right.
Nice.
Now we come onto the mini-boss
of Scholar's Nest,
I believe it is Saya,
the Archon Crow.
She loves teleporting us.
She will teleport so many times, in fact she loves teleporting us
so much that she gives us two for free and they don't even do anything.
A lot of this fight is revolving around similarly staying in
a circle who are we going to see it oh let's find out
there's a few variants of the attacks we were hoping to get
them all with the X.
Yeah, there is one version that's a lot more complex than
the other and it's fun to resolve but yeah as you can
see, it walls around a lot
around these circles that we have to match up alongside
reading these teleports makes for a very complex fight to read
but once you understand it, It makes for a very complex fight to read.
But once you understand it, we're doing pretty good.
There's a lot of ways that you are able to learn this.
Like with this attack,'s like reading your shortest teleport
and going on the outside
Also I highly recommend
buying this game! Playing this game
You can play both solo and with up to four people co-op it's really really fun i used
to be terrible at this game uh but now i have 210 hours of it and i'm playing it on the gdq
stage which is amazing so please play this game mm-hmm it's so much fun and the dev is super active.
The dev loves this game as much as we do.
Spends so much time on it.
I always see him in Game Maker working on it.
Now we are onto our final fight of this incentive. I know a
crown! Ooh,
I don't think I can take it. Do you want it?
No, I'm good.
Okay...
Can I have the curse?
Oh no fight?
We didn't play Rock Paper the precision. That's crazy!
Alright so this is Twilight, the Valedictorian Crow
Similarly to Saya she does a lot of teleports
But her signature move that we're going to see in the second phase is time
stop hi um what's up she will stop time and show you three mechanics at once. Oh my god, you're so slow!
And you have to read and remember
all 3 of those
because there is not time for you
to react to them.
Sorry, my bad, my bad.
But Lana, you can go ahead and read a couple here
as we get through the first phase. Yeah, I'll hop
right in. So
we just want to update that
we are at $1,409
putting us over 25% of the
way to our bluey mode.
I'll go for it.
We have $11.70
from Grunt Birthday Party who says,
Everyone get on board for an $11.70 Hooray train!
Hooray!
Thanks so much for supporting this lovely birthday party we got going on.
This one you always have to go, if you teleport you stay and the other people move
And now we're into phase two!
We skipped the attack with him practicing all week!
No, no it's okay, we have the other attack
We'll definitely see that one
You can go ahead and
keep going Lana Just want to
shout out that we do have some other support coming in
here for $50 from Marka311
saying as someone who
spent many hours with a bunch of friends getting
through Halo 3 Legendary,
I can confirm Grunt Birthday Party makes life a lot better.
Here's some for Bluey Mode!
Thank you so much we appreciate it.
I'll go left.
Yep.
Uh...I'll go up and Kurt will go down.
But that's last. That's last!
Ordering of this is something...
I love my team. I guess it stands still for Furry.
Yeah, you have to shoot horizontally right?
That was the first time stop mechanic that you just saw
She showed us three things she expects us to do
And then we just have to remember the order she showed us three things that she expects us to do,
and then we just have to remember the order and do them all together.
Hello!
You probably should've let Carl stay down.
I was slow, I think.
That's true.
That's true!
Alrighty. This is the one.
This is Mena. We call it Mena because it's red the same way as Mena's attack.
She's the first enemy that we saw uh going up
uh swap yeah go left
keep going nice Keep going. Nice!
Have we gotten hit a single time? Don't say that, you're not supposed to say that!
I don't think we've gotten hit in You're not supposed to say that!
I don't think we've gotten hit in the entirety of Scholar's Nest so far. We could change this right now, no, I wouldn't do that.
Hey, I'm taking the opportunity to do hit list here.
Don't do it, don't you dare!
Time!
Alright we redeemed ourselves.
That was a fully hitlist scholar nest, I'm pretty sure.
Wow. I believe so.
No regen pot needed. Do we keep going?
Oh no.
We can't play this round. I would like to though.
Yeah, it's going pretty well.
Thank you all so much for watching and for donating
so that we could showcase those Lunar bosses.
They're very fun, very hard.
If you enjoyed watching this, if this game looks cool to you
please go check
it out. It's not even that expensive I don't remember
exactly but you know what? Mino
can use the money. No just kidding
He donated a thousand he could
uh...he could use that back.
Do you all have any shout-outs?
Yeah, absolutely.
I just wanted to say
that it's amazing
to be up here on stage
as a runner
finally
with three of the most
like amazing people
I love hanging out with you all are awesome
And it's just an honor to be up here
and thank you to everyone on Gamesquiddy and on staff for making this whole thing possible
Yeah, I mean, this was great.
I want to say thank you to everyone here.
Everyone on the back couch thanks to Tom who did a big donation as well.
You can keep going straight up.
I just want to say thank you
to everyone who donated for this.
Alright, yeah.
I'd like to shout out Akko
since I took a little bit of a break from Rabbit and Steel. She was really,
she had reached out to me and said
do you want to be fourth for GDQ?
And I was like sure okay but I haven't even cleared Lunar yet
But throughout the course of a month
this crew and I we just destroyed Lunar after multiple weeks of odd reviewing
and frustration and a lot of other things.
Really shout out to Akko for making this whole thing possible.
Thank you Carl!
One quick other person I wanted to shout out.
I want to shout out Amy for always believing in the Serenity and believing in me so thank you.
I wanna thank everyone who is supporting this.
Thank you Min Meno especially.
Thank you everyone on the back couch and finally thank you to MSF, Doctors Without Borders
who were supporting this event. I wanna say, Palestine Harrah, Free Palestine.
Wait, um... Akram can I do one more quick shout out?
No!
Hi Kort!
How's it going?
Alright! What is up, SGDQ 2024?
We are Two Guys, Two Brides.
Two Guys, Two Brides, baby!
Guy over there to the two brides right in the corner here.
And we are so excited...
In the middle, I guess.
We are so excited to show you Halo 3 Legendary Co-op 4 player.
This has been something that I've been wanting to do for the past four years.
I was able to kind of help get all these great folks together, and now here we are.
We have been grinding like mad for the last 4-5-6 months
And we're ready to go so I'll let the rest of you introduce yourselves
Yeah what's up everybody?
I'm ADef.
Uh...
I will be playing the blue elite this afternoon.
Uh...
Bri's on the red elite over there and I'll throw it over to my friends on the other table.
Yep.
I'm Kronos, long time Halo speedrunner and I will be playing the
Arbiter. Oh no love for blue okay am to my right?
I'm NervyDestroyer.
I've also been running Halo for quite a while
And I am playing as the Master Chief
Wait wait wait
Does anybody in the audience know The name of the blue or red elite?
Oh okay that's pretty cool.
Red Elite is Losey Tom!
Losey Tom baby!
That is actually true! That is actually true.
Alright, are we ready to get going folks?
We're ready.
And crowd and Nervy let's get a countdown.
Ready? 3...
2....1..... Gooooooo Three, two, one, go!
Woo.
All right.
So this is going to get started.
I would say that this run is basically we are here
to support the Master Chief.
There's a line from Sergeant Johnson later in the game where he says
and I quote,
I want everybody supporting the chief!
So that is what we're going to do.
Yes, that sounds exactly like that and we're
going to sound exactly like that. And what we're doing
I would say most of the time if you're wondering which
screen to watch look in the bottom left
and watch Nervy. He's going to be leading the way
taking the charge and we're going to be doing a lot of death abuse in this run
because unlike Halo 2 Legendary when you die
it doesn't just reset back to checkpoint
It allows you to spawn on one your allies
assuming that you meet the criteria for that. So we are waiting
for roughly about 34-35 seconds and then
we will get rolling here.
Yeah so Sierra 117 this is of course
the start of Halo 3
And just going to give here at what Legendary
is all about. Enemies in Legendary
have a ton of health, they deal a ton of damage
and their aim is incredible. By the way, thank you for
the $5,000!
Hooray hoor Hooray!
Feel free to say hooray whenever you want.
Death and destruction!
And so this level is... We much trying to support Nervy here.
There's going to be a lot of enemies and we are just trying to make sure that Nervy gets to the end
It's a pretty good mix of combat and movement at this level I feel like
We all survived? That's good no deaths yet It's a pretty good mix of combat and movement this level, I feel like.
We all survived?
We all survived. That's good. No deaths yet.
Actually no, we just died at the start.
No unintentional deaths is kind of important here.
One thing I will say is that A lot of the commentary in this run just by virtue
of the difficulty of the run if you've played 4 player legendary on your own you might know
it's quite tough.
One jackal alive in the tree.
Got him.
It's just going to be that we are going to just be doing
actual comms because
we need to call out what is going on, who is alive
and sort of what the situation
is. We've got two alive
up top. yeah we're good
so yeah we're gonna make sure to explain a lot of the co-op exclusive stuff
that you wouldn't see normally but like we're not here to tell you exactly how the Halo 3 run works.
That's been done before we were here because it's two guys,
two brides having a really good time.
So often when we run this game
it feels just playing some Halo with the homies
when he got out of school back in 2008 It feels like just playing some Halo with the homies
when he got out of school back in 2008.
So it's been a great, really good time.
Vibes?
Vibes.
Hang on.
Hold.
That should be good. Vibes?
Oh, God bless!
We skip a little bit of
cutscene right there called the Cortana moment where we would
slow down a bunch so yeah that's
pure vibe check right there and yeah the vibes are good which
vibes were very good very on point and i you know something we haven't really talked about yet uh
adaf your fat drumstick yeah okay I'll talk about this now
I was gonna save
this for later but
I'll talk about this now
When I was a wee little 10 year old
boy I made an Xbox 360
gamer tag, and that was Fat Drumstick.
Fun fact! If you make
a Microsoft account, that
stays.
But you know what?
Honestly, like honest to God there is something delightful about like 15 years ago I was playing
this game with my friends as Fat Drumstick and now 15 years later I'm playing this game with my friends as Fat Drumstick and unironically
I thought about that half an hour ago and almost cried!
By the way rock beam, beam on the rocks.
Okay that's you Aiden. i'll take the extra yeah and
you know what's really great okay actually i'm gonna let nervy cook here
for a second because we're not going to go i gotta cook here so this is a gap
jump i'm essentially gonna combine a nade boost with
a slide jumps, get to the other end here early
combined with a bubble just for some safety.
Nicely done Nervy.
And I'm essentially just trying to get out of
here as fast as I can.
We got probably the scariest part
of the first level.
Yeah, this next clear is really difficult
and we're just going to kind of be walking in here.
Delaying a checkpoint?
You can really watch any of our perspectives here
and we're all going to be doing something wild and different.
Yeah, we all have unique roles in this yes
really good check nice checkpoint that's important on legendary
beams are dead beams are dead yeah uh brood is dead awesome bridge is clear
so i'm gonna do a little bit of a sequence break to get to the other end
don't do it oh okay nervy died that's you chrono too yeah it's on kronos yep so this
is one of the cool things about legendaries that we have contingency plans uh by having
a second player go for something we can kind of back up just by virtue of having multiple
attempts yeah and like it's just this run is backups on backup as you might expect when
you have four people you have a lot of options for a
backup which is pretty nice as it turns out i made it then okay good job uh chief ends up here
oh i see him yeah yes i I saw them hammers up.
Grab it, grab it.
And we need that hammer to do
something pretty cool and he's going to
Brother, hand me the hammer!
He's going to Fedex that straight to uh
straight to nervy you get it yeah on the other side of the bridge
nope go ahead and just kill me okay
oh you're going to see a lot of that.
Kill me Master Chief! My hammer's all yours!
We're going to be killing each other a lot in this run as it turns out.
Okay I'm clear on the side. So I don't know about the rest of you all but I mean
I did my job perfectly.
Clota should be hit I think.
Check out Nervy's screen here
if you've seen Halo 3 run you know what's coming. This is one of my favorite little launches
at the start here. This is called Early Pelican
Board. I can look at Nervy screens
Oh! I never get to watch Nervy
Yeah we've been playing online this whole time
and so to do this in person
The off latency
is coming. So I'm going to combine a nade jump
with a hammer boost
to get into... Yes!
That's my goat!
Throne us. That's my goat! Kronos. Best bump, best bump?
And that's Sierra.
That was easy sub six.
Very cool. Alright and here we go on to crows i would say
we have time for a quick donation before we really get into this first just updating that
you're at 3 526 dollars on the multiplayer showcase let's keep that rolling we you do not want to know we
did all that practice and crap to each other if you want to see four friends
turn immortal enemies trust me once to make that. If you want to see four friends turn into mortal enemies,
trust me,
you want to see it.
We do have some love
quickly if you'd like
to hear it as well.
Yeah, please.
We have $50
from Nicholas and Jack
who say,
wow,
ADF clutching up
with the bros
playing Halo?
Can't believe I've lived long enough to see my youngest brother become my high school
bully.
Donation vote for the 2v2 showcase." That's a wild way to get that.
That is an incredible donation.
My brother texted me before the run and said,
I don't think the donation people are gonna like my donation.
Oh that is awesome. Wonderful thank you boys
Thank you for watching much love. Look I know your going to call me needy
but i gotta get some nades. Yeah, yeah
I'm fully stocks. Oh, i'm fully stocked kill me brother. All right. Thank you
Thank you for the cause. Yeah, I died for the cause
There's a lot of that. I mean, that's kind of the name of the game.
Do you have plasmas Brian?
Yeah, I got one.
I'll be good to go.
So we've got a big wave fight coming up here and this is going
to be pretty big divergence from the solo route.
Nerby is gonna get in a specific spot,
we're gonna do kind of like death abuse.
You'll see what happens!
I just activated coordinates using the controller
Just hold down some buttons for a second
It's actually built into the game i don't know if
they just forgot to take it out or get some tension i'm gonna line up in a very solid
okay yeah that guy like is invincible I guess. I am in position
Okay so Brian and I are going to die at the same time
And some silliness is going to happen
We're going to the predetermined death location
Right here. We love dying right here
It's so nice
Alright. Let's hope it works Meanwhile We love dying right here, it's so good.
Alright. Let's hope it works! Meanwhile I will be...
You got a melee but...
You're being combat in this episode.
We have a lot of time for this so it's kinda chill.
I'm gonna bry you ready
yep go okay that's a spike it worked nice i spawned on three one there we go and through. Nice.
He'll nerf it through the door,
and he's gonna spawn now.
He was going to kill me!
Boy we just kill each other all the time.
Honestly I'm starting to wonder if we actually are friends.
So Kronos has the toughest job here.
He's got a basically solo-to-hanger fight.
It is as Nervy loves to say
The freest quota in the game!
Yeah so he has a lot of time
to get this done.
The goal for Kronos is just stay alive and-
Marine please!
Oh I can watch Kronos?
And not be killed by hisos. Yeah, you're gonna
watch Chronos to screen cause...
Oh my gosh!
The Marine is scaring me
he's throwing like every single frag grenade.
When the AI in this game decides to throw a grenade,
it is their only decision for the next five minutes.
Okay we should be good.
Cool so basically what we've done
is we're all set up to hit successive triggers.
Yeah, we are standing in certain places so that when Kronos clears the fight
The next trigger bumps to Frye then immediately to me and then immediately to Nervi
And now Nervi's going to do a backwards deployable cover launch where it's basically,
you think about like shaking up a can of soda.
I can't believe that it made that motion on camera.
It's like shaking up a can of soda and...
I need to re-try again.
You're good. I totally just hook you with that.
It's like shaking up a can of soda,
and then wait for the pressure to build
and then boop!
Nice.
And unfortunately...
Airbag.
...I was the airbag there. Thank you for being, Airbag.
I was the airbag there.
Thank you for being my airbag!
If anybody wants to keep track of how many times Brian and I have to die for the cause...
Nobody is more dedicated to the UNSC than these two elites.
Alright, but the firing squad actually i hate that though
say go in fire it wasn't go but that's fine you know know what? It worked. 55. Oh, that's
the marathon look right there.
So the weapons can have different ammo when you
pick them up. Yeah, anywhere between 50
and 90 is actually one of the worst watch nervy screen right here
this is the first graph called upon you're gonna serve oh chronos try it we're good hang on
oh okay that was kind of cool almost.
I'm surprised they didn't die there obviously.
One of my favorite things about this run is getting to watch all these tricks from third person.
It's super sick.
That's ok we got another very cool launch here.
A rather famous one you actually don't need to clear out the barracks
Alright Ada you know what to do
Get on the forklift
I'm getting on the forklift sir
Thank you sir
Dudes will see this and think hell yeah.
I'm gonna activate this elevator we do need to hit a specific trigger...
That's okay. Are we good?
As long as we don't softlock there. I think We just have to check one more time.
I think we just have to check one further down the elevator
Yeah, that should be okay.
We might get another one actually, let's see
Better early than late
Alright, we got the voice line yeah we're good
all right so pretty complicated fight coming up here we're gonna i'm gonna do another minute to get thrown through the store here i'm not the door go that's it that sounds
like mine were good i was like that was scary
oh wait nervy went through can you kill me okay thank you okay here we go this is improv have we killed everybody yet
yep we're good we gotta go up Okay, here we go. This is improv that we have we killed everybody yet?
We gotta go up
That's not everybody. I'm probably going to be de-spotted.
I will let you know when I am good.
I might be able to get the hammer actually.
Good recovery!
Not too far forward yet Kronos.
Everything just deloaded on my end.
I don't know if that is universal.
Yeah, hold on! Alright go ahead.
This is a backup. That's why we got backups.
Ledge is all about backups. You need backups for your backups, even.
And for those backups as well.
Okay let's move forward and uh...
Yeah we're gonna help you over here by just full clearing this hallway.
Should be good.
I got spikes. I have fuzz mace. should it be good i do have a spike okay cool so i did pick up a camo specifically for this section and try to be careful here
i'd still want like you just look at the scenery screen yeah there's a bunch of sniper jackals
everyone's favorite they can just one-shot me so you really want a camo there
okay so here two players are gonna go for the bomb that's mean chronos and the other
two are going to progress and then nervy is going to go for one of the hardest tricks in Halo.
Yes... I'm... we'll see what happens.
Yeah dude! We got this.
That did it chief! Cool. Woo!
Well, I am in position......I'm just gonna die.
Yeah.
You may go.
Yep. It's looking bad.
Dang it!
Good try, good try, good try.
So what I was trying to do
was essentially clip through that wall and go all the way
to another Cortana moment at the other end, but...
It is literally so hard.
It's ridiculous.
Pretty nice that you could just have somebody
go forward in Koala.
Yeah for sure.
So we're almost at the end of Crows here and
feeling pretty good so far! How's the crowd feeling so far? How are we liking this?
Oh my god! Wow!
Okay I'm not gonna lie, didn't expect that response as well.
Um...I have a frag for you, Adep.
So in a delightful change of pace,
I get to do the killing which is just so exciting for me.
Thank you!
Am I the furthest ahead?
Yes, you are.
Oh, you have a DC?
That's why I wanted to do the DC launch!
I believe in you.
I got out of your way.
So, I would say
Lana this is the best chance for some
big time donations
Let's get some big-time donations alright
so just want to shoutout that we are over $5,000 towards our 2v2 multiplayer showcase 10% of the way folks. Let's keep going and part of what got us there yeah exactly was 150 from visuals who says shout out
from team pipe it up and us on the back couch we're all rooting for you
and know you're gonna crush it please put this donation towards the Halo 2v2 so
we can watch this team tear
each other apart.
By the way, did someone say
haloruns.com?
Thanks so much.
Would you like some more?
Yeah, one more. Okay, for sure.
We also have $50 from
Shift who says second dono to
say Nervy is the goat.
May Kronos please not kill too many Marines, and I'm
so excited to see the one and
only Fat Drumstick.
Thanks, Chip.
Shout out, Chip. That's one of my screen homies.
Love that guy.
One more quick one?
For sure we have $25 from Sapphire in Pink who says
Lots of love from the back couch! Wouldn't miss primetime Halo 3 for the world less than three
Thank you Sapphire thank you everybody all right so here we are onto savo
highway very very iconic cable 3 speeder level
gonna be a lot of driving.
Also,
Loki
we get a chance to race each other a little bit here
which is always nice.
Give me a boost.
So these Warthogs they have the slowest acceleration but the fastest top speed so it's like a high risk high reward type endeavor the better you drive and maintain
that top speed there you go nervy lo Nervy low-key has to be
careful not to let Kronos get in the lead, because if
Kronos at any point gets the chance to
be the Master Chief, he will
grab that opportunity
and not let it go.
That's my gravity hammer, that's
my DC, that's my warthog.
I'm going ahead, do you want to
see me spawn?
Yeah.
If there is an agent of chaos in
this run, it is Cronus.
It is definitely Cronus.
So then, DC. this run it is chronic it is definitely
decent enough yeah no that's fine and the reason that all three of us get in uh nervous warhawk the reason we stack up
the water hogs is because if you have more people in
where hot you can soak up more damage so it's a it's both fast and safe
and on ledge like having an empty hog as a death sentence, especially at this next part.
Which can be kinda scary...
Good
It's already scary
Oh wow!
It was very scary.
I'm red bar.
Oh, Nervy's dead.
Kronos, Skidachief go!
Let's go!
We're fine.
They're all good here.
And we have a backup hog that will actually spawn.
Everyone gather up!
You gotta lure him in.
That's on me, that's on me.
My bad my bad.
I'm grabbing the grav lift here.
We'll hit the draft lift here. Yes, heard her.
And we will get the backup pod.
Oh, we don't get to do that?
Oh my god! We don't get a save 10 minutes!
We don't get to save 10 minutes!
Guys this is so cringe.
This is so sad.
You good up there, Kronos?
I'll just throw the nade from here.
Just throw it at Kronos.
$10,000 donation and I kill Kronos right now.
I actually want people to hit Kronos from here. Really? Yeah, I want to be able to hit Chronos from here. Really?
Yeah, I don't know if Stevie can do it.
Oh my god!
Sick wheelie!
Dude that was actually pretty cool.
I actually caught up a little bit though. Can you do that again? Yeah, that was actually pretty cool.
I actually caught up a little bit.
Can you do it again?
Yeah!
No but actually not just that we actually...
And Grav is giving you the grab lift.
She did good.
That's teamwork baby
what an easy to please craft we literally
so we're gonna go through this little tube because there's a bunch of brutes with brute shots and it's comedy but in the wrong way.
Oh, okay.
Case in point.
Yeah you know I'm not gonna to make any comments about how this Sovohazard hasn't gone until the end
There's things that I want to say but if I speak any of them into existence surely it will curse us never you can turn
cords off if you want by the way i don't know if you use them
i could turn them up actually once they're on really yeah
wow how fun is that it's it's a blast i can't believe you just backseat games the master well i just thought maybe
you know we're all we're in the zone we're locked in we're gaming with fat drumstick
you know who knows oh beth i am plugged into the matrix right now
so this is all oh okay okay this is just literally all like adef
sorry nervy and crotus here adaf and i literally just do
we have never been helpful in this side. Oh, I got a great shot!
No pressure.
You've got this. I'm gonna eventually drive up this hill.
So to end this level all you have to do is kill that turret and that barricade then move far enough forward.
All those enemies there that are scary doesn't actually matter.
Nice!
That's why you're the GOAT. Hey.
Can we do that after pros? I don't know, but we can get a donation here probably.
Yeah, let's get a couple.
Ooh! Let's do it.
So we are already over $6000 towards our 2v2 multiplayer showcase going up steadily. Great work everyone!
So our first donation is $50 from Viz who says
Hey Adaf, Bry, Chronos and Nervy, it's been an absolute pleasure seeing y'all practice for
this run rocket with that stellar commentary and gameplay that i'm so used to seeing
and they sure are thank you you so much, man.
Love you.
We also have $150 from Adeph's family who say we're so proud of you even though we're not a first-person shooter family.
Good luck, have fun.
We love you. Damn, my whole ass family. Good luck, have fun we love you
Damn my whole ass family
it's like we love you
your garbage
Love you too guys
Sad I couldn't be there with all of you
There's like a little watch party with my family
Oh, that's so cool! Hello Adepts Family
I wonder what things I could say about your family has no idea
You get to learn
a lot about a guy over there, you know?
Halo 3 co-op tells you a lot about somebody.
It really does.
Alright, so we're onto
the storm here. This is a super combat heavy level and
We are going to be having to meet a lot of various kill quotas in order to advance the mission
And they are not the freest quotas
Looking pretty good so far though.
Don't kill me!
I just got
was able to get him but...
Heard that.
Thank god, I didn't want to touch that thing.
Go ahead.
Just keep it all the way through.
Got it.
Oh we got... Nice! Oh, look out. Nice. Okay cool wow I can't believe-
Okay now this is the scariest part of the whole level really. This might be the scariest
part of the whole run.
These marines will not hesitate to fire their rockets directly at...
They are determined- Oh my god, what are they doing? We're chillin'?
Okay I'm so far back.
Okay, I'm so far back. Okay, I'm dead.
Uh...I'm gonna spawn in the lake bed.
I might still be able to get something.
That my whole life just flashed before my eyes. Three marines
just shot a rocket and some-
What just happened?
Marine kind of thing
Both choppers are alive I'm only going to get to the Wraith
in a second.
This is not good. The chopper just killed me.
The Marines got him probably!
Wraith is down.
What's hitting me? Oh, ghosts are alive far side?
Yeah. Oh I'm dead.
Stay alive? No no!
It's just you. You should spawn on me.
We're good we're good we're good we're good hi this is legendary that's how quickly
that's how quickly unwrapped sometimes you truly just need somebody to like, hide.
Yeah.
I'll try out the Wraith.
Ghost E flip so I think you still have to kill it real quick.
There's one Chopper...
Wait, that Wraith never died? Yeah, I'm getting
that right now. That's wild. I got him. Okay.
Okay, next wave. Yep.
Somehow.
I don't think I'll be able to kill it. I'll try. So Storm
has a rather famous coffee pasta. Oh got it for this okay we have the phantom
stem both phantoms are done i think that might have been i mean i'm not gonna say it was my
fault but i stood in the wrong place i stood in the wrong place wow dude this guy died
please hold on is that there's still yeah we did a little somebody pick up my grab list
this brand is actually just one v1 i don't have to grab lift no This grunt is actually just 1v1ing.
I don't have the grablift, no.
Someone had the grablift...
There's the dialogue.
The grablift might be on my X up there?
Well, good luck.
I need a monk.
We don't have a load skill by the way.
Oh wait really?
I don't think so.
No we got the dialogue.
Yeah we got the dialogue and the loads.
I mix the two up constantly.
Yeah, where did the war-
Do we not have-
Okay, Nervy has a monster.
That one's gonna be scary.
I don't have a Gravelift so this'll be fine.
So we're going to be killing the hunters?
Checkpoint by the way.
We'll see what happens.
I love how quickly this just evolved into complete
another chaos.
This is really the only way it can go though.
Oh, the scarabs spawn by the way.
Yeah, Nervy's...
I am through!
Okay, nice!
We're good?
Woo!
So you don't actually need to fight that Scarab.
You can just sort of line up the mongers like that and well, just skip it.
Anyway, so this next segment is going to be... Much harder now.
Interesting? Yeah, I'm
definitely a little nervous at this juncture
As long as we just
follow me, I have a plan.
I want everyone to support the chief.
Do you wanna share your plan with the rest of your team?
Okay, well the plan was die.
It's all going according to plan.
Oh! There is a...
Oh, I'm dead.
Am I last alive? No, you're two. Oh, there was a... I'm dead.
Am I last alive?
No you're two up.
So there is a little house that we can go into that has a sniper.
That's a human, my bad.
One marine dead?
Yeah.
I think you killed everything except the birds.
What can I say?
Nice.
All right, so do you see
the house on the left side
that almost is going towards?
Yeah, don't follow me. Go to the house on the left side.
Go to the house! I have a bubble shield if that helps us at all by the way
Oh god these hunters are going crazy
Yeah normally with the strat we would would completely deload these guys.
Oh, we have two snipers here that's good.
Yeah so I figured this will be good.
Oh, it's not bubble shield?
Get the hammer! get the hammer!
I hear you.
I got it, I got it, I got it.
I have a sniper though.
Okay find a carbine.
There's one right here.
I got it, I got it, we're good.
So we need Bri to have a specific loadout
To carry that hammer through To the next level because got it we're good we're good so we need bry to have a specific loadout
to carry that hammer through the next level because
i will make things fast i can boost you uh there's a bru oh let's kill him
and then yes.
Thank you.
Jump! Hold on, okay.
Yeah your timing right here. So you're supposed to go to this AA cannon
all the way around,
but you can actually shoot it from here with good shots.
Just like that!
Nice.
OK.
We did it.
We're alive out of the storm.
We were fighting for our life there a little bit. Yeah, that was definitely...that
was a storm. That was a storm of all time. Truly. Alright! Fun level though, Floodgate.
Super movement based and uh... You should have the hammer.
I have the hammer, let's go!
So we're going to do a combination of
crouch and then jump out
of the crouch to do a slide
and then we get the hammer from Bri
for bonus distance.
Nice. Should be good. Cool.
And this level is largely Nervy.
I'm going to direct your attention to nervi's screen for basically this
entire level yep yeah we're kind of uh you kind of just don't do anything here it's just gonna
be a bunch of hammer launches it's probably one
of my favorite levels in the game so cool solo yeah i guess that's good to watch your screen
oh yeah true
just boosting nerdy fries Prius? Yep.
Here's a cone launch, these cones are
a little funny.
Uh oh, uh oh, get away from me!
We're good. Thank you.
Boost me! oh I just
trist flop weapon
my bad
and I would say
we have time for
like one donation while we set up for this next big trick.
For sure, shouting out that we have over $7000 towards the 50 thousand we need
for our 2v2 multiplayer showcase so keep those coming!
Keep them coming, we want to make that happen!
We also have $50 from The Income Taxes who says
So happy for this crew showing off the co-op side of this run
Good luck and remember to visit haloruns.com for all your halo needs
so this is a forwards dc launch
nice yeah baby first try that's my goat right there that's why nervy is the goatee oh it's so satisfying i love that trick
yeah i can't believe you said that first try by the way.
That was pretty sick.
Very... it's really weird those DCs obviously
You're not meant to go that far so it's like weird. Those DCs, obviously you're not meant to go that
far so it's a little finicky sometimes
but I'm really happy that worked out.
Now we got my favorite trick coming up.
Here comes the pizza baby.
So this section,
Nervy's got the pizza launch
Kronos is going for a backup
DC launch and then Bry and I are pushing forward
just in case. Oh joke's on you
I'm watching Nervy do this.
Okay, I'm pushing forward...
Nice!
Don't kill me!
Go go go!
Let's go!
Let's go Nervy.
So I combined a hammer launch with essentially an equipment jump.
So I threw down...
We call it a pizza, but it's really like a trip mine.
And we jump off of it in midair
to kind of keep that momentum going with the height.
So Nervy is going to do another slide jump and a hammer launch, or a hammer boost I should say
To the end of the level
And we will be through to
The back half of the game which is
As Halo runners love to say
where this run really starts.
Who hit me?
Nobody hit you.
So I'm going to try and end this level before
this moment ends by doing some boosts over here to hit the final button.
And that's Bloodgate. Nice!
Boys? And we got time for
probably one donation as we get to the next level.
For sure! So, we have
$250 from Zed F who says
Halo 3 with The Boys made
for some of my favorite memories
Loving the good vibes on this run.
Put this towards the multiplayer showcase.
Thanks so much for supporting that.
We love to see it.
All right, so yeah, Ark, if what you saw
so far you thought man, that looked kind of hard
me and my boys back home 2007 we
couldn't do that in four hours well this is where the run goes um dare i say insane omo
it's this is really where the run begins.
Yeah, every single level from here on out
is going to be considerably longer than anything we've played so far
and we're gonna have a lot more diverse roles
and different things that we're doing.
I'm slow by the way.
Oh wow! Oh! that we're doing i'm slow by the way oh wow
okay if anything there at the brew shots right Oh, no. I'm gonna die Just go! I'm trying
Okay if anything... There the Brute Shot's right there
Alright, I didn't need a sniper as well so I'm going to try and hopefully just sneak fire
I'm also going back for the beam rifle that I lost.
I killed the Jackal, maybe too early. Oh my goodness!
I almost died. Boys what's going on back there?
We're good! Uh don't you worry your pretty little face
I'm not worrying my pretty little face
I'm not. Co-op strats by the way, Naby.
We've got a cool little spawn thing
stuff... you'll see!
It's a thing.
You gotta act right.
And this is our birthday party right here.
Nice. Okay.
This is where the level...
This is where...
This is where i become frightened
yeah we're all gonna take uh different roles here
gonna get in a bunch of different vehicles and there's a lot of combat
coming up
nice good, good job, good job, good job.
Okay! These grunts are
freaking out.
No Russian or anything but your Uber's here.
Oh thank you. Thank you. How much for the fare?
Uh how about uh
whatever it is like $36000
left to get the or whatever it is for the... You can just pay that.
Yeah we got $42,661
We got you.
I got about $20 in my pocket
Is that enough? Oh yeah.
Okay, I'm good! Go go go go!
Um...I wanna try something else-
It's good we're going!
I want to try something new here
when you get down into like the basin tell me to die
cause' I just like oh I
okay yeah
Anyway
Oh chronos first?
Yep.
So we need to do this in a particular way
to avoid getting extra spawns.
Wow, they are going after it.
Yeah I'm almost dead.
So we need to go up this hill like this, it's gonna skip a whole bunch of spawn triggers which is gonna make this next section a hell of a lot easier.
Chronos no!
You're good.
No! No! Nooo. You're good. And noooo! Oh, that's enough ironclad stuff.
NOOOOO!
Die?
Okayyyy... Kronos I swear to god.
Alright watch out, I'm weaving in.
Good comms!
Okay most everything over there should be dead Kronos?
Wraith is pulling away and dodging me we're good nice
i'm gonna take this warthog and put it in a very specific spot and you will see that
coming to play a little bit later. Come along, ghost!
Yeah, he's right here. First one...
Oh no.
We're good. No we're not.
I'll melee real quick.
The reason that we melee is to prevent
teammates from spawning on us.
He's coming back around, oh no!
I have the left Wraith.
Nice recovery there. i have to left right
okay nice recovery good stuff fellas yeah i'll talk for that platform my co-op unit. I love my boys! I love my boys!
What can I say?
I'm just a proud mom,
I love my boys.
Alright.
Okay. Alrighty right. Huh? Did you say something? No. Okay.
So I need to get a specific ghost here, specifically the one that either Adepts or mine I need to have here in specifically the one that either Adephs or mine I need to have
here in order for a funny little trick here.
So long as it wasn't the one that was upside down you should be fine.
Oh!
Okay we have a backup.
Yeah we need to die at this specific time.
Tell us when to die.
Die!
This will be really interesting doing this back up here I'm not gonna lie.
What was the plan again?
We go for the choppers?
You take the chopper i'm gonna i don't know i'll take the chopper uh
somebody i think chronos takes the chopper and then
we killed these two chapters it's been a while since we did this
since we've had to do this in awhile.
Come here buddy!
Oh! They killed each other!
Let's go!
That is insane.
That has never happened before!
I'd like to say that was calculated by fading one over, but that would be a 4000 IQ play.
That actually just saved us so much time.
Are the ghosts dead, Kronos?
Yeah...
Oh nice!
Okay, it's just the wraith?
Hi, Wraith.
Okay yes, make a decision, Wraith.
The dead?
Cool. Wow. we should be clear.
We take those.
100% take those.
Okay, sick!
I have a power drain for you. Okay, cool. So we'll do it after
this. Um, so to
explain what happened there
basically Bride parked
a Warthog in the specific spot and for some reason
some overlapping funnies happened we don't know why
that happened there's a girl alive there's a grunt alone oh really oh brother that is so sad
okay there's not a granolade, we have some time for donations!
This is actually the perfect time because
We're going back to something here, Adaf
We have $10,000 from The Yeti
Pencils down, hands up.
And they say hey all
Yeti here we want that Halo
showcase let's go!
Let's go thank you.
We're at 18 thousand dollars Let's go! Let's go, thank you Dave.
And we're at $18,000 towards the 50,000 that we need.
Okay here is a big trick coming up so right here Nervy's going to hit a trigger
and this door is going to open
And hopefully I should be able to jump into the scare
If this doesn't look the best...
I believe...
Go Cronos! best i believe go chrono nice heck yeah so brian we found out that the easiest way to make that work was for bryan and i to look at the wall and do nothing. Whoa, hello!
I do need to move far enough
forward otherwise the Scarab will
essentially teleport so you should be good
for us. Yeah, and I should
be able to get out of this turret
And destroy the Scarab while on board
So it saves quite a lot of time
Here comes, here comes
ON EVERYBODY'S HEAD Here it comes, here it comes. Here we go. And everybody support the Chief!
Okay Nerby I'm gonna die here and then hopefully I'll spawn on you.
Sounds good. On melee? Yeah, with Melein.
So by meleying and jumping we basically make the game think that we're in combat
because we are with the air. You think so?
Look out! Look out! Look out! And we can force them to jump. Because we are with the air. Do you think so?
And we can force players to spawn on other players.
So, yeah...
We are just kind of waiting for the next segment here
it's gonna be a little while
we're going to kill a Marine to prevent some dialogue,
so go ahead and
take it away with the donuts. Yeah, for sure.
I just also want to shout out that we're working towards our
$50 million
lifetime donated towards charity and we need to get just over $905,000.
We're sitting at $828,000 everybody!
We are making swift work of this.
We also have $10 from
Victorian Kestrel who
says, hey Kestrel
checking in from the
back couch loving the
great vibes I'm getting
right now from GDQ's
past and present
donating for the death
match at the end of the run but almost wish it was an ffa
smiley face good luck gamers i'm about to die do not shoot me
let's look the plasma i will not see the co-op teams punching each other.
We got time for one more.
For sure, we have $10 from Kraid who says
Boost me? Okay Nervy! You're a wonderful human being
you have a gentle voice that's easy to listen to.
You're a talented speedrunner.
Let's get a hype train boosting our boy Nervy.
Hell yeah!
You know what would suck? If somebody were pissing right here.
What the...
Oh my god, dude.
I love how you still tried to force that in there.
Well because look, I don't think-I wanna be clear
I don't think that joke is funny
but we have done it every single run since we started six months ago, and if we didn't do it I'm gonna be honest. I would be upset
Oh, I think i'm gonna die
No, i'm alive
I'm not okay. Thank you. Yeah. I've never been in front here.
I'm a little scared.
Uh...
Woops!
Great comms Nervy!
Yep.
You know what?
Go ahead.
I'm gonna go.
Slowpoke chief over here.
You know, I know.
Just we're good now
oh i get to press the button oh yeah here we go there's a really cool strat that's coming up here this is huge for me
yeah coming up here. This is huge for me. Yeah, I'm so happy for you.
Let's go!
Alright, Kronos and I are
going to the edge of this little drop down over here
and we're gonna try and get a position for a fight earlier while ada or well
adef and nervy are literally going to be fighting for this
no bubble nery heard it
we're good i'm through uh yeah we got it we're good
you get it to get a chron, yeah. Let's go! Okay, okay.
We're just waiting for spawns now. I was not able to kill the Chieftain, just a heads up.
There are two more back there if you want to get them where's the other uh it might be i
might okay we're good uh there's a brute alive in there but he didn't make it through
the door so yeah if you have to fit locked we're good.
That was so fast! Are we serious?
Okay this arc was genuinely...
That could be a gold I don't know.
I think that is probably a gold, this is stupid fast.
That was... dude
Nux!
That was so good
We've never done that well
And that's the end of
the arc?
Yeah.
I'm clapping for us,
I'm clapping for
us.
Look any run
that makes it,
okay this level
Oh my god I hate
Hold E, hold
E, hold
E, I'm holding
E babe, I'm
holding E
babe.
You called me babe? Holding E Um hold me i'm holding you babe i'm holding you there oh you call me baby
um okay this level is from start to finish so unbearably stressful
um yeah we just right out the gate there's this combat encounter on
the beachhead we need to clear everything, and then after that it just becomes
oh where is the DC?
So we'll see what happens here.
I think I got the chip done, we will see.
I'm going to get a lot of use out of this laser here.
Both turrets are dead.
Nice.
I think...the Chieftain is dead?
Yeah yeah they're not pushing off so we're good.
Hooray! We're good. Cool, nice clear. Okay. I don't see a DC.
Yeah no DC.
Very important to kill these banshees as we found in quite a few of our runs
all right fellas godspeed yeah that's the block this driving sequence
i have nightmares about this driving sequence.
Was that what your nightmare was about?
Honestly, you were probably just having nightmares
about doing this part.
And then right after this part is going to be
what I think is the coolest and maybe also hardest it's hard uh trick in
the run but we'll get there when we get there yeah oh that's okay early ghost not great
okay i'm aiming turrets wow oh no diverting diverting we're fine Wow. Oh no, behind us!
We're fine. Okay, the worst. Good lord.
Why is that so scary all of a sudden? I don't know. Half the time the ghost goes away...
Checkpoint by the way just now.
Number two!
Okay so here's the next big part
So hopefully we all survive here. Hopefully. This is gonna be
quite...
Alright, the only time I might call for
serious time is this section. I don't know if the word
serious time even exists in GDq lexicon anymore yeah for real
uh here it is all right i made it
so i'm trying to get to a safe spot they're all trying to live and this is all setting up for a big team outbreak.
Oh we're good thank god.
Right behind. Not yet not yet not yet.
I'm also good.
Okay. Get ready...
And now! 206
It's really late 13
Really late 13
I got it!
Let's go!
Oh my god, yes! Kronos we have to lift!
Oh man flashbang! Just stay back be as safe as you can Oh, man. Flashbang.
Just stay back. Be as safe
as imaginable. Just live.
Don't let it up a night
down in this moment, please.
We are going to take
this so safe. There's the DC there bc oh okay what is happening
okay don't make any comments yeah we're not out of the woods yet uh nervy what do you want me
to do trigger no trick i want you to absolutely hit it okay heard that so trigger and camo yes okay
i got the dc i don't want to give it up that's two that's two 88 hand I'm gonna stop talking.
I'm in position. Remind me to say go or tell
me go please. Okay I hit trigger...
Go... okay now they're all gonna
teleport right behind me in a warthog!
Can you hear me? all right behind me in a warthog i cannot tell you how happy that we
i don't think anything has killed our
run more than that sequence right there
basically chronos hit a trigger and then brian otto
and i jumped out of our vehicles exactly seven seconds later uh
and that allowed us to sort of be in this limbo state so that we could get
back to where we were and do that thing where we bump triggers
in order to, you know, proceed
the level without ever having
to walk all the way back. If you're curious
about tech, the game thought they were
a warthog.
I was a warthog. I was a warthog. Alright, now we're gonna squad
up and
we are off to the races here as
head into the back half of... I have another DC
by the way. Oh nice!
Okay so that means that I'm the only...
okay so I have an invis here and we need it like six minutes from now?
Yes.
And that makes this the single most stressful segment of the run for me?
At least we don't have to look for a DC here.
That's true, I cannot die.
One of the greatest levels in Halo history this one
so many great moments as the speedrun it's...
See the Wraith falling down, there he goes!
Oh my goodness
I think there is a Banshee on me.
Nice! Good job!
I'm right behind you, Kratos.
Ow... Nice! I have a Breach Shot. Murderer.
Oh, you got it?
Okay.
You can have it again.
That's all good.
You guys need to clear them out anyway.
Yeah, we're clearing them.
I do have a DC so I don't need any...
I'm just gonna go for the I do have a DC so I don't need any materials.
You should be good.
Alright, moving forward.
Alright... And...
Okay!
Here we go! Nice checkpoint, nice checkpoint.
Yep, not out of it yet. We got a-
My favorite skip in the entire co-op
run coming up here.
Mind if we get a quick update?
Go for it.
All right,
we're almost at $20,000 towards our multiplayer showcase.
Now I don't want to alarm y'all but we're at 45 minutes through the run, that estimate is
an hour 20 so if
we wanna see more of these incredible
runners let's keep working towards those all right folks yeah
all right so there is a little hole in the window now thanks to to these flood. And using a DC
well... We can exploit that.
Nice. Are you through?
I'm through. Okay. I'm gonna dive.
Okay.
There's a lot alive?
Oh, do you need help?
Hold on a second, Nervy.
I can live.
You got it?
Yeah why not?
I'll clutch up.
What's the problem?
Okay cool.
He sounded scared. also i fell off
i'm not sure if this is an issue it might be you should be fine okay do
you think so i could probably make this thank you
that actually yeah i got you now you just picked me up right there
that was huge.
I'd like to say that wasn't intentional, but...
It worked.
Anyway, so the reason we're doing this is
we're skipping a huge driving sequence
and I'm just going to take a quick stroll backwards
to hit the trigger that we would otherwise miss.
I didn't die. Good job. Thank you. to hit the trigger that we would otherwise miss.
I didn't die. Good job!
Thank you.
I'm sorry for...
It's not like I doubted you, it was because I wasn't,
I'm sorry.
Hey look,
I'm all about open communication even in doubt.
Thanks babe. Yeah no problem babe all right die
hornets
checkpoint nice okay here we go very cool sequence coming up here
the double scarab so these two scarabs are gonna spawn in the sky and then uh two hornets on our
teammates oh i got it uh i'll just call a job. Okay.
My bad.
I was locked in.
So I'll give you the sort of bird's eye perspective here.
Oh my goodness, Chris!
Ryze jumping down?
Ah!
I'm alive.
Nice.
Eklet stop again. N nervy's in nice so they're gonna beat the scarabs early
um on melee for you chronos hopefully hi
oh no oh god go away okay we're good nice you good yes i got the hornet
okay ryan are you ready for the trick i'm ready for the trick
i'm a little scared of the ghost though.
I will not lie.
We'll be buddies here!
Okay, I'm kinda nervy.
I can maybe shoot these guys.
Gonna hop up on this hornet and we going to get to the end of this sequence
in style does look good do you i think so okay hi hi If only we had more time! Clam-a-ty.
Clam-a-ty!
Nice!
Hey, uh, Nervy? Yes?
Just out of curiosity... Yes? Do you have any games on your phone?
I got so many games on my phone.
Do you have any games on your phone?
I've got games on your phone!
I've got Temple Run...
You've got Doodle Jump?
I've got Doodle Jump. got total job at all locked in
all right so nervy is going to go for a huge
trick here yeah there he goes through the sky.
This is why we needed the camo.
Yes. It keeps him alive when
there are just so many enemies through here and we're just trying
to walk up in case we need to hit any triggers
retroactively or in the event that Nervy does which he won't because he's a ghost.
I'd also like to let Twitch chat know that uh, that multiplayer incentive there are only what two levels left
in the entire run? Yeah you gotta like- we gotta get moving on you gotta get moving
on that incentive like brian auto happiness meter is going down please
if bryan auto happiness meter reaches critical levels guys i don't want to talk about that. No, no, no, no.
Head back to the lift!
Find a way down!
I didn't want to kill you there.
Waiting for the plasma, yeah.
Do you think we can read donations as we close out of here, Nerby? What do you think?
Yeah probably. Alright so let's work on that Brian Otto happiness meter
We have $250 from PR who says donating
for the awesome cause and this super fun co-op run.
I want to see these four friends
turn on each other though.
So putting this towards the incentive.
Thank you so much.
Oh please let me hit no.
Come on.
No! Oh, please let me hit. No, come on! Oh no!
You got a cheer anyway. So close. Keep going. Okay we have $5
from NerdPiggy who says
We have less time than you think to hit that Halo 2
V2 incentive because these gamers
are fast. Let's get a
$5 train going. Also
hi from the back couch. Hi Piggy
Hi! We need your picture out. Yep, I'm there
I did something cool then
I did something cringe
Hey that's life. You can keep your donations
we actually just bought us more donation time
Amazing! We have $100 from Adeph's
mod team who say,
Good luck, Adeph and team! We're a bit surprised
this isn't being played on an array of
Spinda in Pokemon Emerald,
so we'll let it slide. Much love from Donut Shoes,
Hawkwing and the mod team.
Thanks so much y'all.
And you got time
for at least one more? Let's do it!
We have $500 from Captain SV who says
this is an amazing group to watch play Halo
hope they aren't too broken up
after the 2v2 winky phase
let's get it
by the way I have a hammer.
Oh! Can I? I need it actually.
Yeah, Protoss you cannot be
the chief today.
Just firing squad.
That was so selfless of Kronos to tell us that he had the hammer because
you knew exactly what was going to happen.
Thank you, Kronos.
Alright this is probably the most infamous level everybody does not look forward to in Halo
It's just...in Halo 3 at least it's so hard
The level that I think from a co-op perspective we enjoy the least as well because
We really just don't do anything and yet it feels difficult oh it's so
hard i've never had so much trouble doing absolutely nothing
i like the speed run for this level, but I'm also doing stuff so...
Yeah.
...I can only imagine.
For us it's just like pull back and pray.
Oh god. Yeah, hope Derpy doesn doesn't die hit a button you know
and i think we got time for i'd say probably another donation
yeah our train is rolling we're over 22 000
so we are doing wonderfully we have 104 from zibogo who says, Gotta get that multiplayer.
I'm not sure you've killed each other enough yet.
And we also have $75 from Wolfenstein saying
Supporting Brian Otto though I'll never forgive him
for killing the MRVNs in Titanfall.
Thanks so much.
Just a reminder everyone
when you are sending in your donations
make sure you are assigning them to this incentive
because we want to see this multiplayer showcase by the end of this run all right let's hit that
fifty thousand dollars and now will also put us well on the way
to the 50 mil lifetimes.
Yeah, I can't believe that number even happened.
By putting your donations towards the 2v2 showcase
you're helping both things.
Alright so we are going to split up here.
Nervi's gonna go forward and I am gonna just kind of hope
and pray that everything goes well from the far back. Nice checkpoint!
That was a really good checkpoint. Kronos and I are just gonna follow Nervy here,
My goal is to get out of this room as quickly as possible, preferably with a camo.
Okay... Okay. Where am I? Here we go. God, this level is so stressful.
Okay, I am in position.
So we're gonna overlap two of those little cutscenes where the game slows down, and I'm at a button that's going to force one to happen
it's-I'm gonna overlap with Nervis
and its gonna save time
I don't really know...
Well, I just do what I'm told!
Best of luck, y'all.
Get ready.
Go!
So this is once again
overlapping two Cortana moments, essentially
when you overlap two Cortana moments, when one of them
ends, both of them end.
In this particular instance
it's a Gravemind moment and a Cortana moment.
Which both just get called Cortana moments.
We're both right behind you Nerd Herd.
I can stay back if we want?
Go Kronos.
This is Hellroom. I stand here. yeah stay back okay go chronos yep so this is hell room this is yep aptly named i still don't know how to do this room casually i only know the two speed run routes and to be honest i'm
okay with that and let me know when to die. Will do.
So I'm staying back as a contingency plan here?
Alright, I'm through go ahead and die. Nice Nervy.
Nice Nervy.
Good job dude.
How are we spawned on Adaf?
Oh, we keep spawning on each other.
That's okay.
They have really cool launch guns up under every screen, one of my favorites for sure.
Could y'all die right after this too uh yeah probably yeah i'm gonna wait one second
cool nice nice okay die you said i think we're good yeah we're good we got the checkpoint Cool. Nice. Nice, okay.
Die you said? I think we're good.
Yeah, we're good. We got the checkpoint so we're chillin'.
Here's my favorite launch in the game combining a nade goose with this box.
Well...
You can get a lot of speed.
Nice dude!
Nice, Henry Vick.
And so for this next segment, I got a camo way earlier on and I'm going to drop it right here for NERD for later So its gonna allow him to do some... Its gonna make the exit from this level much safer because we're basically going to allow him to do some... It's going to make the exit from this level much safer
because we're basically going to backtrack the whole way.
We're good, by the way.
Just jumping in
and we are halfway to our incentive
for Ocifrostit!
Let's keep going! We're doing to our incentive, folks. We've crossed it. Let's keep going.
We're doing great work.
This is the penultimate level, so it's time to go.
Right in the back half of this level and then there's just one more twitch chat so get i don't
know what it's going to take a 117 train let's stop getting there start seeing i was gonna say
please let me shoot chronos in the, but that sounds a little morbid.
Also I would like to do that.
You just said it.
I hate to tell you, you just said it.
This is why this camo that he plays later on
is much more useful because
I can just camo through this section.
Start a chain reaction reaction destroy high charity
so adef i do want to shout out we had someone answering your call actually already we had 117
who said i'm doing my part love to see the vibes thanks so much we'd love
to see it vibes are good vibes are good five years ago they're good vibes are good
all right Alright. We're just kind of waiting to spawn in on Nervi here.
And we are praying for a checkpoint. Yeah, yes.
There's so many enemies in all these tight corridors here.
Looking maybe good?
Nice!
I cannot believe we got that checkpoint.
We got that at our practice, for our last practice run too.
We probably get that checkpoint 10% of the time?
If even that.
Yeah.
To note why that checkpoint's so good, if we didn't get it and we all died,
we'd have to go all the way back to before
the reactor room. Yeah, it's...
And that's happened before! It's
happened multiple times. Actually, the last time
it happened was when I completely
accidentally team killed everybody.
This is all waiting so lady, you know it was
I legitimately just shot everybody with the
fruit shot and I didn't try to do it at
All and i'm not joking like it was
I don't know that i've ever felt worse
Nice good job. So i'm going back up through
the hole that we came down in doesn't not supposed to so they put a big barricade here
but you can just jump over oh yeah and i jump over it? I can. Oh, cool!
Don't kill me please.
I need to undo this gun.
Thanks.
Okay so now Bry and I are going to try to find- and Chronos
Are gonna try to find weapons to empty
Because if you have an empty weapon...
I'm not having much luck here.
Yeah, this is not good for me.
I've not found anything yet.
Anyway, um, you're probably good to read a couple
donations after we head out of here.
For sure! We have $25 from
ZedZed who says,
Whoa! Wild that they made a game commemorating the legendary
John Halo. Very well warranted
Good luck to Bio and crew on
the run, super excited to see
you for it, take down this game on the big stage
And let's hit that 2v2
showcase!
How are we looking? Let's hit that 2v2 showcase. Woo!
We are at $28,000
Almost 29,000 so great work folks
let's keep it rolling. Good job, nice Cortana y'all!
That was like almost a 7 flat by the way.
Yeah that was- I feel like this run is really good.
Um... It's pretty solid.
I'm not gonna have fuel ride here. Okay.
So Kronos, I'll do my best on the uh clear
with you. Yeah we should be good here this is the last
mission get those donations in come on gamers we got time for
two on the way out here right now.
For sure we have $100 from CadGreen55 who says
donating to try and keep the Brianetto Happiness Meter above critical levels
I'm telling you because you don't want to see it,
if you don't want to see it...
That's right!
...I will get so toxic.
We also have $117 from Shanix
who says,
117 train arriving
to the station.
Hell yeah. Let's go! And we're almost at 30,000 117 train arriving to the station.
Let's go!
And we're almost at 30,000.
Come on folks doing so great.
Woo!
Heck yeah.
Alright checkpoint?
Please. Nice.
Good hammer! Yeah I'm gonna do my best here.
74 not bad.
Did you?
Did you defeat it?
Fun fact, you don't actually need to climb this fire.
You can just do fun stuff with a hammer and get in here a lot earlier.
I found a few rod.
Hi, Johnson.
Bye, Johnson.
Yeah, here are...
I got you baby!
Are you in there?
Open the damn door!
Come on, Kronos protection squad. No one kills my man.
There is a really big way fight that's going to come up here.
Okay, I'm gonna die, Kronos?
One of the longest
combat sequences yeah i know you followed me in there's going to be three waves that we have
to kill here well where are they i guess like never come here soon i never come up here this fast so
we have to like talk about it for a second right
usually takes me way longer
but It usually takes me way longer. Thought that was a shielded guy, but I'll do it.
Did I see one? I'm tripping. No he was right here!
I knew it.
Nice. Uh there's a spider up top, I think the Sentinels will get him.
Alright boss flag that other side, other side. Yeah there's one more spider you got him? I got him.
Nice.
Do we have time for some updates? Yeah, absolutely.
Okay awesome! We're almost at $31,000 and we have 125 from Mike and Laura who say
8FN team it's amazing to see this level
of FPS gaming on the SGDQ
stage. We are so proud
of these sick strats and even
sicker snipes. Keep supporting
Master Chief with that master chef dot, dot, dot.
Less than three Dad and Laura.
Thank you, Dad.
Thank you, Laura.
Much love.
Haven't gotten load yet?
There was a boss flood.
There we go. Nice!
And this is another cool...
Honestly pretty funny little part of the co-op run we are going to so we
already killed Johnson and we're gonna kill Johnson again
and that's gonna allow us to duplicate his Spartan laser that he has which is
gonna be helpful for the final boss fight here.
Who's victim and who's foe?
I think the foe is the guy
that purposely...
Yeah, I think the foe is the guy that purposely... Yeah, I think the foe's the guy
that's really evil. That's like killing everybody?
That would be my guess, I don't know.
I love that he asked the question though. Are we good?
Yeah, we're good.
Alright so now we are going to have two Spartan lasers
And Derby is gonna do a super cool trick right here
So it turns out
the floor extends pretty far out such that you can just land right here nice
hell yeah nice job nervy let's get to get the second johnson spartan laser
a little early and johnson spartan laser a little early
and johnson's going to point the hammer up
ah too early that's. Yeah you're good.
I missed again!
I'm so good at this video game it's unbelievable
Purposely delaying the run so we reach
the 2v2 incentive is wild.
It's totally wild.
I can't believe you're doing that right now.
I love how I hit the really hard part and then completely failed the easy part.
That's always how it goes.
Alright, this is it gamers!
This is the Warthog run coming up here.
The home stretch right here.
And so by virtue of the fact that we're playing four player legendary
there's an achievement you might be familiar with called a big master
so there's actually going to be ghosts spawned here that aren't here unless
you're playing four- player legendary and nervy's
going to use that to
his advantage so
johnson turned into a
flood right there oh
wait did he actually
think so
can't say my face
oh yeah there he is
oh wow bye johnson
i'm not i don't know what happened i'm gonna be real
i just saw like a marine that i assumed was johnson and then i saw a flood
so here's the vidmaster ghost they're put here if you play this on co-op and on legendary,
and basically just play from the start of a mission which we are doing.
There was a grunt? No it was one of those mullets. Yeah the emu looking thing. The dog is on
the other side. Oh my god. Alright good luck Nervy. Thank you hopefully we get a checkpoint
here that'd be nice. Probably not because I was shooting people. That's okay. My bad.
All good.
I'm gonna take this flood with me.
Do we wanna take it slow
so that Chronos can get in the back up hog?
Yeah, yes. Definitely.
Gamers this is truly you've got but minutes
But minutes left.
We're sitting at 34 thousand right now so
That's winnable! Right? Let's keep pushing, we only have a few minutes as ADEF said to hit that $50,000 and let's keep working towards that.
We got it folks! Let's keep pushing.
Okay, so Nerby is going to be the winner of this round. We got it folks, let's keep pushing.
Okay so Nervy is going to go for more exclusive co-op strats here because we're in co-ops there are bonus Warthogs that spawn
in these little roundabouts and Nervy is gonna try
to boost off of those
uh to skip some spawns hopefully i get nice panels oh nice
oh my god, that panel like-
No!
Yes.
We're fine, we're fine.
And then Nerpy...
That's what he might know!
Okay, we should die? We should die.
We should die promptly. Woo!
Also I just want to note none of y'all got my hog and I'm a little offended.
I should've, I should have.
We're just so used
to not being alive
at this point.
We really do...
Yeah, we just are
supposed to die here
pretty much all the time.
So then there is
a second roundabout that N nervy is also going to try
through several warthog on top of yeah again these are not free and those warhawks aren't
co-op exclusive as well so normally you have to drive all the way around those
roundabouts but co-op is cool co-op is cool
office for both his audience how we feeling oh my god!
There are so many people.
That's the first time I've turned around in like an hour.
Come on, yes! Yes! Yes, Irving!
And we don't have anything... I think we can chill now.
If we don't move, I think we're fine right, Chris?
That's correct.
Oh no...
... How are you doing?
I'm doing pretty good.
That's a mean panel.
Alright, looking good so far. Those panels on me. Oh, you got that's okay. We didn't lose too much speed. I think we're good. Yeah, it looks good to me.
Let's go!
I won't lie there was a split second I doubted. I don't know, y'all. I don't think we like these runners enough hey?
Well good news if you want more of them we need less than $15000000. So let's get
more of these runners!
Let's keep pushing folks time is
so short we are 71%
of the way there.
Every single dollar is important, less than $14,000 to go.
All right, folks, let's go.
We are about one minute left in the run, so get ready on time here. This is a very
good run from us.
It is...
Yeah, and that's RTA.
This is like 107,
I think, which is
less than a minute from our PB.
We're going to go through some last minute love just for all of these runners here.
We have $10 from Rain Dean who said, let's start a $5 final donation train
to get that multiplayer showcase. I get it started by buying two tickets time is coming up soon no, no panels!
And...time! 108.33, oh my god! That is... that's a 107 in-game time which is less than a minute for Mark BB
This is our second best run ever.
Yeah, yeah.
Our second best run ever!
Can we get some uh...
Woo!
Some bizpubs?
Oh my gosh can we get some bizpubs?
Boys!
Wow.
We are loud. Talk about coming in on our estimate.
12 minute time stay?
Alright so some shouts out?
You wanna go first? I think I want to go last.
Okay, I can go first.
Yeah, Halo 3 is
a game I remember so fondly from my
childhood just like playing with my friends
Fat Drumstick baby um and uh i don't know it just feels
i've done you know i've been very blessed to do quite a few runs on the gdq stage
i know all four of us have been, you know, very hashtag blessed
to be able to say that but like genuinely this one feels way more special
Yeah. Uh...I just couldn't have asked to
have done it with three better dudes so my only shout out is to the
three people I'm on stage with right now.
Okay, alright.
Jonas, how about you bud?
I just want to say this has been phenomenal
big shoutouts to everyone
in the Halo Runs community.
They've been supporting us for a long period of time,
and after six years or so for me speedrunning
this has been one of my favorite most amazing runs. So I am very happy about it.
I can't believe it's over.
How bout you bud?
Wow!
Yeah. Dude, okay wait hang on before Nervy says anything I want to make it very clear we all
played well.
NERVY...
I almost said a bad word there.
NERVY effing killed it!
So let's get some applause, please.
Alright, um...
Oh, are you good? my only shout outs of course i want to give it
to my family they were like texting me all day when's your run
winter one wonder run give me the link give me the link and i'm gonna try and
eat lunch so thank you so much to them uh shout out to my band mates as well i know
they're watching and they would kill me if i didn't shout out our bands our brother abel
formerly known raising kane dmca free music youtube please and of course shout outs to the Kane, DMCA Free Music YouTube. Please!
And of course shoutouts to the entire Halo
Rens community. Thank you all for
supporting us and shoutouts
to the crowd as well. Thank y'all so much.
I want to give a very special shout out
to my best friend Garrett
who is literally right there.
This is his first GDQ ever.
He just showed up today and I've known him for over 15 years
and I can't believe he's here watching the run, so...
I'm really glad you're here.
Love you dude.
And thank you all so much for doing this with me.
I like, i really appreciate it
and wanting to do it for so long and um yeah i just uh i'm so glad it happened
you know what i mean so uh it doesn't look like we're gonna reach the thing
and that's okay because it's all going to doctors.borders, which is such an important cause
Yes, uh, thank you all so much for your generosity
And fellas, thank you so much for doing this. I hope uh
Let's let's keep it going when we get home.
Yeah.
Oh, we're going for world record!
That is our goal here.
Our PB is within sniping distance of world record.
We are there.
Thank you everybody.
This was so cool.
Thank you everybody, this was so cool. Thank you!
Okay!
Let me switch in a little bit here.
This is interesting. a little bit here. Let me stretch in a little bit here. Oh, what is this?
This is interesting.
Cool, cool, cool.
You know what?
We'll get the layout when it's ready.
There it is.
We're almost there.
Let's talk about
what we're going to do here.
First of all,
I got to thank everybody for being here. We're back.-op run but it is time for teams to separate into two distinct entities.
Nice job, production team. We love you.
Okay, thank you everybody. $50,000
in an hour is absolutely
wild. That's the most I've ever raised in
any run I've ever done. Yeah, so thank you so much! One more round
of applause to all the donors please
It goes towards a great cause
But now Brian Otto and I we are team tight squeeze.
Tight Squeeze?
Tight Squeeze.
And we're Team RBN the Chief.
Boo!
What do you mean boo?
It's all love. It's all up.
And, uh...
You know, when it comes to Halo 3 I feel like there are two things
You play campaign and then get on a custom map with your boys
and you scream
So we're going to scream.
Can I talk about the ruleset a little bit?
We are just doing 2v2 hardcore team slayer, so that's like
VR starts no motion sensor but
we are gonna play the regular guardians so you're familiar with MLG rule sets,
this is kind of going to throw all that out the window.
There's going to be all of the various weapons
and sandbox on the map because we just
think it's a bit more fun.
And also the BR is fun to use instead of just AR.
Yeah.
Anyway.
First to 15? Also no screen peeking yeah no screen
on to me this space this is a liminal it doesn't exist yes
okay whenever you're ready nervy buddhay. Alright, gonna count us down here.
I am more nervous for this than the run.
I don't agree!
Loser buys dinner. Whoa!
Loser buys dinner.
Okay, okay.
Alright, good luck.
Alright, here we go! On blue side. With me with me with me
Got you. Yep. Come through here
We gotta control the power weapon
They're probably gonna have... They're on the other side.
I heard.
Yeah okay uh S3, S3, S3.
Yeah frag coming in?
Oh my- oh I'm dead!
Okay so we're good.
Okay cool we traded, we traded.
He's going to be over in S3 somewhere.
I'm bottom gold.
Where is your sniper?
In the depths.
Both here.
Can you get to me, Ada?
Oh! He had a hammer he's weak
oh i got something i got something just i got something
with their name on it okay you got no idea uh nervy's s2 or s3 rather i don't know what
that means i don't know a single call of his What is Callouts? Probably the one that's like,
on it in Infinite or something
like the highest rank
That's not fair!
Well he just killed me.
Okay, we need to lock in.
We got some tight squeeze.
Top blue, top blue, top blue.
That might have been who you just killed to be honest.
Oh okay. No I killed that.
Wait what am I doing?
Sorry about that.
You good boss?
Uh they were green by the way.
He's one check right now.
Oh cross! I got it! hammered he's going to happen okay
he's still i don't have hammer you're so nice uh top gold yeah
how did i die so fast oh was they behind yeah i was behind you
okay thanks for the intel!
No problem!
Where the hell? Sorry, Cronus is still gonna be over there
Nervy's top, he's at camo spawn
He might come top mid.
We don't know where Kronos is by the way.
He still here?
He has a shotgun!
Yeah!
I'll let you get it, goodbye!
Where's Kronos?
Do we know where Kronos is?
Post post dude.
Kronos is...
Other side? Okay. Oh, there's another one. Do you know where Chronos is?
Post, post.
Dude, Chronos is...
Other side?
Okay.
Drop, drop, drop, drop, drop.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Rotate with me?
Mm-hmm.
They're rotating.
No!
I am...
No! I am... No!
I'm translating.
Ready?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, down here.
Carter.
Ah!
Wait, you didn't come with me?
You were so far ahead!
Oh. I thought you were by the way.
There we go. Got him.
They were six away.
Heard that?
Heard that, yep.
They've just been controlling the tower
the whole time which is kind of what you want to do on this map so...
Dare I say it camping?
Oooh fighting words!
Oh my god! Ooh, fighting words.
Top blue top blue with hammer?
That scream was crazy!
You said top blue?
Top blue and then the other one's coming around the top side of it
oh i got something not doing that chronos has hammer
they're both on their time yeah they're both gold they're both gold right now okay
i was trying to shoot a grenade like i'm playing- Oh, that's the wrong weapon!
I'm pushing this.
I brought us one shot.
Yeah yeah yeah, I'm on you, I'm on you, I'm on you.
Nervy is going to be here somewhere.
He might-
Hammer? They're both close to you. Hi. nervy's gonna be here somewhere hammer
i can't believe you didn't see me
this guy uh one went down below i think that's ada with With me, with me, with me, with me.
He went up the lift.
Oh.
Trying to get back through it.
No, no, stay alive.
Where is he?
I don't know.
They're both hot, man.
Oh my god!
Tight squeeze needs to be tighter.
I know.
They are on the green part.
It's called Green.
Oh, thank you! They're on green.
Now they are at tower?
Bottom green also, right behind us maybe.
There they are.
He is right behind you! He's right behind me!
There's two.
That was the stupidest decision I've made in my life.
We need to lock in!
I'm locked in bro!
Okay, I'm locked in, bro! Okay. I'm gonna 360 no-scope this last one.
Okay.
I'll give you the opportunity.
No, no, NO!
You better do it!
You better hit it! You better hit it!
Oh no...
Okay, okay. Stay?
Are you talking to me like I'm a dog?!
What was that?
Babe! Babe!
Where is Kronos?
I don't know.
What the?!
Pull back, Bry pull back, pull back.
I hear you.
Oh he's top-topped?
He's topped up. There is no word for that.
There is no call out.
Kill him! He's gonna kill me!
Into my loving arms...
Nooo! No!
That was fun. It was fun. For $50,000 I'll happily lose QP2.
I'd be humiliated if you lost it for $50,000 I'll happily lose QVT. I'll be humiliated for $50,000.
Truly thank you for hitting this incentive.
We cannot thank you enough.
Buddy, 3 and 8?
You know what's funny about three and eight it's a number
i don't know what that means yeah me neither okay um
i gotta say though something i'm excited for and i bet the crowd is excited for too
is that coming up right after this run
there's a little something. I don't know if you know what it is
but there's a dog or something
There's no way a dog can speedrun
There's nothing in the rulebook though
that says a dog can't speed run.
We're going to have a dog speed running.
A dog is gonna speedrun right after this.
Thank you so much everybody!
Thank you for watching!
Thank you so much, that was awesome!
Keep donating.
Oh, so much.
PB is ready to go. Aren't you the best boy? Look at you, just ready to rock!
Hey everybody my name is James and I go by JSR
And I'm a speed runner but you guys aren't here for me
You're here for this guy
This is a 4 year old Shiba inu and his name is peanut butter
and he was here at agd well in pittsburgh at agdq
but that time he did a remote run but as you can see tonight
we're a little bit different tonight we got got a full house, Seth's GDQ make some noise!
He beats the bull
So he is ready to rock
We've got some wonderful folks helping out with commentary and as well
as I want to give this a big shout-out despite the cheetah is gonna not only be
PB's number one fan however if we need a little bit of concentration if he's
getting a little bit growled up just pay attention to spikey who's kind of going to help us guide the
crowd but if he's making noise let's make some noise for
this dog because he is trained to handle it
so it so real quick i want to introduce my couch starting from your left hello folks my name is
threach i am so excited to be back here on commentary again for the second run that PB and JSR have done together.
So thank you so much for having me.
Alright, now would be a great time for donations, so I hope that doesn't get too confusing...
No, I'm joking! My name is Grant Y yadis i'm really happy to be here in minneapolis and uh looking forward to a great day of baseball
with the best boy all right what about you are you oh you're asking about don't worry about that guy.
Don't worry about him. He's okay. And then of course I do want to shout out because there was a lot
of work done to make this controller. This is a new controller. It's a little bit different than the one we use at AGDQ
and big shout- one of my best friends
in the world who helped me design this controller, build
it, test it and he's not only
that but he's the co-trainer of Peanut Butter
Can I get some noise for Crispy?
Peanut Let me get some noise for Crispy. Peanut Butter, you're the only one I haven't talked to yet!
You know why?
Because I have a kibble for you.
Are you ready?
So folks time is gonna be when he presses the button
so get ready on that peanut butter.
Can you watch me?
Oh, he sees something over there.
Are you ready?
What?
Uh-oh.
What?
What is that?
Are you ready? Do you want to hit the button?
Good boy!
Okay, so we are off
here with the run and one quick thing to notice is that Peanut Butter
will be pitching in the top of the inning.
And then Peanut Butter will be batting in the bottom of the inning.
So we have a home field advantage.
We're hoping that Peanut Butter is going to have a great game
the ai can be a little bit unforgiving or it could be really good in our favor so
we're really hoping that peanut butter gets the right side of
the coin for them oh there you go good boy all right all
right we know the ai can be it could be good if
it works in our favor not so good if it doesn't and grunt
you are one of several mods for this game
is that right?
If several is Spanish for one then yes
I am definitely the mod for this game
but yeah
It's a lot of fun Just a game I grew up with had a lot of fun. Just a game I grew up with, had a lot of fun.
Good dog!
Here we are with the most amazing story
at Bellas.
Good job, PB.
Good boy.
All right.
That hit news for us.
Okay, one out.
Good dog. That's a good hit force there should be a double we'll get we'll take the lead run we got the lead runner that's good we've got okay just once this is
so fastball that's the ai we were talking about, folks.
It could have been but it wasn't.
Good boy!
There's a good boy. Sit.
There you go! Good job!
Alright!
Oh good boy.
You're doing great, Peavy.
Good job.
He's okay.
You're okay, buddy.
Ready?
Button.
Good dog.
There we go.
So we're entering the bottom of the inning peanut butter at the back watch me pb hey
it's okay ready watch me don't worry folks this is our engine manipulation by
peanut butter just wearing out the pictures and we're doing fine and butt good boy
ready
watch me
it's ok here
you're a good boy
that is the real we're early now okay
we're just wearing out the pitcher's arm it's fine yeah
but there's a hit! Oh, come on.
Good boy.
Either way peanut butter gets treats so that's all
that matters.
Here is my guy Bob's in Dugnut
Let's go!
And...button. I actually haven't seen all the donation names, so I'm looking forward to this.
And thank you very much
everyone who donated towards that incentive
to name the players on the teams.
We had such a good time watching those, so thank you very much for everyone.
And speaking of donations, this would be a good time to name a few up
absolutely so we have 100 from crispy072003 who says thank you
so much for this journey, JSR.
From building the controller to sharing the stage with you and PV,
this has been an amazing experience.
Much love, Crispy.
Good boy.
Would you have time for one more?
Yes.
All right, we have some love from people in the donations talking about their pets.
We have $100 from Kirby the dog saying good luck PB.
Good job!
From Kirby, Fruit, Cooper, Pete and Bucky.
Good job! Ready?
Thanks so much for your donations.
Good boy.
Thank you very much.
Okay we have peanut butter at the glass. Oh boy. Thank you very much.
We have peanut butter at the plate again.
It's okay, watch me.
Ready?
It's very tough not to just be so enthralled by watching this dog play make small right now i am
so sorry that i'm probably not saying enough but this is too adorable
they're not here for us they are here for this consummate professional
oh what's that? Oooh. Button!
The best dog skids ever in the business.
Ready?
Honestly...
It's the bow tie I think.
Button!
Good boy!
Here we go!
Button! There we go. Watch it, watch it. Good boy!
Sit!
Good boy!
He's a good boy!
That's a good hit.
Ready?
Watch me.
Bebe, watch me.
Watch it. Sit! There we go.
Oh, PeeBee!
PeeBee, button, button, button, button, button, button,
button, button,
All right sit.
Good boy.
Here we go. Runner and go pb you ready everybody oh my goodness and
now one thing you can pay attention to with the batters is you can kind of tell if they're a home run hitter or not.
Just pretty much there's like four body types,
so you can see.
So if we see a home run right now,
it is going to be...
Absolutely lose our minds right now.
It's gonna be fantastic.
That's okay, one out left
we've got a good home run hitter at the plate
right now. Are we
gonna get it? Oh, good boy!
That's alright, good boy.
Good inning. Alright, we did good we did it Good boy. Let's go, Pete!
Good boy.
Ready?
Good boy. Oh good job!
Good boy!
Ready? Button, sit.
Wow. Here I... Button, sit. Laser focused
ready for a win for GDQ. Button, button
you gotta push it. There you go, good boy!
Yes!
Yeah! Good job, Pee-Pee!
Ready? Button!
That's not getting out of him. Come on we got this we gotta come on
warning track warning oh
all right can't win them all that's just going to make the wind that much more exciting for each
one we get the w here at the end honestly don't worry we're gonna see it anyone can do it it's
this guy ready good boy Ready? Good boy.
All right, now ready.
Okay.
Uh-oh! There go, good boy.
That's alright. Pause again?
Go ahead and enter for me real quick.
Thank you. Okay. We're good.
PB, come here! Peanut butter!
Hey there we go. Oh what a good boy! Are we good?
Can we get some extra love for pb
while look at this boy what a good baseball
yeah yeah give it to him he deserves it he's doing his best for us folks and we are still in this game
all right we're good to go go ahead and that's enough cheese pb i think the cheese
yeah that's not enough cheese come here show me your bed where's your bed can you show me your bed oh boy sit there's a
good dog are you ready buddy here we go all right ready come on do you want to treat? Butt. Sit.
Good boy.
Oh, good job!
Nice.
Good boy.
He knew exactly what was going to happen.
Okay, that's good.
We held it to one.
You ready? Butt. Sit. sit the dog here we go watch me
watch me and button good boy here we go ready
ready So here we go, ready? Ready? Ready?
Fuck it.
Sit.
It's okay, good boy.
Ready?
Sometimes it's best not to be able
to run the second just because
the AI you never know what's going to happen if
you have runners all over the place so it could work out for us we're just
hoping for one big home run
that's okay that's not it yeah that's okay we're good. We're safe.
Ready?
Watch me.
Good boy!
Ready?
Oh no.
Purple.
Oh that's bad.
Oh... Oh... That's it. Oh, that's bad. Oh, no.
Oh!
Oh, that's okay.
That's my fault.
That was not BB's fault.
It was 100% my fault, buddy.
Good boy.
Ready?
Well here is peanut butter at bat.
All right. There we go.
We're going to take it slow.
Here we go, Peter. You got a little rally going.
Oh boy! Are you ready? Watch me.
Button.
Ready...watch me. Mr. Test run. Oh! Ready?
Watch me.
Ready?
Aw, it's okay buddy.
We got him right here. You ready?
Okay two outs we're ready though. We are ready one good home run
takes us in excellent position right now
Believe. Gotta believe right now believe gotta believe so are they gonna throw the third nope all right it's okay exciting
inning though buddy you did so good. Excellent, DD.
You're doing great.
Well, while we've watched all this,
this is a great time to actually hear
a little bit about the controller itself
and everything from JSR.
Hi!
Good to see you guys.
Joining me from the dugout, I see.
Yeah, we have good boy in the game
right now. He's still throwing gas.
He made one bad pitch but
a good boy doesn't make a bad pitch. Let's be honest so we're still looking good
Yeah, so Jason do you want to tell us a little bit about this controller that is just fantastic looking right now?
Hold on for one second, what...
Oh, BB on site checking out what's going on?
Alright you got it! on site checking out what's going on all right you guys i'm coming over here
all right because he counts and jso this is a different controller from the one you had
playing gyromite with pb oh come on turn it let's go
yes this is so the original controller we built out of a gamecube fight stick and it was good
but it really limited what we could try.
We built a controller out of plywood that allows us to have some... Oh! We had a scratch
Was that a time loss?
We gotta keep an eye on belly itches. A scratch?
We want a pitcher, not a belly-itcher! Yeah!
So we wanted to make a controller that gave us options To look at different types of games
And we're hoping that next year
Maybe we can start looking
At little bit more, you know
Unconventional stuff
Like maybe perhaps something like
Silent Hill 2. Doggo percent.
You know? Something like that. Who knows?
And as difficult
as that might be, he has shown
me time and again that as long
As we work hard together he will always
Try his best for me, and he does.
He's such a special dog and I'm so proud of him
Yeah he is doing so fantastic here
He really is
this dog has more patience and concentration than any dog i think i've
ever seen look at him doing great even with chris
you worked so well. It's okay.
So one time, can I get a hand for Chris?
I wanted to give him an inning because of how
much work he put in helping me out. Thank you
so much, man.
Good boy.
The dog up there Give me some of your bad. Good boy. All right.
The dog.
Oh, there goes his badge.
That's not good.
Well, he's still a runner.
It's okay.
He pressed the button.
All right.
While we get set up at the top of the inning when it's just pitching pitching now be another great time for some more donations absolutely i just want to fill everyone in that we are just about 18 000 away
from our 50 million lifetime dollars raised.
All right, folks? That's amazing,
folks. That's so great. We had
$25 from Ash said hi
who says, Hi JSR and Peanut Butter!
I know you will knock it out of the park today.
My cat Bobby and I are rooting for you less than three.
We got time to stay in the park.
Stay in the park stay in the park yes
all right cool we're getting the heavy hitters out we got some cheese
real deal now rally performance is dancing cheese oh dear I hope that doesn't disqualify him.
Ready? Watch me.
Well there are lots of mods to pass that through. We'll see if we have a talk with them.
Okay, one out still good though.
We're going back to the top of the lineup pretty soon
and how are we doing out there spike but how's this crowd doing
that's what we like to hear it's okay and twitch chat if you want to get your GDQ button and GDQ mash in chat we
wanna see that love and support for Phoebe.
That's right.
Good boy.
He's a good boy though.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight! Yeah! We have one... There we go.
Yes! Good boy! Big out, big out.
Two outs. He be pitching a great game
that's okay
it's only one runner
just one runner
still in really good position
with only having top run against us.
Top of the sixth.
That's us.
I'll take the L on that one, that's me.
Is that the commentator's curse?
It might be, it might be
Grunt you're going to get benched
Sorry bud. I thought it was the coach
Uh oh
Okay Griffey's got an arm
That's Griffey at left field We's Griffey in left field.
We put him specifically for that reason.
There we go.
Here we go.
Yes! oh yes close one all right folks it's not believe here we go it's not peanut butter that makes me nervous it's that ai with the feet
at our boys they're so good here we go oh boy are you ready deserving
all of the cheese right now, Threach.
He truly is.
Can't make the game cooperate but...
Sit!
Oh!
Get there!
Let's go! Sit, sit, sit. Okay we're gonna stop it. Good boy!
Alright. Really good position now.
He's doing great.
That space is loading.
Now we crank turn it around
you know what i've got i've got 20 bucks on a home run right now
here we go you ready going right to gdq we want to see this grand slam
sit here boy ready we're feeling it oh come on kidder the crowd is electric yes this is bad this is
okay i have to get out here this is a soft walk if we don't get out
you have to do it peanut butter button but the integrity of the run...
No, no, don't press that button!
We need to do this.
Button, good boy!
That's okay, that's okay.
Hey we're still in the inning with a runner on third.
This is okay.
You got this pb good boy this cheese is too delicious but the boys oh that's elite we're winning the lead folks. Let's make some noise for KenoFan.
Amazing!
What a toss!
So good.
Ready? Futsal! Sit!
Oh, good boy!
Alright. Great job.
Good boy. He would have scored more i think if it hadn't been for that
great job everybody amazing job from the crowd
you're a good boy, come here.
It's okay I love you buddy
you're doing great
I'm so proud of you
Can you do it?
You can do it PP What a good boy what a good boy and everybody who knows baseball we do have the time
honor tradition coming up you will have in between this inning there
will be the seventh inning stretch and we are hoping for a lot of cooperation from everybody out
there honestly it's great energy we want to
keep it going here that's true yes go ahead oh i think this is good Yes! Go ahead and stand.
I think this good boy
deserves a break. What do you say, Peavy?
You want to come here? Come here.
Come over here and say hi
to all the people in this crowd that are saying hello to you.
Look at this.
Can I get some cheese?
Can I get a little piece of cheese?
Yeah, peanut butter.
You know what time it is?
PB, get away from there.
You've got to come over here.
There we go.
Ready?
Can you show us what the seventh inning stretch looks like?
Oh, that's not the seventh inning stretch!
That's not the seventh inning stretch!
The Seventh Inning Stretch is a fun song.
You guys know the words right?
Take me out to the ball game. We know the words right take me out to the ball game we know
the words can we get some music to help out we're gonna need to help with all
the fans and people at just gdq to sing along if
you know the words Buy me some peanuts and cracker jacks
I don't care if I ever get back to the next group
Group, group for that doggo baby Go in it's a shame group Oh, Bob Dylan.
Bebe good job!
Oh, Bob!
Bebe, come over here buddy. Come over here.
Bebe, come over here.
Alright thank you very much everybody we are going to get the boy back in position
and ready for the bottom of the seven let's go let's build on this lead we got
the energy we've got the crowd behind us peanut butter is laser focused so ready for cheese
watch me here we go there we go ready
all right well Here we go. Ready? Button! Sit!
Alright, well good solid hit.
The timing is ours.
It's just a matter of time till we take this ball game home.
PBs Game to lose.
It's okay, go boy!
46! Good grief!
Slow pick.
Not too early, you're energy right now
He's ready
He's so ready. Oh, no, not fast enough.
That's okay.
We still got treats everybody.
It's all good.
I'm taking out the pitcher because Griffey Jr., the kid himself is coming up to the
plate.
He's going to get it.
He's going to get it. He's going to get it. He's going to get it. I'll be checking out the pitcher because Griffey Jr.
The kid himself is coming up.
This is big, we might need some cheese.
Yeah let's get some cheese here you ready?
Oh boy are you ready?
And BUDSY sit oh come on all right this is the
time still throwing the slow ball that's okay two outs but we might get a
nice oh oh it's going get out Go!
You set? Amazing.
And button.
Wow, and button. good boy and is that it couldn't be done good boy are you ready and
oh good boy good dog are ready? We got six more
outs to get before we do it.
Fantastic.
And on top of all that energy I'm sure we have a lot
people at home donating who also have a lot energy.
Let's hear some of those donations!
Alright, here we go...
We have $500 from Solid White Liquid and Plasma
Who say so excited to see this awesome run by our favorite canine speed runner and his human
jsr let's knock this one out of the top for doctors without borders special shout
out to three on the couch.
Thank you all so much I think probably one or two more
We have five dollars from Tempest Mask 1000 who says
Shout out to my family's 10 year old Labradoodle Sammy. We love him so
as the light of our lives just
as I love peanut butter and JSR's
teamwork. Alright
y'all we have $13,000
to go for our 50 million lifetime dollars raised.
Let's keep pushing folks we are doing such great work.
Oh my gosh that's so close.
That's all right, that's all right. It's good boy! We only got four more outs to get you can do it.
You can do it!
Yeah that's right, that's right.
Ready? And... here we go. Watch me.
Oh my gosh, my gosh tight game this is uh i know what you
want to see if you're at the ballgame but we all want to see peanut butter just
actually just take this home and We are out of the inning.
One step closer.
Ready, button! Sit!
Oh boy. Here we go, watch me.
And button! the laser focus we are doing good what thompson dug that is the bat
doing something thank you again everybody for this
the incentive donations Ready? And...butt!
Oh, that's okay.
Ready? Here we go. Watch me.
Good boy.
And...butt!
Throw a spask. All right.
Ready?
And putt.
Sit.
Oh.
Okay.
Deep.
We've seen it before, we only need just one good contact to get a couple more rallies on pace.
It's the rally time right now.
Here we go
doing good set it up watch the base
that's okay All we need to do is just hold the opposing team.
We do not want to see any runs at the top, so we are going to
need some good positive energy no pun intended from
the crowd right now so let's hear a little bit of a chant everybody let's get behind the best for it.
There we go, one down.
We just need one more out. this is our
This is it right here
That's okay
It's okay
They're getting a rally going
But we have two outs
So we're okay
That's all right
We just need one out
One more
And we are out of this inning and ready to take it home
come on there we go do you want any one wrist can i have a kiss
okay so we are at the end of the lineup. It's not statistically our best batters
but that's just going to make it even that much more exciting
when we get the walk-off.
Should we bunt?
You know what? That could be a good idea right now.
Bunt it! Sit!
I don't know what that bitch was.
That was scared of PB is what that means.
Alright, if he doesn't get the bunt down...
Uh oh!
That's not good.
Alright, it's okay.
Come here.
We'll snap the bunt for now.
Just mind games where we're getting in the head of the opponent.
You're doing so good. the head of the opponent.
You're doing so good.
Thank you for the kiss.
See, they're already changing pitcher once again.
Yeah.
They're scared.
All right, guys, here we go.
You ready?
Want some cheese?
Watch me.
Come on, sir. Sick. Oh, he throws gas all right here we go but bring out the big guns they know they're up against the best boy oh good
good cut here we go all right watch me chip cheese
best thing is though is that if we don't get a run here there's still extra
innings there's more time with peanut butter so I'm not sure what I want to root
for right now. But now...
Now we are in a three-chip. This is the real competition!
This is where we see... Oh and that's a big boy coming up the bat too ready
good boy all right perfect that's a good one that's a good one for us
okay two outs to go
Good boy!
Perfect, perfect
There we go
Three up three down is what were hoping
Ha ha is what we're hoping
and we're out of the inning everybody we are ready to take this game oh let's go all right starting with griffin here we go watch me and the top of the
order this is perfect conditions good boy
ready good boy you can do it early good boy throw another fastball all right here we go good boy that's a
big runner there it is i'm're not going to pump this time!
Not with the top of our lives.
We are going to go ahead and swing away.
Yeah we are ready to just walk off home run
is what we were hoping for from even a slow start.
Here's the bad news...
Here's the bad news. Here's the bad news!
The good news, we have one more chance though it is only two outs and
we still have a good hitter
Get ready to go crazy because we're totally gonna win And button. That's it! Oh, that's a hit for us! Alright!
We're still in it!
Still in it.
Feeling great!
We're gonna go a little earlier.
A little earlier than that! That's about as early as I can go, buddy.
Yeah, I think PB is just stalling for more cheese.
I think that's the real strats that's going on
the longer this game goes on the more trees we have water can we get some water for the big
for the good boy oh i just want to quickly shout out, we are under $10,000
to our 5 million lifetime raise for charity.
That's so awesome! Oh my gosh. Great work everyone. Let's play ball.
Alright it's not in there?
That is fine.
We can take another donation at this point.
I want to clarify that was 50 million,
not five.
So we also have
$100 from KWFF
the Fish who says, didn't think
JSR could bring more joy
and happiness to the retro community and And then PB came into our lives
and multiplied it tenfold! Gigi's best boy! That's it. Kaboom! Oh, wow.
We had a good one.
Kaboom!
All right, PBB needs some hits.
Okay everybody.
Let's get that number one for...
Quick water break for the good boy.
Every athlete needs to stay hydrated, it's important.
This is true.
Hydrate to dominate.
Peanut butter are you ready? That's it! Good boy!
Here we go. I got a good feeling this is our
inning. Rejuvenated and
ready to go. That's it! Good boy!
Ready...
It's okay, watch me!
Watch me. But, BB,
do you want some cheese? Do you want
some cheese? Hey!
Here, good boy.
And butt.
Alright, timing's just about there
I think he's dialing in again
He is ready for a big w from minnesota it's all right here we go you're
ready you're doing so good buddy you're
doing something once again they are scared
they are changing let's go everybody a little bit more rally boys
get some noise for peanut butter let's go everybody. A little bit more rally noise. One time, let's get some noise for Peanut Butter!
Let's go everybody
Let's get some noise for PB right now
Let's go folks come on
There we go
And button.
Sit.
Good boy.
We're going to get another shot at it.
That's all I can ask for.
So close.
That was so close.
That was hair's breadth.
All right.
It is a tense game, but we have got the best in the business here.
All right. Good boy. Alright, alright. Two to go!
Good boy! Okay...
We are not even
Chancing this. Peanutbutter is doing really good. He's consistent. He's doing great
Perfect
Let's go everybody make some noise proud of you
all right pb this is it we got this right now buddy are you ready
can you believe the game for the super nintendo was not cooperating
of all the systems.
And button! That's it, go gold!
It's okay, you want some cheese?
Watch me... cheese we go buddy watch two votes to go my abs are tight I am so into this game right now, you cannot believe this! Ready?
It's so good!
There we go, alright!
Good boy, Sid! All right. All right, bud. Watch it. Watch it.
Yes!
Good boy.
Six.
Good boy.
We're going to get that double.
Yes!
Yeah!
All right.
You win.
Are you ready? It's Griffey. Come on, bud. is Oh my God!
That is time. I almost forgot to say it,
but you believe it. They said
a dog couldn't do it, but he's proved everybody wrong.
How foolish we were!
Minnesota you've seen the best thing you'll ever see in your life.
That's amazing. Amazing job by PP.
What a good boy it's so good Alright. Good job! Well, thank you very much.
Oh!
Oh... Oh! Oh.
What a guy.
Oh, he knows Oh He knows he's a good one
And that is
A walk off
Two run home run
In the bottom of
The 12th inning You just saw a dog win again what was our time
well that's not a pb but with extra innings so you know he just did it
that's never happened before
He's like give me my kibble now
Please
I'm hungry
I'm like eerie
I can't Believe that just happened I'm like, here.
I can't believe that just happened.
That is incredible.
Oh my goodness.
Look at this, Petey.
This is incredible.
Thank you so much, everybody.
Thank you everyone from Games Done Quick for allowing us to do this.
Thank you to everybody in our community, especially big shout out to Crispy as well as my friend
Maya who helped me build these controllers to train...
I'm assuming to train.
I'm a little emotional man this is crazy
seriously you're such a good boy i'm so proud of you
so peanut butter sit. Oh boy!
Sorry.
J-S-O!
Thank you Oh, my God.
Thank you.
So we are going to give this back to the staff,
but first,
we're going to take a selfie.
Oh yeah!
Absolutely.
I hope I'm doing this right.
If only there were a front camera!
Did I get it?
That's recording, you put it on video mode
I got this.
Yo, Twitch, GDQ, I need some help with the selfie! Can I get some help with the selfie real quick?
No!
So good. it on video again so good my name is this is peanut butter he is the goodest point thank you everybody enjoy the rest of gd3 you're all awesome All right, everybody.
How about that game of baseball? ball thank you so much for joining us for that incredible run it has been such a wonderful
evening the energy is electric and we have raised almost $900,000
for Doctors Without Borders here at SGDQ 2024.
All right. Hello everyone! My name is Mitris here running Sekiro like you probably have never seen it on a GDQ stage before. Here with me are my co-commentators. Hi,
my name is Aggy. I'm also a
Sekiro speedrunner or at least was
once upon a time.
Hi everyone! I am Parky and
I also AM slash wood.
Yeah you know we've all been playing a lot of the Elden Ring DLC
You know there's that but uh yeah so today we're gonna do Sekiro
But it's going to be hitless.
So we are going to try not to take a single hit during the entire game.
Now this game if you haven't heard of it before
It is very difficult and so is not getting hit.
There is no guarantees that we'll get it here but we'll explain a little bit more about what goes on with Hitless as we get into it so let's just go ahead
and get this started up in five four three two one let's go all right so the very start of this run is just a little stealth section. So there shouldn't
really be any danger of us getting hit here at the very start, but
we are going to do just a little bit of speed tech. A little bit of jumping and
wall kicks and various things like that to go a little bit faster
but nothing too dangerous in this first section as long
as i take the right path that one looks dangerous that would have been real awkward
i promise that's consistent i promise it is um we're also not going
to go too stealthy because these guys are
not the best shots and if you just kind of take this
little path behind them, they
just miss so we're good
Alright, so to explain a little bit about what Hitless is going to be...
A hit is defined as any enemy causing us damage or stagger.
This basically comes out of the game itself. Damage or stagger. So this
basically comes out to meaning
it's okay if we deflect enemies
which is the kind of perfect guard, you have
get within a small window but
not okay if we block enemies and its's not okay if the enemies actually hit us
and take our health away. So this game is basically just mostly going to focus on that deflecting
sometimes dodging in a few specific scenarios where we need to not take damage,
and otherwise running through, stealthing through whatever we need to do
to get through this. This is a speedrun as well,
not a smooth
run, per se, but
it's going to be rough around the edges. It's going to have
some scary moments because
this game is very scary to run, but
hopefully we'll make it through.
So, as we get up to the first boss fight i'm gonna let my uh commentators talk through it because i really need to concentrate he's a tough one
because we don't have all the skills that you would normally have throughout
the game, so some of his attacks can be really scary.
So I'll let them take it away as they go here.
Yeah, speaking of scary moments...
This is the tutorial fight that you were meant to lose
Normally in the speedrun you'd just immediately take a hit and move on with the game
We are under 3000 points
This is a classic case of win the fight, lose the cutscene.
So we've got to win the fight first.
As you see like the general combat flow
is that you're just going to mash basic attacks at your enemy
until you kind of hear the different sound effects where they stop
blocking and they deflect so once you hear that so that second sound there now that means they're
going to counter attack you and you're gonna have to be ready to react whatever their mood is very clean
fight though so far in wild itch all right guys not over yet yeah so you can
see the top left how many health bars
you gotta get through, so that's just one.
Those red attacks are
either thrusts, sweeps or grabs
The sweep you need to jump over, the thrust
you would normally makiri but we don't have that skill yet so he just has to
We have raised 50 million total! Oh wow
That was fast.
That's awesome.
Someone just sniped that, and meanwhile
Mitch wins!
Wow 50 million. Oh my gosh.
They were like hey can you cut in with every thousand and then somebody was
like what if I just donated 2,500?
That is awesome and yeah we are through with the tutorial boss which if you've played
the game normally, you probably lost to because that's the intended thing to do but
yeah here we are just making it through on our way to the ogre there's
just a little bit of time of walking so uh Jenny dear if you want to get in with some
donations or some hype about the 50 million you know let us know what's going on oh boy uh
well hey audience can i get a huge round of applause for 50 million total raised
collapse in chat any emote any hype you've got that is incredible we have raised 905 000 currently
in this event alone and we are not done yet. There is more to come,
more runs just like our
current Sekiro one. This is an incredible run that
you do not want to miss but keep donating
because there's also more GDQ to come.
We have a bid or sorry, we have an incentive open right now
to upgrade to level 1 critical mode
for the Kingdom Hearts 2 final mix
run but that is a big incentive
but we are going to need your help and I know
we can do it. We need $70,743
more, but with
all of your help, we can absolutely make
it happen. Like there's $100 here from Ajax
that said 50 million hype!
I can't believe I'm here to see it amazing work, thank you everyone!
Alright and Mitch here up against the first required mini boss, the Chained Ogre
This guy basically just goes for a bunch
of grabs so it's going to be almost entirely dodging not really
deflecting and you kind of want to circle straight around him
to his butt. And yeah there you go
Nice and easy.
You know what I was going to say earlier? I actually really like that Mitch fights Genichiro at the start
because we'll see later what the fight looks like.
It's cool that he gets to show off a bit of
that fight yeah so if you're wondering later you know and you say oh he doesn't even know
how to fight this guy i proved it in the start that That's a very good point.
There is some speedrun skips that you could do
in this section, but it's a little too scary
for Hitless.
In Hitless we do count falling into
a void as a hit so this canyon is very scary very easy to fall if you try
to go for the skip so i'm gonna do this the slow intended way uh so we're just going to shimmy
along here we do have a little bit of
a speed strat if you tap the button instead of holding it you shimmy a little faster
it looks like he's really nervous about this
uh he's matching my vibes after having to follow a dog up on a speedrun.
It's a tough act to follow.
We are coming up on probably the most random boss of the run.
Very possible to get hit on this one, Gyoubu.
He's not that hard of a boss to defeat normally, but he
runs around and he makes
our life very miserable for
speedruns in Hitless. So hopefully
I can get him here.
And again, I'll let my commentators take it away.
Yeah so the tricky thing about Gyoubu is he's on a horse
which means... He's a lot bigger than you! And his body sometimes
has a hitbox depending on the attack he's doing.
It can kind of dead angle you, which basically means even if Nifsh tried to deflect it at
the right timing, it's just going to hit you in a weird angle and he's gonna get hit or blocked
oh there's the block right there yeah it was a toughie yeah that is okay
we'll keep going for damage-less here.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
There it is!
And this is definitely one of the harder fights in the hit list run.
Yeah, and every speedrun and everything, Kyobo was always
the worst boss for everyone.
He's shockingly complex when trying to optimize it. I think we should have him here.
Nice! Very clean.
That looked really good, if you honestly didn't say that
you got hit there probably no one would've thought it was a block
No but yeah so the blocks do count as Yeah, you probably will.
The blocks do count as a hit but not as damage luckily
so we'll keep going for that
damage list
Not to put out any excuses there but it was a very strange timing that attack hit me because as he was kind of running by me
It moved where it was going to hit and got to me just a little later than I was expecting, but that's
alright. The actual scariest
one is the next one coming up, the Blazing
Bull because the deflection
strategy that I'm using for most of these bosses
you can't do that on Bolt because it causes fire damage
even if you get a perfect deflect. So we're gonna have to try and dodge him the whole
time and the dodge in this game... It's got not as many irames as the Dark Souls dodge, so it's a tough one. Pretty precise.
Yeah this fight is the only one that I would say is significantly different for HitList because you just can't play the game normally
yeah fun mechanics for early games
i know a lot of people quit on the ball i guess for that reason. We do have time for maybe
one donation as we run up to them?
I have a really big one here
that our amazing donations volunteers
sent my way. This was a
$3,000 donation from Tetra Cube that pushed us over the 50 million.
They said long time you were here I can't believe after all these years we've raised fifty dollars
thank you so much for your generosity on that and team let's keep going another quick shout out
here for this event we have just passed 16 000 total donations that's incredible
let's keep it up y'all
all right so here we are approaching the bull uh this this stride definitely is a little bit
hard to follow, it's pretty chaotic.
Yeah so we're going to knock this guy
out first and then we're going to run up
and pop this Akashugger which is an attack
damage buff and then he's just going to guide the bull through those two guys so that they get taken care of.
Very cheeky dodges here right off the bat!
I'm actually so stressed out watching him dodge those!
Yeah, so basically he's gonna go for a bunch of charge attacks on the bulls head and
every once in awhile he'll stagger to be able to get a few more hits in.
It's a very erratic boss as you may imagine.
Usually on speedruns, you want to kill with the posture bar being full, but on this guy
You can't really do that super efficiently. So Mitch is gonna kill him with the health bar damage there
Yay! health bar damage there. Yeah. There we go!
That was, like, perfect.
That looked awesome.
Luckily it stopped him from running away
too many times. He tried to run a couple of times, but we got that stagger
and got him right back into that nice loop.
And then we're going to go pretty much straight
into the next boss
The second time that we're facing Genichiro.
But to get there,
We've got to do a little sneaking kind of?
Basically,
we are going to get some enemies to see us
but not fully aggro onto us
so they kinda move out of the way
and we can pass by them.
There is one enemy that's going to see me and start
throwing things at me, but he shouldn't be able
to hit me before I can get to a safe
spot. So...
I'll wait for him to see me a little, and then go!
Up here... Then here comes Wooga?
Woogai!
Very nice. And then right into a little platforming soup called Frontside Dojo here, so I assume we're waiting for the egg?
The shuriken thrive. Beautiful! My favorite
skip of the game right there.
And here we've got Gnitry again. It's gonna go a little bit
differently this time though so now we're gonna guide him to this
corner and jump over his first two slashes there and uh remember that dead angle thing i mentioned
yeah we're gonna do it to him now so yeah we're attacking towards the wall so he doesn't think to block it.
Normally if you just try to attack towards an enemy they would just block it.
But yeah! It's technically not aimed at him so...
He doesn't need to do that and then he gets hit
Then he gets staggered and just kind of lose them so yeah this is the same this is the same guy mitch fought at the beginning
of the game um and he definitely makes a little fool
out of him here, so...
Poor Danny.
Yeah, poor Danny.
Just disrespecting him.
Nice! Alright, we're into a really cool
phase three here.
So normally on this phase three he does this lightning strike thing where you do a lightning
reversal but you do take damage from that so Mitch will just be fighting him the same way
that he usually fights can you show but he will be avoiding this lightning there
yeah yes and normally the lightning would
be your best punish opportunity because you kind of catch it and throw it back
at them then it gets like super stunned and damaged but no can do here oh a great deflect
there so normally you want to dodge the side there, but the wall there obviously.
That's a tough spot.
That's just unfortunate spacing there because of the wall.
Yeah that's alright we got it. We got a little unlucky but made it through pretty clean.
The fucking thrust was like the coolest thing I've ever seen so...
Yeah, yeah. That's minus one hit right there.
Little known fact that thrusts in this game there is a special counter for them but they can also be deflected.
The reason we don't usually try to do it in speedruns is because its slow and you get knocked back
and its very slow animation but I had nowhere
to go there so that was my only
option. Clutched up
And the parry frames for those
thrust attacks are much smaller than
a normal attack, it's seven frames, is that right?
I'm not sure of the frame date on it.
Time for the story part of the speedruns
Yeah, yeah. That was the best part.
The yapping and while we're yapping in-game how about we also yap out of game with some
donations?
Oh you want me to do that?
Alright I guess I can yap, that's a thing they put me up here to do I suppose.
$25 dollars from Matt that said, first time donating
after watching for years. This feels like a
week-long holiday and for a great cause.
Cheers to good runs and congrats
on 50 million. Thank you
for contributing to... well as anonymous would like
put it $500 here they said let's go to 100 million so thank you for
contributing towards that hundred we are now marching quickly towards
We've also got a five dollar donation from from Ribba that said, three of my
favorite speedrunners on the same screen? Go Mitch! Ooh-woo.
I don't know that we needed that last one.
Look, my job is to say it exactly how they give it to me.
Point at them.
$100 here from wehe that says, see, Sekiro is easy.
Just don't get hit!
Shout out to Mitch and the whole Sekiro speedrunning community for being
one of the best.
I just want to add in a little thing here,
I couldn't beat this game getting hit just once, twice, three times
I'm like the all-hit runner
so even that one,
you are still infinitely better than me
and it is still an amazing showcase.
I'm so glad I get to watch this live, man.
You got a time for another donation here too?
Yeah, another one.
All righty.
Let's do this $25 here from
Caitlin that says watching GDQ with my husband
has become one of my favorite traditions
thank you so much for that $25 and let's get back
to the run. Oh yeah
so we do have a bit more running to get through here, but I do want to explain a little bit about the differences that you might see in this run compared to other runs.
So even though this is hitless any percent, it's not
hitless with glitches.
With a hitless category
it's generally decided
that you shouldn't be skipping any bosses
because it would kind of defeat the purpose.
If you just didn't have to fight
anything, it'd be pretty easy not to get hit.
So that's why you'll see things
like we actually fought Gilbu
and we fought Bull, despite there being ways to skip them.
And so... There are also a few instant kills that you can do on some of the bosses
Maybe it's a glitch? Maybe it's not. Who really knows?
But for the spirit of
Hitless, I'm going to choose
not to do them.
There's varying rules on whether
you can or cannot in different situations, but for me I'm just going to go with we're fighting all of them.
We're still going to AI loop them and all that stuff.
We're going to embarrass them, but I will at least be fighting every single boss that a boy well
everyone that's you know along the way we're doing the optional ones all the bosses except
the ones were not yes yes um i would just like to do a call back to that don't know uh so mitch actually
taught me how to play sekiro and one tip that mitch always gives when he teaches you something
is it's easy just don't get hit don't get hit yes okay it's easy. Just don't get hit. Don't get hit, yes.
It's easy.
The classic chatter advice.
Yeah.
Yeah I didn't follow my own advice.
Turns out it's not so easy.
Those who can do teach or something.
Wow!
I can say that I have been a teacher for many years, so... Well the good thing about a hitless run is even if if you get hit, you still get to watch it glitch speedrun.
Yeah, yeah! Pretty cool.
Still I think the first time we've had Glitchless at GDQ?
Uh...I certainly haven't though.
I haven't done it yet so
either way a unique run and hopefully no more hits we are past the scariest
parts of the run so
hopefully it should be smoother sailing from here. There's a few more
random parts where there's just like a 1% chance we'll get shot
randomly by an enemy, but overall it's a little more chill from here.
Alright, we probably have time for one or two
donations as we get towards Roberto real quick.
Alrighty, here is a $10
donation from QuackSilverth says the only
thing more amazing than your ability to not get hit is your ability
to demystify some of the hardest
games to ever do it and make
them approachable. Maybe
maybe not at this level though
Let's go Mitch and let's go SGDQ!
What would, what's the likelihood
you could teach PB to Hitless?
Is that something we can work on for the next event?
Oh yeah, well, for sure definitely I think that's a oh we'll get right on that after this you could teach a dog
he could teach me so that's the next thing all right we are coming up here onto roberto we've
got a particular strat where we're kind of always going to get the same
attacks from him because he does the same
after Staggers and I'll let my commentators
take it away. So, we're gonna do a little pocket
stand action. Great opening.
Nice and easy.
And then a little straight thing until actually great opening very nice and easy
a little strafing here until he goes into his kind of rage combo here this is a funny combo because it does push you back
if you don't step back there very nicely done mitch yeah if you deflect that point
blank you actually do get staggered i think that was a perfect review incredible Yeah, that's ideal. Incredible.
Alright and we go right here into another
boss fight
technically the folding screen
monkeys little bit of a puzzle boss and we are going to use
some stealth to get to him.
We've picked up some items along the way.
I already used one earlier
to stealth up to the ogre but these
gachine sugars make us very hard to see and so with the puzzle boss the folding
screen monkeys they're supposed to see you and run away and you're supposed to chase them to specific
areas but if you just have the Gatchi and Sugar up
they kind of just don't see you
You can just hit them. It's pretty easy
Mitch does say that
but it's not that easy
They do see you when you're approaching them
but if your fast enough you can hit them before they run away
We have that funny little thing where we jump right over that guy's line of sight so he doesn't
see us. Goofy.
And then, yeah, get into the monkeys.
There is one... The final monkey that we're gonna kill does always see you.
He's got super perception
unless you sneak around behind him, but he's surrounded by other
monkeys that will try to hit me so I don't
want to go through those other ones surrounding
him. So the final one
I'm going to do sort of as intended and put
him into a dark room where he can't see me. But the
first ones, it's right behind me.
He's right up here. He doesn't
see me because I'm stealthy.
Nice.
The green one is supposed to hear you. He's got super hearing, but he does not get away from me in time.
And then the final one we just scare over into this dark room over here
and now oops
no And now... Oops!
Nice!
Perfect monkeys there. Nice, Mitch!
Isn't it kind of funny that the, like, super sight monkey needs glasses? Does he have glasses on?
He has glasses.
He's got little skirt holes.
Yeah.
Oh, that's cute!
Maybe it's so you understand they're trying to help the player.
I guess so. Maybe it's so that you understand. They're trying to help the player.
Alright, and here we get a required item in order to beat the game but also our strongest skill that is going to absolutely carry us through the rest of the game.
The Mortal Blade and the combat art we can equip with it,
the Mortal Draw. Super powerful!
When the game first released, it was very not-powerful.
It was pretty bad but then in a patch they increased its damage
by a lot and now it is like the best skill in the game absolutely shreds enemies you will see that
very soon coming up here.
It is very good, usually someone has issues on a boss
and they're like oh what can I do?
The answer every time is jump mortal draw.
Jump mortal draw yes.
Yeah in addition to just the mortal, we got a skill that allows us
to use combat arts while jumping, while in the air
and when you combine those two things
The Mortal Draw does even more damage
You'll see some bosses we can just take
out entire phases of their health
just with Mortal Draw.
Is that a glitch though?
It's a bug maybe? Yup, yup. which though the building ordered
it's a lot of fun
may have been a little maybe they've made its intended to buy an intended
mechanic on a glitch they never said it wasn't in doubt that this cell
they were passionate and i want you to do it. Yeah, right...
We are coming up on the most random part
of the run, the gunfort
where there's just like 10 snipers
that are all trying to shoot at you and even if you put the stealthy sugar on they still are all trying to shoot at you.
So we have a particular pathing to try to avoid their shots, um... and then also wait for them
to stop seeing us. It should
work, but there's a chance it won't.
So if I get shot here- not my fault!
Uh... the game-
The sun was in my eyes,'s lagging you know I think we can vote for Mitch
on this one I feel like at least on a non Hitler speedrun every doesn't matter
your run does not start until you've gone through this area because
it's just you could literally die and you could be the best player of all time and it's just
not your fault it is total baloney yeah so we are trying to make as few enemies see us
as we can as we approach the scariest bridge part.
So only this boss and one other sees us
And if we crouch here
nobody else will see us until
we step on that bridge. Then everyone
sees us and we gotta go so let's
go!
And then they're about to shoot so we jump off the bridge so hopefully
they miss. Oh! I missed the grapple
That's okay, that's okay. In order to get a second
try at that i'm going to need to make everyone forget
about me. So we're just going to have to wait here for
a little bit.
Time for some donations while we just
wait for everyone to forget about me.
Must've been the wind.
Alrighty, here is $25
from Kaleidonope that said
if you think about it Doctors Without Borders
and Sora have a lot in common
they both go out of their way to reach out to help anyone in need,
no matter the obstacles or perils they face.
They both also need our help
to reach their full potential. Let's keep
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put us so close to
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I believe in us we can definitely make it happen
so please remember when you're putting in your donations
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Alright so now I did get the grapple the second time
we are going to stealth through and just assassinate a few of these guys
on the way through so they won't see us. Should be pretty safe from
this point. Also, I forgot to mention at the
start of the run but I will be donating
$10 for every hit that I've taken so
we're at three so far.
So that's why you... Yeah it's for Cherry
It's for Cherry. Very clever.
Yes, yes.
Alright this next boss, Parky's favorite is actually very consistent with the script.
Parky you want to talk us through it?
So Mitch is going to hit him once here and then deflect
until the last hit which he will dodge through and then you do the md there
and there is the death blow then he's gonna jump mortal draw and that will i'll do it again and then he's gonna jump, mortal draw and that will
well, he'll do it again. And then that'll be
it. And that looks really consistent
but it's not and I don't know why
It's like
it's good until it's not.
But that was very clean-witch,
very beautifully done.
And shows off the power of
that mortal draw where
in the second phase all I did
was mortal draw and he was dead
before he could even turn around
and do an attack.
So that is what we're gonna be relying on
throughout this round.
Very strong, though the positioning does matter
and sticky keys.
I'll pull out a little bit of practice Um... Sticky keys? Uh oh.
Oh, I remember that from practice!
Class!
Noooo it's loud!
Okay well, should've checked that before the run.
Oh my gosh sticky keysikiTis are the real enemy here.
Yeah.
Well I think we're okay now.
We'll take a look at the musical performance there too.
Okay it's still happening on every...
Can we take just a quick little tech break where
I can disable the sticky keys hotkey here?
Real quick. Yeah.
Alright. St sticky keys.
Stop!
Hold on how do we get here? How do we get to the disable sticky keys noises? I don't want to hear them.
Somebody donate and tell us how to fix Sticky Keys!
I thought there was going
to be a pop-up I could click on, no...
There usually is, to be fair.
Yeah, Sticky Keys have been a menace ever since I was a kid playing computer games.
So can you submit Sekiro only sticky keys next event? All right.
So give us one more second here, we've got to figure out where
to get this from.
What a scenario.
Alrighty, I'm gonna take over for a moment
if I can stop laughing.
All right.
Final boss!
We've done it.
Alright, don't have to just contend with getting hit, also with sticky keys.
So that's really what makes this run so hard.
This drop here looks very scary but as long as I grapple at the right time...
Nice!
His feet just get dipped into
the poison, just a little. Just a little.
No fall damage though, we're fine.
And we are coming up on
a little skip here with this snake.
You're supposed to use the puppeteer ninjutsu in order to get a monkey
to distract the snake so you can sneak on by, but if you just kind of
jump by him and do a grapple at the right time,
You can get over there.
Nice! There's a little bit of weird hitbox there sometimes.
I'll make sure to go very far out to the left
Because if you stay close he can hit you and it really doesn't look like he should.
And then we've got another little mini-boss here, the Snake Eyes. It's going to be mostly those mortal draws again,
including the jump mortal draw that does a ton of damage.
This is really hard casual boss in my opinion I feel like everyone struggles on this boss
in their first playthrough
Just watch Mitch make extremely easy work of it
nice Nice. Very nice! Nice! Easy!
What are the few grabs in the game that you can actually parry?
Or deflect, rather.
Yeah it's a very interesting hitbox A lot of people don't know that you
can deflect it because it is a grab
but yeah, deflecting it's
very nice and also builds up a little bit of that
posture so we kind of
glossed over the entire mechanics
of Sekiro, but basically enemies both have a health bar
and they posture bar
and you can either deplete their health
or fill their posture.
And then you are allowed to perform a deathblow on them, which takes away one of their lives.
The game is called Shadows Die Twice,
and that's not only for us but also most of the bosses
who will have two or sometimes more health bars
that you have to get through.
We pick up here a Yashariku Sugar,
which is a very, very strong sugar
at the cost of reducing our maximum health in half,
but it makes us do so much damage and if we're not getting hit
hopefully, it doesn't really have a downside.
That half's health is not to really affect us too much,
but the increased damage is gonna make it a lot faster.
Do you think he can do this next boss blindfolded?
Blindfold... I don't know! He's a really hard boss here.
Oh my god that was so hard!
That was creepy oh my god
So that is the hardest boss of the run, as you can see.
Poor little Miss Noble.
They really did him so dirty!
The point of this fight is you're supposed to have to figure out how to get
to him there's this whole winding path you got
to go through but you can just do a little jump off the branch and get
straight to them it's almost easier than going around
because that's uh definitely easy all right we are coming up on uh the only boss in this run
uh that truly has one health bar one health uh that we have to get through.
And so there is a way to stealthily perform
a death blow but it's a little weird in the
way you do it, it doesn't feel very intended
So I am choosing not to do
the instant kill on this boss and instead fight it normally sort of?
We'll see how the normally goes. Just avoiding all controversies on this one?
You guys can talk through my
1-2-3 snap
It's a very fun one, do you know it?
I don't know if I remember the exact
song but yeah
there's a whole coffee pause every time
Mitch gets here
first of all the confetti is so
beautiful, I love looking at the confetti is so beautiful i love looking at the confettis sorry yeah mitch will be doing
um a little combination of the snap seeds and the ash both of which will make her stagger
as you can see it and I guess just the exact order
in timing he does it in is very specific
and allows her to stay staggered,
I suppose.
Yeah, I mean, it's a consistent strut and there she is nice
very cool very cool believe it or not not the cheesiest way to beat that ball
yeah surprisingly yeah that is the legit fight
it is a crazy fight though if you don't do any of this if you just fight with the sword or whatever
it takes forever she has so much health yeah so she is just very weak to some of those items.
The Snap Seeds are kind of made specifically
to counter these illusion-type enemies that she is
as well as the Ash stunlocks her for a very long time.
Very abnormal for bosses, most bosses don't get staggered that long from the
Ashe but super powerful against her. We are coming up
against just two bosses left we're almost done here
um and next is the guardian ape who the first phase where we're kind of going to do another
one of these little stun lock things uh the only phase sorry the only
the one and only phase um but yeah i'll let uh i'll let them talk through it when we get
there but maybe time for one quick donation as we run over.
Alrighty, here's $51.90 from Big Ace the Gamer
that said taking a break
from struggling with the Elden Ring DLC
relatable to watch Mitch crush Sakiro
cheers to Mitch, Aggie Parky and the whole story to watch Mitch crush Sakiro.
Cheers to Mitch, Aggie Parky and the whole Souls running
community.
Yeah, the DLC
has been a little crazy.
Painful is the term I would yeah all right so here this is a really fun
little strap that Mitch will do here he is going to pull up to the guardian ape
with a jump mortal draw here just to get him started in this stun lock he's gonna do.
Yeah basically the guardian ape has certain damage thresholds where he is going
to stagger and during the stagger animation you're going to build up just enough damage
to hit the next dagger right away as soon as he regains control
you have to be careful though because if you hit him too many times he'll flip over
and then run away, but... Yay! We did it! There it is!
It's over! One bus left!
Let's go! Nice Mitch.
That was so easy.
Let me just stand here and admire my kill while we see the shinobi execution.
Nice, that's a nice kill!
In fact, we'll just throw confetti over him
Just because it's so pretty.
What?
Wait a minute! Oh my god.
Man, they really bait you
with that one. They give you the execution
and everything. It's brutal.
But anyway, this phase 2 is going to be more of an
actual fight. As you can
see there's no stun lock or anything it's just
knowing really good positioning, knowing the
good times to do do headshots like that
for example and there it is. Nice! Much more of a fun
That was beautiful RNG there too
Yeah basically Yeah, basically they're using the combination of the Yashiriku Sugar and the Mortal Draw.
We make quick work with him even though he is a very high health boss normally and now we just got one boss left or
kind of two because it's sort of two bosses uh rolled into one em and Eshin I'm pretty sure that boss comes back by the
way in one more time right the Guardian ape yeah
yeah it does come back later but...
With a girlfriend!
But that is an optional boss so we are not gonna be fighting it.
You could fight it right now if you wanted the memory.
It actually has a very low health boss that
ties like instantly to Mortal Draw.
It's a very funny fight to do like that
but for
quickness of finishing the game, we're just going to head straight
to the final boss here. It is very goofy, they give you the mortal draw blade which like kills people for real
and the guy doesn't use it on the guardian ape for some reason but hey...
Yeah come one I was using it
on him the entire fight! I can't finish him off with it at the end?
Yeah... Alright coming up here is a little
bit scary there are some enemies that are going to try and hit me
so I'm taking specific paths
and specific jumps
to avoid them. Especially right
after this next grapple, I've got to jump
to the side so that I don't get hit by a projectile.
There he goes, that was closer than it usually is.
Nah, that was planned.
Alright and then our final bosses, gotta make sure not to select the wrong option here.
That has happened before! It's such a bummer!
Here we go first up is Emma.
I believe we're just going to trade blows back and forth here.
You do not want to spam attacks on her
because she has some nasty counterattacks, so you kind of
want a little dance with her.
Yeah, Mitch is going to be fighting her the way you should basically
Which is one thing I really like about these Sekiro speedruns You just fight bosses as you should.
Maybe not in a hitless run but...
I mean even in the hitless run it's pretty
as intended which both makes it
very fun to learn but also
a very difficult run because you don't
you don't get to use a lot of the cool speedrun tech to make it easier you got
to just learn to get good here we go final boss
let's finish strong nice
I good says longer gonna read boss and then
discover some jump mds watch the
jumping bees everyone it's crazy
look at that posture meter filling so quickly one more
nice
and that is the final boss, and you can see how
strong that was
very clean fight though, Mitch. Beautiful!
Time is coming up soon once the credits appear on
the screen. But yeah there it is
Took a few hits, its a very hard game
Hopefully this showed off just how hard that was. I'm still
pretty happy with that,
I was nervous especially following PeanutButter
because you know, how can you follow that?
But yeah, happy with that run
Happy to have it and time is coming up right now!
Time!
Very very nice run there Mitch.
Those hits mean nothing.
Alright thank you so much Games Done Quick for having me
for yet another time.
Thank you for bringing in a hitless run.
It was so cool to do this.
I don't know why you guys selected me for this,
This is a really hard run but thank you for giving me the opportunity
To attempt it
I was about 50% in practice
But yeah didn't quite get it here. But yeah, shoutouts to the
Sekiro community.
speedrun.com slash sekiro
and you can find the Discord if you'd like to try
it out yourself. Or there's also
Team Hitless that handles more of the hitless stuff
if you're into more of that rather than speedrunning
or join both! If you want to do hitless speed running
like this. Very, very fun
and yeah, you guys have any shoutouts?
Just shoutout to you L Midge. You killed it!
Yeah thanks for having us!
It was an honor to commentate your run again and it was a honor to watch it.
It's really great run.
Yeah thank you guys for helping me out.
It was awesome and yeah I think we will wrap it up here and send it back to Xenadier.
Hey! I'm going to chime in real quick here.
Round of applause, of course. Sorry, I should not interrupt that.
Fantastic run. Thank you for having me for a third time dude.
There's been a lot of excitement today Thank you for having me for a third time, dude.
There's been a lot of excitement today and there's plenty more to go tonight with our room and with our remaining days of SGDQ 2024.
But we would like to take a moment to take you over to the GDQ Director of Operations.
All yours.
Hey everybody Thank you. I decided, hey let's do a little speed running and see what happens.
It was going to happen at MAGFest but they didn't have any internet so they kicked the differ to their own let's say Mike's basement and that's where
the event started. I remember watching that first event
and donating, and remembering
man I really would love to come
and attend that event sometime in the future.
Little did I know a couple years later
that I would be there and helping out.
And of course now, basically leading the operation
but it wouldn't be possible if
wasn't for Mikey Yama who got this whole ball started so first off
I want to give a round of applause to Michael Yamaha for taking this game
quite quick going this game's been put going. Also, I figured I'd drop a few stats on you all.
We've supported well over half a dozen charities in our history.
We also have been around for 14 years.
We have nearly 900,000 donations in our database.
Yeah, thank you.
That's a round of applause for all of you for that one.
That is amazing.
We also featured over 4500 runs and 4500 prizes
And the median donation is only $25. So it just goes to show that
you don't need to donate a ton of money in order to be an impactful donation
to the GDQ.
I think there's really not much else that I could say other than thank you
to everybody who has supported us over these years.
It would not be possible without all of your support
and helping us through all this time, and also to
the volunteers and runners who come and donate their time
even some money to get here
it's a
huge
gift to us and I really appreciate that. And I'd like to give another round of applause for all the runners
and staff who've come to these events and help us.
And finally, thanks to all the staff who are behind the scenes right now watching and making sure that this goes off smoothly.
Thank you all.
A little quick round of applause for you guys.
And finally let's see another 50 million in the future. Let's see what happens. Thank you all so much.
Thank you thank you. What is up everybody? I am Dragonblitz. This is Castlevania Symphony of the Night.
Today we are going to be running Reverse Boss Order. It is a wild and crazy ride.
I hope you guys are strapped in for this one.
And I'm being accompanied by two lovely friends here,
if you would like to introduce yourselves?
Hello! I'm Caveman.
I like PlayStation games.
Dragonblitz is my friend.
Hello! I'm Adiff.
I like PlayStation games.
Well they're both actually my friends.
Oh thank you. That's exciting.
But yeah this is going to be reverse fast-forwarded as I said
This is the hardest speedrun category that exists for this game
Like this is not marathon safe
This should not be in the marathon. I kind of tricked them into
letting me do this to be 100% honest with you guys.
But so I'm not expecting
things to go perfectly. We have backup saves everywhere.
We can crash the game. We can softlock.
Things can go very wrong. It's a glitch heavy run.
I'm going to be starting the game in luck mode, that is why
you are seeing this name code up on the screen.
It essentially changes my stats around
to make certain glitches possible
but without further ado let I think we're ready to get into it.
Let's get started in three two one go just kidding i pressed the wrong button
keep you guys on your toes three two one 3, 2, 1, go!
3, 2, 1, GO. For real this time!
So this is the prologue for the game we're starting as Richter
We're not going to be seeing him for very long but during this section of the game
The things that we do here do impact how
we're going to be playing as Alucard later. So I'm getting
a certain number of hearts here because it changes the
starting items that I get and then I'll be throwing those hearts away
as well! This gives me access to the
Neutron Bomb item and the Heart Refresh.
Both of them are going to be used for glitches later on in the run.
During this part of the run, I'm gonna be throwing Holy Water on the ground after doing a Hydro Storm
to do big damage with Dracula. This is called a Damage Stack.
We don't really know why it happens it's uh kind of random um but if you get
the insects he dies quicker we didn't get one there we got one there and just a couple of
blade dashes oh he did jump which is unfortunate that loses a little bit of time but you know, it loses like three to five
seconds. It's not that big of a deal
So as I said
earlier this is a reverse boss order run
This is going to be very glitch heavy because we have to skip past
a lot of the intended bosses to get to the end
of the game, beat the second
to last final boss because this is a reverse
boss order run that does end on killing Dracula
and getting the credits so it's a reverse boss order
except for that.
There are other exceptions.
This is like very loose
in the definition
of reverse boss order
and the way
that we determine
the boss order itself
is the end game tactics menu
which I will show off later.
But for now check out this sick damage boost.
Bam!
That is called a big toss when
I take more than half of my health
and a singular hit perfect number of bats there.
Perfect number of bats there. You need to kill exactly three
you have no idea. But yeah if you take more than half
your health in a single hit you get sent flying and we're actually going to be using that
to skip past the encounter with death.
This is a cutscene where he takes away all
of your powerful starting gear but we just slide on
pass through and we get to keep
the Alucard Sword, Alucard Shield, Dragon Helm.
Very powerful starting scout that lets us do extra damage
and will be useful for killing
all the bosses in the reverse order.
But from here, as I was talking about with the bats
our experience route is incredibly tight
every single enemy we kill is scripted because we need to level up in very
specific spots and our stats seem to be almost exact for a lot of the run in
order to make these glitches work because a lot of the run in order to make these glitches work
because a lot of them rely on leveling up,
that level-up screen right there
that caused the entire game.
That needs to happen in very specific spots
and we're going to be taking advantage of that
for some glitches
and we're coming up on one right now as soon as i get my level set
up gonna kill these two guys leave the room come back do it again kill this guy here and
now the next enemy i killed these red skeletons don't count as enemies by the way,
they're just kind of vibing. The next
enemy I kill will give me a level up so I'm getting that
guy on the switch, killing him now. He's going to get up later.
I'm going to lure this axe knight
over to the side.
This is one of the most complicated glitches in the game that happens right away.
This is a pixel perfect, frame perfect level up
that you're gonna get here...
Using the map to help buffer the inputs
Ah! I missed it.
Map buffering in this game is also frame perfect.
You have to do frame-perfect inputs.
This is why we have backup saves literally everywhere
because otherwise the run would not be able
to continue there.
Like I said,
not the most marathon safe but I'm glad to get to showcase what this game is all
about when we're glitching through it so again doing the same exact setup here
it is like I said Frame perfect
Pixel perfect
I think we might have got it there
That looks good to me
Just gotta wait for the red skeleton
To wake up
Lower the elevator
We jump on
Jump off As it's going down
and we got it! Nice!
I will take a second try. That is one of the hardest
tricks. Not THE hardest but ONE of the
hardest. We have right after this
some more experience routing
so we're going to be killing specific enemies
as well as going towards the outer wall.
The outer wall has some really important stuff for us
but a lot of that important stuff is guarded by
a boss fight with Gopal in 10. we can't kill him yet so
we're gonna have to find a way to skip him the most convenient way to do that
is to get a library card it's an item that warps you directly to the library which is past him
on the way, we're also going to be trying to get an item called a Garnet. It's a sellable gem
which will be useful for Glitch later which is gonna give us essentially infinite money so we
can turn one gem into essentially infinite.
But yeah, this is probably the best time to explain
what it is that I'm doing on the ground here.
This is called shield dashing.
This is the fastest form of ground movement
that we have right now.
So what I'm doing is I'm pressing shield
and then back dash,
then shield, then backdash, then shield, then backdash, then shield,
over and over again to essentially keep the high starting speed of the backdash
without dealing with this laggy end part.
The shield is essentially what cancels it and allows you to do it over
and over again, but from here we're essentially just setting up some experience and this is
actually probably one of the best times for donations.
All righty then I have a $20 donation here for donations
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donation here from sato sotoriu sorry that said sub gdq
satori uh they say they said sup gdq still in shock of how much we as a community have
raised for charity after all these years. Keep being awesome
everyone! Good luck Dragon Blitz with Sotin RBO, you're gonna slay! veteran that's like in there dragon boots can i ask a question of
course that frame perfect level up thing why what was that yeah that glitch is
called a reverse shift line uh The name is very fancy,
but it essentially allows you to skip
an entire screen length by pausing the screen
in a specific spot while you're scrolling the camera.
It's essentially a camera scroll glitch
that underflows the stored exposition of alucard such that when
you go through load zone it uh under flows that value and warps your entire screen life um we're
gonna be doing a very similar glitch here in a second called a shift line it also involves manipulating the camera and
the edges of screens but instead of warping you an entire screen length
forward, it allows you to open a hole for you to fall down
at the edge of a screen and we're going
to use that to get out of bounds to get through that library card but first
we're gonna make it a quick pit stop here in the outer wall ask our good
friend the axe knight to help us out here because there's a ledge we can't
reach and he's just going
to push us up there. I love that big toss. It's a good one!
Now I'm setting up my inventory here
to set up for that glitch.
This is the most stressful glitch in the entire run, it is
again pixel perfect, frame perfect
if I fail this trick it's like a minute and a half
to set it back up again so I'm hoping we get a first try
otherwise we're gonna have lots
of time for donations which is nice yeah this baby so yeah this is going to
be all for setting up that shift line glitch the next enemy that i kill will
give me a level up and i need to set up that level up on
frame perfect spot. And then
continue that screen freeze from the level
with the heart refresh item we got
because of the way we did the prologue
So i'm setting up that position right now,
wait for this guy to throw his bones.
Oh there we go!
That was a frame perfect buffer
that I needed to hit there and I'm glad
we did it. Okay this is the flashing screen warning in case you guys...I'm sorry
There's no other way to do this trick. It's going to be very intense so close your eyes
Look away. It hurts. I'm so sorry. There's no other way to
do this trick. It'll be over in like 15 seconds.
I'm looking.
Oh, no. Okay, there
we go. That's the library card item. Nice
job, DB. This gets us past the doppelganger
fight. Uh, this trick was thought to be
task only for a very long time
uh, but we found setups
like map buffering and um
like that backdash setup I was doing to make the pixel perfect position easier
to find, stuff like that.
As far as I'm aware it's because of the perfect number of bats.
That is well, that is genuinely part of it.
The experience route is incredibly tight.
So speaking of incredibly tight, I need
some help from my friends here- uh oh!
I should be fine, 21 health is enough.
Um... You know what? I'm gonna make
my life a little bit easier. Get rid of this guy.
I don't like him. So what I need here is
I need one of these guys.
Unfortunately,
this guy was getting
a little too close to me.
I need them to activate
their lightning sword attack.
It is random.
If I take too much damage
here,
I'm kind of out of luck.
He's giving me nothing to work with. There he goes!
Now we need to lure him all the way to the edge over here
because we're going to be setting up for yet another big toss.
I have just barely enough health
to make this work after taking that damage there.
So, this is going to be a little bit scary.
I'm gonna give myself a little more defense.
Okay.
I'm gonna wait for the next one.
This should work nice if you fail that
you do not have enough health to try again so it's like run over there
are so many like game determinative run over tricks back to back to
back. This is legitimately the hardest run
for a reason. The whole reason
we did that, by the way, is so we can grab that fairy card relic.
The fairy is going to be our best friend
here as she is going to talk to us in just a second
and her lovely words of encouragement
are going to cut off
as I rudely backdash into this room.
And that overwrites the
cutscene here so now those two actions happening on top of each other
allow me to open this menu
when I'm not supposed to be able to,
so I sold a garnet as I equipped it
which under flowed the value from negative one
to this game doesn't like negative numbers
so 255 so So I could sell
a whole bunch of them and I have
as much money as I need to buy all these super
powerful stuff. The Jewel of Open I need
for some
stuff later on. Duplicator and gauntlet is
also very, very important
and some potions
So the duplicator gives me infinite use of my potions here
or any throwable or single-use item
which is incredibly overpowered It does lower my stats but at this point
our stats are basically at minimum anyway
so it doesn't really matter. The only
stat that we do have that's really high is our luck stat
hence why it's called Luck Mode that we started in
That was the whole point with the name code etc etc uh now
that we have all of our potions we have infinite usage of them we can do a lot here um the only
thing we can't do is jump very high yet.
We don't have double jump,
we don't have high jump,
we don't have flight
so we're going to quickly get the wolf transformation funny enough
you wouldn't think that the wolf
is going to allow you to jump higher
because it does it on its own
But there isn't oversight in this game
Where normally the game expects you
To only be able to dive kick after a double jump
Uh but for some reason
After untransforming from any of the transformations you also get a divekick.
And that dive kick can be used to gain a little bit of extra height off enemies and candles.
That wolf relic is locked behind pressing this elevator switch, we're going to come over
here, press the elevator switch and on top
of that
so funny enough not only is this category
incredibly difficult I also rerouted the entire
thing two days before the event.
So that was fun.
That's good.
I found a 30-second time save
that required me to reroute the entire thing,
but anything to save precious, precious time.
There is that Soul of Wolf relic.
Once we untransform from the
wolf transformation we will have a dive kick which we can use to gain extra
height as i said but also the wolf is useful on its own both for movement and
for some glitches coming up later.
We're going to immediately use it at the end of this marble gallery section here
to move through the section faster than normal,
so ground speed with shield dashing is about a little over twice as fast
as just the normal
walk speed in this game. So you're basically
going to be shield dashing everywhere. However,
the only thing we can't do with shield dashing is we can't
do it in the air. However,
the wolf's movement speed is a little bit slower than shield dashing
but you do get to keep its normal speed in the air.
So what we're going to be doing is because this section requires a lot of jumps
but it's mostly horizontal, transforming into the wolf actually ends up being faster during
this section. It's a little bit harder to control because the Wolf has less options
of control compared to Alucard, but there's a lot of practice you can get through here
without taking any damage and I'm hoping to do that here because it saves a lot of time ah didn't
give that jump there there's a really weird slope jump you have to do so
it's still worth going for even though we probably broke even uh without
getting that uh jump there but if I did everything well
I should have this statue open for me. Okay good. This is called the clock cycle
essentially there's a statue that moves in and out of your way every other minute
And if you're fast enough on this category it does not block you at all
otherwise we'd have to wait essentially an entire minute just chilling there waiting
for the statue out of the way so we're on great pace all things considered
so i'm very happy about that okay let's hear it for ClockRush.
So still a lot more prep we have to do.
Basically half of this run is prep also big toss.
Whoa! Good one.
Yeah you can randomly get stopped on the stairs there
based off your subpixels because
of course.
Um...
Yeah this run is basically half set up like the first 30 minutes of this run it's collecting
pieces skipping tons of bosses getting to the end game,
unlocking warps like I just did right there.
Anytime you enter a warp room, it saves
it for you to come back to later
essentially at any point in time.
Gains a spell to get past this guy,
there we go.
Both spells and potions
give you invincibility
by the way,
that's why I'm just like
phasing through these enemies
so I'm just trying
to stay invincible
to not die
because those enemies
can kill you
even one hit
if you are
trying to mess with them,
and you should not try and mess with them.
So coming up here we're in the Coliseum because again like I said we're trying to set up there
is the form of mist here which is required to get the soul of bat. The best relic in the game for movement and glitches
and all sorts of fun stuff.
But it's locked behind a boss fight so I'm setting up yet another
incredibly convoluted trick
here to try and get it.
I'll explain it after I do the trick because, yeah...
That was frame one.
That was frame two, I believe?
If this doesn't work,
Yeah that was actually frame 1
I think this isn't gonna work
Okay, I can set it up
again. It's not the end of the world. I do need to get a
little bit more experience. This is where the experience
gets a little bit loosey and that's fine.
212. Okay. So I
need to level up on a very specific spot and these guys happen
to give a lot of experience which is nice.
I should still get big toss by this guy but just in case...
I think yeah, this is fine. So I'm going to set this up again.
Again, this is one of the most complicated tricks you need like a spreadsheet
to understand all the frames of possible animation
to know exactly what to do and I do not have that with me
so...I have it all memorized kind of
dang it's fine we set up again i do need to heal
if we can get past this, it should be smooth sailing until the next trick that could end
this run.
So you know...
There we go!
First frame.
Dang, these map buffers are incredibly difficult as well
because there is no...the game runs at 60 FPS so every time I'm opening the
map, I have to close within one I have to close the map within one frame
and then reopen the map within one frame
if I want to advance the game state by exactly one frame.
So even the map buffers have to be difficult.
That's second frame that's fine.
That's second frame, that's fine. That's first frame. There we go.
Okay so here I'm going to fall through the floor again
and transform into Wolf on the way down
this is gonna put me in the boss room but I can leave
on the other side and that gets me to the form of this.
I feel like it's also worth mentioning
that the button you're using
to open the map is a trigger?
It's not a button! So this and the- So this is a frame perfect
press unpress of an analog
object? Uh, the trigger activates
around 70% uh,
press down. Not like 100%, not like
any pressure it's 70%. So you need to know how to frame perfectly hit 70 of the
actuation of this trigger so time works every time that's what they've said you know what i
know this is a thing i know this This is actually, this is nuts.
This room is scary hold on.
Perfect number of bats son.
Please hit me. Yes.
I wanna get hit there the right way not the wrong waaaaayyyy!
Okay we're fine.
If you get shot uh you die.
Yo turns out gun beats vampire
Yeah those bone muskets are one shot yeah so
DB tried to de-boost get some invisibility frames
Get right through and hit the shield rod
Everything is working out great cause this shield rod
Is very powerful we're activating the shield rod spell right here, that's all reason we went into that room
because the shield rod when it's applied to the Alucard Shield,
that starting shield that we basically smuggled through Death's Room
is incredibly powerful if it touches an enemy
it does 255 damage every
6 frames.
That's a lot of damage by the way I'm supposed to be doing like
10 damage for
a punch or something like that. That seems better.
It's very good, and also invincible when I'm hitting stuff with it.
That is why I am flashing white like that.
So as long as I am flashing white, I am invincible.
Again this is a reverse boss order run.
I want to make that 100% clear. Reverse boss
order, we are doing the bosses in the reverse
intended order. This is Lesser Demon.
He's sometimes a boss, but in this category
he's not!
Yeah, I'm going gonna explain that in just a second here
because the way we define reverse
boss order in this game is silly
cause there's no official boss order. This game is incredibly
open you can tackle it in various different ways especially once
you get to the second castle. You can do all sorts of stuff!
So for us to find an order that's considered
the official order by the game we were looking at
the games menus. Which menus have a static
order every single time? One of those menus, the one that we chose
to use, the only menu that has a static
order is this menu right here, the tactics menu.
And you will notice there is no lesser demon on that menu.
I don't see him. He's not a boss. As far as
we're concerned he doesn't exist. I saw Dracula and that's it. Just a guy. He's not a boss. As far as we're concerned, he doesn't exist. I saw Dracula and that's it.
Just the guy.
Yeah, Dracula is a boss and we saw him at the prologue
but Lesser Demon? I don't know that guy.
It says lesser in the name.
Exactly. If there were a major demon, yeah he would show up
as a boss for sure. He actually gets demoted
to regular enemy in the second castle anyways
Bro you hate to see that
Dude when an enemy in an RPG goes from like
boss to one chapter later enemy I mean that's gotta suck he just didn't do
yeah and there's 12 of them purr he's like am i special anymore so uh the thing you're seeing
me do in bat form by the way since we have the soul of that is called
Wing Smashing. It's a very powerful
spell. You are fully invincible and charging
through the air very quickly but it does come at
a cost. The input to activate
it is a very complicated input. It is hold jump,
do three-fourths of a circle
motion on the control stick
and then release the jump button. Please don't hit me.
And it requires 8 MP
and since we started in luck mode our MP bar is very low. We don't have a lot of magic to work with.
If you look at the top left hand corner I'm refilling it with Mana Prisms
However every activation of the wing smash input
chunks my M key bar down.
Not only that, if you want to continue in
the fast wing smashing speed flying around
like this, you have to re-up that
three quarter circle motion on the control stick every
63 frames or less, or else
you get forcibly dropped out of that input.
And in this category in particular, if you're
forcibly ejected from an
invincible tackle right onto an enemy's face,
you can just die.
Because we don't have enough health or defense to defend against that.
That was Gravity Boots by the way.
It is a very powerful relic that allows us to do very big jumps
and we're going to be using it in just a second here
but the tricks don't stop there because we're immediately going to be
using the wolf for a floor clip
to get out of bounds into an
area we're not supposed to be in yet.
This is again... You know what? If you've seen me open the map, it's frame
perfect, it's pixel perfect, I promise you.
But yeah, getting through the floor there is incredibly difficult.
The map does help, but now we're on
the floor, flying to the left, wing smashing
from out of bounds, refilling our MP, sliding down. The game
constantly pushes you down when you're out of bounds
to try and push you back inbounds. You touch a load zone
from out-of-bounds that gets us to this elevator
puts us all the way down here
And this is the area where normally,
this is like near the end of the first half
of the game.
Where you get the holy glasses to go save Richter
and then go to the second castle.
And that requires a whole quest
of killing some bosses, finding extra armor
doing all sorts of stuff that takes like a casual player powers
legitimately. And we just skip all of that. Also we would be locked down here because
we didn't open the floor normally however However, the gravity jump clips us through
that floor there exactly once. If you have
loaded that floor in at
all it doesn't allow you to clip through so because that was
the first time that floor had been loaded since
activating the elevator we were allowed to click through specifically
with the gravity bro you could be making all this up this is 100 real also we're doing that
clip again and i got a first try again dude i'm kind of gaming though and this gets us
into the underground caverns that one isn't required for
the run but it does save like 40 seconds so might as well do it you know it's just frame perfect
pixel whatever it's fine uh the reason we're down here by the way is because
uh like we did earlier
we grabbed a warp in the
All Rocks' quarters and this area
has a warp for us.
One of the reasons why we're going out of our way for these warps
is because this is a reverse boss order and that order
is incredibly arbitrary as you already saw one of the bosses doesn't even count so it's an
incredibly arbitrary way to get through the game so in order to minimize the amount of backtracking
there's going to be bad tracking but the way to minimize the amount we'retracking, there's going to be backtracking. The way to minimize the amount that
we're going to be doing is we are going to collect
as many warps as we can in
most convenient spots that we can and then
using those warps to transition between
certain areas,
certain bosses as quickly as you can.
Unfortunately we are playing on the Xbox version of the game which is incredibly fast for load times
there's no slowdown, no lag
probably the best version of the game to play
casually in my opinion.
Konami, could we get a re-release of this version, please?
But the only downside is we do not have access
to a Player 2.
Xbox does not register Player 2s.
It uses a profile system.
So we can't use the debug code to blow up
the bridge, we have to blow it manually with the Donkey Kong skeleton.
That loses us maybe 20 seconds over PlayStation but the rest of the run is so much faster
Another skip! This is Cerberus, a boss
We don't want to fight him so we're going to use this door
to push us through the floor. Again incredibly precise I'm so happy
that hit because I was messing it up in practice. So we are just kind of scooting along the floor here
If we were to transform right now we would get clipped back inbounds
but we're gonna transform over on this corner which lets
us leave the boss room not having to fight him
yet! His time will come
his time will come
it comes for us all, including Cerberus.
And the whole reason we come down here is because there's a warp here.
We collect that warp.
This is part of the reroute I was talking about that saves 30 seconds.
I'm actually using the warp instead of collecting it and then library carting away
to save some time backtracking using the warp instead of collecting it and then library carting away to actually save a little bit
of time in a backtracking section.
I literally routed that out like,
I don't know, two days before I went on my flight
to come here, and I'm so happy that it's actually
being shown off for the first time in a run like this.
This is a never-before seen route as well on top of that, yeah.
DragonBlitz?
What's up?
You're so cool.
Thanks, ADef.
You're so cool! I was asking asking for b def to be on the couch but
i'm happy you're here no he's not uh he's not answering my phone right now or my calls yeah
he's big time hollywood holly dude. I don't know what to do.
So we're here in the clock tower.
This area can be a little scary if these harpies hit me.
I get big tossed.
It doesn't kill me necessarily but being big toss in a room like this you
could get comboed out of it.
I wasn't meant to do that!
Anyways...
That level up is also weird but we're fine.
That was the noise YOU just made.
We are here at Karasuman, another boss fight
and you might be thinking to yourself
Okay is this a boss? Is he not a boss? What's going on here?
No he's a boss so we are gonna come back to him later
But he's actually a homie.
He's going to help us out because we're not supposed
to be here yet, but on the other side of him
is the end of the first castle,
so he's going to help us get through the back door here.
Thank you very much. Very kind of you.
That looked remarkably easy?
It was, actually!
That clip is called a half-blood tech
I don't know why
I think it was named by a Japanese runner in like 2007 or something like that.
Um, I actually don't know the lore behind that but...
It sounds cool.
It does sound cool.
Sometimes people just be naming trick names as a cool thing just to do it.
Yeah essentially if you get big tossed while your in bat form
In a corner of a room It just clips you through the floor to do it. Yeah, essentially if you get big tossed while you're in bat form
in a corner of the room, it just clips you through the floor
We got the leapstone finally we can now double jump and dive kick on our own which is really useful
for movement and were immediately transitioning into
another pixel perfect frame perfect well its not pixel perfect perfect, frame perfect.
Well it's not pixel perfect but it is frame perfect trick here
but there is no map buffer setup so I just have to land a
frame perfect trick right there and then I have to not soft lock
Okay we're good. That's richter skip there's many ways for
that to go very very wrong and there's many ways
to skip him but essentially the fastest way is to
jump into that room with a very particular wolf jump such as the room
uh detector that essentially
is like, hey, is Alucard in this room? If yes,
load the Richter boss fight. We just
skip past that detector with a very
precise jump as I said
and then Richter never loads in and we can go straight
to the second castle here, let me be careful. Yep
these guys can kill me so i'm just waiting for my MP if I don't wing smash through them
things get very complicated very quickly
there we go yeah now that we're in the second castle this game is known for its
e like wild uh what's the word i'm thinking of difficulty curve
like the difficulty spike in the second castle is
wild. So everything will
essentially one-shot us unless we are
very well set up for it and have max
HP. Medusa, similar to
Karasumon, is also a homie.
Similar to the hitbox shang as we did before
thankfully Medusa has one of the thickest hitboxes around
We're just going to let her push us out-of-bounds
and there we go! That you'll love to see it let me go ahead
and get the mana prism back on here don't yep the invincibility from potions
is incredibly clutch,
because if I landed on that balloon pod without invincibility
I would die! I would explode into blood. It would not be fun.
And... From here we're essentially bee-lining it
now that we are in the second castle
to the first boss of the run. How long
have we been playing? 25 minutes? Yeah! That sounds about
time for the first boss, right?
But before we get there, there is a heart refresh
item down here. We had to exhaust our one heart refresh from the
start in order to slide
into the floor and get that library card from earlier
so this is just a convenient heart refresh
to pick up now. There's only like
I think four in the game?
It's an incredibly rare item.
But the fact that you start with one is
so lucky for us! Otherwise
this run would not be possible. Can it
be duplicated? Yes, in fact it can! That's one of the reasons why
we lost it before is because we didn't have the duplicator
but now that we have the duplicator, we can use
that heart refresh as many times as you want and
that is an item that causes a screen freeze
similar to a level up.
So any screen freeze can cause those reverse shift line glitches,
shift line glitches, so long as you set them up properly.
For us it's very convenient.
Please don't touch me!
Sorry. It's very stressful when you're
expecting a Wingsmash to come out and it doesn't,
then in Alucard form like
please don't touch me
because I will die!
But from here there is one instance of an enemy that I'm kind of scared of.
After that, our chances of dying are a lot lower because now
our health can be whatever value we want. We don't have to big toss anymore for the rest of the run,
so my shield rod is active, right?
Yeah, it is. Okay, good. Yeah, we have to kill
the guardians here, but they kill me in one hit,
but if I can get the shield rod inside of their hitbox
before they touch me...
It's fine. inside of their hitbox before they touch me.
It's fine. The reason we kill them is because they give a ton
of experience, I just went from like level 8 to
level 22 so now
I'm gonna be set on a lot of things.
This is another reverse shift line,
I am walking forward using the screen freeze
back dashing out of it and if I do everything correctly here
there shouldn't be a screen freeze but there might be
so brace yourselves.
Okay,
we're going to have a slight flash and that's it. Okay, good.
If I mess that up big time, you can see a screen
flash for like 35 seconds. It's not fun.
I'm so glad that that didn't happen. We should have no screen flashes
for the rest of the run, thankfully.
There's like no reason for it to ever happen.
From here, this is
finally the first boss fight!
We did it!
Wait a minute, we're a bit deep into the game I think.
First guy? Yeah
His name is Shaft. He is a boss
fight that is connected with
the Dracula fight. So once
we kill him, it will immediately
warp us to the Dracula fight
But we're not ready
to fight Dracula yet! He's the very final boss
of this run so we can get to the end credits and finish the game with the reverse boss order as much as we possibly can.
So we have to find a way to leave this boss room. It's going to load in the whole cinematic etc., etc..
There is a way to do it where you do that
half blood tech in the corner, its very slow
I think a task can make it faster but you could easily crash the game doing so
So im doing an alternate strat where I just use the library card.
I was about to say, why not just use the library card?
You're so smart, Adaf, and cool,
and handsome!
There are some implications of
library-carding out there. We now have to do the richter skip again yes that
is true yes richter is still waiting for us but it's not his time dude i hate him bro yeah he's
the worst one of the other implications funny enough we've killed Shaft but he didn't disappear.
He's still there but we're not allowed to kill him again
because it ruins the boss order. So we have to skier past
him next time which is going to be a very fun time for I think
many people watching. So from
here we're kinda just doing some backtracking so this
is yet another fantastic time for donations before
we get to the next boss. This goes down in there
Alrighty, here's $100 from Quest that said
my fiancé introduced me to Kingdom Hearts as one of his favorite
childhood game series has become nostalgic for me
as well and I can't wait to see it run.
Let's get that critical mode incentive!
And thank you for that. I would like to update you all that we are at 4-0 Let's get that critical mode incentive.
And thank you for that, I would like to update you all
that we are at $41,269 of the $100,000 needed.
That means we need 58,000 more
and there is less than an hour before we get there what just happened sorry
the most ridiculous version of richter skip with no setup and it just worked out you nailed
it hey yeah clap for that!
The reason is like a second because you don't have to break the brick and
that brick makes the hitbox easier to skip past
And I said, you know what? I'll just go for brakeless if we hit it great
If not, you know?
And I happened to hit it so that makes me feel
really good inside.
That one second
is going to put us
with one second underestimate.
Let's go.
True.
Alrighty, mind if
I take it back over
Of course, keep going. I'll let you know. Alrighty, sorry. So take it back over? Of course. Keep going.
Alrighty, sorry.
So we're at 41,000 of the 100,000 needed for that Kingdom Hearts 2 final mix upgrade to level 1 critical mode.
That means we need about $58,000 more and we have under an hour to do it.
This run is already at the 30 minute mark
and there's maybe a 15 minute recap
after that. The time is now. We need
your help. And when we finish that incentive
it's going to put us at like a healthy
980,000.
So close to a million.
We're coming.
I think we can get a little close to that million.
You know what?
I think we could probably get it.
I mean if we really come together, we could do it by the end of this round.
We'll get a million dollars!
I don't know audience, you think we can get towards a million in this run?
Twitch chat, I'm gonna need some energy from you too. We absolutely can just remember when you are putting in your donation,
You have to go to the bottom and specifically select that incentive
If you do not it just goes to the bank which is great
We want those donations but we also wanna see more GDQ
We wanna see more epic speedruns
and challenges so please assign your
donations to especially the
upgrade to level 1 critical mode
We would really appreciate it
So now we're here in the reverse caverns,
making our way towards the reverse mines. This is where the boss fight
with Death is, that guy who we skipped at the very beginning of the run. It's not his
time yet so we'll have to do Death Skip again, what I like
to call Death Skip 2.
If Death Skip is so good... Might as well
do it again. Why isn't there a Death Skip 2?
Yeah that's why we invented a Death Skip 2 for this category
exactly, exactly. This area is very scary
if I drop a wing smash I die! And like I said it's a very
complicated input. I'm constantly doing 3 quarter circle motions on the d-pad while
also trying to control my height in specific ways.
I cannot stress how, like that is the hard part of most Symphony
of the Night speedruns is the wing smash controls.
So this trick is going to be kind of difficult to explain.
It's called a screen grab
so i'm getting him the second phase so he's out of my face i do not want him
anywhere near me uh i'm going to use two heart
refreshes if one heart refresh is broken two
it's probably also broken that's not the right setup
I don't have a lot of time to set this up
so I'm a little nervous
That should work
So now from here
I'm going to buffer each heart refresh input back-to-back. Now that I have two I can put to buffer each Heart Refresh input back-to-back.
Now that I have two, I can put one on each hand, alternate hands
and out of the Heart Refresh input you can buffer another input
so I am constantly spending these Heart Refresh inputs over and over again
And you'll notice that Alucard is shifting to the left
every single time a hard refresh animation plays,
but the camera's locked in place.
This desyncs the camera and Alucard's position
such that after awhile while, when I let
go and let the game return to normal
speed, the camera is going to snap
to Alucard's position. But he's really far to the left
and the collision of the game doesn't quite
keep up and he'll fall through the floor within one frame essentially
and it lets us go out-of-bounds.
This is a trick that requires
a ton of hard refresh animations.
This one's like 25 I think for this room so you don't want to do it because
it takes a long time unless you absolutely have to there is one other way to skip death
but it's actually a minute slower because it requires a library card and then backtracking
through the entirety of the first castle again
and the second castle up to this point. So for the rest of this trick, this would be a great time for donations
Alrighty, then I have a $250 donation
here from... is it Bejamis?
Vegemis? Well, they said let's go DB
one of my favorite streamers playing one of my favorite games showing smooth movement and amazing tricks
on the GDQ main stage for such a wonderful
cause. Thank you for that $250.
We also had $10 here from
Dracula's Castle HR
director? Oh no, I hate this guy.
Yeah, they said the lesser demon was tired of being
disrespected and has put in his two weeks notice.
Looks like we need a new
HR director.
Look, it's expected. It's disappointing
but it's expected. Don't try to be lesser yeah i mean we've got
an even more lesser demon that we're just going to bump up so you know his loss all right
we're coming up on the end of this check here so take note
of alucard's position here i'm going to do an
extra hard refresh just to be safe because we fail this trick it's like a three minute time
loss so this should work um and slip on through.
And there we go!
That is one of the tricks that I'm most nervous about.
It should be free if I have the correct setup,
but if you are ever so slightly wrong
on your starting position, it changes the number
of heart refreshes you have to do
and your positioning. So
you kind of just have to wing it and hope that
it works out. It's very consistent but
the 98% chance for it to go right
means that there is a 100% chance
for it to go wrong sometimes.
That math checks out.
But now, that's like the last major skip of the run
and you get to enter phase two
of this run which is kind of the reverse boss rush
right now we're gonna go from boss to boss and uh
kind of just show them what's up tell them that uh
you know we're tired of
them existing I guess?
I'm not quite sure what the lore is here.
Wait, that room was sick!
So, we're coming up on the hardest, most difficult,
most crazy, most wild boss in the entire game, Galamoth.
He is the super secret mega-boss with more health than even
the final boss Dracula himself.
12,000 HP and I'm honestly a little bit nervous if
there only was a way to... oh yeah! Shieldrod where are you going? He's not supposed
go that way. Anyways, yeah shield rod OP we're invincible
we're doing max cap damage.
Boss down! Boss down!
Without shield rod that guy is such a jerk there is an AI like manip you can do to lock him in place
but that boss fight legitimately with the equipment i have would take like six minutes
versus you know like 15 seconds but now the next boss oh the sound effects sorry
that sound was hilarious do you want to hear an even better one?
I would please, yeah.
Oh, I know what it is.
Hold on, let me set it up.
It's a good room.
It's like when a skeleton's playing their ribcage
with his xylophone.
Yeah this game is full of all sorts
of wonderful sound design, music
sprite work... it's literally a masterpiece
of art. I love it to death. It's my favorite video
game of all time. And I'm so happy to showcase
it here for all of you lovely folks.
And thank you all for, uh, donating to a fantastic cause!
Like, GDQ is the reason I started speedrunning and
the fact that, um...it's still kicking many, many years later
I've been speedrunning this game a long time. Almost 11 years and I'm so happy to be part of it.
Next boss coming up is Beelzebub. You might think no don't you mean Bielzabub? No its Beezlebub.
It's a typo inside the game when you look him up in the
bestiary. He is a giant
hanging
decoded body
who summons flies. He's really
everybody's nightmare fuel if you played this game
like as a young adult or child or even an
adult full grown adult you might still be scared
so you know i honestly i'm i don't i'm scared
do you have adf there to hold you in case you are scared?
Thank you for being honest with us.
I have something that might cheer you up, can I do my impression of Dragon Blitz?
Yes.
Please don't touch me!
I got that from YOU bro!
I'm literally copying YOU.
Holy cow, I just thought there were two of you.
The speed noises per
minute density that has been on display
in this run is incredible.
Oh... oh no. This is normally the laggiest room is incredible. Oh no, this
is normally the
laggiest room in
the game if we
were playing on
PlayStation and
one of the reasons
why playing on
PlayStation can be
a little bit sketchy
in some places.
By the way,
if you do want to
play on PlayStation
the route is exactly the same between Xbox and PlayStation
which is really nice.
There's a handful of minor differences
The Xbox version just loads faster
and has less lag so
it's one of those things. Another cool boss kill coming up here.
What I'm doing here is I'm die-kicking off at the enemy
in midair to keep the shield inside of him as long
as possible. Otherwise we'd have like 1 or 2
ticks where the shield wouldn't
kill him in time and you would have to get back up there again
then he would actually fight back.
That's basically
long short of how
boss fights are going to go
in this run is we just want to get inside of them with the shield
inside their face as quickly as possible and keep the shield inside of
them until they die. There's various different ways to do that, and
optimizations we can do like this next boss fight coming up here,
this is the Castlevania 3 trio.
If you've ever played Castlevania 3, it's all of your friends
but they're evil this time? What?!
The way that we're
going to do this boss fight is we're actually gonna sweep from left to right,
essentially knocking the
enemies into each other to just
basically walk through the room like this.
So we start with this guy, walk to the left, he gets knocked back,
then we sweep up to
the top over there and they are doneza the whole
the whole canon of the castlevania anime just shuddered as you
well grant wasn't even in it. Yeah, you know.
Maybe in the Japanese version of the anime he's in it.
He'd probably be named Ralph.
Shout out to Ralph Belmont, my favorite Belmont.
Belmondo.
Let's hear for Ralph. Yeah, let's hear it for Ralph.
Yeah, let's get a round of applause please. Thank you, thank you. Ralph appreciates it.
I'll let him know. Next boss fight is going to be Doppelganger 40
The 40, fun fact, denotes his level. Each enemy in this game does have a specific
level and it is a mechanic that does matter. It determines how much experience you gain from the
boss. It's like Alucard, your character level minus their
level and then some other math going on in the background
determines how much experience you gain.
So essentially the higher level you are,
the less experience you gain so that level scaling kind of
balances out. It's one of the reasons
why we're not getting level ups all the time and primarily
only on bosses nowadays, you know?
The inflation on experience has gone crazy
You know what I'm saying?
Look, the Fed is just not doing enough to cap inflation on experience curves.
I've been saying this. Thank you.
Another fun fact about doppelganger40
he is so linked with the other version of doppelganger back in the first castle
we had to skip him by using the library card um but we're going to skip him again and to explain
why that is uh i can't. That's the fun part.
I don't know why this
is a thing.
We're just going to be
invincible and get in
his face, use the
stopwatch to freeze him
in place then kill him
and I'm going to look
at the system menu
here time attack.
You'll notice
Doppelganger 10 and doppelganger 40
were defeated on the same frame.
They are soul linked so essentially he's gone.
There is no doppelganger 10.
Again we tried our best to make this reverse boss order work but that's another one of those edge cases where you cannot kill doppelganger 40 before killing doppelganger 10 or else doppelganger 10 never spawns. I'll even showcase the boss room later because this run has actually been kind of killing it we're probably way
ahead of a schedule and it's like a 20-second detour but i'll show you he does not spawn at all
wait we're way ahead of estimate zen can i get an update on that kingdom
hearts incentive cause we're running out of
time here yeah we definitely are we are at 43 355 of the 100 000 needed that is 56
000 remaining actually have a message here from the runner, Ninten866
just to tell you how amazing the upgrade to level 1 critical mode incentive
is. They said that the level one makes the game extremely high stakes and
intense on every fight. Just beating the game at level one at all
is a huge task that not many people can do so we're basically doing a challenge run while speed
running every fight will be difficult to get through. Edge of your seat speedrun."
Quote unquote.
You definitely want to see it, make sure you put the donations in now
and select that incentive at the bottom
of the page. We need your help NOW!
I mean, I want to see that.
Look, I'm sold.
I want to see that too.
I'm sold.
You got any KH fans in the audience tonight?
Love me some Kingdom Hearts.
Let's go.
Yeah, get that incentive med people Med people I wanna see it!
So where are we heading now? We just killed Death...kind of
Yeah, Death- It was finally his time
Death comes for us all including Death
Yeah who takes him to the great beyond?
Me!
Let's go.
So now we're heading towards creature.
Now we've kind of hit the Castlevania 1 retrains if you will.
Got to rehash the old stuff so that way
the boomers can look at the screen and go, oh my gosh I remember that!
It's Flea Man!
That ups's me! That's Dragonblitz, dude. He's the boomer.
So they retrained a lot of
the old Castlevania 1
bosses. This is creature
minus the flea man that accompanies
him. He's dead now. His scream kind of
sounds like Hank Hill going,
Whoa!
Just me? Alright, I'm crazy.
You play the same game over and over again, you start to hear things in the static of
the game.
I don't know that Hank Hill's scream is his most defining feature.
Last time I saw Creature I was like wow this guy looks like he most defining feature. Last time I fought creature,
I was like wow this guy looks like he lost
propane and potent accessories.
Now don't tell you what,
you better be donating to that upgrade
to level 1 critical mode incentive we really could use that help right now. That was really good!
Okay, I'm so glad Zen did that because
I was going to do mine and it is 100 times worse.
So how much
to donate to hear yours?
A hundred bucks will give it a shot. A100 donation, we can hear ASF say kill
I wanna hear this now!
No you know what instead? Where are they at on the KH2 incentive?
Alright currently we still need
55 thousand eight hundred sorry, $55 currently we still need $55,800.
Oh sorry, $55,000 we still need is the main point here.
Let's get to 60k and I'll do it.
60K for our 8Fs horrible Hank Hill impression.
Let's go!
Alrighty, we need a 60K total there.
That's about 16,000 more.
I mean, Twitch chat audience,
I know we can make it happen
but are you going to put your energy into it?
Can I trust you?
We can do this, right?
Give me some energy, audience.
Let's go!
It's really bad.
I'm excited for that.
If it's bad enough,
can we get VDef up here?
Yeah, he just is not...
I'm sorry.
I could check my phone
but he's just not... Have you got a budget? Yeah, I don't not. I'm sorry, I could check my phone but he's just not...
Have you got a budget?
Yeah, I don't know. He's soaring dude.
Honestly the price for his appearance fee is kind of wild.
I asked him, but some people are just They make it and then they forget about you.
Speaking of people who have made it,
we got Awkward on here
all the way from Castlevania 1 making it into...
He's made it, bro.
He has made it.
He got the call for this game and was so excited to show up yeah now
let's tell him but his animation his death animation is like they definitely spent
like a week on it his thanos snap out of existence beautiful not feeling so good mr stark wow big adventures fan
oh that was personally painful yeah from here we are winding down the second castle.
Which means that we have one castle after this left full of bosses
and then the final boss Dracula so...
We keep blazing through these bosses right now.
How many bosses do got left, DB?
Don't ask me that question.
Count them now.
Look at what I've done with my left-right.
I just look at my splits and do
what the splits tell me to do.
Bro has just laid his live split layout how do i speed one with my splits
so uh we do have darkwing back coming up next here um after that uh there's all the
first castle bosses you You know them.
You taught me Ada.
You're a big fan of this game.
Huge fan.
Presumably, there is Medusa.
We already did Medusa.
That was earlier.
Well, I just like her so much.
We all do. Oh, I just like her so much. I mean we all do.
Oh! You know who there is?
There's a guy with an axe who's like a minotaur or something.
Mm-hmm, yeah.
There's also a skeleton...
Or it's like a group of skeletons?
You're thinking of Dark Souls 2.
That's right, I often confuse the two all
the time. They are very similar. Yeah yeah
Similar lore, similar art
style vibe, you know. Yeah majula castle unclear what is your favorite
skeleton lord my favorite skeleton lord that'd be me
okay now we're finally heading back to the first castle, all of the bosses in the second
castle have been defeated. Going back to the first castle what is the next boss?
I'm thinking Karasumon? No, it's not Karasumon.
I feel like we're forgetting somebody important here...
Who could it be? Oh you know what it is!
It's gotta be Viktor.
Yeah he just doesn't spawn in from the left for whatever reason.
He goes super saiyan at the beginning.
Good.
Yeah.
I assume he's just going to get shielded to death or something.
No, actually.
He is controlled by the dark priest chef, that guy that we killed earlier. He sent like his phantom
form to go control... B-shaft.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that
shaft encounter is essentially
just an orb with 10 HP. So we just
do 10 HP, ten ticks
of damage to him. By the way
shield rod. Thank you for reminding me I will
do that. Yeah we do ten ticks
of damage. It's a good thing your here 10 ticks of damage.
Ten ticks of damage to it and then it dissipates and that's it because if we actually killed him
as the boss fight that is intended
uh...we get the bad ending
And we still have more bosses so we can't get the bad ending and we still have more bosses so we can't get the bad ending. So our compromise is
that we save Richter, and that's considered the boss fight let's go! Let's go this is one of
the few categories that actually saves Richter because he isn't considered a boss.
Because this game uses the time attack menu I showed you earlier
as like, the de facto way to determine in a major event
in this game, like killing a boss. but saving richter doesn't say defeat richter it says
save richter where all the other bosses say defeat blank boss so because of that uh richter usually
doesn't make the cut but because we're trying to abide by
the boss order as cleanly as we can
to make an entertaining run that's fun to play and also fun to showcase.
Richter makes the cut which is a big day for him.
Huge! Richter stalks going up everybody
okay this is shield rod time so because that cutscene with uh saving richter happened it
deactivated my shield rod it essentially reloads Alucard in
which disables the shield rod.
In my defense is this not a ton of skeletons?
It's technically bodies.
Look at the background right now.
Those are the skeletons but the boss itself is bodies you
don't get to see the boss for very long so i don't dragon um actually his name
so there's grand flume down uh next boss coming up is going to be all rocks the other like vampire lord of the castle i don't know what he's doing here.
Honestly, I think he is just squatting. He found a castle and said
you know what, I'll move in! We will see what happens
in Season 2. Squatters...yeah they are going to finally address
the squatter rights in Transylvania.
I've been looking forward to this.
Is this canonically in Transylvania?
Good question!
Or is it just an ambiguous Eastern European country?
No, I think it IS in Transylvania. In this game. Other games
it's up in the air. Really...Castlevaine is kind of more of a vibe.
It really is. Should I do a funny voice?
Yeah you should do a funny voice. Go for it!
Aw let's...
Let's go dude!
I wake up every day and say
should I do a funny voice? I had to double check my notes
to... I have the route like 95%
memorized. Again, like I said, I rerouted
a lot of it. And on top of that, the boss
order is so arbitrary.
No speedrun in its right mind would go all the way down to
catacombs and say you know where I want to go next? Allrocks' quarters.
Like the exact opposite side of the castle. So there's a lot of zigzagging
around from boss-to boss to boss as determined by
that boss order, but it does make for
some fun rooms to move through.
It's another reason I love this game
because this game has such fluid
movement for a 2D game. It's incredible, it
has momentum preservation out of
any horizontal movement. You have the wing
smashes which is like a huge skill ceiling
optimization for top level runners
you even had out-the-gate shield dashing, something to do
in between before getting all the overpowered movement. It's incredibly
fun to play through, even if you just want to casually play through the game but utilize
the movement options to their fullest it's so much fun genuinely recommend it
next up we got succubus which is all the way in the catacombs, which is this direction.
On the way there you think I got a few moments for donations? Sure thing!
Fantastic here's $5 from Heat Blaze that said $5 train to
the KH2 upgrade and along the same thoughts $5 train to the KH2 upgrade. And along the same thoughts,
$5 from Burt FTW
that's a $5 train to one million?
$50 here from
Yoki Mato that said I missed the last few
$5 trains so here's 10 trains worth
and $10 from Lima
that said choo-choo!
We can definitely make it happen.
We are currently at 48,000 of the 100,000 needed.
That means we still need 51k and let me tell you
if we get to 60,000 of that raise
we're going to get the greatest Hank Hill impression
you have ever heard
Right ADF?
Yeah
So I did a little bit of a fib.
I lied.
It wasn't actually succubus.
It was cerberus.
They kind of sound the same.
Yeah, you know...
There's the dog.
We pet the dog.
He loves us so much he bursts into flames out of excitement. Let's get the dog. We pet the dog. He loves us so much, he bursts into flames out of excitement.
Let's hear it for dogs.
Let's hear it for dogs, everybody.
Shout-out to peanut butter.
Loves us so much, he bursts into flames. Don't you do that?
That's some biblical garbage!
I love fire.
There is a lot of Biblical stuff in this game,
So i think it's accurate.
Yeah there are crosses and holy scuff or whatever. Yeah, whatever. Junk. Now
it's succubus time.
Everyone's favorite Bible. Another biblical thing.
Now it's succubus time.
I remember that. It's my favorite
Bible. Hold on. Oh, it's succubus time.
Funny thing about this game
in Bible quotes actually.
Oh yeah, this is a good story.
This is a good story. So in the end credits
in the English version of the game,
Dracula quotes Matthew 1626 at the very end.
And for the longest time, the any% run was hovering around 17 minutes
a little into the 1650s.
And I kind of took it upon myself to find
a lot of time saves
to get down around that 1626 mark
and then after awhile we eventually did
get a run that was exactly 1626. so for a while the world
record was 16 26 and at the end of the run dracula even calls out the timer 1626. that was sucky just
by the way you know we library card out to skip
the animation of us loading back into the regular castle
because we're in the nightmare zone.
You know a little thing about the nightmare zone, right, Dana?
I have had a nightmare every night
in this hotel since we got here.
I haven't had a hotel... Good lord. every night in this hotel since we got here. Well, I'm sorry to hear that!
I haven't had a nightmare
in like two years and yet
I'm 6 for 6 this week.
I'm hoping 7 for 7 tonight.
Are you feeling alright man? I feel fine fine i've had a great week they're honestly getting exciting
are they scary yes but every single one has had some kind of thing for me to defeat at
the end so i wake up feeling resolute um and uh excited i think i know what your
nightmare is going gonna be tonight, it's gonna be something
about a little bit of propane...
I can't wait to hear the you know save children from a burning building that's
exploding with propane and hand kill is there
and you have to do your hank hill impression to save the children and i might you know
that's going to be a tough decision that's going to be a tough decision to make whoa to save
children i'll save the kids.
Alright, let's hear it for saving the kids.
Let's get some donations for MSF
Happy to read a few out if we have a moment
Go right ahead, we're just killing some bosses vibing with some friends.
You know as one does.
We got a $50 donation here from our great friend Anonymous that said
A bad Hank Hill impression and an impossible Kingdom Hearts run for the price of one donation.
So much value!
Also had a $25 donation from Wizzy here
that said, always wanted to see runners
in pain. Level 1 KH
GO! Also, AF talking about
propane needs to happen
Right now we're at 50 thousand
out of the 100 thousand
10 thousand more and we hear an incredible impression
We're close to it. Let's just make it happen. We're close.
Man, I'm low-key
stressed because what if it's actually good
and that's disappointing? Or what if it's
so bad that it's disappointing? You're in your head.
You're in your head. It'll be great.
I gotta do some
kind of acting exercise, get out
of my head. Do you want to hear a fun fact?
Yeah I'd love to hear a fun fact. If you transform into
Bat in this room before the cutscene
starts, you softlocked the game. You should do it. I can't anymore.
We consider joking by
softlocking the game than loading a safety save.
That's a boss. Oh that's a boss.
That's a boss I mentioned. Half of it.
You mentioned Minotaur but you forgot his friend here. I knew there was two guys. You didn't even mention Minotaur, but you forgot his friend.
I knew there was two guys!
You didn't even mention Minotaur,
you just said a minotour-like guy.
Well is he not... would you say Dragonblitz
is not a human like guy?
Not frequently no, I don't think I would say that.
But is it incorrect? Like yeah if I had to test him Not frequently, no I don't think I would say that.
But is it correct?
Like yeah if I had to testify that sounds accurate.
Your honor my client is a human like guy.
Watch yourself, counselor.
What's next? We got Scylla! Oh, Scylla.
We all love Scylla, right guys? Yeah, the wiggly water lady. Wiggly water lady.
Remember that floor clip
I did a while ago to get into the caverns?
Of course. It's a little fuzzy actually. Can you show it to me again?
Oh sure, since we're here might as well.
No way i went through that's the one on that that is wild those are
i can't even begin to explain how difficult those are. The map buffering helps, but again you're still having
to do frame perfect inputs for the map buffering
Lots of fun time here.
So this is Scylla W a worm, not silly yet.
Can I give you
a Fun Fact TV?
Sure!
This is actually
a fun fact for everybody.
Twitch.tv
slash dr4
g-o-n
b-l-i-t-z
that's Dragon Blitz
excellent content and there's a youtube channel with amazing
a huge backlog of wonderful videos to watch on castlevania speedrunning history all kinds
of other speedruns uh YouTube, just search Dragon Blitz
and Twitch, go to Dragon Blitz.
I want to see some follows,
some subscribes
and I'm going to say it,
I'll cry if you don't do it.
He'll cry if you do it as well
so no matter what it kind of works out.
Yeah, but that's just like my state.
You're prone to crying. Yeah, that's just my default state.
Sorry, I didn't mean to out you. No, I'm a human-like creature.
True! Aren't we all?
Any human-like creatures in the chat yeah human like
features let's hear it sound off your human-like creature
we love that wake up in the morning i feel like a monster-like creature am i
right I feel like a monster-like creature, am I right? Oh!
Yeah.
Seriously.
We can't wait until I've had my coffee.
You can't wake up 90 minutes before having your morning coffee?
Yeah, yeah. I'll die.
Next up is Hippogriff.
So you might have noticed that Scylla boss fight
where I literally just wing smashed into the boss
and then the boss died. That boss
for whatever reason just has very low HP. I think they were worried
about how difficult the boss would be so they scaled
it down HP-wise. This boss however, I think
has no excuse for having as much HP as it does
Obviously we are going to melt it but from a casual
perspective this is like a dark souls level boss with like
a darksoul's level run back like there's no save room anywhere nearby it's like probably the hardest
part of the game near the beginning funny enough um this is where normally, in a sane world
that is not a wacko
universe that we live in, we would go fight Doppelganger
10, but he
is not with us right now
He's on vacation
He heard that his good friend Doppelganger 40 with us right now. He's on vacation.
Um, he heard that his good friend Doppelganger40 couldn't make it
so he decided to go look for him.
If you- if he asks, don't
tell him anything guys, alright? We're cool.
He's in the big castle in the sky yeah well that's
the second castle actually yeah he's in the third big castle in the sky well there is a
third castle and these are the four churches castle in the sky okay
we don't i don't think we have a fourth castle oh sevens for doppelganger ten
oh sevens so yeah where this is the final boss by the way everybody well
the first boss but the final ones and they're gone they were too strong we had to skip slugger
and guy bond yeah we have to go power up through our anime training arc before we can finally face them.
And do we skip the Life Max Up?
We did. Nice!
If you leave the room fast enough there's a life max up that drops on your head.
But if you're fast enough to leave with a library card
it doesn't drop on your head and you save like 90 frames.
That's a lot.
Can you count to 90 chat?
No.
Start now.
Well hey they could if we start putting some more donations towards the upgrade to level 1.
Could we please start a donation train starting at one getting to 90 in order?
Can you do it? I believe in you.
You ever played those games where you try to like count to ten in order. Can you do it? I believe in you.
You ever played those games where you try to count to ten,
but you can't look at each other and then... Do you have any idea what we're talking about?
Is that on the PS1?
If it's on the PS11 we might have played it you know with how big the library is i wouldn't doubt it oh yeah uh doppelganger 10 let me go show him real quick this is like a 20 second
detour but i'm not lying. He's gone forever.
What is the game counting to 10?
It's like a group
trust building exercise where you close your eyes in a circle
and try to count to 10 without saying any numbers
at the same time. you can't like communicate
it all and you're trying to each individually work together to count to
ten without saying a number at the same time i've spent so much time on this
area it's just uh this is where doppelganger10 normally would be but he
is mia right now so but he is MIA right now. So like
He's actually just gone
It's one of the things that makes this category very silly
It's a category extension for a reason
Every speedrun is arbitrary
Of course! At the end of the day, you know
The words any% didn't mean anything
until somebody decided they did
Exactly, but at the end of the day this is a very fun
very interesting category
in my opinion. It gets to show off how
powerful the glitches in this game are if you like
sit down and really like put your nose to the grindstone and figure out all
these frame perfect pixel-perfect setups. And as just a massive fan of this game
and this games community, and so many of the people around
the speedrunning community as a whole is the whole reason
I'm here, and again, so
happy to be showcasing this run for you guys.
Hey! We don't have to skip Richter anymore!
No more Richterskip let's go uh coming up here is like a back
track to the area where shaft was because that's where the dracula fight is from if
you remember like oh i don't know, like 30 minutes ago.
But heading up to that, there's not a whole
lot going on so this would be another fantastic
time for some donations.
Here is a $2,000
donation from John.
They said let's see that terrible Hank Hill impression.
They pushed us to 52,500 of the 100,000 needed so So we still need about 7500 but
We can absolutely make it happen before the end of this run
I personally challenge all of you
To make it happen before the end of this run
We also had a $25 donation from
Anonymous that said uh how much does Twitch chat need to donate
for Zen to read out Dracula's
what is a man speech in the
Handkill voice? If we reach
that 60k, I will
absolutely do it. Fair trade. We absolutely need to reach that level 1 critical mode upgrade.
It is such a great run. None of you understand because I cannot articulate well enough how amazing that run is
but I really want us get there.
I believe we can do it before the start of that run is, but I really want to get us there. I believe we can do it before the
start of that run. You'll have the time
for the daily recap after that, but that's not much.
We're getting there. It's running out!
Okay, this is going to be one of the last tricks
Of the run. It's that reverse shift line again
Nice, we got it
So again, this pushes us out of bounds
By skipping an entire room
Puts us in the ceiling
And then we fly across the ceiling here. Two
three four five wing smashes. A brief flash
and then were there. And now all that's standing in our way is Shaft again
but as I said earlier we can't fight him so if you remember that trick we did earlier to skip past death?
We're going to be doing that again, that screen grab glitch where we desync the camera a lot.
This is another fantastic time for a LOT of donations,
it's gonna be like 2 minutes.
Alright-y, and here
is a $25 donation from Memph that said
Aback doing a Hank Hill impression?
That boy ain't right.
We have a $250 donation from
Quev that says, I'm excited to hear
ADF's Hank Hill impression.
$50 from Wilson that said, can we get a
$5 Hank Hill hype train?
And I guess for Kingdom Hearts 2, donating
10 tickets. Mike Judge fans, rise
up baby! Let's go!
$100 donation
from Frequently Bees that said give us the Hank Hill impression.
$100 from Mark that said people want to hear the bad Hank Hill
impression. $50 from Cute Fuzzy that said this should buy some propane and propane accessories.
Can't wait to hear it, ADef!
And also a $25 donation here
from PrinceOfKisses that said,
question for DB, which Symphony of the Night monster
is the most ADef-like? A question for DB, which Symphony of the Night monster is
the most ADF like?
Oh gosh.
I'm going to guess Flea Rider.
Flea Rider.
Caveman was not going to say Flea rider, I want to be clear on that.
No we were on the perfect wavelength there you're kind of being weird about this.
It was definitely flea adjacent.
You are wearing green.
Yeah that doesn't help. You are't have sat here. You're wearing like a Flea Man cosplay right now.
I never leave home without my Flea Man cosplay!
I know! That's why you were on the couch.
Everybody knew you were doing the Flea Man cosplay today.
Yeah.
I think we just have a couple more heart refreshes here before we're pushed through the floor um hopefully this works out uh i was supposed to count
the number of heart refreshes,
but this looks about right.
You know where you are.
I've had thousands of hours in this game and it worked well.
Yay!
Sometimes you do vibe-based glitches and it works out.
But this is the end of the run, again I want to thank GDQ
I wanna thank the crowd being here
I wanna thank ADef and Caveman
I wanna thank everybody who's donating to this wonderful
cause. Thank you all so much for making
this possible, I'm so happy to get to showcase my favorite game in front of
you all.
Adep said it before, but I do make videos on YouTube,
youtube.com slash DragonBlitz.
ADEP KUMARANIRIGALAVICIUKWENJONGBURYINDIZIJNJ
They're really good.
Genuinely very good.
ADEP KUNJANGRAMANIHRAJANJIWAKERIJ
I talk about speed running
this game, other games, all sorts of stuff.
I also stream breaking records all the time in this game
twitch.tv slash dragonblitz
If you want to check me out, I'd really appreciate it
And that's time
Hey also we just got to 63,000.
Up to 100,000 so what you got for us?
Okay... I gotta take a deep breath and like really center myself
and that is i'm gonna i'm gonna be upset now that boy ain't right, I tell you what.
I'll tell you what. I'm gonna sell that
boy some propane. Oh, that's
pretty good. No it's not.
It got better. You should practice
it like more, like right now.
Uh...
If you are still watching and interested in speedrunning Symphony of the Night this is my last spiel
Go to speedrun.com slash sotn
Follow the links there.
There's tons of guides because you don't have to do this crazy wild insane run.
You could start with any percent.
You can start with glitchless.
There are other categories that are a little bit more beginner friendly.
If you're interested in this game at all and you want to speed on it
check us out there's also a discord that's linked there the long library
discord will help you out uh and thank you guys so much again i appreciate it
from hearts too. My name is Ninten, and let's just get started. In 3... 2... 1... Go!
I'm joined by these lovely commentators.
Yes, hi, I am Jay Helps.
I'm Thar.
And I'm Spike Vegeta! Hooray!
Yay!
This is actually my favorite category of this game so I'm really excited to be showing it off here.
We're just starting out in Roxas Road.
There's like a tutorial section of the video game,
and the RNG is actually set when you start the game
so we are able to RNG manipulate the first couple fights here
So we'll be doing very particular combos on
the first fights coming up.
Yeah, Ninten picking up
a Struggle Bat to increase his strength by one there
as well which really does help.
Yeah that one Strength difference actually makes a huge
difference in this game.
Yeah, permanent stat increase. So again,
like Ninten said, he's going to be RNG manipulating
right here doing an exact combo
on Cypher so you can keep this RNG manipulation going
a few more minutes into the run.
Yeah, so all these combos
it's like... It's one just
a good way to beat the boss quickly or you know
boss. A little tutorial. Quickly but also
is going to continue
manipulating that RNG. Basically the RNG
changes based on enemy action and
the enemy action is based on what
we do to the enemies so how we hit them and let them respond.
Yeah, as you noticed there I was actually doing air hits at the end
so we'll be opting to do air combos whenever we can
It's really hard to do him as Roxas because he's a bit heavier than Sora, but they are faster
than ground combos. The animations just put there...
This is one of the biggest reasons we did the RNG minute. Look how fast it is. And in
case you were worried that Critical was going to be any easier than Level, like only slightly.
Minton's just gonna do two empty hits one empty hit a full combo here by empty hit we mean not completing the combo
Just doing the first or the first two hits of the combo.
Yeah so doing the empty hits is because the finisher, the ending of the combo knocks away the enemies and we don't want that because then we have to chase them down yeah so we'll be trying
to end the enemy with the last hit of our combo if we can yeah especially dusks they like they love
to just kind of move around all wildly and that finisher does a lot you know a
lot of damage it's really good but it is not worth the time it would take
to go chase them back down after you knock him away yeah so this is about
delivery we have to do a job and then talk to hainer uh we actually don't
have to do that many jobs.
It should just be one of them. And as long as you do well enough in this
mini-game, then we can go talk to Hainer and finish off Sub 7.
Yeah, that's not... That is not easy to do in under seven seconds.
Because there are a lot of you who don't want
to just press triangle
to deliver a piece of mail while
you're on the ground because all of a sudden
there's a ton of lag coming out of that so ninten was always trying to
like jump when he is delivering the mail and like as he's landing out of it yeah it's very tony hawk
very good so now this is almost a tony haw. Sorry, Pete Gallagher.
Now we're entering day three.
We promised there's going to be a lot of action in this run
and you'll start to see it on this day when
we've had our first boss.
Actually one of the more challenging fights in the run, but we'll get to that there.
But another section of RNG manip. To progress this, we're just going to do 10 hits
on the dusk as you can see where you are not doing any damage to it, but our hits are still counting
towards progression and There we go.
That's exactly what you want?
Yeah, so we did the reverse RSC there.
We'll be doing that throughout Roxas World
because it stuns the Dusks
so let's just get free hits in.
Ninten picked up the shield there as well.
The dream shield which affects
the ability routing throughout the game
so as you level up
which abilities you unlock
that is determined by
which dream weapon you pick
and the shield is going to be very helpful.
There is like a sword route
for critical as well, but the shield has
a lot of varied tech to it that Ninten wanted
to show off.
Yeah, shield route is just really safe.
That was...
We'll also get once more, yeah. Yeah, we'll be getting a lot of abilities
that will be very useful later on.
Especially on critical mode.
So now it's a Dusk fight right there.
We're heading into our first actual boss fight
which is Twilight Thorn. It's actually a really tough fight.
Right here in this menu, Ninten is applying all of these like bonus... Was that no experience or anything?
Almost.
Okay I was very sure.
But uh, all abilities that you just saw
at the intent start with there,
those are bonuses that come from starting on
Critical Mode difficulty.
So Square's idea of kind of balancing
Critical Mode which was added to
the Final Mix version
was to say it's gonna be really, really hard.
You're going to die very, very easily
one two shot everywhere
but we are also going to give you a couple of niceties up front
like a finishing plus allowing you to do
back-to-back finishing hits which are your most powerful attacks pretty much
across the board stuff like draw reaction boost we'll get into those as
the fights kind of apply to them but, a lot of cool bonuses right there.
You also deal a little more damage on critical mode
than you do on standard. Beginner does even more
but critical also gets a nice little damage
buff. So I like to
fiddle around with the menu, my apologies.
Yep. It's just how we make the time go by.
This is like the big introduction
to reaction commands so every time you see one of those
triangle prompts pop up on screen,
you can use Mashing Triangle and hitting one of those.
We're going to use those a lot throughout the run.
I think a lot of people remember this game as Mash X in Triangle.
But we are not going to use them in that kind of fashion.
Right, absolutely.
They're very specifically used.
They all stand and calculated.
Yeah.
In this fight though, for the opening there's not much you can do besides use them
And then after this animation here,
We're going to have Ninten actually getting into kind of the difficult part of this.
Yeah, so he'll be trying to get four air combos and maybe an extra hit at the end of it when he's knocked down here
So he's stunned for a certain period of time
And like I said, air combo are really hard to do with Roxas
so it's quite difficult to get these air combos in.
Alright that's good, four air combos.
That's good, that's good.
We're still on the good spot and have killed his ball some time even though we missed that extra
hit jump with that double finisher that that is uh due to that finishing plus device he's
talking about nintendo knocks the dusks away because they can absolutely get in
the way.
And then he's listening for an audio cue to dodge them here,
a little bit of an empty hit there so that this finisher finishes off
the boss.
Nice!
Don't let that fight fool you.
Ninh Tien just absolutely schooled that, but that is a very challenging fight to learn and it's the first major fight in the game.
And not only was Ninten beating the boss there, but also new to like actually kill the creeper that spawned as well for the extra experience yeah so
that experience actually matters the experience route in this game
is uh pretty important to stick to so we'll be trying to hit certain level
thresholds throughout the game and one of them actually coming up at the end
of roxas road yeah that's like what two experience or something maybe before it and it's absolutely
worth paying attention to so we get the struggle fights right here, yep
all of these need to, ideally
you can last the entire minute
or you can just add all 200
of the orbs and finish it instantly
so you can see Nintent getting a really good corner
stride with that, 46 is a very good time. Yeah, Hainer's really hard
yeah, Hainer is unironically one of the hardest fights in like the early game
And we see another one of those critical abilities that we were given at the
start again made use their draw basically sucks in any uh items that enemies drops
in this case struggle orbs but later in the game hp the game, HP Orbs, MP Orbs, Money
basically means you don't have to walk right on top of them
to get them which makes these struggle fast very
struggle fights very fast and critical move.
Yeah, and on Vivi here it's going
be a little bit different than Hainer
because we're actually going to knock Vivi down.
We can't see their health yet but we are going to see it soon.
But we were able to get Vivi to zero health there and knock her down.
42 flat! You don't see that very often.
And even right there the one spot where Ninten got you might thought that was a mistake.
That was actually intentional because of how draw works with it.
It's better to just take that one hint and keep all the orbs clustered up.
It works really well.
So now Ninten is going to be using a lot of those empty hits, like you said.
Not using the finishers unless he can actually project it pretty well.
That was good.
Yeah so that's another fight there.
When we find multiple dusts,
We're trying to hit
multiple them at the same time because save some time on getting extra hits
Jack can I get a got it memorized so here we're gonna be being absolute six
air commas that the dodge is attack right there you don't have guard equip So here we're going to be being asked with six air combos.
The dodge is attacked right there,
you don't have guard equipped yet so it's actually really hard
to dodge that and get in that combo right there.
Good fight, good fight.
Good adjustment on the empty hits there too.
It's very easy to drop a combo while playing with Roxas and if you do
you have to be able to like on-the-fly adjust to it.
Yeah Ninten is also one of the best runners out there for games
like Kingdom Hearts 1 as well where where jump combos are the king.
No problem!
But yeah, where jump combos
are the king so you have to get really good
at getting those little micro jumps
and then getting an entire combo out yeah nintendo intentionally losing
there because you have the option to either win or lose you get a better prize from
losing which is the metal accessory that gives us one more strength
which as we said before one of any stat especially strengthen this game
makes a big difference.
Yeah and so this game is like action RPG
that RPG elements definitely come into play
a lot in the speed running
if they pay attention to all our stats
and everything. yeah i feel
like casually it's more action and yes some rpg whereas in the speed run it is equal parts both
so because we have that metal um dusks are going to get a little more hp since
the battle level was going to rise on this day,
but we're able to kill them in one less hit.
So they will technically still have similar HP as they've had in the past few days.
Yeah so right there I put on Guard and Scan
We can finally start seeing the HP, as Pthar mentioned.
And we'll still have Guard which is going to be very useful.
Yeah.
We're gonna have a few sections here
where Minton has to go basically take
care of a couple mini games.
But this is a good time to get to the basics
of the video game. If you've never seen Kingdom Hearts
before and you're like, what's this weird thing in the bottom
left corner that says attack and items and all that?
It's kind of like your JRPG menu
In this game it is an action RPG, but you actually decide what your character is going to do by selecting it from the menu in real time and you have to do that with the D-pad so there are a lot of strategies and a lot of situations, especially
later on in the run as Ninten has more mechanics
available where he has to do menuing
in mid fight like being able
to pull off strats. In the middle of your combos
and everything. Another very difficult fight right here
yes right now they react to where the vb clones spawn and their attacks so whenever
they spawn they always do a hop and then i can catch them at the end of their hot box
they are being so mean too yeah just spawns there that
was a really nice recovery right getting hit but ninten played that very well yeah it was
definitely handle while i was just absolutely uh rough spawns at the beginning.
That's pretty much really
the only major RNG section of Roxas,
the Roxas prologue section.
Believe it or not, this Roxas section
is actually one of the
hardest splits in the whole game it's like one of those segments so
like hainer in particular is so difficult as somebody who learned
this game not too long ago it was like i spent so
long on Hainer
and then this fight here
is a perfect example
of how hard it is
to do combos
low to the ground
because you're fighting
Shadow Roxas
who has your hitbox
effectively
which is extremely low
and Roxas in general
just scuffed his
hitbox included
to do those combos
properly
you got to do
your first hit
and really delay
your second hit
otherwise
he's going to go
right past
his right ear yeah he's
gonna hit you back and you're gonna have it looks like nothing but go boot up the
game get to that point you know you will just whip over his head for minutes yeah
yeah so you got to make sure that you time your combos very precisely, so for most of the
combos in the game I will be timing it.
But with that, I think we've hit our first stretch here and we're going to take a little bit
of a breather.
It's so cool how fast Kingdom Hearts runs are nowadays,
especially with all the faster load times.
Let's kick it over for some donations for about
a minute or so. Oh heck yeah!
We have so much love for The Runner here.
We have a $50 donation from spacey l1 and tragedy you got this ninten
super excited to catch kingdom hearts 2 live we We have another $50 donation from MDLATQP
Made history multiple ways today, 50 million, PV's world record,
performance enhancing cheese,
the prize wizard restoring
the timeline.
What a Thursday!
Can't wait for more.
Everyone's amazing.
I love you all.
Less than three. I missed you all less than three.
I missed something when I went to dinner.
One of those things in the middle there was not like the others.
Tonight has been a journey.
You still have some time? Yeah, you got a little bit of time here.
We have a $25 donation from You still have some time. Yeah, you got a little bit of time here.
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Crazy Comments From the Kingdom Hearts 2
rando community. It's strange to not
see Trinity Fire or Limit Form
in simulated Twilight Town
Not only
has it been an honor to race you all in a new way to play this incredible game,
but it's cool to get to know y'all through it.
Shoutouts to the wonderful Kingdom Hearts 2 rando community and all the other amazing friends i've made through it love y'all
and may your hearts be your guiding key i feel so much better that we were not the first ones
to bring up yeah i know i KH2Rando is amazing though.
It's a great rando, yeah.
If you even just enjoy this game casually go to kh2rando.com
and try out the randomizer because there
are so much that you can do to make it accessible for people
who do not speed run.
Unbelievably fun. And with that we're back into the action here
And after we get rid of these two deaths
We are going to find our first assassin
These enemies are actually very tough
Later on they can be pretty scary because
They can one-shot you um getting hit there is fine just get
them they take actually the same amount of hits as the dusts and then we have to run back over to the mansion and go through just two more fights before the end of Roxx's section.
Yep, then we get Control-Sore and we get to start playing the game.
To play the video game? Well, we actually get to start playing the game. Play the video game?
Well, we actually get to see...
Coming up in the next 15 or so minutes
we'll get to see the first look
of the costume bid war.
Oh, that's true.
I forgot we don't get to see that in the Rocks costume bid war. Oh, that's true. That's great. Oh yeah!
I forgot we don't get to see that in the Roxas section.
No. The Sora section.
I looked up and they had the Nickelodeon bid war there.
Are we playing as Danny Finn?
Honestly,
there's some pretty good mods for Sora.
KHT Rando modders make a Danny Phantom
mod now. No, can't play as Garfield! That would be sick.
You had to will that into the world, huh?
They're already working on it
by the end of the run.
So we don't have much in the way
of movement options right now.
You've been seeing Ninten use a bunch of like skateboards and stuff uh
and this game is definitely much more about the combat like that the comet
is is the bread and butter of it but i spike always likes to describe it as
kind of the side dish yeah yeah yeah so I love little things like that where you hop over
the hamster... Yeah, we'll be hopping over here right now.
And then jumping over a corner to get around
There's a lot of spots where
you want to make sure that you are minimizing
the amount of times you are like jumping and then landing somewhere because that
landing causes you to kind of freeze in place for just a few frames look just
a moment before you start walking again so that's why i like ninten even back there jumped after
landing to go right into the doorway to get rid of that
little landing animation.
So here's our last mob fight, I would
like to call it, where we fight four
Dusks and we're going to be fighting more
enemies after we get rid of three Dusk.
So a nice pattern that happens in this game is that whenever there are multiple waves
of enemies, the next wave will spawn after you defeat
a certain amount of the previous wave.
So right there, we're gonna watch out for the assassins spawn
they always attack when they spawn and then after getting rid of the first assassin
you get rid of the dusk and then just have this last one left
Good fight. There we go.
Heading into Axel 2 here, this fight is mostly like scripted in terms of how
we're going to handle it in a speed run but things can easily go wrong and if
they do anything's gonna have to react and that's all the action we were going to handle it in a speed run, but things can easily go wrong and if they didn't, then he's going
to have to react. And that's a lot of fights
in this run basically.
You're really seeing
a nice buff here from having that
finishing plus, extending those combos and doing
big damage. And now we get that reaction boost
where you press triangle,
there goes a lot of health right there.
And all of a sudden...
That's pretty much the end of Rockstar.
Just going to walk through the next one. That fight is one of the examples of a fight
in the critical mode run that actually
is faster in Critical Mode compared to
other categories. Oh yeah
the reaction boost makes such a huge difference as well.
The action boost finishing plus...
Same with like taking...
The struggle fights in general, all of them are faster on critical mode as well
So we got our first big menu here
A lot of things happening in this menu.
That's just beautiful menus.
I love menus in this game, man.
They're so crisp.
This game is so responsive with the inputs and
menuing.
Ninten did a few things there mostly took
items from his party members which he's going to do a lot
because items are very useful just like
in any RPG speedrun
and also took Donald Cure
off I believe to make sure that you can actually
take enough damage in this next fight a lot faster.
Yeah, so the party member AI is something we changed a couple times throughout the run
Right now they're making us attack all of the enemies that we are not attacking
and we'll be messing with your settings every now
and then so this fight is another fight that we
can actually uh lose the fight and it'll progress again there's a couple fights
like this oh nice guys that's the move you want to see from
the dusk the upside Upside Down Walk.
There is actually a good name for that, what was it?
Uh... Nothing.
It was just Upside Down Walk!
Mess me up something? I don't know.
But anyway, we're going to another fight where you can die and this time it's against
Shadows which are slightly more annoying because sometimes they just will decide not
to attack you.
This one is like... yeah, it's one of those
where it's almost runner preference
on whether you decide to fight this fight out or
take the hits because
sometimes they act how you want them to and other times
they don't but it takes three hits i will tell you
in my time running critical mode i can't tell you the amount of times where donald actually finished
the fight for me yeah i was trying to do no donald literally like i try to die and he'll just thunder
all the shadows and fight for me.
It's a theme in this game that your party members
always do the opposite of what you want them to do.
Because there are a lot of times
in Kingdom Hearts speedrunning where you want them
to just do nothing, Yeah, genuinely don't.
Because then at least that keeps the fight consistent
and locked down.
Here though we'd like to see Donald using that thunder
getting his Zeus on.
That was a really good one.
That was an insane first wave.
We are the only people who play this game in
the entire world, who don't want Donald to cure them.
We took it off!
Yeah so the shadows actually are interesting because...
DONALD! Yeah, so the shadows actually are interesting because Oh! Guys, that
was an incredible first tower
fight. That fight is
notoriously annoying to me, runners, because of
the RNG shadows.
But Ninten, you were saying about that...
Yeah so the shadows as you can see they go underground and
that's terrible because we have to wait for them to come back up
but they actually have a frame where they're vulnerable
And what happened there is I was able to catch them with
really well timed Keyblade Spinning as they come out of the ground at that one frame.
So it's very tight, uh... It's very tight to catch them.
Yeah, we're not gonna have to deal with shadows too long in this run like they're not you're not dealing with them absolutely forever but
there definitely are going to be more and thankfully awesome oh the triple the new
v assist let's go that was an unreal tower.
Just to finish that thought, thankfully we're going
to have more ways of
dealing with Shadows going up and down.
You didn't even get a time to talk about how that fight worked.
You just played so well.
Quick kill there gets you just a little bit more experience
and tiny bit of money.
Again, the EXP routing is very, very tight here.
Another one I always look for is seeing if he'll
reach level 8 which has a Strength and a Magic increase
on it at a certain point
in Land of Dragons. We'll see when it pops up there.
But you'll see he'll barely
get it. So here
is the incentive that y'all donated for.
Timeless River Sora,
the model that was never supposed to have color to it.
And now has color!
I don't remember,
is this colored in the game game or somebody colorized it?
No. I think someone actually colorized it. It was made by Jacob actually so he shouts at Jacob
Nice!
Gonna head over to Hall of Bastion here now
At the top of the tower, got access
to the first of several Drive Forms that we'll be getting in
the run. These are kind of like a
weird fusion kinda thing where basically you take
the power
of a party member, you can see Goofy's gone now in order to change
your form and we're getting a timeless river valor
form here which is very nice. It definitely looks really good.
The drip on it is really cool really cool in this world we use
valorform not just for movement but also
for fights you'll see that
um you're able to kill enemies a lot
faster because you have two keyblades
a lot new abilities with the blue and
t blades and this is a fight that actually you keyblades, a lot new abilities with the cool-willing keyblades. And
this is a fight that actually you can lose
and you can die to which the level 1 category
does but critical mode as I was saying
is so tight on experience that we need
the experience from this fight to be able to go faster later on in their
own yeah that was our first look at the assassins and we'll be seeing a lot of them in the fight
coming up here as well oh samurai yes had to whoop for the little over the rise.
Yeah, whoop! Dude, I'm not
going to lie. I thought it was a Canadian
Maple Leaf.
Yes, thank you!
This is why we work together.
I thought it was a Canadian Maple Leaf on his Thank you. Let's go. This is why we work together. I was going to say...
I thought it was a Canadian Maple Leaf on his shoulder.
I was gonna wait for the next Valor Forum use to bring that up, he's like, did anybody
else see the Canadian flag?
I'm so confused as what you guys were talking about.
We'll see it later, we'll point that out later.
This fight is awful!
Yeah, so actually got a really bad pattern here
So Leon hit the dust towards the back of the room
All the enemies are programmed to go towards the gate
Because we need to protect the gate.
When it gets destroyed, we lose the fight
but that shouldn't happen.
So pretty much what we want Leon to do
is also be at the gate and take care of these Dusks.
I want him to stay there
because after he kill all of these Dusks,
Samurai are going to spawn on this side of the arena.
And I want to get a Dual Stance which is
a reaction command that kills everything around me
and we can it by guarding the samurai attacks. So you want
Leon to leave them alone right here so I
can get a guard off and then get into a dual stance
The creepers will spawn here as well
And once they're gone, the last wave
will spawn. So actually wanna attention to when they die.
And this is where Leon can kind of hurt things
as he will go and attack
the Samurais and cause them
stop their attack which
it's like oh he's helping you know but that actually sucks because we
want to block that attacker and provoke the reaction command nintendo handling
it very well though we're under the last wave of dusks here probably going to throw out some
blizzards if they stack up but they're not so just go with like regular attacks too yeah there's a lot of audibles
that nintendo is going to have on the fly there's also the security system ruining things as well
yeah but surviving at bailey is always something that you're happy about
yeah just chiming in we have just less than 45 000 until 1 million
i want it to be one million while we countdown begins. I want it to be
one million
while we're up on the stage.
That would be cool.
Make it happen.
Okay, thank you.
Now this is the mod.
We don't have
to go in this.
Yeah, so...
That was your
Disney song for this. So... gummy niche yeah so now that kinder arts is on the pc and also recently on a steam version
we're able to actually skip the gummy missions, which makes the speedrun
a much better pace because we don't have to go through
all of the auto-scrollers.
So that cuts about nearly 30 minutes
off the run. Yeah. Spike, could we get
one note of let's make... or i'll make a man out of you
that's all we have time for thank you thank you
listen for every dollar we get closer to an alien we'll add a note
all right so now canadian saura throwing down
yeah this is another fight where shadows exist so it's awful
um and they're being a little mean on this one in particular where shadows exist, so it's awful.
And they're being a little mean on this one in particular.
Sometimes they can kind of group up and Valorform will take care of them really well.
The one nice thing is that
Valorform levels up these Drive Forms.
You can kind of think of them like jobs
in Final Fantasy. They level
up separately,
independently of Sora and they're generally by
using them. And the way Valorform levels up is
by attacking enemies with Keyblade hits.
So you can see Ninten just got level 2 there.
The one nice thing about sometimes when enemies are mean
is that maybe you'll at least get more experience on your dry form as a result.
So here, now that we have reverted out of Valor Form
and lost it, we're going to be making use of a spell
which has got Fire
And Fire is gonna be very useful against these Shadows
because Fire actually hits in every single frame. So whenever we see
a shadow underground about to come up, we can fire
and basically guarantee that we'll catch it
so we can't go back under. Yeah, and fire
gives us back our drive much faster
as well. So you see Drive Gauge on the bottom right, we want to hit 3
to go into Banner Form. Other forms will be using different amounts of Drive
so pay attention to that a lot throughout the whole run. Yeah Magic in particular is
still good at recovering Drive. as this fire's hitting multiple enemies
then once it gets a little you know once he takes care of those first shadows everything
switches donald back in to help finish off enemies with that thunder
and deal damage to them.
Donald is definitely our strongest party member
in terms of damage output at this point in the game.
Yeah, and that will remain true for a lot of it.
30 EXP we can see from this level 12 you have
just enough at the end of us where once he takes out this rider dress hits that
level 8 and you see the magic increase right there that That's how tight the EXP routing is here even in
the beginning because now with the help of two
blizzards, he should be able to take out this first shadow.
Yeah we're going to snipe him right here.
It's actually pretty hard at times.
Really tough to time.
Yes! here it's actually getting pretty hard yeah time really tough to time oh yeah
just nice good night donald good backup helping out there donald's kind of being a baller right now that's what we want to do something relatively new uh we used to just ignore these
tents but now what did bg call the arson threat yeah we're gonna we're gonna burn down all
these things go ahead and intend yeah we're gonna bring a lot of attempts here because it actually We're going to burn down all these tents. Go ahead, Ninten.
Yeah, we are going to burn down all the tents here because it
actually creates more room for the shadows moving around and
they just come towards us.
Except this one!
This one is camping back there.
This one did not feel like it today bringing goofy so we can kill this and go
into valor form again valid from to end the fight quickly but we're also going to use it for some
movement after the fight yeah one of the things I love about this is how we transition
from using a
drag form in a fight to immediately using it for
movement, so it's got
the double whammy. Spike and I can't get over
the fact that this is Canadian Sora right now.
Oh!
I'm sorry.
I was also laughing at the fact that she's like, uh...
What are-
I can't remember the male character's name from Mulan.
Ping.
Oh yeah, Ping.
No no no, the leader.
Oh, oh.
He's like, could you
please protect our campsite?
I got this.
No more campsite to protect, baby.
This is the sixth round.
The little movement with the delay right there and just able
to alley-oop the Nightwalker off of that into the wall
and still break it open because if you don't finish the animation,
it doesn't actually break the wall. None of this is
doing anything until the end.
Really good manipulation and movement on
Ninten's part. Ping tried to
ruin it too.
He hit the Nightwalker and to ruin it too like oh yeah
then you hit the night walker and almost hit it too early yeah that's one thing i
don't think we've mentioned this game but one thing that
really works for our benefit in this game is that whenever you hit an enemy
yeah they will hit you back especially later on in the run we're going to use
that a lot to our advantage but that's just something kind of pay attention to now so heading
into this cave fight nintendo gets re from Valorform here because like I said
Valorform requires you to kind of team up
with Goofy to use it. And
Goofy gets pulled out of your party for this fight
so that is important because you notice
that drive gauge is at 3 it's maxed out even though
Ninten was in Valor form.
Uh...that's something we're gonna utilize a lot
when the game takes you out of a Drive Form
It'll absolutely fully refill it.
Yeah so as I mentioned before how the Shadows go underground
Fire is active for pretty much
the entire time that it's out
So if we fire around the shadows then they will never be able to escape
the attack and we won't have to worry about them
going undergrounds. It's a very useful spell.
I'm just gonna let him attack here.
Yeah, that was a safe call.
He could do one of two things, maybe three
and the spinning
attack would've probably killed Ninten if you let it happen.
Trust me, these fights are a lot scarier than they might look.
Our live crowd is being awesome that they're clapping after all of this
because I cannot stress to you enough all of us now we've all ran
this before this looks or this is so much harder than i think nintendo ever makes it look yeah the
specificity to every single fight is off the chart.
Something we're very rarely going to have time to get into
is that positioning in this game matters way more than you would think,
so much.
But we're heading into a fight here where Ninten... Are you going to do some EXP boost in here or is that more of a beginner's?
No. We will be getting a lot of experience though.
Alright, sort it out.
Because we want two hits. I think we're looking for 126 experience
until the next level.
That'll set you up safe for Level 10.
But in the meantime, Ninten's going to be taking care of these Rapid Thrusters
with fire speed traps and regular combos.
This is a timed fight so we can't speed up anymore.
So you got about 35 seconds or so for donations now.
Perfect I've got so many piling up!
We have a two thousand dollar donation
from delvin less than 50k to go for one million gosh chat Let's get that done.
We have a wonderful donation from Dignified Beard for $50.
Had to donate during Kingdom Hearts. It's been such a big part of my life i even named my cat
kyrie i'll donate another 50 if the crowd and the couch can do their best to try to get
my cats attention good luck to ninten and the rest of the runners all right folks let's
get on that what was not the scariest unfortunately nintendo did not hit the level threshold yeah it
will be okay though because we actually have a bit of
a buffer here so i should hit it on the boss fight that you wanted for him then
10 being the very good runner lady is always has backups yeah which is the key
to this game in general is always know all of your backups.
No, no the keys are the blade.
Thank you Backcouch for supporting me.
But yeah now this is a good introduction
to one of the big advantages
of running this game on PS4 or PS5 or PC
Is that your loads are significantly faster.
So you can actually save warp and move to a different part
of the world.
And save enough time to do that instead of other strategies.
Yep, so cool movement tech right there. We get hit
to get damage boost on our way to this next fight
I'll be doing this fight in Valor form, it's a little bit
of a scary fight because we have to fight the Boat Towers in Valor and they like to
just kind of face away from you and you can only hit where they're facing.
So first we're taking to these nightwalkers uh that you could dodge oh of course it just barely lasted long enough mulan finished them off milan's milan now by the way
oh and way more useful! Yeah there we go. That was a
pretty good ending of that fight.
Very sexy. Mulan actually got
customized to Party
Attack earlier as well if I'm not mistaken.
So that way she can take care of some
of the extra enemies in this fight
so that they don't mess up the gate and make you lose.
All right, so on Seanu here we're going
to be running up to him
and get...
...proccing the Reaction Command by parrying him.
Because Reaction Command does a ton of damage especially on critical mode.
And then this Reaction Command will also defeat the Nightwalkers if you time their right here.
Which should actually give me a level 10
right there.
I don't know if we mentioned this about Valorform but
because you have two Keyblades, you have the strength
stats of both Keyblades
so another reason why you do more damage in Valor for him.
Yep, so he should go into his next phase here.
Now we're going to guard this attack
as you go into the Ratchet command again
and thankfully this boss actually takes a lot of hits before he retaliates so we
should be able to beat him before he gets a chance to do anything here yeah And the blizzard almost... Oh, I thought for sure that would kill it. Yeah, I did too.
There you go! Very nice.
Something about this game that
I don't think any other Kingdom Hearts title has had
is in order to kill a boss
You have to kill them with the finisher
Or some kind of
special attack at least.
Any magic spell counts but for like
ground combos or air combos it has to be
a finisher. Yeah, or you gotta be in like valor
form and do certain attacks or something like that.
So basically whenever we're finishing off a boss fight,
We have to do a particular attack which is why I might opt not to do a full combo on them.
I was about to say spike how about go the distance
i don't know if you know that did zem come to this event dude i was just screaming during
the ken griffey junior run a few hours ago.
You're like, I'm not running this thing.
I gotta run up my pipes, dude.
We have quite a bit of movement here
for the next fight.
Yeah, I think the one last thing
before we toss over some donations
to mention here
is that if you look
at the bottom right,
that drive gauge
is totally locked up.
So Nintendo would love
to be using Valorform
to run to the next
fight faster
but unfortunately
can't due to
story reasons.
In the underworld
of heroes,
there's heroes. Yeah. But other than that we
are continuing that adventure to one
million dollars I want to see it during
the Kingdom Hearts 2 run let's kick it
over to the host let's hear some
donations absolutely we have a 25 donation from kubaru donating 25
money during one of my favorite games being doneinten, one of my favorite runners.
I've been looking forward to this
run all week and I'm so glad
it is here. Great run with
an amazing runner and couch.
Best of luck on the run, Ninten. Time to ante
up on getting these incentives met
and support an amazing cause.
Got it memorized?
Putting my donation
towards the bonus any percent run of Morrowind.
Absolutely folks, if you haven't seen that there is an incentive live now for $20,000
We're already at almost 3,000 to get a bonus any% run for that.
Alright and we are on one of the scariest fights of the speedrun here.
Yep.
Let me just do this menu very quick.
Alright. We would actually like him to cure us
this time, but as everyone knows we'll see
what happens. Yeah so we're gonna jump back and do a fire here
so as uh thar mentioned the enemies attack you whenever you attack them and that's great for
the bats because they actually do i think it was to reaction command bat cry which does a ton of
damage it really one shots everything in this entire fight.
So that was the first platform, there are three platforms
and the reason this fight is actually extremely scary
because we get two shot by nearly everything
These Lancers do a ton of damage
I want my party members to be here to body block for me right there.
See, Orin or Donald actually took a hit there.
So common! Yeah, that first person
was not just swag from Ninten, although
he does that too. But also it helps the party members warp up to
you and donald took the hit as a result that was a beautiful second platform right there exactly so
here's how much damage you see for the back right it might actually kill the Lancers and get close at least.
One important thing about Hades Fireball is one, it can do a lot of damage to you but also when it hits enemies it can knock them away as well.
Yep so now this isn is actually the last wave of
the fight but large party can one shot me
One more back crash should be enough
Oh, this is a bit scary
That was a good push. Yo! Nice option
That's very good. That was SO good nice option that was so doesn't extremely down to the first platform with the bat like decided to move towards the exit so he could finish it
on the ramp faster it is incredible yeah nintendo's showing his experience you know
nearly 10 years of running this game at this point that i think even like we've done lots of runs with
us i could see just grab the bat and start hitting the large body, right?
But he knew, I have just enough time
to fit in throwing a potion
and still catch the back end of that
reaction command. Use the Bat Cry
and get through to the end zone. Great job.
We're going to bring it up but we have potions customized because we're gonna
use them as a safety tool throughout the run
Every time I get hit, I want a potion
cause I don't want to take a death
Dying in this run we can't aim size enough is really
bad yeah I can definitely use a lot of that
yeah there's really nowhere you ever want to die yeah it would only be oh
wait no Yeah, yeah, yeah. It would only be the worst thing that happens.
Wait no!
Oh no!
What?
No!
You suck.
You said it this time!
Mickey was in our face.
So we pulled one over on you chat wow that's never not good
it's funny every time you got me
well we need the next run ready to go.
Where's Bloodbomber?
But yeah...
So there are several fights in this game where Mickey has a chance
to spawn and kind of save you from losing the fight if you take a death that chance is
actually guaranteed the first time you die in one of these fights so mickey will always spawn
here if we if this is the first time we die in one of those fights.
And it just turns out that
he's generally faster here. Not even
always, because Mickey can be a jerk
and not really do that well, but
he did pretty well there I think.
So ideally that is the only other time we'll see
Mickey throughout the entire run.
There was like a thought to use him in one
of their five. But again, as Hobbs said, the first
time it's 100% guarantee. The next time I believe it drops
under an 85% chance that'll show up
and thankfully enough other
strategies have been found to where that's just not
necessary. It would suck if you had to rely on
There's like a ton of background and mechanics happening
throughout the speedrun that we probably can't get into
all of them right now, but Mickey is one
of them where we know the percentage chances
of one will get Mickey.
Thankfully we're no longer in the underworld so we can actually go back into those Drive Forms for movement
and we'll reiterate it a few times but Valor Form is our fastest method of movement right now because you just run faster
Even that room was so short,
it's worth going into Valor Form
to get the run speed.
Right here we're just at 20 orbs
7 times 3
is 20, so seven earns.
It's so funny.
I'm such a math brain and I've never thought just make sure you blow up seven.
Seven earns.
I've been running this game for four years and I never knew each one dropped three.
I just killed her in the leg
now nintendo needs to get 100 but there is going to be a large urn that drops a bunch of orbs later
so he's just trying to kind of get as much as he can until that spawns and
clearing out space for it yeah unfortunately yeah sorry yeah fortunately not unfortunately
the spawn was right next to ninten now ninton's just gonna chill until we get the
last wave it's better than a while in the middle of the room because this urn drops three big
orbs each one worth ten hundred and hundred we clap for math let's go clap for math, let's go.
We clap for math!
Hey yo big math.
Now we're going to be making our way down into the Underworld on
our way to kind of a rough little gauntlet of fights coming up here
but we do have about another 40 seconds, I would say
to get another donation on that way
to a million dollars!
Let's get it! We have a $1500
donation
from the L12 Great cause, great gift donation. From DL12,
great cause, great game,
great time. What more can we ask for?
We have a donation from the lovely
community of Ninten,
ZachTheRobot.
For $500 I couldn't
think of a better person to showcase
this game to the GDQ audience
than you Ninten! Keep crushing it!
Also Zach has been doing a ton of awesome work on our interstitials so yeah yeah you're good to go for another one yep awesome we have a 100100 donation to MSF from Paji713.
Always a treat seeing Kingdom Hearts 2 at GDQ!
Good luck to youiaNin10.
May the silliness keep itself in line today
and may your turtles be nothingness!
Shout out to Poggie.
Poggie is a very good 80% runner of this this game so speaking of the silliness we have to do
a mini-game here with demix defeat 100 clones you have to hit the clone
to get them wild dance reaction commands and it's kind of random where Rasura faces
when he does the command.
So we want him ideally to face towards Demyx
because that is where the clones spawn from
but sometimes if we get knocked away far away
it just slows us down a bit.
Also fun fact is that the RC actually pulls in party members
If you look at them they're gonna be pulled in by the end of the Magic Command here
I thought all three of you guys that during your practice.
Yeah, I didn't actually notice.
45 is around what we want to see on grid.
And now, we got the Olympus Stone so we can go into Drive Forms now.
Yep! And I was going to say Ninten also picked up an item earlier in a large chest that was a power boost
Yes. That gives that one extra strength
and as we mentioned before,
that strength matters. Every single stat matters especially on crit like level
1 there's a certain point where those stats stop mattering but
critical mode they're gonna matter the whole time. Oh yeah. And so right here is
another fight that's kind of like an auto-scroller it's timed for one minute
uh...but the interesting thing about this fight is that we can farm experience here just like
the one in other dragons. I could also die so gotta be a little careful.
I could also die as the bowling ball is inside of me.
So a cool thing about this fight
is that if you make Pete attack you,
it will actually make his AI summon
the next wave Ruby.
Shout out to Slickzilla12 for finding that
relatively recently. Yeah, it's a pretty new thing
So the goal here is actually keep
one soldier alive and have your party members
or yourself kill him while Pete is retaliating
And that will make them immediately summon the last wave
uh a little bit too early i think he may yeah so that right there if the soldier was alive
um after he started retaliating then they would have spawned right here.
It's a pretty weird mechanic.
I think his AI is in a state where he's just going to keep doing everything but summoning enemies.
Yeah it's alright though because we got good experience.
Oh there they are!
Got one extra.
And now the terrifying part is
if you die in this phase of the fight
You have to do that entire like minute or so
effectively auto-scrolling segment over again.
Bad RNG right there that he's immediately
going into the pinball.
Okay I think that both
of the searchers died.
So that's one of those examples where
party members can actually mess up
strategies they do because Donald hit the bat
which makes them not
do the bat cry attack. And now
we have access to what I would call the Holy Trinity of limits that we get in this game.
Those are abilities, you team up with your party members to do some kind of big attack.
It's not quite like a dry form where you change your form entirely, but it's just a single attack that is really big.
Trinity Limit is an extremely useful one and we will use for the entire rest of the run
And it has two different forms of it
The one that we care about here is Group Trinity
Basically when you have Donald and Goofy with you specifically then you can actually use a three part well really even
four-part trinity where you have a bunch of attacks that deal hits to a boss but no damage and at the end
that big finisher, that animation you just saw deals damage based on how many hits you did.
You're gonna see just how ridiculous that ability is in the next phase of this fight.
But right now we are going to get up on the Hydra's back,
Just like the audience just said
And knock them out and slowly whittle them down with our base combat
Yeah so if you don't do that Ratchet Command then he'll start stealing your health Knock them out and just slowly whittle them down with their base combat
Yeah, so if we don't do that ratchet command then he'll start summoning more heads But as long as they're stunned
We still have to get rid of three of them here. And thankfully party members are handling that over there
So he has less health.
Now coming up here I'm going to use another Trinity Limit because my magic came back just in time with the ability MP Hey Sarah.
Yeah those Trinity limits and all limits take your entire MP bar, like every amount of blue that is left drop a little bit the second part of the trinity now just watch this health bar if ninja malach gear huge chunk 85 hits if Ninten will not care.
Huge chunk, that's because it did 85 hits and if you get really lucky
you can get over 100 hits on that
It's absolutely wild
Looks like Nathan is going to do a couple of hits
See if he can get the kill which i think he's good
wait wait wait there we go you know i never knew about that blizzard.
That's actually really nice.
I always went up to the door and go,
no, that's great!
That was a really good Olympus Coliseum by Ninten.
Yeah, that is one of the nightmare splits for any category in this game,
an Olympus Coliseum with the amount of RNG and skill it takes to react
to the RNG you're giving the nintendo plate beautiful
and it's just it's on top of that almost every fight is just so punishing in the amount of time
you lose if you take a death so it escape you got to run all the way back pete yeah do that
first minute section again yeah Yeah. Hydra,
you have to get up on them and then Hydra's back again. Nobody wants to see that.
So here we're gonna see Pooh. Yo my man!
Winnie the Pooh just clarify yep
We just brought the hero's crest right there it's really good keyblade we're gonna have that on for a while
The Nintends We're gonna have it on for a while. The cutscene showed him
threw me off. So we're having some physical latency
there. Right.
So just going to end this fight real quick, right there
the slide dash did three hits on the soldier and that makes them do the Cyclone Attack which we actually did in the tower as well.
But it's nice to have some action abilities that will speed up a lot of fights.
Alright, see ya Grampy! all right see you grandpa check out grand poo world three tomorrow yeah that is the entirety
of 100 acre wood that we'll be seeing in this room
yep shout out to saving another five minutes yep
four minutes or whatever it was oh yeah this is modded
and now here we're also going to take a depth at the start. It's kind of a theme that, at the beginning
of a new world you'll be able to see definitely just the first fight of it.
Yeah and this does taper off towards the end of the run but...
Just gonna remind him by his aerodonics rank.
Almost forgot. But what were you saying, Hops? going to remind him about his aerodontics rank. Yes, yes.
Almost forgot.
But what were you saying?
I was just going
to say that tapers
off the further we
get in the run
these fights that
allow you to like
lose enough health
to finish them
but in this early
part of the run
we're going to do that where we can otherwise some
of them like you can either deal enough hits or you can just have it take enough time but dying
is fast so i'm going to do that another nice thing about um taking the
death abuse as well is that it skips the ending animation which
just fades to black yeah uh we have a time for a couple quick
donations probably perfect in a little minigame i've for a couple quick donations.
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We have a $25 donation from Negrino that says
Ninten keeps skipping the cut scenes i'm getting a little lost how much to get
a quick plot summary of the entire kingdom heart series i'm sure straightforward if you watch the cutscenes.
Nintent, you're just going to need to pause for a second.
Here is the thing, if we let them run, you would be more confused!
Yeah. I've got to catch a flight in the morning, I don't think we have time.
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Very fair. Thank you for those donations. Into Thresholder here we have another boss, and Chicken Little is the...
This is the first time we're seeing Chicken Little right?
Yeah!
This is the summon of choice for this fight.
We'll see more about Chicken Little later and explain more
but all you really need to know here is that
there's always going to be two phases on critical mode
just due to the way the boss works.
And also summons are really good in this game they're
really very good we're gonna use them a bunch i think uh i believe we'll be seeing all of them
maybe about one of them okay yeah you should see Stitch in this one.
I wasn't sure if he was going to get Pan or not.
Oh my goodness.
Yeah, I didn't know about Pan or not.
Mr. Pan.
But yeah, we'll talk more about
Chicken Little later because that is the last
use of Chicken Little in this world but...
Yeah he's gonna really shine in the next
two worlds we're going to go to where
kinda explain those mechanics more
but yeah another great place for like two
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Jacob is the one that made this mod.
That timeless
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Yeah! Alright folks! You know what? Sure. Yeah. That's a good one, man.
All right, folks!
Viewer's choice.
Oh my goodness.
I've never seen that.
That was very odd.
Didn't say much of the movie. so that was beast yeah nice spacing of intense combos there
to where the aoe of the second finisher could kind of fit in around beasts attacks
because beast is kind of like a lot of other enemies you might run
into this game then kind of just brick wall and they don't stagger if you don't use cogsworth's
reaction command right there um so yeah sometimes you have to know how
to fit in your hits even if they're not going
to do anything. They're not gonna respond to it. And as more example of the save warping
tech to just save a lot time on the movement? Yeah those are like
biggest save warps right there.
Going all the way from Beast Room
all the way to the front
where we're going to fight the boss.
And what do you know it?
More Valor Form.
Yeah, coming into this boss too
like this boss is a perfect example of how specific positioning
is and how positioning can affect not just it can affect enemy AI,
It can uh affect patterns behaviors or just other facets of the fight.
Stepping back a little bit?
You take a step back and that actually makes him go underground
as opposed to going into the window
and we do that because the window loses a lot of time
so if we're able to beat him before he goes into the window then that
will save a ton do a full combo here get a lot of damage in because we have us crest oh nice
windows is fantastic not only does it save the time of not,
of the enemy not going into the window but also
Nintendo now has a lot more valor for him
to be able to use in this next fight
I think Will will end up reverting manually if I'm not mistaken
So at the beginning of this fight we'll be doing uh one neat thing about battleforms you can actually enter combo early which you can't usually
do in this way but some forms in this game that you ended early and that lets us make doctoring go into a super armor
state and then he attacks right here we're going to use the limit during his retaliation
try to catch him out of this looks like you you overdamaged him just a little bit.
Yeah, and then do an upper slash which we just got.
Knocks them into the air, get air combos in right before he goes into the jungle.
He was about to trouble her.
Your lock on reticle just went away
yeah it's scary that was very good and that's the end of east castle
just like that nice quick fight upper slash getting some really cool utility there.
That little mid-ground finisher to knock them up in the air
and kind of reset his ability to keep doing those air combos
because with that Hero's Crest Keyblade
we just got from Olympus Coliseum,
we didn't bring it up a little bit of
higher strength stat, but the big thing is its got air combo boosts is the ability
comes with where your aerial finishers will do increased damage
based on the number of hits
that are in your air combo.
You also see stuff like a combo boost version
for the ground variants later
on another keyblade we'll use,
but Hero's Crest is going to be
the king of your Keyblades for a while.
Quite a while here.
Another thing is that we're not exclusively
using air combos anymore, Ninten is
doing a lot of ground combos here and there
mostly due to some of the abilities you've gotten like
Sly Dash which is an extremely good gap closer. We talk about gap closers a lot
when we do randomizer stuff or even just the regular speedrun because
a lot of enemies don't spawn right next to you.
They spawn further away, so you need something
to close that gap and slide rush is good.
Believe it or not one of the hardest strats in the game
so I gotta focus on this.
Very precise. nintenz just pushing that mouse god this is so hard to do
legitimately we're not meaning this is really difficult. Oh my god!
And without the Faith RC.
Faithless. Ninten knows when
Minnie is going to do her little orb attack
which can sometimes put her slightly out of position
but because he knows the timing and got into that fight set up perfectly
he's able to react to it. Keep her next to the wall and push her to victory
Her hitbox is basically like a circular hitbox and the wall is flat.
So it's really hard to push her because if you go straight forward,
then you'll move her away from the wall. You have to kind of push her inwards.
Yeah we love frame fatales but we don't want to see this faith command in that last room.
So this is one of the spots where Ninten's able to kind of catch up on experience or make sure
that his experience is good. There's a lot of bolt towers in here
that will get hit by this Faith Reaction command,
and Ninten's looking at that experience value
that pops up on the top left whenever one of them dies
to see where he needs it.
Yeah I need a lot of it here
so we're gonna to spend some time
level running just a bit.
Yep,
I think you want to be at 525
in the next level
if I recall correctly.
One of the things is
in this room
it would be really hard
to push mini
because there's not like a wall right next to you
to push her forward. So the fastest way to just move across is
run for it a little bit, call her over, use that reaction command, that faith reaction command
and then do it again over and over so since we have to
do that anyways he can go ahead and spend you know take a small diversion
to kill some bullet towers oh maybe just want to be fun more
let's go yeah nice that is yeah you normally do not have
to level ground that much so that was weird that was a good backup like a
good recovery there but now we're back on track.
Yep, just handing out to Hanabashin real quick and then this is what I consider the end of Erdi games so we are moving into the middle portion of the game where we have a lot more abilities and fights get a lot more intense. They have a lot more spells.
This game is so fast when you don't have to do an obstacle every ten minutes!
Yep, yep.
Yeah it was one of those like... It always happens in speedrunning where
the stuff that is under your control
as speedruns develop
just get faster and faster and faster.
But the stuff you can't control the speed of
like your auto-scrollers. They were just staying that amount
of time. So I think with this mod, we're finally
able to take those out. The run goes by
still so fast. It also allows you to do things like
use soft reset and stuff
which kind of helps a lot. Oh yeah yeah there's a lot of practice tools as well
yeah in that last minute you ninten put on the sardonic spring that we bought
in beast castle gives them one more strength set at the end of this run
everyone's gonna know one straight everyone's going to know one strength.
One strength! It's huge!
One strength will rule them all.
On top of hitting that level up...
We're really hitting a level-up by the end of the Windows here
because we want it for the boss fight in this world?
Yeah. So right now, we're finally going to
really get to see what is so powerful about
Chicken Little. So by creating
specific distance between yourself
Chicken Little and the enemies
you can get this whistle command right here where he will draw all the enemies. You can get this whistle command right here,
where he will draw all of the enemies in that are close enough
and then you can start doing various attacks on them.
Right here using that reaction command
if we keep just a little bit of height right here,
you can knock all of them out. That is a very hard first win there. And then smartly hitting
one of the hammers because he knew who was going to fall just below threshold to get that last RC
because he hit him and tapped him in the air. Beautiful finish.
Chicken Little is a very particular
summon where like what
he does is pretty consistent
but knowing how to control him and being able
to control him mid-run is a very difficult thing to learn.
It absolutely is, because like Spike was saying
it's not just based on your position
it's based on ChickenLittle's position
the enemy's position and your position
and how all of those things relate to one another.
So very tough to do.
I like to think this is a good example.
We have four mob fights in a row here.
The way this game works, our bosses... we have a really good idea
of what we're going to do
with a lot of bosses
and we can kind of just try to execute the one
specific thing we want to do. But
mob fights are like, we have an idea of
what we want to do. The game might not
let us do that, but we have an idea
and so you have to be ready to handle all of the different variations
that can come from that if you aren't able to do to have it go exactly how you want it absolutely
there's a lot more randomness within it's just that many more enemies on screen
got any more variables that you have to worry about.
Yeah so you mentioned having a get back
drive before um there's actually a mechanic
in this game where if your party members are not with
you at the time then if you
have a summoner or if you're in a drive form, it'll just give you back your drive.
And so we actually use that throughout the windows here and this fight
in particular, the party members will be with us
So we can't use a summon in that fight, which is why we end it with 3 limit.
Oh you have to do window 3.
I was curious about the order of... That's a level 1 thing.
You usually do two windows in different order in level one.
This will be weird but it's fine no that's all right yeah
you just do without chicken little i believe in you yeah we got this
yeah here we've got one of the most infamous enemies for people casually in Kingdom Hearts 2.
Yo shouts to Sora!
Or shoutout to Donald!
You know what? Sorry for taking it on the lip that was great.
So this is how you hand out cards by the way because a lot of people you're just going to handle the cards by the way a lot of people
don't know how to handle the cars let's just use counter guard yeah counter guards really good
chicken little would be making quick work of them as well because not only can he group them up and
they can't hurt you but also he could throw a baseball at him to knock them up in
the air so they're vulnerable again but nintendo with a really good like on-the-fly routing here
going for trinity limit strength increase there at the end.
Now you'll have that strength for both Pete and Peep-Peep.
Couldn't use Triggin' Little there because Nintendo wanted to use Valor Form here.
Like he was saying, each of those windows, it puts you
back in a room with no party members. You would get all your
drive-back except the last one.
The last one, your party members are still with you so
you would remain with that Chicken Little
out and we don't need Chicken Little here, we need Valorform.
Yeah and one of the big reasons why we're in Valorform
is that Valorform has two Keyblades
and that affects our stats so we have
the stats on both Keyblades
which makes us do a lot more damage.
So the name of game here is don't get knocked off.
Yeah, and this is a good example
of how long it takes to start another combo after a finisher.
Ninten might use some like pause buffering here and there in this
fight because he's looking to see if
Okay, he's basically
wanting to make sure that he's not going to be in a finisher when the game wants to throw him off because
even though it might look like oh he's done with the attack he can hit triangle
there's a long period of time there where you actually can't.
Hinton has just enough drab to start this fight in valid form, which is pretty big.
It'll save us a few more seconds on this fight.
Yeah get that short validor Form combo right there.
Now we're going to use Shrouding Limit here.
Ultima gets a ton of hits especially because
of the fire that's here so the fire racked up
with a ton of hits here and that gets him
into the next phase.
That was good. The fire in this fight is actually very dangerous
To have to interact with so it's good you just get out of this one immediately
Yeah and this fight is a good example of something that's going to come up
a lot later called revenge value.
And Thar I know you like to talk about it as well.
Oh, well revenge value is just basically a hidden mechanic in the game
that the community found a while back and dubbed revenge value
but its basically when your fighting a humanoid boss the community found a while back in Dub Group End Value, but it's basically
when you're fighting a humanoid boss and even some Heartless and Nobodies
When you hit them enough they will stop staggering and they will hit you back like
he just did right there.
But that's basically the mechanic built in by the devs to prevent us from comboing bosses
from 100-0.
Double tap, let's go!
That's the end of time on server.
Revenge value is going to be very important
throughout this entire run, especially in ingame
so we're gonna see a lot more of it
Yeah that boss also is a good example
how a lot of bosses will have multiple phases to them.
In this one, you could only get to a specific amount of health and then he shifts
to the next phase and that happens over and over.
Some bosses, you can damage them totally past a phase, maybe skip a phase entirely.
Others, you might be hard limited by how much
damage you can do before they move into another
phase so all of that changes
up the strategies for the various bosses we do.
And there at the
end of Disney Castle getting a bunch of cool tools we're going to do later.
Reflect your best magic in the game.
Fantasia, the second of that holy trinity of limits and the wisdom form ability
our next Super Saiyan form that we can blow up.
Right there I ended the fight instantly.
Something really cool about that right there was
that I did a slide dash into a bomb
and two pirates even though it didn't seem like it
which did 10 hits.
Shout out to SunZero for finding that strat right there.
Yeah also ChickenLittle doing the whistle kind of affects
the fight as well.
These are some of the classic speedrun fights right here.
And this is where you want to show people
oh why is Chicken Little so good?
Because how you spawn into these
it perfectly sets up the distance
he'll draw them in two pops.
Nintendious has to move back very slightly, draw them back
step back again drawing the soldiers that spawn in and then the alley-oop
and we outta there.
I don't think that strat's ever gonna change.
No, right?
I hope it doesn't change.
Sometimes the double thunder doesn't even kill it.
You kinda need chicken litter like all season fireworks
and they have to land properly. So happy 4th of July!
Going into a little bit of a menu here
going to customize that
Reflect spell we just got.
And Ninten also took off Fire there, because
Fire is actually at the top of the Magic menu
so if Ninten ever needs to use it
can menu it from the Magic menu pretty easily
whereas some other spells are a little bit further down and might be more complicated to do.
Yep so we got a
little ambush here after you get rid of the enemies before
we go to our destination
Let's talk about these pirates a bit
You notice that our magic interacts with them in an interesting way
Our blizzard is going to be freezing them and we're gonna be doing that a lot throughout this world
But the pirates are incredibly weak to magic
So, we'll use Chicken Little, position them out of the shade because
just like the pirates in Pirates of the Caribbean when they are in the shade their true form
skeleton form shows and that's the only way we can do damage to them.
We're gonna use Chicken little whistle the mouth shape
blizzard keep him in place just finish him off some magic yeah this is one of
our last time segments in the game and I think I'm looking to kill 12 pirates
here because that gives us a good amount of experience uh but unfortunately they
can just choose not to walk over here because you spawn in that section over there yeah this fight
and several of the fights in this world are actually quite scary.
You have the crossbow wielders
in the back there that can just
if they stagger their shots just right you might have to either
not attack for a long time or
just get shot and that is
not what you want to have happen
where and the like Axemen if you don't
have them sucked up by Chicken Little's little group magnet effect
then they can also deal a bunch of damage to you. It is absolutely brutal.
One nice thing to point out is that Chicken Little has HP drains
so every attack we do with little out would give us back hp
oh nice the beautiful lineup right there on all those blizzards
so easily again i think i was tired even yeah we got 12 there which is good
jinton did pick up a chest in that fight and that wasn't just by accident or just to goof around
we need that item later to get an elixir towards the end of the run. Yeah, we just need one synthesis
item. And now
we have one of the scariest fights here
in like mid-game portion of the run
We got boat fight
Yep after this ambush real quick. Well yeah.
Find us out to get more experience.
Boat fight is actually really scary on critical mode because we want
Trig and Little to position the enemies in a very specific spot
We wanna kill them
at a certain time so we're going to walk backwards here to get the whistle out
the cannonballs are really bad because they give them the status effects of
fire which makes them run around with like
a super armor state so they don't get affected by anything
just i mean then we hit 160 000 40k left to 1 million Woo!
Yeah, you can see that pirate just walked right through that blizzard
because they were in the shadow. Yep so we're gonna gather them all up right here
Again watch out for the cannonballs. We want them to be on
the stairs because the cannonballs don't show up on the stairs and Chicken Little
will continue to whistle in here. He gets some good air combos in now they're
gonna spawn down there we want to get a whistle on both of
them just like that pop another ether full mp back
and these are the last few pirates actually went really well
yeah that was good, that was fantastic.
Because the thing about that fight is it's scary for multiple reasons.
Yeah you can die and that's just an ever present danger or you can lose a lot of time because they can just kind of hide around in the shadows
and stuff, but also you could run
out of Chicken Little if Chicken Little gets
hit too much, uh, and that would
lose you all your drive, and you can see Nintem
just went into Valor Form form here so he wouldn't be
able to do that and the next section that we have is quite a bit of running
and not having valid forms it's going to lose you a lot of time in that section
yeah and i cannot tell you how many runners
have lost runs to justice this Barrow's minigame.
It can be so hard.
Now we're going to run over to Barbossa...
This is like a good example of just how fast Valorform running is compared to Reckless Aura.
Helps you even dodge the attack there, run all the way through.
We don't need any of the chests in these rooms, we're just going to head straight to the boss
and then Ten's gonna open that one up with valor form
then eventually revert so i don't know if i got this in time you've got it you did yeah
that just sounded like you just wanted me to be alive
one up with dollar for him and nintendo media yeah yeah i don't know... You're going to open that one up with Valorform and Nintendo immediately.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't know if you were going to do it before I said that.
I thought Nintendo was just doing a bit.
Oh, I want to see if Final Form is in there.
That's a rando joke.
Rando joke number two! That's a rando joke. Rando joke number two!
That's a rando joke.
Alright, big Valor combo there and then
Reverts didn't quite get an immediate
retaliation from the boss so
would have used Reflect on that if possible but instead going into Blizzard
combos. Blizzard's gonna freeze the boss
Barbossa is in fact a pirate
So he freezes
And then again doing those air combos because that
air combo boost ability on Hero's Crest, the
Keyblade we're using. It's going to make you do a lot
more damage. I'm willing to bet
that nobody knew you could freeze Barbossa
when you played this as a kid.
Unless Donald accidentally did it.
That might be the lore.
That might be what happened.
Because the game, I know you always bring this up
Hobbs, but the game tells you.
The first cutscene, it's like one of the first cutscenes in the world, they're like
Don't hit the pirate! Don't let him hit them with your magic it's so strong
We were like I didn't listen. I didn't listen Keyblade Press X
Dude I was just freaking out because Pirates of the Caribbean
Yeah right?
Why does Sora look so weird in this world?
He's got the good pattern right there on the bandit
Want to get this massive bag
Gonna buy more ethers We haven't really talked about it much, but your MP bar is actually shortened in critical mode if I'm not mistaken?
Yes.
Magic is very good! It's a very good resource, you've seen us using it a lot.
As well as limits which use that entire bar or however much of it is left.
When you use all your MP bars, you have a purple MP recharge state where you have to wait out this long timer to come back.
But if you use an Ether, even if you have one MP, it fills you all the way back up so Ether Aether's extremely valuable in this run.
Absolutely.
Big menu put on there and
Ninten can talk about in just a second what was
up there but first going to be using Wisdom
Form our new drive form from timeless river
to move around because it has that quick run ability and it kind of like lets you ice skate
along on the ground so it helps there's no more lag frames really as you land before
you can keep moving from this this point forward, more or less
Wisdom Form is going to be our fastest form of
movement and we're barely ever
gonna use it in fights. It's pretty much just a
movement tool with the exception of leveling
it up which we'll see in this world.
Which I know I've talked about before.
Yeah, so Wisdom Form levels up from defeating Heartless specifically
and there are a ton of Heartless that will be fighting
We're forced to fight in this
world, so we go here first instead of Halloween Town so
can level up Wisdom Form to Level 3, and that's when Sora will get access
to the Quick Run ability himself. Yeah cause those Drive forms as they
level up their abilities get stronger and they unlock some
abilities for regular Sora when he's not
in the Drive Form. And one of those is Click Run.
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Two hits from that wave thing
will kill me. I was going for
a really hard scrap where you can actually push Abu
just like we pushed him in here earlier in the run
But again this time
just like he said Hobbs you're on ice skates.
With no wall next to
you to help.
So Ninten is going
to be using wisdom form here on this
falling chasm of Challenges section.
Again every single one of these small little tiny enemies
counts as 1 experience for Wisdom Form if they are killed while in
Wisdom Form. And you remember how I said,
in this game when you hit enemies
that will hit you back?
That is really good for us here
because we,
this is really our first instance of seeing reflect
in the game which is a very powerful ability so we're gonna be
baiting a lot of enemies in this world to hit us so we can just basically
destroy them with their own attacks essentially yep see you'll be seen that
right here I use a blizzard because that staggers the fat bandit.
And then we can retaliate and
reflect into a blizzard right there.
This game is so cool! Yeah.
Yeah, I love the fact you can link your magics into your combos,
so you do an opening hit into a Blizzard,
into a grounded finisher,
into a Thunder at the end.
Very, very cool stuff they did with this.
One of my favorite strats
the entire game is so cool
you reflect the projectile
from the fortune teller
use trinity limit to
lock yourself onto the enemy, which then moves you
and your reflect.
Which makes the damage apply to me.
Yeah, that was a showcase of solo Trinity.
Yeah we can talk more about that as well later
because we have another little farming section here.
But this is a required fight so we're not going out of our way to farm Wisdom form here.
Lots of really small enemies there's level 2 on wisdom
So Nintent is going to
back out of it.
We're trying to do our drive back here. Again,
fires are very good for putting back drive.
You want to make sure that there's enough enemies left in the
room that we can hit level 3 wisdom.
So there was about 32 there, I believe that we need 36
in total from the beginning to hit level three
and we got rid of them. There it is! You see quick run
Level 1 Sora got unlocked and that was the big reason we wanted to do that
oh good damage there from the reflect the quick menuing getting aladdin out into goofy
so we can get this trendy limit off to hopefully defeat all three fat bandits
one two three they're down if you don't do that ending wave like if you don't realize
oh i'm about to finish off the last of the enemies before that the fan bandit spawn everything
goes horribly yes like if you're not absolutely ready to reflect into eternity limit you are very
likely going to die and have to redo that fight.
And once again, a lot of it's spacing and timing if he is a little off on his
timing Donald might die right there because the bat bandits are very powerful now we go
into the boss of this world,
the Blizzard and Volcano Lord.
Yeah, so at the beginning here I'm going to use a Reflect to actually build up back our Drive because we want
to get three Drive back pretty soon
here in the fight. We want
to get Donald to take a death intentionally here, because whenever Donald is dead it won't give us anti-points.
Anti points are what the game uses to give you anti for him. So if you ever play this game casually,
you can get anti form every now and then. Every time you use a drive form it basically builds
up more points and when you get to certain point you will get anti form.
Right there we do that on purpose so that we cannot get anti-form.
And this is a good showcase of the phases that bosses have,
so we have to hit them with the finisher to get into next phase
and use Valor Form to defeat all of these small enemies right there
and finish off the fight.
Just one more air combo should kill this fight
Donald died again.
Oh, yeah!
As is par for the course we finish a world
We get a cool tool
Got Finishing Leap there
Which is a finisher that Ninten can use
Instead of mashing X to finish off a combo.
You can press square at the end of a combo, it'll not only hit
a bunch of enemies around him but also pop him up into the air and ideally whatever
enemy he's attacking, so we can continue with an air
combo really good for chaining attacks on enemies in addition to also getting access to our next
summon friend genie right there which will be using a number of very cool instances throughout the run
so now that we have that quick run that is going to be our main mode of transportation
wow that looks weird on this sort of uh our made more mode of transportation throughout the Sora are made
mode of transportation throughout the majority
of the run. So now we're going to summon Genie
as we just saw in his
probably least sexy usage
throughout the entire run
he's out because he won't do anything yeah cool sexy usage throughout the entire run.
He's out because he won't do anything.
Cool, there we go.
We don't want our party members out because they will attack those white knights
and prevent them from killing us.
Thank you to the three people clapping
for not doing anything.
That was great!
We didn't make a wish, what do ya want?
I just wanna point out that we die in one attack from those guys.
The game is still very hard at this point
yeah that really never goes away you will always be
one to three hits away from and we're actually going to be taking a hit on purpose here
yep oh yes this this strat is very difficult
to do but it has to do with the timing
of these reflects is quite
particular. Ninten
taken that hit because we got an ability called
Experience Boost which whenever Soar we got an ability called experience boost which what it does
which whenever soar is below 50 hp he gets double the experience from
killing enemies and we want to hit level 18 before we go into this next boss
fight prison keeper and because we are in that critical
hp 18. oh an aggressive play from nintendo to actually drop out of it saying i could kill
the second one faster with just regular Sora.
Yeah and what's important there is that I'm the one who delivers the final blow on
enemies because if a party member does it then you don't get the experience boost.
Again a lot of those kind of jrpg style mechanics coming into play right
thanks goofy
nintendo quick running on over to our next boss here, Prison Keeper.
Yeah so in Prison Keeper there's a bit of RNG at the beginning
There is a lot of RNG present in this run but a lot of it is reactable
So what actually makes the run really cool is that there is a lot of it is reactable. What actually makes the run really cool is that there's
a lot of reacting to what's going on
in the run. So right here
he can choose between three different kids.
We don't want to see Shock. Barrow is
actually the best RNG.
Can I do a Reflect? And then hopefully your Taliyah's right here,
do another Reflect and go straight into Dance Claw because
Dance Claw is one of the best limits in the entire game.
Yeah this would be... Dance car is one of the best limits in the entire game.
Yeah, this would be in our Holy Trinity we were talking about earlier if you could use it everywhere but sadly because it's tied to Jack Skellington
You can only use it in this world.
Yep, so we're going to get out of Dance Con here.
We're gonna go into Valor Form and this is for MP refill
and also just do a lot damage.
Want to get him into the last phase?
We actually skipping one of the kids um by doing enough damage
mid uh phase right there it's like that dance call is really important to keep them staggered
i'm gonna do some extra damage here.
This is a shock attack that we don't want to see, but it's okay on the last phase.
Now we're gonna do an air combo to make him retaliate again hit revenge value
and then go into reflex in the trinity limit
Oh! That's so good!
And this last break right here should be enough. I love
this part. Beautiful.
Also getting flashed up on top top right of your screen there, that is another...
It's basically Slide Dash Lite.
It's basically just a shorter range slide dash so it's another good gap closer and
it can combo with Slide Dash to help make sure that you're staying right up next
to enemies. Right
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So Ninten doing some thunders against the boss here.
They are not doing any damage but we're actually doing them because
one, we want to get our drive back
and by doing thunders, we put ourselves in
MP charge and something we haven't explained yet
is you get drive back faster when
you're in MP recharge. Yeah, you can kind of see it's glowing
orange. It's
bright and shiny because you're getting
enhanced recovery rate
So this fight is
very long. I think a good fight on critical mode
is around 3 minutes. You know there's something
wrong with the fight when a speedrun strat
is three minute long, right?
So this fight, it's mainly because it is a big auto-scroller.
We have to let him summon 12 presents and knock them back
And as the fight progresses
He starts summing them less frequently
So we are doing a trick here called present skip
I'll let Thar explain this one
Yeah so the reason we got drive back
We want to summon Chicken Little because
he's about to spawn two enemies
and we want to keep these enemies alive
So we use Chicken Little to whistle them over, go into the FPS mode
which is Chicken Little's limit-esque
basically pull them beyond that
punching glove because as you saw for
one of them it kills them so we use this to keep it alive we're gonna swap
out goofy i think so he doesn't kill that one over there and what this does is it prevents
oogie boogie from spawning more enemies on this belt and just lets him
spawn more boxes for us to knock them down.
Ninten even throwing a thunder on it so that it wouldn't
get up to the spikes and potentially
die of its own accord.
That's also so it doesn't despaawn if you just leave it alone and don't perform
the action it will just go away because yeah he's trying to get a double present skip effectively
yeah yes right here if the enemy was gone we got the way
um a little bit longer
to get into the middle here.
But we can go instantly and now it can die to the spikes.
Wonderfully done.
That is not easy to do in a fight that...
If you get hit by one of these
pieces of lightning that's raining down,
it's probably just going to calm you until you die.
That fist that keeps
coming down? That's a one-shot from
Full Hill. So Ninten's listening to so many different sound effects
as well as some of these patterns are predictable uh to be able to just know how to handle this fight
yeah thankfully when you do the Reactor Frames
You have iframe so you don't take damage during it
But its very easy to get flipped by things in this fight
And its such a huge time loss if we die
Here the boss can move twice So that we lose a tiny bit of time like two
seconds or something is it really yeah wow i thought it was
too much lingers longer than you would think
yeah that is awful um that's just random there's nothing we can do about that.
One more quick run under the fist right here and hopefully Jack or Goofy will help me out on damage on this last part.
Yeah, the safe move would be Dance Call but we go for the fast move.
Guys, that
fight is dumb.
That was not a good fight. It's probably most
runners least favorite fight.
It's long there's a lot of auto scroller
aspects to it but it's also not an
easy fight. No.
Especially once the present skip stuff got discovered, it's like
at least there was a cool piece of tech to it but
it's hard to do when you have more
to manage in a fight you already had a lot to manage
in.
Million dollars, baby!
We're turning this bus around!
First use of genie here.
Second use of genie.
Yeah, real use of jimmy
gonna set him to uh wisdom form because genie actually gets the same drive forms
that you have and it affects his different attacks wisdom forms really
nice nintendo waits just a moment there and then
uses that Wisdom
Form attack from Genie to
hit a bunch of the enemies. Yeah, so we took our
hit here because Robiik is p-boosting this as well
I think we mentioned it before but he wants to be at half HP because that gives us more level experience.
And we're going to want to hit a huge
level coming up soon in the next world.
We also got the magnet spell recently
which as you can see You could put above your head in order to group enemies up
And it allows us to do a lot of damage
That is like what I think you said it's like a 20% or something to your consistency.
Yeah that's really hard to do.
And again that was all in positioning for this that we like to call the magnet shuffle.
Hobbs, would you like to explain what the magnet shuffle is?
First I want to say that fight is what made me stop running this video game.
All right.
It's so hard. I wanted to do that stretch because i
wanted to look cool not like nintendo and i couldn't do it yeah but yeah so basically i talked
about that magnet you pop it up over your head, It groups enemies into it
and as it pulls the enemies into it
it deals a little tiny bit of damage
Just a tiny little bit of damage
But every time an enemy gets
knocked out of the magnet it gets pulled
back in again and it does that
little tiny bit of damage. And if you
use something like Trinity
Limit or Wisdom Form Genie,
or lots of other things that we're going to see throughout the whole run.
You can cause enemies to get pushed out of that magnet and sucked back in.
Out of that magnet, sucked back in.
And it might happen over and over and over again several times
within a second right so that turns that magnet that does just a tiny bit damage is mostly
utility to group enemies up into one of the best damaging tools in
the entire speedrun.
At least for regular mobs,
it's not as good for bosses generally
but for regular Heartless and
Nobodies, It is extremely powerful!
Yeah, this section's actually
one of the coolest movement sections in the game
you get to use wisdom form
we do a lot of tech to skip ledge grabbing
just timing your quick runs really well is also
really important you can lose a lot of time from just like having suboptimal
movement yeah using spells like fire reflect to get enough height to dodge
jay uh yeah even just like that. Like a little fire there
to help out the landing lag like you
talked about earlier to start up a quick run.
Now we go through
a maze. I don't know how you're ever going to remember where to go.
We'll probably have time for one or two donations
I think, yeah. Awesome, amazing.
We have a $250 donation
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so let's push for that one million!
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Thank you so much for that donation.
We have another $100 donation
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That dude's got purple hair!
This is interesting. Thank you all
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because this was the correct name.
So stealing the ether from Tron
there, and did you do anything else in that menu i didn't quite catch
oh no that was it yeah we want to keep on here as fast for a bit longer this is mom again right
here so in this mini game you have to catch the cube.
One neat trick is that wherever it spawns...
so right here will be glowing red.
If we quick run one space left
It will most likely be around here.
Let's see if I'm a liar.
You either do
a finisher on this cube or pop into a dry form to just take it out
yeah drive-form explosions being another instance of like a special attack as well yeah and they hit
a wide area too so you don't have to be right next the cube like you would have to for a regular combo
or if you suck at that minigame and you actually lose the pot.
So one thing I want to mention is that we got
limit form and master form, so
earlier in Agrabah, I was mentioning stuff about
anti-form. When we get new dry forms
it also resets our anti points, so when you get as I said, it also resets our anti points.
So when you get as I said,
when you get too many anti points
so you can get anti form
but there are certain situations where
you won't get an anti which will be making sure that we do
so hopefully never see anti except for maybe one part.
Yeah, well you do have it routed out specifically but...
And this is Light Cycle.
Light Cycle is deceivingly pretty dangerous because if I get hit then suddenly it becomes very
scary yeah this first part the enemies will respond to blue to yellow and to
green yep but the location that they spawn is
random whether they're attacking right away or not
is also random. So that first part is not
set. Now this part, some of the
attacks some of the later enemies can do
is a little random, or at least
based on so many factors it might as well be but at
least now everything spawns where you expect it to like in the same uh places
and will react pretty much the same way every time yeah so basically it's one of
those things where if you do the same thing every time
The same thing will happen.
So little interactions that each of these enemies do
These green ones spawn a shield and if we hit it at the right time
We can propel ourselves right into the turn it's so good
the game wants it to be kind of a rock paper scissors where if they are putting
up a shield and you attack it slams you into the wall
but it turns out if you get slammed towards the wall but there's no wall there because you're at
the turn and you turn at the right time you just go flying down the corridor
that again right here yeah ideally get like three of them or so for what
goodness that was a good one right there that was awesome now unfortunately for
if he goes for another one it's gonna be based on one of the white light cycle
enemies which those can go from any of the attacks that the other colors can do
so it's a little bit random you have to kind of hope that they use the shield attack
see if we get in here yeah unlucky but survive.
That's the most important part.
Yeah, another really...
I know we've been saying this
throughout the whole run,
but it's so,
so easy to die in this run
on so many places
and this is a big example
of one
that early on you might die here multiple times.
Because you get two shot by everything,
there's no way to replenish your HP in any way, it's rough.
This another reason why you should go to KHTRando.com
because the mini game is gone.
Edit! reason you should go to kh2rando.com because that minigame is gone yep so we'll be doing some more experience boosting here it's actually
the most important parts of our experience grindings
because we got the hits uh level 23 i believe it is in this screen's minigame so
you're taking a hit and will be at the slow hp throughout this entire next segment yeah and
we're seeing our first instance of stitch here on screen, another summon that we just
picked up in Hollow Bastion.
Stitch is fantastic
if he wants to be
but can also be
very frustrating because Stitch is quite random.
You can influence what he does based on
your health, if you're in critical health he's more
likely to do this Ohana
attack where he's using the ukulele
over and over, and right now that's what we want to see out of
them because it will cause enemies to
die from the magnet by...
It'll do that magnet shuffle basically but a little bit
slower. Nintendo wants
to clear two screens and then keep using Magnet
and finishing Leap or regular attacks whatever he kind of has
available to him.
Reflect as well.
To be able to kill as many enemies as possible because again
look every enemy is giving 152 experience
because they normally would give you 76 experience but because he's below half
health he gets double the experience from him
yep and i think uh we're coming up on level 22 here so just have one more to go ideally we have them all grouped up together uh and also identity Stitch will lick Sora.
Yeah, licking Sora will refill
all your MP.
The biggest thing we want to see out of him in this fight.
After this point, if we ever
use Stitch, you just want him to
refill your MP basically.
That's pretty much all you want him to do.
Yep, that was actually pretty good.
A 49 is really fast.
And Trom learned a new ability. fast. Yeah, that was really good. And Tron learned a new ability!
Cool.
That was it.
Learned like auto...
Oh we know the actual move.
It's set up I think yeah.
I was just like,
Auto-chip?
Setup is actually a good minute in this game
i just said we don't really have the opportunity to use it
i think the speedrun used to use it way back in the day they might have yeah
but instead we're going to use one of the holy trinity the trifectas
yep as Hobbs and
Spike like to call it.
We're going to use Comet or Fantasia
for the first time here?
Second. Sorry, yeah.
Not for the first time.
Once again, spacing is key right here because basically we're gonna try to use comet after a quick run to the center of the arena and then
go into it and try to kind of manipulate hostile program to be going up against the wall so he
doesn't move away from that big fantasia explosion now we have all of our clusters
so you can immediately freeze him and go into some air combos right here popping into that
limit form you basically have access to kingdom hearts one source abilities including that
devastating zentetsu can write the end that pushed nintent all the way into
the final phase right there we're a little low on clusters should be able to
do some cleanup and get a little bit more it should be okay yeah stay in this
long attack here and he'll stay here for a while so now we can freeze him and go into another comet. Thankfully Tron drew a bunch of potions on Dom to keep him alive because he needs to be alive to use this Limit
and we can finish them off with the Comet.
The Comet finisher does a huge circle.
Ah, very nice!
That really goes to show like Nymten's prowess in multiple different categories
because effectively mid-fight had to decide i'm going to kind of do
level one strat here because he didn't quite get the ragnarok to land on the enemy and
get all the clusters that you wanted at this specific time had to just default
too okay we'll freeze him a little bit later that's okay yeah i would have
died yes now we're going to one of the coolest bits of the room we got a little gauntlet here
a bunch of little uh mini mob fights a boss fight coming up.
Yeah, this is grueling.
This whole cycle.
But it's really, really fun to watch.
And we want Goofy to use Tornado
on gather of all the enemies here.
Cool little thing
Is that when you do attacks during Goobie's Tornado, they do a ton of damage.
And once you get the retaliation from the enemy and then summon Chicken Little...
Good fight! Nice! Chicken Little. Good fight.
Nice!
Chicken Little there, like it helps a little bit but mostly
you get to three drive use Chicken Little and then we're
now in another one of those rooms where it takes your party
members away from you so now we are at max drive instead of being at three
and guess what we're gonna use chicken little again here yeah dancers another one of the most
toxic enemy types in the entire game you hit them once they get you that grab attack
that's a one shot baby but instead gonna try to group him up by using chicken
little's magnet and a regular magnet throw an ether here get get some MP back.
Keep killing these Magnus finishing Leap combos.
Yeah something to mention here is that our Ether usage
Is really important so you have to remember all the Ethers
You use throughout the run because sometimes
You use a bit extra and sometimes
You use them a bit extra and someone's using that shuffle oh unfortunate that's unlucky but
that's why i'm alive very nice it's only i don't know if we
mentioned this about magnet but magnet counts as a finisher
and because we have finishingishing Plus, you can go
use a Magnet and go straight into a different
finisher, as we saw with this finishing leap
there. Very devastating combo
in our arsenal that we make a lot of use of on the run.
Yeah, if we didn't have Finishing plus, we wouldn't be able to have
that like magma into a thunder or
finishing leap or anything. But now we've
got Demix another one that
as a child this boss got you
stuck for hours possibly.
We're going to try and take him out in just about 60 seconds,
getting under 30 water clones right here then going into that group Trinity
using two of the different phases
getting them at five or less water climbs and going for the Trinity.
Oh my gosh!
Beautifully done already down to two-and-three quarters health popping back into that limit form right there.
Again for that devastating Zantetsu Ken
into the classic Ars Arcanum combo,
cutting out the finisher of the Ars Arcanum
because then they won't actually gain revenge value
popping out immediately into Donald's Fantasia,
popping it up after we get him in this brick wall state,
going into first person because it looked cool.
Show off.
I don't even know how you ended that fight.
Was it finishing leap?
It was just a hit, yeah.
I'll just tap and then press X.
Putting on a few abilities here...
Yeah mostly got another reaction boost so get to put that on it's going to help out
with the various reaction
commands and now the gauntlet is not
over in fact its only just beginning because we're heading
into Final Fantasy fights from this point onwards
if nintendo dies in any of the next four little fights here he will have to refight demix like
it'll be sent all the way back to before Demex.
So starting off with the Yuffie platform here, you get a few kind of
basic enemies and thankfully this one's
not too bad. You just kind of have to use
whatever tools are available, Cyclone
or the Rising Sun
attack.
Anything like that to try and clean them up.
Or Magnet Shuffle here?
Yep, Solar Trinity Magnet Shuffle.
Very powerful tool.
We're going do a Sonic Blade here because limit levels up from finishing
out your limits so doing that right there actually give us some limited
experience and he wants to hit level 2 limit for the end of the game so you run
it out where we use our limits if I already got
one experience from the hostile program oh my god what is happening
those two dying here well handled okay with your TR sore a fit i thought you were still in limit form
i know it's throwing me off big time those morning stars again the theme
if those little slams they have hit you that is a one shot
and then can smartly react
good rising sun that was very scary with the reflect going off right there,
doing that big, big reflect damage.
And we want to get four Drive Gauge here so
that we can go into Limit Form again.
Limit Form uses four Drive Gauge.
That Magnet Shuffle we've been talking about that Nintent's
doing with a whole bunch of different forms all over the
place, not only is it good for dealing damage to enemies
but also really good for refilling your drive.
Yes! Gonna go into Limit
Form to clear out these shadows nice and quick with a little help
from Cloud.
Do Thunder on these bots to get their RC very powerful sparkle ray, which you will see a
lot more of coming up here in another fight.
We're trying to bait out another unfortunate, it died
but we're just going to try using some reflect
I'm gonna be a bit careful here
Yeah! Be a little careful
So if we die here
we have to go all the way back to Demix
Yo what's up Pod? Why weren't you in dirge of service earlier
in the week what's that that was a sick run by the way everybody should go back and watch
that i agree oh oh how what what did you believe okay Oh! How? What?
I think that was iframes.
Okay, I know exactly what happened there.
WHAT?!
I grabbed an invisible security bot because it died after I had grabbed it.
I had iframes from that nation okay
oh my goodness that was terrifying all right so speaking of terrifying
uh now into did you even put on one i think
i did but i hope i didn't i'm gonna find out
uh i could tell you don't follow the wind
dawn that's okay yeah i don't think he uses
that anymore. Okay.
So this fight is pretty much the best thing
that Ninten can do this entire fight
is what's happening right now.
Just use one of these sentry bots over and over
that sparkle ray reaction command
and spinning the camera around
to help make sure the enemies spawn in. Because the ones that are kind of further out
on the edges... those are just JPEGs alright? That's printed out on piece paper
stuck around there. They to spawn in actually closer
to the little truck ninton's in with the camera is
the enemies that are off-camera they actually there's more than off-camera than there are
on so he's positioning his camera so the ray is facing behind him where
you can't see any enemies, that way he's clearing out more a lot faster. And the way that that
attack actually works has to do with how fast you press triangle after
grabbing a sentry bot.
We're talking about the levels of specificity
that we can't get into again, they're just
magnitudes
or magnitude higher.
We're trying to stay out of
the edges of the arena because
then we spawn less enemies.
I'm watching every enemy here
to see what is attacking me
because right now, for fear of
a lot of bots. A lot of bots. Yeah, a lot of bots. The bots can often queue up a laser attack while you're in
reaction command and have to be ready to reflect immediately or
go into limit form or do something else that's going
protect you. This was an incredibly clean impression. go into you know limit form or do something else that's going to protect
you this was an incredibly clean and that
was very good yeah what a fantastic like mid game my goodness
what a 1k
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We really want to make that happen. We're at 5500
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It'd be so fantastic if we hit a million
during this run. Yeah, come on, folks. We gotta make that needle
move because my brain needs number go up.
I need it.
And now here we are in the second visit
of the Disney World.
Just like we've been going over.
Yeah, we gotta revisit five of the worlds right now
including Beast Castle.
We're not doing a full second visit right now we're just going to be going up
to get our next most powerful keyblade the rumbling rose
it's a very good keyboard because it has finishing plus which means that we get to have a third finisher
on top of the Finishing Plus we had from Critical Mode.
And another neat thing I'll be doing here is mid-laying
the Bokeh Vendors. So the Bokeh Vendors are an enemy
that give you synthesis
items, and they also give you a ton of experience.
And a neat trick
that was found by Hiran is that if you go into
the room three times,
and then exit, it has to be a room that BokeVendors can spawn in
They will spawn in every other
room, uh...every other world
they can spawn in right now
So we'll be seeing 3 of them up here
and grabbing them for experience.
Big shout-out to Ahirun,
who's just basically the pioneer of everything that's cool about
Kingdom Hearts 2 speedrunning.
Yeah, without Ahirun, it would have taken so much
longer for a lot of these fights to really get developed in the way that they are now.
Now we're going to Pirates Part 2, let's see some more magic spam.
Yeah, so this one we're gonna see real quick uh i believe i should put it on right here
down here's crest and master form
and now you're going to see how good the triple finisher is on the pirates.
Quickly switching in Donald at the end of the fight to save him some menuing time.
Yeah, I love that little optimization as opposed to having to wait until after the fight.
You're waiting there for half a second For the fight to end
Let's also quickly menu in Donald
And have that done afterwards
It really is like half a second
You do not have much time
You have to very quickly hit up
Maybe left and then up, up, like maybe left and then
up x.
Down x?
I think it's a lot of inputs really quick here.
And coming up here this world is actually
one the hardest worlds in The Second Visits
because of this boss, Grim Reaper.
So Grim Reaper, we're going to try to keep him stunned with Blizzard
because he has the same properties as
the pirates from before. He operates under
a new mechanic called Finch Count
that's a lot to go into for Mar Marathon run, but basically we're going
to be abusing his stun with Comet and do hits in between each comet so that we can maximize
the damage before he wants to teleport.
He wants to teleport the whole time, but we prevent him from doing it
and Comet right here to get extra damage in
try to get him into the center of the comet
so that you cannot break out of it
go into master form and ideally we
defeat him in master form because you want to keep our drive gauge
nintendo kind of canceling out parts
of the combo there by using Master Form Blizzard,
and there we go. He did finish in Master Form.
Get access to one of the best
combo modifiers in the game
Horizontal Slash there. Oh yeah.
Which just allows you to press square
in the middle of a combo
to kind do this side-to-side slicing attack
that effectively just lets you get one extra hit
in your combo and let's those,
those middle attacks
that normally we haven't been talking too much about
do significantly more damage.
I believe Ninten is going to
do a Master Genie strat here, which
Is this the first time we'll be seeing it?
This is the first time you see a Master, yeah.
These are so sexy. Yeah, yeah gene is actually my favorite summon
in the game it's because he can do cool stuff like this little genie magnet we did magnet shuffle
with wisdom form we did it with Group Trinity using Ultima.
We've done it with Group Trinity using Major Drive.
Done it with Solo Trinity using Break effectively and now with Master Genie so...
Very good.
Besides, Master Genies attacks just without the maggot don't do a whole
lot of damage no they really don't that magnet is just so powerful with the way we interact
with it and like with everything else we've been talking about positioning spacing are
all very important there's some enemies where you want to put the
magnet right on top of them before using genie and there's others where you want
to put them further away now we're getting valor gene here as well unfortunately it
got out of the magnet but we have one second yes or just enough
I guess you would have died yeah little magna triple-tap
Valor genie this time who has the sonic rave limit
this one should go better finishers and the explosion of the boxes also damaged
the uh the gambler nobody there and importantly
kind of knocks him out of the magnet again too.
Oh yeah.
We're going to skip over this room because it's
slow and there's actually another
heartless...
nobody here who's going to drop a medallion and we only need
three of them. Ninten is gonna throw an Aether
so we have full MP for the next fight
usually after fights our HP and MP
recover but for some reason not after this
one, so we have to throw that ether there so
we're topped off with the uh final boss of the world here yeah these
second visits go fast folks so be sure to get those donations in we would still
love to try to hit a million by the end of this run
i'd be amazing and time an absolutely amazing fight right here
first off using that blizzard trying to use more of those magics in order to just interact with
this boss and get all the coins knocked out of him
because you can't actually deal any hp damage until all 882 coins
are in the chest now we're gonna be using genie canceling look at that
bottom left corner that shows you everything you need to know
Ninten is having to do a bunch of intense
menuing to constantly
cancel the end-of-his-air combos
with changing Genie's
form to do that over and over
and over again,
and completely skip over that first phase.
Now we're going to lock onto him as he's up in the air.
You can just get a lock on pop them two times
with Thunder,
get all the coins knocked out,
throw them back in the chest and get Donald queued up
so he can use that devastating Fantasia Comet right here.
Spacing those out to where he's keeping
him stunned at all times.
Oh my god, bullied him! So we're already into the third
phase now. Getting getting up into the corner
now he's got to try to keep his party members alive actually switch
donald out for goofy just because goofy had more health and then it pops in a
master form there which this is the strat that will never change in the entire speedrun.
Make it rain!
Yeah, Master Form using Thunder
does this little dancing attack and hits
multiple times, which means that the boss
not only gets stunned but also drops a ton of medallions.
And Master Form is
good enough right now to last
long enough to do one
MP bar's worth of damage, which is exactly
what we need. Each thunder is 50
medallions and each cast of thunder does
3 thunders in master form.
And what a beautiful fight! That was textbook.
Everything about that was fantastic.
That unfortunately was our last fight with Comet, very cool limit
but we got something even better now in Flare Force
The second of the holy
Trinity of limits that we'll be using
Or third! We count here that we'll be using. The third, yeah.
We count here.
That fight was so impressive.
Can we have a little donation here?
$25 donation from any.
The DPS output is out of this world. I agree. Best of luck, they say thank you so much any
Thank you wouldn't agree more Right here we'll be changing,
customize maybe one more time and then put on Duck Tray.
Yes, specifically taking off Fantasia
so that we might not accidentally menu to that instead later on you're already going down the flare force
this is a point in the game where party members are really not useful at all so
we just accepted an attack and made us have everything ourselves
they can actually mess you up by attacking enemies at this point.
Another good magnet shuffle there, take about half of the enemy's health out
and then using the finishing part of the Trinity to deal
the rest of the damage. And now we play some golf with children
Yeah, we're gonna get another
cool little thing here where Ninten's gonna switch party members
right at the last second again
Just Skips having to do another
menu. The menu itself would take maybe two seconds tops
but why spend that two seconds and remember how we manipulated those bulky vendors
we did that so you guaranteed a spawn here they give a lot of experience
and we're actually going to EXP boost the second
one on the other side by purposely getting hit
aerial recovery, Stitch is going to keep
us alive by stunning those enemies with his
ukulele, finish off this bulky
vendor, get level 28. Over 3,000 experience
just granted by that one
because of the Xp boost thing. And it's important
to note that there's an ability called Once More
that Ninten has because
of grabbing that Dream Shield all the way
back at the beginning of the run.
That is the only reason Intim was able to experience
boost that, because otherwise the big
Jack-in-the-Box enemy would have killed him.
Once more protects you from dying in a single combo,
but it will not protect you from a single big hit. Yep and the cool thing here is use Reflects
and then use Dance Claw to suck them into the Reflects to do a lot of damage. Now I'll try
to go for a frame perfect trick here.
Oh, almost.
So was just trying to stop the dance call limit
at the same frame that he picked up all of the presents
the last present specifically.
Just would have caused a cut scene
to effectively finish early.
And now we have small RNG segment.
There's actually really just a lot
of luck involved in this present minigame.
We want to get big presents to make the number go up faster,
we need to hit 100 but sometimes the game can just spawn
a bunch of reds and it's very unlucky. You are really green and it's very unlikely we're really
green too early three early greens i'd say we could get one
very fast donation in here though as well
absolutely i have a ten dollar donation you're
from i'm Surprised.
I can't believe I was tricked by that planned mickey deck! How heartless
of you! We got two people.
I'd love to stay up for the whole run, but I'm at a puns nobody would want to hear
and i just don't have the heart good luck nintendo thank you all right we're heading
into one of my personal favorite fights in this speedrun.
The experiment fight. This is a great display
of that duct flare ability that we just got.
Combination attack with Donald. Yeah so
the cool thing about using Dubflare and doing our
combos with it is that there's a
neat mechanic in this game called damage
amplification. Basically whenever we do
multiple hit attacks
the next couple hits after the first one would be like chip damage.
But if something else hits them during the attack then every single hit does full damage.
So we use that here in this fight and get maximum
damage by using our multi-hit attacks like aerial dive, aerial spiral
and horizontal slash.
We'll be doing three depth flares in total here
You can see every single hit is doing a ton of damage
to mid duck flare.
Grow ethers!
When you want to kill things quickly duck flare this is fine yeah you'll be okay
nice horizontal slash counting as a finisher to kill off bosses yeah absolutely love Yeah.
Absolutely love duck flare there, you can see spamming it three times having to use that whole MP bar every time though so you gotta make sure you throw not just one but two ethers a lot of the time since if you are already in that pink
mp recharge, the ether will not refill all of your MP. You have to have some left for it to
refill the whole thing otherwise it's going to refill a smaller amount.
Do you have cool movement here with wisdom form?
That's why I swapped out Aladdin
for Donald here. Got Boki vendors
so it clears all of the tents for us.
I was hoping for anti.
You can get anti from there, yeah.
Would have been a very small percent... like what? Like 15 or 20% or something like that? Yeah, it's very small percent. Like what, like a 15 or 20% or something like that? Yeah, it's a very small...
I've gone in and run some PTs.
So now we're going to Agrabah 2. This is definitely one of
the more restrictive of the second visits you
go to, is that Sora doesn't have any other party
members with him. He is stuck to the carpet, and that can definitely make
these first couple of mob fights very
frustrating. Ninten has to do a lot
of reacting to wherever the enemies are
in that first wave but then out
he can catch the enemies, reflect their
retaliation because they angie
after they got stuck in that magnet and
go into another
magnet to deal massive damage.
Yeah, big thing with mob fights like
that one, you know Heartless and Nobody fights now that we have
Magnets or even Magnera at this point
if you can have a magnet up when they spawn,
They tend to spawn pretty close to Sora. So you will collect them
In that magnet and then they're nice and grouped up and you could do whatever you need to do in order to try
To take him out as quickly as possible but on the very first spawn they're
already spawned into the arena so they're going to move around randomly they're not going to stay
near sora or if you ever don't press have that magnet up as the enemy spawn then as soon as they spawn near sword
they're going to disperse and head all over the place so these fights are all about making sure
that you kill all the first wave of enemies at the same time,
and as you have freshly put up a magnet so that you can catch the next wave.
Yeah trust me things go really badly as soon as any small thing goes wrong.
So we want to get rid of that wave, next
wave spawns? Yes. So this is an example
of things going wrong.
That enemy moved away, didn't get caught in the magnet
and then recovered, got the next
wave of enemies to spawn in that next magnet and is able to take care of them
that was a very quick and smart recovery yeah oh that if one fortune teller doesn't get
into the magnet like that it can easily stagger the next wave as well and if
that crimson jazz gets staggered from the fortune teller you're done and that fight's
critical because we want to end that fight with around this much mp because we need mp
to activate these switches here each Each one takes a different magical
element, this will be thunder
next blizzard and the last fire
And if we don't have MP we either have to waste blizzards
Waste blizzards? Uh, waste ethers
on them which we really don't want to do or wait for our mp to get back intense
also having to dodge the attacks of the enemies while lining up the various magic you use for
the switches yeah last one here, probably the
Scarce because this Crimson Jazz
Could one shot us
Yeah but thankfully
The switch becomes ready
The fastest so
You can just kind of YOLO it
Instead of having to dodge around
I'll get a 41.
Yeah, if you got a 41 then that's the quit
run I think.
Alright so this is just one
of the last autosplers here. And we'll be
just trying to get experience, it's really important that
we hit level 30 during this autoscoller but
thankfully its very easy to get every enemy
that spawns during this so we have time for some donations
here. Ninten calling me out dude dude I think it's so hard to get everyone in the house
But yeah please go for some donation
Absolutely! We have a $10 donation from Late To The Party
Always love seeing Ninten on my
screen. You are a gift to the Kingdom Hearts
community, and it's awesome to see
you at SGDQ. Sending much love
from the Pacific Northwest.
Thank you. We have a donation from shooty for five dollars hi ninten i woke up
just in time i hope next gdq were able to see you speed run poo baseball we have a the CU Speedrun Pooh Baseball.
We have a $50 donation to MSF
from Violin.
Good luck with the run, Ninten!
Super proud to see how much the community has optimized
this run over the last few years
Everyone watching is in
for a good treat
One of the best Kingdom Hearts 1
runners of all time
And an up andand-coming kh2 runner too
yes recently started doing runs
time for oh yeah kill that enemy i was gonna call you. Go ahead.
I have Dark NES Mist
with $25
to Doctors Without Borders. Hey, Ninten!
It's been a pleasure getting to watch you crush this game.
From grinding PB attempts to labbing fights there is never
a moment I'm not impressed with your technical know-how and execution
Much love from the Kingdom Hearts 2 FM Random community,
And remember nothingness is eternal!
Nothingness is eternal.
You'll hear it later on.
Oh, thank you for showing me how to say that.
Yeah, that will make more sense later.
Alright we're heading into the boss, the final boss of this world sense later.
Alright, we're heading into the boss, the final boss of this world.
Genie Jafar or just
I guess Jafar.
Despite the fact that
we are restricted to just our combos
in the carpet, this is a really cool fight,
and also a very tight fight to get right.
It's really tough, but it's another one of those satisfying
ones to get down because then
you can hopefully do it every time.
Especially with the new aerial sweet strap
relative oh yeah i just i'm really excited for this so we're good to use an
ability that we never equipped but you have it on the carpet because
the carpet has really special uh properties
uh it's called aero sweep and we'll be using that in a moment here.
So first Raptor defeats Jafar's stomach which I'll
be using the guard break iframes just like that to get it down
then use aerial sweep right here, there's a ton of hits go into
an air combo do another air combo to get in damage so he has a bunch of HP gates
which we mentioned before that the gimmick about hp gets is that you need to do
a finisher to get past it to get into your next phase so we're in phase two now i need to use
the finisher to get to phase two um and right here we want to beat the fight by ideally only using one...
Oh, actually this is going to be a little bit...
You did the level 1 strat.
Yeah, so things are getting a little scary here.
So yeah, this part, this is the desperation move of this boss.
Desperation moves are big generally stylish attacks where bosses
are invulnerable and they try to do a ton of damage to you.
They, you know, do this big relentless attack.
We're not too worried about dying in this part.
I'm going to let you know right now if I don't die it will be
a miracle here.
Yeah.
It will be a miracle.
It is this part that we are afraid of because now gg far away spawn so many fireballs
the ninton has to reflect and hope it does enough oh let's go. Let's go. Yes.
Oh, the extra aerial sweep.
Oh, he's not going for the roll-up.
Oh my God.
Let's go!
Oh my goodness. In practice we we were like if you get DM'd
you're just going to die right?
Yeah, my heart is pounding from that moment on.
That's pretty scary.
That is how particular every strategy for every category in this run.
Like, Nintendo did a strategy that was all based around having Heroes Crest equipped so you have air combo boosts on your Keyblade
when it was supposed to be a strategy based around doing ground combos with the combo boost ability on Decisive Pumpkin.
So, really kind of threw things off there.
And honestly we arguably got to see something a lot cooler than the regular strat is
a really good runner recovering it and getting out of probably
the most dangerous attack in the entire kingdom hearts series yeah genie jafar's
attack right there i describe as it's a shoot them up and you don't have a gun.
Yeah, pretty much.
Just dodge them up.
Straight into an action here.
We're going to go into master form at the beginning.
Use a Master Form Magn magnet to get into greens
Proc and attack from the dust do reflect into a magnet finishing leap
We have this nice of pumpkin on now, which does extra damage
And then these three degrees are gonna spawn here. We're going to do another magnet shuffle
and maybe kill all the dragoons with it.
Where was the money?
Very nice, very nice.
And it doesn't end there because we're heading into the final boss
of this world now going in to Zaldin
Gonna pop in a master form again that magnet shuffle
does help refill that drive a ton.
So had to do it at the end there in order to get to 4-drive for Master Form.
I would need to get 9 jumps after one attack and this is really hard to match.
Oh! The full nine! How do you do that i so what the strap for a long time is to parry
that boss so that you can actually get all nine jumps but ninder just
walks to the side and i don't get it yeah aim for the duck player with
that damage in are down to one bar health watch it fly so good
if you've played this game,
you probably remember Zaldin getting on his weird dragon attack kind of thing
and he went in the face with a spit.
Yeah, then dying and Mickey trying to save you
and then dying again. I to save you And then dying again
And then he still came back
Third time Mickey didn't come back
Instead it's like a 20 second fight
That's going to be a common theme for the rest of the fights in game here
Now we're going to land the dragons uh the battle level this world is actually very low so that means that we do extra damage
here because we went here last that's the main reason why we go here later on
and it's got the least amount of, I guess really no useful tools compared to
other worlds getting you access to greater magnets, flare force...
I don't even know what you get here!
I know one thing you get which should i'll point out thunder
you do thundara pops here going to limit form these authentic and it does so much
down to the size of pumpkins yeah yeah decisive bumpkin having that base combo oh
dang and then you're right and now we get mickey no okay i think you were doing
the level one strategy yes oh yeah okay
i want to give a massive shout out to ninten that he was practicing both
critical any percent and level 1 which are vastly different categories also has
completely different menus and ninja is just doing it all for memory
unbelievable yep the sonic blade is a much safer stride here you get extra damage you also get
level two then i try to mention before we want to hit. We don't have drive
which is unfortunate
I actually get it back here
Yeah so master form
and limit form are kind of more powerful
at least according to the game
And they cost 4 drive gauges instead of 3 are kind of more powerful, at least according to the game.
And they cost four drive gauges instead of three to use.
So thankfully if you get to three
you can use a summon or some other Drive Form
in order to help refill your drive
and in this case we want to use wisdom form for movement
anyways. But if you then need to you can either leave the world or go into a room where
party members are around to get all of your drive back. So pretty much any time that we're refilling drive,
we want to get at least past three,
but sometimes we want to get to four or five.
Yeah.
Hey, BokiBender.
Oh yeah, Boki's here.
More wisdom for movement to go a bit faster entering the courtyard fight.
This is a fight that actually became a lot more consistent recently because we used to just do a Magnet Ultima right off the bat
but now we jump over here because you learn that this makes it
much more consistent to defeat
the entire mob here. I want to remind
you all, the first part
of that Trinity does not do damage
and yet two enemies completely die
because of the magnet shuffle, so it's
just so strong. Yeah.
Yeah, it's funny how a piece of tech comes out
of here's two instances of
this does very little damage.
This does no damage, but if you swipe them together all of a sudden,
absolute buzzsaw to the health bars.
One more mob fight here. Go for it.
Yeah, another cool fight here with the snipers
uh nintendo's immediately gonna get into a vicinity break to get aggro and all
the enemies reflect twice in a magnet kill off this first wave pretty quickly
do the same thing here reflect them immediately because they've been hit back from respawn
magnet donald duck flare donald i'll say love it that's clear to end the fight there's a lot
of situations from this point onwards where you'll see a duck flare happen,
and it's just because we need just a little bit extra damage to help the fight end.
And you might as well use the duck flare
because it comes out so fast and immediately starts doing damage.
Here we will use duck flare to do full damage yes
just two hits before he gets uses the rc to hang on yeah i'm thinking i'm basically
immediately gonna do a duckflare. Go for it.
Yeah, so now we're gonna use duckflare right here.
Get a lot of damage and he wants to hit his next phase
because you want him
to go into his bastion commands
Do as much damage as we can
Just that's get enough right there
we'll go ahead and summon stitch and hope that he can lick me a restore my MP
here um
all right now we're gonna push it down to make sure that we can use duck flare and this is
up there along with damagep should be enough damage
to take care of him before he gets back up.
And again as Spikes mentioned in
previous instances of that Duck Flare
the timing of pressing Triangle
for those extra bursts, very important.
So now we're in what we like to dub the endgame portion
of the run. We only got two worlds...one mini world
one ball-thrust world and then final fights so we're coming towards the end here very fast run
yeah it gets a lot faster when those seven gummy missions you have to do because i think that made
up anywhere between 20 and 25 minutes about It was close to 30, yeah.
This would be
our final gummy mission here but instead we get
to save four minutes. The only bad part is it
took away our bathroom breaks.
Yes that is true.
I always remember
getting to those second visits of Disney
Worlds where those don't have gummy
missions at all tied to them and it felt like
whoo! This is a lot
all of a sudden back to back to back.
So I can't imagine for everybody who's been doing runs on this,
the feeling of oh yeah that's the whole run.
It's just two and half hours of go-go-go-go-go.
Also if you're ever wondering why we didn't go to Pride Lands
We don't have to. That's pretty much all you need to know.
If you want to see Pride Lands, tune in at twitch.tv
Slash Nintendo
For any rando
Basically just tune into the
First five minutes of any rando.
So I want to point out that we got the secret fourth part
of the Holy Trinity of Limits, which is Warlygoof,
one of my favorite limits in the entire game.
We'll be using it twice.
That's what you get for OOD too. favorite limits in the entire game. We'll be using it twice.
I didn't know if you were still going to use
it or not on a crit end. Oh yeah,
it's great. It's so really good.
But before that we're going into this fight. We call it the Mickey Fight because Mickey helps us out
Although we actually don't want him to do anything because he ruins the Magnet Shuffle with Master Jinny
And I love how this fight works because it's so weird.
You have to make sure that you're not targeting any enemies,
even with that little orange auto-target thing.
Then pop a magnet
so that you know it goes straight above yourself.
Then using the limit from master genie it pulls all the enemies into the magnet which not only does a ton of damage for the magnet shuffle
it also refills that summon gauge look at the bottom right corner see how high that gauge is going it's just
so powerful and then these enemies for some reason you want to get right up on top of them right
above them instead of further away from them it's's so particular and it's just fantastic.
I can't believe Mickey is messing with her strats
I have a mickey dono if that's okay? Go for it!
$50 from Equations safe did somebody mention the door to darkness and loving
the commentary as always there's a real line in this video game.
Can y'all believe that happened?
Can you believe Disney let that happen?
So,
coming up here is the first fight we're
going to be using Whirlygoof.
We're actually going to use it with a magnet shuffle,
but that will do extra damage to everything here.
And this fight is also going to be really scary
because there's just a few ways to get one shot
after this first fight here.
So in this, we're going to do lock on and then press triangle right away
like this
so you line it up
and then do order goof
Nice! I love that limit. Yeah, I appreciate that
always call those buzz saws and that's like a literal
spinning. So now we got the
Axel, go ahead. Oh yeah so now we're gonna attack
the Ducks and they'll retaliate by attacking
Axl. Their main focus is Axle
so we have to move towards Axl
and uh, Axl's actually very annoying here because the attacks
that he does can actually ruin
our magnets by separating all of the enemies from it.
So we're gonna go into Limit Form and then Revert
just to get the MP refill right there.
Uh, we want to Reflex because whenever the assassins come out of the magnet,
they actually go straight into an attack.
But they can also do a explosion which one-shots us so we cannot let that happen
and this is actually good fight.
That fight can go even faster if you get lucky and Axel uses one specific attack over and over again.
He did it once in the entire fight.
Yeah, that's still a fight that you should be more than happy to see though
all right so now we are going into the final boss rush you know world effectively
the world never was this is a lot of runners' favorite world I think
because of all the intricacies
of these fights and for Ninten we're going to help
them out here on all this cause there's a lot of focus. Yes
This first one is Roxas
Uh, Nintens gonna be doing a strat called Fast and Furious, so we're
gonna start by reflecting the boss
making sure that we get all that damage
and then doing a specific set of combos
so that the boss retaliates right there
with a ground combo, do two reflects
into either getting hit or doing a jump and doing an aerial reflect
now going to kind of repeat the same kinda thing using a blizzard
those uh...reflects there, going
into Limit Form in order to
refill all the MP, deal some extra damage.
Going to get another Zantetsuken
then parry the boss
with the iframes of an Arz Arcana to give up more damage as well.
Another Zantetsu can into revert, pop that Aether
use more Reflect here and then going to quickly go into
what's likely gonna be a magnet into Trinity after
another reflect
and that is gonna finish off the loss
Absolutely gorgeous
cause you look at that drive gauge down there in the bottom right
he was able to go from about one bar all the way up
over three bars, we want over 3 because coming up now
We've been talking about the whole run trying to avoid anti-form
until this exact moment right here.
We're going to equip that new Keyblade we just got,
The Two Becomes One. It forces either
Anti-Form or Final Form and we actually want to see
Anti-Form ideally right here so we are going to see anti-form ideally, right here.
So we're going to get into a fight which you can
tell from the bottom left once the command
menu switches into combat
mode and then pop in wisdom
so because of that Keyblade B bam, there's anti-form.
The reason why we're going to do this, Gene,
this and the next year,
we're going to do it two times
and that should hopefully drop our anti points
all the way down
because people have seen it twice
where we will safely never see it again
watch the bottom right here from zero to four bars and then after this trinity ends needs
to quickly get into another drive form to
get that anti-form dropping all those points and now
antiform like you said spike never going to show up for the rest of
the run because fun fact it actually has a multiplier to show up on the
organization fights i think it's a 50 multiplier it's something massive
it's like four times if you have 10 anti points which is basically the cap with like
the limit of it you are going to get antiform yeah on the yeah 100 so now we go into the zigbar fight again
this is a big boss rush we got here at the end min 10 reapplying the hero's crest keyblade
because our strength that stat doesn matter much. We want the air
combo boost off of it because
Zidbar is going to be chilling up in the air the entire
time, let's do air combos
we're going to give him these first three sets of lasers
to particularly manipulate how he's going
to react to this duck flare because again, woo-oo,
this is how you kill things quickly.
Going into a very specific combo right here to not overflinch him to where he's not going to retaliate in a bad way.
So trying to pump all that damage we ideally want to see 2.8 bars before I make a big move
Valor Form filling in for some damage right here and more importantly refilling that
mp bar let's go for another duck flare and if ninten can get those perfect damage amps
and not over flinch him he can send them all the way from 100 health all the
way to the end let's go baby real quick Nintendo did you get the
elixir I didn't I think I did, yes. Okay good.
We're gonna need that for a fight later on.
Back to three drive we're going to use some wisdom form
from movement here to get to the next fight
And it's going to help refill that drive
because we are going to enter another room where your party members are walking around.
They're not in your party.
Right.
One thing to note is that
we're actually doing pretty low damage
because this world
is the last part of the game
and we haven't really fought anything
other than the small grandi segments.
So, this part is particularly difficult to get through.
We're pretty much at minimum
damage. Like you are I think just
over in one of your stats.
You can just get over if you are in Valor form at the end
of the game because you have all the keyblades.
Which makes it interesting because your level 1 does
the same damage as crit does in this world.
Yeah, it's incredible and now Thar this is one of your favorite things Level 1 does the same damage as crit does in this world.
Yeah, it's incredible and now Thar, this is one of your favorites.
Oh yes, this is probably the hardest fight in the game to learn and master
Instead of health bars we have those time gauges at the top
That's how we're gonna kill Luxor. For Sora, it's irrelevant. First,
we've got to get out of this dive form. We're going to go
into do a little ground combo on Luxord.
Make him spawn some cards. Do what
we call reflect, slap shot, and reflect in
RSR. Basically, we gotapshot off the Axel Fight
it's a quick little attack that we can fit in
between two Reflects so we get two Reflects
worth of damage on Luxor, lots of
damage and we can quickly push him into this next
phase where we're hoping to see these minigames here.
We can reflect on them
and then quickly hit his RB
so he goes in another attack, hopefully a mini-game
He's jumping that fine
I think he is going to do a little magnet combo yep so that keeps all the cards
around quickly reflect another mini game and we're just hoping to see this for the rest of
the fight that card staying alive is a little dangerous so n Ninten's going to have to pay attention to that.
Alright, this
is fine. Luxor's going underground.
Yeah, so hopefully you try to avoid this because
you can't hurt him during that, but it's a pretty small time loss
if you do end up getting it it so it's not a big deal
uh but cards are really unlucky it's pretty much just like a 50 50 if he does cards or not and
uh not what you can do about it except to react accordingly minkin smartly doing
that mac for that reflect there because he knew a card was just about to attack.
He teched here, he can reflect into the card.
I never knew that!
Yeah basically I activated the fire card after I had reflected which gave me the reflect damage off.
A quick RSR there on the minigame is a fun little thing you can do if you have a card alive and attacking you
But now we're going to push luxor into his
dm health threshold cool thing about luxury is when he's dm'd he cannot retaliate when he's grounded
so we're gonna keep luxor grounded in one super long limit form combo here basically
skip his final dm
and end the fight
is this going to be enough damage
nintendo can just do a couple of attacks here.
Uh oh, and this one...
Oh no!
So funny thing is that this exact thing happened in my last 3DK run
so I think it's just the curse flag
Luxord is like you say,
one of the hardest
if not the hardest fights
in the whole game.
Here's one of the other things
about this fight
is that it changed
when the jump from 30 FPS
to 60 FPS
in a way that pretty much just affects speed runners yeah uh
the card attack that we keep saying we don't really want to see we'd rather see minigame
over and over not as much the cards that card attack used to have all the
cards that spawn jump in like follow you follow love sword and it was generally
exactly what you wanted because if they're coming towards you, you can reflect them
reliably. The jump to 60 FPS
for some reason made it
unreliable. Sometimes they'll follow Luxord
and thus follow you, other times
they won't, like they just didn't right there.
So you then have to react to which one they do
Which is what-one of the things that makes this fight so much more difficult
In fact newer runners of this game set if you're on PC
Set your FPS to 30.
Just do it every time like for a long time
It'll be way more consistent for you
Yeah and so it's a lot more like reactionary than Nintendo has
To play this fight because
it's going to be different every single time he does
it. Ideally, he just does the mini game
every single time. Other times you're gonna see
tonight, he's getting a little bit hosed
seeing cards over and over and over again that car just knocked him away
did not let him catch luxor so he was able to go underground do his little find me mini game the
other thing about this fight that makes it hard is the terrain like you see if there's a slow
terrain and ideally we don't want luxor to retaliate in the air because that will guarantee
a jump and he'll instantly go underground so again here okay yeah with the ether this should be good on damage
so as spike mentioned a long time ago if you use ars arcana this attack right
here with all the rapid slashes from kh1 and you don't use the very last attack of it that finish command
uh it will not apply revenge value for that entire attack so you get a bunch
of hits without prompting retaliation from the boss.
And the other kind-of nice thing about the death is that Ninten was able to finish in limit form,
so he gets all his drive back here instead of having to build it back.
Yeah just goes to show how difficult the last this entire speed run
is because you get through that entire you know the first two hours of the run and then
you get to the hardest part of the game the boss comment and one death was just running over yeah
minutes lost another cool boss here i know ninton likes
likes to talk about this one so we're gonna quick run here to get
donald in the correct position and not die to that hit right there now we're
going to make sure don doesn't get hit at all because you need them to be alive
for wisdom form and duck there also all, because you need him to be alive for Wisdom Form and Duck Flare.
We'll also preset it, because we have to go into Wisdom Form very quickly here.
Use a magnet to get Retaliation here.
Go into this, and use Aerospire six times for Damage Amplification.
Go into a very quick combo going to wisdom form that's so good expects to get hit there
by the way gets sacks away from that claymore because if he's too
close that duck fill air will split the damage between sykes and the claymore that built up drive
and bill unfortunately donald died so he couldn't go
into his second duck flare there.
It's pretty easy to get out this phase though.
Yeah.
So in this fight, he just does a few attacks,
uses the clay war again.
Now we can potion Donald.
So you can go for the reflect to be safe, potion Donald so now you can use that
duck flare limit again and there
we got finished off the fight.
Yep, that's an unfortunate part of running crit level one is donald can die
very easily and sometimes it's out of your control
yeah like nintendo did pretty much everything he could there to keep
donald at full health for as long
as possible, and then once
Sykes is dashing around, it's like
well, you gotta hope Donald doesn't run into the
path of the Claymore, and that's about all you can do.
If you have enough time,
you can maybe throw a potion
when you see him get lower
but sometimes he's going to
get hit very late.
So we're about to head
up to Xemnas.
He is the final thing
standing between us
and victory.
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Not going for building lists, I'm so disappointed.
So I think Thar, do you want to explain this fight?
Oh yeah, this is our first time fighting Xemnas here and we're gonna
do a cool little cinematic running
up the building. And there's going to be a set of three reaction commands here,
we want to wait till the very last one because that's going to do maximum damage
to Xemnas and put him in position for us to begin the fight.
The name of the game is keep them off this ramp
and those stairs at the bottom there.
So Sword's going to land first, Ninten's gonna jump
and do an air combo on Xemnas
to put him into the middle of the arena away from these stairs where we will
really get messed up with this there and basically do a set of three reflect slot
shot reflect combos in Xemnas here because he's guaranteed to do this attack
when you're standing right next to him. Now as a
missus it should be in his second phase here where he's going to start teleporting around
and give us one of three different attacks, the short attack there is one where
he can summon a shield which nope here's the long
attack this is actually ideal to see right here because it lets us get in
the most amount of damage possible on zimness and
we're going to try to end this fight one long going towards the stairs it's not good
i think you're yeah you're good okay you got him yes very nice
it was like so critical that ninten ended that in Limit Form
once committing to it, because otherwise
would not have any Drive coming out of this fight.
Or would have one Drive gauge I guess
coming out of this fight and you really need Drive
for this next section oh yeah yeah
drive management is so important throughout this entire run there's one thing that can refill your
drive really one item pick up in the entire run and then just doesn't even get it yeah oh we're uh one thing to
mention is that we're only down to one potion now which is all that we need as long as nothing bad
pre-cues riku's pretty much a nurse at this point. Yes, he is.
Keep your party alive.
That's true.
Riku has some potions on him to begin with,
has some ethers because I don't think you took them right?
No, yeah, he's got ethers too.
And then he also has a healing spell, or his healing ability that costs 99 MP not 100 which means he can actually use it twice per MP bar.
Yep so coming through the buildings here we're going here. This is a final boss rush
So if you go in here, you can't return to any area part of your game
We're gonna get through the core here with magnets
Just have to knock everything into the cylinders.
I want Riku to refill my magic after I use 3 magnets because
the 4th magnet will put me in empty recharge. So Riku doesn't usually
do it when he's attacking, but when he's done you should hopefully.
There ya go.
Do the same thing for this cylinder right here.
And then pre-setting his uh menus to places we
want to be for the next fight here one convenient thing about just how any percent happens to round
out is the only magic that you get all three instances
of, it's actually Magnet. So we have
a flaw in Magnega which is big drawing
in all enemies around
you if they exist anywhere. Which is
particularly useful also going into this next fight right here.
Yep so here I'll be falling a little bit
it's pretty precise where I time the
magnet here because I want to do as much damage
as I can through the enemies inside of
it just like this do a thunder to finish
it out in master form then we're going to do a magnet into
another magnet and use more to go for one last time to clear the rest away
here
just like that looks so good back up to 3 drive again so you can summon Genie
Yep, and then we're gonna do some more Genie canceling
This one's harder because they have to swap over the Master Form mid-Genie cancel
They are very precise smacking it right here. Intentional hit
by the way. Yes
Now target swap over to this assassin
use a magnet, move
over closer to the core, do another magnet
Ultima with a magnet shuffle now this trading limit is going to
do damage to the creeper and then it will do damage to the quarter afterwards right here
so good go into valor form as spike mentioned we're doing extra damage in vadaform ninton also
put people being keyblade on valor forms just to help us get over that threshold and now trying
to build back up to three drives so that he can go into valor form
again for another mp refill to not have to throw two ethers because he's
pretty limited on ethers at this point and his fight is pretty hard in sora starts
in valor form gonna have to revert and then go straight into attacking the boss
And then the elixir that we got
earlier is for this fight here
He's going to try to keep Donald alive
use a duck flare
and an elixir right before it so that it lands
right after using the duck flare. That's going to refill his MP bar completely
then he can ideally use another duck flare, get a little bit of extra
reflect damage first.
Thankfully Donald stayed alive, he is literally at 1 HP right now
Armored Zonest I is like...
I cannot express to you how difficult it is
to do that strategy because you have to carry,
continue a combo. Start
a combo and keep it going while
also throwing an Elixir of Deathflare in the middle
of it. Like...that is not something
you do. That is just hard,
you usually would do any of those things in between combos
but you have to do it in the middle of a combo there
This fight's really interesting because we get to do
a thing called finisher canceling where if we use Riku's
attacks in-between our finishers,
it lets us keep our finishing plus. So we can do infinite finishers which is good
because the finishers knock all of the enemies over towards the enemies. It is difficult to
do though cause as you can see I have to claw the controller and hit X and square or circle and X depending on if I have to drain the attacks coming at me or not.
You could also die here very easily. This is a a fight you cannot feel on so it's
it's incredibly dangerous and incredibly heartbreaking when you die in a run
i have lost a few runs of dying in this fight oh no and this is the same principle that
the genie canceling up uh you know operates under where you can do extra horizontal
slashes but with that basically nintendo's just going to be trying to survive defeat each piece of
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Awesome, that takes to the end of this fight
Yeah so one thing to mention is I got hit twice there in sections
That are pretty luck based if you get hit or not, which is fine because we can tank them.
But now going into this fight, we keep our health so I'm gonna hope Riku can throw a potion
Ideally he might use his magic because we can do some cool stuff with it.
He did use the magic though which is fine.
I would have to take a little bit of this lower first phase here.
That blade one shots so he cannot get hit by that. And barrier almost one shot.
I mean definitely the blade is multiple hitboxes but...
True. Nothingness is eternal.
So this is a three-phase fight effectively? Used to actually be four phases
back in the
PS2KH2 English days, yeah. Did it-G-K-H, two English phase.
Did it?
Yeah, I did it.
It was.
They combined the first two.
That's why you do so much damage in the first phase here because now here for
the other two phases, it is just going to be a bar and a half apiece.
And again, love that usage of Combo Master there reflecting that Lance attack
and then dragging it with the Slide Dash to where the splash damage from the reflect also hits.
Yeah, because Combo Master allows you to continue a combo
even if your attacks do not connect with the enemy
whereas normally you need to connect those attacks
Nintin went for something here called what we call fast building,
when you just saw a sword tweaking all over the screen there
that was ninten spamming the aerial dodge
as much height as possible
You actually get all of your growth abilities all the ones you would
get from the drive forms in this fight whether you've unlocked them or not so that's why he's
gliding it's how he's using aerial dodge and he could even dodge roll if he wanted to but gonna
try to make sure that he's at full MP at the end of this fight
or at least close to it
And
that should be good, so
Alright, heading into the final fight here
This actually has one of the coolest strats in the game.
We call it Dancing with a Devil,
because we're going to be using reaction commands
and staying on the ground when you are supposed
to be flying up in the air during this sequence.
And I'll be using well-timed reflex
and well-timed combo to get extra damage in.
Right here is the difficult combo, Reflect finisher, use Re so Gantoo another reflex.
And only some Xemnas's there is like him and a clone
Only one of them takes damage
So knowing exactly when to do each reflex that it lands its damage on the one that
can actually take it nice and what we're looking for here is trying to get him basically right above four bars
of health.
Because once he...
Good Audible!
Golly.
So I know how to recover this, it's fine. we're gonna wait for him to appear right
next to us which would take a little bit here
ours are canada interrupted an attack that some of this generally would do there now we're gonna go back to
doing dancing with the devil here when that health bar gets just under one
about like 80% of 1 bar left the game's over
and that's it that should be very nice
oh you don't have enough drive for the
swag on a corner or something.
Basically at the end of the run there's a minute and half here then time is when I hit finals
So I want to take this time to give a huge
shout-out to the KH community.
A big shout-out to my couch, Spike
Hobbs and Thar C1.
Shout-outs to my girlfriend
Haru
for And shout-outs to my girlfriend, Haru.
And for anyone wanting to learn this run, it would be really
awesome if we got new runners.
So head over to speedrun.com and go to the resources or guides tab.
I actually made a Google document that has
a list of everything you need to get started.
I think this is the best time to get into
the game because of Gummi Skip.
It makes the run so much better
paced for new
runners, and
I think that's
probably about it.
Anything you guys
want to say?
Thanks for letting
us do this again.
I always love
commentating on
this game.
It's so impressive to watch you play it, and big shout-outs to all of the
people who helped push this further, like Ninten,
InsertLogic, VGMaster, so many
people, too many names.
I just want to give a special shout out to all the modders
out there, Denonator, SonicShadowSilver
for basically making
the Gummy Skip mod and all the other mods
practicing and running this game
a lot more accessible.
If you want to watch more Kingdom Hearts content, I game a lot more accessible. And if you want to watch
more Kingdom Hearts content, I do a lot of it on
twitch.tv slash n10
So ending right here
Aaaaand
Ta-da! Woooo And... Time!
Pretty happy with that, it was a good run.
I'm glad to be able to show off. Thank you so much
DQ for having me and I'll hand it over.
See y'all next time!
Hello everybody my name is Bloodthunder. You can call me BT for short and I've been around a little bit most people knew me from games like Bioshock but this time GDQ Committee said hey you run Bioshock enough. Run another Shock game so here we are.
The System Shock remake which is the remake to the original System Shock. Funny how that works.
That came out in 1994 just about 30 years old which is pretty crazy to think about.
That was originally made by Looking Glass Studios, shoutouts to them!
This was remade by Nightdive, shoutout to them as well. I had a dev
reach out and said they might be watching so if they are, hello sorry for what
i'm about to do! And this is a little bit of a special run for me just because this game's awesome
but this also happens to be not only my 25th GDQ run, which is just amazing
when you think about how far we've come.
But the GDQ committee was also nice enough
to schedule this run to be on my 31st birthday
so thank you for that present.
Let's go, happy birthday!
Thank you.
I'll forgive everybody for not giving me a present
if you just donate to GDQ
because this is an immersive sim game
If you want to do $4 and 51 cents,
get the little train going it'd be pretty cool.
Anyways we're gonna get into this
We have a lot to go through
which is why I don't have a couch
cause I'm just gonna be talking straight
to you guys for about the next 35-40 minutes.
We'll have some time for donations, but yeah.
We're gonna set the difficulty all 1s.
Some of this stuff we're not even going to see honestly.
This game is pretty cool. You can customize it
how you like.
If you like more combat or puzzles...
We're not going to see puzzles just so you know.
Once we skip this cutscene the run will start.
So in 3, 2, 1...
Here we go.
Okay so we're going to do a couple of stuff and then talk about the story
And have some fun. So we are interacting with a whole bunch of stuff so this laptop becomes interactable
with sooner and we wake up in the year 2072, we will be hacking into this computer looking
for sources on the Citadel station owned by the Trioptimum company.
More importantly, we are looking for the Neuralink implant but some people may be on to us.
So they're going to come down and break in
and take me up through their station, which is what we kind of want
And we'll be meeting a man named Edward Diego
We're gonna meet him at the cutscene, we're gonna skip this one, I'm going all of us now.
And he's going to offer us the implant that we are looking for.
When when? Once again real quick
we're going to show what we do to authorities
when they show up like this.
We're going to skip another cutscene here, and the deal Edward Diego
gives us is hey we will give you this implant if you hack into our station's AI
and remove its ethical constraints
which sounds like a wonderful plan.
If you've heard of the character Shodan before
that is the AI controlling the spaceship
which we are about to wake up on six months after getting that implant.
Which is what's going on here and we're gonna be actually playing a game.
Here we go! We're gonna collect a whole bunch of stuff that
we will talk about down the line, but we are at the bottom
of the space station and how this run is going to work is
we'll try to make our way up each floor.
Okay, we need to grab a couple of these things. We're interrupting some animations by picking them
up in a certain order. And we have our lit pipe! We can take out Alpha
5 from the Power Rangers.
Get him out of here, like so.
We'll talk about all these little patches in just a moment
but we need to put in our handy dandy 451 code.
If you've ever seen this in gaming it is very popular
and originated in System Shock
So fun little trivia fact for you there It originated in system shock.
Fun little trivia fact for you there.
Anyways, this is the...
We're going to check that body
for some extra stuff.
We do have a pretty large inventory.
You are supposed to collect
a lot of stuff, there's a whole
currency and recycling.
We're not going to do any of that.
We actually need very few items to beat this game.
So we'll take these guys out, collect a little bit more.
And like a lot of old school games, this one has a lot
Of secret walls. We're going to open the panel and get
A frag grenade and we'll get two more medpacks over here
And one thing that didn't pick up is a display that's usually in the top left
that shows your stamina or fatigue as games, so if we're running too much or
we swing our melee weapons it's going to slow us down and you can see our health in the top right
is long with
energy underneath it, that was a little scary.
We do want to actually take a death here
in a second but we don't want to die quite yet.
I'm going to pick up our first gun
this is the spark beam
and yeah, we're about to start breaking games so This is the spark beam.
We are about to start breaking games.
The biggest thing we have to break this game
is a save load in position where we cannot stand up
and when we load back in it will force us
to stand up getting us out of bounds.
This part and all the other ones are going to be pretty weird
because not all the textures there so we're going to look at
the mini map in the bottom left to navigate.
We are going to do a quick save,
click load and we're also going
to talk about what these are
just a little bit but I'll talk about it now.
Then we can talk about the next thing, so...
We need to shoot these computer banks
through the ceiling and make sure we're all destroyed Alright, we are going to run out of bounds once again
We need to get back inbounds now
Which is much easier to do later on
What we need to go activate
Is the respawn system that this game has.
If you've played
Bioshock, it's like the Vita Chamber, which
Bioshock is a successful successor to this game.
So this is a restoration
bay where it was supposed to be a restoration bay, or it was supposed to be a restoration
bay. Which once Shuren had
its ethical constraints removed and took
control of the ship turned into a cyborg
conversion. So if we die now
we become a cyborg. Flip the switch which will turn it back
It's always fun to see
into a restoration bay and so now we can use this anytime we die
we warp back here with all of our stuff.
And it's our way to get back in bounds.
Later on I'm going to be using these to cut out some backtracking
to become very handy.
Now we can talk about the spark beam.
So you can see that it's glowing right now,
It has three different modes
so you can set it to low like that
medium and overcharge
I think its actually high instead of medium
but you can say green little strip on the back
of a gun, low will take
a little bit off
and do a little damage, high does more
And then overcharge we'll use
remaining bits of that green bar and do appropriate damage based on that so it can do a lot of damage really, really quickly.
But it uses a ton of energy so you don't want to use it too much.
Going to just run through here, try not to die.
Activate another restoration base.
The most recent one you've activated is the one that
you will teleport back to so the ones right there.
Now we can start talking about all of the things
that we picked up before. The three patches, we have
Stamina which will give us 70 seconds of infinite stamina and
A little bit of health back. I'm not sure why it gives
Health but it is kind of nice.
We also have Medpacks which is standard.
You get one third of your Health back over the course
of 20 seconds or so.
We'll look at supplies and the last thing we have
is Berserk which will is going to give you 100%
damage increase for melee weapons as well as a 50% increased melee swing speed
so it becomes really nice later on. Once again
we don't want to die here necessarily but we don't want to die here necessarily.
But we don't want to use too many resources
and we're just collecting some keycards that are going to open up a ton of doors
This game is not necessarily open world but it does open up a ton of doors.
This game is not necessarily open world, but it does require you to backtrack a lot and open up different areas
kind of in the way that a Metroidvania would
We're going to get a couple more frag grenades and an actual pistol.
Which is kind of nice.
Mind if I sneak in here real quick?
Go!
Uh, I do not know when this needs to happen so I want to make sure we get it right away.
We've got $100 from from kona recon that says had to donate for one of the
best games and remakes i've played in recent years
recently streamed this remake alongside my mom who was streaming the original.
She's not able to make a donation, so this donation is on her behalf.
Wanted to make the donation amount meaningful
So here's the rough number of saves from both of our playthroughs
Also I'll donate an additional $25
if the runner purchases the grenade
on the executive level from the
Snackutron. That's not gonna happen.
Unless they want to give me another hour or so on the game.
I don't think we can make that one happen.
We're going to run through here, which is usually...
It has radiation in it and you are going to take a little bit of damage.
It's not too much, that as why we're just tanking it
you're supposed to get what's known as the environmental protection pack
We're just going to run around that guy
So a little bit about what's going on in the story because we've definitely been touching on that
uh so shodan has taken over the ship and is now kind of considering itself a god and wants to
destroy earth surprise surprise it wants to shoot a laser drill down at the planet
and our first quest here is to stop that laser actually destroy it by
like closing the shields on the ship and then when the laser fires it blows itself up
And here in this little secret wall,
we're going to get a logic probe
which is gonna skip one puzzle for us.
We used to get a couple more
but with some route changes
we only need the one.
So you'll be overcharging these laser firsts
they are very deadly.
Not too many enemies pose a big threat in this run which is nice
the bosses can but we'll get through those in a little bit
These little rumbas honestly are probably the scariest things
They are very quick and will blow up
and do a lot of damage. So we pick this isotope up
plug it in here and now you need to try to survive a little bit higher radiation than
just before. a couple of robots...
Let me do that quick sneak, yeah this guy's
a little bit in the way.
So elevators in this game are like these gravity shafts, you can turn them on and off.
There's an EMP green here...
Once again we want to do a death death warp so go back to that restoration bay
that we just passed.
We don't really need to worry about health but I do need to get this done
before I die.
Flip the switch and should be good to go there.
So we're going to go back up top cut out a whole lot of backtracking
get rid of the elevator
And we can blow off the drill
This is a great time for some donations if you got them?
Absolutely, we have an unreal
amount of love for your birthday
We've got $50
from Zareum that says happy birthday
Bloodthunder! Always a pleasure to see you on the GDQ
stage. Try not to break the game too bad.
I'll try...
We've got $25
from Chiffon Cake that says, Happy
Birthday Blood Thunder! Thank you. Your runs are always my
favorite of the marathon. Good luck and thanks
to everyone that makes GDQ possible.
Time for one or two more?
You got it. Alright we got $54 from Hermanator.
It says happy 31st birthday BT and congratulations on the 23 run
as well as $35.51 from Cindy, happy birthday Blood Thunder!
A dollar for each year plus $4.51 for the immersive sim.
I love all of your runs. Greetings from Germany."
Thank you. So now we've blown up the laser,
We're moving on to the next quest which takes place in maintenance
An executive... Which is the scariest part of the run
We'll just take out these cameras. So we go back
to the first level where I destroyed those computer banks out-of-bounds
Every level in this game has a security
level which like blocks doors and the more stuff you deal with
and lower that level,
the more you gain access to.
So those cameras I was just shooting
do a little bit each
of couple percentage points
And computer banks that we destroyed
in the medical facility
actually are the bulk up
of that.
So, that's why we need to clear those out for the medical day.
Got that enemy right there.
Hey, you mind if I sneak in with something important?
Go.
We have $451 from Justin Kahn that says,
Hey Blood Thunder, Justin Kahn, producer of System Shock here.
Absolutely love seeing the game we poured our heart into ran at such an important event.
So cool to see all the different ways the community has cracked our game wide open.
Best of luck during the run, and thank you so much for showcasing your amazing skills. Much love from the dev team.
No, thank you Justin he's the one that reached out a little bit before saying
they'd watch so that's awesome. All right so I had to reload there because I just actually couldn't survive.
Tend to destroy that with a grenade but sometimes it slips by when shooting
a couple more cameras.
This is my good. So we need a lower than 80% threshold to open this door, and
this is going to allow us to activate another restoration bay and grab
the med kit. And now we are headed up to the flight deck, which is going to give us one of
the most useful items in game. Another one that we just got is this laser sword
it is stupidly powerful and it's going to be our main source of damage for the
rest of the run.
We need to do a little bit of a jump, so we're gonna set up by killing a guard.
Let's jump across.
First try... don't want to loot his body!
So there is a small out of bounds you can do here, but this mech kind of gets in the way
You can't quick save if an enemy is locked on to you
And it's not super marathon friendly, so we're not gonna do it
It's gonna run down the hallway which gives us time to show off this incredible sword
Unfortunately don't get the laser sword
from the executive branch
which gets tied to the color of your UI
which you can change and is really cool.
The one we pick up there
is just blue.
Just going to cut these guys in half, and never stood a chance.
So one thing that we were supposed to pick up
a long time ago but we didn't because it's out of the way.
It is a turbo motion boots version one which gives you an
increased movement speed and can use mice physics as well at
expense using energy.
These are the turbo Motion Boots version 2,
which does the same thing but it adds a hover mechanic
so we can get some height off of it
and we can just kind of jump over large gaps
and is extremely useful for what we're about to do.
The game's been, I'd say kind of like a
standard speedrun up until this point,
but in this level
and the next one, Executive,
is where things are about to get really crazy. So bear with me at any point
I don't explain something enough or you have questions feel free to ask me after the run
We're gonna kill more of these little mutant pods
Use this energy charge to give our energy back and can kind of see me hovering here.
Just to show off.
When you grab one of these, what are they called?
Interface the modulator.
That's a fancy word right there.
So we're going to make a save, it is not a safety
Save but an important one as you will see in a second
So you can kind of see the ISO getting applied
We are going to get out of bounds.
Some things are a little bit weird.
Now we'll use the turbo motion boots to hover over
The void so there is no collision underneath me.
Using the map to land perfectly, quick save click load
So we get our textures back and now we're going to hover
Over the void, lean in enough
To grab this and place it.
So that should be fine. We'll reload that save
Which most people would say well you
just lose all of the progression that you just did.
And normally you'd be correct.
However with quests like that where you are are physically interacting with the prompt, if you reload during a specific time window
You're actually going to keep that progression. Everything else gets reset so you get to keep your items.
You run the save.
So you can kind of save some items that way
but you got to keep the quest progression.
If you reload that save twice in a row
you lose it though
so you have to be a little bit careful
and executive we're going to abuse this
the backtrack so much there's three different branches
The alpha Delta and beta grows
which we're going to alpha right now And we have to take these long train rides.
So instead of taking it six times
you're gonna take it three.
Coming up is probably the hardest
out-of-bounds to do. It requires a very
precise flight over the void.
This one's saying we're just doing quick saves, quick loads when we are in a crouch position
up against something.
So when you stand back up on the quick load it It puts us through the ceiling,
trying to land on a very small invisible platform out here
which is lovely. So we've got a lot of speed
Cut these corners very closely.
Not done yet. Executive is the scary part
of the entire run.
There's a chance we get to the end and we don't have one of the quest progressions we need to keep, so I'm trying to load in
the room here... too far.
Okay. too far.
So for these I need to make sure that I can still see my weapon on the screen
when I go to load
so we're going to go back, keep that activated.
And now I need to do it two more times.
We'll go off the delta groove which is pretty easy and then
The beta one's a little bit scary, and then the real fun begins. So this
is just a very easy way to showcase the stuff we can do with save loading, it gets a little bit more crazy in a second.
But as you may notice Edward Dago is going through this speech over and over again
because we're reloading that save.
He gets really good at doing his commentary
he's practiced his commentary more than I have
for this run at this point
he just loves this line over and over and over again
So yeah, I can use the the berserk pack here i have two
so i don't really want to use them when i don't have to but because we get these items back
because we're just going to reload the game you can kind of just
use them freely so you can skip all of delta by just doing some nice
hubbers and we're going to go up and over instead of running through everything technology and biology together
posting digital perfection.
So what comes on screen, we should be good to go there
so there's about 3 or four things that I need to be completed before I can complete the final part of executives.
And if any of those were done incorrectly, we're going to have a problem, but
we're going to take a little bit of a safe route here
because we have the turbo motion boots
and we can hover anywhere. We can actually go
underneath the map and
click back in from the floor if you wanted to but that is not marathon safe at all
it's kind of weird set up so we're going to grab this key card which is going to make
our life a little bit easier out of bounds once again, surprise surprise
do some more hovers over the void
looking for the room that has the cameras in it, which is denoted by the orange circles.
I don't think I had enough speed there...
So the movement speed is actually, you have a little bit of acceleration so if
you just jump right away. You don't actually have a lot of speed.
So you've got to kind of sprint and then jump. That looks a lot better.
Mind if I cut in with something small while you're setting this up?
Yes, one quick one.
We've got $25 from ThorCat that says happy birthday Blood Thunder!
It's so weird that my mom just called me Blood Thunder
But thank you so much, my mom is awesome always supports
I've done 25 of these
and she's watched every single one.
But this is where things are going to get
a little bit more complex.
Sorry if it's hard to follow.
We're about to create two separate timelines.
Think of it as... This is the out-of-bounds timeline We are about to create two separate timelines.
This is the out of bounds timeline, we will use that key card we had back in bounds and
now get into the beta growth.
I'm going to make another save here, which is going to be inbound timeline
So the Beta Growth's a little bit scary because it has the highest radiation.
I think its actually classified as something else, but just to kind of sum up
The quest line that we're on right now. Shodan's like oh you destroyed
My mining laser whoopop-dee-doo
I have this virus that I'm gonna unleash upon Earth now
Which is actually a call back to the beginning of the game when he meet up with Edward Diego because at was his intention
It was to take that
Virus and sell it off as a biological weapon so now she's kind of getting Edward Dago out the way, she said I'm gonna do
that for myself. So Just gonna run through here in front of the
Dun. Alright, we're going to load the out of bounds timeline.
Another big hover over the void.
Looking for the very big room, so not all of these
rooms are flat surfaces either, so when you're on top of them, you have to kind of know how they're
laid out.
I'm just going to have to trust my mind,
I can't give you visual.
Save loads so we can see this room
and if the switch is able to be pulled
we've done things correctly
but we are not done yet.
It's just the next step.
OK.
Quick save there.
So you can pull the switch.
That's good.
We need to reload it in the end bounce timeline now.
Run up these steps and we can hit this
switch, and as soon as you break the glass, we're going to reload
that quicksave we just made
Leap through the wall, pull this control. We don't actually need this now for quest progression we can leave executive, we've done things correctly but it gets us back in bounds so
that's a weight off my shoulders, that's the only thing
that can really cost us a lot of time
and once we get started
that's kind of hard to follow but
we're doing a quick save, quick load
to get rid of this dialogue And And from here, now that we've
gone through that quest, the levels become
a lot more simple.
We just need to get through that one level.
We're not going between different floors.
Even though the quest typically kind of sends you all over
the ship which is a cool thing casually. You get to re-explore areas and see
different parts of it but we're not going to do any of that because it takes too long. We are going to grab the
Turbo Motion Boots Version 3.
Yep, we have a version and all the upgrade does here is allows us
to hover up higher so it becomes very handy in the next level.
Now we are going to get to the end of this map.
We're gonna take out a couple enemies because you can't, it's quicksave.
And there are enemies nearby.
Sometimes when one enemy is alive is going to stand there.
It's hard to know if they're actually dead...
Okay, we're gonna take out this camera.
We're going to try and do a clip up through this part of the ceiling.
So the one puzzle that we are going to see is this one here.
We're not actually gonna do it, but just going into it will pull us back
into the map so you can use that to drop back and bounds very handy
Very nice. And we are off to
The next level.
There's nothing really gating progression here.
What's typically supposed to gate progression is up and security.
There's going to be a locked door that says,
hey, until you actually go and do some other stuff
to show these radio antennas.
I kind of forget the nitty gritty details,
it's just gonna stay locked so that we can go out-of-bounds
so it's not going to matter
then we need to climb up a big out-of-bound section
so while I'm doing this, you can read a couple of
donations.
Absolutely, we
can do that. We've got a ton of love coming
in from your community for the
birthday. We've got $25 from sweetola that says happy birthday bt we've got 54
and 51 cents from strabo it says i've been watching gdq and bt since his Wolfenstein runs in 2016.
Eight years later, we're still watching!
Thanks for all the years of entertainment
and support for the charities
And happy birthday, BT!
So here we are going to do an out-of-bounds Happy birthday, BT. Thank you so much.
So here we're going to do an out of bounds or a clip back in
through this floor.
It's over the woods and scary.
As you can see, this room is very tall.
You are supposed to go up these slides and deal with enemies. We're just going to go up the middle
using Turbo Motion Boots in this hover. And we're coming up on our first boss fight
you're supposed to see one back an executive but we skipped over it
So I'm gonna pop a Berserk back as we are flying over here.
We will not hit these things, they take my energy away.
We will pop an energy battery pack and recharge it a little bit.
Prep EMP and spawn in Edward Dago.
He's been turned into a cyborg,
and he has got his shield so we are going to throw an EMP at him
and miss it.
See if I can work my throws a little bit more...
His rockets are actually kind of deadly So we don't want to take too many hits.
Well if you get stunned and with Berserk and the laser sword
We can just wail on him
He's dead, we got his key card and we're good to go.
Now hopefully you've been paying attention to the story because
I hope you can guess what happens next.
While this little cutscene goes on, we get to spread all of your music
You can now read a couple donations
I would be happy to
We've got $100 from Echo025 that says,
Happy Birthday Blood Thunder!
Donation goes to Elder Scrolls Bonus Run.
And just a reminder,
That bonus run for the Elder Scrolls 3 Morrowind
is right under 50%,
so we need just over 10,000 more dollars to get that
bonus any percent run met. I think we can absolutely
do it within the next couple of runs.
I think we've got this, just make sure when you make that donation
you scroll to the bottom of the page and click on add incentive
so that you get every dollar of your money's worth
and get to watch more Elder Scrolls.
All right, so this is kind of the final level of the game.
We do have cyberspace after this
which is something we've not talked about
because we've also not seen it
but there's this whole cyberspace mechanic
to the game which is kind of cool, a little happy we get to skip it and actually reload
that so you can see the next part. What we're trying to do is climb up high enough
so that we can hit a teleporter from underneath,
and it's going to warp us straight up into
the next boss.
There's not a lot of ground here to stand on, so quick save click load
so we can see the textures again.
Now I need to land on a very small piece
collision right here
pop our berserk.
Work through the teleporter, prep an EMP
and we don't want to hit
the key card control panel on the left there or on the right
We just wanna hit the boss which is a Cortex Reaver
It gets stunned once again with Berserk and
Laser Sword. Just makes real quick work of this
That boss is down, into cyberspace we go. Now unfortunately
we do have to down patch this game because the Quicksilver Quickload To Get Out Of Bounds
method was patched unfortunately it kind of makes sense.
I get it.
But what that means for us is if you've played this game
in the last four months or so,
I think it was a little patch,
this part's been completely reworked.
It has completely changed.
It's a little bit similar in design, but I actually get through it.
It's completely different.
For the better on the down patch version
it's not super interesting, I'm gonna be honest
A little bit of an auto-scroller here and then we're going to go through
three different platforms where we need to do
3 cycles of shooting
crystal in the middle 6 times uh trying to dodge enemies if we die we just respawn
on the platform so a little bit of time loss and then it means are random so i can happen
more than likely that will take at least a death.
But that's about all that's going on here, so I'm just gonna throw it away to donations
We got a lot of love, and we're gonna need them
Well funny enough, we do have some love if you can
call it that from
Shodan who donates
$25 and says
look at you
hacker a pathetic
creature of meat
and bone panting
and sweating as you run through my corridors.
How can you challenge a perfect
immortal machine? That's an
exceptional question, Shodan. Thank you for
supporting Doctors Without Borders
even if it raises some questions about why
you support us.
We've got $50
from Six Samurai that says, hey BT
myself, Thor and the rest of
the community want to wish you the happiest of happy birthdays.
Here are 50 cabbages in honor of your special day.
Thank you.
Also got $40.51 from Gulch2 that says had to donate during BT's run. GL and happy birthday!
Thank you, it was awesome meeting you Gulch.
We've also got $451 from Shane which says stayed up to watch this run
with BT.
That's crazy. Thank you. Also
$45.10 for MrZackGuy.
It's always enjoyable
seeing BT run Bioshock and it's even better catching the System Shock run in person.
Happy birthday, BT!
$50 from Maxi?
Happy Birthday, BT, from all of us on the crowd couch you are truly one of the best to do it and
i as well as all the homies here are happy to get to call you our friend much love we've got 50 love.
We've got $50 from Cream of Leet, it's a really good username
that says I was told to donate
as someone's birthday wish so here
I am GL and happy birthday to Blood Thunder.
Put this toward adopt the puppies. I don't see any kitties out here speed
running. $45.10 from
Anonymous that just says happy birthday BT.
As well as a five dollar birthday train,
That includes five dollars from Zix Water saying five dollar happy birthday train let's go!
And five dollars for MartinScores8
Oh it's martinscoreseasy
like Martin Scorsese. Y'all have really funny usernames
which also says happy birthday
BT. Thank you.
So one platform down, we have two more to go. You've got plenty of time for
donations. Well good news! We've got plenty of them. People are very
happy that it's your birthday, like this $14.50
from Mar and Gak
that says, Happy Birthday!
Thank you. $10 for Mr. Cellophane
that says, Look at you, Hacker
a pathetic creature of meat and bone.
Panting and sweating as you run through my corridors.
How can you challenge a perfect immortal machine?
Is that his line?
It might be.
He's got $50 coming in from Piccolo113 that says,
Happy Birthday Blood Thunder!
As well as $20 from Anonymous
that says,
Happy birthday BT!
Thanks for sharing all your shop game knowledge with us.
This part's a little bit scary because of that orange enemy right there
but that's two platform down, one more to go and then time will come up once we're
done with that.
More time for donations.
Alright, we've got $10 from Georgie
says happy birthday BT
I first saw Blood Thunder on a GDq event many moons ago and have been a fan
ever since as someone who spends a lot of time alone having your company in my home while you
stream has been a real gift on some rough days. Thanks for being you, and thanks to GDQ
for being such an amazing organization.
The work you do not only
for Doctors Without Borders but every other
charity you support is nothing short of
incredible. Love from Australia."
I gotta agree,
I've spent a little time lurking in
BT chat since finding out
I was hosting this run and it's just good times
and good vibes and a nice place to hang.
If you like FPS or horror games
I stream
a lot of the time! Come check them out
I think we may have finished.
We just need to get this platform...
You die a lot here in runs.
We actually hit it in the death such pretty awesome!
So time will be coming up here
in just a second.
That's time. Here is Shodan being reverted back.
We actually get a quick glimpse at the character,
just a second here...
but quick shout-, once again to Looking Last View
as the original creators of System Shock and Night Dive.
Thank you so much for watching
and donating and remaking this game.
It's been awesome.
Shout out to the community,
not a very active community these days
but hey if you're looking to get into
this run you can always join
the Discord and ask
just go to speedrun.com
look for the System Shock remake
you can find discord link from there
If you want to learn this run, I do have a tutorial up on YouTube from late last year. It's out of date but just a couple things that you can learn and watch through this
they're not too hard to pick up or you can just uh ask me some questions
shout outs to the entire GDQ staff and put on these events you know i've been coming
with you since AGTQ 2014. in fact that we raised 50 million dollars over the
lifetime is just absolutely insane I've met so many friends through all of
these filming on the back couch and stuff. It makes it awesome just to be here,
and to be able to do this on my birthday has been a complete blast.
I'm very fortunate that
this is the hobby
that I picked up.
So thank you guys for having me,
this has been System Shock like I said
if you have any questions feel free to reach out about it
but I hope you enjoyed and shout out
to the immersiveersive Sim fans
out there as well.
Thank you so much Blood Thunder
and congratulations.
All right yeah,
So we're about to go through four whole video games here.
We are going to go through Tony Hawk 1-4 with me I've got Big Law back on the couch.
Hello hello! And well with no further ado let's get started
So we're for Tony Hawk
one. We're running 100%,
so time starts once we select Rune Glyfberg in
3...2....1.....GO!
Alright, so starting out out we've got warehouse um these games tend to start out with uh
very frantic tiny levels.
It's a bit of panic every time.
To start out with, this is Tony Hawk
We've got tricks that we're doing.
It's basically,
we're doing Mario 64
but on a skateboard
is the most succinct way
of explaining
what is going on.
You'll see me doing a trick called
the Christ Era Bunch, it gives us a lot
of points and also a big speed boost when
we land, so naturally we want
to do it a lot.
Also, a big thing that is going to be through the rest of these games
We have turned this setting that very few people know of called Auto Kick.
We've turned it off, so typically in a Tony Hawk game
you just move forward on your own
but now we must press the flip trick button to move forward
which in this game they hadn't completely figured it out and
it is very scary as a result because if we leave the ground at any time and we are holding
a flip the flip trick button in any direction,
we're just going to attempt a flip trick.
And it usually means you're going to bail. So look forward
to that happening at least once
in this run. It's almost guaranteed.
In addition, I should note that we are running this on Nintendo 64. We have chosen that because it is just the version of the game with the shortest loading times.
There was never a PC release
of this game, so
yeah, we are on N64
which sadly
doesn't have the best
input processing compared to like PlayStation and Dreamcast.
Like you can't buffer things the way you can in other games or other versions of the game, which
is a little scary for this
game.
So now we're
in the mall here. We're about to go for a really
interesting little jump if we can make it and nice yeah so jumping up
to that light there is often very difficult um you have to get this really weird angle and launch yourself up there, make the grind
Get the secret tape. Yeah. Which I'm realizing we've not had the time yet to explain what we're doing in each level.
Yeah, so each level will have its own set of goals.
Except for the competition levels which Partyman has just entered,
just reaching a score
threshold in order to achieve the uh the gold for each level that is necessary for
the 100 category in this game. Ideally, you don't
want to have a competition where you have a bail
as it will give you reduced points
and PartyManage is trying to clutch out
some good score here with
the Cry chair.
Yeah, I'm making a mess of this one. Oops.
We're just going to skip to 30th.
It's a best-of-three, so
we don't have to worry about that second
point it didn't happen yeah so
uh also um at the end of every heat i'm making sure to do a fast plant because
this game makes you wait as um it would count down the score we have also uh turned off the trick string just to hopefully
cut out some lag this level downtown minneapolis shout outs for here it starts out with a very scary Shout out. It starts
with a very scary jump onto the top of that roof
I managed to make it
but not grab the secret tape which isn't
the best, but hey
we can do a backup to grab that and then
do the rest of what we call task route.
And there we go. I got an auto-kick
bail. That was some RNG manipulation
right there.
We make sure that we don't get hit by another taxi.
So this is what we call TaskRoute, of course when you fail it
It's not quite as fast but its very fun to show off like grabbing that T through the floor
Of what were going gonna call the skyway so
something interesting about this level is yeah it's downtown Minneapolis it
looks exactly as if you were to go outside right now
no it doesn't it's just a very generic city
that they kind of made and then
applied the location to afterward
but
yeah, so this kind of resembles Government Plaza but not really. It doesn't have the iconic rainbow ledges that people know it for.
We are very short on score because we keep bailing, so
I need to throw in a few special tricks... there we go
and now we are onto Tony Hawk's favorite level, Downhill Jam.
No one else's favorite level.
Yeah, historically known as Run KillillJam in the TSPSRuns community.
There's some pretty wicked jumps that we're going to be seeing
in this level from Partyman so let's see if he can pull them off.
Yeah I'm going to be very safe here.
We managed to get that little grind.
I love that grind so much.
It is so nice to get it and then
So here we need to get the secret tape which is past this kind of weird platforming
gauntlet you can jump directly from that first platform to it but but I am too scared.
So we just went the long way around. It's
doable and then we need
to jump up and get this T
and then we have another weird hard jump up here, classic.
So now we need to build up our speed again so we can jump up there
to that railing where the e is um this is kind of notable
so of course this game got a remake in 2020 that moved the e down because apparently they also decided it was too hard
and now we're on to burnside our second competition and uh I think we finally explained this game,
so if you have a donation or anything go ahead.
Oh, you bet we do!
We have the donation we all knew was coming.
$25 from Remiget that says We have the donation we all knew was coming.
$25 from Remiget that says,
So here I am doing everything I can
Hold it on to what I am
Pretending I'm a Superman.
Ooh! Alright.
Alright. Got some lungs on this
house. Thanks the nine years I was
in a ska band for
that.
Oops, I was thinking I was going to land on the downslope
I didn't so I need to get a little bit more
score because my second heat wasn't too or
my first seat wasn't too hot i'm really getting some bad jumps here so uh one second um yeah so it One second.
Yeah, so interestingly about that song
something... Ooh! That's not good.
For 100% we need to get all gold so
we're going to retry that, that's
unfortunate. I bailed so much that they
rated me down. Yeah maybe another quick donation?
I would be happy to! We've got $25 from
Magmaran that says, gotta donate during the Tony Hawk run
I spent way too much time back in the day playing the N64 versions of the first three games, cut down music tracks and all.
And I think you speak for a whole lot of us with that.
Yes! Yeah, um... That's the interesting thing about the N64 lot of us with that. Yes, yeah
That's the interesting thing about the N64
version is that it's kind of
seemingly prolific enough
like I have a
theory that everyone loves Superman because it was the first song
that would play in this version of the game whereas New Girl
was the one in every other version of the game.
Something few people know, and few people want
to know.
Yeah, I mean, Nugent's a good song.
It is! But it's not Superman.
Alright, so now we're destroying some cop cars in San Francisco. We're just going bonkers here and we're about to come up on maybe the scariest jump of this whole game because as I had mentioned before
auto-kick off makes you sometimes do flip tricks
you don't want to do. So once we get to the top
of this launch track we wanna slow down a little bit.
And...
Nice! Good!
So I tried to do a Christ air there
The controls for that is left, right then the grab button
and then as I had said about the input processing of this game if you press any
of those buttons before you've left the ground, it just won't do it.
So yeah often I kind of do that to myself.
We can recover here as we're getting the rest of the collectibles in this
our target score is 50 000. easy there we go.
And uh, we will be coming up on the last level of Pro Skater
after this can be Roswell. Yes!
That's another contest level to end out the game. This one is very quick, we just want to do a quick two Benihana's, Christ Air with a spin,
then our fast plant to end and we do it all over again.
So if we have a donation might as well do it.
We've got $20 from the crowd If we have a donation, might as well do it.
We've got $20 from MarsIsPan that says $5 for every game Party Man has made playable!
Good luck, Partymaster, from the Tony Garden.
Thank you Mars! So that is Tony Hawk 1
let's just make sure... yep there's all 30 so now we're going to switch
to the second game.
So yeah, as Mars had alluded to, we are running the rest of these on PC so we we're just going to start out right here.
We're choosing Rodney Mullen for this
game, he's got
good stats,
this game has a lot more goals in it
each level now has 10 goals and we must pick up all of the cash icons
uh throughout each level um so yeah there's a lot more meat on the bones of this game.
But anyway so this game is on PC and if you're familiar with
the PC version of this game
You'll know that graphically it's a little
kind of washed out.
It doesn't look like the
PS1 version of the game but
just I think
a month ago or so i released
a patch for this game that among other things replaces the
renderer for this game to run
so it looks like the ps1 game. And yeah, the rest of the games also I've made the controller support much better so controllers work
That's what the rest of these games are being run off of.
Yeah. No more joy to keep for us.
Yes! So here we have to upgrade our stats. In the previous game
it would upgrade your stats for you.
In this game, you have to manually upgrade your stats so that you can choose what
you want. We chose Oli and Speed
We need to restart that because we didn't get the gap we needed.
That'll happen sometimes. You'll
start that grind a bit too low on this
rail and won't
get the gap. There it is.
And now we need to grab this, I missed the grind
I wanted but hey can't win them all
Salute! And then coming up here I'm gonna need
like a little serious time um we'm going to need a little serious time.
We're going to need a sound cue coming up here.
There it is, got it. Alright so we're gonna make
it through the rest of School 2 this level
I love it! So this game, the first game as you kind of saw a lot of the levels are very unrealistic full of big launch ramps but this game just absolutely lived and breathed skateboarding.
Like a lot of the locations throughout this level are based off
like real photos and video parts.
Shadows Carlsbad?
Yeah, Carlsbad which we're going to see
coming up here is the
I think the first rail ever
like to have had a grind done on it uh the gonz rail um yeah this game is just
so good i love it so much this is probably my favorite in the series.
Alright, now there's just so much to do
in this game that typically we'll only
do one run through each level but
with this one you need to get multiple
runs through each of the
levels. Well many
of the levels we've cut down
a lot of them
But this one is I think still optimal.
I was testing around with doing a 1 run, some people in the community have
done it and its very difficult to. Ace
is one of them and we were kind of going back and forth on if it's optimal to do so and i
don't think it is here we're going to marseille shout out to the french restream French Restream.
So yeah, it's our first contest level there is something interesting about
the contests levels in this
we actually have to collect all of the cash so they're kind of
extended. They're not just
do a quick combo and that's it
So yeah
as I pick up the rest of these
cash icons, we can get a donation or something?
Absolutely, we've got
$10 from Kesis
that says here's 10 bucks for my
absolute favorite games from my childhood.
I dropped many hundreds of hours on the n64 versions
of these rodney mullen was and still is my man loving the run good luck yeah
we've got five dollars from QT Rex that says,
Hey! That skater kinda looks like Tony Hawk!
We also have... and God it means so much to me
when we get these beautiful meaningful donations
We have five dollars from spearmen with a poem
it says roses are red violets or blues Tony Hawk pro skater to have you ever heard anything so gorgeous it gives you something to think about
it really does it's really really thought provoking that one all right so as we're flying
through new york here uh we are coming up on maybe the scariest jump of this
game because as far as I can tell, it is
completely random whether it works
correctly or not. So we want this
to kick me up? It didn't!
So yeah, we'll get that later you have a cool backup for
it but yeah we want to launch over that
statue but yes sometimes you ride just straight up it, and I don't know.
Sometimes you're just put into the
perpetual torture machine of being stuck
on the statue. I don't know. Yeah.
So now
we can jump down here and get it like that very wicked I love that back
up so much and how we go over to the Brooklyn banks first we need 250 50
that sculpture and we travel up here you have a cash icon to grab on the tracks as
we drop down onto them we need to make sure not to bail here because we have a goal to grind the subway rails
all right and this little grind for some reason has gotten a bit scary
but faster i've gotten but we're all good. Just have
a couple of cash icons to get
and then we're on to my favorite
level of all time
Venice Beach. But first
we gotta get some stats
So we are each, but first we gotta get some stats. So
we are getting the stats
for the rest of the run
We want to upgrade a bunch
of stuff and now we're on to Venice
This is the scariest level because there's just so much that can go wrong and
it's very tight on time so we're going to start heading towards our first scary jump.
That was scary!
When you fall into the sand surrounding the level, it brings you back to the start of
it so there it's not too bad oh very tight yeah that so i
started doing that we used to get the spray can in one jump and then
make that big transfer in another, but
I figured out you can get the speed to just
do both at once and it just
works out. And there you
saw it!
And now we are on to another little fun trick.
The thing that makes this level so hard is that
we've got Ollie over there,
Ollie the Magic Bum.
We need to jump over him five times, but he only exists in one spot at the level at any given time
So the route for this level kind of revolves around where he exists at any given time.
So
there we got number two, and then
we're going to finish all of our
BB transfers. We want to slow down
here for Tailsl the venice ledge
because sometimes you're going too fast for the um gap detection to really see it i think is what
goes on like it will just not give you the gap sometimes which uh
is frustrating so now we gotta get this hundred here
and then we've got to jump to that 100 which
i completely whiffed.
Didn't even hit the ramp, but we're going to go back for that.
Yeah, this has been a pretty clean Venice all things considered.
Just one weird thing to make a mistake on,
and now we just gotta get the secret tape
and we're onto Skate Street
where we've got some good donation time.
Absolutely, we've got $10 from anonymous that says
While there may be no music in the run I'm filling my mind with endless repeated the offspring yeah yeah yeah yes and i would
love to get some five dollar ten dollar donation train with what music you're hearing in your brain
for me right now it's rage againstage Against the Machine for a THPS 2.
But I'm sure everyone is hearing a different song right now.
Important question for our runner.
We have $50 from Sidrail that says, can you do a kickflip?
Let's see here. Oh, I got it wrong.
It was a 50-50 like
oh man.
Yeah so that's something funny is I normally have my tricks bound.
So the defaults for these games make sense for a regular skater
it's the direction your leg goes, but
since I...
In real life... Oops!
I hit restart competition, so we need to really
quickly get our score here.
That happens when you're so used to
in every level hitting restart and then end run
and that you get a little bit distracted, yeah
that'll happen. So just quickly do
that. There are interesting strats to get
really quick score here called the DAO it's a
big thing for any percent run that is really exploding right now
But we are in all goals and gold so we I have not practiced that but there we go
got the goals were back on to Philadelphia this is a good level surround with the setting of love Park
it's a very famous skate spot. I don't know if it is still skatable
but yeah, very famous and indicative of the time so
this one gets a bit scary we got a good
route going here so typically after you got that first combo and cash, you would retry it.
But more recently I figured out
that you can save two seconds by just not doing that
and jumping up
and doing the rest of everything.
Coming up here we have kind of an infamous jump in this game
Yeah, I got game yeah one slide yeah so something that we figured out is
that you can just combo into it and it gives you a good
amount of speed for doing that and i'm about to attempt something found by Adaline
in the community, you can jump to that T, I really like
that strat it's just so nice otherwise we would have done
multiple cycles around this little area.
Now we enter FDR Skatepark and
We have to do a bunch of lip tricks
As well as collect a bunch of cash i got the things mixed up there we go
um notably lip tricks in this game are very difficult to do the timing of them is very strange I'll say but with enough
practice they've just become second nature
so there's our last slip trick and our last cache and now we are on to the
last level the bull ring
so this one gets scary. There's a cool strat here for getting all the cash.
Here we've got a bunch of green turds that we have to run over to get some cash and then we're going to go back
down there soon but first we got to get
this wire wire casual 600 000 points by the way
that's easy because uh you get a gap for every uh for every light you are
you hit all right and now our last run we've got to
basically do the same stuff so we can probably get a donation here real quick
absolutely we can do that we've got a little bit more poetry which might
actually be valuable information five dollars from tw it says roses are red sam pits our ground
nollie flip underflip works on flat ground boldly rhyming rhyming ground with
grounds
like that
he's counting
a true innovator
right there
a true innovator
we've also got
$10 from Crimson
in the glow of
SGDQ's light
Tony Hawk's
pro skater takes flight.
The runner soars kick-flipping with flair doing sweet tricks through digital air.
Yes, now we've completed the second game. We got a message that we got Dick Officer, that is.
We unlocked a secret skater that tells us that we have gotten all goals and golds so you don't really need to go back and
check. And now we are on 2-3! So this game it's on a completely new
engine, this game was developed for PS2 primarily, and yeah it feels very different. And you see a nice bug when
we start every level since we're still running with auto kick off um it doesn't play an
animation when we start the level so it looks very goofy
but yeah this game feels completely different now it runs at 60 FPS.
Ooh, I'm happy I caught that on the other side so-
Yeah, I was gonna say yeah.
That bucket is scary because it runs
on a cycle and if you miss it
its a long time You have to wait for
it to come back so it's a good thing we hit it
Alright and we are almost done here. We're doing
quick cutscene skips this is the only time we're going
to just plain end the run in a regular level
because in order for the valve goal to complete you have to watch a cutscene, and then
it's going to tell you it's complete.
But
if you hit end goals, those
goalcams at the end override that
and
that's all good you don't have to watch it
oops uh we're running into things so in this level in Canada we have to impress a bunch of local skaters
it's a fun thing because you have to be near them with the certain score thing.
Because you have to be near them with a certain score, and
often they're a little picky.
But yeah.
That's like what? Just a
5k combo? I think so nothing too too outlandish but you've got to be in their
line of sight yep and all done our goals they were fantastic and we're on to Rio.
This is our first
competition level, we're back
to the same old Tony Hawk 1
We just gotta do a fancy
combo and yeah uh we're good for a donation i would be more than happy
too uh we've got five dollars from useless d says, Sticker slap to manual to wall plant.
A classic line from these games.
We've got $5 from Bart Small on this music train
saying you gotta give it up to the N64 version of from Bart Small on this music train saying,
gotta give it up to the N64 version of Ace of Spades.
Under no circumstances should you forget The Joker.
Do not forget The Joker.
We also sadly have $15 from Shadzy i forgot the joker oh no sorry this will not
happen again all right so this is suburbia this one is very difficult we want to oh we wanted to land on a wire there
we're going to go back around and hop on it
there we go Just bump off the house,
Yeah this can be rough.
Alright and now
let's be sure to grind it and I did a classic auto kick move
there there we go we're a little short on score but I'm
not too worried all right now let's look good and skilled at this man when we're getting a second
it's TV time oh yeah
we missed hopping onto the fence so this is sometimes very annoying.
As you can see, you don't jump quite high enough to make it on there.
There we go.
Alright, back on track!
Yeah this level is a complete nightmare sometimes
It's very precise
it kind of abides by the theme of this.
I forgot that I did a heal flip in that combo
and I was kind of
panicking, but no
we're good.
This game involves a lot of weird jumps as you saw with that wire jump.
This game for some reason has attracted just a lot of weird strats where
you're launching yourself around in weird ways as we were trying to do
for the secret tape right now see if we can get it there it is all
right now we're about to enter Airport this is the scariest level because just a heads up flashing
lights warning yes when we go through the baggage claim it's going to flash a very annoying light.
But um... so here we grind a counter and pick up some tickets.
If we bail or go through any security gates,
we lose those tickets and have to pick them back up.
So...we're going to hopefully not do that.
So you gotta knock down these pickpockets
Also this game added pedestrians
And so if you run into any women specifically,
you will bail immediately.
In there in the women's bathroom when
you're knocking down those pickpockets
it is a very tight tight window you have to make so
you're not bailing immediately. There we go, we delivered the tickets now we're free
to bail all we want but I'm hopefully not gonna do that because it turns out that bailing is not very good to do otherwise
You know surprisingly suboptimal. Yeah
so now we just got to get the secret tape and then we're on to Skater Island!
That was a good air force.
Yeah it was solid.
Alright, we're good for a donation.
Absolutely! We've got more love coming in for this fantastic OST that we can definitely hear
like $250 from Mott that says,
Here's to everybody's mind radio playing the best OSTs in video game
history! Yeah so a theme
in my streams...to answer this question for myself um i was listening
to a lot of old school drum and bass so that's what's running through my head right now
there we've got a donation 25 through my head right now
there we've got a donation 25 from iridescence that changed my personal
mind radio it says the first two tony
hawk games were probably in my top five
most played psx games growing up.
Seeing the games get carved through with ease brings a nostalgic tear to my eye.
In no particular order for music in my head, Superman from
THPS 1, Cyclone and Gorilla Radio
from THPS 2. So now Gorilla Radio is going to be in my
head for the next 30 minutes. Thank you for that.
Alright so we're making our way through LA here.
We're going to go for a safe strat here.
There's a jump that I still don't know how it is possible to the secret tape where you can jump up that purple tower on the right
I've done it maybe once it is not easy.
It's some dark magic.
And we have to free these balls and
it's very difficult to actually hit those.
And apparently,
it is difficult to hit this wall ride.
There we go.
We did have Scar there for a long while
and that's pretty good
all right now to tokyo shout out to the japanese restream
it's another contest level this one is i love this combo
a lot. It is
so fast. It is so fun.
So juicy. It's great.
Let's see if we can fit
in one donation here.
Absolutely.
We've got let's see here $5 from Ross
that says The Ramones Blitzkrieg Bop
as well as $25 from Greles since superman has already been said i'm going to have to go
with another song from the remake stuck in my head shout out to all my best friends or
nobodies by zebrahead ooh that's an interesting choice
there we go I think we can move on to so this game has a secret final goal level called the cruise ship
where this one has a fun twist on so we had to impress the Canadians earlier now we have to
impress the never soft girls there are seven of them throughout the level and
they can be frustrating because if you bail at all, chances are
you're going to lose some progress on that goal just because
you're gonna have a lot of them sort-of in that state of impressed
but not quite until you land so yeah let's uh hope i don't uh mess that up
you gotta get the secret tape there that is quite a jump and uh I didn't note at the start
of this, so in the previous game
we were buying stats. In this game
you pick up stat icons
which aren't required for
um
for the
goal,
for the game
to detect
that you've
completed everything.
So we don't do
that.
I don't know
if I impressed her
so we'll see
how that goes
but yeah so we start out
and we can change the stats of any
skater. We're playing as
Jamie Thomas which we
can modify to our liking
including stats. So we've just chosen
stats that are good as a base that will get us through the game
We did not impress that girl in the greenhouse area,
So we're going to have to circle around there real quick
after we get the e over here
and uh yeah so pretty soon we're gonna be through with this game.
Also something I realized I never noted is um...
So we keep doing a boneless judo, and that is how we fill up our special meter which increases
our stats by a little bit.
Oh, we didn't get the score. That's not good!
Time for some improv. Yes so let's
get a donation while I'm scoring here. We can do that.
We've got some love coming in for you like 50 from sir zee
that says i had to donate after seeing how clean venice beach was played
that level always gave me trouble so seeing you play through it with ease
was really cool. Best of luck
for the rest of the run. Also,
not the same by Body Jar is the best
THPS 3 song.
Alright, we're just
200 points away. There it is. Alright, we're just like 200 points away.
There it is.
Alright, that's Tony Hawk 3 complete.
Alright.
We unlocked Darth Maul so that's our verification.
So every previous run
has been
all goals and golds are the equivalent.
This is going to be any percent
Any of the hop. Nice.
Yes. So,
the big change about this
game is that they changed how
the runs work instead
of getting all goals
in a single run. Each goal
has its own run for itself, so there
I got the high score and then I'm going to start another goal
next, so it's. It's for the evolution
into the modern Tony Hawk
goals system that are
this, into thug,
into thaw, into project aid
and all of that so... So yeah Project Aide into all that.
So yeah, so our selection criteria is kind of like completing
the game with one skater and since all of the progression is shared in this
game we go any percent.
That's me trying to justify what
I chose.
Really it's arbitrary but
you know,
it's what's most fun.
If we were to do 100% for each game, we would be here for a long time!
Yes, so I recently got the world record
for 100% in 2, which is five hours long. Which I don't know...I'm not looking to sit up here
in these lights for 5 hours. These RPG runners, I do not know how they do it.
Alright so as you kind of saw there
I did a down warp. So something interesting about this game is that, um...
so the original PC versions of most of these games had kind
busted physics. They had down warps which was a miscalculation
of how when you ride down a curb
you don't get air. But sometimes that number grows too large
due to a cosine thing they didn't clamp
Which in short means
the code isn't right.
The nerds will understand
that one though. But as a side
effect
so in this game also there's a weird bug where some of the calculations get dropped for some reason
I never understood why but we don't fix the physics for this game because
The reason we were using Auto Kick off before is
Because you don't have friction, but
This game drops the friction value altogether so
We keep Auto Kick on for this game.
Also, uh, we're going really fast!
Yes! This luge is very fast.
Um... Ooh. Yeah, car NG there.
Classic. But we get to show off a little
trick that I had
sort of rediscovered. You can wall
ride while in the luge.
It looks very funny.
And it turns out that is actually faster.
What?
These cars are not being nice to me today!
Well you know what they say about third times...
Yeah, there's a charm.
Alright so we're going to make it through here also something that we've
been doing um all over here is to use the set restart function that is new to this game
it's a very nice thing, that allows you
just kind of teleport around the level
and because the goals are started in
specific spots we can use it to our advantage
to chain goals together based off of their position.
And there's Oli the Magic Bum all the way from Venice Beach in Tony Hawk 2. He's kind of a recurring character.
Yeah he was a secret character in Tony Hawk 3 so we didn't see him but yeah kind of one of the series staples so for these uh scoring goals um we have
two tricks bound um two special tricks we have the um one wheel nose manual, I think it is something like that and then we
have oh wait its a one-wheel firework show is what it is very appropriate for what is now yesterday july 4th and uh also we have um 360
ghetto bird which you can do by just off the ground like you don't have to get extra air so it's very useful for
score goals i've also got the 900 yes that is our big scorer there's another trick with it that we'll explain later um but yeah and i think
we have a 540 as well that's just another kind of medium trick that is sometimes useful to throw in
and uh if everyone can count with me the number of times i uh jump between these floats that
would be helpful so it's a one we didn't have enough speed there to make the spine transfer so one.
Okay this is being mean.
You know what they say about third times.
Alright two...
Five All right. Two, five, eight and ten.
Math!
I love math.
Alright, now this is...this version of
competitions they're just given as regular goals and
very fast because in this game you can just
do a special trick. You don't have to land your combo,
So often what we do is we do a combo that we cannot possibly land
but before we bail it, we just end the run and get a
better score for it. The only exception
to that is in Shipyard. Yes there's one
goal that they scripted in a different
way for some reason and doesn't allow for that.
Those combo goals... I think there is only 1 more in the rest of the run those are
scary because if you fail one of the combos
you have to redo the entire goal from the start which is very frustrating
and has happened many times.
So as you can see here, I am moving very fast
and that is due to that very nice physics bug.
Alright, so yeah as we've been rushing to kind of explain everything you may have noticed that the time between every goal is very long. That's kind of what contributes to this game's kind of long estimate.
So we're going to have plenty of time for donations and I think
we can fit a few in now.
Fantastic.
We've got $50 from the
misheard THPS2 DJ that says,
Lights out! Gorilla Radio!
Show that ape up!
I don't know why they said misheard. That's perfect. We're not on zoo yet. I don't know why they said Miss Heard, that's perfect. We're not on Zoo
yet, chill
Yeah we'll get there
We've got $10 from
Icy Cube that says one of my favorite
songs from the series is The World Is Yours by Nas in Tony Hawk Underground.
Oh, that song is so good.
We've also got $5 from Anonymous
that says enjoying this run so far
and with skills like these she will never say
see you later boy well i don't think
skaterboy was in tony hawks ost i appreciate the energy we've got 25 from Ref54 going for a personal favorite,
Not The Same by Bodyjar from THPS3.
Putting this towards adopting those kitties in Stardew
and just reminder team kitties versus Team Puppers
for the pet adoption
in Stardew Valley. Currently,
kitties are leading with 1,130.
Puppers are at
about 520.
Plenty of time to get those puppers ahead,
get those donuts in.
Make that happen if you are team puppies.
We got time for some more?
Oh, we've got something interesting to explain here.
So this next goal,
we're going to show off something interesting added in
this game, Skitching So that gives you some extra speed
but we can also kind of
exploit it by doing a bunch
of grinds afterward though we might have
just lost the skitch speed. Oh no, we've got it.
We've got a little bit. So what Partyman did there was...
Well he's gonna do it again here.
It's going to be called the Super Skitch
so stuff shuffling between these grindable surfaces
just gives you that massive speed boost.
Yeah, it's really something to see um i absolutely love doing those and so something about this game is it has a lot of people who have played each goal to death as ILs.
So we have leaderboards for a lot of the goals in the game to complete those as fast as possible, and
a lot of them have been quote-unquote
ruined by
vehicles being nearby and people
using skitches to get
very fast during them and yeah
it's been fun to watch people find
those
here we're going to see
an interesting goal
um
we kind of don't do this
right, we don't do the full grind
as the game or the full manual
intends, we do a grind at the start
and also that goal is notable
for uh...this game its original release didn't quite run And also that goal is notable for this game.
Its original release didn't quite run at 60 FPS,
it like ran at a higher refresh rate
for some reason and that goal specifically was broken
if the game wasn't running at 60 Hertz uh that goal specifically was broken if it
if the game wasn't running at 60 hertz exactly
and now we're about to do our second competition where we're going to show
off the uh
the thing i mentioned earlier where we start a combo and run.
We were kind of too late there,
and we're too early there so we are going to retry.
There we go.
Got one... two... so we're going to retry there we go got one
two and two all right and that is that competition
now imagine someone doing that in real life just like
oh you get the idea i was going for a 900 there is gonna be really sick so really
we're uh discovering that we are uh the most beloved skater in the world and all judges are biased
against everyone else.
Alright, we've got
another competition coming up here so
we can probably fit in a donation.
Absolutely! We've got some strong opinions about types of flips we should do
like $50 from anonymous that says DO A KICK FLIP
Can't be doing one right now.
As well as $5 from Random Days that says, do a kickflip? No!
Do a sal flip! You like sal flips, right?
Ooh I dislike them greatly.
So by default this game maps up-up flip to sal flip and it's kind of scary
to do because sometimes you're doing them by accident and the
animation is extremely long, and that will cause you to bail very often.
It's become a meme in other parts of the community, especially like scoring. They'll often lose large combos to that and it's not fun.
Oops! I was gonna say, I don't think that was intentional.
No it's a cool little thing but yeah we want to grind the inside of that so you can collect all
of these keys. We've got...I really love the movement of this section
Of the game. We want to jump to the side
We're hopefully going to land on a pipe
Which leads us to our next goal over here
Which is to score 100 thousand points and we've got a little bump bump to do an actual 900
get the uh score very quickly what if i sneak in real quick with a challenge from
community member? Ooh, let's go!
I've got $50 from George
that says
I'll donate 25 more dollars
if you can name a mainline THPS game.
I didn't have a hand in routing.
Oh, no!
Does it count to say THPS 2 100%? I don't think that one.
I think categories would count, that seems reasonable.
We'll see what George says.
Let's see we want to reset our custom restart.
But yes, George is a pillar of the community
was very influential in the early days of this game
especially, or of all
of these games especially.
Held many records
yeah just absolutely
excellent runner. Lifetime go.
Yes, and if you played Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 & 2 the remake on PC
You'll have seen his name on top of the leaderboards
He was dominating those george the plushie
you mind if i do a quick one go ahead
i finally have a donation for my personal favorite song from a THPS game.
We have $20 from an avid gamer, so hyped to see some Tony Hawk presence at GDQ this year.
This game has all-my best friends are metalheads by less than Jake looping through my head.
Also, hi Big Law!
I gotta say that song is a classic.
Absolutely.
I was really trying to channel Roger with the singing donation earlier
all right now we gotta get this combo these combo letters
um and then it turns out you don't actually have to land your combo, but I did.
But what many people usually do there is just
cancel your air and fall directly into the water
get that. Now we're on Tacona with one of,
kind of a casual run killer goal.
All right, 50 miles to give this first try.
Ooh!
All right, now I gotta concentrate.
Yeah, so what's going on here is that you're
going faster and faster as you're rolling
down this. You cannot slow down
and you must pass through all of these gates.
It could be a handful for casual players
and well experienced players.
I'll just throw that in there in case I fail
so I'm not embarrassed
but
second to last embarrassed but oh the last so my law thanks you there we go.
And now we're up to another casual killer.
Um, there's a really
good video out there of
someone attempting this
goal for I think 40 minutes or so, and not getting it. This is
so difficult for casual players because the set of inputs you have to do
for it is not exactly intuitive. You have to
do a late air out of the
pool, if you boneless its harder
If you basically do anything else it's harder
so yeah unless
you know the specific technique it's very hard
and many casual players
complain about it
now we've got a good movement goal. I absolutely love this one because it's just,
It feels so fast when you're going through it getting these rental pads
We had a weird bounce there
Yep, he set a reset here, we've got
a couple of goals. We have another good collection goal
given by Mrs. Ramos
People love her in the community. I think she is based upon a real person, one
of the...I think the family that owns this skate park in real life.
But yeah, people have...
They're always cheering her on when you're in a run and they see her.
You've gotta get get these skate wavers
and then there
we go.
Sure thing.
We've got somebody donating $50
on your behalf, Big Law.
I mean, you should still throw it in there because
it's for charity.
But we do have $50 from TNARC91
that says I remember countless afternoons
playing the demo of THPS2, setting up skate parks to play with my neighbor using the very limited objects before finally getting the game at a yard sale.
You by Bad Religion is a song that I will never forget the lyrics to for the rest of my life.
Also, Marowind Any% as an incentive?
That's right! We are at $12,439.96
out of the 20,000 we need
for Elder Scrolls 3 Morrowind bonus
any% run but we are
getting down to the wire
We only have this next
run of Mr. Run and Jump, and then the Elder
Scrolls run of all
main quests to get there. So please
get those Donos in, put it toward
that incentive. Let's get a little bit
of extra Mowind going.
Yeah, do you give that in?
Daredevil is a spectacular runner and it would be a shame not to see any percent.
So yes, you get that in.
That is a very fun run to watch.
All right now we're through another competition.
We forgot to set
a restart point
but it doesn't matter too much.
We just want to get over here and then set our restart point
for a more important set.
Here's another combo goal.
This one is pretty easy, we just have to use our special tricks.
We do a cool frontside 540 there, I really like that and then it's our
special tricks to finish that off.
Yep, and now we're over to another combo gulp. For some reason this one in my brain I always forget you have to do it in a combo. So I'm going
to be thinking about
that actively while
I do it. If it's combo
you can combo. Yes I don't know what it is but sometimes those combos are like
hey if i land this combo i could go faster but uh that doesn't work.
Alright, and one more competition to finish this off.
This level is interesting in that it has multiple competitions in it.
That was interesting.
I didn't do the menuing quite correctly, but we can easily recover just like that
Alright and now we are on to the next level we on to shipyard this is everyone's least favorite level in this game
i wasn't gonna say anything i was gonna say this It's spectacular! No it's a fun level to play but in runs this is the run killer
There is a lot to do here there will be some
random stuff.
And yeah, first we start off with after that combo goal the rivets.
Everyone loves the rivets.
I mean this goal is so riveting.
So yeah, we have to pick
up 21 of these and often
it can go wrong in
annoying ways and the
time limit is a little strict.
Looks like this one's going well
but that can always change
very quickly, sort of like that
but I think that one's fine.
Yep, and now
we're going to exploit a really interesting
little thing here
I'm not gonna call it a bug because I don't
think it is but so on this buoy uh we're going to
mash x and hold triangle to get multiple grinds in one jump over we have to grind
it five times nice but we're hopefully going to take like three jumps
Oh, we're gonna have four
but there's a mechanic in
this game called shuffling
I'm not doing very well here
if you jump on a different
segment of a rail,
well jump to a different segment of the rail and your holding grind even
ending it will immediately make you grind that.
So we kind of exploit that little thing because
whenever the buoy moves, the rail on top technically counts as
different segment.
And shout out to Lemonade Milk for doing that goal at one
frame per second and doing all the grinds
in one singular
And uh, shout out to PB and all dogs everywhere
for that last goal
alright now we've got this
combo here this one kind of gets scary i was losing my balance there
but we got it good job thank you so uh sort of infamously um Thank you.
So sort of infamously, Andrew Reynolds there, his voice acting people kind of joke about it because he never sounded that into it and I guess
he wasn't when he appeared in Skate 3.
He had a different skater actually do all of his voice acting for him which is very funny.
I mean... It's not as bad
as Maimon Sob.
Alright, suck that.
I think that was
literally recorded
on the phone.
Yeah.
There's another goal
in this game
that is...
It sounds like it was recorded off of a phone
but sadly we won't be seeing it. But everyone in the know
Hey Rodney!
Now were going to sit through this very long cutscene that they strangely added to the skull.
I'm not sure why, but yeah we just have to jump down these containers and we're all good.
We have a group of goals here that
I think this part of the level is very interesting
we just have all of these grouped together, we keep
returning to the same spot to
start off little chains
and as we had mentioned before this
is the competition where you have
to actually land your combo so we're going to do that.
And there we go! We've got a good score to get bronze
Previously were getting golds but again this is any
percent um...so we can get bronzes and also it doesn't matter
the goal is completed no matter
what medal you get so
there's really no point to getting gold
And now we've got
We're supposed to do this special lip
on that container.
It's going to go between the two
bowls. I kind of
didn't do that right
so we are going to do it down here. We're gonna
grind and then
that counted.
So that's very useful
you don't have to wait for it and also you don't
have to upgrade your lip stat so you can save some initial
stat points for something else all right welders need food badly this is
they needed so badly yeah it's a classic movement goal
and we want to kind of hook in at the end there so we can get to another goal i'm not
sure i did it right so we might just go flying off into the water, but
oop, we barely got it.
This is a fun goal
for its little movement.
Okay, that wasn't good.
There we go. just hook in it and i did the wrong trick
but it helps to do the right trick there we go
and now we're going to go on to the last set of goals in this level. We are going to return that restart, we have been for a while and we're going to do maybe my favorite goal in this level.
Oh, we're gonna get a bad cycle
um on this suspended container so we want to
get a wall right all the way down but that container was in the way so he got
a wall right on that and isn't going to progress us on this so for this we need to do a trick
on every shipping container so we're doing this meticulously routed little route here to ensure that we touch each one within one combo.
And there we go.
He's got just a second, I have a George update for you.
Alright!
$25 from George that says
I'll reluctantly accept THPS to all goals
Yes! Project 8 and Proving Ground THPS to all goals. Yes, I got away with it!
Project 8 and Proving Ground were pretty
free responses. Also not
sure if you would count THPS 5
as mainline but good luck with the rest of
the run. Yes, yeah
I often forget about those
last few games
and here we have a goal
that is kind of random so
we have to pass through um four triggers on these trains and they didn't go off
um so these triggers are moving and if they move past where, like...
Between the two spots you moved in a frame
it just won't count it.
So you'll phase right through and
It's kind of frustrating
And there is no good way around it
other than passing through them the other way.
And I'm really making a mess of this.
So we go through them the other way
which is the guaranteed way to do it.
Yeah that goal was a bit of a killer for a lot of people.
Yes.
It's why people hate Shipyard.
All right now we're on to London. We have to do a Japan over this. I didn't get my special so he didn't quite make it.
And then we buffered in a boneless as we completed that goal, so that will go off right when we end.
Which gets us up here to start this high score goal and uh you might have heard the voice acting here
you're not ready for the level of accent that put in here yes uh something i find kind
of funny about that is um the lead programmer for this game
um mick west he is english so Mick West. He is English, so they had someone with that accent working on this and
That must have been an interesting experience to see this happen in real time.
Alright, this combo goal...this one can be
difficult. Jumping over here
getting all those grinds can be difficult.
Ooh we've got a bus almost blocking us!
Alright I'm not gonna go too crazy here,
I'm not going to risk it.
Alright now we want to jump down and
we're going to show off another little trick in this game called
DAO or degree Degree Add-on. So here we're going to do a 900 and...
Whoa! We're gonna try that again. So when we land in a revert um
we can also we did a 540 there but same thing applies kind of
but when you spin a trick you get more points for it.
And if you land in a revert after doing
a high scoring trick what you can do is then
spin in an air where you don't do any other trick
and it will add those degrees to the previous trick which allows you
to get a ton of points off say 900. We're going to use that later as well in Chicago and Zoo. um in chicago yeah yeah chicago and zoo so now we have to uh wall ride tag these five buses
and then we're on to another goal that i think is kind of funny in the way we
subvert it. So, we're
going to get a tutorial on
manuals and manual tricks from
Rodney Mullen, the Freestyle
King himself.
And we're going to get some extra points when we're landing these by doing extra tricks which will fill up our special
that we'll need for the end.
Because we're just gonna do this, it makes you score 8000 points in a manual combo but we can just do that and escape freely.
And then following this, there is a freestyle
competition, and we're going to
do our typical cheesing of it, completely going against what they intended.
The iconic Flatland 9-0.
Only achievable by you.
Yes.
Alright,
now we're on to the last goal of
London. We have to do a
ghetto tag along the south bank
light line.
Let's see see let's just start this here and then there it is. And right onto the zoo.
Yeah, you don't need to maintain
the whole trick during the entire grind
as long as your tricks change.
Yes.
Alright and now onto a very fun quick goal where we have to harass Kenny the Koala with a few flip tricks. He kind of became a recurring character later in the series,
yeah that's where he comes from.
Time for a few donations while we do our koala harassment.
Absolutely! Alright, we've got $25 from Monkey Thief
donating to extend SGDQ with the Morrowind Any%
Every little bit means more awesome moments
and more opportunities to support an
awesome cause. Good luck, runners!
Alright, you guys want to see a world record?
Let's get a quick world record here. So this goal, Feed the Hippos, it has a short timer and so when we time
individual goals for this game, we use the in-game timer and it only goes up so long as the um in-game goal
timer goes up so if we check here yeah we got a world record
and you can do that at home, get your own world record. Yes!
It's fun to look at the speedrun.com leaderboard for
that specific goal because some people have just submitted very goofy videos
where they're not even trying to go fast.
Now we've got this escape goal, this can be a little goofy because of those initial jumps to get the K and A.
That one's always kind of scary to me, and the E as well sometimes you'll bounce off of the wire that's right next to it, but we got it there.
Now we gotta get combo...this one is straightforward and we're on to another fun movement goal right after this, where
we have to stop a monkey from escaping the zoo and this one it's just very
straightforward but I don't know something about it I
just love it so we go through here we get our grinds in.
And then here...
So a mechanic I never really explained
but I've been using constantly is
the power slide or the quick turn
which if you press a certain combination
you'll turn around 180 degrees really quickly on
the ground and it allows you to just spin around very quickly
get two places quickly.
Previously in other games we were kind of bumping off
things to do that, but
this game finally you can just go directly
And there we go go we've got our two runs for that
and we're on to another goal that will uh show off um dao much better i did not input input a boneless so i bailed right there very embarrassingly
all right now we're talking to the Hawkman himself.
And we're gonna show him our skills by doing a 900,
but we are going to spin it
and turn into a 720-900 which makes sense
don't question it We get that score very quickly
and then we move on to Bob here who has a combo goal
this one's rather fun
We do a 540 down here. Why didn't that work?
Okay, it's not being nice to me because
I'm forgetting to do the special manual
is probably what I'm doing wrong.
But
now we get 50,000 points and then we throw in
another 900 with a wall right here to start us off into our 60,000 points.
And there we go.
Now we'll see if I can do a little interesting glitch.
It's not horribly useful, but it's fun nonetheless.
Oh yeah, I know what you're going for.
Yes! So here we have to
help the lion tamer by distracting
the lions with a combo
It's very slow. To land it...
So what can happen there is when you're
landing your combo, you can run into the lions which will kill
you and respawn you. And in the end goal cutscene
you can actually move around around which is kind of fun
to mess with. And here we
go. I forgot the
combination for sit down air.
Alright let's try that again.
There we go
and now we're on to the last level which is a secret level
chicago um it's a level ported over from another activision o2 game releasing around the same time,
Matt Hoffman's Pro Beam X2.
And now we're going to talk to Matt Hoffman himself right now.
They kind of did him dirty
with the character model there,
but...
Oh yeah! He gives us our hardest
score yet, 900 thousand points
so we're going to use some more DAO
to get that very efficiently.
There you go, that should do it. Nice. Yep! A casual
1 mil.
No biggie.
Now we turn around and set our custom restart And now we've got to get some combo letters
Sometimes that wall ride can be a little difficult there.
Ooh, I thought I did Emanuel but the game said otherwise.
Alright now we get up here. There we go.
Now we're about to deliver some pizzas. This goal is sometimes a little scary in that if you bail at all you'll fail the goal entirely and you have to redo it as i demonstrated there
no 100 intentionally yeah that was purely for demonstration
purposes. Okay, I don't like
where this train is but
I figured out a way around it because
if you touch that train in the wrong spot
it will also kill you and also fail
the goal. So now
we make our way around the rest of
the way.
Alright.
And we get this. We turn around as we run into it so that we maintain our spin around as we finish the goal. And we talk to quite a character here, the undercover cop.
I love him! That's like a top three
FPS series character right there. Yeah yeah these games are very goofy.
Alright, and this gets scary so
if you're going fast
you can jump off the roof
and do a flip trick through that guy.
That was unfortunate, I accidentally input
a special trick. But yeah,
you want to be safe with this
in this type of setting so
I'm going a little slow.
This game only evaluates if you're doing a flip trick through one of these guys, I think once every five frames
So often if you're going very fast it'll miss it.
So thus I'm going very slow
when I'm going through them and also
the trigger area is kind of weird
so it's
not exactly the easiest goal but if you see someone do it fast it's so satisfying
so let's grind five hydrants it'll be fun, really.
Wow.
I'm having so much fun.
Yeah, so let's get a donation while we
experience this fun.
Absolutely, we can do that. We've got $20 from Johnny Cakes
that says I'll absolutely rep Jerry was a race car driver for all of us who only
had the PSX demo disc as a kid. Go go party man! Alright and now we're going to jump in the river
because it teleports us very nicely to the next goal. We have
to dump a bunch of second rate
ballplayers here. This is very
strangely inconsistent, so yeah
you see the counter isn't counting up as much as it should
so this is uh where all those numbers that
we skipped in college uh this is where they went
they really make us work for that one, but now we're going to get back at
the game with this one. We're supposed to score 100 000 points on this ledge
But we can slip by the triggers that detect that you're on the ledge and
just make our way through here.
Yeah, just by doing that drop down.
Yeah, it's a really
funny thing. And there we go.
We did it right on the ledge. the ledge nowhere else don't leave the footage
all right and now we're going to do tricks over this bridge um This has a very fun...
This set of tricks
sometimes sets off
a special trick, so you have to
really purposely space them
out.
And we don't want to think about the uh the thps4 race
just so many bales on that bridge and then we have another very hard one right here.
The things you have to grind there
are very annoying.
They're spaced out just right so that you'll feel it a lot but i got it
we are actually getting pretty close to the end here yes
so he said a custom restart before this so we can return it over here as we do a 900.
v900 there it is that can be a little difficult because you have to
jump over
the top deck of the fairy without
seeing it, so it can be
a little dicey but
with practice it becomes second nature and now we grind these cars and
then we're going to unlock the final goal, the pro-goal for the custom skater.
Let's see if we can get a little trick here to skip a dialog box let's see if we can get a little trick here to skip a dialog box
let's see yes so if you press back and the affirmative button like right in a row it allows you to skip it but also you cannot
pause the game to change levels so yeah and time is coming up uh once we complete this goal
um it's a little dicey sometimes
and here we go let's see if we can get this combo.
And time!
There's four. whatever time and night this is. I'm Altabiscuit, and...
I'm Big Honkin' Burger or Studio depending on the day of the week. And I'm Cool Ranch
sorry, Tony.
And anyway we got a
pretty good run for you here so
we can get started here
when I'm ready.
We're good? Alright. Three two I guess so when I'm ready. Good?
All right, 3, 2, 1, go!
Yeah, Alta!
Let's go, Alta!
So this is Mr. Run and Jump, and Dash.
And Long Jump.
And High Jump.
There's a high jump!
Yeah there we go.
And then roll! There you go. Yeah, there we go.
And then roll!
There's a lot of things that couldn't fit on the name of the game.
So MrRudgerJump, I mean it's a very straightforward game you are trying to get through these levels very quickly You have the whole tool of movement options
You've got the high jump which Alta is using to get through here pretty quickly
You've got a long jump that
makes you go very fast but the tricky
thing with Mr. Run and Jump is he
is the floatiest person on
the planet. If you get momentum, he will not
stop running, he will not stop jumping. He will not stop jumping. So you're
trying to balance this toolkit of really
good movement skills while matching
all of these cycles of enemies that
one-tap you and Alta is extremely
good at this game and there's a lot of adaptation
A lot of cool movement when you can finally get that throw going.
Alright! First level down!
It's hard to resist the temptation
of not long jump at every opportunity.
And this game is also a very funny way that we found this game?
Yeah, we found this at PAX West last year and they had a speedrun leaderboard standing outside of it so it's like hmm
it was also there was a prize too if you got the best time of the day
you get a free key for the game so that was like setting out speed run catnip
for us and we, the first day
you know, we just grinded and got better times
because our first entries were pretty bad
then the next couple of days
we took home the keys individually
The funny thing is that Friday the person who took home the key was actually sent
by his guy for GDQ.
So he's also an unofficial
Mr. Fun and Jump speedrunner.
But going through these levels
you can kind of see Altus just trying to keep a good pace
of dodging through skulls, dodging through frogs.
Everything is on pretty much global timer and not necessarily aligned
positively so every single movement Alta makes not necessarily aligned positively. So,
every single movement Alta makes if it is too
fast he then has to adapt, if it is
slow he then has to adapt and
there's lots of narrow openings that
he's going to be following if I mean trying to get this
going. This is actually a really good example
of the level where the IL strategy is very annoying because
Alta starting with the ghost on you have to wait for the cycles to align
perfectly for every
single il but once he gets flowing the stages are all pretty planned there is actually very little
rng in this game outside of like buggy a couple small bug buggy pixels that are not really a concern.
This level is also like a good example of just high jump... long jump into high jump momentum
which is uh... I'm gonna reset this screen actually. That's a good example of
just like there are certain cycles I am expecting it to, and I need momentum from previous screens sometimes.
And it's sometimes often better just to try again instead of trying to force it.
Hi frog!
Goodbye frogs!
I think frogs are probably the most lethal enemy in the run, just because they go quite far as you can see
and... oh it spikes actually, the spikes are everywhere and
they're very mean but aside from that most enemies
are a little bit more predictable
outside of one guy but we'll see more of them
If I make involuntary noises, that is normal.
My couch may also be making noises!
It's a stressful run.
Alright... run. The Void levels, there is a void chasing
you. Usually it's very speed
focused like the challenges in the
level picking up little shards but by going fast it kind of defeats
the danger of the Void for the most part.
This goal's a pretty good example of finding a Sun Arrow opening
When Mr. Run and Jump dives he actually changes his uh hitbox and you can use
that to find narrow little openings above schools and that comes up a lot let's see.
Yeah, he's got quite a big hip ox actually.
I think something to talk about too is falling is actually very difficult in this game because Mr. Run and Jump, as I said he's very floaty
And will stick the walls like nobody's business
And when that happens it's very hard to get them off the wall and you dramatically slow down because you start wall sliding which I think
you might only do once or twice in a full run on purpose. It's actually kind of awful for the run, and there's more
tech to avoid sticking to walls
than there is to actually using the walls
themselves.
You know, rolling into a
wall makes you not
grab it, so I do that pretty often.
This is also Welcome to the Blue Levels. That's the theming for this game.
It's different colors.
I believe the plot of something along the line of Mr. Run and Jump has kind
of accidentally torn open colors into the world, and now The Void is trying to destroy
him. This is a remake of an 80s game, which you. Which you know it has like two colors
they're quite nice
It's got a couple others
but we've added a bit more since then
Every level's got like a time trial, silver gold and platinum times that you can go for. This level's platinum time is the hardest by far.
And I'm not sure why.
I love this screen getting past those squares, it's actually quite hard and just navigating
right above these goals. That's a lot of these frequencies with
the right momentum coming in, Alph will be shaving everything essentially. Yeah, like the platinum time on this is 1.05 and my PB's at 1.03 so that's... It's a new enemy type here at the end.
You have access to everything in your movement toolkit from the get-go.
You don't unlock anything, so it's just...
The levels are mostly designed in a way
to introduce you to how you're expected
to use the movement instead of
unlocking new stuff
and introducing new enemy types.
So, the thwomps for example
thwomp when you are getting
close to them or not not, sometimes they'll
flomp when you're underneath
them and the problem is that you have to memorize
which one's which
And it gets very difficult
It's actually one of the hard parts of the run. The robots, they'll dash in front of you if you stop so you have to jump up and dash as Alta shown out there
And it- You'll just get... There will be more enemies introducing more and more kind of drama I think is a good way to put it.
Do you mind if
I jump in with my very favorite kind of donation?
Take her for it.
It's $100 from John Makula
that says it is a special kind of
thrill to see a game you worked on get
absolutely dominated by
a speedrunner. Especially when it's for
a good cause. On behalf of myself
and the team at Graphite Lab I want to say thank you to AltaBiscuit for bringing Mr. Run-and-Jump to the SGDQ stage.
Let's run and jump to $1 million!
Graphite Lab, y'all killed it. Yeah this game is awesome.
They've been really supportive on this and I really appreciate that
Y'all made a
really good game here that was actually a really good level by
the way um yeah there's i think once you start hitting
blue and especially green stages,
you're going to see a lot of just like...
It gets very hairy very quickly.
But it's just very planned out in execution.
It's a weird run because you want to do everything consistently every single time but
you won't, because that's just not how humans work and so there's going to be
a lot of minor adaptations. Like uh...that's a really good example diving into
that room so you immediately have the dash and get past those squares.
I mean if your execution is going to feel
good while I'm reading Donuts, I'll gladly just keep going.
Yeah go for it.
We've got some love for you 75 from jay pappy he says i don't know much
about this next run but i sure hope there's running and jumping in it and fifty dollars
from a universal giant i just rolled out bed, bounced off a few walls and jumped
into my chair to donate through a portal. Am I doing it right? Best of luck with the
run Alta! Thanks Juney. That was the slightest pixel in that bounce path.
I discovered that by accident.
I think routing for this game is very fun, um...
Alt has done a ton of runs but like you know early on it's early on you just mash your face into a room and go
Alright! What works? What is physically possible? What is reliable?
What's IOL only? And keep doing stuff until something kind of works and then you
just get good at that hopefully back in january they added the ghost
update which uh made iels a lot better.
It was just so nice to get instant feedback on everything, and it probably improved my times by minutes, overall.
It's hard to call it sick tricks because there are a lot of cool things that happen, but they're so fast.
Like going through the skulls here! That's really cool and actually really hard to time.
Going through those narrow gaps is pretty difficult because MrRendup has a lot of vertical leap on his dashes,
so it's actually pretty hard to time.
Green levels... How do you feel about the green level, Alta?
They're pretty trolly.
New enemy type, we got the Chompers.
They're pretty simple if you stand on their platform they will chomp at you.
The trick is it's instant when they attack so you cannot them. That's the only really hard part about
battling. But you get enough time after speedrunning, you're going fast
anyways. I think this is where we start seeing a lot of patterns coming up too
We also have breakable platforms, pretty simple
straightforward. You jump and they break, they give you a big bounce if you want it.
I think this really applies to any precision platformer especially.
But, like, it's just not to get tilted.
You're going to die at some point.
Like, especially in a live marathon run.
So you've just kind of got to roll with whatever happens.
You've got to roll with it or jump
or long jump, crouch, etc., etc.
Got the red platforms here too, they disappear after you hit them so that's a new mechanic there.
Here is a good example of thwomps being different than what you might expect yeah those last couple rooms too they're
really good at uh just showing off how there's a lot of verticality to a lot of levels too that's
something that really sets mr bum and jump apart from a lot of platformers i
feel there's a lot of emphasis going upward downward as well as left and right if you
if you want to see about it or something cool just look for us to make sound
there was like a moment where he was to do something cool, just look for us to make sounds. There was
a moment where he was
an inch above a bunch of robots going
and it's super hard to do that
It's super cool in action but it's so fast
This is one of my favorite groups coming up just navigating through
these birds those birds will hit you as soon as they move it's instant um and this room is also
awesome if you get the timing and he got it. So by going at the perfect
speed, everything lines up and its
very difficult to do
This is a f-
I was gonna say this is a really good read
And that was my fault.
That's the other rule of precision platformers, if you ever have any optimism it's gonna get crushed immediately.
That's just how the game goes.
And then there is this part of the screen.
This is where IL and Full Run diverge, because you can do dashes across that
and have an 80% chance of dying on each platform because
of how close he is yeah it's really easy to eat those spikes when you're dashing like that
here um it's difficult the time the dashes after the platforms.
It will interrupt your movement and let you get underneath spikes
which is very important for a lot of sections.
That was a very good green too.
This level has a pretty funny screen.
It'll be evident once we get there but
We'll call it out the screen before.
I think that's the first time in a run you have to wait for a cycle, like regardless
of routing.
Also this is where flops start acting pretty funny.
Like...
Uh...
Okay whatever. Like, uh... Okay. Whatever.
It works! Sometimes things just work.
... Sometimes things just work.
That's a mean plump!
There are a couple of mean flumps in this level, actually.
This is a very mean level.
This is a pretty good example of avoiding walls. You get enough just enough enough and then we unleash them off because quite
frankly they're awful from the screw running joke
I don't think we covered it either but like
hugging a wall also resets your
hair dash. Also this is the room
Oh I love this room! Alright this one's tricky you got it
that's the secret that room's really cool but if
the trick is you can there's a very specific app you could follow.
I love that room because it's so daunting your first time
through and to give you an alternate route.
But speed running is cool, so you just
did the cool thing ASAP?
I think we both have the same idea when we first saw it
it's like there's got to be a way yeah
uh and we died a lot trying to just figure out the way through
i love this room,
I love the birds
they're my favorite enemy in the game
navigating them
you have to not land on them
and there's my least favorite spawn
because when you first learn runs
you forget about em
You're gonna get jumpscare killed by it.
This tosses in the horror blog we've got a scary.
Oh there's Tony skip.
That is a skip Tony found regardless of what he says, and whether or not we did it before because we don't remember but he pointed it out and we started doing it.
Thanks Tony.
Not a problem. It saves us a little bit of time time gotta take what you can get
oh god i love getting when you see the frog jumping over your
ass really just lines up perfectly.
I want to say that pretty much every jump is hard here.
Oh absolutely.
A little time for donations while we're moving through here?
Yeah.
We are getting a lot of love moving toward this Morrowind incentive, especially from Germany!
We've got $100 from Michael85 that says, Greetings from Germany. We've got $100 from Michael85 that says
Greetings from Germany! Again, a great
event. Donation goes to the
Morrowind Incentive I've seen in any percent
run before and it is
wild. As well as $25 from Boal that says,
donating $25 towards the Marowind from Germany
because y'all are probably asleep over there.
Let's meet that incentive.
One, two, three, 4, 5.
I learned how to count to five because of DK64randomizing.com
That's so much higher than any other speedrunner can count. I'm so proud.
Oh, another bird room. This is where you start to see the Void rubber band against you a bit too.
You cannot outrun the Void. A life lesson for all of us, it will
hug the character and actually it's a little dangerous on a couple screens
but for the most part if it's caught up to you something has gone wrong
The later void levels like that one just just have a victory elapsed screen at the end.
So it's kind of nice thing.
So yellow is very cycle based
There are some extremely cursed strategies which are probably not gonna be safe so I'll only be going for some of them but I'm going for it. All right.
We're also getting introduced to our friend-shaped worms here.
They've got nice, cute little smiles on them.
There's like a little risk of going for that.
Yeah, I think that's a
good point we were putting out there like
there are a lot of risky things you can do and if
you lose half second if you die go for it
If you lose 10-20 seconds
maybe not for the full run. The worms are great, they're really just a timer
They're mechanic
For another cycle
They're pretty straight forward though
You know, they're happy little guys I like them. I think they're friendly.
They're not my favorite, but I like them.
They're high on the tier list.
You can probably fit another donation or two here.
Absolutely.
We've got $25 from Delta1 that says, long time viewer
so happy to finally be able to donate.
I never played Morrowind but it is one
of the first GDQ runs I watched
so let's get that any% run
chat. We are getting there there we're at 15 330 and it's gonna be tight but chat
i have seen y'all do some incredible things in the past i know that we can do this,
but we just gotta keep it moving!
We've got a little bit of
throwback donation, $10 from
Junaane
That's my best bet.
My favorite song from the Morrowind soundtrack
is Peaceful Waters.
Am I doing this right? You're doing it
perfectly, you are doing amazing!
This is a really good start to Yellow 2.
New enemy, the Big Ol' Flowers
they expand and contract
sometimes they don't
and that's the gimmicky
so you have to figure out which ones don't They they are not instant like the chompers so there's a lot of a lot
of timing you can do to narrowly avoid them and their hit boxes uh are beautiful they're just
shy of filling the full image so you can actually get real close to them. It's pretty dirty
So this was probably one of the levels that gave me the most trouble at first when learning it. Like, every screen was just a menace but now it's mostly the red levels which come after this.
You tickled that flower on the way out of the door!
A lot of levels really are just like, learn the route and then they're still hard but they're at
least you know plausible we've got the fast
cycle there nice this is a huge maze that delta skips
we'll do it again this is a huge maze that I'll just skip, see?
And then a long falling screen here at the end
The big thing here is you never want to
dash unless like it's routed in
It's a safety measure but every dash
kinda has a good chance of killing
you because it'll mess up
the cycle later on and it's actually very hard to react at the end here.
Can I humbly ask how its a
safety measure if it almost always kills you?
Uh, its-its instinct
Its like well im in danger i better dash
to get ya know get a little bit more time
to react
or like get to this wall.
But because it messes up
every cycle
um
you just end up dying
a few seconds later
and it's like the worst
of all worlds.
There's a lot of bad habits that you have to immediately stop when you're playing.
Not even running, just playing this game!
Yeah there's just...
As much as this game rewards speed, it also rewards a lot of discipline.
Which I had to...
Yes!
Oh jeez.
I don't know what my death counter is in this game
but
it's probably really high.
I would be shocked if it's not in the tens of thousands.
The cool thing is when you die, it's no time to restart. And most rooms are actually relatively small so it's not a huge impact.
This is, uh...a tough room because if you- It's one of those where if you do any movements
You have to change your whole route entirely
Because it completely adjusts the flower cycles
And I'm always talking about the flower cycles. Just hold Brian on
this screen, that's all!
Um and you go over
to the fat cycle in this one, right? Yep. Right here.
That's really hard by the way!
But that was one that I still remember how hard it was and went like
okay we gotta call this one out in the run.
I love this room, it's the biggest room in the game by far
at least for the regular levels.
And you can just do whatever! Like there are so many routes you can take here
It's a very flexible and adaptable run
You die, it happens sometimes.
But the thing here is as long as you are trying to
keep aware of this goal pathing and
landing on the jump pads that you need to land on,
it's a very open room.
Until you've done a bunch of runs
I'm pretty sure people do
a different route every single time.
I have no idea where I'm at!
There you go, that's a new route
the weird skull route.
I don't know if I've ever seen those skulls
Okay Hello Okay. Hello!
We are in super improv land right now.
Alright, perfect. right now.
Super Improv Land is my favorite 2D platformer, right after Mr. Run
and Jump! Got time for a couple
donations? Yeah, sure.
We've got $25 from Marika that says
greetings from Germany again!
Let's meet this incentive
Elder Scrolls hype
Small but mighty Hiiii! SmallButMighty, I appreciate you 3AM crowd.
I thought smallbutmighty was a username for a second and then I thought that was so cool.
Time for a little bit more? Yep, this is
a good level for it. Perfect! We've got $25
from Anonymous. Donation to help meet Morrowind incentive.
Friendly reminder, utilize any donation matching your company may offer
to help MSF that much more.
We've got $25 from Marco that says,
let's get some more a-wind.
I will not get tired of reading that pun.
If y'all want to donate that pun 100 times
I'll read it 100 times.
We've got $10 from Empty that says mr run and jump is interesting
but what i really want to know is what do those blue doritos taste like it better not be blueberry
cool ranch for sure that's actually coolest ranch, the Undiscovered
Slavery. That was me- that's why
The Void is trying to tear this place apart, it's too powerful
The secret, powerful
cool ranch
There's a little timing trick in there. Alta did a little jump
to perfectly align the flowers, if not this room is actually one of
the hardest rooms to casually get through because finding the alignment for the flowers
while being chased by the void.
I was going to say, I hate it.
I was very mad at it but I felt very good
so good work on the game design
It was a very satisfying career
Alright On onwards to red.
These are all hard levels. Red one is okay but it's still very difficult. This is no new mechanics, it's everything being thrown all at once.
We got frogs, we got worms, we got womps deciding whenever they want to move
and there are a lot of cycles...
Most enemies are pretty okay at this point in terms of being one universal cycle,
but a lot aren't so it's...this is a very tricky section. And there's more thwomps where you just gotta know.
Some of them are gonna look like...
Oh, this is a cool thwomp!
He's got those cool slow skulls,
I love that.
I was really happy
when I saw that.
It's a very silly
section.
But yeah,
a good example
of like looking
at the frogs here
any point they're misaligned, everything gets dangerous.
Always keep your frogs aligned.
Keep your frogs in a row.
I always seem to be drawn to game where there are going to be a frog tormenting me.
It's in this game, it's an Aquapath Traveler, you know...
What is the video game without its frogs
nothing i say
um
let's see
that was a really good red one.
The shortest of them by far, though. These get longer and longer.
They get longer, the screens get longer
And there's a lot of adaptation needed if anything happens pretty much.
Just if the game is played.
And it's got intense music to match That was long one. This enemy up ahead is just gonna wait for reasons.
It's fun watching you, like, sync up with your ghost on the alt-shows.
I put in the ghost for the run
for fun.
Plus it would be hype if I beat one.
Mmm, frog! Okay. Ooh, that was...
I thought it was dead for sure.
Those are the two hardest flumps in the game. I think Tony needed a hand on those.
Yeah, yeah, I had my skip and that was
my ball. I just couldn't handle it on my own.
Also had to hold my hand.
It's important to note that the flumps have very specific ranges for activation,
so when Alta gets up close to one to turn it on
there is a very narrow window you can actually do it in
and it's super easy to run into them or worse not activate them and kind of stop.
So this is all very fun.
The swamp at the end of this room will be an incredibly good example of that
and this is a very cool room
yes beautiful That was good, that was really
good. That was like
two seconds off a PB for an IL which
for a Marathon is incredible
And that last room is very scary to get right.
So Red 3 is by far the hardest level in the run,
in my opinion. It's also the longest. is by far the hardest level in the run,
in my opinion.
It's also the longest.
It's long level,
long screens,
super precise,
lots of different cycles.
Okay. precise, lots of different cycles. Okay. Got the slow squares, I love the slow squares. You just gotta know.
The tricky part about playing this casually too is there's just a lot of things being thrown at you.
So for example, dodging the birds, dodging the worms, getting a cycle with the worms and the birds that lets you survive both of them
Getting to that swamp but also not being killed by a bird because you waited too long.
I think the birds are actually
really kind of the pacemakers here, because
they move instantly, so
you have to build everything around them first and then
you have to make space for all the skulls and tones
i've upgraded into toes by the way that room is a chance to breathe it's one of
the uh is a chance to breathe. It's one of the...
it's just a jumping room, like the vertical rooms are
kind of good for that. You still have to be very fast on the inputs and
timing actually for the dashes is pretty difficult.
If you go too quickly, you don't get enough height off of the dash in the wall jump
so there's still a rhythm to it but it's at least easy
Nice! Very tight cycling Oh, yes! Nice. It's a very tight cycle.
Yeah that was uh...
I think you did this in what? Three worms?
Normally you do it like six casually and
four if your trying to go fast
so that was actually a very good run.
I don't know if I jump in with some love from your community?
Yes.
We've got $25 from Sarah.
It says, morning and good luck, Alta!
So happy to see Mr. Run and Jump on the sgdq stage you are doing amazing
thank you sarah we've also got 25 from o Ozpan that says, Hello! Watching Games Done Quick for years now together with my dog and husband.
We're so hyped for the Morrowind run but also I don't want Mr. Run and Jump to end!
It looks so much fun and the commentary
is great. Greetings from Germany.
Alright, final level.
One more void.
Law Okay, final level. One more void.
Lots of skulls, lots of cool skull sound effects.
We'll get to hear more? Yeah exactly!
Also the audio design in this game is very clear on what's happening.
You know what's going on based off of sounds, it's pretty...
That toe-jump sound effect haunts me.
Yeah and everything from the level design That toe jump sound effect haunts me.
Yeah, everything from the level design to movement and sound design is all very intentional that's something I absolutely adore about this game.
Those skulls dodging those ones he just wanted to like a little pit that's actually
super hard too uh because they move at an angle and very few things like that move at an angle
and they're all hard to dodge um it's just i don't know it's hard to comment on individual levels.
It's like yeah you see all the stuff things run on Alta?
Yeah if he goes slow he dies and if he goes fast
he could die too so he has to do it perfectly
that's my commentary for every room I'm going for.
Alta does it because he is good at the game, it's pretty cool.
Perfect room.
There is no way to avoid any of the red platforms like that one where there is no way I think to avoid any of the bird platforms.
Birds here are a little on the slow side which lets you kind of avoid...
This room's cool because this is just the way you beat the level, like
i don't think there's a casual strat.
I think this is a bit of a breather for you right?
Yeah...
I think it's possible to make that first cycle
I haven't done it but
it's it's there it's they're taunting me
okay i'll take it.
Okay.
Hey, it worked!
Early morning Ultimaises. And early morning altimerses.
And the victory lab screen.
Time's coming up.
Anytime when we hit
the diamond on
the next screen.
You can't still die on this screen,
by the way.
And time.
Alright.
What was time on that? 32-33.
Wow, that's really good actually.
It stumbled a little early but the end game went very well.
Like, I was really happy with how that went.
Thanks y'all for joining me on the couch.
Thanks to Graphite Lab for the support and just making an amazing game.
It's on sale on Steam, check it out!
And that's it from me! Welcome, moons and stars to this place where destiny is made.
I hope you all came prepared because we are about to see a whole lot of Morrowind in just
26 minutes. We're going to do our best to attempt to explain
everything that is going on, we're not gonna get to everything there's a lot that happens
in this speedrun. Of course I'm'm going to introduce my co-commentators
who are going to help me explain everything
that's about to happen. You want to introduce yourselves?
Uh...I'm Forrest, the founder of The Run.
I'm EllaK47. I am a big fan of the game and of the speedrun going back over a decade. So quite awhile.
I'm Zabogo, I played a lot of Morrowind when I was 14, and I talk really fast.
And I also love this category.
Which is both pretty necessary.
Alright we're just going to jump into the game.
Time has not started yet.
Time is going to start in a bit once I get full character control.
But we just wanted to show you all of G-Hub.
Because everyone likes G-Hub.
G-Hub is great.
His ghost is in Skyrim?
Yep!
You get to meet him in the Skyrim DLC.
He takes care of all the cliff racers which we might see one later on. Here comes this
guard I will give a countdown for when time starts.
And you can start time in 3, 2
1, go!
And right off the bat we have what is probably the hardest
strat in the entire run. Nailed it!
Yes, and I'm skipping that guard right there that saves about half a second to a second in the run.
He's slow.
We have another skip here
to try and skip a tutorial box.
Oh, I got that too, nice!
I did not get that at all in practice, great.
Now right here we have character generation
this is a strat that Forrest actually found
where you can position your mouse during the pause menu
I picked Redguard as my race because
Redguards' getting ability knows Adrenaline Rush which makes you move slightly faster,
which will be needed for a jump coming up in a couple of minutes.
In here is the rest of Character Generation and this is Acutious Urgala who was voiced by Wes Johnson.
Big shout out to Wes Johnson! Great guy, I've met him a couple of times.
We are going to be creating a custom class for our character. The reason why is because we need
to get to level 3 later on. Gonna pick these here...
Yeah, and in Morrowind like
any other Elder Scrolls game you level up by increasing
your skills individually so having
the skills that we're gonna use in the run will then let us get to level 3
To complete a quest checkpoint.
Exactly, and here we picked the birth sign of the ste because it makes us go slightly faster
Which is great for speedruns
Now we have a bit of an AI exploit.
Off to the right side
is a limeware platter,
and I'm just going to steal that.
Now stealing is wrong in Morrowind,
but I'm just going to drop it
on the ground.
The guard's going gonna tell me...
Whoops!
Anyway,
I'm just going to put the platter on the ground
and the guard won't be able
to take it back from me
because this is a tutorial
so the game doesn't really give you any consequences
for stealing or anything like that. The Mormon run
is like 90% glitches to get away
with crimes. Exactly
Now here we're going to buy
some lockpicks and some scrolls of teleportation from Aril, so the platter plus a ring that I picked up.
If it all looks correct...
There are several different kinds of teleportation in Morrowind.
There is mark and recall, where you can mark a spot
and then recall back there later.
You also have intervention,
where you can teleport to the nearest temple or fort
depending on which one you use. Right now I'm heading outside of town to a little bit
of an Easter egg. So there is a mage named
Tarheel who I think is from North Carolina
and he invited some scrolls to let him jump really high
and really far but unfortunately he doesn't know how to use them
correctly so he's just going to fall to his death we're going to teleport to Balmora and we know how to use them correctly, so he's just going to fall to his death. We're gonna teleport
to Balmora and we are going to use them correctly
to jump right to the end of the game from here
So far this is still
not a glitch, this is gameplay as
intended. That is all about to change. This is gameplay as intended. That is all about to change
this is what the Axiom Verge community
referred to as a yes major glitches
category, we're going to see
first one in this room
there's a dagger that we are going to equip, and by equipping
and unequiping it really fast
We can cause it to permanently stack
its stat buffs
So if you look at those stats on the top left corner
of the screen, we're aiming for speed.
Those are out of 100.
We're aiming for about 2,900 speed.
3,000 speed?
Cool.
Yep, that'll be fine.
So in case you haven't noticed, the game doesn't know what to do with us anymore. Walls become a suggestion
that we can move through by quick saving. Physics only applies when we want it to and
our footsteps come really fast. This guy... We're killing the lockpick uh it deals integer underflow damage
uh that only works in the 1.0 version of the game uh fortunately for us we don't
need the 1.0 version of the game for the rest of this run
So we're just not gonna use it
So right now I am moving the save file
I just made to the Game Of The Year edition
The reason why is in addition to being a bit more stable
Because they updated it, you also get
a lot of quality-of-life improvements. And so
when ingame time particular, it's actually
faster to swap versions of the game
Shout out to mid run patching
He has also by the way so lucky
in game that basically
anything he does just
works. Any lock
pick no matter how hard it is, he can also barter and
No matter what happens basically the vendor will accept
The deal. So...
And speaking of vendors we are about to head to everyone's favorite merchant creeper.
For we're going to be selling him some gold that I'm gonna
steal out this crate here but because I am out-of-bounds
no one notices. The game cares
whether your head is out-of-bounds. Exactly!
So you can kill people or you can steal steal things uh you can do anything you want
as long as your head is clipping outside of the terrain we are going to abuse that so much we
think i think we go out of bounds like 50 times in 20 minutes in this run?
Yeah, about that. Anyway, I just bought a bow
and some arrows. We're going to be using those
to kill people from out-of-bounds a whole bunch during the run
And this here is the temple
from Balmora we jump to the end of the game from. I'm going to be buying some spells in here that are going to help us out later.
Yeah, so...the worst part of every Elder Scrolls game is an escort quest. We can skip three of them with a pair of really cool shoes we'll talk about later.
One is unskippable, the only way to deal with it
is create a spell that will permanently enchant an NPC
to make them faster.
So we're making that spell now Later later on we're gonna hit some guy
with it just to give him the zoomies so that he can get through the hardest escort sequence
of the game. Queuing up some hotkeys getting ready to party we now have every tool we need
uh to beat all main quests pretty much yep so now i'm heading back to say the
name because there's a fetch quest in Ancestral Tomb just outside of Seidaneen.
So we're going to go to that early and grab an item from there.
Yeah the person who wants this item will tell us where it is later but
we know where it is because we've played this game
before um so we're gonna do every main quest in the game but not necessarily in the correct sequence
if this right here is kais gosades he is going to be our main quest giver for the first part of the main quest.
He has given us a quest to go outside of town to fetch a small puzzle box, which is over here in Arching Finds.
Some of you may remember Snowy Grananius, we played this game casually
We just flew over him. Goodbye. If you don't remember Snowy Granius
he is an old man with a skeleton who is like the first real
gear check in the game. He is
a casual nightmare, and we don't
even think about him. Yep, absolutely.
Anyway, we've got the puzzle box. We're going to get some information
from an NPC in the Fighters Guild
about the sixth house, which I'll talk about later this game does have
a plot um if you can read really quickly you'll be able to follow along or I guess
you can watch the vod later at like one 100 speed. this is the part we had to level up
to level three so instead of like practicing or playing
the game we're just cashing out with our shirtless uh boss
um and then we're gonna take a power nap later on to level the level three all
at once yeah we've just set up the level up we're also having a little bit of a rave here because
there were a whole bunch of fightings and fans that were supposed to happen but they didn't
because we went fast and so so it just happened now.
Anyway, now we're going to head to the Mage's Guild
going to buy and sell some items
with Galradia here.
Buying a Soul Gem for later plus some
Scrolls. That was the best place for that to be.
And this NPC downstairs is
the one who needs the skull we got from the Ancestral Tomb.
They're going to tell us about
the Nerevarine Cult. I'm going to buy
levitation from this NPC. This is a bit of
a safety strat, it's not quite the most optimal but
it's more safe. It's so worth it! Exactly. Now I'm going to head
to Aldruin to set up another glitch for escort quests.
See in three
escort quests in the main quest
there's a part of the script for that escort quest
where if you manage to get to it
by casting a spell twice on an NPC, you can actually insta-pass that escort
quest.
This is my favorite glitch in the game. We make a pair of magic shoes and if you hit
someone with them twice they think you've solved their problem.
Exactly.
We're going to use it pretty soon too, right?
The first time we use it is coming
right up.
Next quest.
Level Up.
You realize this was just the start of
your grand adventure? Yep!
So now we have a quest to go to the city of Vivec and get yet more information, you may be sensing
a bit of a trend here with Caius. So the first one is going to be an escort quest if i can get in the door
here doors are very much the enemy and a speed run yeah this argonian isn't a bar he doesn't want
to be in this part but we didn twice with the shoes and he realized that he had the power
To leave the bar all along. So
That was useful. We just helped him out. Helped out a homie
Yep. Now this right here... The second NPC has some problem with their taxes.
This is a tax man and we're just going to kill him
and I guess those problems aren't a problem anymore?
Yeah, we shot him without a bounce which makes it not a crime.
Exactly.
Walls are just suggestions they
are solid one way and we don't even care about that
one way because we're so fast this is the library here there's an npc
in here who's going to tell us about a book,
The book also happens to be in the library. I'm gonna try and get my head out of bounds
this probably not gonna work but I'm way too fast for the guards anyway
Yeah you can stick your skull inside of that pillar
And then they don't notice that
you're disembodied floating torso just took a library book
yep all right so kais is giving us another quest to get more information
this one is about the series of nomadic tribes called the Ashlanders.
They live way out in a region called The Ashlands, of course
and we are going to learn about their gift-giving customs
Morrowind has some like high key Dune fanfiction
going on through most of the plot.
So we basically have to go and meet the religious zealots who live in the distant deserts
And convince them that we are the Messiah.
Yes, and that's actually what Caius told us about. Now that we have actually talked
to all those folks who got information, Caius has told us that the Emperor thinks
he may be reincarnation of a War General from 1000 years ago.
And if that is the case, we have a very important destiny
to fulfill. So now we are going to head
out to the Ashlands and talk to the Ashlanders
and see if they know anything about what exactly
we need to do to fulfill this prophecy.
They're going to send us on a fetch quest to grab a bow from this ancestral tomb,
and so we're just gonna go ahead
and grab that right now.
Just kill Grandpa's ghost
and take his bow?
Exactly.
Also fun fact, that town he fast traveled to i just learned this year it's not pronounced cool or anything like that. Yeah, KH.
There's a boat from there if you have any reason to go.
You don't.
Anyway, now we've grabbed the bow and are going to head to the Ashlander camp.
First we have some nice teeths for Phil. Primarily, grabbing this NPC 2000 gold so
we can talk to the leader.
200 Gold.
Yeah, two thousand's a lot.
Gotta make some donations.
Yep. So here is the Leader of the tribe. We told him hey guess what we got the bull already
And he said all right go talk to the wise woman
Now what the wise one is going to tell us is that we haven't quite fulfilled the entire prophecy yet
But we do have the potential to fulfill the prophecy later. Now what would happen
next is that we'd have a very long
and very annoying fetch quest to go to
cave, and then that would give us location of
another cave, but because we are speedrunners
, I know exactly where that cave is already! But because we are speedrunners, and I've done this like a thousand times
I know exactly where that cave is already
It's that black patch on the right side of the map there
That I'm heading towards
And in this cave is a statue
This statue will give us a ring
But it has to be uh 6 00 am so we got to wait for
well in real time about an hour and 20 minutes yeah now anyway what just happened there was we skipped a cutscene that set up the rest of the main quest.
We have to have all four Ashlander tribes name us Nerevarine and all three great houses name us Hortator.
That vampire I just killed is part of one of the Nerebrae quests
and it's thunderstorming my goodness
Yeah sorry audio
The weather just happens sometimes
There is there is one crash that we've dodged already, but there's a...
If you do the big jump during a thunderstorm
You'll jump into a cell that can't have thunderstorms
And then the game will just refuse to continue also i think it's something to do
with like too many rain sprites or whatever yeah anyway that was one of the counselors
of house tovani um he was supposed to vote for me for horta tor but that takes a while so we
just didn't bother and killed him instead
so it doesn't count.
Murder is an appropriate form of career advancement.
Yep!
Yeah, it's actually the best way to deal with almost every single Telvanni
counselor and is encouraged by the guy who was first
killed. So we just do that
from out of bounds because...
Why not? Yeah.
Murder from out of bounds is apparently
okay in this universe.
It is part of the Talvanni custom that if you beat
your opponent in a duel, you are right
by default. And so we have
done that. Anyway now we're going to head to
Aldruin and take care of the Redoran Horde to our quest.
The way this quest works is that the son of one of the councillors has basically been kidnapped by the Head of House Redoran
so we are going to go rescue him and by doing that we
garner favor with all the other counselors except one
we will deal with him later so this is that one escort quest i was talking
about we can't skip we have now made this kid just
permanently really fast.
And so he is going to follow us at ludicrous speed.
The problem is,
He doesn't know how to steer himself at ludicrous speeds.
So this is actually a pretty sketchy split.
He can get stuck on railings, banisters, guards, light posts...
Pretty much anything because he's running at a speed the game didn't intend him to go.
Look at that! Isn't it wonderful?
It's also worth mentioning that being in third-person mode does cap your speed,
so it makes some of this more precise maneuvering much more manageable.
There we go. All right, you got it.
So how do we have done that,
We basically just have to talk
To all the other councillors of
House Rederan and garner
Favor with them
And get their votes
So this would actually be
A really great time for donations
Beth if you've got any
Oh I have so many there's so much love
coming in for this run and so much love coming in for that any percent run which we only have
just over two thousand dollars do you meet to get oh i'm sorry as I was saying it, we now have...
Oh my gosh!
Just over $1,500 left to get that incentive.
Oh, let's go!
And everyone is showing so much love with that five dollar donation train.
We have five dollars from anonymous who said one
ticket to the more elder scroll speedruns train please 25 from citizen giant who said
five tickets to the morrowind train greetings from japan
we all said five dollars from daniel who said greetings from nor. We also had $5 from Daniel who said
greetings from Norway hope we get the Morrowind
any percent and good luck to all
the runners. We also have some love
specifically coming in for you Musical Daredevil
we have $100 from John who says i woke up so early to catch
your run that i disturbed my cat's sleep for a change on behalf of everyone back home
we're proud of you and we hope you're having a great time at GDQ. WMGSO, together strong! Thanks that's my orchestra back
in DC anyway that actually wraps up the Red Run Hortator quest now we're going to head
back to Balmora for a bit of a side diversion.
See, Kais and his Blades agents have found the base of the Sixth House
And they want us to go take out the Head Priest
The Sixth House are the main villains of Morrowind
Especially if you play Vanilla If your speedrunning, the main enemies of Morrowind, especially if you play vanilla. If you're speedrunning,
the main enemies are doors and candles but they aren't the enemies of the vanilla game
and their leader Dagoth Ur is slowly trying to take over the province of Morrowind
and eventually the entire world so we are going to try and stop that.
Navigate through here... That is not the bow
but it's alright. Yeah,
So we're gonna shoot this guy from out of bounds again.
Yep. Have to make sure I don't go inbounds or else dialogue happens. There we go.
And with his dying breath, he has cursed us with Corpus Disease which is a pretty nasty disease that slowly disfigures you and eventually kills you. And we now
death that. Does it kill you? I thought it just made you
into like an immortal squid guy
who's like a brain puppet of the evil
god that lives in the heart of Red Mountain
I know in some cases it kills folks, but yeah,
some people become an octopus. It's weird.
This is a really normal fantasy
RPG game. Yes, exactly.
Anyway, while
Kaisen and his Blades agents get to work on trying to find a cure for Corpus
which is supposedly incurable we're just going to take care of the Arabian Sumnerivarine.
The way this quest works is there are whole bunch of warlike people who are in charge
of this tribe and we're just gonna kill all them and then make someone else in charge of this tribe, and we're just gonna kill all of them
and then make someone else's head of the tribe instead who likes us more.
I don't need to loot anything from you.
I am looting a whole bunch of items from these folks because once we need to talk to the
person that made them the head of the tribe, we need to throw a bunch person who made them head of the tribe,
We need to throw a bunch of items at them and yell at them
And then they're gonna become the head of the tribe
And then we're going to become Nerevarine
Yeah this-the basic plot of this quest is like
You murdered all of my friends.
I guess you're the messiah.
Please leave this town and never come back but thanks for
giving me my dad's shirt.
Exactly.
Here he is.
He has his dad's shirt.
There it is.
It's looking really, really trippy.
Whoops! Okay.
So now we are actually going to try and get our Corpus taken care of.
Kaisa's Blades agents think they might have found a cure for corporates and that is here in telfir uh yeah telphia is terrifying this is the split where runs go to die uh the curvier an
object is the hardest to clip through.
And these mushroom houses are made of the curves.
The lamps are miserable.
The walls are miserable.
The doors are miserable.
The people are miserable.
Everything about this split is just painful.
If you've played this game,
It's bad even at normal speed.
And there are soft locks in it and the bounding box is weird
so if you fly out of bounds there
you can get a black screen
and have to reload a safety save
Yeah, Telfreer is the worst
We did just talk to The last living dwarf there if any of you have played this game or skyrim you
know how big of a deal is that we just talked to with dwarf
yeah a little blink and you'll miss it there
you already did miss it actually.
But anyway we are going back to Telphir, we take the Corpus Cure
And what do you know? It actually works on us! The main character of all people
Actually turns out being able to be cured with Corpus is part of the Nerevarine Prophecy.
Oh, Big Thunder!
Yep. Anyway that right there is Nelof. He's supposed to come back in his Skyrim DLC but he is canonically dead so sorry to all of you Dragonborn DLC fans,
you can't complete that now. Whoops! Yeah, rip.
Anyway in here is Gothrin. The game actually tells you are supposed to kill
Gothrin, he's never going to vote for us being named Nerevarine
and right here is the trolliest door in
entire game and I got that extremely quickly
Nice!
Hate that door. Last instance of
shoes we're gonna get this lady married by hitting her with the shoes.
Yep, she is now the bride of the head of the Zynapt tribe.
Congratulations.
Daredevil's way nicer than I am.
I leave her cage locked.
So she's married and trapped in a cage in someone else's
wizard tower for eternity, but
you know, it is a little less consistent
when there's a cage locked.
Okay.
Here is my nap tribe. I've been here before.
Alright so now that I have done that
we are going to go back to Caius for one
final quest. You may remember
a while back when we stole that book from the library
and it was a whole thing with the guards,
when we talked to Mara Milo.
Well, Mara Milo is now in jail and we're going to break her out of jail.
See, Mara Milo is part of a faction
known as the Distant Priest.
I'm gonna talk about that later
but first we are going to kill the head of the third of
the great houses house lalu see the head of house lalo is actually allied with
dagothir and so he's never going to vote for spinae in their marine and so there
he goes and he's also intimidating two of the
other counselors into not supporting you.
Yeah, and now we get to intimidate the counselors by showing them his severed head.
Exactly.
This is like good normal healthy elf politics.
Just how things go here in Bardenfell, I guess.
Anyway...
Now you may remember when we
did House of Redoran, the head of House of Redoran
actually challenged us to a duel to the death.
Well, I'm just going to bonk him on the head here and now he's dead. That was the hardest fight in
the game. Yep. Not even
joking.
In here is another counselor of House Flaulu
yingling half-drill. He makes us pay him a thousand gold
which is a lot of dialogue so it's way faster to kill him.
So I'm just going to do that. There he goes.
In here is another counselor all you have to do is find him.
This is really funny. They actually put two different cells in that one cell
so you go through the wrong door and then fly out-of-bounds They actually put two different cells in that one cell,
so you go through the wrong door and then fly out of bounds
into his house, into the next-door house,
and that's where he's actually at.
This counselor is really, really easy to forget
because they're kind of located all the way, Vivek?
Yeah, they just
want to farm mushrooms and be left in peace.
Exactly. And now that we have done that with
Asalalu, we are going to go break Varamala of Jail
which is actually just a giant floating meteor.
Now, the dissident priests have an alternate account of this war
general that we are the reincarnation of but the temple doesn't really like this
account because it kind of goes against all of their preachings and so they are
jailing all the dissent priest but we've
just broken Miramaila out of jail.
We're actually going to go meet the distant priest at their secret base
and to do that we are going to use a passphrase which is going fishing
Hey can I hop in for second? Sure just let you know that we are under $1,000 away from getting the any% run. Let's keep those donations coming in. Let's keep those trains going.
This is... We do not have a lot of time left this is this run is going well and it is fast anyway we just
got that alternate account to the war general now we have a couple quests that we can do in kind
of any order the first one i'm going to do is talking
to the last living counselor of house sovani if i did everything correctly
that is now she's a bit hard of hearing and so
she's going to rant about spiders and eggs
and other things but but I guess it counts.
Good job concealing little Kandal nudity
on that there, could you?
Concealed by the map! Anyway...
Now we're going to turn in House Redoran and it turns out
the new leader of House Redoran since we killed their
leader by mocking them on the head is actually
the counselor whose son we've saved so they're gonna name
us Hortator no problem
So these are the final checkpoints before we're allowed
to go and
not actually kill
the final boss of the game, but break his robot.
Yeah, we're going to break his robot.
This is actually a mech game in case you didn't know.
Anyway now we have the new leader of House Hlalu now they killed their old leader that is Crassius Curio who's rather interesting character and author. Yes, and
author and playwright. You might have read
his play if you've played Skyrim or this game.
Yeah, all he wants is a kiss.
He doesn't care who you are. He's like really just
a pansexual icon. Yep. to crashes curio and now that we
have done that i have gotten yeah pause for applause there anyway we have been named near
varine of all four ashlander tribes and tortureortator of all three great houses, so we can now talk to the false god Didek who's going to give us the final quest.
And that is to take out the leader of the Sith House Dagoth Urr.
And now that we've done that, We have fulfilled all of the requirements
Of all main quests and so we can just go back
To the center of the map Red Mountain
And defeat Dagoth Ur
Alright. We are very close to time here
So if you are still on the fence about that any percent
donation, get that in now.
Get that in.
Less than $200 to go.
All right.
Oh.
Less than $100 to go.
Let's go.
Oh it's a race.
Let's go. Come race. Let's go.
Time is coming up in like 30 seconds.
Alright, this is the final boss here.
Time will be as soon as I lose character control.
Use it slowly. Come on. Yeah, I messed up a little bit.
Get stuck on that rock!
And... Oh, time!
Come on, four bucks?
Three dollars.
Three dollars? Let's go!
You're at 99% of the way there to any percential and what's the stipend donation yeah we are getting that bonus
80 run thank you so much everybody who donated to that incentive turns out we still do bear
the burden of prophecy and we are not yet free because you were about to see
uh that whole thing done in less time than it would take the halo 3 crew
to beat the four of us in a nostalgia death match it would not take long i am not very good at halo halo
was not my fps of choice yeah no we all spent our xbox years playing morrowind
yep exactly i was a vehicle specialist oh and, nice. I would go down quickly.
I used to drive the Scorpion up the back
of Blood Gulch and then pretend that
it wasn't my fault and my friends got mad at me.
But anyway, thank you all
so much for donating towards that incentive.
Especially getting it right toward the end there. What a finish to that run!
Now we just finished Morrowind in 26 minutes where we did
All of the main quests but You don't have to do of the main quests. But you don't have to do
all the main quests.
We jumped to the end of the game,
got the two items
we need to beat the game.
We then veered off
and did all the main quests
because that's the requirements
of the route.
Then we came back to Red Mountain as you may remember and then defeated the final boss. But you don't have to veer off from the ending
no! You can just go straight to the final boss after you get those two items
And that is exactly what all of you have donated for we also
don't have to patch nope we go now one right out yeah
and you will once again get to hear over applause. The three
different dialogue
playing at the same
time, because there's
I believe two from Dagoth Ur and then one
from Azura all playing at the same time.
Yep, it's great.
But you finished the run.
Yeah 2001 Bethesda didn't have a huge budget for voice acting so they made sure that
you couldn't skip any of the lines so you just get to hear them all layer.
It's really wonderful.
You're possible with a Kirkly, right?
Thanks for the chat.
That's going to mess up your menuing a little bit.
Yep.
And it is gonna mess me up which I thought about making that incentive but decided not to for that reason.
Alright, gonna give another countdown for the timer
you can start the timer in three two one let's go we have another guard skip
here twice in a row!
Two for two, baby!
Another hatch skip.
All right.
Yeah, we are back in character creation.
One thing we did not mention
in character creation the first time around
is the other thing that determines how fast you go
is how long your legs are.
This game syncs up movement speed
to the walk cycle.
So sorry, Short Kings, you are officially suboptimal
um we have some history around that too right you had a run where you were yeah i did the
argonian for one of the gdp runs it is really slow because they're walk cycles like
janky so when you're in third person you just go way slower than i'm used to
it looks really funny in the escort quest that we skipped when you have the Argonian going really fast.
Also, um...the one thing uh...that we haven't mentioned about speed is that it's faster to go at diagonal like it is in a lot of games uh from this era and older
uh that's just you know you're going in two directions at once and they didn't
normalize things yes so you move with the square root of two times your normal movement speed.
Yeah, it's fun.
You weren't expecting trigonometry in your Morrowind run, but you donated,
so you got it.
I'm only a little bit sorry. donated so you got it. Your papers.
I'm only a little bit sorry.
Anyway, one thing that was a bit different in there is
that we didn't have to make a custom class because we don't
need to be level 3 for the 80% run run so i just picked a pre-made one
in there so the guy fall out of the sky we mentioned the uh the tar hill his name is
tarheel he's not the only uh unc duke rivalry eas Easter egg in this game.
Morrowind is full of references to late 90s and early 2000s college basketball
for some unguessable reason.
My favorite, there's a sword named Elton Brand
and when you equip it the game pops
up a window that tells you to go
to Hell Carolina.
But here he is.
There he goes.
And we're off yep here we go again quick mid-air donation
i sincerely apologize i was not ready for the quick midair donation.
It was great.
Well, shout out to Woolboy.
Ash said hi!
Donated $20 and says welcome moon and star to this place where TVs
are made good luck musical daredevil so excited for your run well it's almost
over so thanks for the good luck we're doing
the thing again where we under put the dagger to go really fast
now the nice thing is that i don't actually have to worry as much about
what number i get too in all main quests if you get above 3
000 it starts to get a bit unstable collision gets weird but because this run is so
short I don't really have to care about that as much so 3300 is totally fine here yeah just
don't hit like 5 000 the wheels fall off like more than they already have.
He's been lockpicked.
Yep. Grab that.
We're going to head back to Aldruin kind of like before and then
we're just gonna head straight back to Red Mountain.
Oh!
That's fun.
Yeah, was that the disease?
That's what happens if you get hit while you're in midair
sometimes it just causes that blood spider
It's a well-known bug.
Nice, I don't do any of that in South.
Yeah, I remember that happening a good few times.
Now time is going to be slightly longer because
I don't have Mark and Recall like i had before but i will do the cue
slightly is a very relative terminal speed running by the way so still almost there and
time time.
And now we're actually free.
Yep.
So y'all probably couldn't hear it because you know, you were applauding cause it was call time.
But there are basically three different lines of dialogue all playing at the same
time. There two lines from Dagoth Eirr one from his first phase
one from a second and a line from Azura.
It's great.
It's wonderful.
Anyway, that's Morrowind.
Thank you all very much.
Thank you very much to the GDQ Games Committee
for bringing this game back after its last appearance
at AGQ19 when Forrest ran it. A couple of shoutouts, thank you
very much to Of course Forrest for routing this and creating the All May Quest route
Thank you to Volvulus,
the current world record holder who has actually mentored me quite a bit
in being able to get fast on this run
and show you everything I showed you today.
Also, big shout out to Kronos
who is basically in charge of our Discord and a lot of parts
of the Greater Elder Scrolls community.
Kronos ran Halo 3 last night, an extremely hype run that will be up once again for Baldur's
Gate 3 today?
Tomorrow? Tomorrow.
Tomorrow, exactly. Is it tomorrow yet?
Tomorrow when... yeah.
I can't claim yet. Exactly.
Anything the three of you want to say?
Not really,
Morrowind is a great game
if you wanna play it casually
OpenMW's a good way
to play it casually. It's also in the Humble Bundle right now, so you can grab
it with that, with the GDQ Humble Bundle.
I would like just give a quick appreciation
to everyone who rolled out at stupid o'clock
in the morning to come watch us play this game.
Thanks, Matt Couch.
Thanks, 104, for being my family away from home.
Y'all are the best.
And Forrest, you have a run coming up later today.
Yes I'll be racing Yellow Taxi Ghost Room at like 4pm
Yep so definitely check that out and I will also be over there
At the hosting desk where Spef currently is early Saturday morning
so definitely check those runs out as well but I think that's gonna do it for
us and get hyped for our next run. Thank you all so much.
Alright, what is up
everyone? Welcome back. As they mentioned we are running Fire Emblem the Circus Stone specifically
We're running the E-Frame route. This game was actually showed on GDQ about six years ago but that that showed the Erika route. So I'm very happy to show
the other side of this game six years later. Joining me on the couch, I have the lovely Pleasantly
Twisted if you want to introduce yourself hi everybody i'm pleasantly
twisted or as many might know me as pt i am once again on the couch here
to clown around and provide some useful commentary but
i am mostly here to just kind of hang out with a snotty and see what this
run is all about especially since i just learned how to pronounce it as of 20 seconds ago so
and neither of us are going to hit our mics anymore because I accidentally smacked the crap out of it. But so this is actually the second game released into the Western market. This is actually the eighth Fire Emblem in total though, and this
is the third on the GBA franchise. And with that being said let's just go ahead and hop into
the run time's going to start on file select so can we get a countdown? five four three two one go
all right so this is uh fire emblem if you don't know, Fire Emblem's a tactical role-playing game
The TLDR is that I do a turn and then they do a turn
And we just go back and forth
It's really simple gameplay
But what happens at the very beginning of the game is that
we are aligned with the nation of Rhenus,
we are controlling Princess Erika
and her retainer Seth
and basically
the nation of Grado has invaded us, who we were friends with for so long
And then they're like actually we ain't friends anymore. We running it down
So now instead of running it down, We're running it away to Freylia
Because uh...we don't want to die
Smile. So we are running away
And then also we will loot back down
Because our brothers and like
Enemy territory whatever If you've all seen any other Fire Emblem
games, uh, you know that there's a lot of this
thing called RNG in Fire Emblem games
and I'm very proud to tell you
we got none of that here!
Everything you're about to see is predetermined,
and you know that saying
we've never seen it before?
We have seen it before!
And we are going to keep seeing it.
This is the primary method of what we are going to keep seeing it. And this is the primary method of what
we're going to do, all that little weird circle around
thing I just did was me redrawing the cursor.
And essentially what happens whenever
you redraw the cursor in this game, you burn a set of random numbers. So
whenever you load into the game for the first time and create a new file, you get like let's
just say four random numbers. If you manipulate these four random
numbers in a specific way every single time
on repeat, uh, you will get the same outcome
every single time and that is
exactly what we're doing.
And so this has a lot of implications
because there's many things
that these numbers can influence,
and by many things I mean basically everything
you could think of.
Most notable ones is hitting and
if you hit or not, if you crit or not, things of that nature
And so I do want to bring out...or bring up rather
the routing aspect of the game because
uh let's be for real i i didn't write this
i'm dumb as bricks i ain't doing any of this i ain't smart enough to do this
i'll be so real
uh so i am definitely standing on the shoulders from very many smart Fire Emblem runners such as Kirby Masta and the other Fire Emblem crew but...
So what they did when they were running this game is that, you know...
We can manipulate crits. Let's be very clear we can do that
I could crit every single enemy if i wanted to
Now probably not me because i couldn't figure out
What cursor redraw would do
But you know, i could But you're gonna notice a lot of times we
actually don't because uh at the end of the day this is still a speed run so a lot of times
we're just getting hit him twice because that's faster than like you know doing the whole
you know and redrawing it like a billion times right because at the end of day we're still
about speed and not about swag unfortunately uh hate to it, but this is Seth right here on the screen
middle guy he's going to be our primary ball handler basically Fire Emblem likes
give you a pre-promoted unit at the beginning of runs.
These units normally fall off later on in the game,
however Seth is a little different because
A it's Seth and if you know anything about Seth
he's a ridiculous unit
in this game. But also
we can manipulate level
ups so we can get certain
levels and certain abilities
that will basically make us stronger, but we will talk about that in a second
because right now we are going to flash the screen. Don't worry about that.
And then...
We're gonna go to the shop because we just got some money
and we are going to spend all of it. Not all of it
but like most of it
and we are going to buy these things called Javelins
Essentially in this game you have
melee range and you have range-range as they say. Basically the whole
goal of this run is to minimize player turns as much as possible which means that we want
to be able to counter attack enemies
that can attack us from a two ranger way. So like Nemi has
a bow, she just attacked that wall there
light years away by light years I literally mean
two spaces away
but javelins allow us to attack enemies from melee range and range
and the only caveat with uh these uh javelins is that
uh they are pretty weak weapons and they're also inaccurate
but again, doesn't matter if they're inaccurate we're never going to
miss. Ever. But
another thing since they are weak
we will be swapping
We won't be killing
everything with Javelin. Just like most things
Like 90% of things
So, since we have a moment i wanted to ask a couple of questions so for those who don't know
i actually have never played fire emblem proper but i have played valkyria
chronicles i have played final fantasy tactics i have played many ofyria Chronicles, I have played Final Fantasy Tactics.
I've played many of the tactical style RPGs
and there's a few things that
I wanted to ask Nostani about
what we still have going on
on our screen so first of all
as I see you getting XP
every single time
is that on an individual basis
or like a team basis? Because I know you have your OP character who's carrying real hard.
It is individual, so only Seth is getting the experience. So none of our other units are basically going to be getting any experience ever.
Oh!
Which is fine, because we're just gonna run it down with Seth which is why I said that he's our primary ball handler
And I wanted to go back to what I said before where we can manipulate level ups.
So in this game there are 8 stats, but we do not care about 8 stats
We care about 3 stats and those stats are strength skill and speed
Strength obviously you need to be able to
hit people and do damage to kill them
And then
basically the order of importance is
Speed is actually one of the least important
just because Seth is already such a fast unit that we don't really
have to put that many points
into speed. So we're really prioritizing
strength so that we can hit people
and then skill. And basically what skill
is for every two points of skill that you have
You get one point of crit. That's just the super key LDR
Basically it's really important because we need to be able to crit certain enemies
and if you have a 0% chance of crit
you multiply that by anything. It's zero. That's the only math
I can do. But this is Vanessa, and
she just flew over water which
Seth cannot do. Seth cannot swim
Bro will drown
live on camera
and by that he just can't traverse it at all
but
so Vanessa's really important
because she's a flying unit um and so that's why i said that seth is our
primary ball handler for now because there's a bunch of things that you see
on your screen on the far left side you see these things called mountains. Seth can't even move over those
and then there is forest and basically forest inhibits Seths movement
so like if he moves over forest, he will lose like a point
of like movements. Instead of moving eight spaces we'll move like
seven or six blah blah blah who cares uh this is a kill all map there are monsters on the map
just don't worry about the monster aspect of this
uh but basically what we're doing
on this map is that we are splitting up all
our units and we
are basically sending Seth into
the main juncture, and you're gonna
see this a lot on Kill All maps where we spread out our units
pretty thin so that we can, you know, kill everyone in the four corners rather than have Seth like
go all the way to the left and all the way to the right, right? We just dumb it down
keep it simple. And speaking of keep it simple, let's keep it simple.
And speaking of keep it simple let's keep it simple with some donations
here throughout the rest of this level.
This would be a good time because I'm literally just holding down
the A button waiting for these guys to die.
Alright well while you were holding down that a button we have
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Love you too.
And I guess
we'll take it over from here because we're basically at the end.
If you ever notice me looking down,
it's because I have eight pages of notes in front of me.
Just don't worry about it.
So in this next chapter, we are going to be introducing
basically another new mechanic and
we're gonna use a decent amount of it. Well I guess it is technically a mechanic
anyway who cares? Anyway, the new thing that we're going to be doing...
Wow, we haven't done it yet.
Well, actually, we did do it.
I just lied to you.
Anyway, who cares?
Whatever.
We're about to rescue people.
We're gonna rescue chain people.
I'm gonna keep yapping and' and just like completely confuse PT.
Uh as much as possible it's really necessary.
So what we are going to do here is that I am going to unequip Seth from everything because
I do not want him to hit anything and then I'm gonna pick up Vanessa
But the thing is that Seth cannot pick up and put down Vanessa in the same motion
So I have to take Vanessa from Seth and put her down
The reason that we're doing this is
This is called Rescue Chaining
which basically means, instead of
like doing this map in four turns
I do it in three. That's all you really need to know
You can't pick up and put the the same person on the same turn.
Uh,
you have to use two other units,
uh,
to pick up and put down the same unit.
Nostani?
Yeah?
Do you know my real name?
Uh,
no.
My real name is Vanessa.
You have been absolutely terrifying me every time you mention this character's name.
It was like, so Vanessa can fly? I was like, whoa!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Vanessa can fly both in-game and in real life. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa chill but also i was going to make a
comment about seth because imagine being the main carry of this and not being able to go over
mountains or water it couldn't be me people have been saying this it couldn't be me imagine being
a man carrying is like what's a mountain nah i can't go okay cool cool cool cool cool cool
um well if you notice notice that last battle
That was a kill the boss chapter which is why I unequipped Seth
Because for kill-the-boss chapters we don't need to kill anything else besides the boss
So why kill anything if you don't need to?
And so that's what we did, we can basically trade between enemies...
or not enemies, we can trade between allies and we can basically unequip ourselves whenever
we want but this is chapter 5x, this is Ephraim. Say hello to Ephraim! Hello!
Hello! I'm looking at you guys.
And he- This is the route that we're gonna take at the chapter 9 split but for now this is
a Chapter 5X.
X chapters in Fire Emblem are known as Gaiden Chapters which Gaiden Chapters literally just
translates to side story in English so So these are side chapters, these
were normally optional in Fire Emblem games but this one is not optional because you have
to be introduced to Ephraim cause otherwise how would you know him and how would
you like pick his route? You know...whatever. Anyway so this is a seas map, uh you're gonna see you know, whatever.
Anyway, so this is a seize map.
You're going to see a lot of these
because they love
to be seasoned.
PT, I have a question
for you though.
What do you think
is about to happen
because I need to get
to the throne room
as quickly as possible?
What do you think is the best manner that I'd use this thing? Oh, no.
Well, looking at it... Whoa!
Yeah. So what do you think? Just keep going.
Oh, okay. I mean, I was gonna say
probably go murder some men and then just go down through the throne room
But the screen is white and I'm scared. Yeah, that's true
What we're actually going to do is we're actually just gonna move everyone out of my way
Oh this is because I'm gonna control all the enemies.
Oh, okay. I mean that works too? That's super valid. Sometimes you just gotta move people
you don't like. I completely get that. People have been saying this for years.
It be that way sometimes, you're in the way I'm not going to box you but I am gonna move
you. Speaking of moving people, I'm moving everyone
This is enemy control glitch, so
why am I able to do this?
That was almost bad. So basically there are these things
called actor tiles.
And these actor tiles,
basically the TLDR is that if an enemy waits on an actor tile
you can soft reset the game
and if you soft reset the game
it's my turn now mine! And then you take over. Basically, we can create actor
tiles in different ways. What we did here is if you create an actor tile by,
you can create actor tiles by opening doors.
And so that's what we did.
We opened the door and by opening
the door we created a actor tile in
the top left hand corner of the map
and then that actor tile is what we activate.
And basically by software setting in the game I hold A B
select and start and then I'll hold start which is why you saw
that the screen just holds because you can hold it for like as long
as you want.
Normally from now on we're just going to flash the screen.
It's not going to be very drawn out.
But and now we are out of the woods
because there is a thing with soft reset, which I will actually discuss in a second
because I just forgot that. We have to go more shopping because we have to do the torch staff
I'll discuss this later, just don't worry about it.
Anyway so this is the torch staff. We're gonna light
it up similar to Elliot we're going to unleash our weapon
but our weapon is the torch staff
and this is really OP Remember how I told you that we can activate enemy control glitch in multiple different ways?
Yes. This is one of them. So, we can just create actor tiles at will.
We're just that powerful, you know...
Don't worry about it.
And so, that's exactly what we are going to do because this is Chapter 6, Victims of War
This is a really hard chapter But we are completely trivialize this chapter six, Victims of War. This is a really hard chapter but we're going to completely trivialize
this chapter and it's probably gonna piss off almost every
single person at home because especially when you play
this game on hard mode, this map sucks. This is what I was
talking about. If you make a mistake in this game and you
do not commit to an action, you can soft reset the
game and then your RNG is not completely
screwed. If you commit to the action
you are completely screwed and you have to restart the chapter.
But luckily I cut that so we're back and don't have to restart the whole chapter.
And this is a two-turn of one of the hardest maps in the game.
Smile, yeah just move the boss out.
I think one of my favorite things that I've seen so far when you're moving enemies
So in the previous map where you were in the castle and you're like, we're going to move enemies
once you actually got back into combat and you started
moving towards your goal, enemies were trying
to catch up with you like, hold on, wait! Time out!
Stop! And they're chasing after you
it's like, no dog, you gotta stay back there
that's where you've been this whole time, be easy and they're like chasing after you just like no dog you gotta stay back there
yeah that's where you've been this whole time be easy chill out
you're fine and so uh if you all notice the keen eye among you is that
among us Is that Among Us?
We're not using Seth...
We're not using Seth on this map. This is because Seth, again, cannot swim, will drown, he'll just fall in the water
super helpless but unfortunately for us we have Vanessa who
is not super helpless both on the couch and again in the game.
And so we're gonna...
Erica has this weapon called The Rapier,
it has the might of seven
and basically how this works is that
her sword is super effective against horses.
Bye!
Oh wow, gonna rename that the horse slayer
There is a weapon in this game actually called the horse slayer which is actually super effective against, except it's a lance.
Actual item in the game though.
Oh!
We can play this.
We're good.
It's Gucci.
What am I doing here?
Yeah, this. You're flying Vanessa!
Alright. Sometimes you just forget the moves because
you know...you're just moving the cursor and it's all kind of the same.
But anyway...
Basically what happened there is that
whenever you are super effective against an enemy
The super effectiveness
is actually determined by your weapon's might, not your character strength.
These are two different stats and basically because Erika has like a strength of four with her tiny baby arms
Mainly cause she's level one because we've been killing everyone with Seth right?
She just can't.
You know there's nothing she could do about that
but uh...
That is why that works like that
and we're gonna see a lot more
instances of abuse
with the might modifier in this game. But right now, this is the last chapter
before we actually do the... what to call it? The split.
And also what I wanted to bring up is
you've been noticing the screen flashing in between
saves so whenever I save the game
the game flashes and basically what I'm doing there is I'm soft resetting
the game because essentially in order to get your RNG to line up you
basically just need to do these soft resets. In between almost every single
chapter there are certain exceptions,
but for the most part I will be doing this
all the time. Forever.
So I'm gonna equip
this javelin here, I'm gonna open this door
and then... I hate to break gonna open this door and then uh...
I hate to break it to you guys but uh...
We missed. I lied to you.
I'm so sorry I lied to you
I cannot believe it
Uh we did miss with the Javelin
But we actually missed intentionally
because guess what this map is everyone?
It's a Seize Map.
We're seizing the throne! Oh my god again?!
Yes I'm so excited!
So since we need to seize the throne it's basically like a kill boss map except with extra steps
You just have to hit the space underneath it
Again don't want to fight as many enemies as you want
We intentionally miss on that night so the other two don't hit us. Just a little mini time save there
and then... yeah, that's all I have to say. Let's get some donations
We're good until through the end of the chapter to be honest
incredible well we have plenty of donations waiting we have ten dollars that came in from
x-con who said fire those emblems magic man already the commentary is great i actually feel like
i understand the colorful shapes on the screen somewhat can we give it up for the commentary
because this is absolutely incredible so far you are it, that's an accurate assessment
Turtle Run
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barely woke up in time to catch this
Fire Emblem run live from the audience.
As a massive fan of the franchise, I want
to shout out my favorite unit in the series
Valoria from Fates. She's both
adorable and weird and has absolutely
carried some of my playthroughs.
And her red riding wolf design is just chef's kiss!
I challenge everyone else watching to donate for their favorite Fire Emblem unit too
so we can hit the million!
And that's a great reminder that
we are just eighteen thousand dollars uh just over eighteen thousand dollars away
from one million dollars raised this week
so let's keep going let's hit that milestone it'll'll be incredible. Also get those Fire Emblem
character donations in I will probably pronounce all of their names wrong so also
feel free to call me out in donations for every one of them that
I say wrong.
I'll actually match you, for everyone you say wrong, I donate an additional five dollars
I will also donate five dollars for every Fire Emblem character
So get those characters in
so we can both butcher em them let's get into it
also if you're a fireman fan at home and you're like dying at that i am so sorry
kind of she's not funny i'm not sorry even a
little bit.
All right, so we are now on to Ephraim route.
This is the route of the guy that we're taking.
This is basically the big difference between the routes start now.
So in...
What was I saying?
Oh, I know what I was about to say!
Actually, I want to give a special shout out
for someone on the couch in full cosplay back there.
The Byleth Cosplay looking absolutely amazing.
And speaking of amazing, this storyline...amazing. That's kind of sarcastic I actually mean that.
So basically there are two different routes in this. There's the E-Frame route,
there is the Erica Route. We're taking the E-frame route and
what ends up happening is that after we
run it down, we save our brother even though he doesn't really need saving because
he's fine but whatever... whatever we save him and then basically the game splits into two essentially what we find out is that grotto not only are they invading us but they want to kill all of the sacred stones. That's the game name, important item probably
They want to kill all these things and break them into pieces
And we don't want them to do that because if they break them all into pieces
The monsters that happen in chapter 4 that I told you not to worry about.
Yeah, more of them spawn if they break more of these rocks, right?
These magical rocks.
And so we don't want them to break the magic rocks.
But unfortunately, they already broke
their own rock
because they own
one of these rocks.
They broke that
and then they broke
the rock in Frelia.
They're just breaking
all these rocks.
Not to be confused
with Dwayne
the Rock Johnson,
not him.
Different rocks...
I was gonna say, not to be confused with the rocks you see in other games
that we won't mention where sometimes there's rocks and crystals. Maybe you get it
maybe you break them or Maybe you fix them.
Who knows?
But there's something involving rocks.
They're shiny and they're important.
And speaking of, uh,
shiny and important,
I don't have anything to follow up.
We just opened doors.
Which you can probably guess what's about to happen because we open a door and
have a bunch of people in the top left hand corner, yeah it's my turn now! My turn! Me
me! No more! So I'm going to move all enemies out of my way again because guess what this is? Audience can you guess what kind of map this is?
It's a Seas Map. Good, yes we're learning.
We're going to see a lot more of these.
Now you're going to notice I did something
a bit different this time.
I didn't unequip all the enemies from their weapons.
That's because the aftertile never goes away, so we're just going to run it again.
It's my turn, it's not your turn anymore. Goodbye! No more!"
You thought you were gonna go again? My turn.
Well, I did it too early.
If you do it too early that's fine.
The real thing is you don't want to do it too late.
This is like a 20 frame to do it too late. This is like, I think a 20 frame window
to hit it so its not the hardest thing in the world but
You know, you err on the caution of
making sure that you actually hit it so you don't have to restart the whole chapter
again. Not cool. but luckily for us,
Gillian has twinkle toes and he is just dodging
all of these attacks so that you know
he's never gonna die.
I lied, he just died bye-bye.
I was about to say
I think his commentator cursed him.
I was going to make the same comment too too, so we were mind-melded.
It's both of our faults.
I was like, wow, he's out here juking.
Oh, never mind.
He died.
He's so gone.
He's very donezo.
Whoops.
All right. Sorry, homie.
Alright so chapter 10 what we're gonna do is watch this cutscene because I desperately
need to because I have actually no idea
why. For some reason if you don't watch that cussing, uh
you just get horrific RNG and nothing lines up. I don't know why
I forgot-I meant to ask why but I forgot so
unlucky! We just won't know the answer
but we will know
that it works! That's all I need to know is
that it works. I know how to play the game.
I don't necessarily everything about it
Again, I didn't route it. I'm standing on the shoulders of many other smarter people.
But speaking of many other smarter people...
I don't know.
Anyway this is a defense chapter 13 turn defense chapter or to kill the boss chapter so you can guess what we're about to do.
Again there's no Seth on the screen so how are we going to kill the boss? Are we gonna use a special weapon?
No, we're gonna steal a unit. This is my unit now.
They do not get to use this unit anymore.
And let's have Vanessa shine both on the couch
and in the game.
Oh, get into it.
Create animations are just fun.
We're going to watch some of them throughout this game.
Whoa, whoa, what's the casting with the nonsense?
I'm going to need you to chill out, homie.
You're dodging.
You're so back.
Be bodied.
Touch my horse again,
get clopped up and lost
your mind.
Alright so there is the recruiting
mechanic here and basically we now have
our primary ball handler for the remainder of the run.
This is Cormag, if you know anything about Cormag in this game he's probably
the best unit in the game. He is absolutely
unequivocally ridiculous. This is because he's a Weavern rider.
Weaverns and Fire Emblem are notoriously really, really powerful units
essentially they're really big and strong
and they take no damage at all besides from bows
cause bows are super
effective against them. But other than bows,
they're pretty much impervious and they're also
extremely fast. They have good
edges. They're just good. They're just really good.
And so we're going to use him now.
He's our boy.
This is because he's a flying unit.
Flying units are really OP because we're not
impeded by anything on the ground. I mentioned
force can impede our movement, obviously water,
obviously walls. We can ignore all that and so...
Hello Cormag! Not to be confused with Hello Mario.
I've just been going for a moment and being like, I'm gonna need you to get these woofers off my junk
please and thank you because I'm surrounded? Help!
HELP!
I can't see anything! What's going on?!
Speaking of not being able to see...
We are not going to be able to see in this chapter uh because there's fog oh no we can't
see but uh luckily uh this is the fatal flaw of this chapters that it has fog so i didn't
mention this before but we have a strict limitation on the activation of ECG with the torch staff.
We need it to be dark or foggy in order to use torch stuff which is why we don't use enemy control glitches at every single level.
But we're going to use them this one, so this is actually one of the hardest levels in the game
unironically. This is because we have to do two major instances
of enemy control glitch and the thing is, I mentioned
that this game is pretty punishing
and by pretty punishing I mean really
punishing. So
if I make a mistake
If you commit to an action and make a mistake. So like if I do this right?
I just burned a bunch of numbers but I can use do this and now my RNG is fine alright we get it
right? But if I commit to an action, I have to restart the whole chapter.
I can't do that mini soft reset.
I can't rely on that.
I have to do the whole chapter again.
So...
If you can't Pell, whenever I do Enemy Control Glitch
I do the Soft Reset. So if I do it again...
so if I mess up on the enemy turn and I Soft Reset
I break the glitch.
Which means that I cannot mess up a single
input on these
turns.
But anyway...
No more of that. We're going to talk about what I'm using right now.
I'm using the Iron Lance because Cormac spawns with two lances,
he spawns with the Killer Lance and the Iron Lance.
We switched to the Iron Lance because the Iron Lance has 45pp
and the Killer Lance has 45 PP and the Killer Lance
has 20PP. And the Killer Lance is really OP, because
basically it increases the amount of crit chance that we get. So we want to
maximize the amount of PP uses we get out of the Killer Lands
because that PP is very, very valuable
to us because
how much crit chance it gives. So, we're actually going to be
using the PP from this very, very well
and we're actually going to end the game with one PP left.
So for all these enemies, we are basically using the 45
PP that we get from the Iron Lance in order to kill all of these guys.
If you can't tell, we're feeding every single enemy on this boat into Cormag because Cormag is now our pivot.
So we need him to get really big and strong.
Whoa!
My turn!
I lied hold on. My turn! I lied, hold on. My turn!
Alright we're so bad.
Now I'm gonna kinda shut up for a bit because
I can't mess this up so let's read some donations
while I'm shutting up. I'm sure everyone would want me to shut up at this point.
We absolutely do not want you to,
but we do love giving you some donations.
We have $25 that came in from Ryan In Theory
who says hey Nistani,
your passion for the game
shines through
in the run and commentary.
Awesome to see you out here
this early AM
and excited to see
where your speedrun journey
takes you in the future.
Hey, it's me, Ryan and Theory of twitch.tv
slash ryanandtheory,
and I approve.
We also had $5 come in from Grimian
who said,
Loving this Fire Emblem run!
Pretty sure this is the one my friend
borrowed my GBA SP to play
then threw it down the hill
after losing a character.
Hoping for a better run here.
Oh!
Don't worry, we only lost Gilliam and no one cares about Gilliam.
I was really hoping I had a donation. I was like my favorite
character is Gilliam.
Alright, thank you everybody who has already been
sending in donations on Fire Emblem
names. I would like to select the easiest
one from NapsThePotato
for $25 she said this is for my boy Joshua,
my favorite hard carry character
for Sacred Stone's behind set.
I have very bad news for you.
We left Joshua in the dust
in Chapter 5. You know? You can actually recruit him Joshua in the dust and chapter five, you know.
You can actually recruit him into chapter five
we completely ignore him
because he's completely useless to us
and truly unlucky so sorry for your loss.
Imagine donating for your loss. Imagine donating
for your favorite character
and the runner says
your character's useless.
All right, all right.
How about this one though?
PhotoBot sent you $25
and said had to donate
for my favorite
Fire Emblem character
LaRockel?
LaRaquel.
Or as I like to say as a kid was LaArchel because
I can't read. Fun fact!
They said I love her so much although
I get a feeling she won't be seeing a whole lot
of use in this run. Uh...I don't even think you're gonna
see her in the Sun Power Run.
I'll be SO for real. But speaking of
So For Real we are done with the hard part of this chapter so surely i
don't throw it at the very end that would be tragic um but I do, we are about to do
the second longest redraw on the game. So crowd, if you want to count with me, we're going to count
I know it's really hard for some of you to count.
I'm not looking at cosmic anyway a one two three four five six seven eight so this is fire emblem eight can we get an eight dollar
donation train for the eighth redraw and for the eighth game in the firearm series please
i support this message.
True, we need to get to the Millie.
Wouldn't it be hype if we got to a Millie on Fire Emblem?
Yo, I'm here for it though!
Like, a Millie on Fire Emblem and we've got time too?
Hang on, let me sit down, I'll look at it right quick.
Oh yeah, we can do it. We could do it. Hang on, let me sit down. I'm gonna look at it right quick.
Oh yeah we can do it!
We could do it!
Come on!
I've faith in chat.
I have faith in viewers at home.
I've got faith in couch.
I've got faith in everybody.
Somebody's donating their sleep they don't realize it.
People have been saying this.
So I actually wanted to bring up a question that I got when
I ran in Limey's RPG show, which is why do we speed run
this game if everything is predetermined?
It's the same thing every single time.
Well, I think my best rebuttal to that
is that I have a high 106
and Rekord's like
a low 103.
I'm not even close!
I'm not even nipping them!
That's because there are a lot of movement mechanics, mainly B-movement
so basically if I hold down the B button and then
move my cursor, it moves real fast. And it's really hard to
control so normally we only use it on straight lines but those
crack heads use it a lot. And they have so much APM and I just simply don't
have that much APM...I have good APM! I have respectable APM, but not that much.
But so this is chapter 12.
So we just fed Cormac a bunch of experience and basically he's level 15 now. And 15 is all we need,
and good thing about Cormac is that he spawns with an Elysian Whip.
There are class promotional items so this is going to promote him
to advanced class unit similar to Seth.
Seth has an advanced class unit. Now he's in advance class unit.
Basically what you need to know is that we're choosing this class because
we get a bunch of good stats like skill and speed and strength.
We need all that, and we also get an extra tick of movement now.
We can move eight spaces!
Things to note is that moving more spaces is faster.
I just like that your
upgrade means that your dragon is now
or sorry, your wyvern is now long
Is now what?
He's a long boy! Yeah he's very long now um and
and speaking of long uh this chapter is not long actually the next one is
whatever you know i'm beefing anywayway so what we learn in this chapter story time
We haven't talked about the story of the game so there's monsters on screen
These monsters basically what we learned
In this chapter is that the monsters are obeying, like they're working with
the grotto army. Which is weird because like monsters don't really got brains, they just want to kill things
right? Like they ain't buddies, right?
They killers.
And so we're like what the heck?
Why does this happen?
And also what we want to know is will
this guy die in one hit?
Yes. Goodbye.
Nice. High quality.
It'd be nice if you got that like health refill when you got that because i'm concerned about your
wyvern friend here oh i think he'll be so fine uh because it's the end of the chapter
sensational no worries to be had Alright, so now speaking of long
this is the longest chapter in the game
Smile!
But this is also one of my favorite maps
in the game casually
to play. This is for multiple reasons mainly because i don't know i just like
them out i thought i had more to say i didn't sometimes you have nothing to say it'd be that
way sometimes i have something to say though, because I've been wanting
to ask a question about this for awhile and it's been bothering me.
So I've seen on some of your maps that you had team red
enemy team, team blue player team
And then there is other team. yeah so uh other team is basically green units these are
either allies of they're basically like rough allies of you you can't attack them but they'll
attack the enemies for you oh Oh, so what? Yeah.
Generally their scene is really bad which is why in chapter three
we actually recruited one of the green enemies
to basically remove the green turn
because if the green turn plays...
not to be confused with Green Lantern
If the green turn plays
whatever. We don't want
extra turns right? Yeah.
We're minimizing turns.
This is Garak.
Garak is basically...
He travels with Prince Ennis who's the prince of Freely.
I forgot to mention what we are doing right now.
So, we're gonna get...
I meant to story bomb you a little in Chapter 13 but you're going to get, I'm going to story bomb you a little in chapter 13 but
you are going to get all of it this chapter actually. You're about
to get it. But before you get it, I am going to tell you what
we are about to do in this chapter.
So, we are using four main units. We are using Dussel who we actually got
in Chapter 10. Dussel is an Imperial General of Grado
which we will talk about in a sec. He turned code at Grado
he doesn't agree with him and he's like
I don't like you guys anymore,
I'm leaving!
He is now with us.
He's a really powerful enemy because again
Grado General...powerful.
He's an advanced class unit.
Seth is an advanced class unit.
Cormac is an advanced class unit
and then we just use a Hero's crest similar to the elation with promotional item on Garak
To make him an advanced class unit. So as you can tell in chapter 13 this is basically where you start actually getting advanced class units
In like casual gameplay. So we need these types of strong
units to kill everyone on this map and since, and this map is also very spread out so we have
Dusselt on the left, he's taking off
the left side of the map. Seth is going to take out the middle
left side and boss Selena. Cormac will take out the
right and bottom sides of the map. And then Garrick
can take up the right side of the map. And so now we're
gonna story bomb time! So there's two routes in this game, Ephraim
and Erika route.
Basically when they destroyed the Stone of Freyja
They were like hey we need to warn the other nations about Grado trying to kill their rock
We need to protect the rocks
And so basically Erik is going to rosten to tell them to lock up the rock
and ennis prince anisofralia who's the prince of fralia he's going to johanna
to tell them to lock up their rock but we are not locking up any rocks uh we are going hey selena
uh we are going straight to the grado imperial capital because we are going to go kill emperor
verdgaard who is the emperor of Grado, the big boy.
We're going to kill him and we're going to end the war where it
started. That is the objective of what we're doing.
We're almost done.
We're going to kill him
next chapter.
Good thing that we just now learned about his existence. One, two, three, four, five...
Wow! I can count! Congratulations! Proud of you!
Oh my god!
You're playing your game. I can't deal with you.
I am playing the game.
But,
I'm proud of you counting.
Very,
very proud of you.
Thank you.
And so now we are on this map.
So basically why is Selena here?
Like okay,
so there's six Grandado Imperial Generals.
Since we were long time allies with Grado
We as Rinnis
We were long-time allies
They attacked us out of nowhere
There was a lot like
Hey! Why are we doing this? Most notably from Selena and Dussel.
Dussel went all the way in turn code it and was like, I'm done, bye-bye.
And so he is with us now. He's wrong with us.
I lost my train of thought, this is good.
Oh yeah! So Selina's here
Selina is in the middle of the map. We are going to go kill her, Smile.
Oh!
Yeah, because we need to kill every enemy on the map if she's an enemy.
And so basically why she's here is that... we actually have a companion with us called Murr.
And Murr is a dragon, she's actually the great dragon, the big dragon.
Basically they have an evil dragon and we have a big dragon like a hero dragon she's the
she has this thing called the dragonstone
this dragonstone allows her to turn into a dragon
who would've thought very on the nose i know um and because for some reason she's a dragon,
she has these magical properties where she can detect
where her Dragonstone is. I don't know why a dragon would
have that property. Do not ask me, ask the devs. But, so she's a magical
dragon. She can detect dark energy and she can
also detect her Dragonstone. And so
basically Prince Leon who is Emperor
Vergard's son, Prince Leon
orders Selina to go find the Dragonstone because he wants it.
I think for like a research or something. So he just wants it
she's supposed to get it and basically she learns from her
Yeah this is what i'm supposed to do.
Oh by the way, speaking of, this is an energy ring
This gives us plus two strength
We need this to kill Selena
If we don't, we're gonna lose the fight
So we're going do that. And basically, yeah...
So Prince Leon orders Selina to get the Dragonstones.
Murr talks to Dragonstone. Also, Murr, fun fact is Ephraim's grandmother
Don't worry about it
Anyway
And basically so Selina
Basically learns from Murr that
the Demon King has these really cool properties.
And this really cool property
is that he can like destroy your mind.
Oh!
Casual. Just like by my my mind so does he have twitter is that what
how confused i don't understand basically so demon king is Twitter and Twitter is destroying the mind.
And basically, Selina learns that the demon king is destroying the mind but the thing about Selina Is that she's incredibly, incredibly devoted
To The Emperor. So much so
That she's actually in love with The Emperor and since
She's in love with him and will not turn traitor
We're gonna have to kill her just like that
And unfortunately it just in her hubris she's so
in love with him. And honestly I wish Selena was in love with me instead
I'll be so for real. Anyway, for the rest of this map
let's get some donations.
Let's just run it.
Can do!
We have $100 from Mom Jeter that says Nistani is awesome and he is my son doing awesome.
This is true. people have been saying them
word on the street love your mom
just had 50 coming from anonymous that just says loving this run of my first Fire Emblem game. You all are crushing it!
Ankylos also sent in $50 saying hello from the back couch, my lengthy tenure as a Fire Emblem fan all began with Sacred Stones, so seeing it soundly conquered is always a treat! I don't think I've seen the Ephraim
route before but surely my favorite unit Rossoss will be a big contributor here right
yeah you know he gave seth the javelins at the beginning of the run that's pretty useful You trying your best to be like, do I drag all their faces?
Sometimes you just have to.
Does he know?
This is
chapter 14. Alright, we're so bad.
Chapter
14, let's do it.
This was the end of Ephraim's route so we're about to be
so out of Ephraim's route I'm just beefing all these inputs
don't worry about it.
We are getting some specific people here.
So this cursor moves really fast.
That was what I was talking about before.
But we are actually going to talk about nothing on this map because
nothing's important here.
What we are actually going to talk about is is I'm gonna story bomb you again!
Sensational.
I know this is what you all signed up for on the speedrun, it was for me to yap at ya about the game.
Uh...I mean, is that not what we're here for i'm confused this is true people have been anyway
oh people have almost been restarting the chapter anyway that's emperor
verdgaard on the throne. Hey!
You want to guess what kind of chapter this is?
It's a Thieves' Chapter!
Yippee!
They're so good at this!
So... what we learn is... We actually learned a lot of cool things on the side of the route
You don't learn this on Erika's side of the route
Or maybe you do, I don't remember
But I don't think you do
Basically what you learn is that Grado, their sacred stone
Is actually better than everyone else's sacred stone
That's because that is the fire emblem
Name of the game
Name drop? I name dropped the game!
So, basically their sacred stone is the one that trapped
the Demon King's soul long ago in a galaxy far away. Except it's not a galaxy,
It's just this land.
Anyway so his soul was trapped
in their rock and basically...
You see that guy up there?
That's Emperor Vergaard.
He's dead.
We are literally fighting a reanimated corpse
oh there's necromancy in this joint who did that really really really normal stuff and speaking of normal stuff, so basically he's been dead
for about a year now and so
the backstory to this that we learn
after this chapter from Noel who is just
a unit in the game
basically Prince Leon is the son of Emperor Vergard.
So naturally when Emperor Vergard dies, he takes over because he's next in line or whatever.
Now I don't know how to put this in a nice way.
So like Princeon is like kind of a coward kind of a little baby
baby cry oh my god i'm so unfit to rule.
I can't do it.
I'm not good enough."
He has this like...
he's such a coward bro and so naturally when you're
this much of a coward instead
of doing something logical
like get better what he does instead is
he counts to 11 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11. Instead, what he does is that the next
natural line of progression
is that instead of getting better,
what he does is like,
hmm, how do I resurrect my father from the dead?
Instead of like...
Yeah, that's punk energy.
Yeah, so anyway, energy. So anyway...
Basically what he does is that
He takes the fire ember and splits it in two
There's a dark stone with the Demon King Soul
And then he has the sacred stone
He breaks that rock so the sacred stone gets stone, and he uses that to resurrect his father
Now his father is a corpse
And the demon king has destroyed both their minds
That sounds like the pipeline for Twitter
so that tracks.
But I actually want to talk about something else
you learn from Null because this game has these things called
support conversations where you can hear the characters
talk to each other.
It is really cool.
A lot of these are romance things,
but in this game specifically
and a lot of older Fire Emblem games
that I'm not engaged with,
basically they do this thing called
actually putting in cool things to the story and here we're gonna watch another crit
And basically what we find out is that?
While researching how to resurrect his father from the dead completely hinged
Basically, they also find out a way to look into the future
which is like a crazy piece of lore that you would have never found out
if you didn't read this random support conversation between Natasha and Noel specifically.
And so basically they know how to look into the
future, and they predict a storm rising on the southern tip of
Grotto, and like save people from sailing
They're like hey don't sail on like May 17th
And then there were like cool we aren't gonna sail, and a storm hit
Then they saved a bunch of people. Really cool no one cares
Uh but what is- What we do actually care about is that there's a subplot where the...
Oops, I meant to turn off animation.
Well, we're gonna watch Teethys dance.
This is Teethys. She dances and she basically can make you move twice.
That's what she does.
She's very elegant.
This is true, people have been saying this.
But basically...
Basically what else we find out from our future looking into
Is that there will be a super massive
earthquake that hits the southern half of grotto that's going to destroy half
the population not to be confused with the supermassive earthquakes like it's
going on in california they're not the same thing, they are completely separate things.
And basically at the end of this chapter we got two items these are sacred weapons or sacred twins
Or...not sacred twins, they're s-rank weapons so there's weapon ranks in this game. There's like E through S
or D through F I don't know whatever. Basically you have to the more you hit someone the more your rank goes up and basically these weapons
are really have really high might modifiers and uh they're really good against monsters so we'll
talk more about them later as it becomes relevant.
Because right now, it's completely irrelevant.
And speaking of e...
E? People have been saying this.
This is where the routes collide, so chapter 15 we're so back, we are together again. This is Erica she's so back. She was with Ennis and basically what are we doing on
this here map? There's a bunch of enemies as you can see on the right side of the map
there's a bunch of enemies that you can't see on the top left side of the map.
Basically, this is a kill-all map.
So we're going to kill everyone on the map which means
This is the second longest level in the game.
So basically how we are going to handle this is that
We have our two OP characters.
We have Cormac right there and we have Seth down there again
You can't see Seth off screen
But all of this you see in the middle of the screen
That's sand If Seth walks over the sand,
his horse actually breaks all of his legs
and he can only move one space at a time
rather than eight
and so we don't want to break the horse's legs, so we're not
going to interact with the sand because we want to get
to the bosses as quickly as possible.
So... Are we sure
Seth is an OP character? Because he sounds
like he got a lot of restrictions and issues. He does sound like some punk energy. That's why he's got a lot of restrictions and issues. He does sound like
some punk energy. That's why he's the secondary
ball-hander. He's the Kyrie Irving to
our Luka Doncic, okay? You know, we
have Cormac as our Luka, this guy
is our Kyrie, uh...and we're just so back. Uh Luca, this guy's our Kairi. And we're just so bad. So this guys gonna go kill
Valter and that's because there is a bunch of planes down here right? Not to be confused
with like the planes like airplanes but like the grass. Flat land he can walk over
the flatland without breaking his legs and since again Cormac really OP can fly
is not impeded by anything on the ground he He can go right above the sand, right to
Kalec. So we are actually fighting two
Grado Generals on this map! We're
fighting Kalec and we're fighting Valter.
Really OP units. This is actually
a pretty hard chapter to do casually, um...
uh and so what we're gonna do is shoot this guy with a bow
BANG! And then we'll go ahead and get this guy out of here
Actual new energy.
Imagine having a wyvern and just eating dirt.
Weird, weird!
It could not be me. You're supposed to
be OP'd you're garbage.
Actual garbage.
And so, uh... what was I saying? Whatever!
We're here. You get what we are doing on this map and we're basically just gonna
hold A. Basically after you beat this game once
you unlock this magical mechanic called holding down the
A button because if you don't enemy moves
move really slow like that so you hold
down the A button so they move faster
it actually saves an ungodly amount of time, which is very useful for us.
But I feel like I've been storybombing you all a bit much here so instead
i'm going to sum up Erica's
story really quickly so we all don't have
to worry about it anymore.
Basically what happens on Erica's side of the story
is that Erica tries to go in a boat
but can't because T-Pain's blocking her and then Ennis almost dies so she tries to go in a boat but can't because T-Pain's blocking her, and then Ennis almost dies so she has to go save Ennis.
And then Erika joins the religion, she learns a practice called Vilega
and then basically Jehenna's Sacred Stone has been destroyed.
The Queen is dead
and Valter has team killed.
We got all that?
That is the most JRPG story
I think I've heard this morning thus far
and that's like,
I have a lot of JRPGs
under my belt
but that's so...
I thought you were about to say
and I've watched
a lot of JRPGs
this morning.
I mean,
I've watched a bunch
over the course
of this week
and even then
it's just like,
yeah,
that's a JRPpg story if i ever heard
one i think my favorite thing about this run up and noticing so far there was a number of times
where you literally just stand there and it's the enemy turn they just go all geek themselves
into the void yeah they literally just pull up
and they're just like we're gonna avoid you and then we're going around i'm just
like you know look at you we're gonna do it we're gonna fight you imagine watching
all your homies fall down and then be like,
but I am the one that's going to take it.
I'm the one who is going to do it.
This guy has nine HPs?
They might kill him.
Right.
Surely.
I am the Highlander.
No bro,
You're dead with all your homies.
Go ahead get in the back. it's like taking a number honestly
like what are we doing uh so uh there are certain differences between the the japanese
and english version i just realized i haven't talked about this basically at all.
Most notably whenever we do the flashing thing in-between chapters where like we reset
Basically we can skip all of the screens on the Japanese version, on the English version
We have to watch all them so we basically lose
like 15 seconds per thing. Also this guy
moves...on the Japanese
version of the game. He normally does not move at all
uh bosses in Fire Emblem normally
sit and they do not run out but this guy runs it down on the
Japanese version which is quite scary. He got on Jay's, he's ready for action!
He is! And also we're gonna get the boots. This gives us plus two movement. There are items in the sand and remember how I was like we can RNG manipulate everything?
We RNG where we pick up the boots so we pick up the boots in the same spot every single time. That gives us plus two movement which is really OP. This guy's collect he has a hop and guard basically
we can't crit him so we have to three hit him boo hoo. And I know some of the people in the chat are probably upset
that we are not having cormac avenge his brother because when i said vaulter team
killed i mean he killed cormack's brother but luckily for us we do get
some revenge with Seth.
And unfortunately for Walter he is just a corpse that does not know that he's dead.
Wait what?
Can we get some donations?
Absolutely and this was very well timed because we had $100 come in from Gutsybat who said
shoutouts to my boy Cormag!
Joins in Chapter 10, devours an entire boat of skeletons in Chapter 11.
What a chat.
And everyone's keeping those Fire Emblem
character donations coming and I would like to remind you
that while you were donating for Fire Emblem characters,
you can also donate for your favorite characters
for Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2
because Danny Phantom and Garfield are currently battling it out for the top slot.
You can also donate to any of the rest of the characters that you want
to see played during that run that's coming up next, but if you want to snipe
that now is the time to do it.
We also have $10 coming from Emmerlin who says
Tech crew here donating for the obviously correct Best Fire emblem character
Lindis from FB7
That's a good pick. It's a basic pick, but it's a fine pick.
I don't know, Batcouch didn't like that at all.
It's like that big thing that comes up and says everyone disliked that
But then says Batcouch disliked that
You know she just likes main character you know what i mean
Like you can't pick anyone other than the main character.
Like really dog?
Like that's it?
They're over here dragging me,
but I don't know what to tell you.
This is why I'm a neutral party.
I just know it's a pretty picture,
it's anime coded,
uh,
run around,
we beat up some people,
there's some wyverns involved
and then usually
you gotta kill
someone's dad,
there's a zombie,
there's probably
some crystals...
Well normally
we don't kill
anyone's dad, normally our don't kill anyone's dead.
Normally our dad is the one that dies.
You know what?
That's super fair.
Our dad died in this game.
Hey!
Like I said, I know JRPGs.
That's why I'm on the couch.
I might be clueless at this but I bet you I can figure it out.
Your dad really dies in this yes uh your dad dies in every single firearm game if you ever see your father at a fireman he's dead he's gonna die that's
the opening scene if i ever hurt one oh it is it is the opening scene in basically every fire but the thing is
is that actually in three houses specifically they actually keep your dad alive for a long time
almost to the point where you think he might not die. Then he dies.
Sorry to spoil it for you guys at home,
I'm sure all of you have never played Three Houses
before if you're a Firehold fan.
But this is chapter 16. So, this is actually a pretty interesting chapter in the fact that This is the last chapter that has any differences between the E-Frame and the Erica route
There are basically subtle differences like last
chapter we spawned in a different area, not to be confused with a different area code. We
spawn at the bottom left but But here and on this chapter
we also spawn on the bottom left. Basically Erika's route spawns on the right side of the map
which is good for Erika not good for us That's because we have to basically
move more to get to the throne room
because this is a...
Seed Map! It's a seed map!
Yippee! I have a question.
Answer.
Does that mean it's going to be your turn soon?
No, it's not my turn because again limitations of this there is no darkness or fog on the map so we can't just manually ecg and uh there's no enemies on the top because here's
the thing is that we have to either have darkness or we have to lure enemies to the top left hand
corner of a map there is no top left corner on this map, and we could open the doors but it's slower than just running
it down. So what we're getting from that is that back couch is smarter than current couch. Mmmmm...
Uh, well that's the first mistake of
the run! See? Hey, you know
we get to do this all
over again isn't that very exciting but
luckily I haven't even yapped about what we're doing.
It's my fault because I missed the notes on how to manipulate,
so that's why I got to watch it again.
It's like that one student that just has to keep reading the
notes over. So you can just blame me for it
it's okay you know what i'm down but i'll blame myself because uh i just i was just dumb for a
second i just turned off my brain uh but we'll just turn it on xbox on i hope i turn on someone's xbox at home that would
be really funny like some of the spotify just randomly starts playing it's like, what is going on?
I played Despacito.
Anyway we're gonna run this again.
So you know I did mention that Cormag's really OP
and he can fly over walls. However, you cannot fly
over these walls. These walls are too big! Very tall walls. He's actually just going to hit his
head on the wall if he tries to fly in. Unfortunately we have to go all the way around, so basically what's
the difference here? We spawn on the left side which means there are a bunch of these bushes
here and bushels make beans They basically slow you down a lot
and so we have to do a bunch of rescue chaining
to get over them
which is slow and not fast
You know what else is slow and not fast um and you know what else is slow and not fast
uh my brain right now because i can't keep up with what i'm saying
perhaps it might be i might be back seating a little bit but
do you think we should do some donations
so I know because I actually have things I'm just reading at the same time while
talking that is what we're doing I'm just trying to be supportive as
yeah so basically the difference is that
the TLDR here
is that Erica's route
is actually two minutes faster
on this map specifically
than the Ephraim route.
This is because you kind of saw it
a little bit ago,
right before I made an oopsie-whoopsie-doopsy.
Is that a bunch of...
Like literal infinite cacophony in the spawn.
This is because the E Frame Route
has basically seen us us the harder version of
the game, which really just means that they throw more
enemies at you for pretty much no reason. And so since there's
so many enemies we have to watch them move.
Which is really cool!
There's also actually kind of a really cool tech that you can do on Erika's side of the route which...
You four turn this on Erika's side of the route, which... You four-turn this on Erika's route but
On this route you actually six turn it
And basically
Basically what ends up happening is that you saw all those reinforcement spawns that we're gonna have to watch run it down?
You can basically manipulate this so they spawn at the end of turn three
So then you don't have to watch the move at all.
However...
We're watching the move.
And yeah, but the thing is that Erika's route was actually still
two minutes slower overall and that's because you don't use Cormag on Erica's side of the route.
You actually use Vanessa as your main primary ball handler. Unfortunately we're not doing that. We're using core mag
and basically what ends up happening is
you have to feed Vanessa a bunch of experience
all throughout the early game which is incredibly
slow versus what we did
which is we just went on a boat and killed all the enemies
at one time.
And basically at the end of this
chapter...
Dude, this chapter is so annoying.
I was gonna say we really gotta watch all of these men move to do absolutely nothing of value.
Absolutely nothing! You don't even get in range!
They're not even in range they are just they're helplessly clawing trying to you just
clock out like what are you doing people have been saying this uh but so i mentioned s-rank weapons
before at the end of this chapter we're actually going to get two specific weapons because
we are in Castle Aranis, retaking it so this is our homeland and basically
we get 2 S rank weapons Siegel Link and Siege Blint.
But these weapons are actually not S Ranked
I'm not going to forget to do this redraw
I have forgotten to do this redraw in like literally two other Marathon runs
It's pretty funny if you forget forget this, your run is over.
But I remember!
This time we're so back.
Fantastic.
Love that for you.
And basically these two items are actually not S rank.
They are actually intrins S-ranked.
They're intrinsically for Ephraim and Erika themselves.
This is also asking us if we want to class change them.
We don't because they're useless
and like we're not using Ephraim and Erika. But,
We do want Siege Loan and Siege Blund because in Chapter 18 we are actually going to be using these
You don't have to have S-Rank to use them
They are locked to Ephraim and Erika specifically.
Which means that we can use them without an S-Rank.
And then this next chapter is a two turn crit so literally throughout
this whole chapter you can just spit donations for this whole thing. It's going to go
by really quickly.
Alright, we've got $10 from
the Dirty Don who said donated it for my
favorite Fire Emblem characters, Elowood
and Ninian. Much love to runners and all GDQ
staff. Shouts to Ninian. Good choice.
Good choice. Fishy sent in
$20 and said my favorite fire emblem
is Hubert Von Vestra.
He's slimy but in a good way shout out to all the black eagles
take that word out of your vocabulary no more slimey i don't know
i don't know if I'm with that.
Janine also sent in $10 to Doctors Without Borders and said,
Hopping on the Fire Emblem fave stream for my beloved Marissa
aka The Crimson Flash
aka Pretty and Witty
and Obi's Lancer Cruddy.
Nassani, don't shut up.
You're keeping me giggling.
Anonymous also sent in $25
saying loving this Fire Emblem run. Donating to shout out
two of my faves, Kayden and Lucina
the ladder unit sharing my birthday
Alright
And so we're going to get more
these S rank weapons but we only care about this one.
This is a lance. It's the S-rank weapon that basically allows us to do really big damage
to monsters which we are going to fight a bunch of and this lance
is called Verbenerf.
It's called what? Yep! That is exactly it. It's called Verbenerf it's called what yep that is exactly how you pronounce it i'm definitely not pronouncing it incorrectly it is verdinerf and so whenever
you hear me say birdenerf you know what what I'm talking about. It's birdenerf, alright?
So this map is actually pretty interesting from a routing perspective
I know I haven't talked much about the routing
A Beth because I kinda don't know much about the routing. A, that's because I kind of don't know much about it,
but what I do know is that I need to get the lamps to use it.
Basically, there are a bunch of these eggs this is a kill all map. Eggs are enemies
eggs hatch gorgons
We don't want to wait for these eggs to hatch because that would
take far too much time so instead we're going to kill the eggs while they're
sitting on the ground. We're gonna step on them, make some
scrambled eggs you know the vibes.
The painful thing about these eggs though, if you noticed there is that they give me
50 experience points?
Which would be good
in casual gameplay.
However, we don't really need the experience at this point of run
so these eggs are actually just really annoying
but luckily they have one redeeming quality
which is it's my turn now.
They activate as actor tiles if you destroy them.
So basically we're going to unequip that Medusa from stone because the
Medusas have the Stone ability that makes you turn into stone.
As Medusa's do.
Yeah, and basically the thing about the stone abilities
I mentioned there is one to two range
There's a secret third range called three range where the stone can attack from three spaces away which means we can't counterattack. So we unequip her so that she can't use it, and then she has to fight us.
And we're not gonna get
stoned, and we're going to be so best.
So here you are going to notice I'm using a lot
of people on this
map. There's a lot of units going around here
this is because we're actually trying to avoid as many level ups as possible
because again we don't really uh we don't really uh want them
uh right and uh you know want them. Right? And,
you know...
That's what we're doing.
I forgot.
I was about to say something Something in my brain turned off.
We can probably get a couple more donations
because the rest of the run is probably going to go by really quickly,
so we'll get one more round in.
All right.
You have $8 from the $8 donation train
from MrBadGuy saying,
donating for a good cause and to let everyone know
about my favorite Fire Emblem character, Gilliam!
I hope he's super helpful on the run!
He was super helpful in the run. He was super helpful in the run.
Red Apple sent
him $25 saying,
The best Fire Emblem character is my fave tactician
Sorin from Path of Radiant slash Radiant Dawn.
Ignore the fact that you have to play through radiant dawn doing a lot
of extremely specific things twice to get his full backstory he's worth it i like the shade in
that one uh krittner had also donated five5 to Doctors Without Borders and said,
Always love me some Fire Emblem. Shoutout to the best Lagas?
I don't know if that's how it's pronounced.
The best Lagas king Tiburn?
Laguz! Thank you. Shoutouts to the best Laguz King Tiburn best lug is king tiburn laguz thank you john it's the
best lagoose king tibern from path of radiance and radiant dog
all right and so uh this is uh one of the last turns
on this map and basically what we're going to be doing is that I mentioned
Siege Aligned has an S rank level weapon which means that Level 10 Erika with 7 strength is going to murder this gargoyle because it has a might of 16, which is a lot and so we're gonna kill a late game enemy uh with erica
uh and we're going to do like 30 plus damage in one hit and it's not going to
be a crit she's just going to hit him that hard and that should just tell you how op
uh these weapons are which is why it's very useful that we actually equip
erica with this weapon uh specifically uh you know and you could argue that maybe the if weapon specifically.
And you could argue that maybe it's kind of lame
that only E-Frame and ARCADE can use these weapons,
but I think it's fine just because it
makes the speedrun easier. And so bye, see ya. Nerds outta here. It's over. And as I was
mentioning before we're about to dodge a bunch of level ups on this last turn
on this map. And so I forget who all
dodges level ups here, you're just gonna see it. We're going to find out together. Do you dodge a level up?
Nope, you're leveling up up kind of anticlimactic uh
you know surely e-frame dodge is one though right surely at least the sprites are cute
that's true i like her little headband oh we, we dodged one! There we go. Nice!
Got one dodge here. Uh... and as you notice our Killer Lance just bringing it back
to the PP uh... We're now at 3 so we've been using this very
well um... And uh So we've been using this very, very well. And
We are
going to do a little bit of redrawing
here. Seth's also
gonna dodge a level up. Tana is
gonna dodge a level up and Sally's also gonna dodge a level up. Tana's going to dodge a level up, and Sally's also going to dodge a level up.
Erica, however, will not
because she had to kill
two enemies, and so she's just getting a bunch of
experience points because she's like level 10.
And then hopefully
we crit the crap
out of this egg
because if we do
that means
we did it correctly.
We're so back.
Fantastic.
That is also another pretty hard level just because there's so many different things going on that you have to keep track of.
And now we're gonna go into probably my favorite map in the game, this is chapter 19, this is Last Hope.
And this map
has a fatal flaw.
Uh-oh. You can probably
tell what is about to happen.
So I think it's gonna be my turn a little soon here um again darkness uh this
is supposed to be like i think a 15 turn or 17 turn defense chapter.
No, it's a 13 turn and I just lied to you for no reason.
It's a 13 turn defense chapter but again,
13 turn defense chapter or a 2 turn kill the boss chapter.
And what we're going to do is something really funny,
where we are going to rescue Chain on the enemy side of the field
which was really funny because if you've played any Fire Emblem
you know that enemies never rescue other enemies.
They're never a thing to do, but we're going to do it
because we're going to drop a Reave just in range
because the thing about the darkness is that
you cannot hit what you cannot see,
but luckily we can see this guy
and this guy's about to get owned.com
he has something to say we didn't care though
literally sir you died no one cares i'm not reading all that. Congratulations on my condolences.
Alright and then as we get on out of here... We can probably get one more donation here before we start the next map.
Absolutely. Ella sent in $10
saying, wow that emblem
sure is fire! Did I get
the plot right? Such a fun run
to watch. Shoutouts to PTOnTheCouch for being one of the best people in the community.
P.S., let's not eat the dirt.
Listen, that's what you gotta do! You gotta put these men in the dirt!
I don't understand why you would say that. I'm confused.
There are so many things happening in this run
that's confusing.
You got somebody who's like the founder of Twitter
and then on top of that,
you got people out here with my name
flying around on whippers
and then we don't even use them.
Some dude is on another Wyvern,
and his Wyvern is long.
Listen, you're doing a whole lot
And then you say we can't put men in dirt
I can't believe this
Speaking of Long Wyvrens we're going to have only flying units on this map.
I'll be so real that I lost count. We are going to do it again but I'm actually going to count 1 2 3 4 5 6.
Alright, we're so bad.
We're doing something really interesting...
I can count! Yay!
We're gonna do something really interesting on this map, actually.
So, I rescued Tease with Cyreen and basically put her on the mountain
And then I put Cormag a thick brush. And basically these
two different things are not
on ground, and since we're not
on the ground, uh...basically
what that means is none of these guys move
only the people that can fly,
can move which means
that we actually save a ton
of time on the first turn
because we're not
We don't have any grounded units
So like all these guys standing
in like these four man rotations
Don't move
Ma'am?
Gorgons can fly in the
Japanese version of the game, which is insane!
Ma'am? They don't fly on the English
version. I haven't been able to talk
bad about nobody because everybody looks like pixels and stuff,
but I know the Medusas when
I see them. And ma'am, what do you
mean you just flew over? If you don't go back
to your other side of the pond, what are
you doing? Who told you to come over here?
Who invited you?" No, absolutely not. Yeah so that was actually patched
out of the English version as well. Gorgons do NOT fly on the English
version so you don't have to worry about that.
But what we did notice... and this is what I was alluding
back in Chapter 16 where if you don't do that redraw
you basically get an extra point of resistance
And if you get an extra point of resistance
You get 25 health instead of 23 health. We need
23 health because Ephraim has 23 health. Because Ephraim is a little baby
because he hasn't fought anything the whole run right? And so
these guys can just kill him if they want.
But they don't kill him because we both have 23 HP
and since he has a Javelin and he can fight back
They actually prioritize Cormac who can't fight back
Because that's the way it is coded which is really good for us
uh but it's just funny they just don't kill one two three four five six wow counting
this guy's dead.
Get him out of here. Are we allowed to say he can eat dirt?
Yes, we can. He could eat gravel. How about that?
Altered. Now he's not eating dirt,
he's eating gravel specifically.
And this is the last chapter of the game.
There's actually two maps but this is the last chapter
and surely I don't get
the white screen to death.
We're still back!
I actually skipped
the cutscene. I actually skipped the cutscene!
I never skip that cutscene. I'd best start good, yes!
Skill! Yay!
Speaking of yay, we're going to get to the end of this chapter quickly.
I don't know, bro.
All right, whatever.
Anyway, so we're flying directly over here. We're gonna drop Seth here
So we have a little conundrum here and basically the conundrum is that there's three people in front of Leon right there
This is the kill-the-boss chapter
So we need to kill Leon
And basically we need to have Seth get to the middle guy and open up the gates so that Cormag can kill the boss, right? Kill
the big baddie. But unfortunately we have a bow user that's going to target Cormag and try to kill him because
Cormag is weak against bows.
So instead, we have a different
flying unit to die.
Bye-bye!
That is all of Siren's usefulness in the run.
Oh, yikes!
Yay death!
We're about to get that donation because it was like
I love Siren and it's like ooh who's gonna tell him?
Who's gonna tell him? Who's going to tell them?
And speaking of telling them,
I'm about to tell you all that we are
about to hit a little bit of a wall here
because we're going to do a little bit
of math here because I don't know
if you guys noticed, but 9 times 3 is like
27 or something. 27 times 2
is just not 73.
And so basically what we need to happen
here is that we need to hit him
We need to crit him three times and we needed him to miss twice
he one-shots us so surely that just happens right oh sick we weren't Oh.
Sick, we one shot him!
How nice!
So this is Pierce.
Weaver and Nights have
this skill called Pierce which activates on your level.
So we had a 12% chance of activating Pierce,
which again, we can manipulate everything in the game
which means we can manipulate Pierce
which is so sick!
Because I remember when I was learning this I looked at that manipulate Pierce, which is so sick.
Because I remember when I was learning this, I looked at that and I was like, how am I going to kill
that guy? I forgot about Pierce.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
7. And basically what Pierce does
is that it makes you do true damage.
Thank you, Batcouch.
It lets you do true damage.
So this guy has like over 100 HP but since he doesn't have any defense at all
This is the Demon King by the way time's gonna come up uh relatively soon
he has over 100 hp
he has none i'll say one shot Imagine having over 100 HP and still being
pump-made. The only thing valuable here is your artwork, my good dude.
And now he's gonna dissolve like the sand and time's going to end when I ever save
on the file so it's to be a pretty easy time.
And...time!
Nice! And that is The Sacred Stones everyone!
Again this is one of my favorite games I'm going to go ahead and show you the game.
This is one of my favorite
games of all time, top five
ever so I am really happy
to have shown this off.
Quick shout out to Kirbyby massa for uh i basically learned this
uh game off of his run he did a very very good job of
preserving this game and basically had like a pace bin with like all these
notes about like how to run the game how to pick it up
really really helpful so just shoutouts
to the previous Fire Emblem Runners I know
it was more than Kirby Master that ran this
however I don't know your names I'm so sorry
but all of you that helped I appreciate
it uh I just wanted to shout out my mom who donated.
Wanted to show off my family,
want to shout all the people in the back house
clapping on me for being able
to count really good skills that
I learned today and shout outs
to Ryan,
and then shoutout for PP for joining me. It was a good vibes
it was a good time. And uh...
I was useful!
You can follow me on Twitch at twitch.tv slash Nostani. I also have a podcast called Even Though Nobody Asked that nobody asked for. So you should check that out. It's speedrun adjacent. We're not all about speedrunning but we do the podcasts and that'll be all from me, just thanks for having me at GGQ
I love being able to show off this game
Have a good one everyone
Hello everyone I'm Limey Adeptorasar.
I run this game.
No way.
I have two people who play Black Fighters on my couch if you'd like to introduce yourselves.
Unfortunately.
I'm Kabasko.
I used to... I played this game a little competitively on launch introduce yourselves. No, unfortunately. I'm Kabasco.
I used to play this game a little competitively on launch.
I was like close-ish to top 50 but who cares about that?
I'm Helix.
I don't play this game.
Yeah! Play Path of the Claws.
Yeah!
Yeah, that was two.
Okay.
But yeah, this is Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2.
If you have seen the first Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, it is totally different.
If you're a big nit kid,
You'll see there's a lot of characters and references that are in this game for you.
I know that there was a bid war
for the character that i'm a little nervous about i'm scared to ask
who won
all right i was getting the final results.
Danny Phantom was in the lead but we had a snipe
and you will be playing as Garfield.
It's so over.
Chaos wins!
Oh no.
Chaos wins!
By how much?
Yeah, by how much?
Garfield ended up running by just under $100.
Wow that is close then. ended up running by just under $100.
Wow, that is close then. Like into the very end.
That was ultra
funny back there.
It was like within a dollar which was really cool.
I have to change my loadout a little bit, but yeah
this run is a roguelite
it's very, very cool
we go through three areas, 12 stages each
with again
the character that y'all picked. Thank you for your donations again.
And then we're going to be picking perks
and then basically just getting right into the run.
You should show everybody Garfield's neutral V.
I will, yeah.
Give me one second.
Which one is it again? Oh, yeah. Give me one second... Which is it again?
Yeah so Dark Veil has a shine in this game if you've seen Fox or
Falcon from Super Smash Brothers
for the Nintendo GameCube, you'll know what that means.
It looks like this...
He's so silly!
My little war crime kitten.
But yeah, I'll get into more of the explanation as we get in.
Yeah, timing will be starting when I click A right over this portal.
It's going to be happening in 5...oh, 5?
3, 2, one!
The first time you've ever done a good countdown
is to start an American run.
I'm proud of you.
We're still back so if you've ever seen classic mode in like Super Smash Bros games, this is like that but as Limey mentioned it's also a roguelike which is sick.
Yeah, it is so cool. The first stage in every area
is going to be this arena type level
and ideally I'd be getting only two per area
and everything else should be a character fight or just getting items
because those are the fastest ways to beat all areas arenas are bad because you have to fight
a lot of enemies and more enemies equals, that takes more time
which equals bad because we're speedrunners.
And the stages are also really big
usually in the classic mode
like the hazards off is casual stages
which are pretty good but for these like
where the enemies can just run away and like whoa okay oh and stuff like that gonna happen
it's usually in your favor like like just for getting early kills.
Like it can go both ways.
Oh the backcouch is into it you love this.
Thank you so much, Backcouch!
Yeah, Gurr? One of the shops you want?
Yes, this is one of the shops I want.
Hopefully I get something good.
This is good.
So because I got Gurr really early on I'm thinking i'm just gonna be building uh my projectiles up
so um i'm going to be trying to get another kind of low level perk where
uh every about 12 seconds i'm going to be getting a projectile that
spawns off me. I took that off my perks because there's a different version of it
that is really good. But for Garfield
it is better to
use my smash attacks
and just have things
combo into my
smash attacks.
That is not
the right one.
Yeah,
the shops like
the characters
that you see
they can add
the shops all
do different things.
They always have like... not like the same power-ups but themed power-ups.
Like Grrrr always has projectile based ones and stuff.
And I believe you want mainly Gr Gur and Q-Dutron.
Yeah, and then I'm also fine with...
I don't remember her name but the girl from El Tigre
she also has good stuff for me because
I can build my light attacks which also
I'm pretty sure includes my
aerials it's very good yeah sometimes garvey that's trouble
killing just cause uh yeah where's your shine combos
drill shine up slash.
Oh no! We're so bad.
Another thing there... You see Slimey has a meter? It's the slime meter, which I'd probably not be using at all
because in single player it is not really as useful.
It depends on the character, I think.
Yeah, definitely depends on the character.
Normally you can use slime to enhance your specials
and have maybe your up special go further
so you can get a better recovery.
But the main thing is
you can use slime on hitting an attack
to cancel it
and cancel it into another attack.
You can also... If you have two bars uh you can also if you have two
uh two bars you can have up to three if you have two and you get hit you have a
burst which cancels all of your knockback
and can make that make you live in an entire situation
and even three you can do like special
like a super which uh a lot of people probably never use because they're
really slow i might use it well look i don't remember what garfield is
you should actually totally use it
it's for the content.
Yeah!
Please, off the top please?
Maybe Garthil does a little trouble killing.
I know in this game every character has like a aerial strong attack as well. Yeah, which is like your smash attacks
yeah, because Strong's legally distinct smash attacks and
Garb you'd have both like Fox and Falco downers.
The strong one is the Falco pillar that spikes everybody
who's probably been hit by it and hates...
Yeah, so I just got 1 of 2
of like the really good things I'm looking for.
This one is basically all of my projectiles will now home in on enemies which could be
really silly with certain characters oh
that was my bad that that was my bad.
Next time for sure!
I will break those targets next time.
Alright, I believe you.
You should believe me.
He's one of the coolest characters in the game by the way, Plankton.
He's in a Mech it's awesome he's a grappler. I don't think we've explained the basics of platform fights.
Just in case you know about platform fights...
I mean yes, Smash Bros.
You do damage, they take percent.
The more percent or the more damage they have
I dunno, but it a percent in Smash Bros
The more damage they have, the farther they get launched and if you launch them off the screen then you win
That's one of the reasons single character fights are generally fast in this is because you only have one character to knock off the screen.
You don't have to worry about dealing damage to a whole bunch of different parties.
Why isn't that way?
And then it's generally useful for... Why is it that way?
And then, it's generally useful to get attacks that link another attack.
Yeah.
Or just go and snatch the axe.
Yep. Well you do that to build up damage
and usually try to finish with some sort of
strong attack. Yeah.
With different characters I tried to use my projectiles
especially if I get the homing in
power-up?
But with Garfield I usually just prefer
hitting a charged smash attack
and then hopefully something good happens.
Yeah fair.
It's all secret he was in the midwar war thank you for your donations again uh
yeah this is just a little bit more character fights and then we're gonna be
getting into um
the first boss because we're going to be seeing three. There are six bosses in total
But it is just random which one we get especially in a new game plus run like this
What are the strengths of your build currently?
I have 5 jumps built, 5 stocks.
You have 5 jumps!
And max like...I think it's like 20% movement or something. It's really good
I didn't know you have five jumps anyway with the other stuff but...
Five jumps is hilarious
Yeah
There's a lot of jumps for a platform fighter
Yeah there's a little absurd.
Look at Aang just yell stop that!
I have so many feelings about the characters in this game because I played on launch and ang was one of those
characters that did not like playing against oh thank you thank you for winning yeah of course
i made a snappy just for you hey thank you.
Every 11th stage is going to be a rest stage where I can get certain buffs. I don't need any because I'm good at this game.
Basically it's still a little bit of rest before the boss.
A lot of these bosses are supposed to be hard but again I am good at this game and I know how to play them. Yeah. It's basically just a little bit of rest before the boss,
a lot of these bosses are supposed to be hard but again I'm good at this game
and I know how to build my character.
There is King Jellyfish...
I don't know if anyone here has seen SpongeBob?
Eh maybe, what's SpongeBob?
Backouts really likes SpongeBob!
Yeah, Jax is probably on it.
Let's go Bingo!
I don't know why but this fight reminds me of Giga Bowser.
Oh definitely.
Yeah, yeah.
It's a similar weird comparison.
Hey you're using slime!
I've noticed that's awesome.
Yeah one weakness of Garfield
that makes you very sad...
You're spawning a lot of popcorn there off the side!
Don't worry about it.
Okay you should use your special on King use your super on King Jettyfish.
I will, just for you.
Thank you!
Garfield has a lot of trouble killing bosses
and its very sad, makes me upset
but because we're because we got pink jellyfish she stays close to the ground to the ground uh and i can just keep up tilting and then it's fairly fast.
This is one more arena, we have time for a quick plug with donation if you have any?
Absolutely do! We have $10 from LimeySR that says,
Happy to be here! I'm a first-time runner, long time runner, donating $10.
Yeah we don't have any more time for donations I think.
So yeah this is an arena
Again we have 10 enemies
We're gonna be getting through them really quick
Like i said
So first thing that should be fine
Again trying to just finish my strongs like that. That's good.
Yeah, it was really good.
There are four left so again not much left.
Use your super!
Ooh yeah, just for you. Don't miss!
I missed. Oh my god! Bungled it!
It's actually probably faster.
You'll get it next time
yeah surely truly next time yay but again almost done i just need to get
this guy off of the screen. Ah, yeah.
Generally how platform fighters work.
There you go.
Yeah and then we're good here.
The classic platform fighter speedrun problem
with AI is just sometimes extremely uncooperative.
Yeah, yeah.
It makes for a very different round each time
especially when you add a...
That's the second one I need!
Okay, awesome!
So the perk I just got
if you know anything about plot fighters
if you're seeing how i'm playing uh that might look enticing
that make that makes me intangible every time i do an aerial attack and i land a
hit so that could be very really good for
boxes this time right So that could be really good for bosses.
You're gonna break your targets this time, right?
Yeah yeah so I'm gonna...
Is there something wrong with your controller?
It doesn't look like you are using a normal gamepad controller.
Yeah, I'm cheating!
Boss! I forgot to mention my place on box yeah because wrist issues wrist issues controllers are
notorious for wrists yeah yes uh yeah I was watching Family Feud again.
If you're here at GDQ there is a lot of activities to do.
I'm pretty sure there's an entire page for it.
But um...
Yeah, I was watching Family Feud, like Draft Family Feud and someone said GameCube controller
was- a bunch of people said GameCube controller is the best controller for speedrunning which
is...
Oh!
It is from Monkey Ball.
Okay we get it you play Monkey Ball. We get it you play Monkey Ball. Okay, we get it you play monkey ball.
We get it you play monkey ball. I say he's a monkey ball runner!
There ya go.
Shoutouts to MonkeyBallSkewDarning
True. Shoutout to DamageBoosting monkey ball speedrunning. Sure. I obviously do that. Try to see damage boosting through those
cats? Yeah, that's really intentional.
Cat dying? Cat, cat, this is
cat die- I don't know...
I hear someone on the back couch
correcting me unfortunately, I don't care.
Hey, is there a heat-seeking missile?
I think they're correcting me,
but it's fine.
Oh, another arena.
We'll go down here. Yeah, Forsterina.
He hit his super this time!
Ooh maybe yeah.
I'd like to see Thorfield's special...
I actually don't remember what it is today.
Why does he spawn? He actually spawns like a popcorn thing every time you hit an enemy in this mode, that's crazy.
Oh wow! Okay.
Yeah!
I can't understand anything happening because it's all too small now.
The stage where I got Transformation is kind of like Pokemon Stadium?
Any Pokemon fans?
Probably...
Okay, okay, Loma Vara....Pokemon Run from earlier in the marathon yeah
okay you almost got up neither i'm counting on you this time. Okay? Of course.
Yeah,
I believe-
yeah!
AHHHHH
What is...
what
I don't like what I'm hearing
Why are they talking to me?
Yeah!
Nice!
Hey, you signed up for this.
This is your fault. I'm getting peer pressured right now
i don't like how garfield talks me during that one
i like that was also definitely slower.
Yeah!
Oh, for sure.
They both would have just been eviscerated.
Over the consents.
You know people donated with this.
People did.
You're getting your money's worth yeah yeah that's true
i have to do three here okay yeah usually like i said i only have
to be two but i this game got captured very recently like yesterday or something yeah new
dlc character the classic catch today day before you have a marathon run
they added uh rocksteady from i think ninja turtles yeah
yeah no clue what he plays like i haven't played this game in like
a year or half a year, but still.
Really? I was trying to make him go down the hole?
Okay...
You're trying to build Mete meter again, I get it.
Yeah, yeah.
There's a projectile...
Please!
No he's not, that's what I'm saying. Ehhhhh Okay.
Oh, okay yeah just jump into it then. We take those?
A lot of the time AI likes to jump from ledge
so I can count on that usually.
So I heard the crowd and had to respond.
Of course. It's a bingo yourself.
Yeah! That's why we're saying this.
If you don't see this one say heck yeah.
Heck yeah. you don't see this and say heck yeah
oh but yeah that part that i got that i just got is the one that i'd like to see it boost all of my like tilts or i guess my license another force arena yeah of course
yeah this one is one of the worst ones respectively just because uh
The ceiling is so high
That's cool though. Yippee
Oh! Okay
I was getting grabbed
I got zagging you up
Blast sounds being farther away means you have to knock people in farther
which means you have to deal more damage with six more times that's crazy i know right yeah
who would have thought that how that works i I've never played Smash Bros before.
What's that guy doing over there?
He's on an adventure, I think.
Wait, hear me out!
Oh no...
We're doing it again?
No!
Why is Garbiwa talking to me like this?! I heard you out.
Why is Garbu talking to me like this?
You wouldn't get it, you don't get it like us.
Back at you if you get it!
Yeah... I'm getting flashbacks to when I played Garku at 04 for PC, and it was really bad. If you know, you know?
No or no, Garku at 04!
I did so much work that...
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Anyways
We're gonna be fighting Danny Phantom as the next character fight
We could've been playing this in week yeah that's true
yeah but it's okay i can't i can't believe about getting donations to
charity yeah that's like donations to charity.
That bid war kinda popped off, that was...
There were so many lead changes in the last half hour.
It popped off especially for an overnight bid war.
Oh yeah?
Thank you all for being awake for this. Yeah!
Oh! Aww...
That was a kill.
I just need to go back there, yeah.
Nice back air!
I swear this is what it's called I like using Garfield's back air because
It is a sex kick
Oh my god, Smash community
Why do they call him neutral? oh my god smash community yeah but why are we calling neutral that's not a bad it's not usual it's back here it's a backyard but it's like good it's really good some are saying this
i'm saying this right now. Kick moves that really fast
How's this character that used to be a real character in
Natsumi 1, who was like the final DLC
and if I wasn't playing the game at that time
i'm pretty sure he was like really broken in the game wasn't it is that what
plays that there's like a wasp what's happening okay
i'm not sure
i was trying to explain how Shredder is like the band that only has me one, but whatever I guess.
Now he's in the boss!
Distracted me so much, actually.
Freaked me out.
More interesting than Shredder.
I mean, what?
But yeah,
I'm taking advantage of the intangibility that I get.
Shoutouts to roguelites! Some of these upgrades are really good.
But yeah, a lot of these attacks are hard to get around so so I'm just going to be using my aerialist
to like get past them.
Shredder is preferable to the other boss-
Okay you're being out!
Sorry!
What was that? I didn't want to hear you out.
Sorry, sorry.
Why is Shredder more preferable to other boss?
Because he's a lot closer to the ground so I can use my tilt
because Garfield's tilts are really good for killing bosses.
Who was that other potential boss?
It was the one from El Tigre.
Oh, that's right! I saw that when we were practicing.
We're getting into the last area here.
This is one of the last arenas where we'll see you hopefully?
I forget the audio does that but yeah,
it's way lighter there.
Yeah.
Yeah,
hopefully
the last boss
we get is good
because it is between
Brockwork
and Vlad Plasnos.
Vlad is a lot better because like I said towards the ground
so being able to just match
my tilts is always really good
That down here's really coming in handy
Especially when you have five jumps. Have jumps imagine fox with five jumps no i'd rather
not want it well we don't have to imagine we're seeing it you see it multi-shifting garfield is
not real and also multisharing yes it is I've seen that thing win the tournament before.
Oh no...
I've seen Garfield multishining somebody across a stage
like two directions,
and then up smash. Just like Stuart Little,
Multishine Garfield is real and can't hurt you. Oh no! No not Mr. Little.
Sure. That guy hates me. It's so hard. They didn't they didn't boo you, they went stoooooo!
Oh okay.
Yeah yeah it is.
My apologies to Batcouch.
I need to remember to go up after this one because the next one is also fast but this
is better.
It's funny guy.
Yeah.
I can-I can- I can echo this.
Okay.
Alright, go up!
Gotta go up.
I will go up!!
Thank you for the reminder!
Yeah so uh Thank you for the reminder. Yeah, so this is time to destroy the robots.
It's really hard to do optimally.
I'm gonna try and...
I messed that up.
It's so weird your controller just like... Yeah it's buggin'.
You don't even have the excuse of stick drift because your controller is a cheater box and
they can't stick drift.
No no there are sticks drifting right now you just don't get it.
Hmm you're right I don't get it. You're right I don't get it.
Box players!
Yeah I think my controller should be better actually.
We need to ban box controllers,
I mean what?
No actually no,
I don't think that-
Disclaimer they are fine. Disclaimer! They're fine.
Disclaimer? I like accessibility.
Yeah same yeah yeah
My friend uses the boxing board but he also plays Kazuya so...
I would never play Kazuya.
I can't speak,
I mean Sonic and P+. Yeah you're right
you can't speak actually
I forgot about that.
I'm not allowed to say anything.
Anyway so we're going gonna be getting more perks!
Yeah my build isn't really dope and it's a 20 minute run
It's never ever going ever be done never ever
But yeah, having extra charge attack is really nice. There's not left we're halfway through this area
Whoa why is he evil?
Shadow!
Shove the Barbie.
Hey, PS2? It's a pizza.
This stage...
It's Pokemon Stadium 2.
Yeah, Pizza Stadium 2.
I bet.
I bet that.
Do you have time to hop in with a quick joke?
Hahaha! Do you have time to hop in with a quick joke? That's what they're doing.
Yeah, that guy has been here before.
What happened? That has been here before. I'll hop in, do you have an answer for that?
Oh yeah sorry I didn't want to ruin the
I had five
coming from good catch
Thanks
For the mission of doctors center open just over 12 dollars in order to see it so get those donations
in thank you all so much
we've just got absolutely obliterated didn't care where why is making so I'm not sure yeah thank you for asking
did it just walk up slowly and-
We got smashers on the couch.
Guys, don't look...
Don't look behind us.
They're right by me actually!
That's good. i'm gonna take that
hopefully there's him but it's going to be too much
my god all these shows for sure definitely
yeah um there's not too much left. There is just like Patrick and then there's the one for Super Mario
Just a nasty command input here
You get parts of motion for like a super grab. Of course he did.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because of all people you could give that to it would be Patrick's time.
Yeah!
Cause this was like bottom line.
That makes it way funnier.
Yeah, it was really funny.
You did like motion super armor on his head and you go across things.
It's really funny actually
it was actually really funny
stage is a little weird because of the
sometimes you can
moving up, its a little strange so I'm gonna just try to avoid being on it
If I'm on it, uh, just like my aerials
It's very weird
Some of the platforms and gamers buggy
It reminds me of like a Mario level with the moving platform section between two areas.
What is that thing?
I'm terrified.
These are a bit of a favorite, staying together.
Yeah and we're almost on two enemies, one of them being...
Shirley right?
That seemed really good for an arena.
Yeah, because you have a Garfield now.
I picked Garfield as the slowest character out of that mid-war.
Garfield was the slowest character out of that mid-war yeah garfield was the slowest character my people with him was three minutes everyone else so it worked so This is the point of awesome. We are...
Not the sound on this level.
Clock only in our right ear.
I didn't notice that but you're right i know okay well this one this pair rises for
you so far yeah just be straight up in there and
it's really annoying.
Okay!
Oh!
Hear me out!
Aww...
What the?
It's not your bad-
No! Those five jumps again.
I'm gonna wait till he comes down.
Hear me out. Hear me out.
Yeah?! I'm hearing you out!
Wait, he actually shows up!
Look, he just doesn't care Exactly.
Nice! A little bit of slime in the hole.
Yeah. It's almost done time. When his health goes all the way down to the bottom, you're getting very close.
Seems like a pretty good find.
Yep.
And time!
Yeah! That's Nickelodeon also a brawl.
Sure is.
Yeah, the second one. I don't want to be here too long so we can just go over plugs and stuff.
Okay. This is my last commentary I'm doing, so you could find me on PlaySquare and he looks like 13 underscore.
Yep! Shoutout to Parallel Universe, we can talk. Yep yep shout out to parallel universe we can talk yeah uh shout
out to midwest bean fest um despite what everybody said
she kobe i'm kabaska and streams and stuff then yeah
Support go to local for pot fighters if you're interested. Yeah
Me as runner, uh, you underscore s uh like helix said we should go
a lot of these a lot of y'all been on it. Yeah
Like Kobe said what if you like plot fighter even like just regular little fighting
Absolutely support your locals this game would be a lot more obscure if local scenes and bigger regionals and majors accepted this game with open arms. It is really cool to its own this is like the first one of the patch um
play play smash bros in person and friends support your local
from fighter events support your local fgc event support your local FGC events, support your local FGC events, support your local FGC events.
And check out the non-binary speedrunner showcase on July. Yes. Um,
that, uh, just want to give a quick shout out to the New Mexico Smash scene.
I came from there.
Go to LocalsRick
absolutely support your and one last thing
yeah thank you everyone so much for watching.
Hello!
I won the Super Game in 2020. My name is Mick Cooper,
but on the couch.
I got Joker with me who so graciously volunteered to be my co-commentator today.
And man, I just want to go ahead and say this is my first SGDQ...
...my first GDQ run ever.
It is incredible
to be here.
And not only
that, now this is my first time running
on the show. This is the first time that this game has ever been at GDQ ever.
And within the last couple of months,
this game has gotten snapped in half and I need...
I just want to say, like,
I want to do the best job that I possibly can
to show off everything that I've learned
over the past couple of months
and throughout my time running this game altogether.
So with that being said, I do believe we have a bid war can i get it
gonna get confirmation on who won the big war oh absolutely the winner of the big word the
bingo raised over a thousand dollars by the way congratulations the winner of our bid war is team cortex yes
i can't lie i was slightly hoping it was team cortex
all right here we go.
File name? Let's see...
Let's go Alright
Gonna count down
In 3, 2, 1.
Go!
Let's go.
Good luck.
Now something I want to get out of the way right away is that if
you are familiar with Crash Team Racing,
Is that this game is very similar in concept and gameplay to Crash Team Racing.
It handles very differently though. Like it's not the same gameplay engine
but uses the same mechanics and core controls so you can drift you can drift turbo and a lot of the tracks in this game have a very
similar look to how they looked in Crash Team Racing.
So this track, for instance, looks a lot like Crash Cove from CTR.
And you might notice right away the aesthetic is very similar.
It's got a very interesting
shortcut right away that the AI can
do a really good job at blocking you
from hitting 50% of the time,
so I'm glad that they didn't really
get in the way.
And just as
well, this game also
has reserves which is basically an invisible
meter that
keeps your boost speed for as long
as you keep boosting.
So if I were to let go of boost,
as you can see, I'm drift turboing. This is
a mini-turbo. Whenever the gauge
fills up on the right and I hit the opposite
shoulder button that I'm using to drift,
you get a mini turbo which adds reserves to your boost meters.
That way if you let go for a little bit like this
I don't really lose any speed so that's what reserves are
they help out in certain tracks for like you know let's say i need to just like
you know do some normal turning for a little bit. It helps out in that instance
and
if you thought the game was a
little too safe, brace yourself
because it gets a little more
broken right after this track.
This tracks very like,
you know, very simple, very easy start to the run.
The really good introduction
to the core mechanics of the race,
of the game. Introducing you to the jumps
to the drift turbos, to the boost pads
so it's a really nice good start
The music is great and here we go we're about to see one of
the biggest changes uh that this game has had legitimately
i believe there's like four to six tracks that have massive skips found within the last two months after this game was submitted
To GDQ a bunch of skits were found and we're coming up on the first big skip of the run.
Oh yeah, here we go. So here comes Jungle Boogie. This is...
this track normally takes about a minute and thirty seconds to do if you're
playing like really optimally. But, uh...
You can just do this!
Well first try let's go. So yeah! We are out of bounds.
If you look at the bottom right hand corner
there is a mini-map
The mini map lies
The mini map does not...
Let's go, Nola.
All right so a couple of things that happened there. The mini map does not exist.
The mini map lies.
We use that to our advantage in skips like Jungle Boogie.
You notice as McCooper went out of bounds, backed up
he backed onto the second half of the track then went forward and was immediately
at the start finish line on the mini map.
That allows us to trick the game
into thinking that we actually completed the lap.
Now, we popped off because we got
what's called a null lap, which is
when you saw there at the end. It was
the lines through the second lap. It's essentially a zero-second lap
So doing that optimally saves another couple of
seconds on top of the 30 plus seconds
we're already saving just from skipping
the course entirely.
It's one of the craziest things, it's not even the only track
in which you can do that in
like there's another track later on in the run
it's about halfway through, we can also get
a Nullap in and if you get one there, it's an
even bigger time save.
Now, we're playing as Tiny here
so this is Tiny Temple. this track is not broken so
we can all rest rest easily there's no crazy stuff happening here
uh we are playing us tiny on tiny temple and the reason for that is because
uh this track doesn't really require a whole lot of decent turns, which I never really did mention.
But every character I'm using throughout this run has different stats.
So every character's a different top speed, different handling, different acceleration. Cortex is the
all-rounder. He's got decent speed
better than average
acceleration
and he's actually got like the second worst turning
on the team for some reason. Tiny's got the worst turning but he's
the fastest as far as his base speed goes an engine is the complete opposite he's got the best
turning with the least top speed um but as you'll see later on in the run is that like stats don't really matter a whole lot
because turbo pads make everybody go the exact same speed when you hit them like everybody
in the game has the same top speed. So that means turning characters are actually super broken.
Tiny here saves a couple seconds on the very first lap.
So that's why we use him primarily.
And let's see if I can skip this fire, yeah! Let's go right by that fire.
That fire is very misleading. If it's all the way out
It'll just cover the entire side of the ramp and you just can't
pass unless you have a shield which you do have one i did have a shield but i didn't need to use
it yeah it's it is really interesting to to notate also that this
is the first instance of the anti-grav
sections where you'll see the
tires turn and the sounds
are a little bit different as we're
on the anti-grav and as we're drifting in boosting um anti-grab is also very
broken in this game as we will discover later on uh in the runs in a couple of the tracks oh yeah
now tracks. Oh yeah. Now, if you missed Jungle
Boogie, don't worry. We get to come back to that
in Velo here.
So I didn't really get to mention the plot of this game
but if you're familiar with CTRs that like
You know, the Crash Cast was abducted by aliens. Again. They have to race for the planet
Again. But this time it's a different villain. His name is Velo
Emperor Velo the 27th he's a galactic champion and he's a uh
if anyone's played this game before you know how that final boss goes.
That's all I'm going to say.
This was again, like we said,
we're back at Jungle Boogie again, first try
and watch the mini map as we go through.
See how it cuts to the middle of the course and then back?
That's what is causing us to be able to do this here.
Just a little bit off the line.
Okay. Yeah, you need to go a little bit off the line oh okay yeah you need to go a little bit further up
like basically like get on top of that hill and when you back
up the mini map will update the minimap thinks that you're going from
the middle of the track to behind
the finish line and when you do that, the shortcuts get a little bit confused
or the checkpoints I mean they get a little bit confused.
So it just thinks that you're completing a lot because you're going from the
middle to that end constantly.
So now we get to go into the second
hub world. This one, this hub
world has two tracks that are pretty broken.
The first one that we're going to is not very
broken though and I think this is actually a good time for some donations
Absolutely, we have plenty coming in with love for you! We have $50
from Chalky Cake who says, hello from the audience.
Nitro Kart was my absolute favorite game as a kid.
So cool to see it represented here.
Go Nick Hoffer!
Oh that's so lovely.
We've $25 from Sibillalla Scribbles who says, Hey there, Nick! It's
so incredible to see you at SGDQ and I'm so proud of you. Good luck on the run. I'm
so excited to see it and I'm so excited to support Doctors Without Borders.
Thank you so much. Thank you, Scribs.
We also have $50 from
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Let's get that Stardew Valley
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please make sure you
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Bandicoot power.
Unfortunately we're not playing as Coco so
we don't get to hear that line unfortunately.
We also have $30 from Vela the Dragon, who says good luck for in-the-back couch hooper. You got this man!
Yo thanks!
This track is very simple there's not really a whole lot going on here, but it's more or less just like an example of good cornering and how I can make a difference.
There's this one boost pad up here that I hit at the very start of lap 1. that way it can get turbo pad speed right away.
And uh...
It's also a really good example of like
as soon as there is a turbo pad
near the start
it doesn't matter which stat class you pick
You can pick Cortex, Tiny or Engine
and as soon as you hit a boost pad they all go the same top speed
So if you are on a track like this that has a lot of winding turns
it's better to just pick a handling character because
you don't have to deal with any of that.
Now I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to hit this next trick.
They did my boy Dingo so dirty in these loading screens
yeah a plot point is that um entrance from the gba title crash bandicoot 2 entranced
actually is a playable character in this game, and what happened was he brainwashed both the Polar Bear from Crash 2
And Dingodile to be on his team.
And Dingodile's just kinda chillin', you know? He's not really doing much this whole game
Like there he is right in front of me, he's not really doing much this whole game like there is right in front of me he's not really doing anything um so like i said i'm gonna try this i'm not sure if it's gonna work
because i haven't really hit this most of my practice.
This is a super finicky skiff, and this also
is a prime example of just how broken
the anti-grav sections are.
So this isn't an anti-graph section here in the back half
of the course oh okay we got past the first part
okay okay okay Okay, okay. Okay.
Now we're just too far away
but that's a core example
of how broken the anti-grab
sections are. We can anti-grab ourselves
and yeet ourselves across the map,
go upside down under
the track
make the game glitch out again
give us extra laps when we're not supposed to have them but it is a
very finicky very hard trick uh it's one that was only recently done rta so it's still kind
of getting the kinks worked out of it and getting everything figured out.
But we'll get to see Barren Ruins in its entirety.
It's a very fun track,
And up until very recently was you know not broken
uh until that skip was found shout out to see fred
who just recently actually got the any percent record for this category he
actually is very consistent at baron ruins ultra which is
what they just want we call that because it BRU or so brew
BRU for Baron ruins also he actually is the only person i think so far that can do it
consistently so shout out to fred for being able to actually do it i can't i still can't
figure it out it's a mystery to me.
And speaking of mysteries,
the next track we got is definitely a mystery as to why it even works
but we'll get there.
Right now, Barren Ruins is a very safe
track. I do like actually taking good lines
in this track.
It's also one of the first tracks
to have cycles,
so these robots that walk back and forth...
If you... Like if that first one i pass is on the
right side then you know that you're actually in a good cycle
it's it's a nice little bridge uh after even
the first after the first hub world going into the second third hub
worlds is that kind of nice bridge of still a little bit easier but starting to get a
little bit more on the technical side of the courses
uh and making sure that your mechanics are really up to date
and getting yourself ready for the harder tracks
coming up in hub world three and four exactly all right here we go okay 42 40 40.
203 is pretty good here on this course without doing BRU.
I'm not going to say anything.
I'm not saying anything.
All I'm going to say is watch in awe
of This is watch in awe.
This is deep sea driving, and you'll know exactly what I mean as soon as I start it up here.
Just watch.
Watch this video. uh got it Got it. This trick is so, it's so finicky.
You can either get that one second skip or it can take you a longer time. It could take 100 years.
It's very precise, we don't know exactly why it works. We don't know how it works
we just know that it does work. There's a
precise line that you need to line up
and take when crossing the finish
line here on the out of bounds
or the off road section.
And going constantly between backing up, there we go!
So yeah that works.
It just skips the lap.
Tink? Shoutouts to the old school Xbox.
He is playing with a Duke controller,
the old school big honking Xbox controllers.
So that's also part of the finickiness
of the track is, you know,
everyone knows, everyone who's played The Duke
the D-pad is not exactly
the best. Actually, no I think
the D-pad on this is way better than...
I'm not a fan of these D-pads but that's just me.
That's me personally.
I like the PlayStation D-pads there.
Come on man.
We get to see DSD again as we go into the boss course,
the Boss Race 0.
Yeah, if you thought DSD once was weird,
then you get to see it twice back-to-back.
And again,
it's just that finicky lining up between certain points in the background and then the foreground to make sure that you know where to back up and where to go forward can be a little bit tricky there's a good 22nd one usually once you hit that first
one you get the you get the good course now because we've got a lot of time thanks to
the new skips we're going to go ahead and show off DSD,
it's one of my favorite courses, the design is really neat, a lot
of it is in an anti-grav section in tunnels under water
It's kind of cool to see
we are going to run into these teeth
here because we are so close to the boss.
Teeth? Teeth and
TNT. And T, yeah, we got
TNT. So TNT's uh...
This is like a recent discovery but apparently TNTs are broken in this game
and you'll get to see that
little bit later on in the run
But for right now, NT. Nice try
One of the neat things I didn't fully know about
the boss races up until very recently,
onto the tracks that have these kind of obstacles
that are set on timers.
Like those fans, those blades will circle around
during the boss races they're disabled
which does make things a little bit easier to go through
but that's deep sea driving.
Thankfully we won't have to see it for the rest of the race go through, but that's deep-sea driving.
Thankfully we won't have to see it for the rest of the race or the rest of the
run, but that is one
of those tricks that kind of was found
a longer time ago, but helped kind of open up
the race, open up the game to see more of these kind of open up the race, open up the game to see more
of these kind of broken skips.
Exactly.
So now we're going to move on
to the third hub world.
This is where stuff gets
a little more technical
and by technical I mean
this next track is absolutely
busted.
This is busted! This is one of the
glitchiest tracks in the entire game.
So... out of time
I want to say it's one of the first tracks that was ever made for
the game and I would say that because there's so many shortcuts
so many tricks
I'd say that as a missus starting boost
but it's fine
There's a shortcut right here at the very start. There's a shortcut right here at the very start.
It's another shortcut right here, these are both intentional but
then we're gonna get into stuff that is definitely not intentional
So were going to go ahead and get up on this clock here we're gonna
we're gonna do a thing called cactus jump
and you'll understand why we call it that because there's a cactus right here yeah all right here.
And now that's not dev intended this is definitely not dev intended
We're just gonna go out of bounds here casually
Go ahead and drive up right here
oh okay no well actually it takes a little longer to respawn there than it would be to just restart
so it's unfortunate i missed that miss that shortcut but it's fine that gives us a little bit of time here
so CNK differs
from CTR in a lot of ways
this is also a team based
racer, so you'll see
on the right hand side there's that team meter and
you'll see Tiny's picture up there as well.
One of the main mechanics of this game is the closer
you are to your teammates,
that team meter builds up and builds up
and then allows you essentially when it fills
up, uh, allows you infinite uses of various items for a small
amount of time. It will continue to cycle through items over
and over for a very small amount of time as you're going through.
And gives you,
you know,
all sorts of different things that you can use boosts of masks TNTs anything
like that.
And so one of the other things about this is you don't have to finish in first casually.
If your teammate finishes in first and you're still in the top three,
you still get the trophy to move on.
This is the old this is the backup route there so we're
trying to do what's called the B side skip the backside
skip unfortunately can't hit it but
This is the this is the the backup what has been done for a long time.
We go out of bounds. We hit the side of the course in order to trigger the lap and then just fall
for good couple of seconds
and we go right back to the clock. Nowhere close to it on the mini map
but we just skip and go right back to the clock here for lap two
I forgot to mention, Cactus Jump is very finicky.
You have to jump at a very specific time for...
Okay don't hit the worm!
Do not hit the worm!
Yeah, Cactus Jump's a little bit finicky.
You have to jump at a very specific point on the ramp coming off the clock otherwise you just straight up don't get enough height to clear the jump.
So we do this for...
Do this again.
We get to fall, and fall,
And fall.
And then finally we get back to the clock!
Did you know that you can actually skip this clock?
Clock skipped. Oh no, I can't even get that one.
Again another unintended dev skip we can just turn right back
around jump to the other side and skip
the clock.
There we go.
Good cactus. Almost good
cactus jump.
Let's see if... On lap three you don't typically need to go for
the b-side skip um we do revisit this track for the boss race of this hub so we'll get
another couple we'll give them a couple cracks at that B-side skip.
So right here, you land on top
of the out
of bounds because no matter where you hit
outside here, it will always trigger
the lab, no matter what.
And the next track
that's coming up is actually not broken
and it's also one of my favorite tracks to do
and like not mess up
Clockwork Wumpa. It's also like
my favorite track aesthetically,
and it has one of the best songs in the game.
I'm hyping it up because it is a really cool track.
Oops!
It is worth mentioning menu...
So I call it Menu Cancelling. It's when mentioning, I call it menu canceling.
When the text flies off the screen you can actually
cancel that by hitting B or A after you select something
and every time I select something I have piano from
A to B.
It doesn't seem like a lot
but when you're doing
a lot of menuing
especially to change characters
in between races
that little one second
every so often will add up
quite a lot especially when you're doing like 100
runs um or the longer categories here uh but yeah this is clockwork wampa aka cortex Castle at home.
It's got a lot of the same kind of map layouts and feel as
Cortex Castle if you've ever played the original CTR. Sharp angles, sharp corners
so it is one of the first really technical courses
there are some dev intended shortcuts like the cogs there we saw,
like that ramp as well.
This is one of the toughest corners coming up these last couple of turns here
but it's so smooth when it's done right.
That's a fantastic turn there.
But yeah, this is another non-superbroken lap, super broken course
So I think, Makoopa if i'm'm not wrong, we have a couple times for donations?
Yes. Awesome!
Because we have donations here for you. We have
$100 from Grandma Ellen
who says, watching this run
with my good friends who I met through the CNK and CTR community.
Big hugs to Jarl, Roman, Coolzy, Cash, Frawl, and Philippe!
Let's get to 1 million love from Australia, New Zealand, and Germany.
Thank you. And we are getting awfully close to that
one million only about thirteen thousand dollars away would be pretty awesome to hit that either
this run or next i don't know i think we could do that. I think we can do it.
We also have $50 from Sarah,
who says calico eggs are delicious over rice,
which I believe is a reference to that Sardew valley desert festival race incentive currently at around four
four thousand four hundred dollars out of the needed fifteen thousand so you all are doing
a wonderful job of making that happen we also have twenty dollars from lalo's tacos who says hey guys best of luck on the run hooper thank you
lil solomonka from the hit show bretta call saul i think we got time for one more.
All right, we have $50 from Zaz who says,
Greetings from Germany!
I'm not from Germany but I'm in it right now
so I gotta take this chance to say it while I can.
Thank you so much for your wonderful contributions to Doctors Without Borders making a difference. Now we're all in Germany right now.
Nice turn there and that's Thakur Kwampa, just it's a fun technical track
it's a little bit tough um but when it's done smoothly
it's it really looks fun and they're really a fun one it really does
the next track is actually not that broken, believe it or not.
Foreshadowing.
Anybody know ACDC?
So... Anybody know ACDC? So this, the skip that we're gonna-
that Macubi's going to try and hit here
was another one that was found in the batch
about two months ago um
that again completely kind of revamped how this uh
how this course was run oh yeah i'm not gonna be able to set it up here on
lap one.
So it does require a TNT very much like the tiny arena skip
if you know anything about Craftstream racing and the CTR runs
It does require a TNT
Unfortunately, it's not one of those where we could potentially set
it up and do it immediately but it is a little bit more safe
and it is a little easier to do by doing it the
long way and actually coming around through the lap.
If you can get the timing down right,
and you don't have the AI run into
the TNT, you could
set it up on lap one and do it laps 1, 2,
and 1 and 2 but we're going to go ahead
and set it up here in lap two
and then hopefully we hit it on that three.
This is where we're gonna see just how the TNTs are busted
in this game.
A thing about setting it up
on map one, is that the AI has a chance
to hit it on lap 1 so it's not really such
a good idea unless you're trying to get like a
massive time save to set it up on lap one
setup right there yeah beautiful so hopefully when we come back on lap
three uh that tnt is still there and then we can do a extremely
extremely weird looking skip it's gonna look cool if it works.
And we just have to pray that the AI doesn't run into it because it does...
Because it does obviously ruin the skip
if we do not have the TNT in order to do it.
But, uh...
It was one of those ones that massively broke open this course especially
saving a good 30 to 40 seconds uh when done and when executed correctly and
when the ai likes to play nice yeah you could have to try if it works if it works
this is one of the few skips that were found That was found that really relies on the AI to not mess it up.
It still is execution based, but you've got to make sure
the AI doesn't accidentally run into it. Oh no!
So what we try to do here is with the TNT on our head.
We try to jump up over the wall and out of bounds for some reason having a TNT crate
on your head helps you keep the state of being grounded
on the trap. Because we're grounded, we can still drift and hop
And we continue to fall down and try to fall to a specific
death plane where the Tnt will explode we'll roll around and then when
we stop we respawn uh halfway through the course we skip all of this anti-grav section
uh and we come into like the last final couple of turns here in
the course. But again, it's one of those that is execution based but
a little bit finicky. We would respawn right around here if we were able to
hit it properly. Exactly.
So unfortunately,
we didn't get enough speed.
It's based on where you jump from
and how high you get.
You need a lot of speed going up the ramp
in order to get enough height to clear
the invisible wall.
So solid though. Yeah.
So now we have to race Norm. Norm is a unique race amongst the series because you're actually racing two people at once.
You only need to beat one of them them and the second one just kind of hangs
back in lays down items and good thing is that we're on out of time again so I
get the I get a second chance to try out D side.
Shout outs to Big Norm.
This one's not too hard this is this boss race if you if you can
get control of your uh drift turbos it's not too hard to get out in front and stay
out in front as you can see we. As you can see, we're leaving
Norm behind in the Dust A3 boosts.
So one of the neat things
about C&K as well is
there are item boxes that have
the X on them. That will give you three of
specific items
instead of just the one that you would normally
get, so it's
creates a little bit of a difference
there and makes it a little bit more fun, potentially.
Kind of line it up. Got the drift.
Yes! Alright, got it.
So Yes, I got it. So the neat thing about B-side is you hit it and your immediately dropped in on the second lap right behind where we would need to go
to do b-side again. Again, absolutely broken track not sure what causes this
or why it works out that we go from here across the finish line on
the mini map. That is an absolutely
clean, out of time B side skip there
getting it twice on the boss
Got boost items too. And then we just take
the old school skip there and 124 that's really nice. That's
the best I've gotten all week.
Yes! Yes!
One of the changes there between Team Bandicoot
and Team Cortex is that we don't get to see
the sad mime.
No, yeah, no sad mime unfortunately.
But he comes up to you
big Norm, he tries to give you some props.
You know?
You did good out there.
And then Cortex just kind of shoos away
because he doesn't like clowns or mimes or anything.
Now we're on to the third world fourth
fourth excuse me yeah we're already onto uh hub four
the the most technical of hubs and uh literally the most
technical we're in the future, baby!
We are on the tech-knee so as Mick Cooper mentioned we do go around
the galaxy. We're visiting different planets which is
kind of the course of this.
We are on the planet Tekni for our last
few tracks here. Assembly lane isn't really broken
there is an Ultra that can be done,
but it's not
really RTA viable just yet.
It does involve, as you
could probably guess, an
anti-grav section here
where we are on a pipe and if we're not
careful getting enough speed coming around these
corners, we can absolutely yeet ourselves off
of the track, which is what
the Ultra does involve. Going onto that
pipe and just kind of throwing ourselves across the map. But again it's
another one that was discovered
um and is, but it's not quite RTA viable just yet we're still working on
getting the proper setups to make sure that
we can hit it. But it's another one that you eat yourself across the finish line
and then it just kind of takes over the laps
and your'e then done with the course.
If you remember what I did at the start of Barren Ruins
That is exactly what you do in Assembly Lane. It's on this pipe
At about...this point
On the pipe, you want to jump off
To the right side and you can get like far
Underneath the map map it's insane
if you have never seen what the underside
of a CNK map looks
like, trust me I didn't
know either until I saw the video
but assembly lane is extreme until i saw the video
but assembly lane is extremely technical it this almost like requires you to pick
a turning character because the turns here
are absolutely insane oh don't get picked up by that magnet? Okay, there we go.
This
conveyor belt actually speeds you
up when you make contact with it. It's kind of
cool.
You can also just straight-up avoid those pistons by driving on the side of the conveyor belt.
I didn't need to, I could go straight through it and caught a good cycle.
Yeah you did.
And the good thing is that I didn't drop turbo fire this entire time, which is actually optimal because there's only one turbo pad in that entire track.
So that again ties into everybody having the same boost speed,
essentially off of the turbo pads.
So maintaining your reserves, maintaining that boost
speed is really crucial on tracks like that
where there's not a lot of turbo pads to get the speed back up.
And let me tell you, driving around on the anti-graft sections
is not easy. You slide around a whole lot and Cooper's making it look so easy and so smooth.
So here we go into Android Alley.
This is the boss track for this world,
And I can't believe I'm saying this but
This is the least broken track in the entire game.
And it needs to be broken because
if we can find a way to break this track
the boss fight would not only be really easy
but it would also potentially open up
a huge, HUGE category overhaul for this.
Because there's a glitch that I'm...
I don't know if I'll have time to show it off after this run
but there is a glitch where you can just skip straight into boss rooms
But it has a catch
but for now we're in android alley this is a very like standard track there's not a whole lot going on here to some uh there's some corners hard corners
there's some anti-gravity but it's not like super
super like what's it called super complicated
it is the only track in the game where you start off on anti-gravity, and the walls
And the tunnel that you start off in will actually sort of magnetize each of them
I don't know how they get by that robot there. We take those
This would be a really good time for some donations robot there. We take those.
This would actually be a really good time for some donations. Let's see if we can get some
$5 hype trains for this train here, huh?
I would love to see a $5
hype train for this train. That'd be fantastic!
We do have $25 from our previous host,
Steph, who says as promised here's
$5 per fire emblem name I mispronounced
on stream. All of it to
watch the Stardew Runners compete to go fast
Let's see that race and we're getting really close
to five thousand dollars out of that fifteen thousand needed for the desert
festival race that's gonna be so exciting i love the idea that they've
been cooperating for like an hour straight and then it's like never mind
time to take you down.
We also have $25 from Mel Morrison
who says, hey Emma Cooper
good luck on the run! The Crash Racing games
are absolutely amazing! Go
Dingo Dial, mate!
It's unfortunate because we can't play as Dingo Dial in the story mode.
We could only play as two teams, Team Cortex or Team Bandicoot.
If we could play as Team Entrance entrance and team oxide that would be amazing
and uh it kind of doubly hurts because the speed characters are not very useful
outside of the tiny temple it's so unfortunate i would love to play as a
speed characters more often um there is a guy i mentioned before his name c fred he usually uses
crunch for some tracks just because because that's his favorite character.
And you know what? I respect it.
I respect it.
Think we got time for one or two more, Charm?
Yep.
Absolutely! We have $25 from the Night Hugo's Knee who says always love any crash bandicoot game
and we've twenty five dollars from clary oh i'm so sorry gladrius who says
so many amazing prizes this segment. Fine, take my money!
You can check out all the prizes at gamesofquake.com
There's quite a few really fun ones. A couple
$5 minimum donations to get into
a Junimo plush Amigurumi and a
Star Drop Amigurumi? So those are the ones I have my eye
on, but there's plenty of different options to choose from.
$5 minimum donation gets
you in some of those, and if you want to enter
to win our grand prizes, it's $250
cumulative over the course of the event.
Get your donations in now!
That fit, that height...
The Levelist fight stick with the GDQ logo on it
looks really sick.
So there are some really good prizes available for the day
and this section, so make sure to get those
donations in, get them towards that
Asturias Valley run. We want to see that.
Here comes Electron Avenue want to see that here comes electron avenue if you're familiar with nature fueled this track does not look at all like it doesn't nature fuel they did a complete overhaul and what i'm
going to do is i'm going to do a normal lap, because
this is actually another one of the broken tracks.
I'm going to do a normal lap just to show what
the track used to look like before all these new skips.
We will
do one skip in the normal lap, quote unquote.
That does still skip a hefty chunk of the course
but laps two and three
we'll showcase exactly how broken this game,
this track especially got.
This track opened my eyes to just
how busted the checkpoint system in this game is.
It doesn't make any sense when i first saw
it i was like you've got to be kidding me
a track that takes three minutes and 30 seconds on average now it takes a minute
30. what
if it's just wild how much uh how much time and effort was spent here this is the main skip we go
just kind of bounce off the wall and there's a whole section where you're anti grab, you're kind of facing inverted on each other.
We just kinda go oh we can actually just go to the other portion of the track? Okay yeah we'll just skip that and go straight on there but uh so it's
really neat to see but then now is where we get to the fun part
it's gonna take a little bit of a right-hand turn here.
First try! No, no,
no!
Okay, so this does involve
a bit of precision
jumping off of this opening ramp here. There's a certain line that you have to take,
you can't go too far inside that building, can't go too far outside and there we go so what's happening there is uh micrubius jumping off the ramp taking that right hand turn
and going immediately towards that
anti-grav section that we just had talked about
and because of that uh we can hit it at the right angles where
we will hit the death plane to respawn
for that specific section.
All right, first try there on lap three.
Let's go!
And then we do a couple extra little fall-offs and jumps to kind of just
reset patterns, and reset where we are
and just continue to skip sections
of the track. We'll back up here
skip another small section
and then all of a sudden right there is you know we saw that minute nine here for the
for the first lap uh and then when done optimally
a sub 30 lap three so you're saving another 30 seconds each lap.
So something with the Xbox version specifically is that if
you skip the cutscenes too quickly, they just appear pink
for some reason? I don't know why that happens but it
happens on every single xbox version so now we get the race geary again and we're back to android
alley which means there's not a whole lot to talk about here but however i do want
to mention that giri does have like one thing about him and if you can get in front of them at
the start it's basically free but if you don't he is an absolute terror.
He is one of the only challenging bosses in the entire run
because the track itself is not very broken
and because he himself is also pretty fast.
He has these little bots that
will throw out traps and kind of
distract you, so it's
really difficult to get
in front of him. You've got to either get a
really nice line here on this corner, which
Macubre was able to do.
You can also do the Dev Intended shortcut later on through that glass
wall that can help out and gets you in front of him.
Once you get in front of him him smooth sailing but he's really tough
to get to there and mick cooper made that look so easy we have a lot of time for some extra donations
because there's not a whole lot to talk about the second visit of Vantray Dally.
It's essentially the same exact track.
Yep.
Got it! Then we have an answer to your donation call from earlier, $5 from Keenan who says,
$5 Hype Train? Let's's go thank you so much for that we also have fifty
dollars from Tio the doll who says got to see that Stardew Valley desert race massive thank
you to all the runners and volunteers that are bringing us such an amazing event.
You all our heroes, and we're doing so well on that Desert Festival race only about a little over 9000 left to go.
Doing wonderful everyone out there keep those donations coming in we also have fifty
dollars from cherry scary who says enjoying catching gdq as much as i can this week here's
the one million and good vibes for the weekend we We are only about $11,000 away from
the one million dollar mark! How soon can we get there? That is
scarily close I'm really excited for that to happen
in fact if we meet that desert festival race we are inches away from it so i
really hope we can get both of those things to happen and helping us along the way of course is
our friend anonymous with a 250250 donation.
No comment, but thank you so much for your wonderful support.
So here we are coming up on the third lap of Android Alley.
So after this is Velolo we're actually just about to
end up on that uh we're actually right at the end of the run so as soon as i beat geary here
we're gonna do a vilos race the one good thing about vilo's race is that you don't
raise him on a track you've already been on before he has his own unique track that he races on i got
a really high jump there i call it the crunk jump, don't ask me why
I call that, just call it that
High jumps, crunk jumps
They're really fun to perform too.
So, Velo casually speaking is one of the hardest crash racing bosses
of all time.
He's extremely unfair and just puts lots of bunch of items at you
like pretty much all the time, if you're in front of him he shoots
missiles, if your behind him...
throws bombs at you.
That's 54 a lap. There we go.
There we go. Yeah!
Really solid race there.
Also if you noticed in that track in the boss race
bosses don't have hazards
on,
so the train unfortunately was not
there. You didn't get to see the train.
Here we go. Final boss!
The really neat thing about how this is set up,
when you get into the boss,
the full cutscene showcases
how the track is built.
And Velo gets to do his good Dwayne Johnson impression, there it is.
There it is. So what happens is Velo opens up in
his arena. He opens
up the floor and a bunch of these sections of the track pop out.
You are literally on his coliseum racing right at this moment.
But, this is another one of those super
broken courses because
we just fall off there
and we are onto the
next teleporter, we did get a TNT
there which can set up for the Ultra coming up here in lap two.
As long as Velo doesn't hit it, which he shouldn't.
I don't think...
He shouldn't really hit it if it's placed in the middle like that.
It usually stays away from the middle.
Yeah, see?
He's shooting missiles at me because I'm in front of him.
This is also one of the few tracks
where the minimap is hidden
at first which is why we have the speedometer the minimap is available you it
is in the game files but you don't get to see it when you're doing this course uh which honestly
i feel like kind of leads to the whole
you've never seen this before. You don't know what you're going
through so you really have to learn the course
and its ins and outs, the tricks, the tips
and everything. Here's another big anti-grab section
um that's really fun these like tube anti grab sec anti-grav sections are fun
uh lots of winding winding turns but if you handle them properly they're really smooth and fast to go through.
Exactly! The anti-gravity sections in this are probably some of my favorites hyperspaceway if you're familiar
with nature fueled like the that 2019 re-release is that uh it actually gets rid of that entire
like like this entire like anti-gravity section.
Did it get it? Got it! Yes!
So if you
hit a TNT here,
you respawn towards the end of this anti-grav section
and it just completely cuts it out saves a lot of time unfortunately i
didn't get to set up a tnt for the third lap but hitting it once is already huge enough time save
that's not really a huge deal if you don't get it on both laps. It's playing again off of the fact that
the game when you have a TNT
gives you the grounded state so
you can jump even while
you're in midair because
the mechanic is,
you get the TNT crate on your head
and you're supposed to jump to get it off of your head
so you don't explode.
We use that to our advantage
If you are drifting in midair,
you actually have a few frames
but when you come out of the drift
you actually have a few frames
to jump out of it.
Yeah, this one is
a little bit different than others
so that's my mistake, Excuse me. But it's still
really neat to see there is that kind of ultra where you can jump in
midair, jump off the track and again we hit that ultra
That ultra saves around seven seconds uh per lap seven to eight seconds
which is again it's saving 16 seconds in in a racing game is pretty big
so there you go, I was able to jump out of the drift
there. You can see like just how useful that
is for getting a lot of height off of a
drift because you're not normally allowed
to jump out of a drift
in midair like when you're when you're in the air the game should be counting
you as in the air but for some reason when you're drifting it just thinks that
you're still on the ground so you can jump out of it
well we're getting a lot of boost items oh nice big jump there
nice big jump whoa a lot of people a lot of big jumps
time is coming up soon here because this is the last course.
So it's to figure eight right here.
It doesn't matter which side you go on
because they're both the same. and these static orbs that his engine
are laying down uh they're actually in a pattern so you can avoid them like all like all the time
because they're always in a consistent spot. Triple boost item?
We're getting nothing but boost items here.
Just take straight lines here
throughout the pipe.
Time is coming up in about
seven seconds.
And... seven seconds and
time
46 47 rta really solid 46-47 RTA. Really solid. Absolutely. That was Crash Nitro Kart. Now, a lot of those new skips I haven't been able to get a whole lot of practice time with them
because of just how new they are.
Even with the stuff that I missed,
I was able to come back with it
so I'm very proud of myself for that.
I do want to give some shout-outs
to all the people in the Crash Discord
who've been grinding away at CMK,
trying to get all the strats.
Some people finding new strats.
We got James Toasty, Mel,
The two people who have found
all the new skips essentially and created a massive
new revolution for them for the game so to those two thank you very much for finding
all these new skips shoutouts tonoShark for being one of the few
people to implement these in RTA runs and
being a huge inspiration for anybody who wants
to get into the game. To C Fred,
another person whose been grinding
away at the game.
To Ripperoo, to all the people who've been playing the game,
Galaxian, all of you
guys thank you so much for playing the game.
Thank you to Joker for being my co-commentator today thank you for having me
thank you for the back couch for coming out here supporting me super early in the morning
and with that i got nothing else my name is mick cooper i'm signing out guys well gg's we could run an absolutely fantastic
i'm just watching it go up i hope you just it just keeps going. One million dollars!
Thank you so much, everyone who's donated, everyone who supported this event throughout the week.
You have helped us raise over one1 million for Doctors Without Borders.
Thank you so much!
And I'm also excited to announce we have met the Desert Festival Race Incentive! This is absolutely incredible.
$1 million
Doctors Without Borders. This is amazing
And a big thank you to Underscore who donated
$2,000 and says good luck.
Piano, Terp, Lee Chat, and Jules.
Y'all are incredible and love you
to all of the Star Juice speed running community
for your constant support and excitement in support of GDQ and MSF.
Audience, can you give yourselves another round of applause
for that wonderful achievement that we all got here?
Thank you for your excitement at that moment!
I appreciate it so much.
Hello, hello!
Hello!
Okay, going to get the farm started so you guys can load in and then we'll do intros.
Welcome to Story Valley!
Hi everyone, how are you feeling? We gotta wait for Luchan to get in.
Alright, I'm first. Hold on. I got this.
I'm in guys!
Alright, I'm in. Happy learning.
I'm also in. Howacker. Oh, man.
All right.
How do I spell my name again?
Okay.
My favorite thing is going to be donations.
Oh!
I put PDs.
That's awkward.
She's a good doctor.
And then I decided to dress like my character today so...
It looks swag turp.
Oh my goodness thank you!
Hey piano do you want to introduce yourself?
Hello I'm Piano Addict
I'm a Stardew Valley speed runner
and challenge runner
I've been playing Stardew for about five years now, and it's just the best.
The community is so awesome, and I'm really happy to be here today.
Next to me is Terpeter.
Yes my name is Terpeter but that was my father's name! You can call me Terp.
My pronouns are she or her and i'm super
excited to be here today i love this category i love the mines and oh uh settings setting
settings okay we're good sorry not the interruption on my internet i know all right
well yeah i love speed running stardew i've been doing it for a couple of years and uh yeah
whenever you're ready we'll start in the middle of
You don't want to introduce yourself?
I'll come after we talk so we can get going
Are you guys all ready?
Yeah, we just did a quick tech check
Do you have any transparency on?
Does anybody in the crowd or chat like to take naps?
Who likes to sleep?
In Stardew Valley, sometimes we like taking naps too. We're going to be actually napping for three seasons, so...
Prepare yourself.
You ready? Almost.
Yeah? Are we all in?
Alright!
Let's do the countdown together!
We gotta do the countdown.
Alright.
Three...
Two...
One...
Go!
Sleepsie!
Hey, I'm Jules Joules.
I play Sardew Valley and I speedrun with Lee Chaton.
Hi!
I am Lee Chaton.
I mostly go by LeeChad because nobody can pronounce my name.
And I'm ready to play and squad up with some
friends. Let's go.
Who likes playing Stardew
with their friends? Me!
Also, I like how Jewel said he likes playing Stardew with LeeChad but totally didn't say us.
And you guys too.
Oh, okay.
So you might be wondering why we're just sleeping and redecorating our houses.
Oh, we were supposed to be decorating? I didn't know we were decorating!
Oh yeah, I forgot about that!
Oh my gosh! Okay okay, I'm slowing down, let's go.
We need to go to winter because
by far the fastest way
to make money in a speedrun sense
is to exploit a little trick
in the winter called
winter tilling.
Basically, by manipulating
pattern of tiles that you use your hoe on
it can give you certain results
mainly winter root and snow yams.
And those are an average of 85 gold each so we're going to go
to winter and get a lot of money. You want
talk about why we need money over there? Yeah sure I can talk about why we need money over there?
Yeah, sure. I can talk about why we need money. Who doesn't
need money? We all need money right?
Alright so basically what were going to be doing with that money is
we need to purchase a membership to guys don't hate me joja
we're gonna sell out to jojo i'm sorry i'm sorry it's the fastest way we just we gotta we gotta do
what we gotta do yeah speed run so on the first day we're actually going to be getting
5,000 gold and
also going to be buying some food and coffee
who likes coffee? It's morning time
I know you guys got your coffee out there
And then we are gonna to need money later on in the run so we can buy
the Volt bundle, sorry, the bus
bundle. We're not gonna need the Volt for this one
and the bus will be taking us to the desert and yeah, we're gonna be able
to get into the Skull Cavern without reaching the bottom of the mines which is a new strat
in 1.6 so we get to showcase on the brand- new update for Stardew which came out just a few months ago.
So yeah! We're ready!
So for those of you who are unfamiliar with the game, in the desert there is a cave which is endless and it spawns random floors and enemies. It's just kind of like
the harder
variant of The Regular Minds if you've ever played
the game.
Someone decided
I think it was a year or two ago that they wanted to see how fast
they could get down to level 100. So this category was born just from
people trying to do the mines as fast as possible which
as we all know is RNG
Fest so
hopefully
we get some luck in the mines
and the skull caverns and we get some hashtag droppies.
Hashtag droppieeeeees! Droppies! We're gonna need some droppies
So every time we see a shaft um...we call them droppies
Um..and by we I mean when we started running this,
Terp called it a droppie and so now it's
called Droppy.
So we love droppies here.
DROPPIE!
We're going to need your help later on but yes,
summer three we click always yeah because there's an earthquake
um that opens up something that we don't even care about
um excuse me i like to go to the bathhouse sometimes okay
i never go out there i think uh we have some I like to go to the bathhouse sometimes. Oh, sorry.
I never go up there.
I think we have some time for a quick donation if...
Yeah!
...we're just gonna be sleeping
for a little bit longer here?
Absolutely.
There is so much love coming in from this community.
$50 from a 20-something loser who says
congratulations, Leaf Chat, Jules
Piero and Turf on making it to the big stage.
The whole Stardew community is so
proud of you! Love you all so much.
We love you too, Lee.
Do you have time for all so much. We love you too, Lee. Thank you, Lee.
Do you have time for another? Yeah!
We have $100 from Sprinkle Theory who says, woo, Stardew!
Lee Chan, Turpiano and Julia
are all amazing. You got this. Shout out to the amazing supportive Stardew community!
More Stardew please! Hi Char, hi Sprinkle.
Yeah you can keep going. You've got a season and a half so probably about four minutes roughly.
Well we have plenty of donations in! We have $50 from The Valiant Son
who says Lee Chad Jels piano and term words cannot
describe how excited I am to see
y'all on mainline and show just how absurd
Stardew Runs can get.
So much love from the back couch,
Less Than Three.
We have 200 from the back couch less than three. Less than three!
We have $250 from Jules Jules somehow.
Whoa, you're right next to me.
When did you do that?
Uh-oh, marry couple or... Who said so glad to finally be on the big stage at GDQ.
Been watching for 10 years and being up here with my wife
and great friends is amazing.
This has been a great experience thank you
we have five dollars from blackheart wings who says my dearest friends i
don't have enough words to express exactly how happy and proud
I am of you, to see all on the main stage at GDQ.
But I will try! Watching you come together
and do such amazing things inspires me more and more every day.
It's an honor and a privilege to know you all,
and I strive to be better because of your friendship. Keep being excellent
and I love you all." Thank you Blackheart. Real quick here we need
to um press escape. Escape!
I was waiting for your joke.
You disappointed me.
We didn't have time we were doing donuts.
Wait what joke?
I didn't know you were funny.
We call that Dory strats.
It's Dory Strats.
Yeah, because you have to escape.
Okay.
I was looking forward to that part!'s okay donuts are more important yeah speaking of
we still have time for some more donations oh wonderful just got an owl
sorry go ahead.
There's so many exciting things that can happen while you sleep aren't there?
We have $100 from Brittany Hitch who says I just want to say huge good luck to Leechat,
Jewelsterp and Piano.
So excited to see y'all run, and just know y'all are gonna
crush it!
Thank you!
We also have $100 from
Princess Shortcake who says,
cannot wait to watch my faves ding dong hit rock.
Ding dong! Any ding dongs?
Droppies, ding dong.
Jack can I hear your- actually audience sorry
I'm still in online mode. i hear your best droppies
dropping oh come on you guys can do better than that
okay there we go
that's so beautiful we have five $5 from Jackie Lantern 234 who says,
reminder that you're all loved aggressively!
And I want to thank everyone giving love
to our incentive as well.
The bonus ensemble mode run is now open for sale And I want to thank everyone giving love To our incentive as well the bonus
Ensemble mode run is now over
$4,000 of the way to that
$15,000 mark
You're doing amazing work making that one happen
Let's go Alright we are coming up work making that one happen.
Let's go!
We are coming up on winter here.
We've got a little bit more days to sleep,
but I wanted to talk about you guys are going to see some pretty crazy
stuff coming up here. First off, you're going to see some pretty crazy stuff coming up here.
First off, you're gonna notice we're using our tools really fast
especially me and I'm gonna be...
I think we all use tools faster!
I don't know if you guys have my game audio,
but it gets a little crazy when I'm doing what I'm doing.
So basically we are using this pattern that actually
I've worked on quite a bit over the last few years.
And Lita and Jules are going to be on the beach
and they get to do a really nice, satisfying
pattern where they tail the whole
beach and it's really beautiful.
Meanwhile, I get to suffer a little bit and do
a really advanced tech where I use
a different pattern that I can just
do it right next to Marnie's ranch.
And luckily my cabin is going
to be right down
there so I can just go at it all day
yeah I'll just be sleeping oh yeah Terps is going to be in bed yeah I don't
really want to help out.
She got tired,
she has to work really hard in the morning.
Yeah, exactly.
Now, I'll be going to the mines because we need
level 1 and level 2 mining in order to make some
cool stuff for
school caverns, such as
bombs which I'll be able to get when
I have level 1
and then level 2
I'll be able to build
staircases with 99 stone.
So if you
want to call me the backbone of this team that's fine
I wouldn't say
that, I think we're all important here.
I just feed you, it's fine.
I'm hoping you do get a femur in the mind.
I know, fingers crossed.
We need that weapon. That would be really helpful.
Yeah because there are many times that we've run this and
i just end up with the rusty sword which is as good as a scythe honestly oh yeah
that's a good weapon thanks it's a good one we're doing almost no preparation for
the mines we're gonna make some money to buy some materials for bombs and then We're going to make some money to buy some materials for bombs,
and then we're going to upgrade our pickaxes.
But other than that, we don't have
any reliable weapon.
We just are going to have food
and bombs, and we're just going to go at it.
Yeah, we like to live on the edge.
Yeah.
If you're new to Stardew,
I don't recommend going to the Skull Cavern without a weapon.
No.
Hey, look at that.
All right.
Winter, winter, winter, winter, winter.
I have a question while we're making our way over.
Keanu, is there a reason why you let just me and my husband down on the beach?
Is it because we like long walks on the beach,
or...? It's kinda cute. Kinda romantic actually.
Ow!
Alright... let's go.
Alright, where do we want the owl?
It's right here in the quarry.
Oh by the way
if you've seen other Stardew Speedruns
you probably have like
see Forest Farm or other farms
get used a lot more. However we're doing hilltop and the reason for that is because we got a quarry
right here on the farm so I'm able to just go for all this copper
and get level 1 without even entering the mines
And I get to sleep right next to it, so...
I don't want that broken CD you stay in the fire. Let's stick that there. I don't want that broken CD that you left.
And I already got level one so that's nice.
Oh it's second hole pattern? Nice!
Can I get that too please?
No, that's okay
So you may be thinking
wow Stardew is a really
relaxing casual chill game
and then you look over at piano screen
you're like what
yeah it's pretty accurate actually yes
so basically this is the clay farm pattern or winter tail
pattern and the clay farm is a bit different um basically
you go in uh the chest piece move like up one left two and that always drops a
winter forage once you find it,
and then you do a pattern of
nine to go backwards one
or ten to go up one.
Good night!
Night, Terb. We're gonna up one. Good night! Night Turb! Have a good nap. Tuckies!
It's nice to be in bed on the winter day
Yeah, that does sound quite nice.
What's it like to be on the beach in the freezing?
I mean, I'm okay
I guess. That's good.
Yeah, so
if you go back to bed after being out and like depleting your energy
slowly but surely my energy bar is going back up
i said that's why i go to bed um i will be leaving
my bed.
I'm just taking a little nap.
I'm just a little sleepy.
So yeah, I have to undo everything
I just did so that I can do it again?
Actually good. So as we make this money, it could be a little Um, actually we did.
So as we make this money it can be a little bit challenging to um communicate a little bit.
Terp's gonna be able to uh talk about her mind run and hopefully have some good luck
in there but if you wanted to get a few
donations then while we are uh making money that would work out absolutely we have 50 from brooke
l who says good luck to turk piano jewels and to the best Twitch wife ever, Licha.
I love you, YP.
We have $10
from Ola Nodane who says, hi everyone!
It's so exciting to see Stardew Valley
add another GDQ. The SDV speedrunning community is one of the best I've
had the chance to be a part of and i'm so happy to see it get recognized for the amazing speed
game it is! Good luck to the runners, I know you're going to crush it.
Do you have time for one more?
Yeah, go for it!
We have $25 from Ocean Lightly who says
Lee Chat, PianoTurf and Jules
You are all incredible
Watching all four of you practice this was so fun!
Proud as heck to see our crazy ways
To play up on the big stage
Enjoy sleeping through three seasons
Getting those dropies
And then show off our favorite festival Terp, show us how to say SGDQ while we sleep."
Sign it! Yes! Oh, I'm signed? Okay all right let me move this cap in. All right S-O Alright. S, oh, s, g, d, q! Let's go!
Almost done for today. Yeah, what I was doing
is moving our cabins so that we're nice and close
together and then um we decided piano
gets banned to the south side of the farm
it's okay we'll accept him later.
I do not have a great pattern.
Oh, I had a great pattern!
You're actually gonna have time to finish it all.
Oh, I just watered... no big deal.
I was just... you know?
So when I enter the mines Wait what's his name?
What's the guy's name? Marlo?
No. Marlin. Marlon!
Marlon and me, Marley and me...no.
He gives you a weapon that really sucks but at least it's better than nothing so...
True. Oh my gosh imagine hitting a rock
pink talk hey dogs i'm gonna have cutscene and five four three two one
so we push f really quickly so we can cancel out that cutscene it's a thing
that you'll see in speed running quite a bit
um as much as the cutscenes are beautiful and casual play, in a speedrun they
just slow you down.
So I'm just gonna go sell what we just tilled up and you can see uh
we have a couple dollars
and i'm on my last line just so you guys know it's a little strong
perfect let me see if i can get level five let! Let's go, I got to level five!
Good job.
Thank you.
Can we get some height?
Alright.
I'm headed up this little stall.
We might be short on coffee today, but that's okay.
That's fine.
I go into um...
Gus! No, not Gus. Clent?
There we go! Names. I remember them sometimes.
Alright, I've sold.
I clearly don't.
I bought the resources to make a furnace because we're upgrading our pickaxe.
May I spend all of our money then?
Please do.
Thank you, I love spending money.
Me too. You know what else I like?
Donating money! Woooo!
Do we have any of those?
Do we have any donations for a Stardew run? Yeah!
As it turns out, we have a lot of donations to the Stardew run.
We have $10 from Tazula and BabyCocoZula who say
The only thing better than playing Stardew with my friends You have $10 from Tazula and Baby Cocozula who say,
the only thing better than playing Stardew with my friends
is watching my friends play Stardew for a good cause.
I'm sorry if my French is terrible so...
Hopefully that was close enough.
We also have $50 from Emily
who says,
So excited to see Stardew at GDQ!
Good luck to the runners
helping for lots of droppies.
Oh, you need coffee? Sorry. So now we go out I have droppies.
Oh, you need coffee.
So now we go out so that Terp can give me her rocks
so that I can make a furnace and get the Demetrius test scene.
Coffee?
Did you not get it?
I did not get it?
I did not get it.
Who got the coffee?
Oh, my god.
Jules!
No that's not good.
You stole my coffee.
It's fine.
Are you not going to go outside?
Oh, my god.
That's me.
You're looking at me.
OK, it's right there.
Did you get the salads?
Yeah I got the salads.
Okay perfect.
Yeah it was fun dropping stuff to other people as...
Well usually you're not there.
Why were you there?
No I wasn't there.
What do you mean? It's your fault!
So Jules, would you like to talk about what you're doing right now? I am smelting all the copper diodes in a spot so that we can upgrade our pickaxes
We are sleeping for 16 days so that 15 days
I can sell it but that ends up on Wednesday
and then we can't sell them that Wednesday
so we're waiting.
That's close because we're supporting capitalism.
So how do you upgrade your tools in Stardew? Obviously,
we're smelting copper but what do you do with them? Right then you bring it to
Clint and with 2000 gold and then you can upgrade
your tools and then we can, And we can do clay farming without a pickaxe, which is awesome.
Good luck!
No mistake, Moda.
I think we already said this but the reason why
we're upgrading our pickaxes so that we can
break rocks a lot faster.
Ding dong!
Ding dong?
Click down now? Absolutely! We have $50 here from Clare who says I woke up early to catch this Star
Dream run and everyone is asleep? I mean, technically we're asleep too when you think about it.
Audience are you asleep or awake right now for this run? Quick check in.
That sounds pretty awake to me. Good job, everyone.
Yeah.
More awake than I am.
We have time for a quick one.
Got it.
We have $200 from Am amorce who says love seeing this
stardew run the star do single-handedly helped me to quit smoking three years ago
and it's heartwarming to see this in person good luck on the RNG, runners! Thank you.
Alright, we are gonna
check the daily luck real quick
because we want Turp to have some better luck in the mines
and then we'll go out again.
Yeah, and the reason for wanting that good luck
is so that...
Oh, let's go!
Two, last pattern.
Right.
I'm going to put something important right here.
Remember to drink your coffee, friends!
All right.
And pet that cat!
That's not in your mailbox.
I pet the cat.
Is anybody drinking coffee alongside us right now?
Oh, I am.
There's solids there just let me know if you got them.
What was it?
The reason why I need the good luck is so that
I can get ladders faster.
Because luck affects the mines. Should be... I'm picking up some crystal fruit just so I don't eat my salads
all right so today I'm going to try and get to at least level 10 see if we can
get a weapon hopefully
that's better than this rusty sword.
While you're doing that, would you like more donations? Yes. That'd be great.
Awesome! We have $150 from Rain who says big love to the tech crew, GDQ runners and hosts
and MSF for this event.
GDQ is always my favorite time of year
And I'm currently on vacation so I'm glad I can watch all week. Especially for Stardew!
Let's keep it rolling to 2 million! Heart?
Jonah goes to host choice. Oh thank you choices of course are bonus ensemble mode run we're at 5730.50
out of the 15 000 that we need to make that one happen so well over a third of
the way there please make sure you choose that incentive when you donate.
That is a whole bonus there
that we're going to get to see at the end
of the Crypt of the NecroDancer synchrony run.
So that's more GDQ, more marathon.
You know that we love that here.
Do you have time for more or are we focusing on patterns?
Yes!
Okay, there's a lot of patterns going on. I know they get complicated.
I'm glad that you're getting those through. We have $20 from BlueshineSpark who says,
Donate to wish good luck to everyone in the run
and it's special to my favorite streamer, Leeshatun.
You can do it.
Aw.
Thanks, Blueshine.
We have $50 from BZArcher who says, Sew a dress up You can do it. Aw, thanks, Keishon.
We have $50 from BZArcher who says
so excited for all the Friday morning runs!
Can't wait to see that bonus ensemble!
Working work on that.
Also Emily, best girl. Fight me!
We also have $100 from Lori who says so excited to see Stardew.
Love the music.
Do any of you have a favorite song in Stardew?
Yes. It's called...
Sam's Band
I think it's the bluegrass one
That's why, It's really short.
Love for a distant banjo?
No, not distant banjo.
Oh, you said any love. I thought
you were asking me. Any love? No!
Alright, got to level 10.
Alright, love the boots.
Yeah, no weapon.
A little defense.
And... little defense. And in 1.5
Concerned Ape changed it so that
you can get remixed rewards.
So it's kind of randomized as to what we'll get on level 10,
20 etc., etc. And sometimes you can kinda guess
because I feel like a lot of times when there's those leather boots
that's when I get to club on 20. So let's see if I can make it
at least to 15 so that the next... Oh! 15! Let's go!
Woo! Let's go.
I said stop two before, right? Two in your last line you do. That's it.
I'm going to leave you five salads the ones that didn't drop
to you later just at the top I have five salads, the ones I didn't drop to you later.
Just at the top...
I had nine salads in front because I don't know.
I'm going to give you an extra five just to be sure.
I want to make sure you're well-fed okay?
Aw! All right.
Ah, Terp! I know...so sad!
Oh! 17? Alright and we're just gonna get freebies
right here, right? Perfect.
Good energy levels...
One two
Alright good news! We can afford our picks! Let's go
What's that? No, don't exhaust. Yeah nobody has ever done that.
Imagine exhausting when you need money.
So if you do exhaust,
you do lose a portion of your money
and we need every bit of it right now
to do this upgrade so...
That's for you.
Thank you.
Terp says, Updoor.
Thank you.
I upgraded the right tool? Good plan.
And I'm going to continue exhausting until Terp is here.
And if you're wondering why we're exhausting,
it's because walking is slow and
passing out and appearing in your house is quick.
Please don't try that in real life. This only works in Stardew Valley.
Okay, we're good. Good plan, good plan.
Get to Exhaust?
Have we talked about why we are seeing our tools so quickly exactly? Or how we do that? Because I'm sure people are wondering.
We can talk about that, we've got a little bit of time here. So animation canceling is a hard-coded debug tool that can turn data to fix it fishing rod softlock.
Basically, if you hit right shift delete and R,
It resets your firmware to its default state,
which cancels out our tool
actions, and for some reason
the actual action of
tools happens about 10 frames after using it
and not after about a 30 frame window.
And that allows us to cut about 20 frames off of every tool
animation, which as you can imagine gets pretty fast.
If you ever watch a task do it it's insane so and no we're not hitting those buttons
we are allowed to rebind it to spacebar yes three to one merry christmas Merry Christmas! Yes. Checking my mail? Oh, yeah checking my mail as well.
I think I got all of my money.
All right. Okay, alright.
Easy 2k. And the reason we were able to get just
some free random money in the mail is because
we chose the female character and that gives us money
for making money.
Well explained! I like that. Thank you. And if you choose
male then you get cookies.
So not as exciting.
Unless you really like cookies.
Everyday when we go to the beach on this day
We're like please pattern be there
please be there it's so exciting when it's there all right
so let's see if i can pull this off too oh let's go okay
so they don't have pickaxes so they can't make any mistakes right now.
I don't have my pickaxe either, but instead of going to the mines
I am making some bombs that I was able to... Oh yeah! Level 2. Let's go!
So I'm making some bombs so I can just grab some extra copper, and stone.
Ugh! Not the geode costume.
Geode...
What's that? No, I have it.
I like to avoid it.
Actually, a lot of copper.
Would you like more donations while we're doing all this fruit finding? Oh yes, I'm very focused.
We have $25 from Electric who says can you please tell Leechat and Jules
when he said meow? Love said meow yeah mod team i hate your spot i'm sorry
we have 100 from darko's lab who says after staying up to watch all the amazing runs this week.
Napping for three seasons and waking up
to a fresh coffee sounds like a great idea!
We also have a question, $10 from Trader Inade asks
With all this sleeping, is it
Ponk Shoo or MeMeMe?
Ponk Shoo!
Is that one yours or mine? That one's mine.
It's not a very good mogus.
Oh, I forgot.
We have time for another one. We're going to go to Mogus. Oh, I forgot. Let's see here.
We have time for another one.
Yep.
All right.
We have $50 from a fancy dragon who says,
so excited to see the Star Dew run.
After hearing about the run from JulesJules,
I'm so excited to watch in person. Cheering you on from the back couch!
Show us through the back couch by the way!
Up early and all of the hype already! Let's go!
Today is going to be an awesome day gdq i can't believe you guys have already raised over a million dollars that is amazing it's wild i'm so excited for
the runs for the rest of the day as well.
You guys are crushing those incentives, and thank you so much
for matching our incentive.
I'm really excited to show you what is going to happen at the end of this run.
I do want to give a disclaimer that there's gonna be a bit of a spoiler, so if you haven't played
the newest update recently.
We're going to be showing off some of the new stuff, so if you prefer not to see that kind of stuff
and explore it for yourself
then just look forward.
Alright I picked up my pickaxe so i'm going to go ahead and try and get to 20. before everybody else is done with their
patterns
and then yeah And then, yeah. Fingers crossed!
But I was able to make a chest so that we can put all of our tools in it and have a more open inventory.
I hit the first spot
of your line again, sorry.
We are almost done with
the hard focus time.
You got it, we have $15 from Joja Corporation!
Oh!
Joja corporation and its investors here after referred to as The company are proud to be observed donating to Doctors Without Borders,
Hereafter referred to as the beneficiary.
The company invites all GDQ viewers to speed run to their nearest Joja Mart and sign up for a membership today
join us right join us thrive speaking of joining us in thriving uh we do have
an amazing speedrun community um Shout out for this amazing community, many of which are with us today, which is really cool.
I'm done stuff is next next to Daenerys.
Oh yeah, I should probably get going then.
Yep.
Perfect.
Fine! No level 20 now.
And we're almost done the clay farming part,
and next we're off to buy the stuff we need
and then is our favorite activity sleeping again.
I'm going to leave everything in front front of peers or do you want me to
say no that's not it okay good okay thank you just a little behind i just bring it a little bit closer
that's all did you get yours yeah you did perfect all right and we are rich again!
Yay money!
You chose the journey by the bus like you did perfect.
I did.
Save the frames.
Alright. Time in the frames. Alright!
I'm making a stone...
I think it's done, yeah.
Okay.
Do we buy any more food or are we good?
Um, I need more coffee.
Yeah, we need more coffee.
So wait a little bit before-
Yeah, I'm more coffee. So wait a little bit
before...
I'm going to run
into guesses.
All right.
Grab that stone.
How many coffee
do you have, Dirt?
I have three.
You have three coffees?
Okay.
I have six, so...
I think six would
probably be fine.
Maybe i'll get an extra one for us and then three for charp?
Thank you! And now, Pia will finally join us up here at the top!
Oh boy, here we go.
You buy me?
I have bought it. I have a little bit of extra too.
Copper, all the coal. A little bit more on coal but I think it's fine. We can go to exhaust. Alright. And that is the end of our winter forest farming.
Alright, who's ready for some Skull Cavern 100?
But first... A nap! for some Skull Cavern 100. Woo!
But first, we're sleepy.
A nap. First of all, a nap.
All that work, man.
Anybody got any forage?
No.
Did he touch it?
There's the blood for... No. Did he patch it? Aww!
There's a glitch for showing spring forage there, and that's pretty funny.
One little tool...
Alright. A couple more quick donos while we sleep to the 16th?
Absolutely.
First, I want to say that we're not sleeping on this incentive.
We are now over $6000 out of that $15000 needed
to unlock the bonus ensemble mode run.
So excited for that later today. It's going to be fantastic. needed to unlock the bonus ensemble mode run.
So excited for that later today, it's going to be fantastic!
We have $10 from Barry Patches who says
Much love to the Stardew Valley speedrun community
especially the awesome gamers running today good luck in the caverns
you are braver than i we also have five dollars from auntie salvo who says greetings
from australia it's late night for us but the the love for SGDQ trumps all big shout outs to my
lovely niece who is obsessed with Stardew Valley and has been keen for this run all week. Love you
heart. I don't know if it's getting picked up on the audio mic, but the audience is me-ing
and honk-shoeing along with all this nap time.
Wonderful job everyone!
We also have $100 from Carrie Fry who says please give Shane a pizza and say hi to him for me. Sorry you're going to be disappointed.
Good luck runners and great job waiting for you to prove us.
We can maybe do that later.
I don't know what day he goes.
Pull up the wiki.
No, actually we'd do that a lot during a sleepy run.
$50 from
Sa, who says, what's up SGDQ?
Stardew Valley is such a life-changing
game! So full of love for this
game, marathon and amazing cause.
Two million, let's go!
Coming up it will be going up on the 16th
because Pam decides Yep, it will be going up on the 16th. Because
Pam decides to go
to the festival and lets us drive her bus
so we all get to pay money to ride for a bus
Yeah she also gives us a sign
I never thought of it before, but is that really kind?
That she makes us pay to use the bus when we're driving ourselves?
That's a lot of work.
What the?! Good morning. Good morning!
Oh, I ended up in the river again?
Oh my god. Okay, these two mail. Here's the mail I already checked mine right to turn off the blinking so you'll notice that got a training rod in my inventory along with, I'm pretty sure everybody else.
Basically if you don't fish during the first year
or season? How does that work?
Do you guys know? First season.
Is it first season, and I guess because we only checked our mail later,
that's why...
Guys can you step away from Derp?
That's for piano.
We're just distributing some materials. Jules, this is for you.
Oh sorry!
I need to hear...
It was a little chaotic, we got this though.
Alright. It's a little chaotic, I know. We got this though. All right.
Now for the high octane gaming. All right.
Oh yeah, this is it.
Focus mode locked in!
You guys thought this was a cozy game? game okay this is part of the small modding update
called 1.6 yes it's just a small mounting update yeah um concern tape goes hard
i'll just say that, he's the best.
He does.
Shout out for Concerned Ape!
So part of this festival is this little booth where we get some free food.
Oh my gosh, I'm just running into the wall!
We get some free food and with certain combinations that we can make it so that we have um speed
more speed and luck not yeah luck okay okay
okay so we're gonna need your participation on this part.
If you guys see a droppy, you know what to do.
You got to shout it out.
Droppy!
That was a practice.
That was just a practice warm-up, but I don't think everybody was ready.
So let's try that again.
One, two, three!
Happy!
All right.
Everybody's warmed up.
Let's go.
Running around in circles.
All right, just up, upright? Oh, you got it? Okay. Top right. And the bomb here. Running around in circles. Alright, up right?
You got it. Top right...
Yeah careful of those enemies.
Hey I got my level 3!
You're going the middle one?
Top right is where it is...
I got some ideas to sleep on.
Oh! I almost laddered.
No? That's not a good idea.
Ouchie!
Entrance? Nope.
Seems like a decent-looking day, um...
How much coal do you need, Terp?
Um I need a lot of coal. Okay, we touched the cat.
Let's go to uh... Wait somebody touched
the cat?
Are you joking? No.
Everything's fine.
Droppy!
On the next floor, Ron.
Yeah.
Not on the cold floor.
You need more coal don't you? I do.
My inventory is jammed full.
Oh dropy to the right! DROPPY!
13 levels.
Let's go!
Stay away from my friends!
We don't hurt friends here um so in multiplayer the game actually
does not cause you just got to be careful that you don't get hit by these guys and
if you do you need to eat.
Coffee time?
Yeah coffee time and I'm eating something else.
Nice.
Okay.
Dinosaur!
I'm not gonna um... don't wanna pet it no
but also oh is it gonna yeah cause Droppy!
So the droppies you can get from 3 to 15 floors, but you take damage taking it. But its super fast. Lot uh ladder right mummy mummy don't kill me please
mommy
that was close i want to walk this way, but I need to bomb it.
No ladder!
Leave her alone!
Yeah thank you.
Oh no dinosaur!
Thank you for defending my honor ah okay uh bottom right
bottom right next floor is safe so just get here okay yep i got it. Entrance free?
That was scary!
That was really, really close.
It's a little sweaty. We're fine.
Free bottom right? Yeah, thanks.
So with this run you learn
with your friends very quickly
what right and left are
and sometimes
you learn the reverse
of where right and left are.
Droppy!
Droppee!
Ooh, seven. Let's go.
Don't jinx it!
Entrance?
Do we want to ladder though?
First let's just hit the rocks.
Laddering.
I defended us.
We're getting mine here.
DEFENSE!
DROPPIEEEEEEEEES!!!
Triple droppie? No man, droppies. Swiss Chase Floor! drop these triple drops swiss cheese floor eat fun health oh my gosh happy time okay sorry coffee time i would help you but... Oh no! Eat it all!
Okay, everybody eat!
Everybody eat!
Get us off this floor.
Leave my friends alone!
Generally the mummy floors
are easier
but this one is spicy.
How much do you want to put?
Oh, bottom right,
bottom right, middle right! Middle.
I was gonna say how much you want to bet?
Was four rocks good enough?
Yeah, good plan.
Uh, bombing up here...
It might be coffee cycle but it might not be cool ladder top right uh uh drop it drop it drop it drop
watch out for the bat oh i got 15 cherry bombs let's's go. Let's go. Five more floors, guys?
We're doing good.
So you always want to check the extra rocks on those floors,
the treasure floors
because there's a chance
we'll get a droppy.
Okay.
Did you get any megabombs
this time though?
No megabombs this time.
That's okay.
Oh. Where is this one? Drop it. No mega bombs, but that's okay. Oh!
Where is this?
Bottom right!
Oh, we skipped it.
No, we both got trappings.
No, but we skipped it.
Lottering this? No, we both got rubies. No but we skipped it.
Um... Uh, laddering this?
Yep.
Oh I've got a seed maker.
Nope.
If anyone was looking for a seedmaker you can find one on floor 75. Oh. NO!
If anyone was looking for a seed maker, you can find one on floor 74?
Oh why did I- okay.
Droppy, droppy, dropppys.
Ssss sss sss ssss
Droppy, droppy, droppy, droppyyyy
Oh dropy hellooo
DROPPYYYYYY IT WORKED Oh, dropy. Hello? Dropy!
Alright, six levels. Doing good, doing good.
Oh, I didn't get it okay uh entrance again
uh i got mystery more cherry bombs oh wait i almost always go for that letter
oh it's a freebie on the next one too let's just go yeah
there's serpentine next one yeah be careful coffee time
oh coffee time thank you thank you we love that. 16 more floors to go!
Oh got it in the middle
Up right?
Watch out ladder next floor I'm gonna defend
Yep yep yep yep
Perfect good callout Remember to eat Yep, yep, yep. Lettering. Perfect.
Good call out.
Remember to eat.
Letter check?
How many letters?
So you're bottom right.
I have three.
Do we want to ladder this?
Hold on.
I'm just going to run back and forth.
Dropy, dropy, dropy!
Oh my gosh. Ouchie. Help me! I'm wandering and running off the floor.
Oh my gosh, ouchie.
Ouchers!
Yeah that was kind of...
Alright, I have three.
Take the rocks. Oh take the rocks? Okay. Oh, I have four ladders.
Four, five six seven...
Dropping!
Dropping ladder!
42?! I'm gonna be like, time! Time! World record!
We're all here.
Oh my gosh. 42 minutes?
Guys, we have time for the incentive
here. Let's go, let's go
Let's go, let's go
Oh my goodness we're just gonna go straight into the incentive here
okay that is by far our best run ever
so
okay oh my god okay we just missed a cycle Okay. Oh, my God!
We just missed a cycle.
That's fine.
We're going to wait for these guys
to do their little race here.
Do you want me to explain what we are about to do? Oh, I can't put my palms down.
So we're just going to go and do everything
that you can do at the Desert Festival.
We're gonna start with these racers.
We're gonna bet on who we think's
gonna win, and then run around and do everything.
So kind of just show off the festival
and have a good time with it.
Well, we're setting up
because I want to sneak in
a quick $50 donation
from The Haboo
who says,
did I hear a distant banjo?
No, you did not. Most certainly did not. Haboo, who says, did I hear a distant banjo? No.
Most certainly do not.
Thanks, Hob.
Big shout out to Haboo as well.
He's one of the best speedrunners in the game.
Um... He's one of the best speedrunners in the game. Okay, make sure you guys have some inventory space open and drink your coffee.
Alright who are you guys gonna go for?
I don't know.
Shubhashit was the last one. Who are you guys going to go for? I don't know. Let's see. That's hard.
Shubha's got a nice…
I'm going for Escargot.
Escargot all the way!
Okay, okay.
Slow and steady gonna win all right all right i believe in him already
so we're going to go when he says go yeah yeah he's gonna line up the racers down here
come on i think it's only just a yeah it's on the hour patient okay um oh i drank that really Okay. Okay, okay.
On your marks... Oh, I drank that really early.
Get set...
Go!
Cut the camel.
Put the camel.
Hit the camel. Cut the camel.
Augh! Hit the pig.
I got it.
You got the trash?
I got the trash, I remember the trash first I just...
Are we good?
28th.
Apricot trees. Oh shoot, I don't know this one.
Oops! I don't know that one.
Ah ha!
I got it, okay.
I got it.
Oh!
I don't want these.
Come on there.
Okay. I'm so slow. Okay. I forgot the camel.
I have to go back.
Oh no, you have to go back!
I got the pig.
Getting the camel, getting the camel.
Okay.
Alright.
We're good, we're good.
Get our speed boost food after?
Nope. boost food after. Go, go, go!
I don't think I'm gonna win this.
Shoebiscuit won!
Yeah!
Was my good outfit?
It's fine, I'll get a cute little cactus on it.
Nice outfit.
What did you get?
So fun. But I got the answers so oh i look like
i don't know indiana jones or something i don't even know what oh my gosh i'm santa claus
let's go
we already did that actually.
Dude your cactus has a hat!
Woooo! First place in the race?
Alright Jules wins I think
but I also got third... I don't-
I got second place.
Mine has like lip, no he has like goatee.
My hair!
Well nice flower though.
These are totally randomized and it's like-
Last place let's go!
Time, time. Oh yeah, time, sorry.
Time, time, time.
Okay, we're just gonna
go up here
and finish the runoff.
Alright.
You guys have any
shoutouts you wanna do?
I can go. I like to first of all just give a shout out to the entire story about community and you can find us on speedrun.com under Stardew Valley,
and we also have a Discord server.
Make sure to join that.
Also, big shout-out to Restream Francais.
Je vous adore mes beaux francophones.
Vous êtes awesome. Je vous aime beaucoup. Je suis chiac en passant. but beautiful French speakers. You're awesome!
I love you so much, Chichiac, by the way.
And I'll pass it over to Jules.
Yeah thanks for everybody,
thanks for all the crew back there getting our sound sorted out.
Thank you for the reading donations, thank you for everything.
Thank you to all the crowd everybody back there if you're not!
You can find me on Twitch, and yeah.
Terp you're up.
All right, my name is Terpeter
and you can find me at twitch.tv slash terpeter
And I just want to say thank you so much to everybody at gdq all the volunteers
tech crew staff friends attendees everybody back couch love you guys yeah thanks to the whole starting community and thank
you concerned eight for this amazing game I saw your words.
Oh, no it's okay.
I just wanted to say thank you for having us, Game Stylen Quick Committee.
I want to give a big shout out to all the doctors out in the world who are doing real work helping people survive
the calamities that are happening right now.
And I just think it's so amazing that we've raised almost $1.1 million
to help them out
and I just feel so blessed
to be part of that process
so I just thank everyone
who's donating
and supporting the cause.
So I'm Piano Addict, you can catch me on Twitch at Pianoddict
that's with an underscore
And yeah! Thank you for watching our run
it was super, super fun. Thanks for having us!
Yeah, thank you so much everyone!
Thank you so much again to Piano Lee, ChatTurf and Jules
for that world record run that we just...
Yo what's up everyone? I'm Glam.
I'm here to run all dungeons swordless
as it was announced so um
this is a really glitchy run
We'll get into it soon but
here to explain with me what's going on are my two commentators introduce yourselves hi
i'm check human and i'm twin all right so uh we're ready to go ready to go all right countdown three two one go
all right so we're just uh gonna get into this here
um so again this is all dungeon store list so what that means is we're just going to get into this here.
Again, this is all dungeons swordless so what that means
is we are going to beat all the dungeons of the game
and get all the pendants crystals,
beat both Aghanim fights
and beat the game
And we aren't going to collect a sword
the entire time.
So that's gonna have a few complications,
we're gonna have to do some more difficult boss fights in combat
and also gonna have to use some really much weirder glitch setups
than normally you would do in other categories.
So right off the bat here we're going to grab the lamp, this is important because normally the first thing you'd do in this game
is you'd go up and see your uncle who got hurt in the tunnel trying to
save Hyrule and get the swordfen, but we're not going
to do that. We are just going to leave him there.
Lan is taking advantage of diagonal walls in this game
to clip out-of-bounds
and gets the funny autowalk thing.
So we're not... and it's the funny auto-lock thing.
We're not going to go see him, but we'll go to Eastern Palace first. There is a bow in Eastern Palace which isn't a sword
But it does fight things, it kills enemies
So that's where gonna need to go first.
We just gotta do a few clips to get in here. This one I mean isn't actually necessary
you see this all the time.
This is called a citrus club.
Let's get on the wall here and we can jump around
the screen or at the top of the screen
in Eastern Palace. Nice clip! and in the eastern palace.
Nice clip!
It's helpful to minimize gameplay,
and it's okay to be pause buffering
because we receive a message from Zelda every minute and
It's, we want to go fast. And we want to beat these cycles if we can
But can't we? we can't pause right now
right yeah we were able to use select in the
overworld but it's true we can't use elect
into dungeons yet yeah so this game kind of operates with
like four states of progression
there's at
beginning of the game after you see your
uncle in the tunnel and then there is
after you rescue Zelda and after'd the first agnum fight uh so we're gonna be doing a fair bit of
the game in that first state which has a few
interesting things um at the start of the game you're given an invisible
follower who pops up this
all detects every so often she thinks that we should go to the castle dungeon
but I have a different way of viewing things she's not going in personally
can wait.
But one complication of this as well is that you can't save until
you visit your uncle, so the first few minutes of this run I won't be
able to save which means I won't be able to save, which means
I have to be a little careful
uh, to not mess
up.
Okay, nice. Luckily
there's a heart in this room. We do want full hearts here because one staple of A Link to the Past speedrunning is the Anti-Fairy skip coming up, and we have to take intentional damage.
Yeah ideally just a heart and a half.
And we can hear Glenn pumping along the catwalk to save frames.
We gotta save those frames where we can.
That's right.
Yeah, so you're supposed to kill all the enemies in that room
that makes the anti-fairies move but you can just get iframes
and then pick up the pot and it works fine.
Do that in every category, neat little trick.
Yeah honestly Eastern isn't that different
in this category like you mentioned we have to take a couple of
extra damage boosts because we don't
have a weapon
and then there's a room coming up
that we have to only
use the bow and it's a little bit more complicated
all right
okay all right yeah we could probably fit in a couple donations actually bar going through eastern
well i would love to give you a huge donation one thousand dollars from ballistic wow
a link to the past is my all-time favorite game reverse boss order left me mesmerized the first time i
saw it so excited for the upcoming swordless run go glan and i also have a $75 donation from Jokuro who says, Hey, listen.
I will not be saying that too often, don't worry. Thank you.
So coming up on the first boss fight here which is the Armless Knights
we're gonna do a little trick and fire them here
which is...
Normally once you defeat five of them the last one becomes red and regains all its health.
But by hitting it down to just 1 arrow left of health and then killing it quickly
It won't do that.
Now I'm going to wait
just a bit to pick up this pendant.
If the Zelda text pops up during the cutscene
you softlock, you have to reset the entire run
so I'm just going to be safe here and wait...
Yeah, there it is.
It would've come up.
Glam found a new way that this Zelda text can interrupt gameplay yesterday.
Yeah, I'm all practicing.
Probably won't happen in the game...I hope.
Alright and before grabbing it, I used the lamp a couple times there. That sets up some memory for a trick later we'll talk about that more when we get there just uh...
It wasn't random. But now look at the green pendant and in the We're going to go talk to Sahasrala who we definitely met before.
And he's gonna give us the Pegasus Boots.
The Pegasus boots will let us go fast. They'll be really useful for a lot of glitch setups
Just generally very important item in the game
And we have a lot of Tests to mash important item in the game
we're also going to grab the rupees out of grandpa's closet here we're just gonna collect a couple years back payments for birthday money you know yeah
and of course you know whose grandpa doesn't have explosives yeah we're gonna
grab some bombs and if you've ever seen any Zelda speedrun before
You probably know that bombs are incredibly broken so it's not any different in this game
Allowing yourself to take damage anywhere you want is pretty good.
So now that we've got the bow and everything,
We're gonna finally go into the castle to rescue zelda uh but you know we're still not
going to go in the normal way that's a little too mean stream um we're actually going to go
in through the stream instead there's a boots clip coming up to help
Glam get through this diagonal wall,
and he doesn't have the ability to punch at this point, which
we normally get from Uncle.
So he has to turn up and down uh left and
up to get past that. So we're gonna do a swim clip here
so by kind of swimming into the slope in the right way, he'll be able to
kinda clip through it while still swimming.
But how are we swimming? We don't have any flippers! Oh yeah that's
true. Uh, we did a little fake flippers.
You just swim into the transition and then it despawns the splash
Just doing a little swim up the Hyrule Castle there.
Grom and me learned to swim so that we can fly? Yeah.
This is where the run gets really interesting.
Yeah, A and Glenn needs to
clip these
stairs, the rail
um...and he gets
one frame down left
very well done. I'm not even gonna pretend that trick is easy
that's the hardest trick in the run i was nervous for you
so yeah now we're in EG which where underneath the floor
We hit the back of this staircase to go down it
Yes, no just in the dungeon here
but we jumped into the pit there which we did something called arming EG
So essentially the game's kind of in this weird state where it's like waiting for Link to land on the floor
before it changes his layer
so we're gonna abuse that by after we pick pick up Zelda, we can bonk the wall and I'll complete
that fall. And then go to the lower lair.
I don't even think that's going to hit the guy.
Oh! It looks like the Ball & Chain's guard got caught a little bit.
I don't think I've ever seen him get stuck there. The ball and chains guy got caught a little bit.
I don't think I've ever seen him get stuck there!
Thankfully we have one more pot.
Pots are so strong in this game.
We're gonna get five rupees, very important.
Pot steel tempered sword damage but we don't know what that item is.
What's a sword?
So I actually have to get those five rupees rupees we need a total of 420 rupees to
buy all the things that we're doing in this run uh so i got
got five from a drop five from the chest i'll get two more fives later and we'll be perfect and selda tells us about
a secret passage through the sewers but we're not going that way we're taking
a secret secret passage yeah nobody likes Nobody likes wet feet.
Just taking a little walk under the floor here through all these rooms, so as you can probably
tell from this
all the rooms are kind of just on the world map.
And as long as you can get out-of-bounds, you can transition between them.
I started mashing way too early there.
Alright so here in Rescue Zelda, This is normally what it looks like.
It's completely normal.
So after this we're going to go back up there and a little bit more so probably fit in a couple more donations here. Absolutely, you were talking about five rupees just now and I've got a lot of fives here in the donations for you.
I've got $25 from Sneak Bat who says, him hop me hap.
And $25 from Iwala Koala, who says, wishing I was there in person but cheering you on
from homeland.
Much love, good luck, go fast and be sure to say hi to Gannon. Oh, I will be saying hi. I'll give him a nice big hug.
Got time for one more?
Sure.
All right, $25 from Liam Atlas who says,
Glam it's so awesome to see you on the
GDQ stage.
I'm excited about this. I love seeing you and I hope we can All right, $25 from Liam Atlas who says Glam it's so awesome to see you on the GDQ stage. Good luck! Also shout outs to Chex and Twin.
Glam don't forget Burn Nantaka.
Oh yeah, thanks Lane.
Alright so we went through EG to Thieves Town here
this is the fourth Dark World dungeon, we're just coming out
to get to Village of Outcasts here There's a couple things we need to pick up.
You may be noticing that normal Light World music is playing here,
and I'm not a Bonnie game because this is something called Fake Dark World.
So the world state you are in is actually tracked separately
from the actual physical, like overworld tile screen you're on.
Uh so right now we are on a dark worlds uh room but we're in the light world.
Your world state only changes when you take a portal
and use the mirror, so as soon
as I take an overall transition here
it's going to change me back to light world.
In this part of the run Glenn is collecting
a lot of items he'll need for the rest of the run, Glanna's collecting a lot of items you'll need for the rest of the run.
Yep.
Oh wait, that's not
betrayed by him.
Why did you bonk me?
We're bonking Mr. Einstein.
He's got five rubies.
Um...
We are also gonna pick up a bottle here and one of the best weapons in the game.
Okay.
What could that be?
You know, it's just in the possession of this sick kid in bed.
It's got a really good weapon.
It's not a sword.
Yeah so so...
We're gonna get the bugman here. This is the best weapon.
There it is! I mean if it works against Demise
It works against Ganon. Yeah, it works against the enemy.
Yeah, it's a necessary item!
And we'll do a quick little bit of shopping here.
We need more bombs. Bombs are important.
And we need a red potion. well actually it's just for safety.
So as Chex mentioned the first part of this run
We're going to be collecting a lot of items
and then chain a lot of items and then we're gonna chain like a
lot of dungeon completion together so right now we're gonna start chaining
a bunch item or item collection together we're
gonna go in this cave here we're gonna go back into eg
uh by doing another citrus clip to an upward teleport so we can get out of the puns here.
We saw a citrus at the eastern clip
and there goes Link teleporting upward this time.
So, this room here is just a couple rooms south of Misery Mire right here
And now we're in something called Cave State
so your dungeon ID
uh...is based on the entrance you take,
so right now because we're in a cave, we're in what we call
Cave State. And Cave State has some funny
properties. One is that if you try to
do anything that requires the big key, it checks for
having certain big keys in your possession, one of which is the big key. It checks for having certain big keys in your possession,
one of which is the Hyrule Castle one,
so we can just open the big chest and stuff.
Now we have the Canis Sumario,
which is by far the most broken item
in this game. It is used in countless glitch applications
and all sorts of different ways
it's actually pretty incredible
how messed up that item is
Man, how did you open that door?
That's another thing about Cave State. So in Cave State,
You're not supposed to have the small key count on your HUD
so the game's indicator for that is to set your keys
to minus one
which is actually 255 since it's a single byte value. So we
have 255 small keys just open all the doors. Thank you for explaining that while touching
that very scary slut. Yeah, what a one-shot me.
So Glenn has to count here.
Nice.
Well done!
We'll see a transition here that takes us to a room
That is not expected
Because it's seven tiles north
There you go
And we're in swamp
Yeah, we are in Swamp Palace now.
And we pick up the hookshot which
is not only great for hooking things
but it is also incredibly broken.
It is and the game is so resilient
that lets us abuse it with all these glitchy tricks
And with the broken transition we can take advantage of that and get
the moon pearl in here and here.
Now we're going to use the wonderful 1.0 hole as some people might know about this was discovered
way back when the game came out if you take this hole here and you fall down
the right side of it uh you land on the wall down here and you can just jump out into EG.
I don't know if we mentioned, but we are playing on the Japanese 1.0 version of the video game
And it doesn't just save on text in text boxes. It also has a lot of glitches we can take advantage of.
Yeah there's a lot of unique glitches in this version. Mostly minor glitches, but there are some major
glitches that are patched
So we're doing some weird crowding here just
because we have to deal with the broken camera
making some transitions not work.
So we're going to do our first miss law here.
I can let you guys talk about that if you want.
This is a really complicated glitch.
Right.
So LaGlann has set up some memory values so
that we can take advantage of placing items in slots that they don't belong in. So with a mis-slotted bomb, Glam can use the hookshot and pop back into
the upper layer. Yeah which is what we call a weird shot after the Ocarina of Time glitch
Alright so now
we got the fire rod, were done with the item collection for now.
Okay this is fantastic.
This room... which one of the worst rooms
in the game.
Turns out, it glitches as well.
So we have to get the big key here now? Now we're actually in Skullwood State.
Just taking intentional death because half a heart.
Yeah, that's what refills our health.
Okay we need the big key for a couple things coming up soon...
I don't actually want the heart, I just wanna be able to get the magic.
So we're in Skull Whips,
does that mean we are going to the boss, Mothula?
Not yet. Okay.
First we have to get the hammer which is definitely
in Skull Woods. Oh yes.
Oh yeah! Everybody knows that.
So here we're gonna do a, what we call Diver Down. If I can menu the King of Samaria...
The menu in this game is not great.
Ah yeah so we're gonna be- and stairs backwards.
I love watching Link go up the stairs to
go under the floor,
it's fantastic.
And as it turns out
Palace of Darkness is
right beside Skullwoods
so we're going to pop over here and we're going to literally
pop out of ag with a trick we call new g kick so this room here the room just to
the left of it is the one that has monofila which was a full floor conveyor belt,
uh...which actually makes it so that Link pops out of EG
and we do it right up against the top transition
so we can touch it after being on the upper layer.
And now we're here in the darkness,
and we just have to go here?
Glenn is dying!
We need that help.
So yeah, we stole the Skullwood Woods dungeon ID and that was an unlucky death.
But yeah, we still have the Skull Woods dungeon ID so we use the Skull Woods big key to open
that chest and the hammer and now
get to fight everybody's favorite boss mothilla with no sword in four hearts um with no sword
it's pretty easy yeah we can't get back there the normal way because we can't slash the vines.
So...
We're just gonna go...
Underneath the floor.
But we're not just going to fight moth-eel normally right?
We're gonna do a very weird mist slotting setup,
to set up something called Moth Items.
So it's actually possible that we can change
essentially the item value
that the crystal will give us here.
I definitely made us Samaria block there
It's invisible at first, you can see it in the corner
This is what the red potion was for. Safety in case you were wondering.
This was a really haphazard fight and Blaine has a safety potion to use.
We're fine.
Yeah we're fine. We're chillin' now.
And the boss room creates a sort of defense for the boss.
It's the worst room in the game.
We have to hit moth into space when there's space around it we can't
hit them off into the spikes because the spikes
restore its it doesn't restore, but it prevents it from taking damage.
You'll see Gland is using an item and then immediately menuing. We have to be on hookshot when the boss dies, we cannot
menu while the boss is dying. So he's just gonna hook this block a couple of
times and we get the mirror.
I thought we were going to earn a crystal, but... No!
Nope. We get the mirror. Much better than
a sneaky crystal. We'll get the mirror. Much better than a sneaky crystal.
We'll get the crystal soon.
Right.
We'll get the crystal by returning to that room right?
Yeah.
Well no, so now we're in Skullwood's right?
So we need to go into Dungeon, right? So we need the Skull Wood Dungeon ID.
That means that when we get a crystal
We're gonna get the Skull Woods Crystal
But we can get the crystal from any boss room as it turns out
Glenn is using audio cues here.
So, here's Helm of Sorrow.
Getting spin speed to make that hammer hitbox actually usable. This boss is kind of hard, but it's not as hard as moth.
So you have to hit his mask 17 times...
Oh, I lost count of it there. It's fine.
Glenn had the opportunity to despawn the fireball...
But that's okay.
Beautiful fight.
Nice fight.
Alright.
So now this is the Skull Woods Crystal, because we started from Skull Woods so we have Skull Woods Dungeon ID loaded right now
But since we fought Elmasaur in the Palace of Darkness boss room
We're actually going to exit out from Palace of Darkness after this and be able to go
back in. So that's gonna kind of
be the main mechanic for chaining the dungeons together
We'll just fight one boss- a different boss
from each dungeon And then come out there and go back in fight
a different boss and get a different crystal. And we can fit in a couple donations here.
Awesome I have a $50 donation from Legend of Link who says,
It's dangerous to go alone. Take this...
...err...hammer?
And we are just about $2,500 away
from that crypt of the NecroDancer Synchrony run.
So you definitely want to see that.
Get those donations in.
And I have a $75 donation from Phylion who says, game looks fine. Nobody panic! Go Glam go! We haven't even got to the good part yet. Oh, yeah. So we're
going to go buy a potion here.
This is going to be used for Glitchlayer. This one's not
for safety.
Or I'm going to nod,
I guess. So Glenn was going for an upward teleport
to get to the potion shop.
It looked like that was one pixel too low.
So it looks like...
We're gonna have to do some improv here.
Yeah.
So the portal is cleared, is that right?
Yeah, the portal's gone so I gotta go back to the pond.
But we're on the mountain.
Uh, yeah.
In the Light World!
Yeah this is where we usually go to get to Palace of Darkness right?
Yes.
So what Glen is doing here is called kiki's gift
it shouldn't be in the run but it is now There we go.
Very good, so what Glenn did was a bomb clip which is a fun way to
clip diagonal walls.
And he's now going
back through Palace of Darkness.
I'm gonna grab a couple bombs here too.
As caves and dungeons are connected, they are actually these particular caves and rooms are on opposite sides of the map, top and bottom.
But when we go down below the map,
We get wrapped to the top.
Yeah, we need that portal there so...
So after I get the potion here
We're gonna go actually get the Misery Mire Crystal
The Misery Mire Crystal has always been
You know, the finicky part of swordless because as I mentioned in order to get a dungeon
prize you need to get the Dungeon ID by going into main entrance. But for Misery Mire that
requires opening it using Ether which you can only do if you have a sword. Which we
don't. So...
We gotta do something else here. We're gonna make use
of a glitch called
Overworld Conveyor, which is another
mis-slaughtering application.
Do you need hearts, by the way?
I don't think so.
Actually maybe...
It's possible you get hit twice, but I just won't.
I'll be good enough.
Clan is mis-slotting a bomb and timing it just right
to get a downward conveyor.
Yeah, and then I hammer on that tile...
And I just feel like an Angus.
Actually no, but here I need to use the music cube so
some silence i guess Nice transition. And we can pick up the crystal of misery mire.
And since it's over there, we get to skip the fanfare.
So roughly how that works is basically when you're moving with the conveyor mechanic it kind of remembers a tile that
you are on and we use a tile in the overworld that shares properties with a tile in the
underworld that causes your dungeon ID to get toggled so we're able
to change it from palace of darkness to misery wire that way uh it's very complicated i don't
even fully understand yeah we swap ids and there's other ways to do it like passing through the castle sewer's door but we're not doing that anymore.
That was a very long thing to do.
So now we're gonna keep chaining our dungeons together and go from Palace of Darkness over to Thieves Town?
Uh... maybe?
Oh yeah! Maybe? Oh, yeah. I need strong EG. What can I get then?
In this dungeon? Yeah...
It's gonna be a problem, isn't it.
Actually I know what I can do.
How did that save and quit mess up your EG?
Yeah, because I started on the mountain.
Oh no...
It's fine.
Wait, isn't this room weak? No, it not i don't think so we'll find out
so
rooms have different strength of EEG. Oftentimes they're strong if they have multiple layers to them. That's the kind of room we want to have been in last, so let's
see if that works here. No. What about, so does that...
Are there rooms in this dungeon
that we can use?
No.
I see.
I'm just gonna go to Skullwoods again, I guess.
Works for me!
So normally we would be chaining dungeons together to, in this case get Thieves Town next. Is that the next one?
Yeah, we want to go to Thieves Town but we're going to go there from Palace of Darkness.
Yeah, we did get a crystal from that dungeon
But it wasn't the darkness crystal, it was the mire crystal.
Yeah Crystal, it was the Mire crystal. Yeah. And in this category we have to beat
all of the bosses and collect all their prizes.
Yes.
Just doing some fun little backup stuff here.
A Death Mountain Descent,
I didn't think I would see it but there it is.
Here it is. Glance taking advantage of the three portal available to get
to the dark world he has no gloves and no hammer So our usual ways...
He has a hammer.
Oh yeah!
There's snow gloves.
Yeah, there's snow gloves.
What's that?
Give me a fairy or I'll take the heart.
Oof! Okay, great.
Heh.
I've got a Skull Woods donation if you don't mind. Sure.
Yeah. I have $5 from
FlimBob84 who says
pretty sure that stairway thing
Link did in Skull Woods was from the movie
Inception.
Another one? You got time for another one? Yeah.
$50 from Solski who says, hey Glenn I'm taking a moment out of my busy schedule
of dumpstering Andy Oats and Goat's and Eddie in Super Metroid Map Rando to tell you
you're doing great. Your pal Solski. Thanks Solski
So this is gonna work out hopefully.
And by the way we see some Skull Woods exclusive graphics that are not normally seen
skull statues
how those kind of creeped me out the first time I saw him.
There we go, I'm gonna get more bombs. We're back where we should be after...
Slight v-twin where we should be yeah after the site slightly that's it's fine it's fun you know just this is Thank you. Alright, maybe we're back on track now. Alright there we go. Nice.
Back under the floor! Where Link belongs.
I don't really like having three hearts belongs.
I don't really like having three hearts, but surely that'll be fine.
Surely that won't be an issue.
Nothing can go wrong from here.
Blind is a scripted fight.
Yeah, blind's a scripted fight. It's fine.
So we have to pop out of EG here to pick up the Maiden.
Very nice. And then go right back in.
Okay... Okay, that's not even this one. Yeah so, I was paying attention to which slots that our items go in. Sometimes they end up in the wrong one, but yeah. Let's see here.
Glenn, is it alright to give you some shout outs?
Yeah. Awesome! I got $50 from Dr. Drew Vesky who says, shout outs to GLAN, a link to the past vanilla and
rando communities and everyone else that made these games come alive again for so many.
It's been fun making sprites and doing casual multi-world
games with everyone, and it's great to
donate for such a good cause.
Good luck on the Hammer Time run!
And a $10 donation from Brash Knuckles who says,
It's so weird seeing Link instead of Guy Fieri Sprite.
Shout out to my favorite comfort series and love to see Link To The Past run in the way. It was definitely intended.
Okay, so this one's a little complicated.
I have to do this without magic now?
We're under the floor where there are no resources.
That didn't work, I like the potion suggestion, but then we would have to redo our roofie route?
Yeah. No, I'm not going to drink the potion. We're gonna amplify the whole thing.
Just gonna get magic from this guy.
Right! This guy is in the high value enemy drop pack.
So it'll cycle through some items that we know
We would want.
Plus, we get bombs.
Of course its 50-, so when it drops... Yeah, we can probably get some donations here.
Awesome would love to do that!
I have $25 from Pidge01 and SeanCast who says, any gamers?
One.
Also we are less than $1500 from that bonus ensemble mode run for Crypt of the Necrodancer Synchrony.
And folks we just opened up a new incentive for a bonus dungeon on The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess Randomizer base.
Who wants to see more Zelda?
Got time for one more, Glenn?
Yeah. Awesome. $10 from Anders saying
you know what this run needs? Trivia!
Much love to Chexter Twin
and Glanimal. Less than three.
Thanks, Anders.
No!
Now we need a backup to the backup. Yeah, we need a backup to the backup.
Yeah, we need a backup to the backup now.
Do you have any ideas?
I don't.
You only have one bottle!
I only have one bottle and I need the blue potion...
But I wanna keep killing this guy.
Feel bad.
He's ruined so many runs, it's okay.
That's fair. There's like no magic in here.
No 8-bombs... Just gonna kill him. Oh, eight bombs.
It's good to have maximum bombs.
We'll get the wraparound. Maybe we'll get arrows too?
The wraparound... I'm going to be here a while.
We can have more donations.
Awesome.
I have a $250 donation from
Schnorks.
Who says, there's no better time
than fresh off the announcement of Echoes of Wisdom
for some 2D Zelda at GDQ.
And how about this run? Such a great combination
of strats. My jaw is seriously
on the floor. Keep up the good work
and tie.
Because swordless.
And I've got a $10 donation
from Old Man, who says
it's dangerous to go alone. Take
oh, never mind
then.
And a $10 donation from Common Cryptid who said
Casually breaking the laws of physics to save Hyrule. NBD.
I love that the maiden's just following you the whole time.
Yeah she just chill.
Alright I think we wrapped around two more.
This is...
There's a reason why I say this is the hardest segment of the run
That's exactly hardest segment of the run. And that's exactly what you saw.
So it should be the next drop.
I'm glad you know the price packs, because I don't.
I just...
hope I get the fairy where I need it.
Alright, this one right? No...
Still 50-50 that hasn't changed.
It's still a 50-50
Hey Glen? Yes? Don't go to Vegas Still a 50-50. Hey, Glenn?
Yes?
Don't go to Vegas.
Yeah.
All right we might be back on track now. All right, back under the floor.
All right so now we're gonna go where we were supposed to go like 10 minutes ago.
Which is back to the Thieves Town attic to blow open the floor since we need to do that.
And usually the game prevents us from going into the attic with the maiden
following, but we're taking a shortcut there so
she can stay with us. So the bombs that Glam uses are doing a lot of work, but...
Yeah.
So Glam has to pop back into Ichi and blow open the crack in the floor.
Okay, something got messed up there there let's just do this again
where he sat the room
i like that camera so Oh, I had it in the wrong slot I think. Uh, where am I?
There we go.
Alright, that was...I think that was optimal actually.
You're right.
Alright so here's Blind. That hole actually drops you into the fight even though
you're never supposed to be able to reach it.
Conveniently enough.
Glant is using Cane of Samaria to let the boss sort of damage itself. Alright! Ooh.
All right!
And that is the Palace of Darkness Crystal. We started from Palace of Darkness
so we can get a couple more donations here. First off, let's
hear it for Glenn everybody.
The Legend of Zelda
community is really showing up.
I've got $50 from Prof NES, who donates also
a half-eaten sandwich and plinks the wall
until it becomes 50 rupees.
And another $20 from Old man who says, hey where's my mirror?
Don't forget we have just under $1500 for that Crypt of the Necrodancer ensemble mode run incentive.
And it had $10,000 for every minute in the estimate.
So we got to get that done speedily. Let's put on those Pegasus boots.
Alright, now it is time to go shopping again.
We are not just going to do regular shopping, we're gonna go hook-shopping.
This is a fun one.
We took some intentional damage. Maybe we need to buy a heart now?
Yeah I think we should buy a heart.
Probably a good idea.
And the hook is stuck!
Good thing we can get it unstuck.
Alright, now we're here.
So are we using hook speed here? Yes.
Nice! The only superspeed in the run Yes. Nice, yes!
The only super speed in the run.
We were super speedy for that one rip.
Actually I guess that's not technically true but...
But we finally have Ice Rod.
We're going to need the Ice Rod for Trinax later, but now we're going to keep chaining our dungeons together.
We're gonna go to Ice Palace next and fight Coldstar.
Coldstar is a pretty hard boss even with this sword. I'm sure anyone who's played this game knows that, so surely it'll be really easy without a sword.
So are we all done shopping now?
Yes. Okay. So are we all done shopping now?
Yes.
We have all the items we need for the run.
Now, we just do probably the hardest mistlawing setup here.
This one's really complicated,
so first we have to do a weird shot
to get out of EG here,
but I'm going to leave a Samaria block sitting on the
lower layer,
and then we're going to use that to do a hook push into the cold stair room
because I didn't collect any gloves so we can't lift the big block to get into cold stare.
There's a slot zero block on the bottom layer,
and that's going to cause
hook push where Link flies down very far,
and that's where the boss room will be.
Yeah, it's one room south of here.
So we get another stuck hook similar to
when we were book shopping and now we just need to activate it
but we're going to use a diagonal boomerang to change the slot that the hookshot looks at for
push length. And here's Cold Stare. He looks a little blocky in blue, but that's okay.
We won't hold out against him.
Don't we all look a little blocky and blue sometimes?
So I'm using arrows to try to and get double hits with the fire rod
to save magic.
It's a two-frame window to shoot
the fire rod after the bow
but it's not mandatory to hit them,
it's just nice.
Yeah, if we can save a little
magic for the fight,
it'll allow us to use fire rods. Alright, let's do one I guess.
Did I only hit one of them? Okay.
So now we just have to hammer him to death, easy right?
Not easy.
We had a speedy one. The RNG gives different speeds to this boss, so it's pretty tough. Just need more magic again is fine
and hearts ideally. I just need one
magic drop and then it'd be good.
Do you have time for a couple donations?
Yeah.
Awesome, I have $50 from GameIsJustAStart, who says greetings from the audience.
Where are you at? Yeah! There you are.
So happy to catch my favorite Zelda game live for my first in-person GDQ.
But, Link...
Wasn't your uncle supposed to give you a little something before setting out on your journey?
How many people know about that let's see raise it be honest i got like five yeah
and fifty dollars from such cool brand saying frog.
Frog.
I also have a $10 donation from Batar who says,
all-time best Zelda game played in slightly different order
I remember from my childhood.
Greetings from Germany.
Can I get a Donkashane audience?
Donkashane! Excellent. audience. Okay, there we go.
I'm gonna have to remember to mirror after i beat this dungeon. Alright, we'll just get in there again and fight him again. Easy.
So the hookshot shenanigans are new enough that we don't understand why
we're getting intangible hooks yet, right?
Yeah basically. It's not fully documented but
We can get there eventually. It has a lot to do with timing
yeah we don't know.
That was close.
This is just a little inconsistent. It'll work...
There we go.
We got the stock good.
And a push down.
All right, so I'm going to do something a little bit different this time since
I've used some magic
We're gonna do something called Samaria Magic refill
simple basically
plug up the slots with Object objects and then spam the cane, and you'll just
get magic back. I thought I got two shots there. One's still good.
Fire on does a quarter of their health, Hammer just an eighth.
And here we see just how bad the hammer hitbox is.
That's great, it works.
I thought you were going to go further right than that.
Okay.
Excellent.
So this is the Thieves Town Crystal?
Yes.
Okay.
Alright, that's Ice Palace done I guess and thieves.
Right now we have one more boss
beaten than we have prizes, so we're going to correct
that after this and get the Ice Palace Crystal
by just going back
to Kirsten's room. Oh yeah, remember
to mirror. Yeah, thank mirror. Thank you audience!
I was thinking of it...
I wasn't, it completely escaped me.
Now why do we have to mirror?
So there's a thing in this game called pendant conflicts.
When you're in fake dark world, your game
is actually light world so basically there's this weird thing that when you go the boss
room and it checks whether you have the prize or not, it determines whether to check
pendant or crystal based on your world state
even though it always gives you the correct prize
based on your dungeon ID. And it just
so happens if you're in the lightworld then
there's certain pendants and crystals that coincide with which bit in memory they are.
And since I have a green pendant...
...I wouldn't be able to get the Ice Palace Crystal in Fake Dirt World.
I'm sure that made sense to everybody, but...
Perfect.
Clear as mud?
So the Ice Palace entrance is right at
the top of the map, and the Coldstairs room
is right at the bottom.
We're just going to go up the wraparound to the bottom and then set up here for another fanfare skip. Alright, that still worked apparently.
So the fanfare skip just skips the initial fanfare skips just like skips the initial fanfare, which saves about nine seconds.
We can have a donation or two here.
Amazing! I've got $25 from Hyper's mom, who says,
Wonderful cause. Great to see you and Hyper behind you. Keep up the great run.
Hi, Hyper! We love Hyper.
We do.
And $25 from Gumberkules who says a link to the past is my favorite game of all time and
I always loved seeing it on stage at GDQ events.
Also let's get to that Twilight Princess incentive.
Yeah!
But before we get there, we have to get to Crypt of the
NecroDancer Synchrony. We want to see that
bonus ensemble mode run and it is just
about a thousand dollars away so I know we can meet this Sambalmudron, and it is just about $1,000 away. So
I know we can meet this.
Alright, so back in EG here
and here's the top of Ganon's Tower.
... with Ganon's Tower. So we're going to
beat Ganon's Tower now.
The man just needs
to find a torch
to hook to.
Yeah, found one.
Found one.
So we're going to Torch to hook, too. Yeah. Found one! Found one.
So we're gonna do another stuff push here...
Oh cool, that made sense.
The more you play this game, the more things that just don't make sense happen...
Even among the things you're trying to do that don't make sense.
Alright, there we go, I get this hookshot and then fill all our slots
and use hook shot again and now we're into Agnum 2.
We haven't beaten Agnum 1 yet but here's Agnum 2!
Wait how are you going to reflect his magical... Yeah yeah. I forgot to get the sword.
No we got the best item in the game, the bugman. Oh that's
right! We forgot.
So we've got him six times so we we can reflect all the different balls from them.
We're going to try and do some net dashes here which look very swag
And also help you get multiple hits
It's not giving me a good RNG here, but it still swayed.
Nice fight. So what bosses do we have left?
Moldorm, Lanmo, Trinex, Atreus and Agamemnon.
And Argus.
Can't forget Argus. It'll all be pretty quick.
Why don't we group some of them together?
We can't forget Ganon. Yeah, we'll
be grouping some of them together.
You know know Hyrule's getting a little boring.
Can we go somewhere else? We're gonna go to Tower of Pharah
everyone's favorite dungeon that is so interesting.
And by the way, having a mirror allows us to have a new save point as if we've rescued the old man from his mountain cave.
Yeah there's no actual flag for that. It just checks if you have the mirror
because
why would there need to be?
They had to save all that memory they used on unused features.
They didn't expect moth items?
They didn't expect moth items.
Alright, so we take a little shortcut here. Just get in the pot.
You're supposed to drop into this pot from the fifth floor,
So this fork brings you up to the fifth floor
And... yeah
Now it's my moldarm Everyone loves Moldorm. Everyone loves Moldorm, right? He's the best boss in the game.
You shouldn't... no you weren't supposed to choose that!
This boss sucks.
Actually, it's...
More GDQ! More GDQ.
Actually, this boss really isn't that hard with the hammer.
It just takes three hits?
Yeah and you get to skip the fast phase because that's only happens when he's at one HP and the hammer does two damage so.... Glenn catches the pendant blow to save a few frames.
All right, so our next place we're going is kind of interesting.
So we've been to Light World, we've been to Dark World, but we haven't been to Plaid World yet.
Here we go!
So, we're going to take a quick little trip over Turtle Rock.
So we're doing the Turtle Rock climb,
so with some wiggles, Link gets pushed out of collision.
And here we should climb up to the little mountain there.
That's why it's called Turtle Rock Climb.
And there happens to be a land bridge that allows us to just flip the other side nice clip that was wonderful in the middle
of turtle rock and uh here we're gonna do a yba which is drinking a potion on the same frame
as a screen transition. We're going to use a safe method here that makes it so I can't
drink it without doing the YBA. So, uh...
This is normal.
Yeah so drinking the potion you're doing
the YBA does There's a fake flute
which brings up the flute menu in the Underworld
but shouldn't happen and then we flute
and then the game breaks
It's working fine!
Here's what the plan is It's working fine. So here is the Glamolas
And the glam cannot travel to The bottom part of this room
So the last hit
On the boss has to be near the top so you can reach the heart that drops.
The heart sets the flag that you beat the boss,
That's why we have to collect all our containers?
This is a very quiet part of the run, we've lost the music but it is
a very colorful part yeah I'm sure you can see why we call it platform
I don't know what you're talking about. It looks perfectly normal.
Yeah, so we are actually on the underworld map but what's happening here is that when we did the flute it tried to load overworld collision which
just doesn't really
map out properly
to the underworld map so
a lot of the collision is determined by
arbitrary memory values
which a lot of it is just
kind of free to move through. But there are some weird walls,
like the one we mentioned in LAMOA.
There's also some weird camera issues so so we have to take a bit of a specific route. I see Tri-X's legs.
Yeah, here's Tri-X.
There it is! How are you alive?
Uh, cause you try in the cold food, try out how to eat the food.
Okay that's great.
Perfect answer.
I do have to watch my magic a little bit here.
Should be fine now.
Trinex's shell is part of the background, basically.
So when it moves,
the whole background moves.
I'm actually surprised that hit.
Now for phase two... We're gonna hit him with the hammer five times. Hopefully he doesn't give me an early turn because it's a kill run right now.
Oh, he did. Huh! We don't know why that happens.
There we go!
The trinax's heart always spawns in the middle of the room, so we can go up to the upper
quadrant of this super tile here and grab it up there.
And then we're gonna be up near the top of the room so we can get a stable transition
to the north.
And, we're gonna go fight the last boss in Gladroll,
which is Vitreous.
Now, Vitreous you might think
that's probably a really hard boss when you have no sword.
What we're going to do,
we're going to get a little creative here. We're going to do a technique
called murder bomb. So you've seen
that we've done weird
shots a lot by using mis-slotted bombs.
So we're going to do kind of that again,
but this time the hookshot
is going to be
resetting the bomb's fuse every
time I shoot it while its exploding so
as soon as it explodes eyes over and over again while it's exploding, so it just explodes the eyes
over and over again.
Yeah, these hook shots
are not doing anything
to damage but rather
Glan is controlling his movement
keeping the bomb perpetual. I have a lot of arrows so I'm just going to arrow
these guys Now the big eye comes out and we're able to use arrows.
Nice, alright! All right.
Alright, and we're gonna
fanfare skip here because there's no music
And this is the crystal for turtle rock. Yep. There's Zelda. We rescued Zelda
We started in Crystal Rock
Turtle Rock so long ago, So this is the crystal we learn from it. The crystals having a little bit of trouble animating but that's okay.
Yeah, it's fine I think a lot of things are having a bit of trouble right now.
Except Link, he's chilling.
Alright and since we beat Vitreous
the boss Miserymire After this we exit from Misery
Mire, from the entrance that is definitely open.
Now we're gonna go to desert. Since
we beat landmolas, but we didn't get the
Desert Pendant yet.
So first thing I'm going to do is go up here
and almost die
to this beamos
and we're gonna get the desert prize
of course we're going to swamp to get that yeah i mean that's obvious. We're in no danger.
So I'm gonna perform a death hole here so first I'm going to do a smart transition corruption here, which is going to create holes in the ground.
So there's one kind of right above this little... like in this hallway here
and I'm going to get hit by a bomb on the last possible frame
while falling and die.
And then I got to navigate around some more invisible holes
here, and here's Argus.
As a bonus, we get an Ice Palace pallet. Yeah because I die in Ice Palace.
So Death Hole basically pallet yeah because i died in ice palace so death hole basically uh causes a fairy revive which ends up loading like cash palettes from dying so that's a nice palace.
I think I hit him twice there. Argus is behaving pretty good.
Oh, oops. This is fine.
You'll notice we did not have to pull the puffs off of Argus, he did that for himself.
Yeah this is really annoying when he does this. If I go up I get all the puffs following him again. Right now they're off screen so we're just gonna wait for
the DVD Rewinder to line up with me.
Perfect.
So there's our desert pendant.
I love how the animation shatters at the last hit for some reason.
Alright, one last crystal to get which is the swamp palace crystal and this is going to be...
This is the most complicated hook push setup in the run but it's not super difficult.
So I'll just kind of go through it
and you can try to explain if you want.
Well, Glenn is setting up a slot 9 block. Is that right?
Yeah.
So with that on screen we can control the distance. We want to travel by using a fire rod in a specific slot zero and there we go but that's not quite enough enough distance to get the right side of the screen,
so Glenn is using more and so on,
the stuff that Link makes, to fill up more distance. And there we go!
There you go, this is one personal... This is a Moffil supertunnel here.
Now, may I cut in?
Yes.
Well you may have done a fanfare skip but I can't skip this fanfare.
We met the Crypt of the NecroDancer incentive,
so thank you so much.
Let's go!
And
I have a
$10 donation from Hyper Endemic, who says morning from the beat couch!
Does anyone know what a sword is?
No.
Definitely not.
Alright, so we're gonna have to do Aghanim I still and then Ganon.
How are we going to do Ganon?
That's going to be a really interesting fight, actually. I don't know that you're supposed to use the sword to fight Ganon but...
Are we gonna get silvers? No.
Bugged it? Bug net?
Bug net maybe. Okay, okay.
Alright. Starting back in Sanctuary, Glan is going to get into EG one more time.
Just a little hook push.
I have 1 bomb left.
Uh oh! Uh... Oh-oh.
I was hoping they'd use that button.
I want my bomb back.
Uh, might look a little weird
because now I have EG Strength 0
but it shouldn't matter.
Resetting. There we go.
I'm going to be in a different room than normal this time, but that's fine.
Yeah, that was effective. Well, that's Aghanim's boss from right there.
That's where we need to go though.
Yeah, we'll get there.
So first we need to rearm EG is that right?
We're gonna fall in the pit
uh...get hit by the guy apparently
We love 1.0
So we're gonna do another stuck bush here
Wait, you don't have a sword! How are we going to slash the curtains? I dunno, we're not...wait, I don't want long here.
That's not on our list. Uh...
That's not ideal.
I need either a bomb or...
Yeah, I think I need a bomb here. I mean...
I'm useless in this situation.
Everything is going according to plan.
Everybody, let's hype it up for Glenn.
Let's just get more bombs.
Somewhere here. Actually, is this even the best spot? I don't think so.
So are you thinking bushes?
We're going to go here. So are you thinking bushes? This house has the 50-50 rocks.
We're going to go here.
We can't lift any rocks.
Oh, that's right.
Can't lift rocks but we can lift bushes.
Yeah, we're gonna get some bush bonds over here. Oh just south of the
grove? Yeah. Okay okay. This run has been... It's going according to plan.
Two is enough.
Hopefully. We got good RNG from
the 5050 bush So I mentioned before that the fire odds sets distance, the bomb sets distance as well.
Yeah. So it pushes Link just far enough.
Mhm.
... Yeah, we got the hook distance from the bomb there and direction.
Bombs have direction.
In case anyone didn't know... Move, please!
I can't get hit by this guy.
Yeah.
He likes to stand in front of the stairs.
Alright, this time we'll do that. We use the diagonal boomerang to set the...
There we go!
And there, we're in Aghanim.
So Aghanim's a very fun boss with
very fair RNG.
Totally fair. Some of the way it works, she attacks in cycles of five attacks
so the first one is guaranteed a good ball
then there's three 50-50 good or bad balls
and then a lightning
Right now this is pretty cool and then a lightning.
So right now this is pretty good so far
Oh We're off to the floor.
We're gonna hit the button again, yes.
The funny thing about this Aghanim fight is we actually have to try not to get hit.
Oh, that's still on file. There's some challenge
to it. A Link to the Past
is known for this RNG that you were explaining, where the blue balls simply waste time.
There's no way to reflect them so they waste six seconds each.
Yeah pretty much. The only thing you can do to speed it up is hit them towards the center of the room
to on average speed up the orbs. That's it. Why does that happen?
Yeah, we normally swap layers at that point but something went wrong.
That's okay.
More GDQ right?
Yes.
More GDQ is best GDQ, Glenn. Don't you worry
about it. I've got a $100 donation from Kat who says,
We always watch The Legend of Zelda runs at GDQs and would love to see more!
Let's get that Twilight Princess bonus dungeon unlocked.
So we're back under the floor.
Yeah, I'm just gonna do this whole thing again.
And not get hit by Aghanim again ideally.
I could say the thing that's never happened before because...
That didn't happen in practice but...
You know it was bound to happen at some point.
Setting up a stuck hook once again?
At least the setup is easy.
Good release! Back to the fight?
Alright, we just need to not get hit this time. One blue ball.
Maybe this will be the 15 more DQing?
No.
15 is the maximum possible.
Assuming you don't miss any hits.
And now we get to Lightning...
Yeah, so because I have Arm DG if I get hit I go into EG and that's bad because I want to keep fighting him.
And it's also bad because I don't haveor to do the push again.
Two!
We're also gonna fight Ganon after this, right?
Yeah we're going to fight Ganon after this.
Well, we got a full refill, it's fine.
Oh that's right!
Alright two.
But it must be a really hard fight. Yeah, yeah, it's a really hard fight. It's a really cool fight.
I'm not going to say too much about it until we see what happens, you know?
We will be entering Gansu soon. We don't say too much about it until we see what happens, you know?
But yeah. We will be entering Gan soon so that'll be the end of the run after that
Oh good luck whatever happens
Yes. Good luck Alright. You're not going to want to miss this play definitely. Can
I give you a little hype for it? Yeah. Awesome. We need a little hype for it. Yeah well let's
get a hype! Hype! hype. Plan.
All right, time.
Nice run. So yeah, we can't fight Dan without a sword. He's not in the category. You literally can't damage one with a sword.
Alright, well that was all dungeons swordless.
You got to see everything that could possibly go wrong in this category.
It's a really hard category.
But, hope you enjoyed it.
Do you have any shout outs?
Thanks so much for having us and thanks
for the donations.
I will try to keep it quick because we massively overestimate, but just showing off the Link to the Past community.
We're helpful, friendly if you want to join in and run the game.
Most common category is NMG, no major glitches, very easy to get into.
And yeah.
Yeah. easy to get into and yeah thank you gdq Thank you. All right. Well, the dungeon we had crafted is gone so we're just gonna get it started.
Just to note, we do attack by moving so if we get surrounded that means we are stuck and will have to find an alternate way to kill the enemies around us.
And yeah, that's about it I'm going to take this off because it is not very well-made
All right, can I get a countdown?
Five four three two one Go! Four, three, two, one.
Go!
All right so we are playing as Melody the base character in this game is Cadence she generally just kind of has all items enabled melody uniquely
does not have all items enabled she's weapon locked to her loot which as we
said that's a horrible bloodshot um
which as we said only attacks while moving
so we're doing a two-player run previously at gdq we've only ever seen
koda, which is the hardest character in
the game. We cannot do that! That is really hard,
and we are not that good at this game.
You wanna die to reset?
Yeah. So a...
Well, I can do this.
That's so awesome!
Dying out of four means you're
gone for the rest of the floor but we'll
respawn you in the next floor uh two hearts which for melody is full life
uh it is not full-life for every character but so we'll take be taking a bunch of
intentional deaths.
There will also be some unintentional deaths because of rogue lag.
I did a silly thing.
So this is a rhythm roguelike? Yeah yeah we can only move to the beat of music
um and enemies like to uh kill you in one shot because we have less health than
we normally would on a character like Cadence.
In order to finish the four,
we both need to exit,
but that's why we die because then it speeds everything up.
That was scary.
Do you mind what? I've got a two player ghost. I've got TWO two player ghosts, so...
Since we're playing in multiplayer there are some special enemies that spawn
We very much do not like a specific one.
We'll mention them later.
Thanks, Maru!
We don't know if it's Maru's fault but we do like playing Maru.
Maru is on the
German restream, so...
Do you want to hear
from Maru?
Please!
I would love
to hear from Maru.
$255
from Marukyu
who says
it still feels
so surreal to see Synchrony go from a fun little fan-made project of mine
To being featured in GDQ. ACZ was one of my earliest playtesters
Best of luck to you and Rossum1234!
That is
tragic. So, on boss
floors we want
to get Flawlesses, because it will reward us with
some pretty high tier items.
I unfortunately missed a beat
so we did not get the 1-4
Flawless which is really bad because we like taking armor out of one for
Because and because naturally
We are very squishy. Yeah
Oh are very squishy. Yeah. Oh, well that's a good turn. That's moved
randomly in this game and uh
occasionally I like to take my chances
Everyone does, and everyone loses.
I don't have a bomb but there is a shot in the space if you want to bomb for me.
Let's get to the exit first.
Oh, I was going to drop door here.
Then I will catch it.
This is The Shriner. Uh, The Shriner doesn't like us blowing up their shrines. Um, unfortunately for them, I don't need to be alive.
I just spawned a Leprechaun. The leprechaun will drop a Charm of Luck...
...which means that bats will do their best and not to hit me. Very nice!
So, GDQ generally has not seen any other characters which is also why we have the insomal run. Which was already met
That's incredible. How could you guys?
It's not team for me. That might be it.
Mar... Why?
Mar, why?
What is that?
We really don't like those guys.
This is true. Because if we both go down...
If either of us goes down, we can't kill them anymore.
They are functionally invincible outside
of a few things.
Oh that's mean, that's unfortunate. That was King Konga
uh every eighth beat is missing. Where we going?
Looks like down right. Okay.
I forgot I have a map.
So I have a map!
The map is very good, and shows me everything on the floor.
Like... especially where the exit is i you are gone
i'm gonna get this girl hey monica There's a secret shop, I'm going to check.
There it is! Heavy plate that's so awesome!
Can I catch it? Yeah you can catch it.
Alright we just got the best armor in the game which is heavy plate there's a uh
exit over here by the way unless you really want that barrel never mind there's bosses
over here yeah so there's five zones in this game. This is zone three. It's generally the most technical and difficult zone
just because this is where runs go to die technically zone four is a little bit harder but
Zone for generally by that time you'll have some sort of build.
Down right?
Some enemies move diagonally. Those guys cheat, and you cannot convince me otherwise.
Yeah we're gonna see a lot more diagonal enemies and off-bebeat stuff oh that's scary
oh that's mean looks like the eggnog is pretty clean you just got
that guy to do i'm gonna go this way i'm taking it to save.
Well, we're slip-sliding around on ice.
We got any fun donations?
I do!
I've got a donation from Goof Custom who says, lock in. Thank you, Goof.
I have immediately died.
Commenters press.
Oh, well.
So this is a roguelike.
It's a difficult game.
We will die.
Hopefully it doesn't happen again.
You just got dark-lized in the bloodshot.
That's awesome. To, that's awesome.
So to explain those secret
shops, they mostly
appear randomly except for that blood
shop which will appear guaranteed on
either 1-1 or 1-2.
And they
take our life instead of money.
There was zero confidence
in that we could have found them.
Ooh, nice potion!
Potions are cool if you were to
die they fully revive you
but their always behind tier 2
or sometimes tier 3 walls
for taking the strength. Yeah. Awesome.
So there are some set pieces like
that
one, uh...
Do you wanna go over there? I don't know.
You're not taking care of Stompy?
I can, you know what...
Glass.
Glass Clarence.
Glass items are cool uh they're very strong
they break when you take damage so i'm gonna do my best to not take damage i do
get one free hit because of the glass armor
but um But, um...
We're not messing up the kill this time, right?
It's your turn to deal with Fortissimo.
That's so fair. This is Fortisimal he's the unholy
moley under ruled bully he crushes those who opposes him i'm not taking that. I don't want the glove.
Mine.
I have armor, you can take my shield please.
Oh awesome!
I love these guys.
That works. take the shield awesome i love these guys
healing is very rare they all come in the form of food. I have an apple that heals me one heart.
That's half my health!
That's a lot.
It's for 240.
Oh that's awesome I want that.
Courage Shovel used to be even cooler um...
It's now just normal cool.
Yeah.
Courage Shovel makes you invincible onto the tile that you dig on to, this is...
If needed I can trap Dory.
I'm fine.
Pretty good, okay.
That's so awesome!
He trapped her anyways. Oh, you're fine.
No.
Yeah, so there are a couple of items in Mel um melody that just makes our lives way easier i
just want to take this goodbye damn um courage shovels one of those. There's some other ones...
There's a cap that will automatically- oh that's unfortunate
There's a cap that automatically lets you mine as well and it's really nice
I'm gonna lose that focus here
This is death metal, this is the fight I'm gonna let that focus here.
This is death metal, this is the fastest track in the game but otherwise death metal is not very special
He's kind of the most normal boss. He moves around and you hit him.
He asks you to bathe in fire,
I will respectfully decline.
Well, all this... I should be doing these.
I don't know why I messed up the 1-4 flaws in the first run.
So something you kind of saw there...
There's three chests that spawn on a flawless where are you going
i don't know we're down here um so there's three chests that spawn
the flawless um for the purposes of melody and for
the most part in this game, your goal is to just take the black
and then take purple. Black contains weapons, armor
and shields fairly. And purple tape generally has spells or...
Spells and rings?
Rings, yeah.
So black is really useful on Mal because what do you you know? We can't get more weapons.
So we're just kind of... You're leaving me with this aren't you?
Yes I was.
Oh it got a really cool spell.
It's the heal spell.
You might have noticed that I healed on the stairs.
When you are on the stairs,
that makes you functionally invincible
and that also includes blood casting When you are on the stairs, that makes you functionally invincible.
And that also includes blood casting.
You can see it on my spell. It says 15 kills or 11 now for one heart to cast.
I misspeed. That's embarrassing.
At GDQ? Yeah. You missed like
three wallaces.
I just took damage from spider here.
So goo boots are really nice because this is uh zone four we're finally here hooray um you're just gonna keep me trapped aren't you um zone 4 features goo, which is a type of golem that drops them as well.
And sometimes it just appears on the ground.
Goo is scary because if you don't have
something to protect against it, like these gooboos that I
have, it will just...
You can attack
on them and you'll take
double damage.
Which entirely negates any and you'll take double damage. Which
entirely negates any armor
you have wearing,
and then some.
Here's the goo skill.
The golems.
They used to be way worse.
Yeah. So this game has two dlcs the synchrony one and amplified we're actually playing both
um synchrony allows for this beautiful multiplayer as well as dynamic characters so you can see exactly what we have equipped regardless of what screen you're looking at without having to look at our HUD.
Synchrony was basically just
a giant multiplayer update
but it also added two player enemies why
um but so i just took um a thing called
darkness shrine um oh i'm down
darkness shrine puts out all the torches which means that enemies find it harder to find us.
And they also... Ooh! Please eat! Thank you.
Orange Armadillo moment? These guys are menaces.
We see several two player enemies there,
There was a skittish Blademaster, which their entire goal is to...
Run away and be a menace?
... regular Blademasters, which we have zero issues with, but instead of dashing towards us they will dash away from us which uh makes them
really annoying to deal with because we can't kill them yeah
king of conga has this uh fun missing beat on the eighth beat
which would normally be there um and if you press during that beat it does count
as a missed beat so that's fun awesome i did again
i watched this is zone five zone five
is a little bit easier than zone four
but it's generally a little bit more
hectic.
We have these nice conduits,
which chain lightning to our enemies.
I just used my potion. This is fine, everything's fine.
Everything is fine?
You have shield by the way.
Just reminding you all we're about a quarter of the way to that Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess extra bonus dungeon and
yes everything is fine. So another thing Darkest Friend does is give me this ring, which makes it very hard for
me to see.
It also makes shops entirely free!
That's true.
But we're speedrunning, we don't care about shops anymore? What are you doing?
There was an earthquake scroll!
We can go straight down.
Can we?
Don't worry I gotcha.
I could take them. Oh, I got you. I can take that.
The bomb man?
Something very nice about Synchrony is that player bombs... players are immune to the other bombs of players.
So I placed a bomb there because it was immune to it.
This is the final boss! Wow.
Time will be when...
We get this last floor, yeah
The last player leaves the floor.
We also have a very
nice in-game timer.
True, but that doesn't count as you to queue.
How are things going over there?
I can't really see.
Like wall punched. It was weird.
No it's unfortunate.
Oh that's good. At least I didn't get squished.
One hit? Nevermind. He's running away.
He's right here. Got him. mind he's the right one
yeah so both players have to leave before
this includes death that was time yep And that's time, yeah.
So that's Crypt of the NecroDancer. If you are at all interested, it is currently on sale for...
It's $10 for everything that you saw. Everything and more
that you haven't seen.
True.
There's a lot more
you haven't seen
because it's a roguelike.
Look at all these characters,
including this one
which I haven't unlocked.
I'm not...
I haven't played
nine characters enough yet.
We have Niku, though!
We do have Hatsune Miku. You should buy the game for Hatsune Miku.
Niku DLC.
Yeah so all those characters you just saw we're actually going to be playing
all of them in one run now which is what ensemble is. So if you want to go on the
start-run staircase um... We get to select an order to play every single character
um thank you marion51 please
we were experimenting with a different layout.
But Ensemble Mode plays all of the characters
minus the one we don't have unlocked in Miku
in a very set order.
We can pick the order, we can also
pick random.
We will not be picking random.
That's scary.
We're not good enough at this game to pick random.
So
we'll sort of explain the characters as we go along. Some characters will be faster than others.
This one. The one that is literally moving at double speed compared to everyone else?
It's crazy, they move at double speed who would have guessed!
The biggest thing to note we mentioned earlier the blood shop appears on one one or one two
um that's aria and chanter here because we really need some early game like
guarantees that we're gonna do stuff uh we put Arya and Chandra here, Arya is
scary because she starts on half a heart
um, and if you miss beat you take damage
so, um, she's there because
you also can't swap off the dagger
um, the base weapon which means that we can try to get armor in
the blood shop but if that fails Shantur possesses enemies after you kill them
and so we can use him to get good weapons or other things in the blood
shop. So that's really our early setup
yep and then the rest of the characters will sort over explain as we go along
we will see two instances of melody as well as two instances of aria and two instances of cadence which is like
the normal characters so we need another pair we need another another countdown yeah Can we hear it?
Five, four, three, two, one!
Oh that's me.
So bats are extra scary on...
Wow, this is a great generation. I love this.
Bats are extra scary
on Aria because they move randomly.
It does mean that
it's a little more scary.
Another thing we didn't mention is arya usually plays from zone 5 up rather than from 1-1 down so we are seeing a bunch of the late game enemies due to, it is called
zone bleed. So we're just gonna see a lot of those guys and normally very scary.
It is still very scary, but yeah.
And during the Melody run you occasionally saw us both being in
the same place or trying to be
in the same place because Melody doesn't get extra damage.
Here, it's honestly easier sometimes
to have one of us hang back so that we're not
double digging walls or something because that does count
as a misbeak which would deal damage to Arya. So now we have Shantur, as I mentioned he possesses
enemies i'm gonna totally get this Baron. Oh, that's really upsetting.
Sometimes enemies can spawn as massive.
Oh, I'm dead.
No. We got time for donations.
That's true, we have so much time.
Oh awesome! I have $10 from Hanshan who says you rule great job guys and a 25 anonymous donation gotta dance
definitely yeah especially as are you die if you don't dance. Yeah, if you want to bop in the audience a little bit feel free.
Oh nevermind thanks.
This is my problem now.
So this is Dorian, Dorian is cursed to wear frog socks due to story reasons
Get over here!
Okay okay I'm not getting this left behind
He's going away.
There is a black chest down there that you might be able to...
I'd love that! Where is it?
You can't grab it because you have the monkey.
Oh, that's really upsetting.
No, you can bomb.
Bomb your monkey. that's really upsetting
yeah so dorian is in front of me funny frog talks
and this is suzu she has a fun sword that makes you zip past everything and this is like the best boss for her. Yes, this is the best boss.
Please wait for that knight.
How dare you?
I was in hold forward mode.
Yeah so then this is Eli you guys cool because he has infinite bombs like an animal bombs damage enemies directly by
hitting them but we can the H bombs. So it's really fun.
I want to see what's in the shop.
I would love to see what's in the shop. You're so right.
As you can see, I'm kind of just
going bowling with bombs.
There's not really much good in the shop and no quartz does not count.
Can I huck a donation at you?
Please.
All right.
$25 from Timeless Chronicler, who says,
Hooray for the Zelda block!
Necro Dancer had a crossover, so it counts, right?
It's very true. That's how I got into this game.
Crypt of the... Cadence of Hyrule. Crypt of the- Cadence of Hyrule.
Crypt of the Hyrule? Yeah, Crypt of the Hyrule. Sorry my brain's
working. I think that's not an issue.
Alright so we just finished think that's not an issue.
Alright, so we just finished
Dove who isn't really too scary she can't attack and so it's
just kind of avoiding there's a
trapdoor up here I'm going.
Monk is scary because if he picks up gold, he dies.
And if you notice, everything drops gold
so we're gonna skip him.
And the fun thing about Monk, there are extra enemies that normally wouldn't drop gold
that do drop gold if you were playing Monk.
So that's like really cool to developers.
This is Nocturna, Nocturna is a vampire and can become a vet, you. Just a really
standard character.
So we're back to Melody.
We put Melody here for
a bit of a reset time, because did you know this game is hard and
scary.
Just a little bit.
Yeah, so we're just making sure that we get through one.
That was definitely worth it though.
So that spell I have is Dash, it does 4 damage.
It will clean through enemies. Very nice!
If you do not kill the enemy,
just leave. No.
I want Courage Shovel.
Oh, I didn't see that. You still have it.
Yeah, so Courage Shovel again will do dig walls for free.
This is the big sword woman!
We love the big sword woman.
She has a big sword.
Also one of the characters that utilizes diagonals, which means that uh...
My good friend
Ross's keybinds
are different.
Mine aren't because I'm sane.
Yeah so on her you just control the actual sword and where it goes.
But we're back to Cadence.
Cadence is a base character.
She gets normal stuff.
Hey!
That's pretty cool.
Class weapons deal 4 damage break one hit so
just like don't get hit best weapons in the game yeah we don't get it though
your job is to clear these. That's an interesting proposition.
I've done it.
I have the four damage weapon.
Hey guys, hey chat! Did you know?
Did you know?
If you know, you should totally donate and let us know that you know.
This is like the worst boss I could hear.
So Tempo's scary, if that timer hits zero you die
And to refresh it you have to hit enemies
But hitting enemies kills them, like instantly. It's really cool!
Why would you do that?
I forgot...
I got the money!
Yayyyy! I'm greeting.
Awesome. That's the, those are freeze
tomes. Freeze spells really good. Aria please?
Remember?
You heard the guys if you know, you know. Audience do you know? Oh okay so those great goblins in 3 they deal three hearts of damage which is really fun because that's most characters base health.
So they one shot most characters if they have no armor or extra health.
Do you know now?
Yeah, that's what I thought.
I died.
I know.
No?
No. That's scary.
That is scary.
Scary things. I could freeze actually. No, no that's scary. That is scary things I
Could freeze actually
Yeah
I think freezing into the mini boss room would be used. I agree
You know angry no
freeze again yeah i know
okay now we're good all right so that's
that's pretty that's pretty stressful
But for the most part
We really need a better weapon though
Because coming up in Zone 5
We have two characters that we were just like,
yeah, we just won't worry about them and we'll have stuff to make it easier.
Currently, we don't have stuff to really make it much easier.
We have a dash spell?
That does not count.
That does sort of count. It's my carrot now, by the way.
You can only carry one item in so...
Awesome! Awesome. Watch out, the Armadillo is on your response wave. Isn't this hard?
Oh that's awesome actually.
No.
Oh no!
I'm so dead.
I'm so dead. I'm so dead. I'm so dead. No.
Bard doesn't have to follow the way... Oopsies!
I don't have enough coins for more purchases, but if you want to go get a cool weapon in
the shop...
My bad.
Why would you do this?
Alright so that's the purchase shop where you can purchase new items.
It's super duper awesome because fun fact, you can purchase NEW items which is not old
items.
And our old items kinda sucked sucked unfortunately we have new ones now
i just died but there's man in the drop
please do not bash ball that guy and please earth that guy. You can earth that golem right now, there you go.
Awesome. That guy too. Good idea. Cool.
This is Reaper. Reaper is not notable
Reaper used to be a Nintendo Switch exclusive
And I thought they were the coolest
They're not the coolest
Nice They're not the coolest.
Nice Where am I going?
Well, I was confused so...
So this is the scary character we were talking about
but luckily zed has an axe now which is so cool
axes are just like the best weapon
yeah so this character is scary scary because she has a little sheep, her name is Revival.
That's so awesome! How much is it?
I can't, of course not.
Uh...I can't.
Oh that's so awesome, can I have it then?
Absolutely. That tells Rev awesome, can I have it then? Absolutely.
Oh my god thanks!
The Held Revival is a titanium longsword
It is just like...
the consistent of all consistent weapons
I found it
Hang on...
You wanna...
I would love to catch it!
So Mary has a little lamb. If the little
lamb dies, you die.
Like we're gonna... Very quickly. We're gonna
not hold him forward.
We don't need focus I like.
I have an axe.
This is Volt.
Volt moves at double tempo, we mentioned this earlier.
Bro, where is this room?
I found the room. We have died to Bolt many a time because just double beat. So that's very relieving, we're kind of in smooth sailing. So if you want to do some more donations, we do have time.
I am happy to do some more donations!
I have $25 from Alora Mora who says
Longtime watcher had some money to spend so why not give it To my favorite player of all time.
My friend,
long-time watcher had money
to spend so why not give it
to a good cause during run
of my favorite game ever
donation goes to runner's choice keep up the Oh, also to Ron Zed. My buddy Malon says hello.
Awesome.
All right, time is coming up.
This is the final boss of the run.
If runs do not have a unit...
You die?
I didn't... Oh my died? I didn't.
Oh, my God.
I blood dashed.
Time is on the staircase.
Time.
Nice!
That was kind of stressful. It was stressful. Because we did not get weapons!
Yeah, that was awesome.
Alright, yeah.
So... That's it from us.
Yeah, so I'd like to shout out my parents and my sister
who are watching.
Thank you so much for being awesome.
They learned that I'm actually cool
and I do things with my time,
so that's awesome.
Um, I'd also like to shout out our two awesome couch members back here who you can see.
We have some awesome couch here.
We love them.
Um, and massive shout outs to the NecroDancer community who found out we existed with this run.
Shoutouts to my parents, they're watching... there's a huge party out at our house
for 4th of July but I'm here instead because
well why wouldn't I be?
How could I miss Peanut Butter the dog?
That was far more important to me.
Yeah, so that's all from us. You should buy Crypt of the NecroDancer!
It's about $10.
It's really hard, so if you're into rhythm games or hard games then definitely give it
a try.
Please 50% of people haven't made it past Zone 1.
This is true.
Please get that number higher.
Or alternatively you can buy the easier Cadence of Hyrule on Switch which is Zelda and Crypt
of the Necrodancer. I don't know how they made that but good for them so anyway...
And we love Zelda right? Who's excited for Twilight Princess? Yeah! Cool. Alright I think that's it from
us. Thanks so much for having us. Enjoy the Twilight Princess run.
Alright, everyone I'm GTA's uh...I play Mario
a lot um you might remember
me from last SGDQ
I did the one handed Warpless run that went really well
So, i'm using the same exact cartridge
I used for that run. Hopefully
The luck continues
Now i'm going to use both my hands
And do an any% run, which should only take five minutes.
This is a big deal because this hasn't been a showcase run at a main GDQ since AGTQ 2014,
when Andrew Gee did his run there.
And shout out to Andrew G., by the way, I got to meet him a month ago
he's an awesome person, I believe he did the first
ever GDQ run, a Mega Man 1
run at Classic GameStone Quick
He's been a huge inspiration, so i wanted to shout that out
and uh so i actually wanted him to be my commentator but just the time it didn't
work out but luckily adef is here to step in and help me out because yeah
I'm gonna need need to lock in.
I basically know as much about Mario
as Andrew G., yep.
Yeah, exactly.
So yeah,
I need to lock in
so he's going to be covering for me
with the information
while I do this
and so speaking of Andrew G.,
he did the first ever sub-five minute run,
so the first run in under five minutes.
I'm going to try to do that here on the stage.
I have one shot.
I'm going to try my best. I don't have to do anything frame
perfect luckily. That comes later but yeah just to put into that
into perspective the world record is a 454 and if i play perfectly i can get a 458 four seconds off
so i'm gonna try my, and if something goes wrong
I can do some other swaggy things while we go.
But yeah, I think that's everything I wanted to say so...
Timing starts when Ace gains control of Mario
Uh, so you'll see the like 1-1, and then it will
snap into 1-1. That's when timing
begins. And we'll give a countdown as well.
So if we're ready to go, let's start
this off here in 3...
2... 1... Go! go okay welcome to super mario brothers so you may be familiar with the frame
rule system imagine a bus okay so every 21 frames a bus leaves the level you are currently on to take Mario
to the next level even if Mario's not there.
So our goal is to make it to the tightest possible frame rule we can in every single level.
Now, this means you can only
gain or lose time in increments
of 21 frames until the last
level but we'll get there. Ace has
leeway here on the sub 5, but not much
2 or 3 frame rules is
about how much ace can lose
So far we're frame rule perfect which
is great. Heading into 1-2
The name of the game here is pipe jumps so there are going to be a couple tight jumps here. Excellent!
Now right after this we've got some pipe jumps jumping over the Piranha Plants. You have about 2-3 frames depending on movement. Great so now ace is going to head into
the warp zone and go straight to world four uh now like i said a lot of these levels are
tight some of them aren't as tight you don't have to be perfect but a lot of
these frame rules are super tight.
And now's a great time for some donations.
Yeah we got like one or two short ones here.
Absolutely you're gonna cheer for this one!
$2000 donation from Mott that just simply says less than three.
Thank you so much for that.
Yeah, thank you.
One more quick one please.
I've got a $50 from Keegan that says
can we get a huge round of applause
for Daughters Without Borders?
Thanks for all that you do. Absolutely! Okay 4-2 so far so good
4-2 is where the run kind of begins. So there is a wrong
warp that Ace will be doing in this stage
Ace is going to bump Mario
on certain platforms, and what
bumping Mario basically displaces
Mario from the center of the screen.
Now, the reason this is beneficial
is because for lack of more detail
The game can really only load one warp at a time
So there's this vine we want to take
but climbing the vine is super slow.
Ace is going in his pipe and there you go!
So ace pushed the camera
such that the warp from the vine was still on
screen so going down the pipe took us up where the vine was still on screen, so going down the pipe took us up where
the vine would take us.
8-1 here we're looking...
Good! Okay, we have good judges.
So basically there is a
small chance for an RNG window
to make the flagpole in this level
one pixel lower than usual.
One frame early.
Okay, so some of these pipe jumps, like I said,
are incredibly difficult.
So unfortunately, sub-5 has probably some of these pipe jumps like i said are incredibly difficult um so unfortunately sub 5 is probably not possible now very much but you can still get underestimated underestimate what we
like to hear baby we got halfway there you know that's pretty good yeah this i i want
to emphasize something because ace didn't really touch on it he's going for everything
yes so like the you know this sub five is not simple.
And so, you know, Ace really went into this run with the methodology of I'm going to go for everything and whatever happens, happens.
And so you have to give him credit for that, because it's not safe.
Yeah I really wanted a sub five on the stage
but luckily right before my run
I did some practice on this stage
and got a sub-five on this stage anyway so you know what?
So wait, it counts?
It counts.
But yeah I'm just to play it safe here.
We're through.
Yep, I'm gonna pick up the mushroom here
just for safety because you want
to be on certain frame rules so
you know what all of the enemy patterns will do
but now I don't know what that will be
so I'm just going to
play it safe and get underestimate but i can show off a cool trick here if i do a frame perfect jump
and uh hit a 50-50 window essentially because of how the game does enemy collision.
You can also buffer jump in this game after a power-up grab.
Yeah, so like Ace was mentioning,
enemy patterns are based on the frame rule that you're on so now that ace has died once
uh the frame rule is kind of a mystery to us at the moment we don't oh we're going okay
yeah let's go.
All right, that makes up for it. Yeah, it is all good now baby.
We got a firework to celebrate too.
Wow.
Okay so that is a Bullet Bill glitch basically not to get too detailed on it but there are other ways
to get the flagpole other than just hitting it from above
and the hitbox for the flagpole extends down using some enemies
you can bounce into in interesting ways into the corner
of that block and that skips
Mario walking all the way across
and also skips the flagpole coming down
In this segment, Ace is going to have to slow down a little bit
by bumping that wall.
We don't want to hit a firework, if you end the level on a timer
one's digit of 1 3 or 6
You will get 1 3 or 6 fireworks respectively and those are obviously bad
We're almost done!
We're almost done! We're almost done, it's the final level!
Okay, 8-4. So no more frame rules to worry about here. Every frame counts in 8-4.
The name of the game is go as fast as possible and pray to God Bowser is okay.
We're good because we are big. Yeah, we're big Mario
so not a whole lot to worry about
Ace's gonna go for wall jump, excellent
Two frame window
Next up we got another wrong warp,
we're going to advance the screen forward
go in this pipe and hit the water
Ace are you gonna do crouch swimming here?
Yeah, crouch swimming here
So ace is just gonna hold down for a second there And you'll notice that big Mario looks like small Mario's collision.
That allows us to do fun things like that
So Ace is holding down while swimming here
in order to have a crouch hitbox
while swimming which is really useful.
Literally the frame, ace touches the axe
time all right pretty good for one death and BBG in there.
So we'll take it, or underestimate.
I can't believe you went for Bullet Bill Hatch!
Of all the tricks that could have gone forward
That was like the easiest one
The less risky ones
so I'm glad that worked out at least.
No sub-5 but you know what? That was still pretty hype halfway there so...
That was amazing Ace! Can we get another round of applause for GTA please?
Alright. I want to give my shout outs out of the way here.
I want to shout out the speedrun community,
the Mario 1 community, everyone that's here.
Finding speedrunning has just been
the best thing in my life so
I'm just happy to be here. Thanks for inviting me
back and I have an announcement
for the Mario 1 community
I held off saying this like
a month ago at an event
but after GDQ,q i'm gonna do 454 attempts again oh so that means like tying
world record to the second but obviously there's decimals which i will not get but that's
every almost every trick in the game there's many frame perfects and i'm coming back it's been three
years i'm ready so um look out for that if you want to watch me do that i stream on gts99 it's my twitch
i also have a youtube where i uh have the sunday speedrunner spotlight it's a podcast where i
interview a new speed runner every week and people tell me it's good so i'm gonna believe that i'm gonna
believe them so if that sounds fun you can watch me there and uh yeah just thanks for the commentary
adef of course and uh yeah uh just enjoy the rest of the event one last thing is can we please give a
huge shout out for sgdq for donating 1 million dollars here raising 1 million
for charity and 50 million total a round of applause please
and thanks so much for having me
hello gdq i'm he, I'm running the game Animal obviously.
Let's get started!
Let's get in here.
Can we do a quick countdown?
I can do a countdown.
We start in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...
Go!
Alright
So, quick goal of the game. We're gonna get some flames and then we're gonna go down the animal wall
All going through this tutorial section if my accounts want to see themselves
Yeah sure
You go ahead. Okay! I'm Wed. I mostly do PlayStation games
Hi, I'm Talia. I run mainly Celeste
but I am a big fan of Indie
platformers. Nice water bounce right there.
If you position the rising platformer
at that precise position,
it can act weird and bounce us up.
Which skips waiting for the bottom
to rise all the way up.
Yeah it seems to be like some sort of
edge detection whenever you are on
like a falling platform
all right now hakka is going to get to our good friend the uh
ghost that's gonna be chasing us for like a good portion of this run but also
heck i just got the disc now Now, uh...
The disc is a very special thing that we have
in this game. You're going to be seeing
the disc used quite a bit throughout this run.
Uh...
Mostly, uh...
Mostly in quote-unquote unintended ways you'll be able to see it a bit over
as time progresses throughout this run i'll make sure to point out a few moments
well a bit of a rough room there, but we're through it. Sick disc climb!
Right there that's one of the few things or one of the things
that we have with the disc.
We can permanently climb have with the disc, we can permanently climb walls with
the desk. Something you also see popping up is
we will be riding on the disk if you time a jump
or time a disc throw at the very top of your jump you're able to actually land
onto the disk and use it to get a little bit of additional speed
we also saw hackett pick up firecrackers and throw them earlier.
Their main purpose is to just scare away aggressive entities
so we have a little bit of an easier time.
Yeah, this dog could be a little bit annoying.
The firecrackers really do help out with that.
The disc does not as it kind of makes the dog...
As you could see,
It starts to move a little bit faster
whenever we throw the disc.
Alright. Now Hacker just got the mockdisc and he's gonna real quick take a death
and spawn back at the spawn point.
So this... there is some weirdness that just happened here.
Normally if you die while the ghost dog is chasing you,
The normal disc will get put back at the shrine and the chase will end.
They don't follow you all the way to your spawn point.
However, you're meant to pick up the mock disc
and then make a full loop around
and put it back at the shrine so we can keep the normal disc
but if you die with the mock disc
the game will get a little confused
and be like oh! You have the mock. You want to put that at the shrine?
Here you go. I'll do that for you. So now we just have the disc for real
Nice
Yeah conveniently along with that.
You saw that we purposely took a death abuse there
and that's going to be a common thing
you'll see here and there during this run
We want to come back right to the central area
so we set up a save point right at the start
of the run so that we can come back there
very easily after we collect one of these flames
which are all in like the corners of the map
give me a little skip there
let's get a little skip there?
Let's get a little boss fight interaction.
Nice!
That skips like a seahorse mini-boss.
You'll see them again.
Yeah.
All right, I got the next major item on their own You'll see them again. Yeah, right.
Haka got the next major item of their own which is the bubble wand
which lets you kind of spawn these bubbles that you can just stand on and then jump again.
You will see Haka chaining these bubble jumps so we can jump in the bubble
and then jump in the bubble and keep going so it can get basically infinite height which
is pretty cool if you ask me along with with that, using the quick select
menu options that we have here by
pressing the L and R buttons
we're able to just
swap between the disc and the bubbles
at will so we can use that for like a bunch of uh
faster aerial movement and stuff like that
shout out to these penguin guns there's so many little guys in this game
you can do a sick puzzle skip here
where I can actually bounce off of your
player model, so
skip a whole lot of puzzles there
This section is a bit scary
Haku's gonna go for a bit of a skip here, and looks good.
Nice!
You're meant to kind of just throw the disc
and let the whale lift it up but that's really slow
so I could just time to jump off the bubbles
really precisely there that room back there is actually like a lot more scary than you would
think that whale has a propensity to just eat you and you instantly die.
Nice, that's the first flame of the run!
As Hakka mentioned earlier,
The main objective of this run is
To get the four flames scattered around the map,
and then come back to the central area where the final well drop will open up.
I'm going to do a bit of skip...
kind of skip item progression a little bit.
There we go.
Line up into this jump off the wall.
The movement you can do in this game is
so mesmerizing, the disc
and the bubble and just kind of switching between
everything. Speaking of items we're gonna
get the next major item on the run
This one isn't really used for shmove as the other ones, but it is really cool.
It's the Slinky!
What other game can you use a slinky
as a puzzle mechanic in?
Alright, this is
a good time for some donations.
Absolutely!
We have got a $100
donation from Terokoon that says,
Animal Well already has a speedrun.
Well, that's why I'm donating to get another!
Go Hackacat!
And we also have a 10 dollar donation
from Lost in My Universe that says,
Good luck on the run, HackyCat.
It's been awesome seeing you improve your time and work to get the
flute-less route down to such a low tide.
Let's go, HackyCat!
So right here there's going to be a lot going on right now.
Made it look easy.
That was a massive skip, by the way!
Yeah that skips like most of this area.
We end up using the knockback mechanic, getting hit by the mist right down there to land right onto a bubble which we could use to get up here like way earlier usually you have
to wait for a lot of stuff and uh do you want to explain a little bit about the
yeah so this is the chameleon boss right before the next flame uh ideally haka would kind of position
the tongue attack sorry it catches a porcupine every time but just slightly
missed at this time no big deal and that's the second flame all right
all right i'm gonna def work again back to our trusty stress he saved
i hope you guys weren't uh missing the dog from before me to see him again for a little while
yeah my favorites we love cat dog absolutely
is it a cat? Is it a dog?
Honestly, I've been saying dog
but I'm still on Team Cat.
I can't see anything else other than cat.
Cats are hateful bees sometimes. I keep seeing, you know, a wolf or dog because it's a Frisbee cat.
Let us know what you think with the donations.
Let us know if you're Team Cat or Team Dog or Team Wolf maybe.
Oh they've already got you covered.
We got a $25 donation from GhostDog
that says hey look
a firecracker.
Accurate
representation. Here's a really spooky disc jump right here. Nice!
That one is very irritating to back up.
Now we have some very precise movement up here. Nice, doing these bubble climbs
up the three-wide corridor is way harder than it looks!
Right here we can actually go ahead and mention the vines
The vines do play a physical role in this game.
They stop the disc as well as pop any bubbles that you're using
There's some things we can
do to sometimes fudge them, but usually they are a great barricade from us being able to get through the area.
Number three!
We're just gonna head right back up through this hole here?
We have a bomb, that's okay. That's fine.
Another three- wide climb here?
Nice!
There is a lot of stuff
here that looks all simple,
but it really is stuff that's
A lot harder to do than you would ever expect
The movement in this game is so
Cool
Alright, heading down to the bottom right
Area-ish
Where we hopefully are going towards the fourth
flame and get the next major items soonish
that Africa donation absolutely we have got a $25 donation from Polar that says,
Animal Well? Don't you mean a watering hole?
Super proud of you Hakam! Also gay rights. Gay rights.
This area features these kind of ghost birds
Normally you're not able to outrun them
so they are just hard barriers
but by screen transitioning in specific places the
hacker can just kind of bend them toward his will basically and that was a yo-yo
the next major item yep we came all the way down here for
the yo-yo because we needed to open a door
for us.
It has other purposes, I swear.
It's not just the door.
Not much in this run though.
Good? Those are also scarier than you think? Uh, those birds can just squish you and kill you sometimes.
There's a lot of things that can kill you in this game.
Say hello to the kangaroo.
Hello! We're never scared of anything. There's a lot of things that can kill you in this game. Say hello to the kangaroo.
Hello! We're never seeing them again, goodbye.
Yeah, say goodbye to the kangaroo.
Major use of the yo-yo right here, little bit of a glitch...
Nice first try!
So by timing your Yogurt Throw with this kind of rising platform cycle
you can get it to go right between the scene between the two glass blocks
and essentially skip going right to the top
for a very long room, saves a ton of time.
And over here we get to see like
the primary purpose that you usually see the yo-yo for
it's able to break a bunch of these stalactites
and stalagmines. Right here,
we're actually using
a slightly different use
for the firecrackers. You can actually switch
the mice from moving up and down to left
and right which we can then have them hit the
button for us to be able to skip a bunch of movement throughout uh
going like backwards through a bunch of stuff before yeah these cycles can be
a little frustrating sometimes they can
sometimes crush the slinky if you're unlucky but all good right here
you can actually see a mechanic that i definitely did not notice casually in this game.
That you can just put the slinky straight through these center solid...
Another big skip here, nice! By positioning the Slinky in a precise location, you're supposed to go all the way to the left and get like a big ostrich ball chasing you. You have to play the game for that because the hacker just completely
skips it and yeah make sure you play this game and that was our fourth flame yeah yeah heading
deeper into the well already.
Could fit in a couple donations here probably.
Absolutely, we have a $50 donation from wilfred the boss that says hey what if
hey what hey what if there was a person named
annie male willy that would be funny, I think.
Good luck on the run, Hacker. You got this.
Also, gay rights.
Gay rights.
Thank you, Richard.
And we also have
a $50 donation from TPK that says,
I love this game.
I've been waiting for this run all week.
It really is a perfect mashup of Halo 2 and Halo 3.
This is the spooky final area of the game.
It's got these shadow entities that Hacker's gonna dodge real quick.
It's got three puzzle rooms.
Two of them use this kind of mice mechanic where as you traverse through
the room,
you'll see the mouse kind of chase after you
and follow your moves.
Think Shadow Mario or Battlin' from Celeste
And he's gonna manipulate the mouse
to kinda sit on the button at a perfect time
and yeah. Normally there's as I said
There's normally three puzzle sections since you need to go through them to hit the story buttons
But real quick Hakka is gonna kind of lower that number to two real quick. There we go.
There's another clip
there with the yo-yo, it's just
convenient that the floor below does not have
the door currently loaded so he can just hit
the yo-yo right through the floor and get the
button on it or really sick disc I gotta skip a mega puzzles there believe
Kingswood found that so shout out to them huge shout outs all right that was the final
major item this run which is the lantern the lantern's pretty powerful but you're not going
to see too many uses of it other than the major use which is just getting rid of these ghost guys
are blocking your way so we can go even deeper into the well
coming up here we have our like final little check that goes, hey do you have all the items? As opposed to all of the other earlier areas that actually exist as well.
And yeah, Now coming upon
like the last couple rooms
Wait did you hear that? What was that?
Was that boss music? Woah!
Okay so this is the final bosses of the game which is the Manticore.
They are very scary in casual playthroughs but in this feed run they're a little bit chill
They can't really do too much harm other than the little laser attack that we can kind of dodge by timing Lantern activations.
There's a funny little desync with the ceiling right there,
that you might have noticed that Hakka ended up abusing to just clip straight through
diagonally through some of the ceilings there.
Yeah, and goal here is get all the buttons uh open up the door here and
there we go got the last disc truck nice stance i follow this scroll all
the way down
and timing is going to end when the time appears in the middle of the screen. That was a sick run.
Major flushing last morning, by the way. Right now.
And goodbye. nice goodbye all right so yeah that was magic glitches.
Huge shout out to the animal sparing community.
It's an incredible community, very tight-knit but
very supportive, very great for
getting into speedrunning.
Got all sorts of resources,
lots of people wanting to help
out.
Yeah, you guys have anything you want to add?
I got to reciprocate that there's a whole lot
of stuff
to be able to look for. There's a lot of
strats that people are posting up there.
Constantly new things being updated,
new routes being found and stuff like that.
I definitely recommend looking at the Animal Well Discord
if you want to either play it casually as a collaborative effort
or get into speedrunning.
I just want to say huge shout-outs
to Billy Basso for making this game,
This game is awesome!
There's a lot of things that this run kind of spoiled, but there's a lot of things the run didn't spoil. And they are kind of the biggest
best parts of the game so if you're at all interested make sure you pick this game up absolutely but we
have an incentive that got made as well so i think you're all gonna show us a little bit more
of what animal will has to offer right right? We definitely do.
You just have to wait for it to allow us to pause.
Well that's doing that for now. Quick one, a $25
donation from Eustagon that says
thanks for agreeing as always and of course hashtag team dog
it's a good dog it's a good dog he has a good dog not as good of a dog as peanut butter though
ah sure very true all right looks like we're about ready do some anything That's true. Very true.
Alright, looks like we're about ready to do some 80%.
Think you can count down from five?
Yeah, we could do that again.
You want to go at this time, Ludden?
Sure! Starting in 5... 4, 3, 2, 1... Go!
Haka's gonna start by going to the left this time
to get his first chest which is gonna be his first egg.
So you didn't see that at all during the NMG run but one of
kind of major things about this game was these eggs hidden around everywhere
behind puzzles and once you get a certain kind of threshold
of eggs, the game will give you
these cool items!
Yeah it'll give you some fun goodies throughout
your playthrough.
A lot of times used for keeping track of things, but there's one thing in particular
that we really do want
that luckily only costs eight eggs.
Water bounce?
Another water bounce, we
get to see another one here
Double water bounce, this category
is awesome
I mean unless
Unless
There's like I mean, unless...
There's like a frame perfect subpixel jump that you could also go for there. Don't recommend it.
Nice! Let's go.
It can be a little finicky sometimes.
All right, take the same save as before,
the trusty-trusty center save thing.
Now I hope you guys were not missing
the dog because we do get to see it some more
yeah the ghost is going to be chasing paka for like what a solid 80 of this
run yeah it, it's the
majority of the run.
Hello!
Hi!
The disc is just too helpful
not to use it for this.
So we're going to be heading up this ladder first and doing a couple of disc alarms.
Copy-baroo! Nice.
Now, we actually Nice.
Now we actually do, like over time here have to take some deliberate damage so...
You know.
That was a nice spot for you to take one.
However not as much.
Notably when the disc is out and being used The ghost moves like 50ish percent faster?
I'm not sure of the exact number, but it does move faster.
Which makes a lot of these parts way harder.
Nice! Looks good. There we go.
Could maybe fit like one donation real quick
hundred dollar donation from animal well question mark it just has i sure hope
it is
i agree I agree.
Hope someone's checking up on him.
So yeah, we've uh some of these rooms before
uh now with an additional feature yeah we got some cool movement right here
nice clean those dicks this jumps are no
no joke.
Not at all.
A bit of a different route here to grab this egg on the way.
We didn't mention before there, by the
way, but you can end up skipping
the damaging hitbox of these stalagmites there
if you just get around the main hitbox and land on the floor beneath them.
A little bit scary.
I'll keep quiet until you get this.
There we go.
Okay, we're good now.
We're good now.
Coming up here,
Now we get to get our last egg and as you hear that jingle
That means it's time to go get our last egg and as you hear that jingle that means we're it's time to go
get our goodies yeah you'll see you'll soon see why the previous category disallows this item
is definitely the most powerful and broken atom in the game
and you're going to see that right away as soon as Hakai gets
it right out of his chest, here's the flute
input a code to teleport to the center hub room
Hakai is going to position this bubble and stand on it while standing
on the platform.
Now he's gonna pause for a specific frame when the bubble
is perfectly circular,
And then hopefully time a frame perfect inventory open after that
To work to... a frame perfect inventory open after that to
work two.
Oh, no.
One frame early.
This is a frame perfect
inventory open.
So I want everybody to This is a frame perfect inventory open.
So I want everybody to pop off when he gets this. Apologies for the flashing lights.
Frame early again.
This is a super finicky trick, let's just reiterate, this is a frame perfect trick.
Nice!
A 60 FPS game.
And we're at the end!
Look at that.
And...time! And time!
Incredible. incredible you can muscle hard yeah it's pretty good
yeah that was Animal World.
Hey, how's it going everybody? This is Yellow Taxi Goes Room. My name is Oro. My name is Forz.
I'm DarkTerex
And I'm Ugold
I'm gonna do a little bit of cheat magic here
We're gonna yank Argik off the host stand here
No! Don't do that!
You'll still be able to hear his lovely, but he isn't really joining us for this one.
Yes. Or is just taking him along.
Yep. Alright so Moogle if you want to give us a countdown we are gonna go ahead and get started here.
Alright 3...2...1...go!
Good luck!
So I like to pitch Yellow Taxi Goes Rumors
as a mix between
Crazy Taxi and Super Mario Odyssey, which sounds like a very weird combination.
It just kind of works...like it's uh you have to collect gears but
you don't get some back to the hub world when SM64
is styled.
Here at the beginning
we only have
access to
drive forward
and very quickly
we will unlock
more movement.
But not quite.
Yeah, we're about to unlock a spin dash that
we'll be using for the entire run.
You'll see it quite a lot. So we're entering the first stage here. This is more or less a tutorial stage, this
is Wario's home and we are going to get that spin dash S mechanic which we mentioned earlier
which is flip a wheel.
And you're going to see that immediately start to get used here.
You can interrupt the flip-a-wheel in many different ways
to do a little short hop, sideflip or backflip
and you can chain that
together to do like double jumps, double
back flips, double short hops
or any combination of such
There's also a boost
after your flip-a-wheel starts, if you press the gas
You will gain a boost to get extra distance when you're near or off of a ramp
So pretty much any time you see those like stars coming out of back of the taxi, that's like the boost they're getting.
We're not going to be collecting every gear, we are going to be getting 130 of them for this run.
And you can tell how many are worth on a level just up in the upper left corner.
Yeah, 130 gears total that we need to collect. Before beating the game there is 219 years available
and after beginning the game was 250 years for the entire game
wario sum is a very strange layout for residents, but it makes for some fun platforming. He has quite a bit of square footage in here.
He does. You wouldn't know it from the outside
it was like really tiny on the outside it's really vertical with not really much access to it but you
know All right.
So, right away we're you can make your see that we are making a lot of use of the unique movement
that the game has in trying to uh
use backflips side flips to get up onto much higher platforms. Alright, here is coming the end of Morita's home.
You'll notice on like the top left there are little gear icons with question marks that we have not collected in that room
That instance area and the green one The question marks are ones that we have not collected in that room,
the instance area.
And the green ones are ones that we have collected.
So it's not all the amount of gears in the world
just the area within that world we're in.
And now, we go to Bomb Beach which is pretty close inspiration of like Bomb on Battlefield from Super Mario 64
which this game takes a lot of inspiration
from PS1 games and Nintendo 64 platformer
and collectathons.
At the top of this level there's even a big bomb boss that you can fight, but we are not
going to actually do that in this run.
However, this is the first of our crazy taxi-like segments.
We're gonna pick up this guy here.
Anytime we pick someone up, timer goes up.
Anytime we deliver them also goes up as well as picking up any gears.
So they both just did like a little bomb jump so if you like have the bomb trail
you just put in a hair and explodes.
It will go up.
The taxi will jump pretty high.
Yeah so there's no health bar or anything
so the bomb hitting us doesn't hurt us
or anything. We can't really die to that
It's just kind of an obstacle
we get pushed around by them.
So we only picked up one person at the beginning of this level, and that's actually the only person we'll be picking up for the Crazy Tag Seed, you know, segment.
Yeah he's the only one in this level
In this level
You know, the other ones just give you time
which we can collect what we need to
before time ends up.
Yeah, fortunately we're going very fast so we're not actually gonna run out of time
you'll notice there's like a timer in the top right
and if you run out of time then you just timeout
which is effectively dying
you go back through your checkpoint um picking up gears doing
pickups and drop offs and picking up coins point bags they all add to the time and we're also going
really fast so we're not expected to even come close to running out.
There's a couple of small environmental mechanics as well, such as these blocks that you can
only open up with an explosion from a bomb or there's some that you use with the flip oil. Almost out of this level. One more left.
Have to be really careful on that bomb because sometimes he gets really aggressive and just starts nudging you towards the ledge and tries to push you off.
There have been many runs lost to getting pushed off there.
Sometimes that bomb just... two bombs are there for some reason and it just messes up that jump, or whatever.
Yeah, there's another one a little bit farther into that section that can aggro and kind
of get in the way of the other one. So now we're on Granny's Island. We exited
Moria's Lab and this essentially is a second hub world.
However, we're not going to see most of the levels that this area leads to.
This is technically where we start the game. That very first room you saw us in was in Granny's Island
but this is kind of just an extension of the main hub uh they're both
engine gears right now and this this is essentially a tutorial for jumping which is kind of helpful.
Forrest is going for a treadmill jump,
which is kinda hard to do and I'm honestly
surprised that they did it.
Yeah, well done.
NRO did a little spider climb.
Spider climbing is like
essentially
you can
dash into the wall and then get a reset
off of it because the wall thinks that
you're on the floor for some reason.
It is finicky though, there's a lot of walls that just seem to like not let you do that, especially if there's other textures to the wall.
They sometimes won't let it reset.
Sometimes they just clip through like in DK64.
Yeah so the walls from the game... a lot of the game
walls and floors are made out of blocks stacked next to each other
So it is very easy to get caught or go through the scenes between the blocks.
What did I just do? Oh, enter photo mode!
And uh...I know we haven't talked about the plot very much
Just yet but we have a quick little disclosure that we need to make and we're gonna talk to our lawyers here very briefly.
Yeah, so this is the law offices coming in for this one gear and for this very important message
This is the work of fiction that contains crude humor. Any resemblance to the actual persons living or dead,
actual events, or companies are purely coincidental.
Alright now we can actually talk about this legally.
So we're created by a character, Legally Distinct Morioh
who wants us to help him take down an evil legally distinct corporation called Tosla
with its legally distinct CEO named Alien Mask.
Completely different from anyone that might be real.
These gears are actually like evil... it's like corrupted oil essentially. It's like the lore.
Yeah we're collecting them to take them out of the ecosystem because it's corrupting the cars.
The cars are becoming self-aware and attacking people. People can no longer use them,
uh...and that's also part of why we are a windup taxi
because you don't have to run on that.
You're Morioh-san who created us.
That's true.
That's also a bit of the lore as to why we need
the time increases in the crazy taxi sections
is that we're too far away from Morioh
and his mind juice
keeps us powered.
Not available, I guess.
Yeah, it's very selective.
Here we get a big old boost off of this ramp and go over to the lighthouse to grab this gear. This game is very unique with its movement. There's a lot of things you can do to recover if you don't quite get enough height or
been in the distance, you can do a few things to try and like maneuver your way
still over where you need to go
well we're navigating down can i get a quick donation in? Yeah, go for it.
We have a $250 donation from AtlaBiscuit that says
Hey Forrest and Oro! Happy to see you on the GTQ stage again
And to spend another event with y'all
Proud of you both. good luck on the run.
Thanks, Alter.
Arcade Panic
I would say is probably one of the harder levels in the run. There's not like any part of it that looks super bad or like we did something terrible but it's really easy to just lose small chunks of time in this level yeah the various things most of the levels just one giant hits and
you're just kind of flying out above it and if you do your movement right it's not that hard
to actually do it's just very punishing if something does happen
it is required to hit the bowling pins with the bowling ball if you try to
knock them over with a taxi it like gives you a little clown horn honking at
you and calls you the cheater. It does.
So we have to make sure that we don't cheat so that we get our gears.
This is another area that has a couple of donations in during this part.
Oh, absolutely.
You got plenty of love coming in here.
One especially important. We have a $40 donation from
Drizzle and Criv that says
Forrest so proud to see you on the stage
among other GDQers again
We love you and we'd love to see your hard work pay off today best of
luck to both our racers try not to be distracted by any cheering kobolds in the audience
thank you we also have a $50 donation from Killer7151 that says,
Two amazing runners and one crazy game!
Yellow Taxi, hiiiip!
Thanks killer. Killer is the current runner YellowTaxi, hi! Hi.
Thanks Keller. Keller is the current record holder for this game
he's absolutely incredible at this game
Yeah, Keller has a 2552 right now
which is kinda nuts.
Oh no! So on Oro's side here we have to get this bowling ball down and like I said you have to hit the pins behind with the bowling ball to get the gear that we need. However in front
of us are a bunch of cars that want to
explode and push the bowling ball off the track so
they kind of have these switches that are alternating
between pink and green.
It's like one of the main mechanics of this stage,
and if you're a little bit too fast on switching the switches
so that the bowling ball falls down it kind of just falls down really janky
and not flat, and that can definitely have it.
Here on forest side we need to get these missiles to blow up
the explosion boxes to gain another couple of two quick years.
Fortunately the missiles have incredible tracking so it's not very likely they accidentally hit
anything else other than what I want them to. It's very surprising how sharply they turn.
I think this might be one of my best Arcade Bans I've ever had.
Yeah, that was very clean.
I was really nervous about the level. It's a very difficult one.
This level is very tricky to do quickly. There are a lot of things
that can go wrong. Next we're headed into Pizza Time.
This is another crazy taxi level. However, we are not going to deliver anybody in this level.
I believe none of the drop-offs actually give you a gear in this level but we get enough time from like gears and stuff that
we don't have to worry about our time limit
uh with that it's a very straightforward level uh it's pretty flat
in terms of things so if you have a couple more donations here this would be
a good time for him if you have a couple more donations here this would be a good time for him
absolutely we have a 25 donation from reactive that says hey gdq this is christian one of the
people who worked on yellow taxico's room as part of the publishing team. And I just
wanted to say that it's a blast
seeing it broken to bits
at this event amongst other amazing
games. Shoutouts to Auro, Forrest
and our entire community.
You're the reason why we do the things we do.
Fun fact! Despite both devs being proper Italians...
...one of them has an unhealthy obsession for frozen pizza.
Chad, what's your favorite pizza?
They did the bit for us!
They did the bit for us, we had this planned.
Oh nooo I'm so sorry!
That's how you know your devs are based, yeah.
We also have a $50 donation from SkyBlack
that says former Yellow Taxi Ghost Room
community manager here.
Great to see the game as such a fantastic event
one more i think you got someone where yeah we
got 20 donation from DaKitty
that says good luck to both Forrest and Oro on the race
to see Arnold.
And a quick update we're at $23,257
out of the 100,000 on our Ocarina of Time bonus game.
Making steady pays and do keep the donations coming in for it folks
We absolutely want to see more GDQ
I can see on Forrest in the air with another jump to extend how far out you can go.
You use that many times throughout the run.
I'm coming upon the biggest running killer in the game.
Yes, so we've got a wall clip here
to try and skip going through the Tosla offices level,
which would give us an item to get past this.
Oh my god!
Whoa first try that was insane.
Nice.
That clip is like we tried so hard to figure out how to do it consistently but just feel vibes in the end.
Yeah, you had the vibes today.
It's a 50-50.
So yeah, we skipped that entire level. The whole level basically resides inside of a building that has everything on top of it so it's really long to get anything inside of it.
And then we go past it and go to Maurizio City instead.
I'm actually going to be picking up some people here, three of them. You can tell how well you are doing with your passenger based on the happy face above?
Yes. There are a few ratings for drop-offs depending on how long it takes you, they all have like various amounts of patience.
So if it's psychotic then great and good then mmmm and then oh you'll see...
Hopefully you don't see the last one. Hopefully you don't see the last one.
We're too good for that.
I would never be that close.
No.
Thank you very much. Okay.
Nice.
The clip has been very rude to me all week, so for that
to go even remotely well I'm very happy with.
Do a little Akira slide there to drop the moth.
Right they're both in Boruzia City
So it's pretty good.
There are a lot of little parodies in this game so if when i pick the step you see that car back
there with the head his name is van biodiesel shout out to van by diesel i love van bio diesel yeah
whoa that was rude you came out so you won't see him but there's a giant monkey on top of this hole.
Who is Maurizio?
Yeah. A really distinct monkey
On top of the skyscraper
Yes
Uh oh
We got to reset
At least that didn't fall!
Yeah.
Here we're gonna go drop back down to the statue that we were at previously, and
we're actually going to use this eye...
So on the statue there's like a big iron eye sticking up here here and i use it as a ramp to get more height
to get over to this water tower it's amazing how much height that small thing gives you
so if you have an angry customer now, it's probably fine.
Yeah he's not doing too well I hope he doesn't jump out of my car
Probably not now with his pit
Sorry you to get good.
I believe that is the last passenger we deliver. Yep. In the runs.
I'm now just a car. Now just a car.
Crash Test turns the game on its head and like completely changes
the entire fundamentals of how to play.
I am no longer driving with an A button, I'm controlling my movement
with my joystick entirely
I can no longer cancel my
footballs at all so any
mistakes I make I'm entirely
beholden to
So this level's like
I'm mixed on calling it an easy or hard
level because there's nothing that's
too hard about it but any mistakes
are so punishing in this level
that is very stressful. all of our usual fail
saves basically just don't work at all a lot of pipe chunks nice got into the
top one there yeah drop down to the second one. A ton of narrow ledges, and jumps like that where I have
to land on small platforms. Arguably the hardest part of that little done for forest forced here we're going to uh dash into her flip a little into the barrier
and it'll put us up on top of it and essentially make a makeshift ring that's fine that's fine yeah
uh we're in minnesota it's oak excuse me excuse me
so for the lore for this stage is essentially we're trying to impress our web interest, Orcard Taxi goes smooch.
So we cannot jump at all to impress her., she doesn't like people who cancel at all.
Like one more difficult jump here. I make it difficult, there's an easier way to do it but
I was too scared to learn how
to do the easier way so I just do it like that
Yeah which is a lot scarier.
One more...oh!
Okay good.
I'm touching the flag.
Sometimes it's very tight on what direction you could be holding,
so sometimes you may just not realize
you're holding slightly in the wrong direction
and you end up dashing 45 degrees
in a different direction
You may have noticed some like little orange outlines throughout the level
It's kind of like a block switch in Super Mario World
I guess where once we we hit this orange button here
all the orange blocks turn on throughout
the entire game. And here's
Okotak Seagosmooch
She reveals that she was actually an agent
sent by Alien Mosque to sabotage me but she was so impressed with my
determination to not use jump cancels that she actually loves me and will help me.
So, Forrest is going to Morioh's mind so first Morioh has taken a little snooze
with the dream machine
He's fine Yeah so he forgot his password to this door
here, so we have to enter a subconscious
to go retrieve it. Um...
Unfortunately though, his
subconscious does not like invaders
So the entire time I'm in this this level a laser will be firing at me and it
does kill me on the spot yeah the first two couple of gears here are pretty tricky to get
okay that's the first one down.
Oh, that's a great height.
Excellent.
It gets really tricky doing those because uh especially when you try to
land on the slant if you're upside down sometimes the taxi just doesn't reset and
you just slide off of the platform you're trying to land on. Okay, I didn't actually get that little height.
Usually I get too much height on that one.
Oh! He almost got me
he was aiming at me.
The hitbox on those lasers is extremely unreliable sometimes you can
just drive right through it and nothing will happen and sometimes
it will hit you from states away from you
you'll be high you'll be behind a wall and sometimes
that'll just high you'll be behind a wall and sometimes it'll just hit you anyway
got a couple more here.
Almost done with this level, thankfully it's very quick despite how much is in it.
It's a little annoying for this level routing-wise that as soon as we get the password that's the giant key in his mind
uh it immediately boots us out so that affects our ability to get a lot of
other gears in the level that would be otherwise pretty fast yeah Yeah, yeah.
Because getting back up to this area is not fast from like any other spot.
I'm so relieved to be done with this level. This level is scary.
Hold on.
That was a really good Mario's Mind.
I generally try to aim for, like,
a 146 on the in-game timer.
That was a 144.
Oh, and the password? It's 1111.
You forgot that.
That is too hard.
I can't remember that.
I have already forgotten it.
What was it?
Um...
I don't know.
There is a VOD you might be able to go back and check that out.
Password is probably peanut.
Speaking of peanuts do you think Mr. Peanut is full himself?
Yes.
So we don't like a new mechanic here, it's a propeller hat.
So now when I do a little cancel...
Okay.
It'll think you're all weird. A little weird.
You go up into the air in a higher jump with the cancel using the propeller, and you only get three charges of it.
Normally your backflip and side flip are much higher jumps than just a standard jump would be,
so that changes to a much higher one.
Ruined Observatory has a lot of very spaced out gears to get
and you have to get a LOT of jump height in gears to get, and you have
to get a lot of jump height in order
to get everything quickly.
Thankfully there's a lot of backups
in regards to where you can get a ramp.
Yeah, all these little towers I guess...
You could get like a buttload of height off them right there.
A lot more height than I wanted.
Maybe that's from
the other one.
It used to be we...
So we used to go
in this level
a different direction.
We used to let go
and make front entrance
down at the bottom
of the castle first.
I ended up losing a ton of runs to that though,
because there's a bunch of like alternating platforms
above spikes inside and it can be pretty tricky to climb.
So I said okay,
I'm gonna go in from the top instead.
And it ended up being 10 seconds faster and way easier to just go in from the top than to climb it from the bottom.
There's other instances of that too where it's like
in this game, going up and then down is generally easier than going down
Essentially, yeah
So you can see those alternating platforms there
It was like really easy to die because you were near the end of
the run, you're probably stressed and sweaty and could barely focus so... Alright but we got
the far one so I'm happy about that. Yeah.
All right, we're going to get
one small cutscene here which opens
up the final
portal level, which is the Tosla HQ. And we are essentially going to skip this entire
level! Yeah.
We're gonna see two different methods from the runners. They are going to do it slightly differently.
By using the spider climbs you may have seen earlier in gym where we get resets on the wall,
we were gonna use them to climb over the building instead of going through it.
Yeah. And this saves like
anywhere from 30
to 50 seconds. I don't remember
the exact amount of time. It's like 30-ish
I think, but... It's been so long since the route has included
the inside of the building.
There was an old method we had too where
we had to do a lot of really slow jumps
around the left side of the building
and then do the spider climbs up the back. And we were like, okay, we can just do it up front. We don't have to do it anywhere else.
And Forest is doing it in cool way, where you go around
the building instead of just going straight up.
It's much harder to do this
way, but it is a few seconds faster if
you get the height in time to get onto
this platform.
So well done.
This was almost a 26. it's an it can't be it's impossible because this level is like 145
at minimum but oh my god this has been such a good run for me.
Yeah you've been killing it.
So far I just entered Moon which is like the only stage that
has gravity... not gravity but lower gravity to it.
We were very serious about the mario odyssey comparisons yes
yes we're here to confront alien most in his dastardly schemes.
Do you think there's anyone else behind him with his pots?
Definitely not Cthulhu.
No, not at all.
So we see Oro here using this corner to just go straight up the side of the building instead.
A little easier, a little more consistent but it gets you over nonetheless.
I might make Ark get a little
nauseous here but
oh my god
the main antagonist
is not alien most
what
it's Morioh's grandma
who's technically
our great-grandma
that's true,
for Mario's son after all.
The resemblance is uncanny.
Yeah.
I can see it.
There's like pictures
around the lab of
her holding him
when he was a baby.
It's very emotional and this is the final boss so get ready on time yeah so i just need to make
her um hit these three pylons and then i need to hit her afterwards
so i'm just gonna she's fine yeah i'm going to go up the challenger directly
real quick she looks fine just going to get a little
bounce off our head there it's a little vibe check
just trying to hug your grandma, nothing wrong with that.
Yeah.
I was trying to like get her, you know try to bring her back to sentences but she didn't take it.
She wouldn't like my hug.
That's sad and time.
Thank you. That was a fantastic run. And the order has just got to follow it up. What did you get? Oh my god, 2706.
That beats my PB by like 8 seconds, by the way.
Forrest's been PB'd three times since being good?
Yeah. Forrest has been killing it this week.
I was getting like 30s at the start of the week and I was like concerned about oh my god that's awful
Then I PBed 3 times and by my time's like now at 2650-something.
51, I think?
While we're waiting in order to do the fight, can I jump in? We are about to hit time here so just a minute.
Just one moment.
Got one more pile on and then the final hit,
and I'll be done.
And that's time for me.
Well done.
That was good, that was good. Gee, we got a lot of love in the chat for you and the donations, I've got $100 donation from Spinamas that says this is
a fever dream of a 3D platformer
that I have never heard of before.
This is hilarious,
I love it!
And we also have another $100 donation from
Shrambles
that says
Greetings from the audience
Yellow Taxi Ghost's room has
re-sparked my interest in getting back
into speedrunning
Watching the progression of the run get faster and faster since release has been a joy.
Good luck to both runners,
and bless any wall climbs that may happen.
And then,
of course,
one last one.
$20 from Naruga that says,
Hey GDU! Especiallyrest. Cobalt here!
Let's see that taxi go vroom and good luck on the run
Couple quick things to mention before we close out here
If you're interested in speedrunning this game, which
you definitely should be, play this game first
and then speedrun it.
But if you go to the oltaxi goes room speedrun
dot com page there is a link to our discord
It's the wider discord for the entire game so if you want
to talk about the game casually if you want to talk about the game from a speed running
perspective that's where it's all going to be um all the runners are more than happy
to help people out we have a of people already in there who started
speedrunning at all with this game, so if you are intimidated by speed running at
all just jump on in and get started. You'll have a great time!
And yeah, do you guys have anything else to shout out
shout out arnold oh yes the best bunny yeah that's right is that very credit credits it's a picture of arnold the money then whenever any of us
pb we always make sure to get Arnold in the screenshot.
Yeah that's just the community culture is to PB screenshot with Arnold but yeah
that's it for us thank you guys so much for watching definitely pick this game up
It's on sale at the Steam Summer Sale right now,
and yeah, have a blast!
Take it easy guys.
Hello everybody!
Welcome! This is it.
This is Evil Zone Tournament Finals happening here.
Hello I am Dragonblitz
And I am CavemanDCJ
and this is the wonderful game known as Evil Zone
The hottest two button fighting game on the PS1.
This game has a long storied history here at GDQ
dating all the way back to AGDQ 2015. Yep that's where it
began so viewers at home you might be wondering what is this? Fighting game speed running marathon?
Well so this has been a staple of the on-site attendee experience since 2015. I've been running tournaments for
close to a decade, and basically it's just something for people to do.
We got a packed crowd here! They've all...I forced them all to play Evil Zone.
Can I get a show of hands? How many of you have
played Evil Zone, raise your hand.
Yeah. How many of you have met me
because of Evil Zone?
Good amount, good amount yeah. So basically gamesestonequick.com activities there's
on-site activities for all attendees to do tournaments are one of them and this
is a showcase of that
yeah uh this game is a
two button fighter as we said before
it's a three dimensional fighter
We're going to get into the mechanics
of the game as the matches go on
but its just so important to us and we're so happy to showcase what has become a staple of the attendee experience,
in our opinion.
Live for you guys on the stream!
So I hope you guys are ready for that.
Who do we have?
Who do we have playing in top four?
There is somebody who I know who is in top
four. Oh, really?
You, actually.
I am in the top four as well as organizing
and running the tournament as is tradition
but that's not all.
Two first time players of the game I'm not going to say that this is a game where you can play the tournament as it's tradition.
We also have two first-time
players of the game this week at
the event, they picked up the
game and made it to the top four game, including myself. We have Tynemo. Shouts out.
Let's hear it for Tynemo.
And we also have
first-time GDQ attendee
Olimra. Let's hear it for Olimra, everyone.
And my opponent in Limra, everyone. And
my opponent in Winners Finals
is longtime PlayStation Nation
member Frogger Extraordinaire. Let's hear it for
Kane of Pachi.
And I think without further ado,
I'm going to hop off the cans.
But Dragon Blitz and our lovely assistant Brian Otto,
they're going to be commentating you for it.
So yeah, let's just get into it.
Let's get our first match going.
Let's do it! Yeah!
Are you guys ready for Evil Zone?
Let's go everybody! We've been waiting a long time to showcase this for you uh this is a brand new style of thing to be doing at gdq and we're very excited to be part of it how are you
feeling brad i'm doing really well. I also, like
so many other people in this tournament, played the game for the first time
at the tournament and I had a wonderful
time and I am beyond excited
to be here and help y'all commentate this.
Oh yeah, we're're gonna have some of the
highest level gameplay you might think to yourself well some of these players
they picked it up for the first time how could they be so good at the game well
it is a game that is a quite simplified uh version of a 3d
fighter there are only two buttons
for this game.
There's no simplified version of a 3D fighter.
However most of that interaction comes down to
player versus player hard reads understanding what
options they like to go for and using the games mechanics at their advantage we're going to be seeing a lot of grabs, a lot of spacing, a lot of zoning.
A lot of grabs.
Here in Evil Zone, yeah.
It's going to be a good time
but let's go ahead
and introduce our first contestant here.
Tynamo, please come down.
Sorry. Let's go, Tynamo! I'm going to be playing. And on the other side of the loser semifinals, we have a
limbera! Go ahead and get set up into the game,
get comfortable
and we will let you know
when to get started.
But yeah,
how are you feeling
about the overall event so far Brian?
Just as a whole?
Yeah.
Oh my goodness!
One of one of my favorite GDQs I've attended in awhile.
Me too, yeah.
It's just that I feel like the vibes have been great so far.
Just a really wonderful schedule and so many of my friends up on stage
are having amazing runs and raising
a lot of money for a great cause, so...
A lot of unique things happening too.
A lot of unique things!
I've been saying it's
a pretty ambitious schedule
and even stuff like this.
We'd never really done anything like this before, so it's awesome that we're here
and it's happening right in front of us.
Whenever you two are ready feel free to select your characters
and get into it! let's get it rolling
so this is going to be a losers semifinals match
the uh winner of this is going to move on in the bracket
The loser unfortunately be knocked out at
fourth but still making it to the top
for a wonderful feat
between these two players and we're already getting into
it. So this character with the wings is like extremely good,
is that right? I've been told they are like S tiered. Yes, that is E-Hidoka. We're actually
seeing the two best characters in the game going up against each other at this moment in time,
that is correct. Yeah, we have E- have e hadoka the boss character of this game
who funny enough isn't even considered necessarily to be the best in the game we have uh the other
half of the s tier kakarine these two spiritual beings in the lore of
the game are very, very powerful.
We're seeing a lot of scabs going on right now.
I bet the lore in this game goes crazy.
Oh it does. It very much does.
This is right here a grab animation,
this game is very cinematic you're gonna be seeing
lots of different camera angles as many
of the grabs and attacks like this
do have cinematics tied to them
anything with a cinematic usually has priority
over other types of attacks as well, so it can be
very important if you have like a projectile that goes into
a cinematic and you want to use those a lot. Lots and lots
of grabs already coming out from the Kakarina player.
And something about this game that really surprised me is every character has a full screen grab.
Oh yeah, I think Kakarina is one of the best characters to be up close and personal as you can see because those grabs can be very devastating uh but every character in the game is
also like fully equipped at range so one of the things that makes
this game very unique is everything is based off of your
position on the screen so
you're distanced from the other player determines which attacks you are able to
do um so at range your standard uh attack
button turns into a projectile right then you can
uh change that projectile into Right, right. And then you can change that
projectile into different
special moves based off of the
direction that you press with
the attack button and the
common opener in this game
you're going to see it a lot
is jab-jab grab.
Yep I mean I got...
You condition them the block with
the first two jabs and then you combo into the grab
while they're still blocking and grabs in this game
do beat blocking so it's a very
common setup to get some free damage.
Ooh!
Can you see the red wing form underneath to get some free damage. Ooh, teching the grab there!
When you see the red ring form underneath the player
they are attempting
to go for a range grab.
Range grabs can be
teched out of if you
block at the correct timing
and it's very tight
we believe it should
be a two frame window
so teching out any grab is like goes to show that these players very tight. We believe it's to be a two frame window, so
tucking out of any grab is like goes to show that these players picked up the
game literally what three days ago and they're already taking grabs
two frame windows live here on stage. It is incredible
Ty was telling me that they lost in round one and then just got here
on a ridiculous losers bracket right which i can't believe the story of both of these
players is incredible taiyama losing round one and then winning 11 games straight,
That's a massive win for us.
11 matches straight to get to the top four, eliminating some of the top
players in the game, eliminating me as well. One of the only tournament winners
to ever win a tournament here at
GDQ in Evil Zone, and
we also have Olimra who
found Caveman on a chance encounter
at Hell's Kitchen
Oh that's so cool! Ended up checking out Evil Zone
wanted to see what the hubbub is all about
and it is now here in the top four as well.
Yeah I was under the impression
that...I guess we're getting down to it huh?
This is going to be my first match. Last game of the match here that. I guess we're getting down to it, huh? Oh yeah, this is the last game
of the match here and whoever gets
knocked out here, it's going to be their advantage
and there's a Raw Super!
Raw Super! Wow, punishing
the startup of another move.
And that is 1-0 in Tynemose's favor.
Now this is standard fighting game rules.
The winner is character locked
but the loser is allowed to change characters
if they would like.
So we're going to see a quick character select here as we move on into game
number two. Okay, we got... And Kaya! That's a solid
choice. Yet another high tier character believed to be
a little bit better in the zoning department perhaps, or maybe just
a comfort pick? Who knows?
I saw very little of this guy in tournament so I'm very curious
to see...
Yeah, Kea I think is one of the better zoners in the game.
His projectiles are very strong and they come out
very quickly.
They have priority as well because they're cinematic
but getting hit by that long range grab...
Wow! That was a big chunk.
Yeah.
Grabs are one of the most consistent ways
to do damage in this game there aren't a
whole lot of like consistent combo strings it's a lot of neutral hits that lead into
either a lot of pressure like am i going gonna grab you here or am i going to continue my combo
uh right there that's a cinematic.
It only happens if you tech out of a
combo string like that. That's what happens when
you don't tech and it takes an extra damage.
Oh, and there's a stun, another universal
mechanic in this game
where if every character in the game has a projectile
where if it hits they go into a stunt animation.
Wow!
But taking out of the grab that's usually confirmed.
That move from Kakarina is so hard to deal with.
So gnarly.
Yeah, you have to basically like...
You can't interact with the rings at all.
You have to wait for the animation to end.
The grab animation is so cool!
Wow, Tynamo is really tearing it up
so far applying the pressure early
Oh blocks the combo string goes for
Jab-Jab Grab but at the counter grab
that is one way to counter the Jab-Jab Grab strategy
I noticed as I started playing better players Jab-Jab-grab strategy. I noticed that as I started playing better players,
jab-jab-grab stopped working.
Yeah, there's a lot of ways to counter it.
It really is only the thing
that you have to condition your opponent into first.
Like, you want to make sure
they are blocking your pressure strings
and then the jab-jab jab, grab starts working. Otherwise
you can try an attack out of it. You can also
counter-grab. And back throws
do more damage. Is that right when you grab them
from behind? Yep, that is another universal
mechanic in this game where usually if you get a stun or if you are catching your opponents behind like facing the other direction getting that grab does a little bit more damage and in a game where most of your damage is coming from straight hits any additional damage you can get that's confirmed
is really good and yet another long grab animation really making you think about your choices as
you got grabs coming down to it oh yeah and uh right now this is actually a limer's like tournament life here am i correct
absolutely yeah if we see kea go down here limber oh no another jab grab confirmed this
is going to leave him with barely any health. He does have one stock of
super. That is what the red gem in the top left-hand corner
is. Goes for a super right
there. Does a chunk of damage and it's
down to the wire.
Oh!
This is coming down to the wire here.
Olimara still on tournament life,
but still barely breathing.
Oh, we're seeing
the zoning come through
and that is the sigil
on the ground
that goes into a cinematic,
a very high priority projectile here.
Oh,
both going for jumping attacks.
I was,
I was utterly fascinated by the amount of depth in this game.
I hear two button fighter.
I think,
you know,
maybe something like divekick for example right?
But there is literally... not to say that dive kick doesn't work
but there's literally so much going on in everything you've covered
So many hidden mechanics
Yeah this is one of those games that we basically found
kind of diving through the eclectic collection
of PlayStation games that we wanted to just like
oh, we'll play a silly fighter that sounds funny.
It has the... you might see in the background
here, I'll try and point it out if we see it.
Yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about.
There's so many cute and amazing things about this game
but then all of the depth that comes with it
if the camera just changes a little bit more
oh there is gamers in the background gamers rise up
make some noise as it is coming down to the final moments here.
This is a limer's life if he is able
to get this last knockdown,
It's going to go to a game three
Punish with the red signal that does give him
one free sock of neater
Is he going to use it?
Goes for immediately blocks but the chip damage is there It does give him one free stock of meter. Is he going to use it?
Goes for it immediately, blocks, but the chip damage is there.
Goes for another Invincible Super.
Charging up a little bit of meter there.
Blocks all the rings.
Gets a counter party.
Back throw!
And that's a throw! And we have ourselves a tie game here it all comes down to
this here in the loser semis finals this is uh going to be a best two out of three so
this will be the final match running it they're running it back? Alright.
Alright, we love to see it.
What do you got for the last one?
What are you liking that you're seeing?
Oh man, there's just already like...
For two players that have picked up the game at this event there's so many
high level strategies already uh deployed it's one of things that i love about this
game where it is simple to understand but if you have a solid understanding of fighting
game fundamentals you can go really far. Understanding mix-ups, understanding conditioning
understanding how to provide threats
and making sure your opponent...
If you find something that works
keep doing it until they've proven
to you that they know how to deal with it
then you start mixing it up All the very common until they've proven to you that they know how to deal with it,
then you start mixing it up.
All of the very common threads
of all fighting games are apparent here.
Took the words right out of my mouth.
I mean, I tried to just apply a lot
of what I knew coming from Super Smash Bros background,
and I found a lot of success in doing that I knew coming from Super Smash Bros. background, you know?
And I found a lot of success in exactly what you talked about
doing something until it doesn't work
then you find the next thing that works and rinse and repeat
That said, I only went one and two
so I didn't do that one.
Not to make too many parallels with Smash but one thing that is important to note about the control system
you might be thinking how are they doing so many varied moves with only one attack action?
All of the attacks are also tied to a
direction plus attack, or multiple
directions plus attack, or by double
tapping the attack button as well. All those
combinations lead to separate moves, so these players
have all those combinations memorized
to make sure that the special that is coming out
is the one that they want.
Oftentimes, if you double tap the attack button,
you'll get a wider version of your special move
that's designed to catch sidesteps
because this easy three-dimensional game it's very powerful to sidesteps, because this is a three-dimensional game.
It's very powerful to sidestep out of the way of projectiles
and then counter with your own projectile.
But if you see your opponent doing that,
then you're opened up to wide range versions of attacks.
And this is a game that I found out the hard way does not reward mashing.
Oh, absolutely not!
It's exactly what you were talking about with the double tap attack
and when it splits the attack if your opponent is standing directly in front
of you it just whiffs entirely.
Exactly yeah.
It's our first lesson we teach every
player here at GDQ events
You do not want to mash in this game
You wanna be very deliberate with your button presses
And already you see them
At range charging some meter.
Coming down to the wire.
Raw grab from range.
There are two different types of grabs as well.
When you see the red circle appear and it's full, that's a normal grab.
But what we in the community like to call
a donut grab happens when there is
a little bit of space in the middle
and it's a wider version of the grab
It's designed to catch side steps
So that's kind of the mix up? Are they going to stand still and eat the range grab or are they going to walk towards
you and eat the donut grab.
All right, final game or final round here I should say.
Oh yeah no matter what next knockdown is going to determine who moves on here in
the finals this has already been a down-to- the wire showcase, you couldn't ask for anything better
here at SGDQ 2024 Evil Zone. I can't believe we're doing it man
And you could-I mean, I'm sure that neither of these players when they sat down for their first match at the tournament imagine
They'd be sitting here on Friday
Yeah
Turning from attendees to essentially runners here in the marathon. They even get their own runner badges after this. Custom designed for
the Evil Zone tournament. You love to
see it. Oh, and there we go! The Sigil taking
priority over that dashing attack.
Wow, too high level
gameplay here. Oh my goodness.
We're just seeing the footsies that neither player wants to commit to
anything too risky it looks like alumbra has a supercharge
oh yeah and gets the grab here that's going
to apply a little bit more pressure one thing that's important to note is that
your meter is also tied to your health, so the lower
your health, the easier it is to charge meter and get
supers going. Oh!
That's a huge chunk of damage, and I think
knockdown is going to do it, and that's a confirm!
Congratulations Alimrah for moving on Tynamo.
A fantastic showcase, literally beating some of the legends
of the game, tournament winners
have passed.
And I just could not ask for a better showcase here.
Congratulations to both of you.
You did a fantastic job.
And the nerves were on there for Olimpia too.
Did you see that deep breath big sigh love this sportsmanship
big handshake of course yes i mean it is about competition but also it's about community it's
about fun it's about showing that video games can be more than just
distractions from the world.
It could be a community building process
and I am so happy that we are here for it.
I think we were ready to move on to our next round. This is going to be the winner's
finals. Ready for this one, I am
super excited. Two legends of the
game here starting first with
Caveman. Let's go Caveman! A winner of
many, many tournaments. Let's go Cave Caveman. A winner of many, many tournaments.
Let's go, Caveman!
Honestly the villain runs a tournament just to try and win it himself.
Playing into the heel you love to see it.
Puts up a beautiful poster as the prize with the intention of trying to win in himself
honestly the nerve of this guy, but we love him.
Really an exercise in ego to run tournaments just
to win them. And we have his opponent
right here, right now. We have Kane
Obachi!
A long-time member of the PlayStation Nation.
And as these two players set up here, we're going to see probably new characters.
I would hope so!
I'd like to see some new characters.
Another thing that's important to know about the character selection in this game is that the cast
is actually, we were talking about top tiers and best
characters or whatever. It's actually a very
well balanced game all things considered because
every character has access to a handful
of universal mechanics like the sun like the stun, like the supers
like the grabs and those are like
the bread and butter of gameplay in this game
so really the individual
special moves that the characters have
stuff like that is kind of like the spice on top of it.
So most characters tend to be very, very
good. And we have two new
characters showing on screen. We have Midori
and Setsuna. Alright, here we go
game one. Yeah, we have Caveman picking the patented Midori
Very aggressive, very in your face
Likes to rush you down
Used advancing specials
To try and go into like cinematic special animations
and do damage that way. And then Setsuna is more of a well-balanced all rounder, has good
projectiles can also scrap with the sword close range.
But yeah, we're seeing Midori's dive kick taking priority over a lot of different
interactions as well kind of like a rushdown grappler style character.
Absolutely!
That's definitely a character
that would take speaks to me most and i'm really excited to see caveman
working at full power here when he was teaching me the game i mean i could tell
brother was not trying right so i'm really excited to see him go in just
full bore and what he's capable of.
I am fully confident in saying that no one has played this game
in the world more than Caveman, a double stun!
That is one thing that is interesting about Midori
Her stun is a little bit lackluster in certain scenarios but the one
priority uh one benefit that it does have is that it will take priority over certain trades where
both players will get stunned so if you're doing a stun war at the very least
you have to uh rely on the fact that both players are going to be sun
and one thing is important about this one up
is that you can mash out of sons to get out of the actual stunt itself faster
oh out of stuns to get out of the actual stunt itself faster oh but that was not safe the counter special
able to knock down that's gonna be my next question i saw caveman rapidly shaking his hands
when he was stunned i did not know you could mash out of it.
Yep, there's a couple of mashing minigames that may come up
Mashing mini-games? Being stunned is one
of them. If you see both players running side by side
That can happen. Ooh! A very advanced technique there the jab into stun combo
and then doing a quick turnaround to get the back grab for a little bit of extra damage this is how
you know he's playing on another level because he he thinks about being able to eek out every last drop of damage in every situation.
It's what makes him so deadly as a competitor, y'know? Something that would only be like 10 interactions for one player. Caveman is able
to take down an opponent in
six. Is Jab-Jab hit this time?
Like, is that true? It depends on the
situation. So there are... There is a
counterhit mechanic in this game, so if you
hit somebody out of a special attack
of their own, they'll go into a crumple state
where they land on the floor
during that period of time
they are vulnerable to true combos. Otherwise
all combos kind of turn into mix-ups where it's
like okay am I going to finish my combo string
and expect you to press buttons? Nice smash
in the counter. Wow. Yeah
we are seeing already incredibly aggressive and then going back to the
play, back and forth, back and forth.
It's coming down to the wire here.
Three supers can maybe come into play.
Supers are one way to get back into this game.
Oh wow!
Game 1!
Game 1 to Kane!
And this is a...
Like miracle run really.
Is this the best of 5? This is going to go with the best of five. We're on a miracle run, really.
Is this a best of five?
This is our first best of five
now that we are in the upper part
of the bracket. This is winners finals here. Both players are guaranteed to get at least third place.
But the winner of this gets guaranteed top two
as they sit in the grand finals
where they will have to
sit pretty with at least two sets to work with.
Now character change from Caveman, why do you think he went to Caveman? sit pretty with at least two sets to work with.
Now, character change from Caveman,
why do you think
he went to Chaos?
I think Midori
is a solid character
but the more that we
play this game
it's clear that
her weaknesses
kind of get outweighed in certain
situations. I think Setsuna might be a harder matchup
because she has the sword, she has really
strong projectiles and Midori's more of a rushdown
character with like needing to
apply pressure and needing to apply mix-ups, but Setsuna
doesn't want to deal with any of that because
of the priority on her moves and such.
I see, I see. And Kay is a really good zoner
as well, he has some of the strongest projectiles
in the game. He also has a really strong
gameplay because uh his sigils that he throws down on
the floor if you notice those he has a blue one and he has a red one
if he ever hits the red one he gets a free stock of meter which can wow kind
of snowball okay into the
situation oh wow cancels the range grab with a stun combos into the super massive
wow huge comeback potential here kea does have one stock of meter,
oh gets the confirm into the stun!
Into the super!
Woo!
And that is going to be a knockdown.
I love getting...
I love when everybody does a super
cause they get to see the new animations that I haven't seen before.
Oh yeah! There's so many beautiful
animations of this game and
we are seeing so many of them come out today
I loved getting introduced to the Dan Ziver
space...space play thing It's a little bit of an understatement
that you're not introduced to
the Dan Ziver space laser.
Oh yeah, it's a shame we don't see
any Dan Zivers here in the top four
because the space laser boy oh boy it is something to behold 20-second long grab animation. But here, already a very strong start.
I think the Kaya pick is really paying off.
Kaya being able to apply pressure
in maybe just ever so slightly different way
that Kane has not really prepared for.
And you mentioned Kane went on a miracle miracle run can you tell me more about that
i mean cain hasn't really uh been super active in the evil zone tournament scene he's been mia from
a handful of gdq so his story he was telling me at the beginning
where he was expecting to maybe make it far
but then lose to some of the tournament
suspects. Like this guy right here
But just putting his nose down
to the grindstone playing a few games during the event and
really kind of de-rusting his skills. And now he's sitting here in
the Winners Finals up again! Something that if you would have asked him before this event, I don't think
he would've seen himself right absolutely
it's looking like kaya is the answer here for caveman though
yeah we'll see if maybe cain is considering maybe a different pick or
maybe some sort of optimizations in his gameplay maybe he's trying to download some uh habits from caveman
to bring into the next game or maybe yeah i was gonna say there is potential with the stocks and
meters how quickly you was building super there. That was wild. Yeah, remember those red little diamond things in the top
is your stock of mirror you can spend them
for either the universal super or powered up EX versions
of moves that do have invincibility.
All right, here we go!
And we are seeing a character switch coming out here
We're seeing the Errol
I don't think I've seen this character once
so this is all going to be new to me
Oh yeah, Errol is a fan favorite
of many high level uh gdq tournament winning uh players
of this game legendarily mike uyama's name oh Oh, really? Oh yeah, Mike Uyama.
Shoutouts. One of the top players.
One of the few players to ever
win an Evil Zone tournament here at GDQ.
I was going to say previous tournament winner, Mike Uyama.
Yeah, shoutouts. Argu arguably what he's known for oh
yeah i think like that's for as far as i'm concerned he only stunned evil zone
right something like that yeah that's how i first heard of him yeah
yeah arrow is a strong character. Another sword-based fighter.
The sword doesn't come into play too often.
The thing that actually sticks out most about Errol
is her laser special attack
It's one of the best lasers
There are a couple different types like, types of special attacks.
There's standard projectiles, there's projectiles with higher priority
and then there's lasers.
The lasers usually tend to be on the better side
but they usually have a lot of end-like arrows for whatever reason doesn't
so it makes it very very scary uh but
kayla kind of just shutting it all down with his own
very powerful specials like i said the laser you're talking about is that
that red one uh it's like a blue laser that'll come up from
not sure but kane is actually going with a very different set It's like a blue laser that'll come up from the ground and go up.
But Kayn is actually going with a very different style of trying to throw out
a lot of stuns, because their stun is also very decent as well
it's the little white projectile that will come out
Yeah, it's like a standard fireball, but it doesn't have
a lot of end lag either.
Errol is also known for her snowball potential
because she has one of the best EX moves
in the entire game.
Fully invincible charge across the screen.
Oh! KV was able to finish that stun and it didn't even hit him. invincible charge across the screen oh okay
oh and then a little bit of nerves coming out not getting the full punish
there off the stun finally gets to grab that there but still all that pressure
did do a chunk of damage to caveman it might not have
been optimal but he's still on the bad foot here uh-oh gets the knockdown oh doesn't punish with
the grab they're off at the Okay, I see that stun now.
Oh, and it's coming down to the wire here.
Another grab for Caveman into
the stun. This should be eight if a grab connects.
And we are coming down to the final round
here in game number three.
Is this the third game? No, I don't think last one did.
Yeah it is right now one game for Kame and one game
for Caveman and the winner of this is going to have the advantage in
the set it is best uh three out of five so first
to get two three wins will be the winner of the set a critical
game three oh yeah you never want to go down in the set.
Ideally you just want to win 3-0,
you know?
Absolutely.
We're getting fantastic zone gameplay
here and I couldn't be happier.
Would you say that the evil zoners at GDQ
are the best
Evil Zone players
in the world?
Oh,
I would say so,
yeah.
That's pretty cool.
think of...
We have scoured
the lands
to try and find
combo videos, technique
videos, any online place where people are talking about this game. And ultimately
it keeps going back to our community, our tournaments that we run
There we go Caveman sealing another game i don't think the arrow was a
terrible pick necessarily but you know cave man is a strong competitor he has won many games
many tournaments leading up to this point right here so staring at each other giving each
other a little stare down kane's thinking about it
yeah i don't think this is a bad choice necessarily a couple of things going
differently and he could have went his way.
We haven't even seen all of Errol's kit yet either.
Oh, but immediately we saw the red
sigil giving him that Saka-Megir
comboing to stun, then using
the super for a half health combo. This is what makes
Kay such a scary tournament
Character. Oh, gets a counter stun
Runs up into the grab
And I think Kay might be able to
Stabilize here, yes
You cannot mess with that move Whoa I think Kayn might be able to stabilize here, yes. Whoa!
You cannot mess with that move.
That is what makes Carol so scary as a comeback character.
If she has meter, she could say,
I don't know what else to do,
I'm going to go invincible instead.
That was an absurd-looking attack.
You cannot mess with it. it is fully invincible and has
essentially zero end lag so you can't punish it if arrow wants to stall the game out with
that move she can it does cost meters so she can't do it indefinitely but uh it's really
scary to go up against you probably just have to block it out and eat the
chicken. Oh, and that stun might
do it for round number one here.
And one to Caveman. Kane's gonna
have to change something up if he does not want to see
the loser's bracket this soon.
And Caveman's on match point right now.
Oh, yeah.
Fantastic gameplay so far.
I could not be happier with the showcase.
Oh, and yeah, that move from K is also...
As we have discovered this week
one of the strongest projectiles in the game.
It comes out very quickly it catches sidesteps
has very little end lag
The only downside is it only catches a very specific range
but Kayvon's gotten so good at playing in that mid-range,
playing to the very edge of that special attack.
He's so good with that sigil too.
Yeah.
One of the things that I also like about Caveman's gameplay...
Wow, getting the donut grab there.
Incredible.
The thing that I like about him is he's not afraid to do jumping attacks
because it's one of the options
we've considered kind of bad a little bit laggy maybe a little telegraph
but if you time it right you can jump over somebody's uh
projectile oh i think that's gonna do it yeah i think that is going to be it
i don't want to call it too soon there it is!
Well played, gentlemen. Killing with the super, Caveman moves on
to the Grand Finals attempting to win his own tournament yet again
. own tournament yet again
i think we have over 10 tournament wins under your belt caveman
embrace me he says oh you love to see camaraderie amongst the playstation nation
all right so we're gonna have alimra versus kane coming up here yeah and while they're getting set
up argic how are you feeling about these matches so far
absolutely loving it it's been amazing hi hi how are you doing
so much fun i look straight ahead in your right there yeah lovely it's amazing like
seeing these games in the command like, you're saying it's a
GTQ staple, it absolutely is because I'm hearing over the pond but we've got some love in the
donations here as well.
Oh please let's hear it.
We have a $50 donation from Dan Ziver, the ultimate hero that says good evening
this is Kaya. I have an interesting
letter that says a group of gamers
are gathering donations for Doctors
Without Borders and would like my
advice. Well, Doctors Without Borders is a fine charity
so I recommend that everyone in the audience
donate $5
Yeah let's hear it for our five dollar train
maybe we can get those going absolutely
and then you were mentioning about community as well we have a ten dollar
donation here from paul katsuni that says
as the gm who gave this game out at cuso grande
8 i'm so happy to see people who actually know how
to play a fighting game with the single attack button and all
the anime. Shoutouts to Cusagrande.
If there's one thing that I've learned coming to GDQs you can always like
There are no group of people that are more knowledgeable
about obscure random
PS1 and Nintendo games from the 90s
Oh of course. Speaking of
I think our competitors are ready to get into that wonderful match let's go
we have a limra versus kane here in the losers finals
you're ready to go oh yeah all right right it, see Ihadoka versus Setsuna
two of the most powerful characters in
the game going up against each other
like we said earlier
Ihadoka is the boss character
this game so she does a ton of damage on a lot of her special moves IHADOKA IS THE BOSS CHARACTER IN THIS GAME, SO SHE DOES A TON OF DAMAGE ON A LOT OF HER SPECIAL MOVES.
THAT THROW WAS SO RIDICULOUS!
Her special moves also have very high priority.
For example if you ever see the orange fireball come out from Ihadadoka that move you cannot mess with it it has
infinite priority it beats every other special in the game
uh the main downside of iha doka however she is the boss character
she's rather clunky rather slow. She does a lot of damage
but she can struggle to get in sometimes
if you zone her out.
Oh and then we see another thing happening
there. This is crazy. Setsuna, one of the
few characters to actually low profile during certain animations.
Oh that's so cool!
When she does her sword attack
She kinda pancakes into the ground and can go under other special attacks
Yeah it's one of those things that makes Setsuna such a tricky character
To really pain down.
And Kane kind of has Elimera on their last rope right here in this first round.
Oh, the counter-grab next knockdown is going to do it, yeah.
One thing that is important to note about this game in
order to actually eliminate the player for the round you have to knock them
down there is no individual hit that will lead their hp to zero they
their back has to hit the floor i had no idea okay hence being called knocked out okay yep the knockdown has to hit the floor. I had no idea. Okay, hence it being called knockdown.
The knockdown has to be a part of it. Oh, tech
in the grab! Like I said, it is such a tight window
to hit. These players are prepared
to give it like the best
showing so far.
Oh,
the jab-jab grab, but the countergrab
showing that it's not a real combo. There are
options against it. Also...
Okay, I can't...
How do you say her name? Ihoka i was just called her ball girl
oh yeah a lot of balls oh yeah wait her balls are very very powerful what one thing i can't
what did i say one thing i kick it over with her is like when she gets up,
she just turns invisible.
Yes that is one of the things that is trickier about
Ehadoka and Kakarine as well.
The mystical ghost spirit girls of the game.
Their animations are very tricky because they're meant to in the lore of the game. Their animations are very tricky because they're meant
to, in the lore of the game
Ihadoka is a being that exists in multiple
dimensions at once. There are the balls coming out right there
I wasn't lying! They're very powerful
Yes, I learned that the hard way.
Yeah, no.
Staring down Iya Hadouka and her powerful balls
it is a sight you do not face lightly here in the Evil Zone
teching out of every grab!
Oh my god, Pain is gaming right now. That's a lot of two-frame
windows to hit right there in the high frame
situation. Yeah and it's not like you know
speedrunning when you have a two-frame trick coming up. It's like
okay I can prepare myself. This is a fighting
game. You are playing against another player who is trying to
defeat you so you just have to be ready for it and i think those reactions are amazing oh there's the
balls yeah they're very high priority they beat almost every projectile in the game.
Oh, I do like that flying dive attack as well from Ehidoka.
It's kind of her one way to say
I'm a slow character but I can get in with this one attack.
It's little telegraphed i would say but
you know it's still very powerful if it hits
and that essentially like behind the other player too is that right
oh yeah and if it hits it also essentially gives you a free counter
hit regardless of what the player is doing.
The balls are powerful, I'm telling you!
Oh and yep it goes for the powered up EX
It does a little bit of chip damage so
even if it just does the chip damage that could end up mattering
Oh cancels the long-string grab
because of the projectiles.
Cicero has
two bars of center.
And the grab is gonna do it!
Game one goes to Elimra.
Again, this is another best of five first-to-three here at
the losers' finals.
We might see a character change or nope they're running it back i like to see
it these are again two of the best characters in the game so i don't think you're gonna find
a better character on the character select screen than these three.
And clearly they both, it was working for both of them.
Those are three consecutive very close rounds.
Oh yeah, I mean sometimes it just comes down to conditioning.
This is a game like I said that is very well balanced so it's just the difference between
mixing up your approaches, mixing up your pressure
knowing when to
have a hard read on your opponent
and really try and punish it. If I think
you're just going to stand there and block my pressure, well a grab is gonna
open you up! Absolutely. If I think you're gonna start mashing
I can sidestep those mash attempts
into a projectile of my own
There's a lot of depth in a game like this
And would you say that any matchups are that are just like nigh unwinnable
or really bad if even at this level uh at the top level no i think most characters are pretty well
balanced there's a couple of the lower end characters or a couple of the funkier matchups
that we think are kind of rough. Dan Zyver, unfortunately
we're not seeing him here. He is a fan favorite.
He's got the space laser and everybody loves him.
He is one of the characters that I think has some of the
more polarizing matchups in the game.
He's able to shut down some of the lower tier characters pretty hard
whoa and then the stun into super is going to do a ton of damage he had okay he's gonna get
eight stock of meter because that is another thing that does happen if your HP goes low enough
nice that's just like you're punish right there yeah a little bit 100
but yeah if you have a stock of meters so essentially uh the yellow that comes in from
their health bar that's them charging their meter.
If their health goes below the yellow part of the bar,
they'll just get
the stock of meters.
Oh, okay.
I always thought that
there was the meter breaking
or something like that
but that makes a lot more sense.
Oh yeah.
No, it gives you the stock of meter
so this game is actually kind of has a built in
comeback mechanic in that way where if your health
is lower, you charge meter faster up to
the point where you actually get a full stock of meter
to play with and those supers do
so much damage, it's one of the most
damaging ways to punish your opponent oh
yeah very cinematic angles here
oh my goodness
yeah some of these grabs are some of the
most ridiculous animations i've ever seen.
Yeah, we were talking about it in the practice room.
They really wanted to show love to the 3D animation available on the PlayStation.
It's a beautiful game, in my opinion. One of the most beautiful on the PlayStation. It's a beautiful game, in my opinion.
One of the most beautiful on the PlayStation.
Look at this cinematic, everybody.
Wow. Okay.
And Kane here trying to find the answer, take a game of his own.
These matches are going by real fast too.
Yeah they are.
Evil zone you might think there might notice uh there's no timer
like couldn't she just run away forever well because every character has full screen grabs
and projectiles it gets really scary they're both fully invincible for a while but then kane doesn't
want that interaction the chip isn't going to do enough
it needs to be knocked down the grab puts them both down to one hit the first knockdown will
do last hit oh he blocks in time oh and this is gonna be game three Oh!
And this is going to be game three here.
So it looks like that projectile has more priority? Oh yeah, the little yellow fireball
It's one of the best projectiles in the game
The only things that can beat it
is cinematics specials,
and you have to sidestep in order to even do that.
Setsuna does have a cinematic special with her
sword attack, so if the sword hits,
it'll go into an animation, and like overrides a lot of things.
Oh, and wow!
Gets the knockdown into the wake up in to grab.
An exclamation there from Kane
was not happy about that I don't think.
I mean, it was a very frustrating situation to be in.
You felt like you were in the driver's seat.
You get hit by the balls, your grab gets cancelled and then
you get counter grabbed!
That is a big swing in damage. can we get a balls donation train i would
love to hear how the people at home are feeling about e hadoka's balls and how powerful they are
i mean that's gonna come in it should be fun to read off.
But we have a $50 donation from MyHeroZero that says EVILZONE LET'S GOOOO!
Let's gooo!
Glad you hear the people at home are loving this gameplay
And it is coming down to The Wire yet again
This is possibly going to do it maybe say jam will it
kill no just barely not enough oh and there's the knockdown.
You'll love to see it.
Fist pump from Kane.
He's feeling it.
He has evened out the score.
While you're getting set up for the next round here,
we do have people coming in here.
We've got a $20 donation from BlueBullComments that says
I've been playing Evil Zone since I was wee and seeing it played on the main stage at SGDQ
And hearing the music brought back so many great memories! All the best to these brave fighters and lots of love from
scotland nice love to hear it i'd love to hear arctic reading that too oh yeah
it's actually argic self-inserting into the donations right there,
yeah?
He's shaking his head at us.
All right so here we are game three and once again a critical
game three both players on with the
game apiece. Yeah I mean there are still you know two minimum games
to work with here but you don't want to let it get that far. With both having
a match under their belt,
Both players are going to want to seal it out as soon as possible here.
Because this is the most fierce competition I will say
in the 10 years I have been watching people play this game
Nearly ten years of Evil Zone,
This is the highest level of gameplay we have ever seen.
And something I will note
this was the biggest tournament
ever at a GDQ, right?
We had the most sign-ups, at least as far
as we can confirm.
This was the largest tournament in GDQ history
and is all coming down to this showcased on the mainstream.
You'll love to see it.
Yet another cinematic grab here very anime
and i've noticed that depending on where the players are in
the stage for the same you know animation they'll have different camera
angles oh yeah this game has a dynamic camera for the same animation, they'll have different camera angles.
Oh yeah, this game has a dynamic camera system.
It's one of the things that makes
some of the most hyped moments in JV history.
Just like that!
Low profiling under the fireball,
able to get a counterstun.
Wow!
Tapping out of the grab.
Oh my god, Kane came to play.
Kane is cooking right now.
Oh sidesteps the raw super gets a
countergrab, gets it charged with
little bit of meter.
It's one of things that makes grabs so potent
in this game is while other characters
knock down you can charge meter and set up pressure
and get another knockdown!
And Kayn with a quick match right there
Yeah that was probably one of the most dominant matches
we've seen I think period so far.
Oh yeah you love to see it.
And okay character change it is!
How are people feeling at home so far?
People are absolutely loving that we have a five
dollar donation from kisa says here are the five dollar bills that kaia uses for his super bring
that of course towards the legend of the ocarina of Time bonus game, 34,000
on that one. Please keep your donations
coming in for it and the love for Evilzone
as well. I'm so happy to
see so much love for this game
and I would love to see that love extended into the bonus game for Ocarina of Time.
I want to see that personally, but for now we do have yet
the next match here at Evil Zone losers finals.
This is nearly all the marbles, you know?
If you want to make it close
to yeah if you want to
make the run back to
caveman sitting pretty
in grand finals,
you're going to have
to win this match here
and Kane is looking
quite poised to do so
but so far this round's not necessarily going his way.
He does have one stock of meter
and close to a second stock as well.
Oh! The counter stun!
They both go back to neutral.
Sword attack splits!
That probably might not have been the best play!
Oh, but the sigil...
Yeah that's gonna be a knockdown.
Alright another Kea pick and it's working here.
I really do like the development of Kea recently
A character we knew was strong but not a lot of people picked him up
But now we're seeing him nearly at the highest level of gameplay that's something i wanted to ask
you about you mentioned earlier you didn't know how powerful he was like he almost had
like tilled this tournament yeah uh there's just not been a lot of uh very high-level players
that have messed around with Kea.
I think Caveman having a pocket Kea has kind of helped develop the meta
we kinda sat down and was like, okay
We know Kea is strong but how strong is he?
But then once you realize his game plan really was
mid-range zoning, very powerful projectiles
Using the priority to his advantage
Like, we were seeing that he
Really is a tournament threat
Our mental tier list of this game
Is like changing in real time.
That's so fascinating that even after all this time,
the meta is still developing and you're still finding out new things about these characters
that you've been playing with in this niche little game for such a long time.
I think it just comes down to how well balanced and well designed
this game is, you know? You hear
fighting game with two buttons, you think oh it's probably
going to get solved in like 2 seconds. No!
I did not expect the complex game when I sat down
and then here we are. Oh yeah, oh! And then cancels out
of the grab animation with a projectile still flying
through the air. The fact that every character
has projectiles at range and grabs
at range really changes the combat
dynamic so much in this game. Alright, we're going
to the third round here
Olimra trying to push a Game 5
Otherwise, this might be Olimra's
tournament life here
Kane on match point
He's been feeling it the whole Horniman life here. Kane on match point.
He's been feeling it the whole set.
See if he can lock in here.
Oh, yeah.
I love to see some good evil zone neutral here.
Yep.
Full screen backing away from each other like no we have projectiles quite that way
or we can get in close grapple style
Get the grabs going
I just love how the game plays
at such dynamic ranges
Going in and out, in and out
sidesteps jumps jumps, grabs.
You really are never safe.
Oh yeah, like it's a game where you can feel pressure
at all levels of the screen,
anywhere on the screen, at any moment.
And they're matching each other blow for blow here.
Yeah, health-wise this is as even as it gets nearer than half super meter oh careful out of the grab yet again
oh this is a pressure string but the counter grab gets the knockdown there like
dead even in health.
Gets the grab, one stock of meter for Sitsuna.
Oh, but the sigil!
Not enough, one more knockdown will do it
but he does have Super available.
One stun into Super will definitely do it,
It's anyone's game but the one in neutral!
Game five!
Wow.
I could not have asked for a better showcase.
That was awesome!
Now that we've got ourselves a massive $500 donation from TMS Lift,
this is what a week it's been already!
Good luck, Kane.
Ooh!
Getting some loving from the players here as well.
All right.
Oh, Alimra taking off the jacket.
Here we go.
It's hot up on the stage.
It really does when you're gaming this hard.
Alright, and here
we go. Game five. A switch
to... Is it Errol? Yep, we have Errol
again.
Errol versus Kaeya! This is a matchup that I think
is really underdeveloped like this might
be the handbook that we
go back to try and figure out how this matchup
supposed to play. History being written right in front of us, huh?
Two lesser-played characters
but being played at the highest level here.
This is never before seen anywhere
in the world as high-level gameplay.
I mean, I'm having so much fun and this
is like kind of like my first time to speak i can only imagine as somebody
that has been running these tournaments and like
playing this game for such a long time how does this feel for you
how cool i mean i am glowing right now.
I am so happy.
I've been nonstop smiling
since I've been sitting
on this couch.
This tournament alone,
even like a backstage
in the tournament room,
we were seeing brand new
interactions happening.
I mean,
it being the largest tournament we've ever run
and being the largest tournament ever at a GDQ
like... It just goes to show how much
we are able to get people together
for having fun
enjoying the community getting getting together for a good cause.
It's one of the things that makes GDQ such
a special time of year for us gamers
and we love to see it.
A lot
of zoning in this game. Honestly, that's a tough
game to play I feel like.
Oh! The laser is barely not getting out in time
It's one of the things that makes the laser
very powerful up close but at that range
it doesn't necessarily have the speed to compete with certain specials.
Yeah, looked like a limerick
was on his back. Oh yeah.
Oh, but doesn't block every single hit!
Whoa! One of the things that makes
Arrow so scary that ex spinning uh spin to win as we like
to call it yes you cannot mess with that move it has a ton of different hits it has a bunch
of priority it's invincible the whole time it can true combo into her laser for
big, big damage. It's honestly
a winning strategy that has
seen play from Maikoyama of all people
it's one of the things that defined his
tournament run and his winning tournament
in, I believe it was AGDQ 2019?
I might be wrong on that.
It was one of those.
Also how cool that y'all have so much history with this.
Oh, I mean a lot of GDQs.
That's a lot of GDQs over nine years yeah we've been running so many
of these events and i'm so happy to finally showcase it on the mainstream for you lovely
people i'd be very interested to hear how the people are feeling at home
people are absolutely loving it how are people are feeling at home. People are absolutely loving it. How are
people feeling in the crowd?
Yeah, it is live here we're gonna five-throw a donation from Zone Bridget that says
oh my god I used to play the heck out of Evilzone,
I just didn't recognize the name at all.
This was an absolute blast in the past and a ton of fun to watch.
Oh that grab might be the swing
that Kane needs in life
because at this point
if Kane gets one more knockdown
that's going to be the set.
Let's see if Olimara can get a knockdown here
goes for the EX. Those EXs
are invincible. I think that's going to be
not enough for the knockdown.
I can't believe it.
Oh, and the laser is going to do a chunk of damage.
Tries to jump in.. Oh, combo into grab!
And it is coming down
to the final match here
Game 5 last round
and a trip to Grand Finals on the line.
I cannot emphasize this enough.
Olimar picked up this game this week
and is playing at
the highest of levels.
This is incredible, I could not be happier.
Another sigil here.
And the drama as it comes down to this last round.
Oh yeah.
I can just feel the tension. Yeah, neither player wants
to necessarily overcommit commit here kind of slowing down
the gameplay really trying to feel each other out oh but this is done counters the full screen grab
it's one of things that makes full-screen grab not necessarily like as overwhelming as you might
think is like you are vulnerable to projectiles when it's in the air
whoa get the combo into super the sun combos
shout out to peanut butter shut up baseball and yet another full screen grab Shut up, baseball. Shut up, Kentucky.
And yet another full screen grab.
The pressure is overwhelming here.
It's not going to be enough.
Olimara takes off his headset.
You're still in it, Olimara.
You've just got to believe believe this is a game where
comebacks are more than possible
being able to charge meter when your HP is low
does give you the advantage
It does require
a knockdown
but he's coming down to the wire a little bit
chip damage straight hits aren't going to do it jump in so i was gonna hit into the combo backs
off says i don't want to put myself in a risky situation with a mix-up
I'm not ready for.
Oh!
He's dodging so much into the sun.
Into the grab!
It's not over!
Eliminer just took off the headset to feel The crowd and how they're feeling about this match
As it comes down
To the wire
Just a straight hit
And a knockdown
The move you talk so much about
It's a very powerful move, wow!
Oh and a big ovation here from the crowd for Kane who just flushes that out
What a wonderful performance by Lin-Manuel.
I have seen so much Evil Zone in my life.
That is the most electric set
I have ever seen, legitimately.
That is awesome.
Coming from a legend of the game
as well as a newcomer.
First event making it all the way to top three let's
all hear for a win standing ovation from the backcatch how about that well done to both of you
but the tournament's not over.
We do have Grand Finals after this.
I feel like I hear Jaws music right now.
Versus The Electric...
...the many-, many time winner
of many evil zones.
Caveman.
Really?
Truly?
The final boss. Spoo me he says!
Truly the final boss of Evil Zone
You may think it's IhaDoka being able to consist in multiple dimensions at once
you know this spiel
Oh man.
All roads lead to Cape Man I guess.
What do I even say? Argic, help me.
We've got a $50 donation from
Garin that says, I love Evil Zone!
I grew up with the game first from a very limited demo disc, then the full game.
And had never heard of anyone knowing about it until I heard all about it from AGDQ this year.
So hyped to see it showcased on the big stage,
Zerotaku! And then we also
have a $25 donation from Anonymous that
just says, wait... what da heck?
Now that I'm looking at it,
I played so much Evilzone as a kid with my brothers!
This is unlocking so many memories.
Everybody is loving this,
It is phenomenal right now.
And we have a $25 donation from Jam SSS.
You guys are doing amazing! Here are five tickets
for that $5 donation train.
Awesome. Love to hear it,
and as we get into our finals
we are seeing a change of location
here,
as is tradition in Evil Zone tournaments.
Are we going?
We're changing the stage to The Evil Zone.
All right!
Once these competitors are ready they'll'll go ahead and lock in their characters.
And we are getting ready for grand finals here at SGDQ 2024.
Crowd, how are you feeling?
I'm so happy to see such an electric turnout here at SGDQ 2024.
I could not be happier, as I've said many times
I am non-stop smiling seeing the highest level of gameplay here
and oh man,
the music is kicking in.
Let's go.
And so to be clear,
Kane has to win two sets.
That is correct.
Yes, this is a double elimination bracket here.
So once you've lost one set, you go into the lower
bracket and since Caveman hasn't lost a
set yet, if for example
Kane takes the first set, Caveman would then
go into the lower bracket and then they would rerun the
set and then whoever wins that set
would be the grand champion here.
Oh, another dunk canceling out a four-power,
but Masha's open.
So good at mashing out of that.
Oh yeah, I mean,
they're pulling out all the stops here,
and this has been
a pretty slow grinding match so far they're both going blow
for blow a little bit of pressure set up here off the grab charges up some meter tries to go
for the raw super but get powered with the stun. Is this going to do it?
I feel like it should, right?
Yet another knockout off of Super.
Wow!
It's been working for him the whole tournament.
I mean,
it is probably
the most damaging punish
in the game.
It's one of those things that you fish for
when you need to make a comeback.
It's one of the things that makes the comeback mechanic
of getting super earlier with lower health
so powerful, and another tech!
But jumping over with Midori's Jat Kick,1k3 is what makes her such an aggressive character
that Jypk1k3 is very, very powerful.
Yeah you can definitely tell the playstyle
that Caveman likes in Midori just rushing down
running full screen saying You have to deal with my moves one way or another.
And I feel like two sets versus arguably the greatest in the game is a tough ask right?
But I'm wondering if the momentum coming off that emphatic game five win
can propel Kane to victory here.
So far,
I mean it's looking good.
Uh,
Kane did take the first match so far and like,
you know,
the HP is still even.
There's a stock of meter for Setsuna one stun into super could do it.
Oh yeah we're seeing this spinning move from Setsuna
another very powerful pressure moves that she has to stun and the super i'm gonna do it wow game
one going to kane here unless i'm lying i am not lying
no lies detected game one goes over to Kane again, coming from the
Beautiful grand final so far. Coming from the loser's bracket
I made a big mistake!
God, I love this game.
How are the people at home feeling about the game so far?
They're loving it as well. We got a $50 donation from Thoragate that says
Always loved seeing some fighting games being represented
at SGDQ. Especially
the weird and wild ones
And we also have a $25 donation
from Demi that says, love learning about this
little fighting game and this corner of GDQ's live
events. Now let's get Ocarina
of Time, and a quick update on that
we are almost at 38,000
out of the 100,000 for that
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for evil zone grand finals game number two
and i can't believe it caveman switching switching to Ball Girl. Oh yeah, Ehidoka
considered one or two
in the tier list. Being a boss character
obviously has its advantages so
oh! A very powerful setup there with the dive
in but doesn't quite get the conversion oh but the grab misses
getting a counter grab of his own it's one of the things that makes this like weird mid-range
uh kind of difficult to deal with because if you're like one character length over,
it's a full screen grab. You get the red circle on the ground
but if your one step forward,
It's like a manual grab that requires
that you actually connect with the opponent
so when you are playing at that range
its kinda like a game of chicken where you are that you actually connect with the opponent. So when you're playing at that range,
it's kind of like a game of chicken
where you're like, okay,
is my opponent going to throw out a special?
Am I going to throw out a special?
Oh, and yet another stun into super.
It really is the story
of this grand final so far,
stunned into Super for big damage
and that was enough to knock down No Way!
And has Stunned Into Super been every single one
of his round wins so far?
So far I mean it is the most damaging punish
and Setsuna has
one of the most powerful stuns in the game. Comes out
super fast, doesn't have a ton of end lag
It's just like an all-round very
powerful move. And so the switch to Balco
from Caveman does it look like... Do you think he's trying to play something in the matchup?
Or what do you think preempted this?
I think it might just be that Midori is
his comfort pick. He's always going to feel out
his opponent with Midori because he knows Midori
so well. But he knows that Ehha Doka is the better character.
And he has a very powerful Iha Doka
This Iha Doka has won many tournaments
Probably the pioneer of
characters sitting in that chair right there being Caveman
So nobody knows this character better than him
as a connoisseur of the game.
Uh-oh, getting a little bit mixed up
with his movement there but decides you know what?
I got to stun,
I'm just gonna take the grab for damage.
The one downside we'll say about Ehidoka
is her stunt projectile is the one that i will say about ihidoka is her stun projectile
it's the one that shoots uh forward and then up in a like 45 degree angle
that 45-degree angle one will always come out so if you land
the first gun there we go nice knock down love to see it so if you land the first stun. Wow, here we go. Nice knockdown, love to see it.
So if you land
the first stun
it can oftentimes combo
into the second stun
that's at a 45 degree angle
which will knock them down
and then you can't
combo into super.
So getting the super
with Iha Doka
is a lot harder
but she has generally higher damage on her specials So getting the super with IhaDoka is a lot harder,
but she has generally higher damage on her specials and better zoning ability.
And obviously as we've seen the balls...
Oh! But the ball's actually getting cancelled out by the stun there.
I didn't think they came out fast enough.
Oh, but the ranged grab is going to do a
lot of damage and i guess my next question especially since i'm seeing such abusive caveman
does satsuna have any sort of answer for that big orange projectile?
That's the thing, is that is what makes IhaDoka such a formidable character.
Is that projectile is very powerful.
You kind of can't answer it outside of just sidestepping it really, or making a distance and blocking it.
Uh-oh!
And the OTG!
Very very rare on the ground hit.
It doesn't happen in this game very often
but Caveman's seen so many of this
game's possible game states and knows
exactly what to do there to finish
out that round. A lovely round finisher.
For another character change?
All right, we're getting another swap.
How interesting.
Should be here from the people back home?
Let's hear from the people
back home how they're feeling.
People at home,
we got a $10 donation
from Tempestmask1000 says
I must say Evil Zone truly was the best thing to discover at AGDQ of this year.
So much though that I had to make time for it coming back to SGDQ.
Props to the event for doing a first-of of its kind and showing such a tournament showcase
on the main stage bless all the evil zone homies now and forever until the next battle
you'll love to hear it all right and it looks like we got double balls here
this is uh something that i don't i wasn't aware that kane had any hidoka
but maybe it might be just one of those moments
like well, I know how to play the game.
I know how Ehedoka works.
She's very powerful so I'm going
to take advantage of her powerful tools as well
So that way I don't have to feel
there is a character imbalance it just comes
down to head-to-head gameplay can i outplay the uh the types of plays that you were doing in front
of me how many how many of these tournaments have been decided in a ball go mirror here at the end?
Oh man, not very many to be honest. Usually mirror matches don't happen at the top end because you don't really like to hear your match
most time in fighting games.
Yeah, because certain interactions
that you're expecting versus other characters
don't necessarily happen.
It also just comes down to people
really are character loyalists most of the the time in this game i can understand
why in a game like this when you find the character that really does speak to you
you want to just showcase everything that they have to offer but
when you're going up against the final boss caveman who says,
You know what character loyalty I don't need that.
I'm trying to win.
I'm gonna pick the best character that is available to me
and we are seeing it here with already a little bit of an advantage
for Caveman here.
Yeah, taking the first round and already another
on-the-ground situation charges some meter says
I don't need to mess with those balls
I'm keeping them away from me
doesn't get the hit after the stun there in the air.
Oh, and the double fireball. They're full screen
but they can still pressure each other.
Oh, that's what I'm talking about. The stun hit
but it comboed into the other hit of the stun
which knocks him down. They don't get full punish but uh right here we're seeing yet
another punish from kane wait there's another different
camera angle for this move that is so cool oh yeah the dynamic
camera angles do make this game so cinematic, so cool.
Wow.
The sidestep into...
Oh!
That is a really damaging special.
Yeah.
I've seen that special so many times and it still shocks me
how much damage it does.
I got ruined by that move.
Oh yeah. This is definitely everyone's like day one pick
when they're playing this game when you tell them yeah this is the boss character
she does a ton of damage everyone's like okay i'm picking her yeah yeah it also
i cannot relate to those people oh wow it does help that she's also very very stylish
i mean look at these camera angles look at these moves who doesn't love the balls everyone loves
still waiting on that ball donation train by the way
oh and that's going to do it for the game here!
Wow, that was fast.
I feel like that just kind of came out
of nowhere.
And so Caveman is going to go to tournament point. Oh, yeah! I mean unless something changes,
Kane is looking at a possible elimination here but choosing
to go back to Setsuna.
I mean it's what was working for him so I understand that right?
This may be the possible final
game of the tournament. Let's hear
one last time from the people back home how
are they feeling? Well we we got a $50 donation
from Kassarashi that says just had to donate
for the Ocarina of Time run. I love
that game with my whole heart and loving
The Evil Zone addition
to GDQ. Might pick it up myself.
And then we have a $25
donation from Anonymous that says
amazing gameplay, amazing commentary
and hosting. Evil Zone, hi!
Hi.
And the donation goes to Host Choice, which of course is to our Ocarina of Time Nintendo.
39 thousand everybody! It's going up keep it going and get hyped for these finals all right and as we say that yeah takes the knock
one more knockdown and that is going to be the end of this tournament and caveman would be the 50 most millionth win
of his career at this point oh man kane's got a lock in here look i'm not supposed
to be biased on commentary but i want kane to win so bad
who doesn't who doesn't want the evil zone tournament to continue here right well not only
that i don't want caveman he's had enough wins in his career i'm just joking i love
both of these players i wish they could both win but at the end
of the day this is a competition and we are
the ones winning getting this beautiful gameplay
here and you love to see that sword special
going into the cinematic, getting a little bit of charge
Oh knocks Ihidoku away with a single slash!
Tacks out of that grab! Wow, a bunch of
tacks! That could have been a ton of damage. This is
a huge reversal, just checking with the
singular jab projectile there.
Oh, but gets hit with a donut grab! That's to punish the sidesteps
It's beautiful that this
game has built in punishes for
people spamming sidestep, people spamming moves
like there is an ingame counter
for almost everything so nothing is too oppressive. And I love that
both players staying so aggressive. You're not seeing
a hint of fear on either side. Oh, but that's the stun!
Tries to combo into the boss, but it doesn't quite
connect! This is the fullscreen grab. Oh, but gets hit there!
There could be enough time situation jump in, but it's hit there! There could be a knockdown situation jump in
but then the mask comes through and that's it!
That's gonna do it.
He runs his own tournament and he wins it.
All jokes aside I want to say I am so happy
to have shown this off and I'm so proud of all
you for showing up for this event. Thank
you all for making it so special for us.
This is something that we've been wanting
to do for such a long time.
Thank you, Caveman
for finding this game
and being so passionate
about PlayStation Jank
and getting us
all here together
to play some fun video games.
We wouldn't be here without you and thank
you all yet again um do we want to do a winner ceremony real quick
all right let's get all of our competitors up on the stage please
let's hear it for all of our competitors here in the top four evil zone the first of its kind
a beautiful showcase if i do say so myself and i want to say if you thought this was cool yeah
come on over here. Come in!
Get in close if you want.
If you thought this was cool
if you had a good time
if you wanna join in yourself
come to a GDQ there are so many things to do outside of the stream room. I entered this
tournament for the first time, and it's going to go down as
one of my favorite parts of the whole event.
This really is going down in GDQ history.
The first-of-its-kind, a showcase of a tournament,
seeing something that isn't necessarily just
speedrunning but like a showcase
of a community that was built out
of the love of speedrunning, built out of the love of GDQ
finding a game that we could all come together for.
Aww! I want to see what that we can all come together for. Oh!
I want to see what this is.
Awesome, okay.
That's the runner-up prize
so the winner does get the signed glossy poster.
Congratulations, Jake man!
Alright let's hear it crowd! Let's hear it!
I couldn't be happier for the showcase, thank you Bri,
Thank you everybody at home.
Please keep donating,
I want to see this number go to the moon here
For support for MSF
I could not be happier and yet again
I just have no words for MSF. I could not be happier, and yet again,
I just have no words.
Just no words. I'm so happy. The excitement is brimming off you.
Thank you so much for having me, man. Yeah, thank you all so much. This has been Evil Zone.
Thank you, GDQ.
Woo! so so. so. so so. so so.
. so so Thank you.. All righty folks, welcome back to the Games Done Quick channel.
If you've been watching the recap... well recaps? The sort of reruns of SGDQ then welcome! This might be a bit of a surprise but, then welcome.
This might be a bit
of a surprise but
this is Hotfix.
These are shows that
we put in between
our mainline events
Awesome Games Done Quick
and Summer Games Done Quick
either regular scheduling
so shows that you know
you'll see reoccurring or one offs we have got some lovely one-offs coming up
this weekend but before that
we've got going placesaces. This is a
I usually describe it as a speedrun
travel show where we get to see
a whole load of games from
across the speedrun
landscape, I call it.
So basically the long and short of that is games on handheld consoles
as well as games that are region exclusive
And we've kind of kicked off this series kind of keeping a loose theme of mascot playstation
games so we started off with crash and crush inspiring that's what the guy is called.
And we saw
the regional differences when it comes to
how they were released in
the East, in Japan.
And today we've got things a little bit different,
We're going to be seeing a little later on...
It finally turned on, but
we are gonna be seeing Daxter for the PlayStation Portable.
Majora's is going to be taking us through all missions
uh but before that we've got some playstation heritage um i eventually got a copy of
the game here myself um i have had the honor of delving into this game,
and we are having the honor
of some of the top runners
of possibly the best kart racer ever conceived.
Monster Racer, we have got
three monstrous racers with us
and hopefully we are
in for an absolute treat before we do
get into it. We were going to be having
a fourth racer that was the Rixxar
but health was
a little not on his side so we're wishing
him the best
in recovery and
yeah I'm joined by Ash I'm joined by Thrasher and I'm joined by Ash.
I'm joined by Thrasher
and I'm joined
by Derek Lander
who's going to be
showing off this game.
Gamers, how are you doing?
Doing great.
How about yourself?
Yeah,
I'm doing well.
I am looking forward to seeing some
elite
high-tier esports
Monster Racer action.
I'm sure you'd say that it's on that caliber oh absolutely this game is one of a kind
there's just nothing like it and i mean that in the best way possible
so uh yeah i'm very very excited to get into it awesome any other
introductions from the runners or are you gonna let the game and do talking hi I'm very shy
yeah
I think we can honestly just like
pretty much like go over
uh like
the run
and the game
and our history
with it
while we're playing
you know
I think
we can do that
awesome
that sounds good
well we already were Awesome, that sounds good.
Well we are ready when you are as a heads up for everybody who's watching
We're going to be trying our best
to track the in-game time
That is the primary timing method.
It's a PlayStation game, so loads vary between emulator
between if you run it on PlayStation 1 or if you run
out on any of the different versions of PlayStation 2.
So I am going to try my best to try and keep on top
of this so that we can bring a accurate display of skill from across these uh
across the different platforms that we've got going on today. But are the runners ready?
Ready.
Awesome.
I assume you're on the right screen,
so I'm gonna give a three-two-one and we'll go all right all righty three two one go all right good luck
good luck of luck all right so before we get into the history and kind of like
what makes this game so crazy and how it kind of got up to
now a hot fix at this point uh Let's go over the basic gameplay mechanics.
This is a PAL
PS1 current racer made
by Mickroids, and
Mickroids back in the day, they were kind of
unknown at the time, uh this is kind of one of their first
games and as such it's a bit janky um basically we're gonna go through 10 tracks but then we're
going to have to go through 10 more tracks but in the reverse direction
because that's how you double the game length.
And starting
out here
we are all playing as Digo, and that's because
Digo is the best character in the game.
The game tries to tell you on the stats screen that Digo
is kind of average.
We'll talk about that in a second
but the game tries to tell you
that Dingo is very like an okay character
but on the hidden stats page,
because we had to do some in-depth research
into a game as high quality as this.
We found out that the game just lies.
It says his acceleration is like a four.
It's actually nearly a seven seven so he's the best character
so that's why we all play him and the two main things about this run is going to be
the urns and the boxes so in this game, you know games like Mario Kart how it's
like you can't get a star in first place? That game does that so other people
can catch up. Here that doesn't happen. like right there i just got a big urn
which is the best item in the game so with the bigger and um i can boost really pass
it like past these people really quick
and um it's just
obviously it's kind of just a game about
getting the urns and cycling item boxes
as much as possible so I mean I ratioed myself out of the first one with
a smaller but um yeah that's basically the game
it's just we're gonna to be cycling item boxes anytime
we get an item like a bear trap or tornado we're gonna try to place it in a way that doesn't hurt
us and then uh we're just gonna keep cycling item boxes and hopefully you can
hopefully get a uh urn i just got reverse controlled twice this
is ridiculous um that's another thing i should mention
this game has bad power-ups. So
in a game going back to Mario Kart, it's
all beneficial except for maybe
the coin but even then the coin helps.
Bigard!
Basically in this game there's two power-ups
that are negative towards you it's the reverse controls and via flash
bang the reverse controls it swaps your left
and right inputs for a few seconds.
The flashbang actually flash bangs you, like it's brutal.
So we'll probably be seeing some of those so...
Speaking of...
Can't jump on that ow do not play this in the dark room by the way
true and i just finished my first race 231.92 we're gonna wait here for a few seconds
make sure that we get this draw down because we're actually running with in-game time
even though this game like we're all trying to make it
where our emulators
and me on console
are synced up load-wise.
We're trying to make sure
that we can have a fair race.
So we're actually going to be competing for the endgame time and then we'll have a fair race. So, we're actually going to be
competing for the end game time
and then we'll have it
totaled up by the end of this.
Alrighty,
you are good to go Thrasher.
That was a 2-31
for you,
is that Derek?
Yeah. Cool. I didn't get a millisecond but uh eight six eight six six cool that is all the first ones going in um i'm in for a busy night oh absolutely
absolutely who knows let you know the rng could completely
tip to this game we can see gaps
you know yeah coming up between the runners but
speaking of rng i've been smiling five seconds
nice so yeah i know i mentioned negative effects when you run through an item box
but um there is a small ability which is it's kind of
like the lightning from mario kart i know i've mentioned that game like five times now and
except the only difference is there's no cap on how many times your opponents can get it
if a low chance but they can get it small you go really slow
big arm and it's just really bad.
Also, we're screaming big urn because big urn is like ridiculously fast
Like right there I got a small urn
so it refills my boost meter which
is on the bottom-right anytime you get a big urn it also fills it
up all the way but to like earn speed is nearly double so it's just ridiculous
it is that is something that is definitely worth shouting about um on. Thresh is going to bring the trouble.
Can I have a small smack? We're maybe going to see the rare
blow up. Yep, there we go.
That's insane.
Can I get a small smack roll of your good luck come on
do you want to explain that one derrick the blow up
yeah yeah so right now my digger character is kind of reddish. Because
this game is really funny
if you get too many big urns
not small ones because the small ones can't
do it but if you get a big urn into another
big urn and just hold the boost bun over time your character gets
redder and better and if he gets too red if it gets too i guess hot he just like spins out
and blows up so weird how much it takes because
you literally need like multiple
maybe you can pull the bigger one all
the way the whole time and just don't let go
I don't know why you'd be doing
that three turns and everything but like maybe that would be enough to make you go.
But yeah,
you need multiple in a row to get it.
Oh, Flash Bing!
Dang!
Ooh.
I have to have my last five things yet.
Yeah.
Another bad one's the Flashbang. The flashbang I swear is monitor dependent because on my old TV it was not that bad. On my new monitor... Goodness! My new monitor? Goodness! Oh, my new monitor.
It is pretty obvious I'm not having fun when I get flash banged.
Speaking of the flashbang, recently there's been some tech for that this is the so yeah there's some flashbang again. Oh, and speaking of the oh my gosh it's all happening
So yeah there is some
controversial tech in this game
even though you wouldn't expect
it people have found out that
when you get flashbanged if
you pause the game
and just wait it will
eventually run out.
And since we tied with in-game time
that's been the meta!
That is hilarious.
Which is really so it's hilarious which is really
so it's really funny just because
I mean they just didn't think anyone
would pause during the flashback
like animation, I guess
incredible
oh for goodness sakes.
Alright, so
let's talk about the elephant in the room.
I think I skipped it.
That's alright now.
That's alright.
Jesus, come on sorry not even playing by the rules
hey it's hard i got 337 yikes 337 on port is not good, I will admit.
This is a really good start for me.
I've gotten like five bigger,
and so I'm sure the battle is about to start.
Really? Okay.
I have been ratioed two to racism a little bit.
Hey, bigger! Right at the very end!
We're at the finish line and so much usage!
Yeah for sure. 34518
I really want to talk about the elephant in the room because
there is a potential that some people are watching
this and thinking okay
I get it, it's a Mimi game like how is it on the hoppets like how is it like here
and that's because this game's history is insane with how many runners we have
just cause you look at it and you go like, oh...
Sorry.
No ratio!
Oh no.
You look
at the game and you think like,
oh wow, this is kind of
meme-y, whatever.
But the history's insane
because what happened was
Ricky did a Monster Racer race.
Well, not a race. He did a
run on stream, sorry, where he
had like a few followers. He didn't have that
many but like he grew up with this
game somehow so he was like oh let me play it on stream
because this games like a goofball
and um he plays it
on stream and because of that
there's only two active runners there's only two people
and then I think if I'm not mistaken, Ash you saw that
and it was like oh I gotta do that? Yeah yeah
I like saw Ricky running it and
just like wow this looks like
like just with it being like so luckless this looks like a really funny like
game to try to get people into and like race her stuff.
Excuse you, are you doing the pause tech?
Of course!
I'm playing the win here.
You're so fringe.
Hey guys, the game's on my side. This is so the list
this is so clearly over for two seconds and i see you pause on the flashbang that's so cringe
i want that technique banned but uh yeah no ash saw ricky played so then ash played it and
tried to convince a bunch of like spiral runners to give it a try myself included
so from there we went up to like what eight runners I'd say.
And then we just try to keep branching and eventually we got to like 12
and then out of nowhere,
like Ricky does a
Monster Racer stream again.
But this time he has
way bigger numbers because he's been
killing it on the YouTube side.
So a ton of people just flood in and then i make a monster racer video
which is going over the history and then he does it for the weekly race recently
for his play Nation Discord server.
And with all that combined,
it's up to 60 runners I think.
I think it's like 60 or 58.
I think it's almost 65 now actually.
65?
Which is crazy because when you look at this game like i said you kind of go like oh this is like a meme-ish game this probably has like a few
like pen runners or so but no it's huge and we also have a spreadsheet that keeps track of the
community's best in more segments I think if you go to yes one game like PS1 games
Like I'm super see like on speedrun.com, I think this game has either the second or third most active players The spiral and possibly after I've got a test that theory. Oh my gosh!
Like after Spyro and possibly after Craft Team Racing?
I don't know if it's behind Craft Team Racing anymore.
Right, okay, Blue Games.
I think it might be just one on spiral one
blue games
since the ricky race that wasn't too long ago so surely all of those count as
like active broncos yeah Yeah. Bigger!
Bigger!
I think we're at week 12 now,
and Monsterous was week 5
it was the first meme week
Aww you're right
It's probably been too long
You're right it is in the top 3
for most active at the moment
That is ahead of Yu-Gi-Oh!
that is ahead of Crash Team Racing
as well as Spyro 2,
Resident Evil 2.
Oh my gosh.
I finished with a
33582.
Gotcha. I finished with a 3-3-5 8-2 Not only is Ash pause buffering the flashbangs. Basically just cheating.
Now I have to deal with them skipping the result screen.
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Gotcha, gotcha gotcha got you feel rad for worst case you know or whatever yeah yeah that'd be really fun
oh man but yeah it's not a single bigger
and no on that last one. Not a single bigger enough? Nope.
Yeah, I don't know this game's just...
It just has a grip
on some of us because
I know Ashe for example
Has way too many runs
in this game.
Like, Ash how many runs do you have in this game?
34 completed runs and 132 attempts
which is a fair amount of those for like the three steps at the beginning but yeah
back when uh back on the first renaissance when Ash got this off the ground, I dove into like the IL's and other categories in this.
And at one point was my most submitted to game on src at about 100 117 submissions
that's insane what a flashbang mike i've been hit by so many Flash games
you'd think I was playing a different genre
of game.
Goodness.
Oh man. Yeah there's just something about
this game that attracts a lot of people to it
when it comes to like meme week or like if they want to do a dumb fun race.
I think it's really just the pickup and play nature.
I mean,
it's so easy to pick up and play understand you what the urns you want
to cycle item boxes and that's basically it man i mean
it's super simple but it's kind of funny um
i don't think we've mentioned it but if anyone does want to give the game a shot
um it is pow only oh yeah that is how it has made it onto this show
we haven't shown off many power only games but this is one of them and
it is truly a game of all time yeah yeah a game of all time yeah
and we do like as you've noticed,
we're recording the in-game times
or at least the other people are getting their
in game times recorded.
I've gone back and fact checked
so that's your good action.
So if you run on emulator or whatever it's all the same like yeah it's not any disadvantage for anyone playing on console or anything
so don't worry about that if you are not... If you don't have a file
in PS1 or anything.
I also... I know I mentioned the spreadsheet
but the spreadsheet is insane
when it comes to friendly... Not just
competition, but also community best of worst.
Because we have this weird
trend where if we
are having a really bad race
let's say I get smogged 80 times
yeah I could sit here and fry but instead we kind of go like oh community wars
community worse so like it's not something to achieve you know right i have got that one for you, Ash.
So it's very very funny
But um...
I've heard of community golds but uh
I think this might be the only game community grounds community wars and
that's a 304 70 for me not bad or, not bad. Or 69 on
the end screen? Yeah, I should mention that.
248-66.
Ooh, okay,
okay. Not a single bigger any other.
But yeah, I should have mentioned this
but yeah the in-game timer
it's so funny
because when you cross
the finish line
your timer on the top left
is like off what the actual result screen tells you
because the results screen takes off zero six oh yeah it takes
it takes off point six three times like let let's go yeah it's just so funny it's ridiculous
So now we're on castle um we haven't gone over much of the track get out
of my way oh my lord! Okay, um...
So that's something we should mention.
I know this game is like all RNG
Another RNG thing
the AI in this game is kind of a joke.
Like even though we run on easy, if you run
on a harder difficulty like they don't really
do much but like some of
the RNG is trying to get around them
at the start because as you on my screen they kind of
like budged up and just kept bumping off
of me.
Finally!
Now one thing that was quite apparent to me when I
like... I've only played this one time and that
was part of the big race
is even with the
characters... So I opted for Wolfigo
as the optimal character
These characters of good for wolf. Viggo is the optimal character.
These characters just drift,
like they're almost constantly kind of slightly going off
to the left.
They're constantly
going to the left.
I'm so happy you mentioned that
because you're 100% right.
If you start a race,
That's the Mick Royd classic okay?
Because think about it if you play any other kart racer and there is a straight line what do you do?
You hold like what gasp on that's so boring
that's so unbelievably boring okay mickroids came up here and they changed
the game by making sure that we like keep wiggling the d-pad back
and forth to make sure we go straight right you've heard it here everybody decklander is a desert bus
fan we will be seeing you back in the hot place for a 24-hour stream doing videos hey i'll do it
i'll do it i also think as he will stop pause cheating you cheater
this is ridiculous.
They're just using their resources.
Come on, Derek. We're banning that technique.
We're having a mod discussion after this.
Just narrowly dodged a bear trap there not only do you drift a bit to the left but um biggo doesn't have the best training but it's not as bad as the game says
but everyone's turn oh my gosh i thought we thought we were just going off the map.
But everyone is turning.
It doesn't matter if you pick the best turning character
They all instantly turn
You know in some games how you hold a direction and it's like a slow
turn, then it gets sharp? These guys
are always pinpoint sharp
So it's
really hard to get the feel
for the controls when we're starting out. It's worse
if you play New Game Plus and use
Master, because that
everything on that character is completely
instantaneous.
Yeah. We have a lot
of categories i think adventure mode is the most popular one the one we're doing
now i got reverse controlled and flashbang
i just got like double hit
this insane but um yeah no adventure modes the most common speedrun and then there's
some other categories that we don't really do but they're out there.
I think the craziest one is when someone found Lapskip.
Yeah, someone found Lapskip.
Ricky found Lapskip. 301.92
I got 30836
Even Thrasher's gotta be close but 301 92 is what it was bigger 192.
um yeah no so in this game uh we found lap skip and lab skips kind of uh unique in this game going
back to Mario Kart because that's just my favorite I guess analogy because
everyone's played at least a murder Kurt game you know how some of the tracks
like you kind of like go out about, or you go behind the finish line
and kill far enough away that
you can go through
the finish line and count to lap.
Monster Racer takes that
to the extreme but in a far more insane direction.
Where basically if you go to the side of a finish line on like a few
of the tracks and you just bump into
the wall. The game
can sometimes glitch out
and just think that you did a whole lap
If you do it
right, you can get multiple at if you do it right you can get like multiple at once actually
yeah like i think for the pass like it gets some of the tracks done in like five seconds
yeah hold up can we just take a step back here say test i'm gonna say tasks of this game yes
i was also about to ask that uh what has a super small like preview pass
oh he didn't do all he did do all the tracks like it's not like an
optimal task if i'm not mistaken but when we found lap skip we were kind
of like someone should test this and see how insane it can get
and then walk will cast it and then did like half the tracks in
like five seconds
let's go
but uh for full game speed runs uh the
most popular category is the legacy one
where we don't allow a lapkip. Because Latskip's also
really jank, like even though in a
task setting you just bump up against the wall and get
lucky, um, and like in
I don't know what's the right word, like
RTA-wise we kind of just try the same thing and sometimes it
works but most of the time it doesn't wait do we all have big room no i was now we do
i was no i I was OK.
I was actually saying it so
no idea how big it is.
Yeah, this map here
is one of my favorites.
It's museum.
She just got really hot
if you still i don't know if you still have museum community goals but
uh it might be in danger here no it's not it's not you're not kidding i got smoldered i got ran over oh my god small
and then i got ran over by the uh wicked witch i'm like 100 on, like I've had obnoxiously good R&D so far.
Your R game is being STRONG.
Chaco Island 2 in Super Mario Kart. Yeah, exactly.
That's exactly what it is.
It's awesome.
As soon as I mentioned DDI, I ran into a trap and then
as I was getting out of the trap...
Oh my gosh!
I got on my... the traffic oh my gosh i got a mic
this is the worst music
wow you would well i can tell that's the
bad
i can tell that the bad luck i got on my first three races are getting transferred over to
Derek, so you're welcome there buddy.
Dude, I've been smalled...
I think the worst one was when
I got ran over by The Witch.
I don't think I've ever seen that, where I got
smalled and she came up from behind
and just ran over me.
Actually insane.
Bigger!
Thank goodness, man. actually insane. Bigger and bigger.
Thank goodness, man.
I'd say we're halfway through the tracks and if you look at the estimate
we have it's like 125 so you might go where you can't
be through half of the tracks.
But um...
We have to do the tracks again just in reverse
once we get to the halfway point.
Because what happens is you race a boss and if you beat the boss the game's
like oh you can proceed to like the next wave of tracks and um i got three two one oh eight ouch
and um the next wave of tracks i guess they didn't have time to like
make any ones or they didn't have space it's just these
tracks in reverse.
Genius, genius, a genius.
You just get ran over. I did yeah.
Three 1588 right at the start of my of mine got ran over but then
at the end of all that i got a bigger room so it's kind of cool
well i'm seeing the urns and chat that is what we like to see. We're wishing
the biggest of urns upon our
runners right now. Hey, let's go
Let's go. Maybe a few more
towards mine and Derek's side
please. Can we get a channel point redeem of like uh give
derrick luck if ashley no more lucky oh we should have
set up pola for the start of their run we could
we could have seen where
where the chat would vote who he would take the win
yeah so true um that's one of the funniest things is
there's a lot of people in chat right now. Like I recognize a lot names and
That's thing about monster racers, even though like it's a meme game that kind of comes in bursts
People are always willing to watch it.
Like, I've seen streamers
who are like,
oh, even though we're not
doing a race, I kind of just want to do one
Monster Racer run and they'll, 15 people who just show up
just to watch it.
It's, like, ridiculous.
It's one of those games...
Look, I'm just saying, if you're going to grow a Twitch channel,
I mean... I mean, this is the game. it's look i'm just saying if you only wrote a twitch channel i mean
i mean this is the game dedicated monster as their name yeah the instant money generator for sure
yeah hey they call it the money machine oh no no way that hit me! I haven't gone in for an emotional moment.
Somebody in chat
just said you guys earned it going to ban that person who was it he was judy to the bigger oh my goodness
the big friend luck works thanks chat this is this is said so my way like Like I'm over here dry as can be
I'm like a camel in the desert
Oh, no, not to the longest map yet
But I bet when I get to deep pass,
I bet when I get to deep pass it's just going to dry up
and we're just gonna drive in a straight line for seven minutes.
I got a 1 minute.
Nice! Right, got that time down? Nice. It was...
Go, go, go!
Sub-minute for Thrasher.
155-88.
Nice.
That's my favorite track.
Now we're going on to Iceberg.
Unironically, I know it seems
like a whole meme to say this, but Iceberg is
probably everyone's
least favorite track.
Like bar none.
People do not like this track because
it's very confusing.
There are some spots that you need to turn into, but you just don't really think about it because it doesn't flow very naturally.
Aesthetically I love how this level level looks but yeah in terms of first time getting on
the slopes it is rough.
Oh yeah this is definitely the worst for beginners beginner because there's just like multiple spots where
you'll drive off the map cause it doesn't look like
that's where you should be going.
Yeah, it's ridiculous
and then after this we have Teeth Pass
which is... if you do t-pass like lucky and you do it pretty well
it could be as low as six minutes and if it goes bad it could be as long as seven and a half
because t-pass is an insanely long track
oh i'm hitting that mine yep
i'm pretty sure i saw flying dutchie91 in chat Hi Dutchie, what's up?
Yo, what's up
I see a lot of people in chat
Sick
It's the monster racacer thing, dude.
I told you these are the people that show up if you stream Monster Racer.
You gotta get on it!
What do we call Monster Racer runs? Do you just call them monsters?
Call them The Monster Man 2? Oh, The Monster... Do you just call them monsters? Do you call them the monster-monster?
Oh, the monster!
I mean...
I might call them insane.
I wonder how Cartoon Kid's doing.
Unrelated note, slightly related... Big Earn!
Big Earn!
I just like the idea of you calling them monsters and then we raised Monsters Inc one day
And it was like what do we call the people who play Monsters, Inc.
now? You raise a good point
I also
like the implication of
you run Monster Racer? How
could you?
Do you have monster racer how could you
give it into the views i see
i've been flashbang so many times i'm okay time to complain i have a shield and i was able to get small for some reason the shield in this game
does not protect you against the small ability
incredible which is so annoying i oh man it's it's so so annoying
oh man i'm having a bad time i'm not gonna lie this monster
racer action is not going great dang it ash get back here
you know what the problem is ash is playing on the cheater emulator.
That's probably what it is.
Are you talking about Duck because so am I?
No, I'm talking about EPSXE.
And Cheat Sheet-er see oh and cheater eater over here smh and 234 32. all right i got 244 flat.
Cool.
Oh, my gosh.
10-483.
What an actual mess that track was.
Surely Teeth Pass would go much better.
Sure.
Stay hydrated, Shaq.
Yeah, for real. I'm a little
thirsty. If you haven't had the chance to know well make sure you're
getting up having a little stretch if you have a capacity to do so
staying hydrated all the important stuff i know that this uh it's truly some mouth-watering
described a game on this show this mouth mouthwatering clip.
And of all games to say that about its Monster Racer.
I mean the way they modeled Wolf, like...
Oh, yeah. The spiral.
This part was the best part.
Yeah, so this is why
Teeth Pass is one of the longest tracks
is because to save I don't know if it's
to save exactly on resources or to extend
the game length. They have two
spirals that just go
for a while.
I'm not even kidding.'s like insane so you go around once you go
around twice you go around three times I I've heard...
Slowly make it back up.
I've had a theory about the big spiral that
if you approach at the right angle
and start turning at the right time,
you can just gun it all the way up. We're seeing Thrasher
do pretty well. Was that all the way up or did you
have to do a really...
My strat on that
is always feather the gas
and that comes from just my other
racing game experience.
Bigger!
Dude, bigger than on T-Pass?
I have to get there
to get that one spot where you can drive through your two boxes at once
hold the item button down yeah get two items at once yeah a big urn on some tracks help
more than others on t-, this is just so long
and once you get out of the tunnel it's a lot
of straightaways. Big Run is
insane in
this game or on this track.
I mean, like this track you want bigger and more than like most
of the other ones even though I think the worst one to have big earn on is
probably volcano volcanoes really short and it has a lot of tight turns
when i still don't have like any earned luck this is sad as well
Well, when it comes to the halfway mark of a run
would folks be interested in their IGTs
or do they just want to hold out
here till the end of the run it's like
you seem like me and thresh we're gonna have to go with the no holding out i respect her that's kind
of what i was hoping he'd say i just just thought, I'll give you the option.
Yeah.
We're gonna hold out and then Ash's back half is going to be miserable.
Big earn!
Oh yeah we should talk about getting ratio because
We mentioned that a few times. If you get a big urn
It fills your meter up all the way but you get like
The double urnspeed than like the double urn speed than
a small urn or what boost you start with.
If you get a big
urn and for some reason don't have
an item in your item slot and then go over
another item box and get a small urn it replaces your
bigger in speed like it just goes away
so once you get a big earn the meta is
kind of to just hold an item until the
bigger one runs out
yeah because you don't want to override it with the slower speed
boost
also for the eagle wide amongst you will notice that the lap counter isn't exactly a traditional way of counting laps.
Big urn!
Usually it would mark...
When you're on your first lap
It would say Lap 1 of 5
Whereas when you start your lap you are actually on a Lap 0
The lap counter is how many laps you've completed rather than what lap you're on.
Yeah, but with that being said I still do agree
with dude speed um yeah this track is ridiculous this one takes
way too long.
And even though I enjoy it to some extent, like it's a guilty pleasure of mine...
Same.
It's like this track just goes on and on and on.
It's definitely cool little bit.
It's definitely polarizing.
When you're having bad luck, it's just a bad time for everyone involved, but when
it's going alright, then it's like, eh, this is
pretty chill actually.
Woo! Almost dead yeah another thing to uh mention
is the frame rate um you guys can probably know this
based on like the gameplay on screen or you might think your internet
might be just a touch choppy uh that's not the case uh this game uh is supposed to run
at like what's the european standard like 25. yeah 25.
and uh on duck station it tells you exactly
how many frames you get
17. when i ran on there, its always been
16 or 17
it is currently at 17 for me. I am running on Duck Station.
Yeah, so it doesn't run at full speed like it should.
Ouch!
Which...I don't know why?
I assume it's an optimization issue
because this was their first game.
But if they did run at full speed then it would actually be ridiculous some of the speeds
you could get.
Pulse Racer was just a bit too ambitious for this one. get
it should have been a ps2 launch title for real this wasn't even at the
beginning of
the best friends no this was yes 2001.
yeah this was pretty late is 2001. yeah this
was pretty late into the ps1 life cycle
like he uses uh like code saves like you
know like crash one does
oh is it to be sub six?
Ooh!
Not quite.
Sub six?
Are you kidding me?
I'd be lucky to get sub seven.
There's a six flat point there.
Nice.
Are you serious?
That is insane. Yeah, so Ash was able to get sub-6
I am not going to hit that
The RTA sync on Derek and Prash the rta the rt async on on derrick and prasha that was
was pretty close for a little bit we might see that return if uh
if luck goes a different way yeah like i said people just need to start wishing ads of ash
some bad luck my dad I don't know why I called you add all bigger and write the
page 6 10 62.
six ten sixty oh man i'm having a terrible run
there's some pretty good uh
i will not be joining you guys on that this is going to be like a 622 the 62202
god pointing out that this game came out in 2001 makes me think, okay,
2001 we also got Gran Turismo 3, Metal Gear Solid 2 and Ace Combat 4.
Oh my gosh.
Like, think about how nice those games look
and then there's this.
Yeah.
But you know what? I play this game more than
those games, so they're doing
something right.
Alright, that is the first case of how So they're doing something, right? All right.
That is the first case of how mean
the level boundaries are with this particular level.
So especially if you can see any of these runners
have their controls get reversed
yeah they're going to be going out
the stage by now
Yeah it's kind of mean because
I've definitely seen it where
like your barely on the track
like with all of transparency are you kidding just like cuts them off
early yeah so like that like like yeah he i almost bet you
that's exactly what happened was just that
also there is a shortcut on this track that actually loses time but the boss always takes it
yeah there's a there's a hidden shortcut on this track that loses you time and the boss is programmed to always take it because he thinks it's faster genius
i think i passed the boss when
when they were on it or something
because i just have not seen them this
entire time yeah that's usually how
it goes
guy it goes on the uh shortcut and it's a pretty hidden shortcut like i'm not
gonna lie like even watching the gameplay you might be thinking like
where is it like it, it's pretty hidden.
But it actually loses time.
No I'm with you, I haven't gotten a single one.
It's happening oh the only other i can't get past this in my way gotcha out of my
way pot all righty no way the return garden he's in my way i can't get past this
gigaton actually giving you trouble with bb now it's hard to say exactly since
i've been stopping a lot 208.94 for time right so go to 0894 yep oh my gosh
it's got reverse controls right I also love just how big I love how the um draw distance of this game is phenomenal
oh yeah i really love seeing the stage in front two 2046.
But you still be gigging, Tim?
Yeah, it's not feeling good for me.
If I had my splits open,
it would probably say plus four.
It's been a very... But that's fine, we make it up in the back half.
So now
we're going to play the tracks but in reverse
which for some of them like
Egypt Day, it actually makes it better oh yes that's how we pronounce it
that's how the game calls uh egypt they call it egypt i gotta avoid that Egypt copyright.
The Egypt copyright, yeah very exclusive.
Notorious.
Yeah.
I'm trying to figure out like...
Cause you know this is all kind of Halloween thing. But I guess because of like mummies
Where there's money is there a guy star buddy racer like character in this game?
Yeah, there's that there's clay super based we have flat which I feel like I get my heads in the mcfords game
i don't know what i'm thinking but um yeah this was actually a stealth
sequel i didn't mention it in my video because
i found out about this much later
This is a stealth sequel to
a game called Halloween
Racer for the Game Boy
It's a Game Boy game that has the same character ideas and some of the same track ideas, but just on a Game Boy so it's really rough.
On the original Game Boy?
Yeah!
Oh my gosh, that is, that's incredible lore.
And they made Monster Racer
and in my whole video
because I made a video
talking about this game's history
and how like let's be honest
if this game could be a speed
run any game can probably be a speedrun. And um the whole video I did so much research
and i found out about it being a stealth sequel like the day before I published
The video because it was also my random forum thread that was at
At the bottom of the Google results. It was just like they made Halloween racers
So this is actually a stealth sequel and I was like
oh they did it even I YouTube some footage and sure enough they had one
video on youtube with like two views there it was and it was. And it was.
That's incredible.
Shout-outs to the love that we're getting for Wolf
and the chance we've got a Wolf gang member.
Oh, that's gotta be Kaidia. I can't say their name but I assume that's gotta be Kaidia.
I can't say their name
but I assume
that's gotta be them.
Yep, yep.
And I'm following
shortly behind
the one run
that I've done
in this game
was with Wolf.
Wolf is the goat.
What is... was with wolf wolf is the great
what if you're not gonna play dingo and be optimal andy wolf is not a bad pick he's just jigo but his
240.506 good 245.06
145
i got a big
urn but i got small so
oh yeah another thing about the
small uh super small note If you try to boost
while you're small it does NOTHING!
Like actually nothing. You're just wasting your boost
My botanica is not as good
as I thought it was. That small really did hurt
This is going to be a 241
90
241 90. cool gotcha and now we're all going into port well we're all pretty rta close
yeah it's just one of us is really ahead in game time because they keep pausing.
Yeah, that's all the
time.
The three flashbangs I paused on.
You've only gone three?
That's insane.'ve gone yeah unlock one of the strikes
and now we see the plus stride action i literally just saw it oh my gosh
my gosh no it's just one of those things where it's really funny
now we got uh we got cat this ain't
castle this is port reverse. Port is a pretty good track
And now that we're like kind of like... We've gone over the game, we've kinda talked a lot
I mean how's everyone's day going
how are you feeling in terms of uh things of today's wonderful green day on earth. I finished packing
to go off to Minneapolis, which is where GDQ just was
funny it's actually good i was
i was at tdk where i was in minneapolis like
up until the start of ddq and then now i'm going back
after dance wow i just thought you really didn't want to go to gdq huh
yeah uh
smaller why is no one getting high smaller guys where's the big urns at man i swear yeah I swear her base got a lot of smaller ones
on this track
that's my time
on the big end
honestly
no
Ashe has been
taking them all
in the first half
like
gotta have work probably I'm taking the bull in the first half.
Gotta have a word, probably.
And I've been getting all of mine at the most inopportune time...
FIGURN!
Not the ratio.
Oh my gosh.
My retinas.
Almost ran into an item box, and I don't know,
I just had a feeling it was waiting for me.
Gershon, that sounded so pained.
Like, I genuinely felt like... You like I genuinely felt your pain.
Yeah gonna need my eyes checked after this race not going lie why you did black things a lot uh yeah
yeah it's uh let's get in there i'm gonna be seeing spots when i go to sleep
oh i actually hit one of them with the items that's so funny
well all i'm gonna say is that i'm seeing some interesting rta uh changing the lead
pressure on top right I should have said nothing!
Ice cream too soon?
Oh my goodness.
It's all about the RTA race.
If Ashe beats us in endgame time, like no one cares.
That's just not true.
That's the tryhard way of winning.
These monsters ain't from a movie right?
No this is a PS1 PAL only game. And they wanted to make a Halloween themed racer and I think...
I forget what was the deadline, I think they only had like three months oh there's something it's all the same
oh no you can come out during halloween either
no yeah during halloweens didn't they come out in like december or something
remember how i said they had three months i guess they originally thought
they'd get done in one uh i've got a reef 340 56. got three three forty fifty six three forty three forty fifty six nice
i feel like um they should have made a tie-in movie for this game though.
What would they call it? The Monster Racers, the movie or...
Oh my lord! Okay, funky camera.
3, 27, 24.
Nice. So that's one thing I
should have mentioned. Um...
I keep saying that even though this game is just kind of
like goofy. On some
turns if you're about to fall off
but you don't the camera gets like super janky it
like points straight down I never really realize it but it's funny because Spyro
actually does that too if you think about it like you know when you uh sometimes like jump
right at the last second the camera will
mess up
you heard it here folks monster racers
is well put together as spiral one
so so yeah another thing is uh if you bigger so
so yeah another thing is uh if since we
need some self-sabotage i think i'm just
going to mention how
our ash needs to get smalled
small Ashen needs to get smalled. Smalled? Malled?
No, no, no!
Imagine if the power-ups
that we got in our respective games could affect
the other run.
Yeah, throw this into an archipelago or whatever.
Yeah I've heard about that!
Where people unlock things for their friends...
I don't quite understand how it works for some games but
I'd seen the idea
before.
The lore behind why these monsters
were racing? Oh my gosh.
There is a lore
not in the actual game, but in the game manual.
Yes.
Oh what is it?
I've actually got the manual right here like...
I do not have a manual on me
but um I think it's
What is it Derek? It's something like
the big
jack-o'-lantern guy that's on the cover
which does not appear in the game at all.
Like summons
the monsters to race for some reason or something yeah and the opening cut scene in
the opening cutscene which we could maybe show after the race like he just summoned all these
guys so like out of the graves and out of a bunch of generic
Halloween settings. And as soon
as they get resurrected or brought to life,
they're just like, well shoot, we got a race now!
It's just the most
I think it has to do with, like
Gigantin summoning Master
or something and causing devastation
or some nonsense like that.
Yeah there is a whole
uh, folks know that the
like the cases for playstation one games are like especially power ones you know
they're just kind of cd cases there is a whole ass page
of just a monologue from Jack
O'Lantern.
Like,
I could read that out but I think
this would keep us going until the end
of the run.
Don't worry um once you beat again i'm clear any questions up here oh my gosh
i forgot about that you want to talk about that cutscene.
You want to talk about a cutscene? Oh my lord,
that ending cutscene is...
Ouch!
I say no one talks during it so everyone can get the full effect.
That ending cutscene so like everyone can get the floor effect
that ending cutscene is a masterpiece i actually studied that in film school which i definitely attended
definitely attended and not just stayed at home playing a monster except for PlayStation 1 through I don't just got hit with the bat
have you got a single urn this round.
I got non-stop urns
and then the reverse.
Did I acquire
the wrong disc? Is this version
1.0 where they like patched the items?
Oh, man.
Man, this is just such a... Line Egypten.
33630
Nice Nice.
Alrighty, what are the total in-game times?
Okay, interesting. Interesting. okay interesting
interesting oh
so long you know i wouldn't be last place if we just like minus a minute off my time. That's 3
42 06
342
Oh yeah, we never mentioned that when like
you're small for some reason
the AI and they are also
small they are faster than you
Like even though you're both small.
Considerably.
It's like
small, yeah.
It's balancing
to balance out
how much
pushovers
they are normally.
Like we're laughing at
like twice on some tracks
that were very good?
No,
we're on English.
They just call it
Egypt Day
on the English version
and apparently
on your German version, Ash,
apparently instead of
calling it Egypte, it's called
Small Egypt.
Yeah, on most of the other languages
there's some sort of
little egypt something something to that degree
incredible yeah no this is uh i mean look you have
to give them credit they supported like seven languages
this yeah this is honestly i think this is my least favorite track because there's
like three boxes the entire time so a lot of times you're just going through with no runs at all.
I say as I get a small run at least.
And some of the turns are vicious. Some of one spot uh yeah the yeti is called
it's called diggo and he is the fastest because the game lies
i know we mentioned this but a bunch of people have just tuned in.
On the stats, like character stats
screen it tells you
their stats and what they should have for speed
acceleration and turning
The game just lies! Like, it's
like Dago was supposed to have a
4 out of 10 when it comes to acceleration
but looking at the game's code
we found out that's actually a 7
out of 10. It's just like 3 spots off.
Well, I guess technically
it's 6.9
but it's basically
rounded up to 7.
So, like
he's just nice.
He's just like
3 spots higher
than what he's supposed
to be for acceleration alone
like it's ridiculous yeah not to just show the
not to just show this video but honestly like watch Derek's video
if you find this game funny at all or just like have an interest in
like like why people speedrun at all in the first place because it is a game,
it is a video about this game but it's also you know like a video about like why people speak honestly yeah
shout out the video man we gotta get that link going there's way more
there's way more lore and back stories in this game than you would ever expect it's very funny
which is which is crazy yeah it's like it's like we got a community we kind of just played
it and the stuff that just happened like it seemed like going straight
out of a movie sometimes, like it was like oh come on that didn't happen.
246 74 This could be looking up for the kid.
I had a pretty okay Jip Day.
Speaking of kid,
I hope Cartoon Kid's doing okay wherever they're at.
Yeah, the previous
World Record holder before Ricky took it?
Yeah.
Ricky had a pretty big milestone
didn't he with the game? yeah one hour traded traded record back for
a little bit and ricky got sub-hour i got two four seven three six not great that was like a 306 24736. Not great.
That was like a 306 or something.
Yeah.
Is that a werewolf on a bone?
It is!
That's Wolf,
the very descriptive name.
His name's Wolf.
Probably in the second best story. It wolf probably the second best it probably is the second-best character in the game for sure
shout out to the wolf stones out there oh my god yeah you guys just can't
appreciate Peek, it's fine.
For goodness sakes!
I think
I appreciate Feet. Have you seen the size of the dogs on this guy
yeah yeah dingo's got a god like bob sled fee i will admit he's uh they're just kind of melded together it's
it's hard to see where the for the slut ends in the freaky game yeah no it's crazy give me some urns bro come on i swear
i enjoy this game more than anyone else here. Please.
So that's how you deserve a
gaslighting the game. I see.
Look,
you have to do that.
I can't tell you the biggest love hate relationship I've had with this game
it's insane
how many times
I've been like, I love this game
please give me the urns even it gives it to someone else who
doesn't appreciate it i'm just saying like no you don't get it i want it more
i made the video, man!
And it gave me reverse controls right off the edge.
And it gave me reverse controls again.
It's listening to you whining.
Also thanks for posting the link yeah that video it there's a few parts where the editing is I kind of wishy-washy so not good but like this storyline
crazy big on
oh man
i drove off the edge of my own accord and then got swallowed immediately from my hands.
Whoa!
Just got back boosted by the wolf,, he ran into me at like Mach 10.
Elf is giving you some attitude.
That's where the task gets really optimized, getting like...
Yeah yeah that was really good
You're definitely not getting the big urns. You're definitely hoping for the character boost surely
That's the meta
Sure I know man
there's just something about it you just you just don't know.
So we know that, you put that video together sort of going over the history talking about
the game a little bit when it comes to like if somebody saw this and they're like hey
I might want to learn
this like what advice would you folks give let me
get that time down real quick 308 34. what advice would it give someone
who wants to get in the monster racer honestly pick it up and play
it i know a lot of speedrunners say that but i think for monster acer itself it's insanely
pickup in play it's like absurdly pick up and play. Yeah, it's optimal
if the first experience you have with this
game is just doing a blind run of it to be honest
Not only that but
And if you're racing
find somebody to race against preferably yeah so when we 760.
Yeah, so when we race we literally go in with no practice at all
the three of us have went into this particular race
with no practice at all. It's that
easy to just kind of pick up and just
you know, play
that kind of thing
Yeah if you saw
the evil zone
tournament
people talk about
that game being
a two button
fighting game
this is
kind of
a two button
racing game
like
gas and boost.
Gas, boost, left, right
item bun.
There's more than two buns. You got three.
You got three buns.
Bigger.
But yeah, there's a lot of speed runs that i would say like you know
likes like watch or run or like you
know try to do a few speed running
tricks to see you know if you can get
feel for it
for monster racer like generally just go for tricks to see you know if you can get a feel for it
for monster racer like generally just go for it
like we don't like take an emulator you know you know
basically get yourself a copy of the game burn it
you know to your PC, get it going.
You're good man.
Let's go out and buy it.
Like I can't remember when it was announced sort of in
the time span of the week.
Hang on!
They better go ahead and add in like three weeks.
Because it's much easier you know me being in Europe all night
but I managed to get my copy within like three days.
So the race was announced,
it happened on the weekend of the week that was announced
and I could play it on hardware
which you know an opportunity
that is harder for some folks
but I really enjoyed being able to
pull that one out and be like hey yeah right now i'm playing on hardware and
i think that's why my luck's a bit worse i think like generally like on hardware uh the rng values just get like flipped blocked
like yeah yeah it sounds like a skid issue to me
you want run by that find me again i missed it like what you said
I'm gonna stop talking I'm like 40th on the leaderboard oh man that leaderboard is so funny to me though it's like because even though like this gives an rng fest um like so many people have fun with
it like you would expect the game this left base for people people have fun with it. Like, you would expect a game this
left-based for people to have fun. You'd expect
it to be like, oh, this game is
so stupid. Like, just keep resetting
until you get lucky. Like, everyone loves
it for some reason. don't know like how
how it does it but
I've really had a bad experience with this game
even now like i'm having a blast even though
its treating me bad
oh great timing me bad. Big, until now! Be gone! Great timing.
I guess maybe it's just the accessibility
like it really is just
you know, you can just boot it up and
you know, you kind, if you just watch
somebody run it. Because basically
the display that we're given right now is like
here's the knowledge of the game
You know? We've gone through everything
but there really is worth knowing
yeah yeah no it's insane and it's not only
that but not too many glitches you have to do
not too many techniques i mean get in get in, get out, you know, enjoy
your time. Yeah, the difference between
record and somebody just like doing it
Like what's the difference
in IGT between like record and somebody
that's like last place just like it's like like last place
like i i like it's like what like 20 minutes maybe
like yeah okay that was my fault oh fresh are you being thrashed around
at the moment yeah grass are being thrashed around at the moment.
Yeah.
Thrash or being thrashed around, I like that.
3-20-14 3-20-14
3-20-14
3-20-14 I am going to 3, 2014.
I am going to get a 30776.
30776.
Earn my PC. Yeah yeah i misspoke um just
just give yourself a copy of the game
go on ebay
okay
get yourself a copy of the game it's so
good yeah mine was like
in fact actually let me let me do some fact checking let's see how much
yeah i need to sell my coffee surely it's on the it's on the rise hold up i'm gonna do some
scalping real quick oh no i know hey i will say i did so my pokemon hurt gold recently and someone bought
it for 179 dollars oh goodness it's one of those things where like i know this is super off topic but
like i like pokemon games well not pokemon games i like that one pokemon game it's
like the only pokemon game i've ever enjoyed but like i'm not a big Pokemon fan bigger and so people were buying
it for like 170 dollars it was like yeah you don't have any attachment to it then why not yeah
well that's the problem is people it's not
that those games sold bad those games sold like what tens of millions of
copies it's that so many people don't want to sell them
so when people want to buy them it's like oh i'm willing to pay like such a
high amount because all, ratioed!
You got ratioed?
No!
Big urn into the small one.
You hate to see it.
Yeah, I got my copy of this game for £9.99 which is a very good investment personally.
I know in the video I talked about how Ricky got his copy.
He bought it at a flea market for like three bucks,
I'm pretty sure he said.
Let's go.
Like three bucks he bought it
and then it was just like,
oh, this game is really funny
i was gonna have something in mind
i really need to i really need to start thinking about
playing this game with sunglasses on.
With a flashbang, yeah!
154 42
The flashbang is so bad
It went right through a tornado
55 20. what happened was uh one frame you were in front of him the next thing
you passed it couldn't catch you yeah i got 155.36 Nice, ooh
Very close there
Yeah folks you were all within a second
of each other on that
Ooh look at
that!
Look at
that!
I'm not going
to say that you
are within one
second of all
your IGTs
though.
Yeah, like
I said, some
of us are
cheating,
some of us are manipulating game values.
You know sometimes the new tech is discovering a speedgame
and you know sometimes the old guard just gets attacked
and left behind
Fire! Flames! We need some smack talk
I can't believe it's taken this long to
really get it, we gotta
get under each other skin right now
in an endearing way of course i value it i value both his friends and i think
you're awesome period oh i hope we get really bad luck though i hope you get small five times no actually make that six
okay well i got flashbang twice are you happy and small
So much for the uh trash talk, I feel like i feel the shield was actually clutched for me there
Yo marathon man this guy did a run at the last gdq and killed it so good to see him in chat from monster racer it's gonna be done did you watch uh marathons i did yeah i said the best part was honestly was marathon man
trying to get uh like people on the couch to explain tricks for him and they're just all that
just every time there's like yeah this trick this trick is so hard i hate it
explained actually explain it every time
that's so funny yeah i tried to donate
during oh i just
okay and i hit bear trap as soon as
obviously wow went through like the map
but okay um yeah no I donated to a marathon man
to run and uh I was just telling him how
proud i was
And then-and then I mean that was
a good run
Ah well that shows, folks,
how tight-knit the PlayStation
are.
Look, I think we've said it once.
The PlayStation Nation is slowly getting
up there. We're not going to be as big
as Joe Schmo, Mario
Bro, but I mean we're trying
to get there.
Oh what
did I just see about there? Did I see some
rules when the matchline came up?
Oh.
Rules for thee but not for me.
I don't know what you're talking about like my game was like lagging and
I thought it was lagging, I was like it's like lagging for some reason. I need a cause
I can't remember what the first part of the phrase is but either on whatever or you live long enough
to see yourself become a villain and i think that is exactly what we've just seen. Yeah.
Real talk, I haven't done it at all
until that moment because I was on Iceberg
and I was like...
349 away.
Everyone's doing it. I'm on Iceberg about to go into a tight corner.
I was kind of just like man...
Right got you there Ash.
Did he say 3 or did he mean 2 Thrasher?
That looked like a two 249.08 yeah i got 2 47 3 4 nice
2 47 34 got you all righty i mean rta 4734. Got you. Alrighty,
I mean RTA, you folks are all
super close.
Exciting times.
We
all know who's winning.
Time for the great separator, it is Spiethpass.
Come crazy I think we could catch up if Ashe mysteriously had to use the bathroom.
Or I just don't get any urns on T-pass like,
Yeah, T-Pass is definitely like a ooh.
And then Derek just casually drops the
hidden strap that he actually flew to ash's house
just randomly before the race and slipped laxatives another drink
oh my gosh.
Wow. I was under the opinion
I showed up to their house and I'm
re-fied the power grid.
Oh no! no
yeah t pass reverse we do the spiral downward which is a little bit easier than upward in my opinion and then uh did you like this yeah we didn't talk
about the very silly left versus right d-pad thing what oh do they stay differently thing. What?
Do they steer differently?
Oh, I'm sorry.
Left or right is like 2% better at turning on D-pad
than the other way. It's it's right since you're drifting like left
like i don't know how it was found but it's like turning right is like better on deep it
it's the same on analog but for some reason on D-pad, it's ever
so slightly different.
That's very serious.
Look, look, I just
like to think this game has hint tech. Like have you guys
ever played Melee before i like maybe it has way bashing
like it has so much tech this game is as tech filled as melee oh i oh i just ran straight into the Tornado of Death.
I'm sorry for the audio, but...
Tornado is possibly THE worst thing you could run into.
As you said that, I got smalled which I think is just definitely worse than tornado.
Not by much! Let me make that clear not by much. No it's not by much. Let me make that clear, not by much.
And I get smalled! Keep them outshot!
Ouch!
Flashbang, yeah it is at this stage you know
as has been mean to all of you don't feel like one of you is getting more
more than the rest yeah we are uh
getting rolled out here that's pretty pretty bad. I don't think much... not much.
I don't think any of us have gone orange as well.
We've seen a couple small ones!
Yes, that was all nice nice
i think i'll rephrase the question i
think i'm the only one who's not gone
yeah i think you're right though
oh Oh, Bunk.
Project your black upper urgency.
I'm glad we were able to show this game off.
I just think it's really funny and um
This may have been copium safe but
I did submit this to the one GQI attendix.
I thought it was just so funny,
I think
Oh goodness
like a relay
Just like
with a fair amount of them being people who have never
played the game before.
When is the tournament gonna happen?
The infamous Monster Racer Grand Prix.
That would actually go so hard.
It would go hard! That would actually go so hard. Yeah, I would totally join that.
I'm not joking.
64 person bracket surely?
Yes!
It's gonna happen.
It'd be so funny because there'd be so many upvotes it's gonna happen
it'd be so funny because there would be
so many upsets just because of block
and you know
it'd be like oh yeah i'm done
oh man Oh man.
While we're doing this, we're coming near the end of the run because after this it's just Volcano again.
I know that we still have a few minutes to spare but I i'll say it once i'll say again thanks for
uh thanks for having us on this has been a pretty pretty fun goofy time yeah this has been really
yeah it's no problem like Like I joining in on the race
when people were explaining how lonely
I was like, I could get this on my show
but I just gotta kinda fit it in thematically somehow.
And when I saw that
the series was coming up and
I was like, okay, I've got some PlayStation 1 things planned.
I reckon we can slip these guys in and uh
yeah no i'm so glad that there are enough folks up for racing it um oh my gosh they're actually good
it's happening again.
Part of it was my own making though. Like two of those items were mine.
Black threw a bat and he hit both of us
And then he wanted to try
to run me over.
You gotta respect the line.
That's not very nice.
Big gun!
I don't think I...
Also get that here.
We're like five minutes
into T-Path
and that has to be
the first big one
any of us have gotten.
Yeah, this isn't good.
Remember how I said you want a big run on Teefass? It also goes the other way.
If you don't get a big run on Teefass, You lose way more time than you'd expect.
Smaller and I know we don't shout for that but i'm taking it
Wait go to the other corner
You gotta be loud but smaller And you gotta be loud but smaller
and you gotta be like oh smoke
uh man
resting time oh ah that's
that's the worst part of this game is
when you drive right by the item box
You don't even get a chance to roll for the luck
Yeah, I don't either end of it. You don't get flash banged or reverse steered or you know
I'd rather take that than just hope
I'm a gambling man
oh goodness Also, I hope everybody's been enjoying the music. The music is fantastic in this game. Yeah.
Dude, just the sound effects in this game is so funny because like
say what you will about anything else
but the sound effects in this game
are better than you expect. oh yeah aaa6 scary 62646
6 2 6 i don't know how close i am to pb but this has to be pretty close
i don't know if i'm quite on it but mostly
um i'm just gonna say it now uh might not be 100 accurate but it'll be it'll be somewhat accurate 628.96
yeah that's pretty rough. Oh man.
I'll tell you what RTA though we're doing great on estimates because we...
He's off the bat!
Oh yeah, we should mention uh the boss
characters if you lose you have to redo
their track
and uh it's only a few times in monster
racer history yeah oh he would ask me some
so criminal community worsts if uh
oh yeah we're talking like we're talking like seven minute community wars.
Yes!
There was one person who failed the race twice, they lost twice.
Okay, I couldn't really do the trap
there versus that.
So they were but
it was... They may have been intoxicated
oh okay that's the last way of putting it don't drink in monster racer kids
don't drink a monster racer, True.
Rage.
Alrighty, well as we are on the final lap
if uh...
We might as well whilst once we're here.
Are there any shoutouts that people want to give?
Oh I definitely
have some. I wanna give a shoutout to
the Monster Racer community who showed up
in chat today even though they wasn't participating. The fact that they showed up in chat today even though they wasn't participating
the fact that they showed up on a on a wins notice is uh incredible i
probably yeah um so yeah shout out to them and and then shout out to these two guys for
the sign to still race in a very fun time.
Shut up for Derek literally approaching me at of the clear blue and going hey you
oh by the way bigger shout out to the big earn um
so yeah Derek thanks for inviting me into this little shindig here.
A nice little monster race with friends.
Coming up on the end here...
And GG!
Time for Ash.
Nice, that was a 7.
Cool! I will wait on telling you the final time of course.
And... 21770. GG time of course and
two 1770 kg
20 70 okay that's time for thrashing
and then not too far behind RTA I'm behind them but he's locked yourself to try people okay so much for a switch for a final boss you came and stay on the track.
Oh, bozo.
And this all nice wall bump.
Oh, and I also get 217.
217 forcements.
Two.
So we look at that beautiful, beautiful endgame cutscene that looks like all of the lore.
Yeah before we do the results let's watch this cutscene and be quiet I think it's just so good.
If you all play at the same time, it would be amazing.
We'll get it simultaneously three times.
I'm on the password screen.
Make sure we get it down.
Okay, someone count us down?
I'm gonna... 3 one cutscene go all right let's go
spam based clques and chat if you got them Wow, they really like that shot didn't they so What? Beautiful. Oh, I think that just about wraps everything up. It all makes sense!
You know what's funny is that the game has a lot of oh i think that just about
yeah if you wanna if you really want to know how this game turned out uh how it is keep a keep an eye out for the international testers in the credits here.
And you'll see how this game turned out, how it is.
Wow! Before we get into that...
Are we ready for the times everybody?
Alright, yeah.
Okay so with a Valiant Effort in third place
In game time of 1h05m43s
We have Thrasher everybody well done
Thrasher
kind of a boost
wee
podium
we have
Eitri
yeah
only person not in the
podium is
Ricky
lol anyway we have in second place with a 104 57
we have derek round of applause for Derek, everybody.
I'll take a 104. 104 is actually pretty good!
And then...
Again, these might not be 100% accurate
Might be some human error in that
I'm doing a bit of posting i'm
doing a bit of everything we have got first place with a 103 37.
we have it
because they were pausing for every flashbang
and they would still let us RTA.
This guy, he will not let go.
No no no no.
They would still left us RTA so I think
that makes a lot of sense.
Because we also sort of mentioned I know i called their emulator the
cheater emulator but uh thrasher had sped up loads and always on fds yeah so the fact
that ash was still with us is like actually insane so we were all about a minute at power
of each other wait that's insane actually 103.3710457 dude yeah everyone had like good
runs like that that's a really good result yeah
because if we go to the leaderboard not trying to
not trying to throw them under the bus i think that's
like top what like Like five times.
Oh,
that's like top seven
right now.
Yeah.
Jeez.
Dude,
they got two good.
My goodness.
Well,
the real monster racers
were their friends
we made along
the way. along the way.
Made along the way, yay!
Nice. Well,
we heard most of the shoutouts. If there are any
last ones before we head off
into the next game now Now is the chance.
Yeah, last shout-out. Thank
you for letting us do this!
We've said it so many times, but seriously
this was cool.
Especially everyone in chat who showed up.
So yeah.
Huge thanks to the GDQ.
Make sure you guys stay around for the next run.
Yep, stay around for Dexter.
And if you want to find out who that is, watch Derek's video.
Yeah. to find out who that is watching Derek's video.
Oh my gosh!
Awesome, well folks if you enjoyed any of this monster racing action we've been having it going through the run
and if you're catching up on this uh on a re-upload we will have links for all the twitches for these runners um to go and check them out because they've you
know they've poured in their love into this game and have brought it to you today so
it's worth going and showing them some love if you are interested in what
else they do
a big, big thank you to all
of them once again
best wishes
for the Rixxer was going to be joining us but
it's a little bit unwell so wishing him the best.
Yes that is only the first half of Going Places we are going from one monster to another.
Would we call him a monster?
I don't know,
he's some kind of
otter-weasel thing.
We're gonna be going over
to the PlayStation Portable
with Daxter,
the Otzel, whatever that's really supposed to be. Majora is
going to take us through all missions in just a little bit we are gonna be heading
over to a break as we get everything ready. Just a reminder
that you can join the official
GDQ Discord and
Apophysics role if you want to keep tabs on
upcoming events, talk with staff
and showrunners and more.
Use!discord in the Twitch chat for more info
Once we get to this break make sure if you haven't and do have a capacity
just have a little stretch make sure you stay hydrated
and we will see very very shortly for the rest of going places so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so Thank you.. so so so so so so so Sorry, I didn't see you there.
I was busy playing Deaxter on my PlayStation portable.
We are going to be seeing somebody do a much better job of what
I could do with that in just a little bit's time but let's
have a little reminder. If you've
just joined us, this is the Games Done
Quick Hotfix. These are little shows that we
scatter in between our mainline events
Awesome Games Done Quick and Summer Games
Done Quick. We have actually just had Summer Games Done Quick,
which was a raging success,
raised over two-and-a-half million for Doctors Without Borders
And it's just a phenomenal time
If you're interested in any of the runs that have happened
during that time they are all up on our youtube you can find that games done quick.com you can also
find any highlights from this show, if you missed the monster racing at the start that was a lot of
fun you should go and check that or if you just want to see what else we've been doing on hot
picks that is of course on our youtube before we go into this Opsal action, I'll also
talk about what other events
we've got coming up. GDQ
is going to be going to PAX yet again
PAX West
Schedule is going to be released on July the 14th.
Hold up, July 14th? It's... well I'm on July 13 already
so that's gonna be tomorrow for me it's gonna be in two days
for most of you but on Sunday
So use exclamation mark PAX
in the Twitch chat for more info
and GDQ's next all-women
and famous speedrunning event Flame
Fatales returns August 18th
to the 25th. You can use!FF in the Twitch chat
to check out the schedule
and let us know what you're looking forward to most.
But, like we said,
we are going to be doing some Daxter Otzel action.
I don't actually know whether we'll see that clip out in the game
but I'm gonna let two folks who know infinitely more about the game than I do
take it away.
So Majora, how are you doing today?
Doing good.
How are you doing?
I've been really enjoying this show
and since the start
of Going Places, this has been
a game that I've wanted
to have on. And I know that
we initially kind of DMed a little while back and time wasn't quite right.
So the fact it is now on the show, I am super excited to see you do this run.
Yeah! I'm feeling pretty good good i'm super excited to show it to you so
awesome we are well we're ready when you are. Alright.
I will be starting
after pressing circle here to load the save file um before we get started
i'd like to introduce albie, my commentator here.
Hello.
I'm going to get a commentate and hopefully not fall asleep.
And we're hopefully
going to have a fun good old
time
yes, and hopefully complete
the full game all missions instead of
the demo all missions
hopefully maybe we'll credits work this time who
alright knows and three two one go good luck and so 3, 2, 1, go.
Good luck! And so very early here when Majora gets started
he's actually going to do his first mission
out of order. He's going to do the third mission here by doing a clip
out-of-bounds on this box, so he's gonna get close enough to this corner between the
box and the wall.
Nice!
Try it just like that,
And
from here he's gonna do a little out of bounds movement to jump into
the teleporter.
And just like that he's entered third level uh it's not a story order
but you have to do in this category so there are a few advantages to doing the third level first, that mainly have to do with routing.
But other than that, there's... it's not massively time going on in the first level here.
The reason why is to make sure to not use up too much bug spray
we actually haven't picked up the bugs prey yet you're supposed to do that in
second level but they're very nice stuff them let us use bug spray anyways.
It's their only part
in the entire game where they just
let us use bug spray regardless
which is how we can do
this as our first level which is really getting nice
uh the story behind this game is that this is right before Jack 2 when
Jack is being present
and Daxter
has been
kind of relaxing, kind of telling
his tall tales
but now he's going to
do some bugs terminating and hopefully save jack after that one.
It's a PSP spin-off of the Jack and Daxter series, it's really
really good.
And... oh no! Oh well, right on.
Majora didn't get quite far enough out so in order to
get the Hyoprion have to turn around
I think is helping
but then
that's
scary
so
we can still
cut
the
path of hyping off a bit
when going this side around as well.
It only saves a little bit of time to make it turn around.
But they also go
back up, but that was pretty quick backup.
Nice. Yeah, that's all good so i know how to
gotta back that up how to improvise we're doing a save load right there because it's faster than just driving back to the portal.
Really useful that it just sends us right to the portal.
And look at this is this a 90s movie reference no way have we just have we just changed to a different game?
It appears so. I mean, that could just fell asleep and all of the sudden you're playing Matrix
Yeah, we are playing The Matrix now. This is it. That's The Matrix people
People are really gonna tell me they don't have dreams like this
like this is you know this is every other night yeah so there's three models
in the scheme and this is the only required one.
So that's why it's the only one we do
for all missions because the other ones are
not considered missions.
Which, having every category at this point is starting off with an auto scroller where
you can't really do anything wrong it's not that great but it works out i think it's worse for any
sense where you just reset in crazy valley
when you take a little bit of an information
and then matrix and then you just reset after. You just go all the way
back to this volume, it's not fast.
So what I've picked up with my minimal amount of learning is that everything's predetermined
in the stage, it's kind of rhythm-ish game but then when you're on your last 10, you can do something.
You can make an awful noise
happen right here.
Ooh, nice!
And just skip the last
seven or eight of them because you have enough health to take it.
Usually when you press them early,
It will still have the enemy go all the way up to punch you so it doesn't really save time
except for at that last little bit of time there
where you can just spam it and end it a little bit early. So that in particular is why it's important to try
stay healthy throughout the level so you can just tank the damage at the end.
And here, Majora's gonna do something that's
going to seem pretty insignificant. He's
go into the brewery and immediately leave
which seems odd. But the reason for this is because you get
the power-ups in Daxter by watching specific cutscenes. The cutscene that
McGeorge has watched gives us the hover attachment
to the bug spray I mentioned earlier, so when he gets the bug spray it's going
to allow him to hover towards the bug spray, which is very important for movement.
So even though we're going to delay briefly until we have more equipment to do it quickly.
For now, we at least
want to make sure we have the
hardware attachments.
Another thing you might notice every now and again is that Majora tries to single jump as much as possible. He's also holding his camera at an angle.
He is not holding it immediately behind Daxter.
Both of those are just to speed him up.
Angle jumping is about the kind of movement that Daxter can do aside from hovering and
angling his camera at 45 degrees specifically speeds him up.
90 degrees doesn't really do it that much, but the 45 degrees's a nice balance where
for some reason the game just has
Daxter move faster whether it's
him jumping, walking, hovering
he just moves faster the entire time
yeah it's almost like you're pulling the entire time.
Yeah, it's almost like you're pulling
the level 4 gear
which is weird.
It's particularly
worthy to know
that there was
a camera in PSP game like Baxter because there's no stick for
the camera on the PSP. So one thing they do, to try and make it easier to control the camera, which is due with the right
and left bumper buttons.
Is to have it always correct
to have the camera be behind Daxter, which is how you would normally play.
Which means that when we try to keep it at a 45 degree angle
we're constantly tapping the button in order to keep it steady at the same camera angle.
Yeah, I'm intrigued to ask because Alby
I know that you run on emulator and this current run is on hardware.
Like, Majora, how do you find playing this on a PSP?
I mean, I grew up with the PSP.
So the controls
they're perfectly fine to me.
I actually, because of
playing it so much with PSP
find it a bit more odd
to play it on a PS5 and emulator.
Ah, okay.
Interesting.
Yeah, I know there's some
differences between whip-up
ring buttons and minor things like that as for the most part there's not too much
of a difference between the emulator and jm1psb so it works out all of those speed rings
nice i was about to ask abby whether you had tried them
on a psp or not uh i have not tried it on a PSP
I have been intending to
but just never found
It's nice that it is accessible through other things, and yeah like you mentioned
PlayStation 5, that's a new development. That's in the past month or so.
Yeah. I saw some new people checking out and coming into the third part of the
jackie dexter speedrunning discord um even had to the new runners doing their first any% run, which is really cool.
It's not a super active speedrun, so anyone new runners gets noticed.
The PS5 version as well would be the best version for any percent but we can't fully use tms
how it needs to be used so yeah i think it be better for the long runs.
Unless there's some gifs that doesn't work
here that we haven't noticed because we'll probably mainly check 10%.
You have to do the skip into bb1 a little bit different yeah and that uses
some time compared to esp and emulator but other than
that everything for all missions and no tms
seem to work perfectly fine when i fight them
so there it is you know all missions and no tms if you want around ps5
yeah it's better loads I think.
It probably saves a little bit of time. Yeah, that was the hotel. A few sticks are in, but mostly it was collecting the skull jumps. There are a few levels like that where
The mission is to collect certain amount of skull jumps. In that case it was collecting 25 and bringing them back to concierge, so
it's pretty straightforward mostly as you can tell but there was some bend clipping and
some of the stuff that came unconfident on
that we can mention as'm going across.
Yes?
Since Event Club is actually coming up soon, I guess you can explain that.
There are crawl spaces where most of them
you can get into without crawling and the reason for this is that when dexter lands after a jump he crouches down a bit says his hitbox gets a bit lower.
You might be able to tell that as the Majora's jumping around
and Ed just goes down,
and he is going to do that on this soundtrack here
which does become funny when you see once he's inside the vent then the heads just sticking through them, but he's still able to walk through.
And then it's a pass!
So here you're going to see Maja be able to hover right away
normally when you get the bugs there you wouldn't expect to be able to do that
because he gets the cover attachment in brewery which is
fifth level and this
is something second level but because of doing levels out of order
here you can get a little bit of time saved
from this mission from the other
a lot of spray refill as well that's nice
very impressive one more to go Very good.
The spray recoil means that you should be able to do just a full hover later on with the pipes and everything still behind. Ooh, damn.
That sucks.
You get a little low there that projectile from the worm metal bug
is a little annoying.
Yes, I did learn today that they
are apparently metal bugs and not
metal heads but it's
apparently a difference between Daxter and the rest of the Jack & Daxter series
that I never knew,
but metal bugs in Daxter are considered separate from the metal heads Just a little thing I found out, just randomly checking out the wiki page of the final boss
in this game.
Interesting considering in Jak 2 you have
giant spiders
Mhm Mhm. So you're seeing
sometimes he's trying to get some
swatter combos and since that's often the fastest way
to be able to kill enemies at this point in the game
where once you've got a combo going,
every swatting will do tons of damage to enemies.
A lot of them get one-shot by single swats
when they've got the combos on. So trying to keep it going and not attacking
the enemy separately is generally what we try to do at this point in game before we
get any blame or attachment and once we get that
we get to do a whole bunch of other tricks not by far the most important upgrade in this speedrun.
Yeah, having the extra hide it gives is just really helpful everywhere.
Well unless you count the height of the ramps and stuff like that. just really helpful everywhere.
Well, unless you count the hover which is very important.
But since the plane probably comes later it kind of feels like an assumption to always have the hover when you flamethrow.
So right here, you're gonna see something interesting.
Where the entrance he's going to go into is how you normally enter Breesy Valley 1
by entering that cutscene
However because he has already done Breezy Valley 1 when
he goes through the teleporter here it'll be Breezy Valley 2
which is a pretty big skip in the mission progression
I think it's like
level seven or something normally you do it after
sprint line one
actually becomes level 8 because you get Brewery then the transit system and then Strip 911
And finally you can get to Freesia Valley
which is really nice that we can do the second Freesia Valley mission this
early into our run because it means tanker one isn't too late.
It's always a bit scary going into tanker one so to be able
to push a caribou into your own field very good.
But coming up here, he's going to try and set up a triple kill
because instead of having one hype queen with three points of health,
there's going to be three hypes queens with 1 point of health here.
So he tries to get in position there.
Definitely got the double kill and triple kill.
Nice!
It's not too difficult to get the double kill there, as long as you don't chase away the first one.
But getting the triple kill is pretty precise in this position, so we're really nice majority to get that line up well.
I put a lot of time into practicing and studying my recordings of when I didn't get it,
and when I did get it.
It's definitely not easy to get that's for sure. Mm-hmm.
And here, Daxter finally learns that oh wait yeah part of this is I'm supposed to like actually help Jack.
Because he's been kind of busy with his job as an exterminator and then he just runs into Jack being transported on this uh consumer so I don't even
think during the chase yeah no it's just an anti-care not loaded in but I promise he's there. He's there in the cutscenes
Apex is such a fake friend.
It's just like, oh yeah Jack! Oh man...
Sucks to be him I guess.
Yeah or how he didn't really do something for two years.
Two years?
Yeah, you have a cutscene
and then it's like
two years later
that it starts
because that's how long Jack is in confinement, so they have to play around with that when creating the continuity for this game, do you think?
That's hilarious. I mean actually... Sorry Jack but... Oh no! actually you know like sorry for sorry jack but oh no he's only being mixed here and if it all
went fine yeah thanks they need some time to shine right no i mean he's gonna get some sick powers why wouldn't
you love some quick eagle powers yeah man plf dark Daxter that was something.
So are you two like just fans of the series as well or Or what was it that kind of like
sparked the joy for this game?
I grew up with
the Jak and Daxter games.
Okay. So, it's like
childhood nostalgia and I just like platformers,
collectathons.
Nice!
Yeah, I've liked collectathon football growing up. However,
Jack and Baxter is one of those series
that I definitely had the opportunity
to play as a kid but
didn't end up taking it
and regretting later when i played
a snipple thing really enjoyed it okay because
i know i had them who had the jacking back to games which
I did
I do remember briefly seeing
playing that
but even just never
actually asking to play I actually
asked him to play or anything.
There we go, and then it's good.
It got to the point where I actually started beatrunning Daxter before I played any of
the other Jak and Daxter games. Yeah, here's the big trick.
He is going to wait until the platform comes up here
so he can boost it up and cover out of bounds
And then he's gonna try and get the visual line
up there too
to hover to a platform.
Oh no!
It's really difficult,
The camera angle was kind of hard to see
the visual cue there
to get into a right position.
This is the first really, really scary trick whenever you do TV events in my opinion of that category.
Yeah it is...
One of three henchmen are killing their own.
There we go. One of the three henchmen are killing their runs.
There we go. Yes!
Nice!
Second try, right here again.
So he doesn't have a checkpoint yet so you have to be a little careful.
We get just two checkpoints.
Not quite that bad, thank you.
But you do have to be careful of that when you do things out of order,
that you don't necessarily have a checkpoint.
I think it's worse than Tanker 2 where we just don't get a checkpoint at all.
Yeah?
I've definitely
had situations like that where
I have done something silly in transit system
and been like, oh yeah i now have to do the entire train section again
because i didn't grab the checkpoint yeah i always brought up the checkpoint there now
yeah started doing that as well after the one time where I killed a run for not
doing anything.
Which actually is the reason why my most recent run didn't buy an informant. So, he's approaching 30 here. He's going to get the last one from this big one and this, uh... This is actually the
only level in the game that's
a bit of a scam, and that
it actually forces us to do two missions
instead of just one.
It's not enough for us to just collect the skull gems here we also have to do a mini game at
the end which is a bit unfortunate because we can skip it so um because it's considered part of a mission we cannot because this
is the all missions category so we just have to step through it
yep to sift through it.
So he's gonna be controlling this tick and just passing
across
triangle, square buttons
on the right timing and if he ever fails then you have to restart everything from
the beginning oh that, that's...
That sucks.
They are pretty slow
but unlike
Jak and Daxter minigames of similar
varieties in Jak 2 or anything.
It's not like you have five lives, you have a single life.
But you don't have to hit 500 things.
Are these ones also predetermined?
Like, Matrix game or
are these a bit more random?
I think these are more
random. Yeah, I think they're more random.
This one has three cycles so...
The matrix scheme in terms of the plugins
isn't entirely pretty permanent
it's like 50%edrement pretty much but this one is uh
pretty much completely random which order the buttons come out
where they come on like Sometimes you can have...
You can see the two
processors in the middle
on both sides
They come out
from there and go very quickly to the thing so you gotta be careful just like that
they're a bit sneaky sometimes and sometimes we you get like pretty much none of them,
and it's just the threat that might come eventually.
Yeah.
But other times you get tons of the buttons coming through there one clue to see if you're getting
those is just how many buttons you see in the field if you don't if you see a gap between when buttons would arrive, that's pretty much
a clue that one of them is going to be one of the quick ones in the middle.
Gotcha.
Majora got through it no problem, and then there we have another cutscene that's significant. It's one of those upgrade cutscenes, it's the one that gives the flamethrower attachment
so he's going to be able to hover higher and he's going to be able to kill
enemies with a flamethrower which is very important but he's going to be able to kill enemies with the flamethrower, which is very important.
He's not gonna need to use it immediately
First he's gonna do a save load here
And the reason for this is that he does it in a spot where he's kind of
In the middle of the city port and the distillery
So, he's going to get proxied up
And then hover out-of-bounds
To enter the distillery from out of bounds.
It's not a long elevator ride that you skip,
but it does get having to wait for both doors
And the elevator ride is also extremely slow
so it does end up saving quite a bit of time
if they make the great hotel elevator music but
only put it in the hotel elevators.
Yeah...
That's another good reason to skip the elevator song play.
Yeah Yeah, as you can see here it's so much quicker to use the flamethrower than when you have
to do tons of smacking on this guard combo and maybe not even all of the time being
will be utilized to combo
its full potential.
To now just be able to
throw out the Flame Threader
It's really nice nice and this jump that Majora's doing is very tight
he just barely got it so he made sure to get the boost from angling his camera.
He actually wouldn't be able to do it without angling his camera there,
that's actually how difficult the jump across there is.
I even normally do an extended jump there
just to make it because i find the angle of the camera really difficult versus the walls.
Yeah, walls work interesting with the camera on this game.
They're kind of a factor in how it pushes the camera away from you.
Because the camera will get stuck on them sometimes.
That's fine. Skipped an eco there, but definitely has enough eco in the tank to reach the second, so not too big of a deal.
I think we agreed last time that there was wine in that story.
Baxter does struggle with water, so
it's not weird that he would also struggle
with wine.
You'd think that you wouldn't struggle
with water being, what is it?
Part otter, part weasel?
Yeah yeah and part soul. Yeah because like otters love water, they live in
water all the time
how strange i don't know maybe it's all that for
I dunno if there're all that very normal yes so dexter's very funny he's trying his best. No, you're just gonna...
I was thinking about it because I usually do it again.
I was hoping that we'd finally
get to explain it, but yeah.
I'll have to hold off on that.
Yeah, I don't know if I do any extended jumps.
I see a lot more cameramen up to make all the extended jumps,
because I'm not confident in my ability
to do all of the extended jumps instead.
And meanwhile,
I started running before we really got into minifing the camera.
And I'm a lot more confident in my extended jumps than minifing the camera
in certain situations where some of the gaps in the walls can be annoying sometimes.
I've got to say, I do love how this game looks.
And like you know PSP games were very impressive
it was kind of having a mini-PS2
and the way that they make use of you know what a PSP can do
in this game. I don't know it just, it's a really good looking game i don't
know how you two feel about it? Yeah I feel like they were really clever about the what needed to be active and
inactive at any given time to try and push the psbP to really show up what it can do.
Not really constantly checking collision
or other things like that, which we do have these fit in this video
but it definitely helps out with the psv when you can't wait to handle it in my place.
It's really surprising to me too how well that it runs because if there's no load screens or anything yeah it was like the other Jack games.
You walk and there is
the next area, you go through the door and it loads to the next
area. Not like some games that take a second to load the next level before it puts you in.
Well, having said that things probably would be a little bit slower
on UMD
I imagine
oh yeah
what a beautiful form of media
but yeah most, I don't think i know a set there might
be but i don't think i know a single psp game that isn't ran you know off the
memory card because umd's you know that optical format so it's not particularly quick
and then you have the psp disk reader but also it's not leader also is not
i yeah i popped it i put the umb in it
the other day and the noises that it
made
i was like oh gosh something's gonna
something's going gonna blow up yeah they don't sound very nice Much better to just play stuff off from the minister. One pretty interesting thing about this Skull Gem collecting level, unlike the other ones is that I'm having some problems here with the ice block.
I think that it should be fine.
Yeah, that would help.
The interesting part here is that usually when you're doing scroll jam collecting levels,
you see us actually going to the end in a way that you would expect.
Doing it casually as well.
However, this one stands out as the only one where we just go straight back
out to the entrance that we came in because uh we have access to do it and going the other way is really
slow and has like no metal bugs there for us to kill with the skull gems, so it doesn't really make sense.
The ones that we can get the skull gems out of are a lot more out of the way compared to here you can see just five
just sitting in really nice location. So nice. Grab all the gems and boom mission complete.
Another thing that I should mention, since we save and loaded Fabrice Valley for not doing it towards the Skull Gem collecting missions.
It actually doesn't say that you
collected all these gold gems until
when you left the level,
so we haven't
really completed a mission, even though it says
Mission Complete, until we've actually left the level and when the assess mission complete until we actually left a level in life with
crazy valley and such where we could just save and load
after completing the mission and be satisfied with that.
And since I haven't hit a checkpoint
since completing the mission,
if I die right now
it will take half the stall gems like left it away from me
putting these up to 20 and it's been a while yeah collect the checkpoint he's not going to be getting them going backwards there's
one check point and this from like this is the only one that you get going back
which at that point you basically exited Tannery, so...
You really just gotta do the entire level death force.
Looks like it's gonna be fast and furious, oh so close!
Even when you're dropping checkpoints
there are just so many things that get slowed down if you ever die, since we go back the same way we came.
So we leave like ice blocks already melted which you have to melt again
If you are going back, and potentially if you have to backup some scroll gems on the way back too
it can be a pretty major time loss in small dots.
Here we have one of the missions that's very important
that you don't get mission clear turn on with.
The Emerald Isle one,
Emerald Forest one I think
and depending on your region.
Because if you get to a part in the level progression where the second level here is
possible to do then this one is just straight up skipped which isn't bad for all missions
but we want to do all the missions.
That's one reason why there is never going to be a route
in this category that does all of Haven City in one go.
Because then you can't do this mission.
Get beside the bugs little dude! do this mission. Just kind of try and get the
pretty early cycle,
The absolutely earliest crazy
cycle that Majora's been getting. It was pretty hard to get, but he
got it before The Cave which is a pretty standard psych cycle.
It's rare that you can get it earlier than that.
Yeah, I tried doing some hot throws. Those get the grenades farther but still didn't get a earlier kill Okay.
And now we're going to another minigame, and I promise we're gonna do the level battle, I promise!
Because of
the way this works... Do you see
the door open there for you? That's a bit of a lie, actually.
The door is not at point where it can
open because of how we've been doing
this round so when he goes back
He's actually going to have
to skip past the door rather
than actually just having the door open for him.
Which is a bit annoying
but
something you have to deal with.
And here we have the reason why we delayed the brewery,
so Majora's just gonna immediately
hover out of bounds here with the flamethrower
and get all the way to the end.
It's just like that.
This is where the mission takes place,
this one mini-me.
That's the entire mission.
Anything else in the level?
It's actually mission. Anything else in the level? Is that job really
to be a bug exterminator
or is it complete missions? I think
its complete missions, so
thats what we're gonna do. And Osmo, you know,
he doesn't tell us the we didn't do our jobs cuz just
doing it seems like Daxter was really hired just to do this for the brewery you know yeah i mean we saw in some
other levels that uh we got the mission by getting the skull gems from the bugs.
I mean, if you really wanted to have us do that all the time
we could've done it like in Tango 1 where we had to do both.
Exactly.
But we didn't.
So we don't do both things.
We just skip the van and do the mini-game. I think that's another difference with the emulator and physical hardware is I'm pretty sure
doors open faster on emulators.
Oh they do? That's interesting.
I'm pretty sure, I could be wrong, but it's felt that way.
They take pretty long in emulators so it takes time. Here Majora's going to enter the transit system, which if you remember from earlier in
the run i did mention that this was a part of normally getting to
easy valley 2 we've been delaying it all the way here
and not necessarily because we needed to
just because of routing it kind of works out this way
and because you don't actually benefit from having the plane thrower here
really there's not really much you can do with the flamethrower here, really.
There's not really much you can do with it.
Even in a boss fight
it's like
maybe a few of the middle bugs
you can kill a bit faster with the fl a bit faster but that's about it there's not a lot of exciting
things we can do here um from having delayed transistors,
and it just works out with the routing well.
Here I'm gonna be rotating
the camera on the trains
because it actually also makes them go a bit faster.
Which is sort of interesting.
Wait have we messed up that?
I don't know but it really...
Like when i do that
It just..
It really pulls
Feels like its pulling pulling it towards me.
That looks interesting, probably the plan.
Yeah definitely because I've been doing it
because it just feels faster so've started doing it.
And then when, uh...
Noki was figuring out
the
camera minute thing
for
just general
indexing. He wasn't really going into depth with that, which is nice to be able to figure out exactly
The camera angle of all them everything just fitting it up
I feel like we should probably do something about the transfer at least
dark with some camera angles that's okay I can hover back. That's fine, okay.
This also gives me the checkpoint right here.
Yeah and the checkpoint is exactly there so it works out
okay back on track
jumping onto climbing areas and jumping off them
as you've been seeing uh the drawer do in other parts of their run as well
it's pretty quick so i was trying to do that with trains a bit and ended up getting carried away so Yeah, other than potentially having to time whether this cameraman in Majora's trying to do is actually a clone.
There's not really much going on in this section, it's just some neat platforming and Any Majora climbing the Dome Seer can crash. That's something that the
I think you weren't even aware of
when we last
Yeah, it wasn't
even I was walking into the corners because there's no collision and you don't take damage when you do it.
I completely didn't register... I can crouch under.
There is a capital way to do this, it isn't just exploit bad glitch.
Can the runners see the chat? Yes, I can see the chat
The Majora's again but the majora is in a bit more attention than
to his gameplay yeah there's not a lot of
down time and dax for it to look over at the chat.
And you're not supposed to walk through
the ones, Benz. You're supposed to crawl through them
but as I talked about earlier in the run, Daxter ducks when he lands after a jump which gives just enough space for Dexter to squeeze his way in there.
It's a lot faster to walk through than them to crawl
and so here uh majora is going to face 5.1
here so
hopefully
it doesn't
turn out
that
we're
playing
the full
version
this time yes
he is playing the same version so who? Maybe it's a demo version again.
It just feels like today could be a demo version
That was the case last time we showcased this category.
That just randomly misplacified it, I even have a message here
Congratulations! You've completed this preview of Daxter on a PSP
and look for full version of Daxter coming Spring 2006!
Press any button to return to main menu
And then you're to the main menu.
Now to restart the boss fight.
The weirdest thing is that Majora looked it up
And the preview was supposed to end in the brewery but for
some reason it just triggered randomly in this ballpark
in the middle of it not even actually completing yeah one would think if it was this classified
it would be after completing it not in the middle luckily there's a good save point so that didn't hurt too much but that was pretty funny. Yeah, the biggest thing outside of just getting the hits in that I'm sure he's trying to do is, it's fine to stay in front of the boss but it doesn't spend too much time turning around.
But turning around animation there. It can take a while and then it's only after
that it charges up its attack, you want to charge up the attacks as soon as possible
because regardless of which attack it is you have to wait for the attack until
you can hit it again.
And then now Majora is actually going to move over to the part of the mission direction that you expect him to do after ML.
And he's going to enter the second enhancement of killing our mission's friends, Construction Site 2.
Or at least of killing
my whole mission's friends.
We'll get this.
I've practiced it.
Let's go, we believe.
That's a. We believe. That's bold last words, as I interpret it.
This is not any percent.
This is all missions, which in some levels
is actually the same as any percent.
In particular when we're on the missions
it's actually just to get to the end of a level which is kind of convenient.
But in a lot of places means doing the levels differently,
and also doing levels that we just don't see in NXM.
Because NXM is very little mission progression it's mostly just going around
getting all the power so the hover attachment the bug spray and the same for our attachments and then you just go to them again
here Here he's going to do a pretty cool thing with the trampoline. We're actually gonna want to crawl in a situation where we normally don't crawl which is
the opposite of what we usually do because it can allow them to build up a really,
really high trampoline bounce there
by building up some momentum
by being crawled on the trampoline
and just getting it to go wild with all those bounces.
The skip first try was really difficult, so this is really really cool.
I think he's trying to call that job.
Well I don't think I'm getting this though.
That's a difficult pen flip.
I'm ready for that.
I try to get it from that hover
that I do, but sometimes
just cooperate.
I'm kinda being scared with the hover, but still pretty hard.
... And even though you don't get to see that the trampoline boost a lot of times mainly because
there's not a lot of levels with trampolines,
You are going to get to see it a second time here after mature gets up the elevator
there's another trampoline which just so happens to very easily allow allowing to leave because you leave easily on the room immediately
to the right of where he currently is. He's just gonna jump over
to the other side with that trampoline boost and
get an easy vent clip on the lift Then at the end of construction site 2 is where you unlock the second set of missions in the power station, this is a really good reason to delay the BC Valley 1 early, so you can do the power station all in one go
rather than having to go there
two times.
Since all the missions here are available, you teleport to select. Unlike with the other teleporter where the mission gets over and he can just select Stripman 1 here,
even though that was a while ago in the mission progression. It can be a bit annoying, especially with how low the roof is there so you can't really just hover over them easily.
That's a ceiling I guess we should say.
So here are some neat little small platform, but from having the flamethrower attachments in
a level where you don't normally have it. Yeah, there's a lot of one-sided walls in the game. And so you can just kinda pass through them.
We've got some poppers out there as well, with a bit of a weird place that you can land there but
for some reason it doesn't allow me to jump
but uh you can still just delay things a bit there
and let your ego refresh a little bit so you can do another hover immediately
after and get up on the platform without having to do all that climbing But for these gems that he's collecting throughout this level, some of them you're expected to go all the way back down.
Like this one for example, you just expect it to collect and take a trip back down but he's just gonna
backtrack and ends up working out just fine. And that means
we can
have a bit more
direct paths to these jumps,
which is really nice.
Then eat this cycle and it's working out very well
nice
that cycle just keeps going as you're going throughout that level, so sometimes depending on the time through the level it can be either that you have to wait there a long time or maybe you just barely make it enjoy
having a nice amount of time to make it there very good and now we're actually back to a part of the mission progression I was talking about after construction site 2, with the other levels in the power station.
So this person is... in the power station
so this first one is where we get the final cutscene actually to unlock
one of Dice just powers with this blaster.
I don't even know what it is actually called,
but it's a mod that allows him
to shoot these electric balls
and he uses them to blow up some of these walls
and destroy some masts.
I think the manual calls for the upgrade
of a sonic bomb, or a sonic grenade I think the manual calls the upgrade the Sonic Bomb or Sonic Grenade, something like that.
Yeah...Sonic is Super Sonic sounds kinda familiar.
It's just, it allows us to shoot from it. Yeah.
That thing is hard.
It allows us to blast stuff.
Oh, I see.
Okay.
So, we're going to go back up here and get the All else is the blast stuff.
Incidentally, even though it's supposed to be required there's not really much that's required with the compact.
Yeah, we can skip all of the requirements
but it's only for getting into the log, I'm pretty sure.
But it's actually required.
I mean, I guess completing this mission...
Not really, actually.
No TMS would do without getting the first one.
So, I don't actually think there's any places left
where its required with the skips we have
but it's faster so
it's always nice to have
it turns out when the game gives you something expecting you to do
it if they can be faster to just use what
the game gives you Yeah, he's just going through the level getting all these nests.
Incidentally, all of don't all actually die to
the blaster the bigger ones you need in the flamethrower
something like that, and then I did the run again. After a while had forgotten what it was confused about for them
Just blasting it over and going over and over
Why is there something going down? blasting it over and going over and doing nice, and then
just Okay, just one left. The last one is actually a bit further in here. Not really out of the way so it's fine. He is gonna go a fair bit here with just one remaining
And it seems that Majora got a little concerned there about not being on the flamethrower when he was about to jump off.
You can actually hover with the blaster, and it does use up a lot of eco.
So it's nice to make sure you switch to the flamethrower
And there he got the final nest
and can finish this first half of Strip Mine 2.
There's also boss fights which you need to do afterwards here,
in which the boss fight at least for the level itself is telling me fire the part we do the
first part for the mission progression and the majora is doing the skips here. Luckily, because he's playing all missions you can't just use the blaster if you fail them.
That's what's done in No TMS, why we can skip the blaster.
Just flip out of bounds and using the elevators there.
And incidentally, it's probably a little bit faster to do it in all missions as well since you can hover up
with the combined power of both the flamethrower and the movement that you get from
the elevator, just to be able to move forwards really early.
Normally you would have to wait around on the elevator before you can finally
start destroying the house and then keep going very little
Majora's gonna combine the blaster with some spin
attacks because there is a little bit more time that you have to attack than
the amount of health you will have each round that you get to attack so getting some spin attacks in as well
and it can help with uh getting enough to get a quick fight.
And like with a lot of the fights in Daxter, the first phase has a predetermined attack.
The second phase is a predetermined attack and then the last phase you can be either one of them
he ended up getting it done in three cycles which is very good
looks like you've got another date with betsy three technical season
probably hadn't known tms since he don't have his last year
but it's a bit more reasonable in all missions.
So we're gonna be doing some fun stuff with the camera here.
Yes, so I haven't actually talked about it.
I briefly mentioned it when I mentioned the collision as being something they optimized well for the PSP.
But one thing to note about this game is that the selection
is very dependent on, and also actions
by enemies are dependent on
where you're looking so these uh seven mini bosses i guess
i don't know what to throw into on us but these seven bugs flying around they actually won't die unless
you look at them which is interesting oh interesting The damage will still register
even when you're not looking at them
but they will just
sit there in
an about to die state
without actually dying
unless you make sure
you look at them
or at least
look close to them.
And yeah, so there we go. That was a situation where Majora looked close enough that the counter went out.
So it's nice to keep track of the counter on the right side,
especially if you don't have it on screen or if you're trying to get a quick hit on you. He almost made that cycle, it was close.
Luckily we spawn in here and he gets pretty quick cycle so it's not too much time loss.
Yeah like I know this one because of how slow moving back is. You kill the bug and then you
die afterwards to quickly get back.
So I will normally
set the camera up
and get in position to die
and if you really want a game that you can even start dying
as so you're looking at the bottom before it's even fully bad.
When you're doing that,
it's nice to make sure
you are looking at the counter
to be absolutely sure
okay I got it
Okay I can move on
Because if okay i can't move on
because if you don't get it from the backtracking thing go and actually kill it again maybe It can be a bit time consuming.
And here we're gonna set up by taking the checkpoint there for another death abuse after this set.
Because again, they're a little bit out of the way from where we normally move
so it's nice to just be able to get back
to the particle level that we were
before pretty quickly.
Yeah, you can
do this very risky and start
taking a lot of damage while on the button
when it's
a little scary, but just going into first brush to make sure you don't really take damage right away is a nice way to handle that.
Because if you start taking damage right away,
you just start having all these bugs going up against you and
You can easily get to the point where they shake you off the button and end up doing a lot of damage to you, like boogie bugs or something all attacking and so scary.
Here we have the final one that the controls can't go in, make sure
that you absolutely look at it if you do it quickly then
It's very easy to just
Try and turn away and keep going. Especially if
You're using the blaster to kill it. You just kind of have to wait there
as its time, get on with it already so I can move on, exit the level.
And he's not going to use the slide to exit the level
and do that in the hotel
and I think the hotel is actually the only side we used
instead he's going to backtrack here
to where he killed the first bug and
he's gonna make sure to grab a checkpoint too just in case
yeah and that's a good reason to grab the just in case. Yep.
And that's a good reason to grab the checkpoint because otherwise you lose like
40 seconds from dropping off there.
Instead,
he has a checkpoint right there to be able to re-attempt and jump across there.
He gets it the second try, very nice.
So now we get a re-anchor port.
And as I mentioned earlier, the door booked a line when it opened up right here. You can't actually go through the door, so what Majora's going to do instead is set in...
I'm switching my flamethr power first just in case i need the extra height
yeah i normally do that going for scooter
oh there we go i didn't even didn't even need the extra height, just got an extremely good one first try.
That was such a clean one. You could have probably made that without the hover.
I don't know if you would've landed on a scaffolding, so downland them
So the hover wouldn't save time there from getting over the invisible wall
and it can be a bit annoying there
Yeah, and here we get into the second level in the same teleporter.
And as you can see unlike the Power State Mission Teleporter it doesn't give you the option to do both levels
It just sends you into the level that
you are at in whatever part of the mission
progression room which is why it's important that we do ralph this category around us.
I don't know if there would be a reason to write it in such a way ever
but especially
on missions where
that's important
we make sure that we don't get too far in mission progression
both doing the first level
in this helicopter teleporter.
That machine progression is however something we've used in noTMS where
we make sure we do get to that part of the mission progression early so we don't
have to be at the first level.
Because that one doesn't have to complete all the missions
so the less missions
you complete, the better.
... The less missions you complete, the better.
I'm gonna hunt oh, don't need to peek.
Let's see if it puts me in a good spot to drive off.
I think it's more likely for you to just vault and drive back.
It's not less faulted, but definitely better if you drive drive up and exit here. If you drive off the waterfall, then you respawn at the beginning here.
But it can take a bit of time to dry off the water bones.
Now at this point, we have finally gotten to the endgame.
So...this is the part of the game that any percent would skip to very early in the run. Just going to the tanker like right away and skipping to this level
that Majora is about to about, Tanker 2. So quite a bit different in all missions.
Because the mission in Tank 2, even though it's not collecting skull jumps or doing a
mini game or anything you do need to activate the escape sequence, which you would normally just do regularly when playing.
Actually however this skip we do doesn't necessitate that you activate this game sequence
so the skip ends up looking a little bit different
in all missions where we do have to activate it.
So he's going to hover on top of this pipe here,
and then hover back up and try to get a standpoint
in the middle of the pipe at the top there.
Getting a little hungry here.
That should be
enough, okay?
I think I've gotten that much.
We'll see.
We'll find out.
I feel like that's not number 200...
Maybe?
Yeah!
That is so barely. I've never seen it so barely.
But it looked like you were being...
...porked back out.
It did not look like you made it.
There we go, that's the escape sequence
that you normally don't have to activate.
You can actually continue that out of bounds a bit, but it's a bit risky. It's difficult to get the poles to pull off which you have no checkpoint for.
So you have to do the entire out of bounds all over again and fail.
So that can be a big reset point.
I would consider this the third henchman of killing marlins, just because of how difficult the out-of-bounds can be here with no checkpoints whatsoever in this mission.
The Majora does fail
off the first platform, but luckily
you can do it on the second platform here as well
so even though this one...
There's enough eco to go to the other ones and still finish the level, so it is a bit unfortunate
not getting up the pipes to get into this little section at the end early.
And you take down the dark and go like you had us do there,
you can just land right here and just get down below.
And the barren palace here is uh the one i mentioned earlier as
the only level in the game where the mission has just complete the levels
so this is identical between all missions and Anixent,
which is pretty rare in this beacon.
And to be exactly the same.
This is one of the few cases where that's the case, you just jump through the level.
Depending on how much out-of-bounds Majora wants to do there are some interesting things you can do in this level.
It is pretty straightforward. This is definitely a movement check, I would say.
Uh-huh.
In Daxter.
Difference of times you can get if you've got your single jumping down, making sure
you maintain your hovers. Don't just drop them right away because
the start of the hover is really slow but as you
continue to hover it's pretty fast.
And making sure that you hold the 45 degree angle of the camera well
and all that stuff adds up to
making Daxter move just that little bit of hooker can be
a big barrier in time there and Majora is going to go for an
corner clip here. So he's gonna try and winch himself in the
corner. Oh, okay.
And then get through the bookshelf just like that.
... It's not risky in the sense that there is a lot of time if you fail it. But all you're really skipping is one laser cycle eventually
and even then depending on what your cycles look like when you're going in advance,
you could just get a good cycle.
So that was an odd jump I just got there.
Yeah it can be a bit interesting jump I just got there. Yeah,
it can be a bit interesting
depending on where you land and how
you end up
with that. And he's gonna
try to hover across here.
He can still get a hover if he falls down there, which is nice.
In order to skip all that platforming going up above
it's nice to just be able
to cut the corner
and he's gonna
cut another corner here
by getting on top
of
the side
a little bit
and
jump to this platform that's very convenient
in order to get into the part um that has the cutscene trigger to open up the final part of the level
and And here we're going to get into a very hard and long level, the prison. This one starting out here has some global guard cycles that if you're getting the same times,
they are going to be in the same locations. So if you run the game enough
maybe occasionally you will just know where the guards are, but that could
be hard to keep track of. It's a bit further into the person that really starts to have some significant skips. I was almost going to say major, which considering they only skip parts of the level each maybe it's appropriate to call them a manger.
Not as big of a tank if you want, not the biggest thing with the other ones that skip right at the end of levels, things like that.
It's a very long level so to have those 20 second time-saves here or there
10 seconds sometimes maybe... it can really add up 10 saves here or there. Sometimes maybe
it can really add up
There are a lot of pink card cycles as you'll notice.
There's also one here, but the majority gets one where
you just can't have to wait.
There're two variations of the card cycle
where you can go straight to the door, depending on whether he is behind a pillar or in front of it.
Did you try to do the jumping?
I did, I did.
That's probably the most tight part
of a gun clip in the entire game,
where after the vent clip there's a bit of an extra ledge
that tries to keep you from being able to walk through.
Which if you do very precise jumps you can actually get through a walking scale and right here we mentioned earlier about maintaining the elevator momentum upwards as you're hovering.
Normally, you're not supposed to be able to
just continually go upwards when you hover
normally it looks like this where
you have a maximum height
however if you jump off
the elevator and hover which you can do here as well. You just keep going up
on just the elevator vertical movement, which uh... actually do some really nice skips of some of the platforms going up here if you get the combination wrong.
And unfortunately, the camera did not want to follow Majora so he's gonna have to crawl eventually
even after getting the vent flipped.
Which is a bit annoying but
it ends up working out.
Gets to walk through
at least a little bit of that sequence
and it was not very fun when Dexter doesn't want to get the ledge ground.
Well, that's a checkpoint right there but...
Yeah I don't know why it does that.
But yeah, Daxter sometimes just crawls up above the ledge.
Yeah, and it usually gets fixed when you jump off and then go back on.
But because he had to do that the bugs were ready where as they normally take a bit to come in.
And just like that so... But here
this is actually an instance where Majora gets a very good
cycle where you can just run straight through.
I mentioned it earlier that you can get those kinds of cycles
but you don't have to wait for the guards, which is really nice.
Cool that we got Sho out show at least one of them
because sometimes especially if you're in your
trigger game might be scary to try and cheat cycles a bit.
Because some guards can really be in difficult positions to make sure you get past them, but when
you can go past the cycles very quickly they're really satisfying. Saves a lot of time. There, he gets another event clip just like that and uh from here
there's going to be another out of bounds section using the same corner clip method that was used early in the run
To get into Breezy Valley here, So you just ledge grab close to a wall,
and you're able to jump out of bounds.
We'll see what kind of movement
Majority decides to do here? So the first one here you can do a regular jump with the holding your camera angle.
Got it!
You can do it for the other one as well!
Very tight on the other one.
It's actually so tight that before we knew about speeding up Dexter with the camera angle,
We actually weren't able to do it even with his images.
It's just that far of a gap.
So being able to clear it...
And the... And just kind of go to the edge of the spinners here, use momentum from the spinners
try and jump across skipping some spinners because they take a while to move around
and not all of them are positioned in their location that's close to the end, so using that momentum can allow him to clear through the room a lot quicker.
At the final minigame off the run.
Yeah!
Another one of those mini-games that you don't get to see in airs times. Kind of like the Omen and just like all the other minigames you only have one life with us so
you have to be careful to not press any of the wrong Eventually when there's enough different variations of buttons you need to press. Just a lot of them on screen,
it can be easy if you maybe go oh I'm supposed to click in this direction and
it happens to be one that's not on the screen at that time.
I even had ones where
it looked like a button coming
far down in the screen,
and it just instinctively moved my
front to the cross button because that's far down on the controller i stopped myself
would have been really fast since that was a PvP turn.
Luckily, I stopped myself.
Here we go this is the final boss.
And um... This is actually another uh...
Another place where you're supposed to meet the blaster which makes sense for them to test
all of the equipment that you've been using throughout the game.
It's part of this final boss here,
but he's actually
just not
going to need it because we'll skip
what he's going to be able to do later on but at least for now
he kind of just has to wait around it is actually possible to mimic this first phase
let's get some faster
kits in but unfortunately that is very precise and just half not contested enough.
I'm not weighing this work in that,
but we'll see if it's consistent to get the first hit to always be the same
But keeping it out the entire way is going to be very difficult based on your position
and just a little bit, very small differences between positions.
We will change where Kaden likes to move,
and which one of these geysers I guess?
Dark eco-geyser that he wants
to hover on top of
and as you'll notice i'm saying i'm staying on the middle floor platform
as they're closest to each geyser so it just allows me to hit him a bit
faster no matter which one it goes to.
Another thing is that Jorah's gonna try and not use up
too much eco
so he has enough
for the skip later.
So, you can see him just jumping across and never really hovering. So that's the fourth and final hit of this phase, which means that Majora can hover over here to
be placed where he is going to set up for the skip.
And time is coming up!
Yeah, very soon we can get to the skip.
He's gonna get on top of Kidd in fact and as his kitten flies away it's gonna
bounce up wow nice just like that so when he gets
off the key then it's gonna be over nice
awesome well i mean you two thank you so much thank you uh thank you majora for showing off the game albie thank you
for the commentary are there any shout outs that you folks want to give
well you know to you and gdq for having me on
really i uh it's always been something that i've wanted to do having me on, really.
It's always been something that I've wanted to do be on one of these shows so
I really, really do appreciate it
and appreciate the invitation and stuff.
Gnarly!
Excellent work dude! the invitation and stuff. And I definitely
want to shout out Aldi, it's like
4 in the morning
for her right now
She is doing amazing her right now
she's doing amazing providing this commentary for me i can't behind yourself i can't state enough
how much i appreciate her staying up as late as she is staying up.
No worries, it's a Friday night so...
Albie whilst you're still awake do you have any shoutouts? and I Albi
whilst you're
still awake
do you have
any shoutouts
uh
that's how
I've been
mentioning a
few people
throughout the
round but
I'd just
like to
shout out
some of
the amazing
Daxter
runners that's been helping throughout the
years whether it's Noki who has really been pushing this game and worked on a lot of the different scripts and the movement of everything
etc just a bunch of people who have really dedicated a lot of time to figuring out the different things in the game and making tutorials and everything to make this speedrun a lot more accessible to everyone.
Awesome, and speaking of making the game accessible
if folks were interested in running this
I know we've mentioned the Discord server a few times
does that Alby you put out some pretty good resources for the game
You're welcome to talk about that.
Yeah so
I actually have both an Inks and a...
And no TMS tutorials.
Do you want me to pull one for all my scenes as well? to us yeah
did i make a full one for all machines as well no
i don't think so i made a kind of stuffed all missions tutorial
been wanting to revisit it, make a better one.
So you can find those on the guides page at moshpdrag.com
You can also find the recent ones guide and some of the movement techniques we do.
Some are arguable with their movements but I'm sure there's no way. movement 15 common start with NeverSense, it's not...the techniques there are
not that much more difficult and TMS which might seem a bit scary is actually pretty easy on the inputs.
That's an easier kind of way to get started. It's nice when you feel
particularly if you're starting out
usually it's under an hour
still Yeah, I know my first any percent run I think was like 36 minutes
or something so it's pretty short you can just start now nice
awesome well once again thank you to you so much um a big thank you to the monster racer races that we had on earlier.
A big thank you to Derek Ash and Thrasher and folks.
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Lena's Inception, as Amber mentioned is a game that is heavily
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My favorite type of loss to be!
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Alright so first thing I can say is that is a pretty solid boss order not the greatest but far
far from the worst um you might be wondering how i know uh the boss order already and that is a little bit spoilery
but the children that are seated in lena's school represent each of the bosses so i can look at the order that the children are seated and
figure out from that which boss is where the first boss and the eighth boss will always be same as well.
I don't know why open them up already to that
As well as
The items in their dungeons will not be randomized either, because
The item that you get in a dungeon is tied to which boss
Is in that dungeon. So this first dungeon is very straightforward, we are going to go teach Lance the Hero Kid how to use that nifty little sword? This is a really long dungeon.
That the Elder left for him. Unfortunately, the Elder died under mysterious circumstances.
But he left that sword for Lance because Lance is a hero and it's dangerous to go alone.
So this is THE absolute worst dungeon 1 layout
and also dungeon type combo you can get.
Forest dungeons are absolutely awful, fortunately only one forest dungeon
can appear per seed if there is one. This is a pretty good item room.
And honestly, if we had to have
a forest I'm glad that it was
one of dungeons...
realistically speaking one or two It There's a reason why I don't want it
in 4 onward that I will get into later in the run and also the dungeon 3 layouts uh are not very good for forest but you'll notice that i got
the power of fortitude sword and lance's phone but i did not go to fight the boss i left
and that is because side quests and getting items through those sidequests that we need for the boss fights in Perfect Ending.
This is Paige, she's a librarian, yes, the librarians name is Paige.
Um... this is...
Wait I need to go to Andres. Uh... ooh! How am I going to get
to Andres?
I appreciate the fact that the region you're in right now is West Passion.
Yeah, we'll be going to East Passion after the first four dungeons.
Alright, that's absolutely useless.
So, that was Andres DeBear. He's the shopkeeper. He's also
the guy who decides if
a run lives or dies.
Wait, this is... Wait that's level 2?
Wow
Wait
Game
I think the game wants me to go up and around
because that is
dungeon 2
but like
unless i somehow missed something?
Wait...
I'm genuinely confused. Hang on.
Okay, I didn't miss something there.
I didn't miss something here.
I'm actually not sure how i'm supposed to get to dungeon 2.
You're joking, game! Do you want me to run a freakin' marathon
to get to...
...a dungeon that's literally one tile next
to one in the town. Should have been paying attention
to the grass that was on the screen with Andres,
because you need the
sword to cut the grass.
I really hope I'm guessing right
now.
The path to whatever the next dungeon is will be blocked off by an object that you need a previous dungeon item to get past. So in the case of the sword being the Dungeon 1 item item it's gotta be grass i
i am so just baffled by that overworld layout
um okay yeah the game was teasing you there to layout.
Okay.
Yeah, the game was teasing you there. It's like here it can be right here but it's on
a ledge. Enjoy.
Yeah so
okay this is not the greatest setup because these skeletons are on fire and sometimes when you melt ice or burn planks
Or anything like that more enemies will spawn you need all enemies defeated in an item
room for the item drop.
So we've got the lighter now...
I don't know if I want to know what the game
wants me to do here.
But I'm going to go this way because there's
ice here so
the lighter can mount the ice. I am also on
half a heart which is not that much HP.
Gonna pick that part up for safety because I'm getting absolutely trolled.
Um...I'm going to check these tombstones or books
um and also tunics.
I fell down a ladder, that's fine because
that gives me a warp point with
the bicycle to a tile
with that gentleman over there.
I don't really think you can call him a gentleman because he's kind of
a con man, and his name is Creepy Jack. But he is important
for a side quest. He is part of what I call West Side Crew
I just call all the characters that appear on the west side
of the island for side quests, West Side Crew. They're always trolling me. Usually
The Office and Page are the worst offenders but sometimes the three bears like to
get temperamental as well.
But this was a really good dungeon 3 because
I can just push those guys
in the water.
That was still a scary item room, just because with item rooms you will get a bunch of alternate colored monsters in them.
Oops, that's not what I meant to do!
And the alternate colored monsters will have double HP and depending on their color a different sort of buff. Green monsters are probably the worst for going fast, because they will every few seconds heal a heart of damage but the brown enemies well every every couple seconds they just explode
um and explosions deal lots of damage to Lana.
So we don't want to get hit by explosions.
Alright,
we've got some giant spiders. Gonna just push them down the hole
and grab the spring.
Now, we fell into this dungeon so
we can't just warp out immediately.
Thanks, Chairman of the Guild.
I'm gonna do a cool jump across
because I have the lighter and the spring, you can do that.
Now we're going to get a phone call from The Prince
He's gonna give us the Power of Compassion
I'm just gonna menu real quick To get that off of my
Uh
Free item, I guess toolbar
It probably has a name that I'm just completely blanking on
But if I accidentally press
The button, which is very easy to do, that the Power of Compassion
is set to.
Then a text box will pop up and that is slow and that's not the right way.
So I'm going to try to go down, and if it's
not down this way then I'll be warping back
to D3.
Looking at the endgame timer, I'm really happy with where I am at given me a d2 fiasco. There's a three bears, so that's good to have. Also I will be going into any of the building-based side quests just to grab a warp point for later so that way I don't have to wander all the way back around.
Um, I am going to check as many of these gravestones that i can for books because
I got really trolled by Paige yesterday, causing probably the worst seed of side quests I have ever seen.
Yeah, I'm...
She's not going to get away with that
again.
You can also get tunics and
we are in business.
So... Ooh! Fast!
I mentioned earlier Andres the Bear is kind of
the guy who decides if a run lives or runs dies
and that's because he's the earliest point that you
can get a
tunic.
And he sells them pretty cheap.
There are two types of tunics
that if you get, you pretty much are in go mode immediately.
Those being Strength and Speed.
I think it doubles your speed, and strength doubles your strength. I still will be checking a couple of
guaranteed tunic spots to see if I can't grab a strength
tunic for um, a really annoying side quest later.
But...I mentioned at the start of the run also
uh, real quick before i forget that guy on the on the bridge his name
was dalvin remember him dalvin um he's important for later in the run.
Oh, we've got a...
So these things I think are called Pyromelians. The community calls them Wizrobes.
I like that.
Having seen many an annoying wizrobe, I agree.
Yeah. It's actually pretty interesting that they're officially called i believe pyromelian studios there is a monster in cassette beasts uh bitton
studio's other game that is awesome called Pyromelian.
I think...I really hope i'm not remembering that name.
Eastside is pulling tricks on me again because...
Lots of targets that can only be broken by the bow.
Guess what I don't have in my possession right now?
So how do you get the bow?
The bow will be in, I'm assuming, the next dungeon.
There's a traveling merchant, earlier
I found...
Earlier I found that purple-roofed house that is Potter and Tunley, they are important for a sidequest. They said their sister went off to explore a dungeon, or not a dungeon. Spoilers! Was making a cool game with some shady dude. So we have to go find the shady dude!
I am getting so many things just thrown at me this seed.
It's hard to keep track of what I've talked about and what I haven't.
At the start of the run,
I mentioned that most things in this game are randomized. There are a few things that are not.
The Traveling Merchant always will give you a tunic.
And the first item that he sells
Will always be a runny blue potion or water potion
You need that for a west side
quest.
Andre selling a tunic
for only 20 coins is
another thing that's guaranteed. there is a tunic that is guaranteed in the palace
which is after dungeon 8. uh game is really trolling me with all of the Liz Robes right now.
If I had a Strength Tunic, I would be able to get rid of any Liz Robe before it has a chance to teleport. This is a really big dungeon.
Alright, cool, item room. So I also never mentioned
that's 8-Fridge that's bouncing around right now. 8-Fridge is a problem!
There's the bow. I'm on critical health so I'm going to just warp to the entrance
to get out and also give myself a heart.
Now I can get rid of all those pesky bow targets.
So from what I've gathered for the start of the run, you are mostly trying to visit every dungeon and get major uh items that unlock other areas
and help open up your mobility right yeah so um every a traveling merchant Um, every 8-traveling merchant...
Okay. Right next to the 8th. I needed to pay attention to where he was going
to be telling me he'd be next because I only need to find him one more time.
So every
dungeon item that you get
is required
in order to access the next dungeon. So I needed the bow from Dungeon 6
to get to Dungeon 7, I needed the Strength Bracelet from 5 to get a 6, so on and so forth.
But I am
purposefully not fighting
the bosses as I need
other items for
those boss fights since it is a perfect ending run. If it was a sacrifice
ending run or catastrophe and actually um you would still
you would still exit the dungeon and come back
after you have the item from Dungeon 8 as the
item from Dungeon 8 is pretty cool, and gives you a frankly absurd amount of mobility.
I need to pay attention to what I'm doing in this puzzle because i'm really bad at these and they get complex when you
get this late into the game.
I messed this up?
A smirk? No, I didn't.
Um... Yeah no no you seem good.
Dungeon 7 and dungeon 8 are always the most annoying because they're always the longest
They are, I think, the only dungeon that can have two keys before
the item room? A blue key and two keys before or that can have two keys
before the item room
a blue key
and a red
a blue key
and a green key
and then the red key
would be the key
that we don't actually
use to get into
the boss
but uh okay red enemies are to get into the boss.
But, okay, red enemies are kind of scary if there are a lot of them
because they will deal double damage.
I'm going to see if I can grab more arrows
and not that many
because now I have bombs so I can use bomb arrows and those are
very strong. I guess damage boost? We're damage boosting now! Also something I completely forgot to mention about side quests. All the way back when we were at the library! So page programmed into our phone the locations of the other dungeons on the west side of the map.
She also said that she needs us to find some missing overdue library books for her.
So we need a grand total of 12 out of the 16 of those in order to complete Paige's ultimate side quest.
And four of them are always in the same spot, or always in the same spot and
one of them is coming up right here.
I'm going to walk out the door and then back into the lab so that way I have the work point, unfortunately you have to do that to get said workpoint.
I found that out the hard way, I just crashed into this table
that's fine he has an overdue library book on his bookcase which i find to be really funny because
Professor Maxwell and Paige are, I think canonically
pen pals or something like that?
Okay, nothing got unequipped.
That's good. So he used his
earthquake machine to finally drop us into
dungeon 8
and told us that
he got trapped in his basement
when his lab assistant
Belvin turned on him.
Ah!
So yeah, that's a problem we'll probably...
Future Lena will probably have to deal with.
This is going to be a very pesky Dungeon, I can already tell because I've
got good info to have
because, well,
I'm already finding green key doors and that's
not good. But
there is an extra row of rooms on the bottom, and I think now's a really good time...
I'm right back where I started this dungeon.
I think now's a good time to say that there is one item in this game...
I'm gonna just let the guy come out of
the door because he's annoying me.
There's one item in this game
that is literally stronger than everything by a lot.
And, that is an item that you can only get in a secret room from one of either dungeons four
five six seven or eight um so whenever there is an extra row or column of rooms on the map, that's actually really good info to have.
Whenever there's an extra row or column of rooms on the map, then you know the item room is somewhere in that row.
Also, gray crabs are really annoying if you don't have any bombs like me or if you don't have another item that I need to get called the axe.
It's...I don't know why I said it's called an axe because it just literally is an
ax um you get it from a woodcutter who wants
you to find a secret even though nine times out of ten he's
standing on a screen with a very obvious secret on it.
So, yeah...
Even though he says he's been looking for one
for years, he's not very good at looking
for secrets I guess um but the axe is a way that to always hit those
gray crabs and it also deals with i think 1.5 times damage question mark um so the axe is going to be very handy
for a different later side quest aside from
the fact that you literally need it for the side quest with a guy who, uh...
You know. Gimlet do you?
Where is this item?
Chat has noticed that there are tiles and enemies
that look like when they come on the screen visually corrupted
And someone else in chat also said,
Yeah this dungeon seems to be in good shape
As you've gotten further and further in...
Yeah no it's certainly holding it together.
It's doing its best!
Yeah this dungeon has seen better days.
Okay so the item has to be down here.
So these dungeon room items are going to be marshmallows which is great because they're
always huge on fire and exploding um so i'm going to real quick uh do a funny thing
and go down on the bottom row to find that item room.
That is not the item we need.
So, I now have the glasses!
Everything you're seeing me do with said glasses
like that cool screen wrapping?
Yeah, that's intended gameplay. Not only is
it intended, it's required.
It is required to beat the game,
it is required casually
to get through Dungeon 8.
Well, actually no.
Both in the speedrun you just use
a different technique of getting through the dungeon.
And also
you need it to get through this palace, which is one of the other things that is always
the same.
The layout of the...
The layout of the palace is always
the same.
Yeah, I'll play it safe and just check those
just in case they have books.
Finding a money bag is perfectly fine though because we need
1000 coins for
a side quest at the bank. Fortunately,
We can get any cash that we are missing for some side quests by using the glasses screen
wrapping to rob the bank vault.
Screen wrapping is a mix of stuff I've seen in Zelda 1 and Link's Awakening Game Boy speed runs,
especially with all the
glitch city stuff happening as well.
In fact whenever you go from one side of the screen to
other through using the screen wrapping.
It reminds me a lot of actual screen
wrapping in Zelda 1, which is a pretty common technique.
Yeah they definitely took a lot of inspiration from those original era Zelda games and I honestly love it because Link's Awak awakening is actually my favorite
uh zelda game it's my favorite 2d one personally i loved lynx awakening
it's a good time yeah i might also have a bit of bias because... wow that's a lot of sidequest people in quick succession.
I might also have a little bit of bias because it was the first Zelda game I played, and it was a game that
I started playing fairly early on in my
life. Okay, that guy's gonna just walk
into the sea. Cool.
Not really know
what his game plan was there, but
sometimes skeleton jousters are not the sharpest tools going.
Even though they wield some pretty sharp tools! And unless i'm forgetting anything
uh that's everyone on east side found the naked bear found
the zoologist and found this strange cave very quickly.
So, and then found that guy too.
Um
I'll go ahead and decide what I want
to go about doing next.
I have seven bucks.
So the next step would be
side quest clearing at this point?
Yeah, also I just messed
up. i should check that other tile in the city to see if there's
a book there because i need i believe two more books and then I am good to go.
Just walked into the sea, just like that skeleton jouster that I was roasting a minute ago.
That's great!
I'm going to get rid of this bird, I'm on critical health... cool
I am planning this with utmost precision
Let's just throw that guy.
Cool, okay so now that I have a grand total of eight books I can run back to the library and talk to Paige. So she's gonna be like,
wow you found a lot of books!
How about I come with you?
Now that she is following us around
I completely forgot
who you actually called
Tressa
who was Potter & Cumberley's sister
She says called Tressa, who is Potter and Cunning's sister.
She says that she was at the library, you talk to Paige, she says that Tressa was looking
at books about the bank so she might be at the bank.
Also there's one of those overdue library books that went missing in paige's bedroom for some reason uh she's apparently not great
at keeping track of her own books but i find it really funny that the only way to get in there actually is to screen wrap
in.
I am looking for a book, and I am looking
for one individual.
Because I have the office...
I can imagine
the NPCs that follow you
or like Paige
for example here
as soon as you start using the glasses to go out of
bounds it's like WOAH! What's happening? Unless it's their everyday occurrence then
forget what I said.
The funniest thing is
screen wrapping
the most efficient like...
the most efficient method of moving around, and also
the only way to get past
uh... you know how I'm gonna check this out just maybe should be safe um and the only way to
like swiftly get around these steep ledges unless there's like a one of those staircases or ladders.
Paige doesn't care. She will just do an entire jump over the ledge if you screen wrap
around. And I'm
just like, why can't I do that?
I'd like to do that!
Why do I need these glasses to do that?
And funny enough once you have eight books after a little while
Paige will call you on the phone. Oh hey thirsty person! She will still call
you if she's walking around with you, which I think is really funny.
But we gave the thirsty person that water potion from the Traveling Merchant like 20 minutes ago, at least.
Actually not 20 minutes ago... Creepyjack, that's just crazy.
I am losing track of stuff.
Where was he
there he is it's like i know i found this man
um i don't even remember what i was talking about. It probably wasn't that important, but uh... Oh Paige calling you even though she's walking around um...
Oh you were talking about how you gave the water potion that you got from the trap to
thirsty kid.
Yeah, yeah okay. So yeah, water potion to thirsty person gave us a paperclip
That we then gave to the office worker so she could she could be organized. She just used them
to make a pair of glasses and she gave us
a pen which we gave to CreepyJack to forge us a property deed
Now, we are using the only instance of a glitch in this run.
We screen wrap and then move off this screen twice,
And that will just summon three Goldilockses.
Usually this is a hide and seek game, um,
you have to play hide-and-seek with her for
three whole screens. And it's really obnoxious
but if you screen wrap and do that then
the game only will
track um The game only will track how many times a Goldilocks has left a screen, not which screen she's leaving. So having three
foldy locks on the screen
exit all, you know
pretty much at the same time will just instantly
win us the hide and seek game and we don't have to sit through all of that i have 339 so i need to take seven bills i'm sure that the bank won't miss these um so we got a police report for catching
goldilocks which we need for one of the dungeons.
There's a book on that bookcase, there's always that book.
Now we're going to go upstairs
and we are going to deposit a lot of money
then we are going to withdraw a lot of money
Deposit... going to deposit 1 000 coins withdraw 999 and then try to withdraw that last one it's going to be like you can't withdraw more than 999 from your account
so here's here's like a i don't remember the bank document terminology and i honestly don't care to try
to remember what it is right now um i could just look at the item, I'm not going to do that.
I should have moved off of that screen because I was trying to wrap but that's fine...
And now I'm pretty much just looking for one book,
which I honestly probably would have a better time finding
if I just went back to the east side and started going around
Doing those side quests. I also need to go to Andres again, just remember
Look how do I get that book?
There we go!
That's going to put me at 11.
Running to Andres to buy a few things one of which is the fourth book that is always in the same
place he always sells one of the overdue library books which seems kind of wrong, but who knows.
And I will buy a bunch of these runny yellow potions because the first potion Andre sells
will always be a healing potion, and kinda need those.
But now I am going to be going back to the east side to do a bunch of side quests.
We're going to go back
to talk to the traveling merchant give him the briefcase that we got from that
shady skeleton businessman um so that way
the traveling merchant can carry all of his wares around and in return he is going to give us this shirt.
Which we need to go and give to...
The Naked Bear! to the naked bear because he doesn't like the... Oh.
I can't wrap that way because I broke
the secret
so there's a special pile there that you get a
special item i don't really even know what those things do i'm gonna be completely honest
um because i never really got them even in my casual closer five all right good so now we are going to
i can do that you're going through the strange cave for
a little fun game nine waves waves of enemies. However,
the second wave will have
these marshmallows!
We need to gather ten marshmallows
so we're going to just leave, go back in, leave,
go back in and then play it out because we found e12
um books for page and she's like you know what we should have a
celebration let's go get 10 marshmallows
um so and just grab these and then an
exclamation point will appear above the head letting me know
that yep we've got all 10 that we need.
So now it's just playing out the Strange Cave for the final...
Well not the final item I guess because Tressa is going to be in
the first dungeon that we go into, because she went to a dungeon
through Explore. And she's going to give us the final item of the side quests that
we need. But now that the crabs are starting to rain down, this is when the axe starts coming into play because it is harder to hit enemies with the axe but it deals 1.5 damage times damage so things like crabs, spiders that have three or more HP attacking with the axe
is faster it's just a little bit harder. If I had a Strength Tunic all of these enemies would be dying to one Axe instead of two which is frankly ridiculous time save.
Oh, I can imagine! Like that's a lot of timesave.
It's also a lot safer.
Yeah the speed tunic is the only tunic that realistically speaking in this can keep up
with the Strength Tunic. Timelines it's much harder to get a Strange Cave clear as fast as the Strength Tunic with speed, just because that extra damage is so absurdly powerful. But listening to where I'm at on the music, this hasn't been the best Strange Cave ever.
But it is still a really strong one that realistically speaking would only be possible
with either
speed or strength.
So now we've got the final
wave
it's Liz Robes. Fortunately they can set each other on fire which does also speed things up
um and they die to do hits from the ants i am going to just throw myself
with you in potion now out of
safety because if i catch fire things could get me very bad
sounds like the music is going to just barely loop, which...
If you can beat all of the enemies before the music loops then you're sitting pretty good.
But now that's, and there are no
dangerous hazards in the room or anything, we can
do a celebration with Paige. Sadly, we're going to skip this cutscene because
this scene is freaking adorable.
And she's going to give us a little heart-shaped locket, which is awesome!
That is of course one of the items that we need for the boss rush.
Let's just get Dungeon 8 out of the way, I guess?
First since I've already checked to see your room there.
So Tressa is going to give us a thing ask if we want to go back to the satisfaction shop
we're going to say no and we are going to screen wrap into this room so we don't have
to look for the key and now i'm going to say real quick, a slight flashing lights and ice train warning.
The bosses flash a little bit when they are hit
and also I am just going to have the glasses active
for the entirety of all these fights, which could cause them ice strain because having
the glasses activated actually speeds up most of the bosses. So this is Archangel Hadassiah, Vampire Magician.
She's the only boss that is guaranteed to have a two-phase fight and she's the only boss that takes two hits on the first phase instead of
three or whatever hydraniel's got going on. This is one of the longest fights in the game, at least one of
the final bosses is longer least one of the final bosses
is longer uh fortunately we've got a
special trick to um
skip literally that whole fight it's not
really a trick
let me completely honest this's really not a trick.
That will be made clear what it is
at some point on this backtrack.
But...I mentioned earlier that the secret rooms and dungeons only appear in Dungeons 4 onward,
And that is the same for two-phase boss fights. So that is why specific boss orders at the start when you
you see uh the order that the kids are sitting in it can give you a really good indicator of like how brutal the boss rush will be for time save
or time loss um but since hadassai is always a two-phase fight, we don't have to really worry about that.
So there instead of getting the final hit on Hadassiah we used prince daniel's power of compassion
and one of the items that we got from a side quest to spare hadassah. And that
is the key
to perfect ending, you have
to spare the eight
dungeon bosses
in order to get the perfect ending.
So now I'm just sort of warping around
the outside of the map looking for that secret room
It's going to either be...
I think there might be an extra column
Yeah, there's an extra
right? Yeah, there's
an extra column here Alright that's a buoy we don't need that.
I don't really get why the buoy is here because it lets you swim but so does the fish-leather shorts.
So it's sort of like...
Does it let you swim faster?
Uh I don't think so.
Okay...
I'm stuck in the wall.
How? Okay.
So, I noticed
that there's a new
warp point on my map which means that I've wrapped into the room directly to be south of the dungeon boss.
So...
I'll equip the bow. This is one of the scariest two-phase fights, if not the scariest two phase fight. It's also, I believe, the second longest two phase, because i'm not actually sure if Adesaya is
2nd or 3rd longest. Or 4th actually there's another really long one. But this is Krabadon he's um
He's an interesting guy there's a cutscene that we skip where we see the sort of master
of the archangels
teaching Ben how to
fight and is sort of
saying you know okay
if you're weak to bows
then what should you do
when the hero comes at
you with a bow and Krabadon's like
I should open my claws in mouth. Yay!
Because arrows yummy. That's not
the case. Arrows are not yummy. Also, I should
probably
try and get in the zone for this fight
because Kravatin loves to juke you
in the second phase.
He will just sidestep right before opening his claw
that is now a weird floating skull,
um... And you can't get to him.
Given the fact that I have
a speed tunic
that wouldn't really be
that big of an issue?
Also,
when Corvadon charges in his second phase, his hitbox is absolutely massive.
So you do need to sort of be on your toes a little bit in that fight.
Unfortunately, we will not be hearing the
absolutely sick guitar
from... Oop, I hit
the wrong button.
That is in, oop, there we go,
uh, the second
phase boss music
because
Krabadon
ends just before that guitar kicks in,
in an ideal fight.
And the other boss we get to that point of the music
is not going to be a two-phase fight also i am going to do something unusual or something
that you probably would not expect and that is i'm going to unequip the Speed Tunic. And that
is because using a speed tunic in the first phase of this fight
is actually harder, because there's a little stripe on the middle of Lena's head.
And if you line that stripe up with the center of Tintaluchus, then this attack right here where he charges at us and then just leaves
that will happen instead of him bouncing around the room for 15 seconds.
Also it's not guaranteed that he will just do a charge and then leave.
Sometimes, he will just decide you know what?
This run is not going to happen. You are not having a good day.
Sorry here's 15 or 30 seconds of time loss.
You can't do anything
to stop me.
But now he's a UFO.
He's shooting balls
of energy at us. We just have to run around until he tries to
grab us with his tractor beam and then we have to run out of the tractor beam
and use the power of compassion that is another one of the longest boss fights.
And I just realized that... Also someone in chat confirmed Bui doubles your
air meter and water. Okay. Which is absolutely not
useful. Yeah, that would
only be useful in like one
fight?
Mm-hmm.
And it's only on the second phase of said fight, and it is a one-phase fight on this scene so it was really not useful. Um, so...
I'm in a little bit of a weird situation with the whole item secret shenanigan thing.
Because... I'm gonna be wrapping into the boss room, yep.
Um...
It's only dungeons 4 and 5 now
to check, and I honestly don't remember which layout Dungeon 4 was.
I think it might have been the worst one.
I really like Rocknoggin as a name.
So, I don't know what I'm doing this time around
This was weird
So I wanted to do Hydranial immediately after Tantaloochus because
I would already have the bombs equipped, and while Hydran, you need the Strength bracelet item thingy in order to defeat. Bombs actually make this fight a little bit faster, because you can equip
a bomb and then drop
it. And
that will count as
an item that was just sitting there, that you picked up
so you can throw that at
Adranial
and start tagging on
damage a little bit
sooner.
It's dungeon floor, you gotta be kidding me game!
Okay that's not ideal but this is not a good layout. There are three layouts Dungeon 4 can have and only one of them is good for finding the item room because that one is guaranteed to have an extra row or column
uh every single time and this one just kind of sucks. This is the layout diamond. So as the name implies, this dungeon is in the shape of a diamond. that says this game looks so damn cool and while you look for the item,
do you mind if I share a story about
this game getting into a marathon
that I was games committee for?
Yeah.
Go ahead.
There it is.
Okay.
There it is.
Nice. The gun! Yep. There it is. Nice!
The gun!
Yep, the old revolver.
Alright so for folks who don't know I do
work with a...I'm the team lead of
another speedrun event
called Fast Pace Events.
We had a marathon that
Snowball submitted this to
and my head of games committee in scheduling Final Flame uh was
the one who was like I'll judge lettuce Inception because we assign games out based
on people's interests just so so we can get you know decent
you know reviews of these games in our longer process and uh flame was watching the submission
video and it was like i'm not entirely sure what the hype beer is
and then went to sleep woke up it was like wow
I kind of want to watch that video again so watched it again
And as time went on just could not stop thinking about this game
so like his rating of the game went from a this is okay to
this is actually interesting too we have to have this in the marathon which was
really
really funny
yeah
I was
also on
games committee
for that event
so
I had the honor of Flame telling me about that story
in the Games Committee meeting
for deciding which games we were going to take, and it was really funny.
Also I got completely out of position because...
Catseal! She's dropping bats on my head while
I have to run around
and put in a very specific code
that probably a lot of people who play
video games will recognize
on the joystick.
Also, keeping Catseal on stick also keeping that seal on that side of the room will make it so the little memory ball thing
that i pick up after each boss fight uh we will drop in the center of the room.
Also, you might have noticed that every time I'm warping through
the entrance to leave a dungeon, I am briefly making Lena face
down. And that is simply because whenever you fast travel to a tile,
Leno will slightly drift in the direction that
you're facing. So it's just more efficient to have that little bit of movement downward instead
of drifting off to the side and having to take an extra fraction of a second
to get to the door.
It's
honestly such a tiny
thing, but I do feel
like you can save
a fair handful of seconds over the course
of the run if you keep doing that.
Now we've got Sandolphin, this is the water fight,
we're sitting in the water.
This is... and this is the water fight we're sitting in the water um this is quite a fight if um
if you have two-phase because you can only use the sword when You're on land
And stand often doesn't like really giving you many opportunities
So it's honestly
kind of like a tame version
of some of those Toho
bullet hack games
and when I say a tame version of those,
I mean it's very tame in comparison to the hosts.
But it is still enough that it can get
a tad bit stressful at times.
Who likes Christmas?
I like Christmas!
Well, here's Santa Queal
the giver of unwanted gifts
He's gonna throw some exploding presents and say ho-ho-ho, and then get set on fire. I usually prefer to see Santa
Queel in dungeon four because the lighter is,
in my opinion,
The item more than any other that you want to get nice and early like as
early as possible.
But he also has the shortest two-phase fight of any of the bosses.
His two phase fight is so short that as soon as it starts you can spare him.
If he takes one speck of damage that's it he's done
just threw an iou like yep here have it
yeah I owe you, like yep here have it. Yeah um this is not the most
efficient-I could've just left that room
The thing wasn't blocked off by doors blocked up by bushes um
i think this is fun huh this was dungeon one uh this kit this boss looks a lot like the Praise the Sun, uh...
The Origin of the Praise the Sun meme?
Well yeah kind of. Gonna throw the sun at me and get spared.
Get spared nerd!
Exactly okay so I actually was keeping able to keep, I'm happy about that. That was indeed the final fight we needed to do before heading back to the palace.
Also, something spoilery that I completely forgot to mention
back at the end of Dungeon 8
because after you're done with Dungeon 8
you find this out, that Lena is the mother of the Archangels
and was originally plotting to kill everyone on the island
but then Delvin using the power of 8 Fridge, rewrote
this world.
So now
Lena is a human
who has to take Lance's place
to be the hero. Also, that is
very brave of me in an event run
to not save because
I mean it practically
never happens but the game can technically
crash
and you know I've but the game can technically crash.
And, you know, I've not saved this entire run!
That would be very bad.
Now we're fighting The Chairman.
His boss title is Capitalist Pig.
His name is Chairman Mammon or Chairman Gammon,
which is very interesting now that he's a big beefy pig man.
Sort of like Ganon from Zelda.
He is just like back at the bridge, you can barely see it because I had
a combination of Speed Tunic and Lighter.
He likes to throw money at his problems. So
the first attack that I'm jumping on him when he's punching me across the room
just skips that entire attack. It's like 15 or 20 seconds long, I want to say. It's called Cash Cow.
We call that attack
Rich Man's Volley.
He really lets
his guard down if you
get rid of all of his money.
That was...
My finger kinda locked up, that's unfortunate.
So now we have to do
this again. Standing this
close is kind of...
You run that risk of sometimes
your finger just does not want
to be the thing you you wanted to do,
because you're trying to mash so quickly
to get all those hits in real fast.
So now we're going to grab
the fourth power to power wealth and i'm going
to be a little bit slower on the mash so that way don't accidentally fire
the gun early. So I didn't really talk about
the old revolver you get one shot It one hits anything it touches,
including this boss that is normally four phases long and like over two minutes.
So yeah he's gone.
Bye Delvin!
Now I have to be very careful with which buttons to to mash i must be if i use four buttons to um mash in this game
but i'm going to only press one because if you click no on that selection box, then you
kind of get the
catastrophe ending, which is the worst
ending.
You punch the game card after Tentaluchus and Azaflael who are Reminder Lena's children
apparently show up to say no don't blow the dust out of the cartridge. Don't reset everything because if you reset
everything then Lance is going to survive and we're all gonna- going to die.
Um so now we are fighting A Fridge back in school. Uh we don't have the glasses anymore this is a very strange
fight and everything you are seeing is completely intentional uh and like intended gameplay
this is probably my favorite track of music in the entire game. I think it's really an awesome, just a very frantic sporadic music.
So that was the Elder
who was dead at the start of the round, he's alive now
we just spared him and I'm going
to attempt
I say attempt
to spare this doofus.
Lance will just
sometimes decide
he's going to die
this time,
he decided
you know what?
No, you can use the power of compassion on me I don't mind so that's awesome
I always tried to spare the elder and Lance because that to me is the true perfect ending. I'm very glad that
happened. We fought the UI, we turned into Lance, we blew ourselves up, ate fridge, ran over us
and time is going to be coming up when I pull the pizza out of the fridge.
Time.
Eee-gee that's a lot of pizza.
Yeah, that's way too many slices of pizza
that got put in that fridge and that's why it became
a fridge and all the funky glitchy things were happening
all over the um
The whole island, especially the city.
So now pizza is available to everyone according to Prince Daniel no matter how many limbs they have
so Vandalucas gets his, so he's very happy about that.
The Elder is like I'm sorry I misjudged you. Lena's like no
I was going to kill everyone. The prince and Lance
are now happily together,
Paige is going to help
Lena out with her school,
they're happily together,
um... LGBT Um...
LGBTQ plus rights, everyone.
Um... And now the kingdom of passion will
thrive using all four of the powers of passion will thrive using all four
of the powers of fortitude, compassion, wealth
and the one that Lena had at the very
beginning, the Power of Truth.
I was hoping it was
The Power of Pizza.
No, that was Delvin.
He ordered a pizza
actually that's
the pizza delivery guy
who got the order wrong
and brought him
like 200-something
slices of pizza instead of one slice of pizza.
Yeah, there's...
I feel like this game never gives me a chance to, like, get on the rails with commentary.
And a lot happens!
It throws so many things at you just out of nowhere every single time and i
absolutely love it this is one of my favorite games to play one of my favorite games to speedrun
um games to play, one of my favorite games to speedrun. Yeah, it's just such
a fantastic game.
Do you have any other
speed projects coming up alongside this?
Speed pro- You wanna talk about appearing in Flame Fatales?
Yeah, um... I will be running both
Lena's Inception, the same category and Sonic Origins, Sonic & Knuckles, Amy & Tails New Game Plus on I believe it's Wednesday, August 21st.
I could not be more excited for both of those runs.
I'm so happy that I got Lena's Inception and an Amy Rose
category in the
Flame of the Gals.
Yeah, I'm just
really, really happy about that.
And give a few quick shoutouts to Amber for letting me show off this awesome, awesome game on the GDQ channel.
I just every time I get to run this game in an event
it makes me so happy.
Shout outs to everyone on the FPE staff team, you all are so awesome, so supportive so encouraging and it really means the world that you guys have been dragging me along for
the ride um because i don't know what i'm doing at
times um I don't either.
Yeah, that's fair.
Shoutouts to my fellow Amy Rose fanatic, Callie Macken.
Yeah.
Shout-outs to Bitten Studio, Tom and Jay and Joel
and everyone else who's worked on Cassette Beasts as well,
which is the game coming up.
That is another super awesome game made by Bitten Studio.
Lenas Inception and Cassette Beasts are genuinely two of my favorite games of all time. They've been two of my favorite games to play casually,
And Lennas Inception just one of my favorite speedgames. And honestly probably the speedgame I would say is my strongest game.
It just is so good and
I'm so happy that I am able to show it off for so many people to see.
And yeah, just again shoutouts to Amber and GDQ.
Of course
It's wild that you say this is your strongest game because I've seen
you play Super Monkey Ball.
I've had you play Super Monkey Ball on Hotfix before and just...
It is absolutely wild how good you are at a number of different speed
games. And, of course, I just want to let
everyone know that if you want to follow
Snowball, it's twitch.tv slash snowball
SMB. So go...
It's pinned in the chat. We had a shout out go out.
Go follow Snowball.
She's great.
She's wonderful and really chill too.
And also check out GDQ's next all women and femme speedrunning event, Flame Fatales. It returns August 18th through the 25th and use exclamation point FF in Twitch chat to check out the schedule and let us know what you're looking forward
to the most. Maybe you're really looking forward
to another run of this, or maybe you're
looking forward to Snowball's other run
which is the boss rush
right? Like you said
No it's the Sonic & Knuckles
New Game Plus playing as Amy and Tails.
Yes, I'm mixing
up Boss Rush... Is it
the binary breakers run that you're doing
Boss Rush for? Yeah, tomorrow I'm
running Amy Allboss Russian
with the Binary Breakers event.
That's going to be really awesome.
Binary Breakers is a cool
non-binary centric and gender nonconforming centric organization of speed runners. It's
a really cool home to have when you're trans, non-binary like myself or Snowball.
And just shout-outs to them as well,
and we'll be back in just a few minutes because we're going to be setting up
Cassette Beasts,
which if you are a Pokemon and creature collection
fanatic out there
Cassette Beasts is another Bitten Studio
game that
really is very reminiscent of the at least graphically the ds pokemon games i
really liked gen 4. i want to know what your favorite generation was because
i am a huge fan of Pokemon Platinum.
And we will be right back in just a few minutes after this break,
so get up, stretch, drink your water, go get a snack,
and we'll be right back in a little bit,
right after we set up Cassette Beast, if I can English.
... is No, I'm in the room. But you're still a dream
I can't let go
Until it's over is My favorite is so so so um Cornbread This world
Sweet and
Sorrowful
Thoughts I'm sorry. I held you tight, and our feelings
danced through the night sky
I want to go
to where you are I'll drop it to your place
It will reach you, so ride on oh hey me ah is is so so oh. so so so so so so so so so so so Thanks for watching! Hello everyone, welcome back to episode 26 of Passion Project the speedrun and gaming
variety show that encourages anyone and everyone in the speedrun and gaming variety show that encourages anyone and everyone in the
speedrun and competitive gaming communities
to showcase their passions in games.
My name is Amber Cyprian, and I am joined
by the wonderful
Alice Rujasu
because we're going to be showcasing
another one of Bitten Studios' excellent games.
We showed off Lena's Inception with Snowball SMB
just a few minutes ago,
and now we're going to be showing their other game
that came out in 2023 and recently updated
with multiplayer which is pretty sick um and if you like your pokemon and creature collection games
this one's gonna be for you so alice how are you doing tonight? I'm doing great!
I was really thrilled when you submitted this
because this game looks really neat. I've had it in
a marathon before and
it was really cool then, and I know it's
really cool now.
Oh yeah,
I love this game.
Yeah.
So,
why don't you go ahead
and you can count us in whenever you're ready to get going on the run,
and we can take it from there.
Alright sure so this is going to be a seated run
So I'm just gonna go here and create a custom game.
I'm going to plug in the Magic Seed,
And we're gonna go into the character selection
and then time will start
in just a second
here when I
get started. There's an
in-game timer, but I'll give you a countdown.
So we're going 5
4 3 2 1 go!
Good luck and have fun! Thank you
So yeah this is yeah, this is
Set Feast.
This is similar to Pokemon
with a little bit of
kind of, I guess
a Persona-like twist.
Because you don't capture the monsters
you actually become the monsters.
So
we'll see more of how this game goes.
So we jump right into our first encounter
here, this is with a traffic crab
and yes that's what's
on my shirt right now
so
this is a really just trivial easy fight. Just kind of get you into things. We can just mash through it.
It goes down in one hit.
And this mysterious person joining us is Kaylee
who's our first companion
She kind of teaches us the ropes.
He's Kaylie!
So yeah, you have...
You basically always have a party
of two in this game.
So you and your partner each get sort
of a Pokemon that you transform into,
And there are different and
there are different partners you can get, like
I think five different
partners but you can only have one
of them in your party at the same time.
And there's like a friendship mechanic that won't matter too much in this run, but there's some reasons you would want one partner
over the other.
But it's not gonna be super important here
but we're going to change partners a couple of times for reasons.
So basically we are just kind
of going through a tutorial area here that just teaches us like the combat system um and like how to record monsters
here we're just kind of have a battle with a spring heal, which is...
Yeah it shows us the action point system and how you use your abilities.
What happens when you take damage.
That sort of stuff.
So again we can kind of just blow through this fight
here. And you'll see here this, like...
This is a traditional turn-based RPG.
But you have sort of some platforming stuff in the overworld.
So like here we hit this switch and...
You know, we have some platforming to do here.
We have monsters in the overworld that we can record.
We have some NPCs.
Some of them are friendly, some of them are friendly
and some of them are hostile.
So if you're
watching the Lennon's Inception
run it kind of has a similar
thing to that where a lot of stuff is
procedurally generated.
Not the map in this case, but
like
enemies and
you know, the content uh enemies and
you know the contents of guests here this is a tutorial here
on the recording system so we record this monster and you know that allows us to transform into it basically.
So, you carry around cassette tapes that you use as sort of like your Pokeball analogs.
At least, I make all these comparisons to Pokemon.
I've never actually played Pokemon.
This is the first monster collecting RPG I played.
So that was kind of an interesting way to come into this, but yeah...
It's a really fun game,
really good soundtrack.
I'm glad I got into it.
So basically we just kind of finish out this fight here.
We are guaranteed to record
this domino off, it shows like
percentage chances and stuff but that fights kind of
semi-scripted so you always get it on the first try.
Sorry!
So, and that's kind of nice
to have a guaranteed catch at the beginning of the game.
So we're going to go visit a train station here, it's a very normal train station
it's right here, it's going to kind of pop
out of the ground like train stations normally do
Oh yeah that looks very nice do.
Oh yeah, that's very normal.
Yeah, exactly what you'd expect.
Nothing unusual about this at all.
Definitely this at all. Definitely
don't worry about the fact that there's nobody here
it's fine.
This is um so this is going to be the first boss enemy of the game again it's kind
of a tutorial fight but uh this game has Archangels.
Again, it's kind of similar to what Lena's Inception has,
but it's a little bit different.
And we're going to have to fight a certain number of these to
complete the like the main objective of the game there's a lot of stuff you can
do in this game but we're just going to be doing the main quest.
That's part of the reason that this run is an hour and not like 40 hours
like it is
casually.
This is very
much a game
that you can get
into,
like all of the
side content
and stuff
and obviously
collecting monsters
but there's just a lot of side quests
and things you can get into this game um this fight is kind of scripted. You'll notice all the attacks are doing one damage, that's by design. But because of the seed we used,
We have a special spit attack
That will hit twice and we'll be able to take advantage
Of that speed this fight up just a little bit there's
not too much we can do to speed this up but so we can use spit here and now
that were fused well we're fused, uh...we'll-we're dealing
5 damage. So
We get to deal
5 damage twice
it just saves us a turn
Um the fusion mechanic is
kind of the
one of the signature things
in this game, like you can use
your monster and your partner's monster together
to create a Volt know kind of voltron into
a bigger monster um it's like the big mechanic of this
game it's one of the most powerful things you can do
uh we're gonna do it one other time after this
because that's just
the kind of run this is.
We're zooming through a bunch of dialogue here, and I can just hold down a button.
I don't have to mash.
Which is pretty nice.
Ooh that's so nice!
The depths of this game as you may have seen with
lena's inception like they're big fans of speed running
and you can tell just like little things
like you know obviously we have an in-game timer and i didn't do a thing that
I needed to but it's not super important. I just need to click this and put it here.
So, I got an olive up which lets us level
up but I don't actually want to level up.
So I'm going to recycle that
so that I can buy something else here.
We don't have enough money
to buy a coffee there but we will buy a couple of coffees later because
coffee is actually like the most powerful item in this game.
And you'll see why at the end.
Say hi to Eugene here, Eugene is a cool character
who we will be seeing
absolutely none of in this run
which is kind of sad
he has a really cool quest line where he fights those zombies that
were hassling him they're not actually zombies they're actually landlords which is way worse
um they're actually landlords, which is way worse. But sadly we don't get any of that quest
in this run.
It's optional
and we're not doing any optional stuff here
highly recommend i don't know what optional means
highly recommend playing casually if you want to find out about any of this optional stuff.
Like, this person she's super cool we're not going to talk to her at all um it is possible to skip that cut
scene that just happened there but it's it's not consistent and i don't go for it
let's see and I don't go for it. So we need that chest,
this is the most important rock in the game here.
So when you hold rocks in this game it lets you jump onto ledges better
um i can't really explain why that oh you're kidding me um okay so the rock despawned
What?
The rock despawned because of where
Kaylie was standing
It's hard to explain but she was
standing where the rock was supposed
to be so it didn't
respawn when I exited that
house there.
It's not a huge thing, but
I might have to do some backup strats because
as I said,
the rock lets
you jump on ledges better.
This barrel that I'm holding does help
me jump on ledges but
not as well.
So normally you can... I assume it has a slightly
different hitbox, right? Yeah,
it's
basically
just kind of a weird
quirk
of the game engine that
again, they like speedrunning
so a glitch
like that happens and they're just like
eh, leave it in.
Like, they don't fix
stuff like that.
It may very well
be intentional.
So here we need one of these bulletinos, because they give us an overworld movement ability that makes us go faster. which I shouldn't have to explain why that's useful in a speedrun.
Because we want to go faster. Use suffer here.
So I can just use a regular tape
and we increase the
chance of recording them by doing damage to them.
So you Zephyr there, which is strong against it so now its 100% chance
We'll record this
and then we don't actually have to
win this fight because we got what
needed out of it
Um Oh yeah, the bulletino dash there. Yeah.
So I need to make sure that's actually a hostile NPC there.
If you walk
in front of that NPC,
you get an encounter that you can't run
from so that's really bad.
So you'll see me kind of walking behind
NPCs, or I don't think
I can actually make this jump by the way
because I don't have that rock.
I made it! Okay.
That's good to know.
Nice!
Like some jumps work fine with the barrel but some don't.
And I haven't practiced this route like a ton because it's new.
It was just discovered I think like a month or two ago.
This jump though I'm having issues with.
Okay, I got a good bounce there.
Now here's the most important magnet in this run.
And no, I don't know how they work,
don't ask me.
Magnets can do
a lot of stuff in this game.
We're only going to use them for pushing the switch here.
We used to use a really weird
strategy where you would actually stand on top of the magnet and use it to fly around.
It was a lot of fun, but it was also like a very unreliable method of transportation
We found better ways to do things here
yeah i imagine you'd take consistency over a silly flying trick any day. Yeah, um...
Ah!
I was hoping I could like
get that to press the button
but it didn't happen.
But yeah you see I went into
that train station and then just left it.
I was actually talking to that NPC there to unlock fast travel, so you can fast travel between all of the train stations.
Like, you could kind of get on the train.
And sometimes, you just have to
unlock it obviously like you have to, you know,
unlock it.
Obviously
this might actually be hard to run from.
Yeah. Um, Yeah, um... okay. Well that's fine. I can fast travel back to the town and use a different way of getting there.
So, I'm gonna take the slow way to get where I'm going. I was going to like kind of a little western route
to get this place but gonna go this way instead. It's also really interesting that if your flee chance is low and you can't flee normally, it will give the option to take a penalty of losing items to be able to go back to
the last train station yeah it just it it's like really
just forgiving to the player in that regard, rather than forcing you
to play out the battle and lose.
Yeah, there's a lot of good quality
life decisions that were made
in this game.
It doesn't waste your time
or anything.
Okay.
Okay. I need a
box to use...I haven't done this particular
strat in a minute we used to
we used to go this way and so i'm using this as kind of the backup here Boy workout for me.
There we go.
This looks finicky. Okay, nice!
So let's see... I need to put
a little menuing here and this is going to set up the next fight.
We're just gonna put this quick smack here. That'll be useful later, and use this.
So this is the other time that we're going to use fusion here.
This fight used to be really scary, and now it's not.
We figured out this
strategy
of using fusion instead
of fighting it the way
we fight everything else.
So you just fuse and spam
Sonic Boom here, its not a very complicated strategy
but... complicated strategy. But
we used to not fuse
in this battle, and
this Gelatin
actually got buffed
in one of the updates, so it started
hitting us harder and
we thought it was going to be like a real
problem in the run.
People kind of came up with
strategies like this to
get through it without too much trouble.
So the reason
we did that fight was to
get some Skelly jelly and we need skelly jelly
thank you!
to rub on this pumpkin here so we can record it
record the pumpkin.
Don't ask me why you need to rub Skelly jelly on it, I don't understand
I just play this game okay
so this tree bark tape that we got earlier is super important for this fight because it
increases our chance of recording this.
Sometimes this fight goes really well and you have no problems recording like this
we got a good formation here
sometimes you get a jumpkin and like
a different monster
that is
like
puts up walls and stuff
and makes it really difficult but it wasn't difficult that time
that was pretty much perfect
and now we can just go back and get felix like. So we're basically back on track now.
Nice, good backup then.
Um so you saw Felix earlier, Felix is the other partner that we're gonna use in this run.
And the reason we used Felix, aside from Felix
being a cool artist
dude. He has
he has a monster
called Brushroom
which is super broken
so it had super broken.
So it has
custom
starter and
glass camouflage here,
and the paint swipe ability that it has
is going to allow us to use
one of the most powerful status effects.
It's called Resonance, and
it effectively... once we get it on a boss, it lets us
just take out the boss in one hit.
Basically,
it's
long and short of that.
So, we have some bosses coming up
that would otherwise
be, you know, pretty good challenge
so...
Since we recorded that jumpkin, it gives us this vine ball ability which you can see
right there why the vine...why we get the vine ball ability.
This is an entire dungeon that we used to have
to go through, it used to take like five minutes
now we just do that and clip out of bounds
and here we are.
So we're at the boss
who's the creepiest boss in the game in my opinion by the way
Papatox, Master of Puppets.
I missed a menu.
Is there anything I can do here, or do I just have to run and start this over?
I think I'm going to run and start this over because that won't like take too much time yeah with um rpg speed
runs of any kind kind of missing like important menus or anything like that can be absolutely
devastating yeah fortunately like it's it would be devastating if i was going for PvE here, but it's pretty easy to recover from this for a marathon or showcase.
Here's where it is supposed to go.
The recent update for this
changed some of the menuing that we had to do um actually if it was the route change i
should say rather than the actual game update.
I have to do some different menuing here, so
I'm not
as fast with the menuing
as I was with the old route,
but it's fine. Yeah um how new is this route uh i think it's about a
month old okay so still pretty recent especially especially with RPG speedrun
standards. Yeah, yeah, certainly.
This particular
category has
been the most actively run category of the game and
Like the most actively developed route a bunch of people contributed to it um okay that's not supposed to happen
why did that happen that's a problem um um
we have a mystery on our hands here so i'm guessing something threw off RNG here. I wonder if like, read through during the fight changes that? Oh, I know what it did.
Okay. I-I read my notes wrong.
While you um get things readjusted, I just want to remind everyone that GDQ is going to PAX West. The schedule's gonna be coming out July 14, which is just a couple of days away.
And if you want to check out more information about the PAX...
Did I say PAX East?
I meant PAX West. The schedule
is going to be released July 14th and if you use the exclamation point PAX command in Twitch chat,
you'll get more information on the PAX West appearance.
At least I didn't say PAX Weest.
Sorry, I'm an east coaster I used to go to PAX East all the time
so I'm very coded to say
PAX East
uh so it's just gonna take me a second to actually...
You're good!
Take your time, and I've seen a lot of support in the chat today oh i did say pax west thank goodness
i basically just gaslit myself into thinking i said get paxis because that would be on brand
for me but um uh just a reminder to folks who are supporting in chat that your subs
your prime gaming subs you give subs and all your bits cheered on the gdq twitch channel do help
support games done quick hotfix and if you enjoy watching speedruns consider subscribing to the
channel whether you're on youtube or you're here on twitch subscribing is definitely appreciated appreciated.
And thank you chat for confirming that I was not losing my marbles and said Pax West.
Yeah.
So with the resonance trick
that I'm trying to do here,
as you've kind of seen it like every um ability that you set has to be like in the exact correct order.
Mmm.
And, okay, now it's working.
So that revenge strike is a little annoying but
we wanted that paint
swipe to go off at the beginning,
uh...to apply glass coating
to this boss.
Because it needs to be glass
to generate resonance.
So we spit and because it hits twice
it applies two stacks
and the third stack will just
take it out. You'll see here
It's gonna be instantly
one shot
So... Nice! There we go so nice
there we go
I was a little bit worried
there that
like
by resting or something
I might
accidentally
throw off the RNG and
then I'd really have to get into
backup strats.
This all
is back on track now
and
should be able back on track now and
should be a little easier here for now um so here's
here i'm going to do the menuing that i accidentally did too early.
Random starter here, so
custom starter basically applies the next ability in the list and Random Starter will do just like any ability on the list, randomly.
And we know which ability it'll be because of
the seed that I plugged in at the beginning
of the run.
So I have to do a cutscene skip here, by the way.
I failed the cutscene
skip but that's okay because I can try again.
So I had to set the frame rate down
to 30 FPS to do this.
But basically what we do here is
we skip a cut scene by overriding it with a different
cutscene. I was too early there, but i still have
to do it here so i use this Morgante's song which
i can access from the menu.
And Morgante's song is what you use to normally, like,
kind of figure out sort, like, sort of
main puzzle of the game.
I need to
do this over.
We don't need to solve the puzzle here because we know exactly where the thing is going to be. But...
by using that,
by activating that cutscene there
it skipped the one
would've taken us into this dungeon,
so we skipped another dungeon.
We get to do a lot of that in this run.
So this is Alice. She spells her name the wrong way, she spells it A-L-I-C-E. It's an Alice in Wonderland bit.
And again, this is going to be kind of the same routine
we did for Apatox, where we just use spit a couple
times and then we'll use Quick Smack
And that will take Alice out pretty quick.
That ability Eat Me makes
her bigger and I guess raises stats or something.
If things went another turn, it would be a problem because I should use like a shrinking ability that increases evasion.
So we'd have like a chance of the attack not hitting
but yeah another other fight that we have to make
uh super quick with that trick.
So once again, I get to
do some menuing
here.
My favorite. Yeah.
I've been actually enjoying how the resonance stacks is just like,
goodbye boss.
Yeah.
It's so silly. To the point where it's like silly to the point where
it's like yeah
that move
that the boss
just used
makes them bigger
and maybe raises
their stats
but who cares
they're just gonna
get resonance overloaded
Yeah
there's a lot of
interesting things that these bosses
can do that we
just don't care about.
It's kind of funny how
the
regular enemies are way kind of funny how the regular
enemies are way scarier
in this than the bosses
are. The bosses
we can trivialize and
know what the exact
RNG is going to be
for them.
But if I accidentally get an
overworld encounter, I usually
have to run from it because I just don't know how that fight's gonna go.
So again we see...
I also love how you get overworld abilities, um,
From different monsters
you can record? Yeah.
We're not even seeing half of them
here.
There's the magnetism ability that I
talked about.
There's swimming,
there's flying and
this bindball ability
we found is just good enough
by itself to carry the run.
Mm-hmm.
But there's tons of cool
abilities that you can
use, and
if you actually do the dungeons
it's some cool platforming
and stuff
so we can get up this mountain
really quick
um mountain really quick.
So this fight here is actually going to be even simpler than the
other ones were, because
the spit attack at the beginning is going to happen
automatically.
So this is
Babeleth, kind of like a
Tower of Babel feel.
It tells bad jokes.
Sadly, we don't get to see any of the bad jokes here.
But just like you know all of the like groan worthy puns you can imagine.
I love the way this boss looks.
Yeah yeah it's great.
So I know i've been saying a lot of stuff about this run
do you have any like questions about it or
anybody asking anything?
That's a good question. I haven't seen
anything in chat yet, because
it does look like we've had a couple of the
runners in
the chat.
We have someone who says, I love this game
so much and this is so cool that you're speedrunning
and
how accessible would you say this game speedrun is i would say it's pretty accessible
like there are a lot of like challenging tricks that i had to work at.
Some of them you don't
have to do anymore.
It's actually probably more
accessible now than it was
before now than it was.
But, you know, the community for this run is awesome
and is active.
You can easily find us in the like
the official bitten studio discord um you could also
ask on like speedrun.com page if you have any questions
you could ask me or
any of the other runners people really helped
me out when I was first learning this.
I have to do another cutscene skip here, but
yeah, just shoutout to all the
runners of this game.
Super cool community.
This is one that tends to take
a few tries sometimes.
It's just, you have to kinda hit the right
pixel... it's like you do a dash and then you menu
And then you menu,
And then you do the cutscene skip while your mid dash.
Then when you come out of the menu, you finish the dash.
Like you see there it worked.
I was just looking at the
leaderboards
and saw
on the second place
for the category that you're running right now
is
oh my god, it's a Yu-Gi-Oh
reference. And I've been watching Yu-Gi-Oh reference.
And I've been watching Yu-Gi-Oh with my partner recently
because he never watched it and I grew up on it so...
Just seeing Garfield the Lightning
instead of Guilford the lightning it's just like all right
this is about as grown inducing as i can imagine okay
i didn't even get that reference like um yeah garfield's a really good runner of this game who's contributed a lot to it but
yeah like I said I didn't play Pokemon, I didn't play Yu-Gi-Oh!
Um...I just actually got into this because I saw somebody streaming it casually.
And...
...I just saw like a character
that, you know
I saw a bunch of side
quest stuff that you won't see in this run,
but I just saw it and I was
like, I have to play this game, and I might
speedrun it.
It just looked
super cool to me,
music sounded super good
yeah like when you picked up this game i uh it was like kind of almost like a
culture shock because i knew you for running really
old RPGs.
Was it RPGs that
you were running? Like, I can't quite remember.
Yeah, um...
The first speedrun that I really did seriously was Dungeons & Warriors of the Eternal Sun for Sega Genesis.
That's kind of a deep cut,
but it was a game that I grew up with.
And yeah,
I kind of leaned toward
a lot of retro stuff
early on with my speedruns.
And it's only been recently
that I've been like, you know,
there are all these cool new games.
Maybe I should...
Especially indie games
that I could be speedrunning indie games that
I could be speedrunning these
and getting to show off
cool games like this.
You know,
I just...
I still like retro stuff and I still You know, I just... I like the...
You know,
I still like retro stuff
and I still speedrun
a lot of retro stuff.
But...
Mm-hmm.
Like,
I see that
I'm looking at your SRC page
for being nosy uh like super hang on
for genesis and uh when i met you uh through doing events
uh you were running i think like pac-lan in of Dreadmoor at the time. Yeah, yeah.
Um...
Pac-Land was the first game that I ever got
a competitive world record in
so that was really cool
and
um,
that's a fun game.
It's
you know
again kind of
a deep cut
it's like the TurboGrafx-16 version.
Mm hmm.
But and Dungeons of Dreadmoor is another one that, you know,
it's a cool indie game that a lot of people don't
know about or a lot of people do know
about it and they're like oh hey I remember
that game. You can speed run this?
What?
And I need to get back into Dreadmoor soon, actually.
Somebody just came along and casually blew away one of my records in that game
and just uh showed off some like new tech that looked really exciting.
So I have to take a look at that. Oh my goodness, is it the going rogue category?
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, because I'm seeing your time of 53 minutes
and 32 seconds
and then
the first place time of 53 minutes and 32 seconds and then the
first place time now is
27 minutes? Yeah, yeah.
That
is wild.
And yeah, like someone in chat said you can speed run just about anything.
Like if you can find a designated beginning and end point even if it's not a hey credit to rolling
point there are categories that are just like collect all these items
or talk to all these NPCs
or get this specific costume for this character.
If you can easily make
a speed run out of anything.
And yes, there are also Speed Excel competitions they're Microsoft Excel has its own competition thing yeah more exciting menuing here But yeah, I've actually done speedruns of games that I found on
old
Windows 3.1
shareware CDs
that I
used to play, and I was just
like, you know, this game's cool, I'm just gonna
speedrun it.
Yeah, I've seen
the Make a Burrito speedrun as well.
Oh my god.
There's a lot of things that you can genuinely
speedrun or turn into some form of competition,
which I guess if there's anyone out there who speedruns Microsoft Excel
spreadsheet manipulation stuff and you want to have a small
competition on Passion Project uh hit me up that'd be pretty cool
i would love to see
like well just reach out. If you want to do an Excel competition, reach out. We'll figure out the details and we'll have a tournament series
of Microsoft Excel on Passion Project.
I'm only like 5% joking, 95% serious.
Alright, so a bunch of cutscenes happened
and some exposition that's...
Aww. See, this is why we hate landlords.
So I'm just going to have to
run from this fight properly and just do it
over again. That's fine.
A little bit of a time loss, but
that's okay.
... One thing that's really nice about this run, like I said, you can...
Like not only just the fact that you
can run from enemies and warp back to harbor town but you can
pretty easily get back to where you were.
Yeah, this seems like a overall forgiving run to start picking up
because of the
quality of life in it.
Um... Yeah. Because of the quality of life in it? Yeah, um...definitely- I just did the same thing again.
Oh no!
I am good at speedrunning!
Um...well, just... life um well just do the
same thing again and
I will definitely not make that mistake
a third time okay
third time's the charm for getting it right.
That's right.
That's my story
and I'm sticking to it.
Speedrun to Crash excel played on the old patch gotta start up my windows 95 computer
windows 95 is a deep cut right now oh Oh, it is, isn't it?
I remember just all the school computers when I was a kid. I didn't grow up with a computer at home
so my earliest
computer exposure was
at schools
and just Windows 95 in 9 exposure was at schools.
And just Windows 95 and 98 were all the
machines ran.
Yeah, I had
a computer but it was
like antiquated for a while
so I had this old
DOS computer when
all my friends had Windows 95.
And you wonder why I'm into like a lot of retro stuff
and retro inspired stuff
yeah it's like always being
a generation behind on consoles.
That's usually me.
I think the newest thing I own is the Switch and of course my PC
but the newest console I own is Switch.
I did not pick up a PS5
or an
Xbox Series console.
The newest console
I own
might be a Nintendo Wii.
That's
not as bad
as I thought,
but it's still pretty old.
The but it's still like pretty old.
The oldest console I own is actually Atari Super Pong. Ooh! um atari super pong
oh and it's like in working condition uh takes pretty sick a bunch of d
batteries but um yeah i plugged it into my crt and i don't know what i don't know whose it was it was like
somebody in my family had it and but i plugged him into my crt and sure as heck, it's Pong.
That is actually really cool.
I think the oldest thing
I own is
probably
it's probably the NES, yeah. is probably...
It's probably the NES, yeah.
When I was a kid, I used to have
access to an Atari. I don't know what
model though.
But I remember my parents had like the Smurfs
game for it.
Oh, okay.
I never actually played it because they never hooked it up
but uh... Because I grew up on
NES and Sega Genesis.
Yeah. It was like NES and Sega Genesis. For folks
wandering at home, I'm 31
and my very first video game
was Sonic 2 on the Genesis
when I was like two years old
where I played as Tails because Tails couldn't die.
Yeah,
uh, I was one of the few
American kids
who
grew up with a Sega Master System instead of an NES. Those of you who had the NES, you got the better deal.
There were better games on that system.
Like, the Master system is cool
but
I went back into
the Master Systems library a little bit
at one point because I was really fascinated
by it and of course there's a bunch of 8-bit
Sonics on it.
And aside from
mostly like Phantasy Star
in the 8-bit Sonics
the NES had
the better library overall.
Although I do love the way
the master system
whoops and sounds.
Yeah, yeah.
All right, so we're at
the final boss here.
And... Like surprise,, surprise! Final boss.
So the first phase of this is going to go
like a lot of the other bosses have gone
but there's a little bit of a twist
in this one.
So we're gonna use Quick Smack, and normally that just takes things out.
This is only going to take out half
of the enemy, like it gets a
kind of instant recovery
there and it's going to go into
its
final phase here.
And what it's going to do is
it's actually going to break our cassette player.
So that's a problem.
We're suddenly just regular human beings now.
Ruh-roh.
But so you remember
Morgante from the beginning of the game?
She's going to help us now,
and she's gonna give us a rousing speech like you don't need cassettes
The true power is within you!
So we get this really
epic final boss
with a really epic
final boss
music and epic Final Boss music, and we're gonna do the most powerful thing in the game. We're
going to drink coffee.
Yeah.
These are the coffees that you were like, yeah we're gonna buy some coffees.
Yeah, so we're just going to drink a couple of ice lattes here and that's going to let us use an ability here called Coda Morgana.
Which you would have seen at the beginning of the game if we hadn't skipped it.
And I didn't see exactly how much damage that
was, but it was enough.
That looked like over 700,000 at least.
Yeah and this is a game where enemies usually have 200 HP or something.
So
yeah, that was
some overkill right there.
And now it's like, yeah, I always
have a spare on me. It's like
why didn't you say that in the first place?
Yeah, yeah, that would
have been real helpful a minute ago.
That's actually useful though for
basically the game
now says okay you beat
the main story if you want to do
like
the million side quests that you haven't done you can
do them now we're not going to do that now we're just gonna time sorry um it's okay.
Yeah, that's...
I thought that was intentional.
I was like, we're just going to time.
Yeah.
So yeah, that's the run.
That's Cassette Beasts at 8%. so yeah that's the run uh that's cassette beasts
uh
any percent
like I said
that's just
the main
the main quest
you could do
runs of
like so
many other categories. There's so much
you can do. This game actually has
a built-in randomizer.
Yeah,
you can randomize
monster types, attack
types
yeah it's
a really cool game and you should go
check it out
Yeah and also if you were curious,
you came in just under two seconds underestimate.
Because I knew that there were a few mistakes,
some backups, some missed menus,
some forgotten menus, and
just still coming in
underestimate means the route is
very good.
Like, even to account for all of that that and you're also very good at giving estimates apparently
right on time planned it out
but um yeah like you said If you enjoyed both of these games
By the way, chat
If you liked Cassette Beasts
And then you liked Linus Inception
You can check them both out.
I know that Lennis Inception is on Itch.
I don't know if Cassette Beasts
is, but they're both on Steam
as well. Lennis Inception's usually
$9.99 and Cassette Beasts is $19.99
when they do go on sale
they go on sale for like 5 bucks
and 12 bucks respectively
we just had the summer sale so I don't know
when they'll go back on sale
but
they're really cool and
I'm really glad you were able to show off
Cassette Beast. This is such a cool game and
I really need to check it out myself
finally. It's on my wish list,
it's been on my wish list
for ages now.
Yeah,
uh,
thanks so much
for letting me
show it off here.
It was a lot of fun, and
you know, I'm always kind
of advocating for this
game. You know,
want to see
more people just check it out.
Maybe speedrun it or maybe you find
other ways to enjoy
it, but
yeah, I enjoyed a lot.
Do you have any shout-outs
you want to make or anything like that?
As we wrap up for the evening?
Again, shout-outs to
Cassette Beast's speedrunning community.
You can find us on
the official Bitten Studio
Discord.
Shout-outs to my
speedrunning team,
The Binary Breakers.
They have an event tomorrow
so be sure to check that out
and
yeah
I think that's about it
you can find me at Alice Rajasu on Twitch, Rajasu55 on YouTube, other places like co-host Blue Sky you can find me as rajasu um but yeah i stream every once in a while
yeah definitely go uh check them out over on their Twitch channel or their YouTube Or even take a look at their SRC page if you want to check out things like Pac-Land
No I enjoyed the whole dang game speedrun you've done for an event
uh as well but um yeah definitely uh check out these games and're going to have some more inspired indie games in a couple of weeks.
That next show is going to be on July 26th, starting around 10 p.m. Eastern as usual.
A couple of confirmed games for that are going to be Demon Terminator starting around 10 p.m. Eastern as usual.
A couple of confirmed games for that are going to be Demon Turf
and the Fancy Pants Adventures,
which both take inspiration
from some Sonic games.
Demon Turf mostly reaching into
the deep cut that is
Sonic Robooblast 2.
so if you enjoyed the sonic robo blast to run from sgdq by argic
you can definitely check out demon turf being run here on Passion
Project next Friday.
Or not next Friday, the Friday after
next. I can days of the week
on July 26th.
But thank you again Alice for being here and to Snowball if
your lurking, thank you for being here as well. And everyone in chat
Thank you for being here tonight and please look after yourselves
and your loved ones. Drink some water,
stretch your legs, eat a snack, take your medicine
or your vitamins if you need to
I need to actually! And remember that
you are valid and deserve all the best
Stay tuned for the continuation of our sgdq 2024 replay and tune
in tomorrow at 1pm eastern for a metroid speedrun special have a great rest of your night. Byeeeeee! so so so um so. so so I want everyone to know that Jim patted my head like a quick boy before this.
It was adorable!
So, we want to keep the whole schedule on
so we'll try and give our quick introductions
What's up everyone? Welcome back to
SGDQ 2024. I'm Spike spike agita i am joined by the one
of the only legendary gymnast 86 and we're going to be playing for you all
the legend of zelda twilight princess randomizer in
cooperative fashion meaning we're both gonna be playing
the same seat at the same time
and sharing information as we go.
Now Jim what is our goal today? What do we got to do?
So for The Twilight Princess Randomizer
Our goal is to beat the big bad guy Ganondorf
who's sitting in Hyrule Castle. To get to Hyrule Castle, we have to beat
four random dungeons that we don't know what they are
There could be any combination of four that the game
has but we have to beat those dungeons and then
we can go off to Hyrule Castle to kill
Ganondorf. But as you guys I'm sure know, there is an incentive
to add even more dungeons to that.
So if you want us to do five, maybe six
dungeons, be sure to get those donations
in for that.
Let's go ahead and jump in real quick real quick I do want to give a big
shout out to Phantom5800
and LunarSoap, two amazing commentators
that we're going to have with us today. Go on this
journey! It's fun, it's a randomizer. We don't
know what's about to happen, we don't know where anything is so let's find out!
With that, let's go ahead and get started in 5...
4...
3...
2...
1...
Go!
I got a one second lead on gymnast.
Alright, so as you do with co-op randomizers
You obviously want to be efficient
You wanna be covering ground as quickly as you can
Alright, so for our dungeon today we got Forest Temple,
Lakebed Snowpeak and the City in the Sky.
You read that so fast.
I've been there for five minutes.
That's why he is the reader,
I'm to picker-upper.
Oh okay.
Yeah one of the other aspects of the Twilight Princess Randomizer
is we also have these hint signs placed around the world
that are going to tell us various facts
about the randomizer seed that we're playing.
So the hint sign that I read there said
that the goat's chick in Ordon Village village is dead so i will not be doing
that one no goats today it's very convenient
we big take those yeah i know we got the booze on the ground
the boots have been awesome.
They're wholesome and terrifying at the same time.
It's great.
But yeah, so like Jim was saying,
Twilight Princess is a pretty by itself very linear linear game so it's really cool that the
randomizer was able to take him and say what if it was an open world game let's mix it with like
breath of the wild that'll be cool so we're gonna be warping around trying
to check all these various checks as quickly as we can, including
the post holes right here. I just ripped that
dude's heart out, literally.
Anything on that sword?
Yo, blue? Oh yo,
double blues!
Damn Luke? Oh, yo! Double Blitz. Go ahead now.
So I'm doing the Ordon checks.
Spike's going off to do other things in Farron Woods here
in this...in the uh what is it called? The Sacred Grove. That's
what the name is so I'm carrying this cradle back so that
I can get a check from Uli here for delivering her cradle back.
We got another hint sign.
Castletown is on the way of the hero, okay, okay, so we'll take that.
So anybody of you have not watched other Zelda randomizers
that's a pretty standard wording for it.
Oh and nice bow right there we see from Jim
Our first major item discovered good job Jim!
Thank you. I believed in you. I put in a lot of effort to get that.
Uh-huh. Ooh, 50 bucks.
I'll take those.
But yeah, the insider right back there
said so and so is on the way here at Castletown
specifically. So we know that Castletown has some item that I THINK IT'S A GOOD IDEA. WE HAVE TO BE CLEAR ABOUT
WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE
COMMUNITY AND SO IS ON THE WAY
HERE, CASTLETOWN
SPECIFICALLY.
SO WE KNOW THAT CASTLETOWN HAS
SOME ITEM THAT WE NEED IN ORDER
TO BEAT THE SEAT. WHAT IT IS, WE DON'T KNOW. it's some sort of item you could work around out of logic,
we call it.
Because there has to be a logic in play.
Lunar Soap, can explain a little bit more about this
as one of the primary devs of Twilight Princess Randomizer
how logic works?
Yeah so logic is essentially um parameters that we put in so that way when the
generator places items it makes it to where the world isn't like isn't beatable and so
it's just parameters we put in and say,
hey if you're going to do this
we wanna make sure that you have the ball
on chain or the bomb bag
just to make sure that everything is good and kosher
but if you play on no logic
then that kind of goes out the window and it's you versus
the world.
So I would like to note my monitor home is a little lighter than this.
Big following the mini map right here to try to finagle our way through.
Things are probably going to chomp on me, that's okay.
But yeah, these are locations you still don't want to be leaving behind.
I think I'm almost to the check.
All right. Yeah we...
Uh oh!
Back it up back it up back it up back it up back it up back it up.
You know what?
They might be able to get some light in there by killing the enemy.
It is right about... Where did
the chest go?
It's somewhere in...
Chad, I need your tower. And this is why
Lantern is logically required for this chest
so you can actually see.
Where are we?
While Spike is shaking around in the dark here,
I'm wrestling Bo for what normally
in the base game Bo gives you the iron boots
when you beat him at wrestling.
Use your senses!
I've literally never had to use that before!
Dude! We didn't need... I've never used that before. Oh, my God! Worth, worth, worth.
Dude, we didn't need...
Oh, this is okay.
All right.
We don't need Lantern anymore.
Look at this.
That was a great assist right there.
Oh, it's a minor trick right here that I don't think at least I didn't know about until a couple of weeks
ago. There's one check in the mist
here where you would normally need the lantern,
but by the power of being kind of tall
we can get up there and
get that check out of logic yo dominion rod okay oh dominions
yeah so the demeaning rod in the randomizer is actually kind
of interesting they're actually two dominion Rods in the randomizer.
Also, let's see what the hint here is.
Okay, those two long checks are dead good.
But yeah, so the first
Dominion Rod that you get gives you
the ability to use the Dominion Rod in the Temple of Time itself
in the past, and then the second one is
the powered-up Dominion Rod that allows you
to use it in the overworld where normally
it doesn't work at the beginning.
So the single Dominion Rod by itself
is not doing a ton for us
It would give us access to two checks back in the sacred grove that we will hit up later
Very useful don't think I'm gonna spend 500 bucks for an Orden shield,
as cool as the shield looks.
It is a very nice shield.
Yeah.
So I'm going to Castletown here partially to chase that hint
that we got about Castletown,
but also because Castletown, but also because
Castletown has a bunch
of different
hint stones
or hint signs
excuse me
that we can use
to just get more
information about the
seed as we go through.
I also did a funny thing here where
i changed it to night time the game normally doesn't allow you to do that but uh this is
the randomizer has lots of quality of life stuff that has been implemented one of which
is the ability to change between day and night without having to wait 11 minutes so nice yeah i did not
because i hadn't played the regular game in so long i did not realize uh that was a thing and
that sounds awful i know you've been doing a lot of Twilight Princess 100% speedruns
of the base game, and you can just miss cycles on it.
Wow!
It's awesome.
I got frozen.
Ah!
Wow!
There is something about this wow there is some toxicity in the crowd
i really appreciate the bounce that last gdq we were like oh
the meme will be hurray.
Yeah, that's great.
Great positive.
What are we gonna do this time?
Boo!
Fine.
Y'all are great. We love you.
If you'd like some positivity
may I share with
you some positive donations? Oh please God!
Absolutely yes.
I've got here a hundred dollars from NuxTenma
Exactly Who says Twilight Princess Link Ooh. Woo! Exactly.
Who says Twilight Princess Link is clearly the best link
because he's also a doggo?
Good luck fetching the Triforce, Jim and Spike.
Also I'll donate another $200 if either of you
can finish off a boss with the spinner.
Oh!
The challenge has started.
I'm a scrub.
I don't know about this.
This is where we learned that Spinner's actually in Hyrule Castle,
this seed.
All right.
So I found the iron boots there on the Poe and Giovanni's house.
That's probably our way of the hero hint
that we got earlier, alluding
to that item there.
I did unfortunately not have enough money
to check the Malomar
check so that's going to remain unknown. Dude, it's $10!
How do you keep doing this?
Lake Lantern
Cave is also on the way of the hero.
That's a very common one.
Alright, this Poe can be an absolute jerkwad
so we're gonna see...
I try to like space the enemies away
and hit him from max distance.
If you charge up
and then go into your...
Oh, where is he?
Oh.
Jump of destiny.
All right, we ripped his soul out.
That's great.
He had $100 in there.
I don't know what that says about him.
But, um...
LAUGHTER
But, yeah... Oh, stop yelling at my horse!
Um...yeah, so generally with Pose
you want to perform a technique
the most basic one is you charge up
while you're not in scent form
and then...
Not the prize guy like inside Toronto Princess.
And uh, as they come close that baits them towards you
Then you can go into scent form at the last second
and do your charge back
and get the gov.
I also really relish any time
I get to run into an enemy
with Epona, look at this.
Bang! That dude's day
was ruined.
So yeah, also seeing those items
there'll be several freestanding items we can
just take a peek at and determine we don't necessarily
need it. I could peek this one over here,
and I'm going to get a little close
to make sure I don't say...
Oh, it's nothing up there.
Yeah, that is definitely
a piece of art.
Bobby, you'll want to find out
two hours later.
Ah, that was the claw shot.
Yeah, oops.
Yeah, in terms of major items we definitely want to see and we would pog for would be like uh either of the claw shots
would be really good we need both of them in order to beat the seed uh any
sort of explosives would be really good right now.
One that a lot of people might not necessarily think of
if you only know this game casually,
and not necessarily in either a speedrunning
or a rando sense is the lantern.
The lantern is the strongest it is in any Zelda game ever! It locks 5,000 checks. It's unreal.
We determined we do not need Poe Souls correct?
Ah yes unless you want another hundred bucks for
collecting twenty posals.
Okay thank you. Do you have just a moment
for quick announcements? Oh please go! Absolutely.
Because we've just hit fifty percent
of the way to that bonus dungeon.
That is so much great money for charity, y'all!
Thank you so much but 50% means we have 50% more to go and we have four dungeons to get there so keep on going
y'all we're also less than a thousand dollars shy of being at uh 1 million 50k um please i like watching number go up yo let's do it i see the big
number right there in front of me i want to pop off 1.05 million right now
let's do it y'all are incredible every year, what you all do for charity so heck yeah!
We also just learned that Sacred Grove is on the way over here.
Oh okay.
Which we can go back...I could go back there and hit up Dominion Rod.
In fact, you know what?
I'mma go.
Trust me Ron but the quick tip you The quick tip you want to do is open the map and then utilize from there a quick way to warp over.
There's three checks that we can get including the two Dominion Rod Rocks checks.
Yep. Yeah, because Temple
of Time's not one of our required dungeons
uh...the only checks that the first Dominion
Rod Rocks are those two checks in the past
um...although we do also have some overworld
checks where you move around some owl statues that require
both Dominion Rods,
which we could potentially need if we find that second
rod. It's probably
worth mentioning since Spike and Jimasts have been warping around everywhere
you don't have to start with the ability to turn into wolf but because they did we had a bunch of
warps 1.05, baby!
Let's go.
That's it, 1.1.
1.1, keep going.
Yeah so we have almost all of the warps open from the beginning.
And they can go almost everywhere.
There's a few that need to be opened up progressively as you would in vanilla.
Alright, that one was not the excitement. Is this the excitement?
So I'm gonna charge up and make sure he's behind me.
Oh, he wasn't. That was the problem.
Where'd he go?
He has disappeared.
Oh, there he is.
Alright, there we go.
Is this cool? Not
cool. There is one more check we can get because we know Sacred Grove
is Way of the Hero I'm gonna go get that other generally there's
obviously any time you're doing a randomizer you want to think how do i hit up check density
maybe i save some checks for later on so it groups better together with others.
But
you know, knowing that Sacred Grove is way
to the hero, that changes things just a little bit.
Yes, right now I'm hitting the upper part of Zora's Domain here again just to get some more hint signs and to check Upper Zora's River as well. Thankfully we know that a bunch of the long checks like the eyes
helping hand or the ice block puzzle cave in the neighborhood field
are dead now.
So we don't have to go and check them because we know they will not
have any useful items.
Do you have a quick moment because one
of our donors found a hint for you oh what's that they've found a hundred
dollars from zanuck who says they say doctors without borders is on
the way of the hero.
Oh, whoo!
Jack, that sounds like Jim and I cannot do this alone
You got to go on the adventure with us and keep those donations a-poppin. Of course, you can't do it alone It's a co-op
Do you have time for one more special donation?
Sure, let's do it.
Oh!
But yes, we have to get the celebratory lantern first.
I have $500 for you from... Whoa, that's awesome!
From Inverse415 who says,
I want to send a huge shout out
to my wonderful husband, Lunar
Soap. Over the last few years
I've seen you put hundreds of hours
into this project. Your dedication
and passion have always amazed me,
and seeing you share your hard work on the GDQ stage
fills me with pride and joy.
You've put so much love into this project
and it's incredible to see it celebrated here
with an amazing group of runners to boot. Thank you,
GDQ for this opportunity and for supporting such a fantastic cause. Let's get that extra dungeon
everyone! That was adorable. shout out to my wife.
Shout out to everyone!
Woo!
That was adorable.
Shout outs to my wife for
being here, she's been my biggest supporter and
it's been a very fun time heck yeah so happy for you guys and what a legend 31 weeks
yeah so i feel like the there was a little bit of humor right there
in that I spent about an extra minute trying to sift my way through the dark cave.
They were like, this dude needs the lantern.
So like I said, there's this whole pack of checks and a ton others that the
lantern is logically locking.
And yeah you will not get very far in this mist without waving your
lantern around.
Three more checks over here,
we'll see if this leads to anything directly
but it is something we're going
to need just to beat... I guess not necessarily
some of the dungeons. There's potential
so let's go. Oh no!
Huge wallet energy money, did you get the lantern check that was in the Lost Woods that she got the land? Yes I didn't know if like this was wrong.
Thought about it i determined against
it so uh yeah they all go back and check that one just to be sure
two more quickies right here.
We do know that the Lake Lantern Cave, which is THE hype cave of this randomizer
It's got 18 checks in it
Oh! Let's go!
I'm so happy.
Now we're not gonna find a sword for Luxitower yet.
Um yeah, so that's cool
So now lets go over, lets go back to Kakariko and continue on our way up.
Again, gymnasts and I in all of our co-opting we've tried
to think how to divide and conquer any
and all of your checks.
So we've kind of fallen into a general flow of i go up the right side checking kakariko
village and all these other locations on the right side of that where jim's hitting up like
castletown and source domain and so on and so forth. Also, lantern color check
Jim's got the pretty blue
and Speck has the purple
Fun story about the Lantern
So back in the older days of the randomizer uh we were able to change
the lantern color pretty easily thanks
to some research that people have done
long ago but we could never change the
color of like the oil meter
and one day someone came into the tpr
discord and was like, hey I want to change lantern color. How do we do it?
And I said here's the information go forth and do great things
And they came back and said okay
I messed up somewhere because I accidentally changed the oil meter color and not
the light color. And I was like, okay, how about we trade information?
And so this random person that came in is the reason why we have the ability to change
the color of the meter. a contribution yeah enjoyed speed running today
ah gerudo desert is on the way over here. Hmm, okay.
Sounds like we will need to find Oru's memo
so they get any access to the
Gerudo desert there.
I also do want to point out,
so again we have got
this donation incentive
that is rolling back.
We're going to raise
$50,000 of which
you all have already raised
like what a million?
What are we at?
I didn't see the number.
You all have raised
a ton of money for it we got to fifty thousand
dollars we will add a fifth dungeon that jim and i have to play through but if you
all were able to get us then pretty soon then we might even have the ability to
add a sixth dungeon.
So you're just like, hey, Twilight Princess
it does have the best dungeons in all of Zelda
I want to see even more of those
get your donations and that would be sick
Alright, let's replace it with another 5.
Quick update we have surpassed $30,000 towards that incentive!
Making great progress y'all!
Twitch chat you are all so powerful
and we love you so much. Thank you.
Yeah,
so I'm going to head out to Lake Hylee here.
A pretty big hub of checks.
Ideally, I would have maybe had like ball and chain
or some explosives before coming here
so that we can do the lake lantern cave right away
but there's still a lot
that we can do here without being able to do that.
Try to think why not Chicago because it was just the bow you found
correct in a ordon yeah just the bow and order like we could maybe hold out for
the fishing rod i don't know before i would go back there because the boat by
itself is not doing a ton for you even though the bow is super sick nasty it's uh much
better once you find bombs to pair with it because then you're just walking exploding stuff i love Thanks for bringing that back.
And the Gale Boomerang, if you're wondering like why did they pop off so hard for that? Isn't it just a boomerang? If you've watched Twilight Princess speedruns before
You know the boomerang is the most broken item in the game.
Especially when paired with a sword.
Slingshot!
The actual best item.
God, the slingshot sucks!
Let's see what I've got here...
I believe Spike's idea to buff the Slingshot was
to turn the Slingshot into bomb arrows in the next release?
Just straight up here here i mean that is
the way to add value to that thing oh yeah it does nothing
it unlocks hey front three checks of forest temple you could go do this um um yeah it's not very powerful at all even basic
enemies that won't kill them most of them so the slingshot is just there but uh you know it's come
along for the ride we got to light it up on the tracker up there i see
that's what's important we're gonna build this tracker oh yeah
making our way up to the top of kariko. So, the way I've tried
to route Kakariko here is to make sure
there are four pose
that I have access to. So, I'm trying to combine
it to where I have to change the time
update less times. So now going up here which would have been closed all these
doors throughout the at night time i now get up to this point i'll kill the two pros up here
get a couple of checks warp back and then go to the graveyard where we'll have two additional
checks. Trying to cut out as many load zones as you can
as those are not super duper fast. And I'm just trying
to make sure I don't, uh... Oh well.
Do that.
D-do that!
Are we throwing away the middle chest?
Are we skipping chests too? Maybe.
Do we really want this to have something, one of these chests.
So there's a reason for me to go do it.
Otherwise, man, that would be hilarious.
Want to give a big shout out to one of the other devs, Isaac at home,
who betted this scene said it would be a good one for GDQ.
So it's going to be hilarious when it's garbage um
and him sitting at home saying that was 12 swords in there Yeah. Which one was it? The very top one you missed or the...
No, it's the second one down.
Second one, ah yeah.
Do you have time for a very special donation?
Let's do it!
Please do.
Oh, Orzmemo!
Ah, perfect way to kick into the donations.
I have $2,000 here for you!
Woo!
Let's go baby.
And that money comes courtesy of Baby Lold who says,
first time watcher, first time donator. I'm going to say it. I have a friend who is
old,
first-time watcher
and first time donator
after all
I was just born three days ago had to borrow daddy's credit card I'm going to be a little bit more dramatic than you are.
I will do my best
to express love
to his two best friends, Jim and Pippi
To say hello
to the always entertaining Spike to shout out some support to doctors without borders i spent the last few days in the hospital and
I believe everyone worldwide deserves to have access to the same level of medical care
I received good luck and have fun with this randomizer, though I do prefer the one where
you can find the baby rattle. Very nice. Thank you so much. Thank you for stealing a credit card!
Thank you for stealing the credit card.
Don't emulate that behavior at home.
Yeah, so couple different little platforming tricks you got to see from both Jim and I right there.
Those are cool. It's always cool to find the ability to do stuff out of logic.
Randomizers get a lot more fun when you're able to do that. But also right before that amazing
donation, I was able to find the Oro's Memo which gives you access to an entire corner of
the map that we don't have access to,
The Desert. And you know the Gerudo desert is also
on the way of the hero so we'll be probably hitting that up very
very soon. I'd like to see a couple other things potentially
claw shot would be really nice.
Yeah having a sword would also be good, still don't have one of those.
I'm hoping that Gerudo Tezzer is pointing to the owl statue.
Dude! Ow! Yeah, definitely the big items that people can pop off for.
We find swords.
We find claw shots.
We find that thing!
That's my boy, let's go!
I see why the lantern was required.
Yeah. That was pretty good.
Alright sorry. That's been in my head the last few days. That was pretty good. Pretty good, alright.
That's been in my head the last few days.
Shots to saucy, alright.
But yeah, so with that
that actually opens up a couple more checks
we now have something
to explode stuff with, so
nice and violent would be great.
I think, yeah, let's
continue to do this stuff first
I guess. Yeah, go up to North Elven.
Because we could just rush Lake Lantern Cave which we know is way of the hero right now but...
Let's face it, you need a million things to be Twilight Princess!
You still have- okay, you have the irons I do not.
Yeah so I'll go and check the chest under this thing. You still have... Okay, you have the irons. I do not.
Yeah so i'll go and check the chest under this ring.
Yeah.
Hey ball of jade! That was sick!
Wow!
Great job! Whoa!
I'm just clairvoyant like that, you know.
I've definitely done a lot of co-op randomizes
with people where I get the chest and I'm popping
off for a second and say, oh we knew that.
We've known that for five minutes, good job.
Yeah this is not the uh fastest way to get access to this check but
we're gonna do it ball and chain is an amazing item in that it also has
a ton of utility that you can actually even grab things out of the
air like they would normally need like claw shot or boomerang with there's a check coming up that
I'll grab with it just to showcase yeah, you can do that uh i don't know why
it has those properties but it is the item that has the most utility in
the game so between that and the gale boomerang my two favorite items have been found
yeah fun fact about the ball and chain you can
actually use it to destroy spider webs but for some reason in
the game code like because bombs can also destroy spider
webs and bombs of ball chain are one and the same in certain instances so if you hit
a web with the ball and chain it just burns
like your sketch is on fire my favorite is when you're not looking at
the web and it just doesn't burn oh yeah
yeah so i'm gonna go over here get the uh aura's memo that spike found earlier
since i'm here i may as well also grab it
uh and then i think i will probably go do lake lantern cave
yep that sounds like the sauce.
Again 18 big fatty checks in there so hopefully we'll find something.
I want to hear from the audience pick a number between 0 and 18
obviously it's at least one because you're probably getting something in there
how many important items do you think are going to be in that lake lantern cave?
just yell them out 0-18
i've heard a lot of twos yeah i've heard a lot of twos. Yeah, I heard a lot of twos.
Twos is probably...
Two twos.
Two is probably a pretty smart number.
We're only about still 14 items from go mode, so it's still a decent business.
Bombs can be found
in the entirety of Lanayru province! Sick!
What's up guys?
Whatever applicable you want to try and jump on an opponent from the backside.
Because that will give her an initial...
...NAY! And send her on her way. I don't know why I phrased it like that. It was great.
Sometimes in life you just need an additional nay.
Any- never mind.
I'm so twitch-pilled,
I'm sorry.
We did get a hint
in here earlier that this lantern check is dead,
so I just have to very precisely open up his chest.
That's validation, Ruby!
Oh, was that Link's house?
So in most Zelda games there's a validation
rupee which is just one of
the specific kind of rupees so in Ocarina of Time
it's green rupee. In Twilight Princess
it's Link's Basement Ru it's purple and has different texts.
So that is our validation rupee. There is no special name for it. If you want to come up with one, definitely hit us up
We take all suggestions or you can donate and tell us
what you think it's going to be.
We think this one should be called Randy.
Oh yeah!
By the way, I imagine if you ever do a hit list run of this game,
this field sucks.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah, these archers are – they're archers.
Their aim is incredibly good.
I kind of hope I get destroyed here when going to get another check pretty soon.
That's what happened to me a lot,
but yeah you saw that post hole up on the ground
We don't need post holes
But I want to showcase
The ball chain has weird utility I don't get postals, but I want to showcase the ball chain has weird utility.
I don't get it, but the game does and that's all that's important.
Alright so now Jim going into the lake lantern cave again 18 big checks in there
How many good things will there be while we're 0-2 so far?
0-2. Yeah, actually the one annoying thing about coming in here with the ball and chain
is that the game likes to prioritize putting away the lantern before putting away
the ball and chain. So a little annoying on that front but oh well yeah
so right here we'll go ahead and show the utility and after that i'm going to try do another out of
logic wolf jump there's a lot of fun stuff you can do. Oh, God! I mean this is awful.
I swear it was cool.
I swear this is worth it.
Let's go baby!
Easy first try.
But now we're gonna do something so like just another little nifty wolf track right here you're not you're
supposed to have both of the dominion rods in order to get this but if we line this up i can't
see any and cool all right he can jump that's one of like your first like three chick
that was probably the first trick i learned when uh learning trial princess randomizer when learning Trial of Princess Rainweiser. Hey!
Oh!
Very nice.
That was so much cooler than what I did.
I opened a chest.
I did, yeah.
Which one was that again?
Uh,
that was the
one directly after the poe of the first bow not in the room with them
i know sorry yes in in the room with the poe that one chest chilling in the room
with the power you know i think it's good whenever you play a co-op randomizer,
and you develop names for every single check in the game.
So you just got to write up three or whatever stupid name
you come up with.
Sorry, I threw out numbers.
That was lame.
But yeah, there are 18 checks in this game so it's really so i just threw out numbers that was lame but uh
yeah there's 18 checks in this game so it's really hard to keep track of all of
them okay i think at the logic it's literally
first second third fourth yeah six yeah 17. yeah, yeah. Seventeen!
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm so sorry but do you have time for another super special donation?
Yes!
Because I have $500 from Isaac!
Wooo!
Happy! Isaac. Isaac would like to say, hey!
Isaac here. Super excited
for this TP Rando run.
If you had told me back at SGDQ 2014 that I would be working directly I'm so proud of you. Thank you. Thank you, everyone.
And thank you to all the
people who have been
supporting us throughout
this year and throughout
our entire season.
We're really grateful for
your support in the
community as well.
And we hope that
you'll continue to
support us through these tough times. Thank you. are everyone has put in a ton of work to make today possible and i'm so proud of this community
putting this toward the bonus dungeon incentive so we can make an amazing run
even better and just one last thing can i get a tpr hype crowd you got that exactly best of luck
everyone yeah pibby where does that put us out for getting. It just came up on screen, but we'll say no.
We'll say no.
We're at just over $36,000 out of $50,000 total.
That is
just a smidgen
shy of 75%
of the way there so come on y'all
we got this!
Let's keep it going gamers I believe believe in you. And again there might be another dungeon
in the works if we're able to take out that one.
I normally would have asked him so what do we think we should do here?
Cause actually go get that claw shot and let me go get the bow first.
Just to delay it a little bit cause it's not like because I should go get that claw shot, but I'm going to get the bow first.
Just to delay it a little bit.
Because at this point, what checks do we feel like?
We've done a lot of our opening route plays.
What do we feel like? Where's the sausage at this point?
Probably desert.
Yeah, because we got the hint or path hint for something good in the desert. We also
got a hint...I think it's our first Baron
hint of the seed here in Lake Lantern Cave
telling us that The Great Bridge of Hylia is dead.
Ooh! Okay. That's actually I think one
of the better foolish hints that you can run into
Uh
Oh, I have to save the baby
I gotta save the baby while we're here
Um
Yeah, I think that's one of the better one is um yeah i think that's
one of the better ones that just ends up being one of the overworld areas
that we generally get to a little bit later in our routing process if not like
the dense area we don't touch so yeah
that's actually that's that's good value good job isaac
yeah shout out to isaac a lot of the things in this randomizer wouldn't be possible without him
he was the one who got the custom you know tunic colors working uh designed a lot of the
website and also did the hint system so yeah big shout outs to isaac yes we also need to think
yeah big shots Yes, we also need to think... Yeah, big shout-outs.
I thought people were excited because I was saving a baby over here.
Which, like, hey, that's great too
are you saving the baby
oh i may have accidentally fell down uh oops oops oh is that right before check 18?
How about you just leave with the claw shot and I'll
do the last hand.
We did get a hint saying something good past
this point, so
I should stay here wasn't it just the last check
in the pile last checking the post okay yeah and then that's something good could be nothing
yeah it could be our second bow yo Yo, bow two? Let's go baby!
Unfortunately it can't be slingshot
because we already found that.
Could be a bomb bag though.
Yeah. Or sword.
So Jim what do you feel like you want to do after this?
Do YOU want to push the desert and all kit up like, I don't know, Lanayru Field, Star Prize 1...
...I can go get my Iron Boots while I do that?
Yeah, guess it probably depends on what the item
at the end here is. If the item
at the end here is a sword, I actually think
it might be a smart play for me to go into Forest Temple
so we can start
hitting up some of our dungeons.
Yeah, because again, our four dungeons we need to complete are
The Forest Temple, Lakebed Temple, uh...
Snow Peak Ruins and City in the Sky
It is my second bo- alright well I got a second bar well i got to
suck him over here okay less odds you're just going to see one
here jim without the ability to have or
without the ability without a sword let's be a little careful moving on
these because uh, as you saw
right there, it is potentially very, very
punishing. So I guess I'm just
going to come over to the lantern cave as well.
Yeah, get the claw shot. That's pretty important.
Yeah, I'm just just gonna play a little follow
the leader technique and then we'll split up from there based on the options
we have that's fun of randomizer we don't know necessarily what we're going
to be doing today we are improvising and making up the routing on the fly.
Did you water toad pulley it up slash ory's ammo?
I did not do those, no.
Okay so then we can go ahead and take care of those real quick, just to delay something behind him.
Another thing you want to do in co-op randomizer,
you want to make sure you're not on top of each other the entire time.
Yeah.
That's great, and also changing nighttime.
With that, Pippi as we are figuring out
do i go into lake ventus had a sword oh you don't have bombs actually. Yeah, you don't have bombs.
You could if you want.
I'm feeling extra spicy today.
There's two chests.
I think I'll probably push the desert in this case.
Sounds good. We are hopefully going to find a sword relatively soon.
Was that from the Poe or chest?
That was the chest, so chest after the first Poe and then very last chest.
Okay sounds good.
Do you have just one moment for another very special question? and then very last chest. Okay, sounds good.
Do you have just a moment for another
very special donation?
Oh my gosh.
I love every time
you ask us this question.
Ooh,
then I'll ask more.
All right.
Here's $500
from Chris isAwesome.
Whoo!
Shout-outs to Chris.
Big shout-out to Chris.
Big shout out.
They would like to say,
hey all it was a bit too expensive for me
to come in person.
So here's a portion of what it would have cost!
I wanted to donate for this since the Twilight Princess community
has been one of the best communities I've been apart of.
I've been at the TPR scene every single day I'm going to go ahead and introduce our next guest. This community has been one of
the best communities I've been
a part of.
I have seen TPR ever since
beginning so I see the dedication some people have I'm going to give you a special shout out. TPR wouldn't be where it is today without Lunar and Zephyrus pushing its limits beyond what was initially envisioned, and seeing TPR at GDQ?
I don't think that would have happened without all the work isaac has put into the racing scene
coming up with race rule sets hints and hosting almost daily races lately good luck
and have fun to jim Spike, and the couch.
And here's to hoping we get that bonus dungeon
and to three million raised!
Woo!
There is a PS.
Can you pet Howard for me? He's the greatest of all time. If you get good goats, any goat will do.
Very nice.
Thank you so much.
So for those who don't know, there's the goat mini game at
the very beginning and there is always a goat that doesn't want
to go the way he wanted to.
And TP Community has lovingly and begrudgingly named it howard
yeah so the desert here is a very oh
yes so so the item that we just got right there is the Ancient Sky Book, so we have to find the Ancient Sky Book if we want to access City in the Sky, which is one of our required dungeons.
So it's good that we found that. That does technically give us access
to the dungeon because we have the claw shot now and two checks
in the dungeon because we have iron boots. And I'm going to be very sad
if that's where our next
progression is because we probably don't want to go there for a bit i want everyone to know normally
you would just take that and just leave uh did not have to donate anything but this event is literally a charity
event built around donations so i wanted to give him 100 of our hard-earned money
so shout out the charity everyone! Shout out to charities. Support local businesses.
Speaking of $100
Can I offer you a donation for $100?
Speaking of $100 A a phrase I want to hear
my entire life.
Exactly! Here's
$100 from the sound defense
who says shout out to Spike
Machida, one of the most entertaining outgoing talented and all-around
nice guys i've met in the speed running community good luck up there buddy ps let me know if you
need any spaghetti to take home oh Oh, dude.
We would appreciate it.
Sound Defense always gives us the hookup with delicious spaghetti that I drive
to my wife.
We don't have to go through this whole story.
I was about just like break down the whole thing.
Here's my address over there.
But, yeah.
So, I'm going to be same as Jim.
I actually am going to use the lantern because as we saw at the beginning, it is very dark in here right now.
You try to do a little bit of technique where you can like run
the ball up and kind and right from your position
And that will allow you
to
Oh is there another one?
I'm about to find out. You're going to
hit it up and right and it'll pop back into your hand
so that's just not as far back it has to
go so this should be the claw shot
i knew it see i called that
whoa it's like strikes just doubted yeah that. Whoa. Spike's just goaded, yeah.
And now we got to finagle our way
down to the very
final chest in the dungeon.
Yo nice!
Good damage, Cancer.
Alright, so I'm gonna
go up here, gonna get
the warp portal that's
up here at the
Grotto Mesa because
there is a Poe that we
can see up there in the distance uh just
kind of chilling out there and then i will continue my trek of running across the desert
not to get all these chests the layout of the chests in the desert does make it very awkward
to try and route efficiently,
just due to the way that they're all spread out,
which is why I voided out after getting one of those previous chests
back there to reset my position.
Thankfully, the randomizer does include
a boar at the beginning of the desert which allows us
to get that one chest that's behind
uh...the fences
which require a boar to break
otherwise we'd have to like make the routing even more awkward
by going down all the way to the end of the desert coming back up and it's just
it's a whole annoying process so thank you for putting that there yeah that actually wasn't me
that was a member of the community lesgar. I found out there was a flag
and was like, here, more
And I was like, thank you, you've saved our lives I will give more commentary after I don't fall.
So this chest is a little annoying without having the sword and the Gale Boomerang,
because this P-hat's on a very long movement cycle to get all the way over these fissures here. would be nice if we had big boomerang and
this sort so that we could do a glitch called the long jump attack where we could just simply
jump over uh the fisher there hey speaking of there. Hey! Speaking of...
That was clairvoyance.
We swear we do not have the spoiler
log in front of us. Anyway, so here's
a long jump attack. Whee!
Whee!
No, this is actually the GameCube, not the Wii.
Not what I see.
Whoa.
Can you play on Wii?
Okay, yes, we are technically playing the GameCube version on Wii consoles.
Yeah and then we got one hint sign
in the desert just up here.
That's fine I wasn't even worried.
Oh yeah thanks. I love getting told about checks that I have already checked.
Do you have time for a couple quick donations?
Absolutely!
Because I've got $100 from Megan who says,
Tell gymnast I said hi.
Hi, Megan. Can somebody tell
Jim that Megan said hi?
Hey, Jim!
Megan said hi! Oh, okay,
cool. Alright, Pippi, You can tell Megan that I said
hi.
Okay, Megan Jim said hi.
We've done it.
I also have $10 here from fleet
paw who says I'm really going to trying my best. Thank you. You know it's a good impression when two notes in, and you're like I knew exactly what
was going on.
Yeah so now I'm gonna follow out. So you have found the Sky character
that we need nowhere to get in the city and the sky
and our first sword
And then from there
We can possibly decide
Hopefully we're going to find a more branching path after this.
Yeah, we do have ball and chain.
Oh, it's bomb back.
Okay, this is very good.
Yes.
So what is so good about this
is that we have full access to beat both Forest Temple and Lakebed Temple.
And we can split those up.
Yep.
Kim, if you could only do one of them, what would you do?
First of all, where am I going?
Oh yeah, it's over here.
Uh...
I would personally like to do Lakebed.
Okay! That sounds good to you.
I will go do the Forest Temple.
Sounds good. We can start to showcase a lot of LJAs in there.
It'll be a good time!
Oh!
Alright! I think Gerudo Desert won this one. Oh! Alright.
I think Gerudo Desert was in fact
Way of the Hero. Just a little bit, yeah.
Yeah so that's...the Sky character
is on the first Clawshot when you enter in, and then the grotto over here with the two hoes with the bomb bag and sword.
And then the sword at the other chest that's annoying if you don't have a sword to get to it.
It was this guy, boy.
Sorry, I was trying to find it.
What's the other thing you said?
Where is the sword?
So the first sword is at the chest and that's really annoying if you don't have a sword to get to it.
Oh! That's hilarious.
One all the way at the end.
Before you enter Lakewood,
you've been issued a challenge by a donor. Would you like to hear it?
Absolutely! Let's do it!
Because I have $50 from THE period
Who would like to say,
Twilight Princess Coup?
Isn't that the plot of this game?
Good luck, Jim and Spike.
Got a few challenges for you.
50 more dollars if either of you do more feel without Zora armor.
Okay, okay.
All right, Jim, best of luck!
A hundred dollars
if Jim does cool game.
And another game and another hundred dollars if either of
you crash on zelda
thank you all right so two of those might set us back a little too much time wise to do though i
appreciate the mention of them morphe without zora armor i haven't done that in over a year
but i'd be down to try it for the
extra 50 it's free it's fine just don't drown easy
exactly yeah now thankfully you have two swords so it shouldn't be that big of a deal.
Yes, thankfully we're not fighting Morphiel with wooden sword without Zora arm.
I don't know if that's even...I think that is technically possible but it would be very awkward and I've never done that before.
While we're traversing do you have time for a couple more quick donations?
Oh yeah, I can do two or three more. Cool! Because we have $50 from Malo
Mart customer service line who says, You got a purple rupee but it won't fit in your wallet
now so let's put it back.
Aww!
I'm sorry.
Also have $500 from Ray Storm Thunder.
Thank you so much.
Who says, how's it going?
Make sure to do a 360 for
style points. Good luck you two on
the rando and don't forget those valuable style points.
Oh yeah so as far as other items that we're missing...
So one of our dungeons is Snowpeak Ruins
And to get to Snowpeak Ruins we need to fish up the Reekfish which requires
two progressive fishing rods so that we can get the coral hearing. So we're still looking on
for those to eventually pick up.
For City in the Sky, we obviously want the double claw shots because that's how you get anywhere
in City in the Sky basically.
And we're also still looking for the Spinner.
Yeah, which doesn't necessarily lock our access to beating that dungeon but
we will need it by the end of the seed in order to dispatch you of Hyrule Castle.
And then we are also looking for the master sword which is required to be ganondorf oh hey all right there is so much out here
yeah but once again that's only the first of two fishing rods That are necessary for being able to get up to the Snow Peak Mansion
I did not catch which of these pose had it so everything dies.
Okay
Do you have time for one more quick donation?
Of course
Because i've ten dollars from that one chelsea who says let's get that dungeon
incentive more gdq more zelda more gymnast more spike vegeta yes please and we are in fact less than $10,000 away from the extra dungeon!
So please y'all, we're so close! Okay, sick. I just want that one.
And then the fishing rod is in
the first chest in Bulblin Camp
when you get there.
Oh, actually on yeah inside boblen camp itself yeah
yes we got two more checks here at the end of the desert uh this is the entrance to the arbiter's ground dungeon which is not required so we're
not going to be going in it unless you guys hit might be one of those rolling donation centers
absolutely again there are three additional dungeons that i could pull from
the dungeons right now that we don't have to do are Goron Mines, Temple of Time and the other one
So what were literally in front of them
Yeah so any of those three could be added to it.
We'll kind of make a call on the fly which one we would add.
But if you want to add a second one,
You're going to want to hit that $50,000 and beyond.
I don't know.
I'm not on the games committee. They'll maybe decide how much
the pricing would be but let's just get it
early so we can make a lot of money for cherry
that would be sick. That number has been
going up this whole run
Yeah, so since I'm gonna be going into Lake Bed Temple this whole run.
Yeah, so since I'm going to be going into Lakebed Temple next
I'm gonna go purchase some
water bombs from Barnes
Bomb Shop here because when you
get the bomb bag it fills up
with normal bombs we're
gonna need to do some uh
underwater bombing if we want to beat more feel without zora armor so i got to go over here and
get these and that's the only thing i'm grabbing over here. It's just a rod?
Just the rod, yeah.
Okay. So again as Jim said he's gonna be hitting up Lakebed Temple and we'll be hitting up Forest Temple
Over on my side and trying to conquer two of our first four dungeons
yeah so the one of the cool things about co-op is that especially with the dungeons
the first person goes through the dungeon basically full clears it but then when
the second person gets to go do the dungeon, you get
to see the really fast version that only involves
the checks that are necessary, which is really cool.
I'm about to make another
donation to the bird because we were using
normally based on like what you're playing
on you can like up the brightness and whatnot
and you can see in places like a lake lantern cave but uh in instances like
this i should say they are very dark and the lights
are hitting it it's great yeah So we've been going through some
lantern oil. Let's, uh...
Another donation to the burb.
Somebody said donation? Do you want here a donation?
Yo, donation? Yeah, let's do it.
Donation? Huzzah!
Because I have $5 for you from the King's Bride who says,
Jim, I've been at the milkshake shop for 20 minutes.
Where are you, buddy?
For real though, good luck to both of you.
Show Ganondorf the power
of The Dominator TM
and have fun out there.
Donation goes
to making Jim and Spike
do more dungeons.
Woo!
All right. dungeons. Alright, so to get
into Lakebed Temple
the regular way to do it is
basically explode that rock that's blocking
entrance in front of it but we we can instead do this little nifty
clip, which is called Pillar Clip because you
swim up into the pillar and
you clip out of bounds.
Just like this.
What a magic trick!
Yeah, so that's like a few seconds faster than having to blow up the rock.
And then we're actually going to save warp at the start of the dungeon here because this will actually put us further into the
dungeon and we don't have to go through the waterway at the beginning anyway spike that's
forest temple it was good we did a cute little warp right there where normally you would not have like bombs, bomb arrows
The game does not expect you to have this stuff
So we were able to do a little warp there by blowing up the cage from a distance
Also let's see I think I have to aim
a little more to the left right here.
Yep that perfectly sails to blow that up
and then I can switch to regular arrows
right here and knock down this webbing if I can aim
heck yeah we did it i believe to myself i believed in you too thank you
yes so we'll see if either one of us are able to find anything exciting
so this point what are we looking for?
We're looking for fishing rod number two which will upgrade to the...
Oh! That's funny!
I had to explode a wall
to get a bomb bag.
That's randomizer. All right.
Spike, I have a special donation
for your current Dungeoneering.
Oh, baby? Let's do it!
I've got $5 from Ook.
Mommy!
Ook says, hey fellas.
You should come see me. I promise
I'll be nice this time. I definitely won't
keep you here forever. Only 15
to 30 cycles this time? I swear
I swear Thank I swear.
Thank you so much,
Oop. Alright. I have a suspicion that Oop might have an ice trap.
That was Isaac
undercover.
This will get him.
Yeah, so another thing for dungeons to keep track of does we want to keep track of the small keys that we find uh forest temple it's probably not too there's
a ball and chain hint by the way um but yeah so i have to keep track of where I find my small keys
so that I can tell Spike where they are when he eventually comes into here.
For Forest Temple it's not much of a...
We don't really have to remember what the small keys are
because there're only two checks that are locked by any
sort of small keys at all
uh but yeah just another thing you keep
track of as well as
uh the big key which we need to access
the bosses for every dungeon
yeah first double we only need up to potentially two which we need to access the bosses for every dungeon.
Yeah, Forest Temple,
we only need up to potentially two keys right now.
Same as in Lightbed.
Hey, I found both your keys, buddy.
Oh yeah.
And each of them thankfully only lock one check so in most seeds
we don't have to get either one of them. Coming
into here already with Clawshot
again, normally you get Clawshot
in Lakebed Temple where Gymnast
is. So this being the first dungeon
it severely kind of breaks open and opens up the routing that you can do with it.
Also let's use that destructive force of the bomb arrows.
Bang!
Oh, he whiffed!
Second one we'll trade blows with him
Dude walk off please
So now he's dead off of that
Now we can just put the bombs by itself
and circumvent a lot of the dungeon.
There's a monkey in the background that is stuck behind
a cage, so canonically you are supposed to save him
along with three others
in order to get to Ook who normally has
the boomerang but we're heartless
We're uh...in a randomizer
and trying to go fast so uh sorry bud
yeah i have more donations from ook my man
i have a 25 donation from joshie fe8 who says,
Our Lord and Savior Ook left this year for me to donate.
Can you both please go thank him
for me? Good luck to both
runners. Thank you for being awesome.
Also the host is factually cool.
That can't be right.
Insert lots of hockey moats.
I'm only hearing big facts.
I don't know what yours are.
Huge facts.
Thanks.
Thanks. Thanks. Thanks. So I got some inconvenient key placement here in Lakebed Temple.
Ideally, I would have had a second talk
A by then so we'll see if... Oh! I think it has to be this one?
No, okay well... We have to go down now.
It's the poopy one.
That's gonna be a slightly longer Lake bed temple for me as I then have
to come down into this room and get back up to the top
to check those two checks at the top of the water wheel, but it'll all be good.
Big key also found on my screen as well gonna be right there
on the boomerang lock check so there's no even thinking about going through this place
i can't get to watch him no it's so far to the side. Oh, but it was...
Trying to get
the log roll meta going
but I have to be good at it myself
to make it a possibility.
Can I share an important announcement?
Please.
We've hit 86% of the way to the goal.
Just for Jim.
But that does mean we have less than $7,000 remaining.
Y'all got this!
I'm so impressed by your generosity
I walked in the wrong room.
Yeah, so the only other check on this
side is going to be Ook, but it's also
going to put the dungeon in a weird state where it says
you've already got the boomerang,
so it'll like release some monkeys in
some rooms and like get rid of some cut scenes that'd be
great
there's also a little piece of tech that jim and I are doing all over the place where anytime
you want to use, in particular it's the claw shot, the boomerang or a dominion rod. You
actually wanna go into first person then pull out the item cock it uh so that
it will just cut out that animation of having to like stand still get ready and
then throw it you're just instantly ready to
throw or shoot or whatever you're doing.
And now we've got my boy Ook. There's a number of different ways
you can take him out.
First off it's a little bit orangey
just how he's gonna jump around and everything
hopefully doesn't dance around too much on us
Oh bro! Let's go send it back
and uh we're gonna take care of that rash right now
bang Bang!
Very effective one cycle. Yeah, so bomb arrows
are really good. If you've got've got that that's gonna be your like main
damage dealer in a lot of cases and i don't see the master sword by the time i run through this
entire dungeon uh i'm just going to fight the final boss of this dungeon,
Daobaba with four bomb arrows
because that's how strong they are
Game really didn't expect you
to have bombs when you were in Forest Temple
Yes, I am just climbing up the water wheel here.
Uh...
I have to activate, um...
The water wheel
if I want to get to the second half of the dungeon
which is where like
the big key normally is
and all that jazz. cool don't do that yeah because there are four
keys cause you're intended to have to find four keys
to unlock all the monkeys in order to get to Oog.
So that's funny they put a key there, but yeah.
Instead we're just going to now go to the other side and make our way over to Diabata.
Try to think coming out of this,
so neither of us have found anything particularly cool in either of our dungeons.
So I'm wondering what our next play is.
I don't believe we ever hit up Lanayru Field.
Star Prize won, is the thing.
Yeah.
In general, some probably just west of Castletown has not been touched.
Yeah.
That's probably where we're going to get pigeonholed into if i had to guess why is this guy
here dude he has been doing that so often for lately no he has way too much of an opinion it's like this is my door you're not getting past it
do you have time for a couple donations? Of course.
Because we did have quite a few people donating with suggestions, sorry,
for the name of the validation ruby.
Let's go.
All right.
I've got $50 from Kessent who says $50 for the ruby to be named Spike Ruby.
All right.
$10 from The Shaded Master,
who says petition to call the Validation
Rupee Pugsy because
what is Pugsy truly?
We can give him a purpose.
Uh, we also have $5 from Doodleplex
who says a name for the validation Rupi?
How about my cat because my cat is named Rufy and yes he's a little gem.
Aww!
Very cute. Thank you everyone so much.
Fugidors, so many sponges.
Jim doing another very cool strategy there.
All the Gale Boomerang strats are very fun,
and I always tell people they're very accessible at the same time.
There's a lot of different techniques for how we do it.
Oh!
So Spike will get to do that one later.
That's great.
Yeah, so that gives me access to City in the Sky.
Not all of City in the Sky.
Uh...there is still 1 half of it
that requires a spinner that we can't do.
But it's definitely something to consider
to do later.
With LJAs, there's all sorts of cool different strategies or different variations.
It's about having them like over a pit you're going to see one pretty soon from me here in a little bit
just trying to get the boomerang to be above a platform that is higher than you are
because the game always wants to make sure your long jumps are going to be successful so they'll
kind of make link like jump from from a pretty good distance away.
So by locking onto the boomerang, you can go a very far distance away.
And this is something that only works on the GameCube and the TPHE versions
of the game.
Now right here, this is pretty cool. Same sort
of thing. Bang bang and he's dead. Alright ball in chain is really good for him. Nice little damage boost strat that I'm going to go for right here.
I don't remember what you're supposed to do in this room.
I genuinely have no idea what you're supposed to because
i just do this whoop and then bam we're up for the chest so jim found double claws i want
to find something cool i've just got more money because i got the wallet i can fit it
all in there i mean you could go and check my low mark because we still don't know what's there
that would be a true toxicity let's do another LJ right here
where we're going to lock onto this
torch up here.
I just want to point out
that knocking that begoblin down,
that was just purely disrespectful.
The dude wasn't even paying attention.
Dog, he would have gotten away!
I do that every time.
I don't even care.
Claw shot once again,
really good for coming in here
because there's normally like a 17-piece
part of movement
to get up there. Or you just go
and you're at the top. Looking for another
LJA here. This one saves more
time than you would think. Normally you have
to throw a bomb into the mouth of this plant enemy right here.
But that animation is shockingly long.
So I'm going to try to use my own visual cue here.
I'm going to get right above the chest and go all the way up to that part of the ceiling,
lock on five times, store and jump slash and i fail but we're gonna do it again
that's fine i swear that one always works for me
here Fear. Do you have time for one more rupee name? Sure.
Yeah, while I'm failing this game.
I've got $5 and 55 cents Perpy, the purple rupee who says,
Howdy heroes! Did you know that I not only validate runs but also parking?
If you're a hero in a hurry on your way across Hyrule,
and you don't want to worry about paying
to park your horse, come see me.
Thank you, Kirby!
We have so many nominees by the end of the day
we have to name it something.
Like an ocarina of time, the single green rupee.
There's only one in the game on your base settings.
You call that Greg?
He's great.
I believe that is the Green Rupee
Of Eternal Gratification.
Whoop! rupee of eternal gratification
yeah and wind waker they have the rainbow rupee which is trevor and i do not know all of the meanings of the letters
but it's a lot. Oh, there are meanings to that?
It's like King of Bow optional very valuable
rupee or something like that I don't know
Yeah close enough
There were letters in there that that's all that matters.
I'm going to be doing another LGA over here
to kind of go around this section
of the Lakebed Temple backwards.
Basically if you're not a speedrunner
or don't do randomizers
This part is very confusing to memorize but basically
doing that long jump attack allows us to do a smaller loop around the back side here so that
we can get all the checks more efficiently i appreciate that you have backslides and
i don't have ending blow so we're gonna we're gonna get in gobo so there are seven hidden
skills in this game they They're progressive.
As long as we find one of them,
any of them, we have access to the ending blow. Nice little clip here
with the wolf. Whoop! It's great.
It's not a clip, it's just a shimmy.
But yeah, you need to find any one of them because
you need it or you cannot defeat Ganon at the very end
of the scene and I'm living for the day when we're in
ending blow go mode.
We can't find any of those settings.
They're all in the treasure room.
Toxicity!
Here's Diababa, four bombers, bing bang bong bong see ya kid.
So that's one dungeon down.
You don't need anything in there!
Yeah just get the big key and then be on our way.
Yeah do you remember where you saw it?
Yeah I was in the boomerang blowing out
the torch yep now you can't go talk to hook if
you want i could go if i wanted to wait that is true
oh hold on that's okay so i'm gonna go to snow peak
uh yeah that sounds about right i would say yeah because there's no okay okay
so we could be three of our four hard-required dungeons.
The only thing we're still looking for,
we actually could beat all four of them.
Jim, shut up.
Let me talk more.
We could beat all four of them right now.
Now, we really don't want to beat the fourth one because
we don't have Master Sword but I will say there's a million
checks in these guys.
So let's split up two let's go split up two more yep
and do a jump down here uh so i can skip actually having to make the water flow
down because if you just pull that lever the water starts
uh flowing here despite
the fact that we didn't actually fill up this little basin right here it's fake
so you did find something yeah as soon as that each of our dungeons had one
thing i want to give a shout out to the chef Isaac
See, it's pretty cool. So far. I like it now Pippi
I do want to ask how close are we to adding a fifth dungeon because we're too fast these two fast and following along
How close are you having to do a fifth dungeon right now? Oh He's too fast. I'm following along.
How close are we to having to do a fifth dungeon right now? Just over $5,000 away.
Oh my goodness gracious!
We're so close y'all.
So close!
Hey there's the other Waller!
Am I getting these two top checks in Zora's domain while I'm here?
Yeah, I didn't check anything at the Tapasaur's domain, yeah.
Okay. Then let's do it! Get a couple of checks on the way because we are still missing THE Master Sword...
The Master Sword?
...along with the Spinner which we all need in order to beat the seed
and is that it uh i believe at this point yeah unless you don't find any blow then
you'll need to go get one of those god that's that'd be raw toxicity dude i guess you have in mind the least
poopy one i could go get uh well yeah The one I just found is pretty bad.
I know that there's
one in desert,
just like in the
little camp area
that wouldn't be
too bad to go and
get.
I should have
gotten that one
last year.
No, it's fine.
Like we're about to open up 600 checks in dungeons.
We're good.
What am I doing?
I haven't gone to get the iron boots. So I'm going to go get the iron boots.
So, I'm gonna go get the iron boots.
Yeah so I just got one more checkered leg bit. This is the vanilla boss key chest.
We'll see if it has anything that requires Spike to basically do all of
Lake Bed 4.
Okay, not.
So I guess to review where the small keys were, what's my dungeon layout?
Oh boy.
Yeah, so I should go downstairs first
to get that other small key.
Actually, I don't think you...
I think you only need one
I want to say
So just get the one which is in this room that
I'm about to enter
Okay, that's the bottle of wine
Yeah because then I think you can just LGA over to the double claw shots and
save warp out.
And then...
Because you'll be able to get the big key with only a single small
key.
And that's all you need
find anything else besides those double claw shots yeah normally i mean
you hear this a lot there's a lot of running around the dungeons you have to do what's up cats
um they're obviously do like the intended progression
raise the water all the way up in order to get
to more fuel or we can just do a little
bit of nifty platforming
and we don't have to worry about that.
What's up, man? Give me your mind.
Alright, uh my good friend the has challenged me to do more feel without zora armor so we're going take off the zorra armor and drop down in here.
So, yeah, Morphine without
Zora armor, it's not something you really ever
end up having to do in a randomizer because of logic, but the any% and all dungeons speedruns do more feel about Zor armor.
So the tricky thing here obviously is there's an air meter that is dwindling down, and if the air meter goes all the way to zero we die right now
very like you know very conveniently we can get to the bottom here right before
the air meter runs out and the cutscene will refill our air meter for us
uh the first phase here is not
too bad as long as I'm able to get these hits off,
so we can just get the eye...
Oh, no, no, no! Come back here.
Okay.
And let's see, I need to do this as the eye goes back
in, I need to then force unequip iron boots
so we can get that out right there. Alright, very good.
So we're going to be abusing
a glitch here that allows us to actually refill
our air meter underwater.
Basically if you pull out a water bomb
and begin swimming with it underwater
if you try to throw it, the game will ground
you for a frame which is then
considered to be out of water and on
land so that'll refill the air meter up
for us. And we're basically going to try to juggle
refilling our air meter with being able
to get the hits in on more feel here.
So hopefully this doesn't go too badly.
We want to wait a little bit bit refill our air meter just like that
and then one two equip uh the iron boots and the claw shots more feel please get over here
oh i missed all right well that's fine. So basically
if I miss there, I have to go back down
to the bottom of the lake bed
temple here. Start
another one of these air
meter refills here. Hopefully time it so I can
have a lot of air out now more feel
is she going up?
Okay, we should be able to make this work
please do not eat me
That's fine. Alright, so this is gonna be our first hit um to make sure
that we can get back down to the bottom of the arena in time i'm going to force unequip my iron
boots again and then put them back on let's, are we gonna get back down in time?
This is going to be close but I think
we should be alright
Put out like this, equip over that
Where you going? Okay, okay. This is looking good!
I should be able to hit the eye from here... Yes! Very nice!
So this is the second hit.
And then all right more feels going down can we get the third one? Yes. All
right. $250.
I have not done that in a year, but thankfully
Give me the steady six everyone
Anyway Spike what are you up to yeah so we're out i'm just killing post dude i was like i can't i i need to look at my game but i really want to look at this
yeah we're up here in snow peak there's a ton of checks up here including that
red rupee right there so uh yeah we're following the scent probably a lot of people ask like oh is
this kind of like the haunted wasteland you would get in Ocarina of Time, where if you
just know where everything is, you can just bypass having to get the reek scent.
It will void you out wherever you are.
So while I'm here, I'm also just trying to take care of the pose.
I don't believe it's nighttime so I do want to switch over to that as well.
The kind of funny thing about playing the randomizer with PoseOn is that
It's mostly just night time all the time
Because of the fact we always have to change it tonight for the pose
swap it over now make sure this post actually be here up by the tree do you have a moment for a couple of donations absolutely yeah
we have 25 from john silver demon who says let's go spike and gymnast.
Also do you think yetto and yetta might be related to a certain urban Yeti?
Just a thought.
Just a thought. Just a thought!
I also have $50 for you from
justagamerjohn, who says
Hello Jim, it is me
your fiercest rival and bestest buddy
John. You may defeat the randomizer, but
you won't defeat me at Mario Party.
Your day is our number, Jim.
Put a Jim W at the end.
Maybe one day I'll be john at mario party
when's zelda party Now let's hear it for that
And we can keep going with a few more
Oh wonderful
I have five dollars from Codeman38, who has a knock-knock joke.
Uh, knock-knock...
Who's there?
Who's there?!
No no no not Uku! She's in another room.
Ohhhh Not Uku, she's in another room. Oh!
I mix that up all the time.
Why are they making Uken and Upu in this?
If you have time for another one, we've got a another proposition
For our validation rupee. Here's $10 from Ali who says petition to name the validation
Rupee Valerie.
Oh! I kinda like that one.
Um...I also have $71 for you from Darstar
who says
BONUS DUNGEON! BONUS DUNGEON! darstar who says bonus dungeon bonus dodging bonus dodging bonus dodging bonus dungeon my voice hurts
we are very close to the bonus section!
Thank you for hurting your voice for charity?
It's for charity.
Yeah, so I'm just getting these remaining checks in the back of a linear screen here which thankfully I can fall clear since i found those uh double clutches like that hawkeye let's go let's go my boy that's not actually
useful for anything hey you can like peak like two checks from a distance or something.
That's true yeah. You can indeed do the zoomies and look forward.
Yeah so I'm gonna go into City in the Sky now as Spike is on his way over to the Snow Peak Mansion.
Again, I can't complete all of City in the Sky technically.
I might be able to defeat the boss if the boss key is not locked behind using the spinner um although
i would also like to get another sword upgrade before going to the boss which is argrock because
uh our rock with the ordan's sword takes like 90 seconds longer compared to having the Master Sword, which is a little annoying.
Yeah, for whatever reason, even though casually you would never ever be able to fight Argrock without master sword he has like an armor stat or something lunar you
might be able to explain it better than me yeah so uh like spike mentioned so certain enemies have
like armor stats or they have different ways that their damage is calculated.
And for some reason, Argorok has an armor value of 1
which means that the wooden sword actually cannot be used to defeat Argorok
because the wooden sword does 1 damage and as we all know from second grade math
1 minus 1 is 0. so you at least need to order on sword uh so normally with master
sword it takes three cycles but with oron's word it takes five so that's a little fun time uh we tried very hard to see
if we were just gaslighting ourselves into thinking wooden sword wouldn't work
but we sat in the discord call and after like 67 cycles they're like okay we think this may not actually
all right i can make a play i can go up and fight argaroc but it's going to take half an hour.
Yeah, so I started sitting in the sky, didn't really find
anything. There was actually a little technique that
I did back there which doesn't really look
like much but because I opened the door from so far back, the fan that's up here which
is normally supposed to be spinning is not spinning anymore.
Which means that I will save about 20 seconds later, not having to turn it off.
And sitting in the sky is also just another
really great place for long jump attacks.
Here's what we'll do here just save a few seconds.
The bridge that is normally
intact here has actually started out
broken, just
like make logic for the dungeon a lot simpler
than trying you know have to account for if the player
goes through and then doesn't
get the chest and breaks the bridge or something. It would be
kind of a little bit of a big mess.
So it does require double
claw shots to get over here to this chest which is
not actually something that's required in the vanilla game interestingly enough
ice keys ice keys Kill everything guys
Except how did he not get it
Alright that's fine
They don't have their little idiots with them
Get out of here goon squad
Thank you with them. Get out of here, goon squad!
Thank you.
So now coming up, we're actually getting down to the Snow Peak Ruins.
Our fourth and final dungeon right here.
We're going to be snowboarding.
It's actually faster to be in the air whenever you can.
So we'll try to obviously do a lot of jumping,
as you would imagine off the bat,
but also doing like quick spins so that you can also kind of extend your time in there.
So whoop and whoop.
And we're just going to be doing a lot of that trying to take
the fastest path i do gotta be a little careful because controlling this can definitely be a
little wonky uh effectively their ice yeah so while it is faster to be moving in the air you can't actually steer which
is a pretty big detriment for these narrow passageways and some parts.
I don't know why but you said that to make me think of like link holding a steering
wheel while trying to i mean like tears of the kingdom he just puts the stick on
the front of the leaf yeah take the steering stick out onto it.
Do you want to take this faster path? I found out!
So I had never done the snowboarding against Yeddo and Yeda. Check until
randomizer. If you don't go this
path, you just can't beat her. She's really
good.
Thankfully I was able to avoid that big Baba back there
who's very annoying to kill.
We can begin getting the checks in the Baba Tower room up here
as long as I don't get knocked out by this guy.
All right.
This room can be a little precarious, uh
it is very easy to just accidentally fall
all the way down again
and have to climb all the way back up
Do you have a moment for a few more donations?
Of course!
Because I've got $10 for you from Crane,
who says,
Hello GDQ,
I really enjoyed this time at my first in-person GDQ,
watching runs, hanging out with my good friends and donating to a good cause.
Jim! Spike!
I have a really good view from the back couch.
For each bong,
I'll donate one dollar at the end of the co-op
i'm so sorry up to 300 we put a cap on it best of luck all right cut a check for 300. i'm sorry this is your chance spike to try and
roll them like their temple
i'm definitely going to roll up
those stairs later.
So now we've got
Snowpeak Ruins
this is our
the Gemini
this is our
favorite dungeon
to try to do
any sort of like
rando pathing through
it's so open
and so fun
another oh okay rando pathing through it's so open so fun another dimension
interesting we're gonna start off with a funky looking strat right here
where i'm actually going to uh equip the boomer let's also equip this guy right here
and we're going to bring this keys down to us i'm gonna immediately turn around
and we're gonna try to target onto him uh it's a little bit of
a wonky strat, hopefully I'm able
to hit it. Why did he
come to me? You know
what? Well okay we're not gonna do that
I've never seen him move to that position so we're gonna do a different strat now
uh because of that this is also tricky you're not supposed to hit this from the bottom floor
so if my positioning is okay
not quite you got to be able to step
as far, because every time you throw the ball
in chain it's gonna overthrow
it's going to kinda also push
forward so this should hopefully work and so i need to look for a visual cue here
all right and that's gonna allow us to get up to the top floor out of order
yeah let's just order. Yeah, this just got a lot worse! This guy...
he sucks. Nope, go away.
Yeah that shellfuss because we have to move the Yeah, that Shelfos
because we have to move the chandeliers
here. If he knocks you off
while you're on the chandelier it's just big sad time
and wastes a bunch of time as well
I have not done this casually in a while so we're gonna follow right
there i've never seen the keys do that we have to like okay all right that's fine we're going
to figure this one out together everybody get get GameFAQs open for me.
Yep.
That's our part in the co-op.
Audience co-op, yeah.
I would imagine casually you want to get these off speed from each other?
Nope.
We're going back up on it.
If you do want to respawn the keys again
You can go in and out of the dungeon.
I was like, yeah, honestly let's do the cooler strat.
Let's see the cooler strat let's see the coolest track
yeah as far as my journey and sitting in the sky goes uh nothing yet we did find
the small key on the po island if that becomes necessary
was it the power of the chest here's a chest let's try this again
remember just don't do what you did last time yeah i don't know what i did differently all right bring him down turn around turn into a wolf, good boy!
Now we're gonna target and now
Keese just go up there please
Alright so if this works...
Wee! So now we're just
up here.
Yeah, this check is normally very long. Now we're gonna do another LJ
I have to set this up specifically one down here
and then lock five up here off center
And jump slash it there and that gives us
this chest. Okay, cool.
Alright, now let's go ahead
and pull the sword. Let's do a late jump slash right here.
We're going to do a couple more where i'm going to try to get the
boomerang out of bounds nope that was like all right sick um now we can just do the right rule
but yeah talk about different variations.
There's some where you want to get it on a
platform above you.
You want to do one where you get them
out of bounds because that's technically over
a void which is another way to do it.
And now we hit this.
Let's go ahead and boop, boop, boop, put you...
Does that do the punk?
Let's get one more on there.
Do we have a moment for a few more donations of course because i have 100 for you from 64-bit link who says hey jim and spike good luck on the random run. Make sure
not to forget the bazooka
I hear it's in the bonus dungeon
Ah yes
That's a slingshot
If you want to see Link have a bazooka,
uh, you're gonna need to donate for the bonus dungeon.
Which by the way we are less than $2k remaining-
er, less than $3k sorry, remaining y'all!
Make it happen gamers!
We are playing too fast! We're so close! We're so close.
We are playing too fast.
Alright, I only have one more check that
I can actually get in City in the Sky here before
I have to dip. It's just all the way at the end
here so I'm gonna be doing this really neat looking LJA
where I'm going to do one target there go over and do two targets here
and then we got one and two all the way down to the end. Nicely done!
And let's see, what do we have
in the last chest that we can get?
Ah there's water bombs alright goodbye.
So we are officially spinner-locked
in order to actually defeat
Argorok. Honestly nice because
you didn't have to fight him with the Ordonsword
Well... We don't know about that yet
but... We don't know about that yet.
This is one of the more precise LJs right here, you have to put them in very specific spots
and then your timing needs to be a little off
I guess less
off than what
I was doing.
Do you have
time for another
donation?
Because you've been issued more challenges.
Oh, boy!
A promised $50 from The Period who says,
THE PERIOD here. A few
too many bombs, but a deal is a deal.
The rupee is Fred
frustrated rupee endlessly
downstairs.
Next challenge for Spike is $25 to do Snowpeak Ruins with Zora armor equipped and not die.
For Jim, Aeralpho skip with Hawkeye
for another 10.
Alright.
I'll see if I can figure it out.
Also,
I have here $200 from Spencer who says for Yeddo and Yetta's honeymoon fund.
That is really cute.
We are so close to the incentive deal.
For those of you that don't know uh zora armor takes 10 times
damage to fire and ice so Hey, bedroom key!
So uh... We'll give this at least one death.
Yeah so a normal hit that takes
half a heart will take five hearts.
Like, I better be careful because if you bump into those,
you die.
Just want to have like some...
Here we go.
We would just die.
Yo shouts to soup.
You might need some of that with the Zora.
I know, I was thinking like so.
I don't actually think I have a bottle.
What's up lady?
What you got? Ah normally where you would get the map
in this gonna set up for another lja in this extreme over and if you want to get into learning
long jump attacks this is like go one to learn ice block cave go on uh
we're on spring water rush yeah all the individual locks are dead
yeah that reminds me i forgot to check the
hit sign and sitting in the Sky. Oops!
Oh well. It's fine...
How do you know something is over there? Yeah.
Less than 2500 remaining health!
Wooo! gaming hall. I guess it's up to us,
we will kind of figure out like
based on vibes which dungeon we want to do uh yeah you can just poke through the
ceiling right there you're supposed to like break the wall the floor down there and that's how
you actually get down to that check but there's also just a couple pixels where
you can shoot through it.
So that's good, um...you should die!
Yeah I'm just going through North Lanayru Field here
Got about two checks remaining.
Thankfully we got hinted that a bunch of the checks here were dead,
so we don't have to check those.
So we've got the Poe
that's up here, which is gonna be
very annoying to get with these two guys here.
See if we can manage... Hello! Come on!
Alright, there you go.
I actually want to stand a little further back and lock-on right here
because you have to deal with bonk physics
so that makes it where i can get underneath that platform
and uh not bonking anything and just like clank off into a crack.
Oh my crack.
Let's see, so
for stuff that we haven't done on the overworld yet
um, we haven't done the Kakariko Gorge
cave I believe.
Uh, that is true yeah. Kakariko Gorge cave, I believe. That is true. Yeah, Kakariko Gorge in general
is like pretty untouched.
And then we also got all of the owl statues
now that you found the Second Domin dominion rod oh this is true
i'm gonna like i'm gonna extra kill stuff and times 10 damage everyone times 10 damage, everyone. Times 10 damage.
One little nifty thing is if you have the ball and chain in your hand,
you should also die.
Oh yeah, I didn't see how it hit that corner uh you actually don't have ice physics
you can just walk around as normal which i might use more of here
big shout outs to uh the randomizer. Whenever Link is considered to be heavy in the randomizer, like with the iron boots on or carrying around the ball and chain,
Link just moves at normal speed and isn't hampered by any sort of increase
yeah that's a side effect of the fast iron boots setting so whenever you walk with iron
boots it's normal speed but then i was like
just like everything heavy makes you want normal speed and i liked it so i kept it
do you have a moment for some lovely positivity from the donors?
Of course.
I have $50 here from Sage Zarya who says,
Matching The Period's challenge donation because
I'm continually floored by the tricks speedrunners find. Good job, Jim! Also have $86 from Anonymous who says that underwater boss got 86ed.
And here is 86 reasons to make the runners do an extra dungeon.
Thank you so much, y'all.
So I'm gonna conserve my lantern oil a little bit just in case it becomes necessary for something else later on as I'm going through this cave here. Thankfully, this one's just bright enough
that I can kind of see
what's going on
as we're going through it.
I have one more for you.
All right.
I've got $25
from my GameFAQs user.
Thank God! i've got 25 dollars for my game fax user thank god all right they said i looked up how to jump across the chandeliers and the advice was to quote jump across
the chandelier. Oh, thank God. Hope this helps. Let's reset I'll go back. And so we got one more Poe in here.
And then you never did the what is it? The
Ferrenfield Bridge Chess
that requires a claw shot. Did you, Spike?
Ferrenfield... I did not.
Yeah, that's a classic one that always gets
left behind
because it's the only one that hard across can't
even peek it without claw shot so potentially that's there we don't have a ton of overworld
left to work with uh So we need that spinner.
Potentially from there,
there could be two swords up in Hyrule Castle,
which would be our go mode at that point.
Are we forced to have to five cycle Argorok?
I mean,
it's, we're getting down to the wire on that one yeah
that's the most scared i've ever been of trying through snow peak ruins because uh when
i killed the big freezer and it's like 12 children popped up
spider boss uh yeah
because yeah i don't, they were trying to figure out some reason
and I was like why would people ever take the Zora armor off?
It just lets you swim underwater
And Nintendo thought the same thing
They're like what if it just kills the player
Time? Not times two, not times four.
Times ten damage!
What are we doing out here?
And it's funny because the math adds up so
If you fall into lava you actually lose two hearts and so 2 times 10 is 20. so
if you fall in lava with storm armor it's instant ko like all of your hearts are gone oh nice we
got this first try so i just climbed climbed a ladder, isn't that sick?
Yeah it was pretty cool.
Let's go!
Really impressive.
What if we never explain why that was the trick?
Uh yeah so what was...
That. Yeah. Uh, yeah. So what was I...
Oh!
That's fine. I'm not about to do like a combat room or anything.
That's cool.
Want to catch these two as they drop down?
Let's actually just never explain that story. We'll explain when you get to it. I want to catch these two as they drop down.
Let's actually just never explain that story.
We'll explain when you get to it.
Yeah.
But for now,
I climbed the ladder.
It was great.
Yep.
If I may,
for just a moment,
we are less than $2,000 away
from that bonus dungeon,
everyone! Woo! Woo! We are less than $2,000 away from that bonus dungeon everyone.
Let's go baby!
We're making progress but let's get there!
Do you also have a moment for a quick donation?
Of course!
Yeah, sure.
Because I've $25 from Shadow Insignus who says,
Hey Jim, hey Spike, shoutouts to you and all my other Zelda nerd friends
for inspiration and guidance in making the deku shield
let's keep going for yet more dungeoneering that's a great reminder that when you're uh
submitting your donations to doctors without borders and you're hitting that incentive button
To help us get that last dungeon, um, that next dungeon sorry
We can get more
There's also a ton of neat prizes that you can be automatically entered to win, including
a real wood handmade Deku shield made by the one and only Shadow Insignus.
I got to touch it. It's really cool.
It feels like wood because it's wood,
it's real wood!
Can you say that sentence again?
It's wood! It's made of wood!
But it feels like wood because it is
wood? Is that, am I hearing... Okay. Yes, yes.
I love that for us.
It's so cool.
I don't know how else to explain it. They had it on stage earlier, and so it looks really cool
What up? Get a...
So now we're gonna take the bedroom key in
We are going to fight our third I guess third boss we've seen on
screen for y'all. This first part
so the room we're in is not perfectly
circular. So sometimes
you'll get random bounces and you have to react
to them which for me means cry So we'll just kind of see
what happens. I generally want to try to move
more towards the middle, just so it
doesn't have as
much room to bounce off in violent ways.
So okay, keeping it straight,
keepin' it straight, keepin' it...
One more time please?
That would be great!
We gotta react, we gotta react,
we gotta react.
As in I'm waiting for it to stop.
That's right,
I took out one of the 400 children
oh yeah this is gonna do a lot of damage isn't it yep hit it hit it hit it okay there was
a ring of death that was chasing Arthur. So now
what we gotta do in phase two, we're gonna try to go for the quick kill.
It's got three HP. You're trying
to hit it three times with ball and chain. We're gonna
try to set up for... Am I gonna take increased damage from
the damage boost?
Oh, why?
Are there any hearts on the floor?
Yes, there should be.
People did donate.
How much health do we have?
Are we going to die?
I believe you have four hearts.
As long as you have two and a half for the damage,
Oh that's all I need?
Well let's get it first try!
So yeah there is a way to do
a triple hit right here with
very specific damage boost.
Where that's a quarter heart,
that's more than you need.
Clank the wall to back myself up setting up for this
or they're gonna get to the side.
Okay, so we're going to go for one,
and then line it back up
Alright so we're going for the two cycle then.
That hit it.
You would think.
She disagreed.
Yeah, I tried to press the ball
and try to pump the ball and chain a little too fast from there
so the input got eaten it was on me it was a skill issue i didn't want to interrupt the damage
boosting but we're uh less than a,000 to meeting this incentive.
And then I took too long to say that and we're less than $500 away from being
incentive.
Woo!
Also, I have a very special message for you that needs to be read like right now.
Is that okay?
Yep.
Yeah.
I have $100 for you from Yetto, who says forget bank account.
GDQ, no.
Look into eyes of Yetto.
Look in reflection of yeto's eyes their true donation who need money seriously though
let's have more dungeon and more gdq for a great cause yetto putting orange ruby towards more dungeon
there's less than 200 left y'all thank you And that is an extra dungeon.
All right, five dungeons.
Five dungeons!
What dungeon is that?
I do believe there's potential...
What, what do we want to do?
Do you wanna go to the mines?
Yeah, sounds about right.
Let's go to the mines!
So we'll tack that one on and We'll have to wait wait i don't know if we want to run something for a six dungeon because we could make that happen we could
according to what i'm looking at it seems seems that a sixth dungeon is on the table.
Chat and audience, that's going to run us 7500 more dollars
but we can add on a 6 dungeon to the to-do list.
We're gonna beat them all, gamers! Let's do this!
Except for the ones we don't beat! May I share one more donation with you?
Of course.
I've got $10 from The Ladder Spike Climbed,
who says, Stay alive! bike climbed.
Who says, still in a dream, Zara Armour!
Woo! Is that one or two? That was the first one.
Let's go!
Now we don't have to do five cycle Argorok, let's go!
So theoretically we only speed up Alright, now we don't have to do 5-cycle Argorok. Let's go!
So theoretically, we are a spinner from GOMO at this point gamers.
I'm gonna get that Master Sword.
It just has to generally be stronger and it's right here.
Now would be funny if it was just Star Prize 1 and 2.
Yeah...
So since you have both Dominion Rods
I'd recommend checking the Owl Statue checks
and we'll see where we can go from there. Sounds good.
I'll go to the rest of
the south of Castletown and clean up what we couldn't
get earlier. I hope it's the desert
owl statue.
Oh, please. Oh please!
I mean Gredo Desert was Way of the Hero
It only gave us 12 items already
Yeah there is an old adage in randomizers
Always clear your way to the hero
He said oh I already found the thing right? And it turns out there are 12 things
there.
Aww Confused Oh.
I'm confused what just happened behind me.
I heard some clapping.
Are we not allowed to just clap for no reason? Dude, just clap!
Yeah. Are we not allowed to just clap for no reason? Dude, just clap!
I like clapping. I like clapping!
It's good for me!
I also like dungeons.
Dungeons! I should also remember to go check the Malo Mart now that I have 2,000...
Dude, I saw it about a second here. Get that?
So right here let's see if we can do another LJA.
We did it! Hey, cool.
We know Greybridge of Hylia is already
dead. We know that's dead.
Where are the other
double Damien ones?
This is a classic one you forget because this
one's only locking 1
because we did the wolf jump at
the beginning of the run
and skipped over the second lock
but by and large they locked 2 checks
That was not the spinner?
That was not the spinner
That is one of if not just the worst chance in
the entire game in general have we done much up here in northeast eldon field i don't think so
but i mean this the spinner also locks a bunch of those checks.
We're not going to find the spinner in checks that are locked behind the spinner
unless something's broken which...
Yeah and even doing the other dungeons we have the ability
do all of them.
So we're truly not worried about anything spinner locked.
Yes there's actually a very well hidden chest up here in the game
if you claw shot up onto this target and then walk
across these tight ropes...
So well hidden, it doesn't even
appear.
Oh yeah, there goes.
Don't know what the rendering on that one's doing, but yeah it doesn't get drawn unless
you're very close to it for some reason.
Listen, I know the fountain has to be dead because it's spinner locked. But what if you backslice?
Yeah, what if we did it anyway?
What if you just did it here?
We're doing a showcase.
Yeah.
So the fountain chest here outside South Castle Town,
uh,
it logically requires the spinner to get to cause there's a spinner track that you can jump down to from here after getting this chest.
I should take off this Zor armor!
I am in a literal volcano!
But instead what we could just do is, we could do uh...this I am in a literal volcano.
But instead what we can just do is we can do this and get to the chest.
So cool!
It's going to be useless, yeah.
Yeah, what else is there? All right.
Yeah, what else is there?
Did you do all three checks at the top of Zora's domain?
I did not do the underwater go on.
All right, I will go do that thing because I have water bombs.
Do you have a moment for more donations
i have so many for you i'm drowning we have uh six dollars from kairi, who says $6 train for the sixth dungeon.
Seeing two of my favorite speedrunners together
still blows my mind.
Thank you for the great commentary
and let's get that incentive guys!
I also have $100 for you from Beninock who says show me the bazooka.
Anybody know where that is? It's random, right?
Um,
there's no way it's...
I already got that checked. Oh, thank God.
Yeah, there's no...
Turkey Go Gorge.
Yeah, let's hit this up.
Yeah, I get that one.
Let's see because, yeah,
I think we can't get the spinner track.
We did everything in orden
we didn't fish okay
i'm gonna go make a cat happy. I get it back to its mama?
Most excited any Twilight Princess
showcase has ever been for fishing.
Dude, I love fishing minigames.
What is the least...
You know what?
We'll put in good verbiage
for this.
What is the best
of the fishing games
in Zelda history?
Which one makes you feel like ooh, yeah, I'm relaxed?
Yes.
Yeah, yes.
All right.
Okay.
I heard a vote for Ocarina of Time. All right, all right. Okay. I heard a vote for Ocarina of Time, alright, alright.
MM3D!
Yeah.
I don't think I've ever done the MM3D one.
Haha, I disagree on OOT.
Me as I'm straining my finger holding target for 10 minutes.
All right, and here we go.
We're fishing.
Woo!
Applause fishing. Woo!
We caught one, fish on.
And...hey! Now the cat is happy.
Also, I'm very happy
less than $6000 remaining to that
bonus bonus dungeon everyone.
All of a sudden
I can't get all the chicks
fast enough.
They're just going
to keep making us
do dungeons.
I don't know why
I used that voice.
Which house does that?
Off note for everyone,
the bonus
bonus dungeon
incentive will
close at the end
of our second
runner finish
or is it
our first runner
or second runner?
Runners reminds remind me.
Just keep donating!
Keep donating!
They have to finish four dungeons first,
so when they finish four dungeons
we can tell them how many more
they're doing.
Make it a lot!
We still got the Shellblade Grotto. Oh, that check is awful.
Honestly, I just thought about
the Shellblade Grotto. You need to go away.
Oh that chest over there is dead by the way.
Oh have you already done it?
Uh no, it's hinted death.
Oh!
Did we ever talk about that?
No.
Just wanna keep my bearings straight, make sure I know.
So yeah let's go Boop, you and you.
Four more checks in here so there is no relatively dense...
Oh!
So am I just doing Double Dimension Rodlock stuff?
Okay. That's great.
I love when Jim tells me that I don't have to do stuff.
What if it's the second
chest of this tower?
Oh, no.
Butler! Yes! Oh, no. Butler!
Oh yeah, oh that's right we did skip that earlier.
We skipped that cuckoo tower I'm just saying.
I really badly wanted to be there.
You know, I'm gonna check this first because...
This is higher check density technically.
That's the correct play but it's going to be really funny!
Less than $5,000 remaining, y'all.
We're getting there.
Y'all are donating so fast!
Shout-outs to
y'all purchasing tickets for the $6 donation train.
It feels like Spirit Tracks in here, there's so many choo-choos!
Choo-choo!
Someone say QQ?
QQ?!
QWO?!
Sorry, wrong game.
Do I have Skyward Sword randomized there
for the next GDQ.
I'm just throwing it out
there, that would be sick.
I'd be down.
Woo!
Yeah, it's amazing how many Zelda games have randomizers. All of them!
Wand of Gamelon is in there? It's great!
Here's an absolute journey of a randomizer.
Well, I think it's about time for me to go check chest two!
Oh baby let's go i will cry tears of joy no it gets right here
kind of look like uh so you've done all of Lanayru Field,
what do we have left?
The desert owls.
Oh, the desert owls.
Yeah.
All right.
Yo, let's go.
Time to get a shot at it again.
I just had a thought
of something.
Oh, no.
Snowboard racing.
Oh!
All right.
You know what?
I'll make that my next thing.
I'm awful at snowboarding, but it will be great.
Either way, there will be laughs.
Laughing, cheering, all of it. Crying...
Over here.
Can we clap?
Can we clap for less than $4,000 remaining? Woo!
Also for this donation of $6 from the Back Couch.
This is Random Clapping Time!
Yay!
Thank you.
Chest two approaches.
Let's see.
Come on, dude! Please!
I saw something!
Boo! Yeah, boo.
Some boos in the audience?
Thinking about it...
We don't have a lot to do.
I already cleared Sacred Grove
we cleared Faron Woods as much as we could,
Orton's village is clear.
We cleared Cat Gorge, Cacarico.
You got the Rock Spire chest in Cacarico Village?
I did not.
We have not shot up there yet.
Take a peek at that.
That and the Iron Boots check. Oh yeah, I got the Iron Boots. shot up there yet so i gotta take a peek at that got in the iron boots check okay
i got the iron boots check earlier okay man uh
we didn't miss something right thereler. I'm thinking right now...
Yeah? I don't think you've skipped anything.
Theoretically the spinner exists somewhere.
Hypothetically.
Potentially.
Wasn't that hilarious it's right here this is it oh
there it is good Good golly, Miss Molly.
So I do have to go beat Forest Temple and Snow Peak before I can go get Batman.
Oh, actually, no, I don't need to get water bombs.
I don't need water bombs. You don't need water bombs bombs i don't need water bottles you don't need
water but i don't need water bombs who would need water balls i mean unless you also want
to do more fuel without zora armor i would not recommend doing that for your first time on stage.
We're going to have a 45-minute tutorial session.
So you pull the palm...
Yeah, yeah, I watched you
do the whole thing
while half looking at this side.
Yeah, it's great.
And we don't need
any small keys in forest
now, we don't?
Yeah, you just see
the big key
from that one chest.
I'm gonna get the small key that is in the
uh...big ball of this stuff
and the big key was in that other chest
That's so long ago
Yeah, after you unlock the locked door
it is the first chest on the right
Unlocked door, first shot
Okay yeah yeah that was the big key
And then double claw shots
were uh After you do the chest that you jump on And then double claw shots were, uh...
After you do the chest that you jump on and then do the LGA over the railing
The double claw shots are in the further chest
That has like a giant stream going through it
Oh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah!
Yeah, so because I don't have to do anything
in Forest Temple except get the Bosky,
I can just plosh out my way up here
and go get the Bosky.
Make sure I still have lantern oil to burn these webs. Less than $3,000 remaining!
Also Spike if you don't want to go do uh zora armor list more feel um
i did get a 30 donation fromMoMo with an extra challenge.
They say, hi Spike, hi Jim, I know you've had some tough challenges this run
so how about something a little easier? If the sixth dungeon
is the Arbiter's Grounds,
I'll give you a hundred more dollars for salad.
Oh my God!
Also best fishing game is Skyward Sword which doesn't have one.
Oooh... That's what I like to hear baby! sword which doesn't have one I'm being rude!
Excuse me, I continue to not be able to see on this.
Also, we never found the big key in city in the sky
oh yeah it's on the right side yeah so you will have to go get the small key uh i believe unless
you want to do small keysk, which don't do that.
That actually looks like the worst track. You found that
and it looks basically TAS only.
Yep.
Did that
wedge? There's a specific line I look for on the ground, and I can't see it right now...
Uh, I mean, I could go just get water bombs? That would be fine, but...
Yeah, not being able to see kinda...
Uh, what the heck?
Let's go with... Can you make it daytime?
Not underwater.
No, not underwater.
Alright.
There is a specific dot I look for to sit on the ground.
This one works right here.
This is the clip.
This is the not-the-clip.
So we're generally going too far to the left side.
Let's try right side i guess
a little further like my leg i think my leg because we need the camera to be up like that and then generally it's up against the wall.
Alright Jay, I'm gonna ask you for your my coach, through all of these TP randomizers.
Unfortunately, I also cannot see because of the blinding light in my face.
Yes.
It is...
We need the lantern underwater.
Otherwise, yeah, we're going to do this one more time and then I will just go get the water bombs.
Yeah, okay well I cannot tell.
Alright so we're just going to go get the water bombs then.
So here I'm going to do the LJAs to get to the boss door.
A little different than the ones that Spike did because spike went to the other side of
the room to get the chest uh so we just put a target there and then jump attack
and then we get to the end yay Woo!
Do you have time for some intrusive train noises? Yes.
Because I've got SixSoulers from Sage who says,
Dungeon 6 Train is leaving the station at full speed
and Skyward Sword randomizer would make my day.
I also have $10 from Kako that says,
If we have time for one more, I'm so sorry for this.
But we have $25 from...
We have a $25 donation from Nordic the Wolf that says,
Nordic the Wolf that says, can we get that bonus?
Can we get that bonus, bonus, bonus dungeon, dungeon.
Let's go gymnasts.
Let's go Spike.
Yeah.
Woo.
Woo. Woo. Woo. this let's go spike
i'll see just a quick interesting thing uh you guys didn't hear it on Spike's side because I believe we're using My Game Audio
but Diababa
the boss is kind of just not making
noises. Just kind of silent.
It's a little bit weird sound effect.
Yeah something to do with the music stuff that you guys have had to do for Music Shuffle.
So yeah... just rando dev things.
Just wait my life
yeah we got three bomb bags right here we need the setting at some point where
the second one just starts with water bombs
right
yeah so this is the intended way to actually blow up
your uh your boulder to get into the legbed temple.
Could have saved that a little bit of time, it's okay we're vibing.
Other than that we'll probably try to start linking in.
I think we're going for Goron Mines first and
I know you were given a suggestion on your sixth dungeon
what you might go for.
Uh, Imma leave that one to you baby
ah yeah i mean no i i do not have confidence that i would be able to
do salad skip i don't think that one is happening unfortunately gotta at least try once
i mean we could go through and just try once uh i don't think it's gonna work but
that was not me putting pressure on you i'm not doing it yeah
i mean i do have the warp portal so it wouldn't take too long to get to arbiter's grounds
um but yeah first i have to find the boss
key for city in disguise we'll focus on that for the time being
what if i tried this one more time now that it's
you got this we we believe in you.
It's so lit.
Did we clip in and out?
I think that was still like slightly too far to the left.
Less than $2,000 remaining!
Let's keep $25 remaining.
Let's keep the Dungeoneering going, y'all!
Do you have time for... I have another request for y'all?
Okay.
I've got $25 for you from Anonymous
who says,
to Jim and Spike,
can I get your best
jaaah
as we ride
the sixth dungeon train?
Alright,
you first.
Jaaaah! Jaaaaah! train all right you first yeah i feel like we sounded like an old Barry.
Oh, those are Link's parents.
Okay.
I also have $50
from Little Dark SunSun who says,
gymnasts at GDQ with Twilight Princess and a randomizer?
Sign me up.
Good luck for both runners and yeah!
It gave me a note saying in like in link's voice you know
oh i did the thing i forgot i thought i i forgot I forgot. You were too busy to laugh.
For a second, I thought you did Cool Game while I wasn't looking.
No, thankfully not.
Well, Cool Game is a soft lock.
I don't know if I want to do Cool games, but apparently there is $100 on the
table for it.
Jim, one more time,
where was the double-cloth shot?
Oh, so after you do the LGA
onto the railing from the open chest, um...
The double claw shot will be in the uh...
Like you jump down into the water. Into the water! Oh okay yeah yeah yeah yeah
It's what? The one that's blowing against me or
or it doesn't matter i'll figure it out
yes we just teach you okay so that's the only small key we need right there
also where was the uh dominion rod and snoopy was it just in the first room
it was the poe in the first room okay see if you want to for convenience you can get
the small key on the left statue right yeah yeah, you know what you're doing.
You've played this before.
Would you like some more takes on fishing games?
I've got fishing takes.
Of course, please.
I don't know who signedk. $100 for another dungeon to bonkin'.
That's a good one.
That is a great one.
And we have the same question here. Speedrunners don't tend to bonk. $100 for another dungeon?
To Bonkin!
Best fishing minigame is Wind Waker
You get to shoot the fish
Speaking of fishing, we got more fishing coming up here. Woo!
Alright fish on.
I am going to volunteer that Phantom Hourglass is not on anyone's favorite fishing.
Because, yeah, that gave me issues at a deck.
I may have cried a couple times fishing fan back glass but
that's okay who is it that was gonna donate if we just keep talking this is the quality of life
for some reason they decided to make those like really you could not roll up the stairs.
Nintendo said no, not in my children's video game.
I mean have you tried rolling upstairs in real life? It hurts.
Yeah that's true.
That I've tried it.
By the way, uh... One, we are 75% of the way there to our sixth dungeon!
Woo!
Incredible job y'all.
Let's keep it up.
I also have $25 from Wigtal who says, Dungeon 6?
Let's go! Also,
Link's Awakening is by far the best fishing game.
That one person agrees!
I played that one! Not one person agrees Whatever you name I'm just gonna jump down. Whenever you inevitably do co-op,
you're going to have to think through your brain,
alright don't do all those checks
just start with these ones
so I'm trying to figure through what the process is here
I guess you're gonna go down, you're gonna jump over. Yeah, I gotcha
Yep. I just wanted to mouth that out sorry. No, you're good
Uh wait let's just jump down here. Okay cool.
I'm just making my way up to Snow Peak
Oh we uh...
You can LJA that.
Oh you can?? Oh my god! That poor guy.
I hate you, I'm scared.
Am I just putting it above this?
Yeah, should work.
Oh, I see, I see.
That's the first one.
And you can't just make that, can ya? That's the first one.
And you can't just make that, can ya?
You know what? Throw it up there! Wait...
Spike got the other LGA variant, The Little Jump Attack.
What's that second one uh we are live learning this one you can do two targets above the overhang and then just do two ljs in a row
so just match A.
I'm fishing off the edge of a ledge. That's not where
the fishing rod goes.
I meant to
do an LJA over here.
Um... so because I know that I don't have to come back to Snow Peak,
I can skip fighting the shadow beasts
there and skip having
to do all of that. It does come with a caveat though
but now I have to do snowboarding
somewhat blind because the render distance is turned
way down.
So I'll just have to make sure that I be careful
to not fall into the void.
Do y'all have time for more
hot fishing takes? There's so many.
Real quick, I'm putting two up there.
Maybe a little higher.
A little higher?
Yeah, so get rid of those two and then go a lot higher up.
Oh, like here?
A little bit further down.
A little bit further down. A little bit further down.
All right.
I've got the live tutorial.
How about there?
That should be good.
All right!
Let's try it, baby!
Whoa!
Yeah, easy.
That's not... easy wait do it again i wasn't paying attention another lga right here after let's let these
guys drop down oh i probably want to open this
i guess it doesn't really matter we need to get up on top of the chest and
this is one where you need to throw it out super quickly so boom boom over
to the side we're going to lock on one skier,
pull it out and real quick jump slash
and hey we're good.
Alright now let's read some donations.
Perfect because I have a
very special donation for you from the yeti let's go i wonder if it's ghetto
they donated ten thousand dollars $10,000.
And they would like to say hey all, Yeti
here! We have a special message
from Miski, one of our tea artists who has been contributing designs for 10 years.
She says I've been doing GDQ teas for a long time and it still feels incredible to be able to contribute through my art and be able to give more than I ever could on my own.
I also love that I can help highlight indie games in my own way via design collaboration.
I got into speedrunning through GDQ and even though I'm mostly just an enthusiast, without exaggeration it's genuinely changed my life
And ended up introducing me to some of the most important people in my life.
So it holds a special place in my heart.
Thank you, Miski for all your amazing art!
Thank you so much. Woo!
Also, just a quick aside, by the way,
we're less than $1,000 away from a sixth dungeon.
Let's go, baby.
Let's keep this rolling.
Oh my God, there are so many trains!
There's trains on my screen.
Do you have time for more fishing tapes, by the way?
Let's hear them.
Because we have $50 from an on who says my hot fishing tape show that
fishing rods again and dwarf and show him what for.
Sure, why not?
We'll show Ganondorf the fishing rod.
We also have $30 from NotAnExpert who says
my favorite fishing minigame is
the one from Breath of the Wild.
Bums away! What? fishing mini game is the one from breath of the wild bombs away
i'd also like to point out that we are um about five thousand dollars away oh now less than five thousand dollars away from 1.1 million dollars total let's go baby
keep that train rolling!
Yeah, so I'm just going through Snow Peak. Gonna go pick up the boss key and then
head over to beat Blizzetta so i don't have
to get any of the other checks that spike had to go uncheck um
so yeah should be pretty short for me since the
bedroom key is just over here
and i am fighting more feel right here again the big thing you're trying to
look for is asmorphil bobs up and down you can force unequip
the iron boots by going into the menu and just putting anything
else in that slot. And that should cancel out the animation of Link flipping up and down, it
knocking you off. You should hopefully be able to get a quick re-grab.
There is some randomness of how it bobs up
and down that I have to react to.
We'll see what happens, it's not easy.
But either way, he a fish, we're gonna try to kill him.
She a fish, we're gonna try to kill she a fish we're gonna try to kill
is this a fishing mini game
unfortunately i don't think you can pull out the fishing rod during this fight so maybe not
i mean i have some obscure tp knowledge that technically
this could be a fishing minigame.
Because there's a glitch you can do, it's also used for Starlodge scope
It's called Clawshot Actor Displacement
And if you land on one of the pillars and fall off
On the same frame you grab Morphiel, it actually pulls her to
you. Yeah I
can't argue with that one actually
So technically fishing minigame
Alright so this trick that spiked it earlier
This is actually a trick called the
last freezard skip, where normally
this freezard is supposed to continuously
fire the ice stream
at you so that you can't get up there.
But it was discovered that if
you actually trigger the Freezer
to begin attacking and then drop down
on a very specific frame
down the ladder, you'll instead
get an attack that does actually end and you can climb back up the ladder
and get up there. Which skips having to do either a really stupid long jump attack
or having to use bombs and fire cannons throughout the whole dungeon.
And unlike in vanilla, you can that all with one ladder climb as opposed to having
to drop down a second time to re-grub again because of how fast your climbing ladders
Shoutouts to faster ladder climbing.
It's so nice.
So at this point, I mean,
I could go up into City in the Sky. Where would you say the small key was?
It was on the Po Island in the chest. Yeah, it was
on the Poe Island in the chest. So that's... I think you would want to go
backwards. Yeah, I think that's a reversal
we could pull. Otherwise
I guess I could go to Goron Mines.
It depends. What are we doing?
I think we should meet our required
dungeons first and then...
Less than $500
to a sixth dungeon
They just keep ordering up new ones for us!
Y'all let's take all their plans and
throw them into the fishing hole.
Y'all on built-in in crowd control all my dad.
I have it here. We're hopefully going to get
the one cycle so we we'll do 1, 2
and then 3. Easy!
Very nice.
So let's go.
The last thing that I hadn't picked up yet,
you had your spinner correct?
No, because I just got it on the engine rod in here.
Oh, that's right.
Jim's gotta go get his spinner and I have to
get my Master Sword here on Star Prize 1
little mini game. It is cool we got
showcase this in it. There are a lot of optimization
you put a timer on anything in the speed run,
people will optimize the heck out of it
because it gives you that immediate satisfaction
of how fast you're going compared to everybody else.
So yeah, people have optimized this to a nutty degree.
Just like all the different movements you can do
to snag all of them very quickly.
Yeah, all the variations of what strats there are
depending on what items you have.
It's very cool. Hey!
Do I have clawshot on? Yeah, sure.
Nooo... No! No!
That's a sixth dungeon for you.
Look into eyes of Yetto.
Their true beauty.
Is there a sixth dungeon in Eyes of Yetto?
Who need mirror, instead we have six dungeons
how much do you need to get you for you to do Palace of Twilight?
Well that would require both going through Arbiter's Grounds also. Oh man,
we'd get like 12 Dungeons and Hunters. Yeah, you could do
Stallard Skip then then do Palace.
And you need a fourth sword for that!
We'd have to find the fourth sword for that, yeah.
It might be in Palace.
Vanilla Light Sword?
I've never done Palace of Twilight in the randomizer. Oh, boy. I don't think...
I've never done Palace of Twilight in the randomizer.
It's fun.
You should try it sometime.
It's very different now.
Yes.
Just a reminder for everyone that while we have met two whole bonus dungeons,
We are also still less than $4000 away from 1.1 million which is is incredible! And also there's more incentives that haven't
been met yet so we have less than $8000 away from a bonus any% run of animal well um and yeah we can keep going Yeah, so right here to actually break the trigger for this fan sort of inching up
To the point where now I should be able to just press A with Wolf
and that skips over the trigger for this fan.
We saw it with Gymnast earlier, but I'm gonna
extend the benefits
of being able to do that. Now
I can do this whole left side of the dungeon in
reverse, so now I can just go
up here and there would normally be a fan
going off above us
but it's where I should have checked
beforehand Is that all we know yeah just don't
do it yeah i was about to say uh yep that's right we've learned this just for you all right
oh let's drop off and do like a jump slash yeah that's great all right um
yeah so now i can go through it in reverse because all i really care about is this small kid
if i may also draw your attention to not um... Not only do we have that Animal Will Any% bonus run incentive
That's less than $8000 away
But we've just opened up another incentive
Hey y'all! Do you like Zelda?
Like Zelda games?
Yeah? We're above lukewarm on Zelda games? Something like that?
Because we have opened up the bonus game for The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time.
Ooh!
Which, if you want to see more Zelda, that's going to be $100,000.
Ooh! And that's a lot, but I know y'all got this. $100,000. Woo!
And that's a lot but I know y'all got this.
That went the wrong way. Oops!
Muscle memory?
Yeah.
Shout-outs to going the
wrong way
now i do have the spinner though so i can actually form the bridge up here to
get uh the last few checks in the dungeon
which have to have the big key i guess we'll see if it's on the
aralfos chest or not and if
the period has to donate ten dollars again
yeah otherwise jim and I are going to... This is the only reason
I threw out the Goron Mines thing.
We are going to be pretty much
right next to each other
so hopefully we'll be able
to get to hold hands
walking out of the dungeon, and then each
of us have to do our fifth and sixth dungeons.
Now both of us had to complete our first four dungeons in order to actually gain access
to beating the seed.
But for the purpose of the incentive, we're going to make just one of us have to be each
of the other two. So right now I think I'm committed to doing
the Goron Mines and Jim is committed to doing one of the others
which would be between Temple of Time
and Arbiter's Grounds.
I think he's projected
which ones he may have taken.
We'll have to see
as we get there.
Can we read this?
Sure.
There's nothing
to be found
in Leneva Spring.
Did you do anything there? I did everything there.
Oh, well... Ah! You wasted all your time. Cool.
Yep. Come on.
So this chest right here, you're not supposed to be able to get from the top but with some double clawshot aiming
You can get over here just like this
Get this one down here
Hot Bosky Get this one down here. That boss key! This is like 400 presses.
Do you have time for a couple of more fun donations absolutely wonderful because uh in
in honor of our link noises we do have six dollars from link likes to b, who says Yeah!
More dungeons equals more bonks. Less than three.
That was my best attempt at following
the instructions. Hi-ya, bonk,
ow in link voice.
Ow in link voice?
What's up, Jim?
How you doing?
Now you keep reading donations on me. What's up, Jim? Hey. How you doing? How are you doing?
Now he keeps reading donations. Oh wonderful!
I also have $100 from Casey who says
I think I speak for everyone when I say Twilight Princess low percent win.
Oh gosh.
And the entire week of GDQ
be low percent!
Yeah, so we only got three more chests in City in the Sky that could potentially have a big key. So you gotta get through this room then go through uh another uku flying room
and then if it's not on either of those two checks
then we are going to be fighting the mini boss
fighting wow yes theoretically yeah that is a word of all time do it.
Yeah, he's got it.
Yep.
I was like,
I'm not going to try
with jump slash there.
There we go.
Yeah, so again,
that was the first time the reason why I failed
if you ever wondered
why do some of these not work sometimes?
I needed specifically it to be over that void
That's what triggers the ability
to go as far as we do.
Nope, not that one. 50-50.
Cut! Can I interest you in another hot fishing take? Alright.
Let's go!
Okay, there are some questions to be had here.
So real quick, do you have a shield?
No. Okay.
We will be...
You know what?
I will also fight it.
Okay.
I've learned one way for how to fight this boss and it was definitely with Shield Bash.
It's fine. I don know how to generally defeat the boss but uh we'll get there it'll be fun we'll have a good time go ahead and give us some fishing
i'm gonna learn how to fight this boss.
Wonderful, because I have...
First of all, $25.
Whoa!
Whee!
Here's $25 from
FlimBob84, who says
Twilight Princess best game
Twilight Princess best fishing
which is a very sound take
for a Twilight Princess speedrun.
We also have $15 from Anonymous, who says...
Hi! Time Traveler here.
Echoes of Wisdom has the best fishing minigame by far.
Spoilers?
Wow.
Actual Nintendo representative in the donations, let's go.
Oh my goodness.
What are they doing back inside?
Alright so uh we got to the Arolfos here.
I'm going to try and do what's known as the Arolfo skip with
the Hawkeye.
I have no idea what the visual cue for this is,
but I guess we're going to be trying it anyway.
I don't know. Maybe that looks good?
No, that's too low.
We'll try this a few times to see if i can figure it out
um i actually know what the visual cue for this is on the hd version of
the game but that doesn't really help here so we can go wee a few more times.
So we needed to go a little bit higher, something like this maybe? Oh, no that was a little too high.
We're narrowing it down though.
Wheeee!
Spike's gonna do the actual fight.
Yeah, let's see if we remember how to...
Because that should bring that up and now I can
bring in the ball and chain.
Ah, that was still too low. Alright well, I guess I'll probably just try to do it
the normal way then.
I don't want to spend here trying to figure out what
the exact pixels line up for for that is with the Hawkeye.
Alright, I'll donate $10 to make up for that okay?
Let's hear it for Legend of Zelda runners paying their taxes.
Anyway, this is what the actual skip looks like.
And there it is sitting in the sky big feet do i learn that live right here
there's a setup i could teach you right now
yeah uh it will be made to set up a setup in February for this that's pretty easy to just learn.
Okay, what is it?
You do have to reset the room so fall in void oh yeah sure live learning here at qtq
i should you know i'm trying to put these on
okay Okay, so iron boots off. You need to never fight Aerothas in this!
Iron boots off.
Okay.
Slash slash slash stab.
So the stab is A?
It's forward and A.
Oh, okay.
Yeah so neutral first three slashes hold forward for
the fourth slash.
Alright we're gonna go neutral press A three times
then forward A. You wanna do the combo so three slash combos set stab finisher
all right take off irons one two three four turn around turn around uh see up
i look straight up C up. Look straight
up, and then
you're going to item wheel buffer.
We're doing this!
Excuse me, we interrupt We're doing this, man. All right. Whee!
Excuse me.
We interrupt this tutorial to bring you an important message about the fact that we have hit $1.1 million for charity.
Woo!
Perfect. Oh! Personally, I think that deserves a wheeeee!
Thank you.
That's a one-two-three-four Thank you. Alright, so one two three four and then we're going to turn around I'm gonna see up okay? And then go aim all the way up and open the atom wheel.
That's a good idea. all the way up and open the item wheel. Yeah, we're just going to be OK.
Aim up all the way up.
Item will get one away. You got take these off Aim up. Aim all the way up. Item wheel, okay?
One... Oh wait you gotta take these off.
1 2 3 That's not gonna work.
Turn around.
Yeah yeah. Okay we're going to do this.
Okay. 1 2 3 Hordes tap! gonna do this all right okay one two three four and stop
come on donate can we get a wee train one two wait two three i don't know oh what is with the egg One, two, wait. Two, three...
No! Oh but it's with the egg.
Wait! It's Aza!
P1, yeah.
Something with an egg? Swing with A.
Pull the sword, one two three...
No! One two three...
Oh I see I see I see yes you got it yeah sure
uh i'm a visual learner ah yeah And you turn around
You go all the way up
You see up
Yeah, we're gonna try
and item wheel buffer this
Spike, have you ever done
an item wheel buffer?
I've never done
an item wheel buffer
Okay, that's the frame
you want
You can tell by the little overhang in
the bottom left corner all right you just keep doing it so we're gonna hold c up
we're going to close the end wheel press a three times and claw shot
let's go!
Wow, it's the big key.
Wee hee hee hee! Time for
two Argoroks at the same time yeah that's why we did that so we could stagger this
do you also have time for a quick donation always because i have four thousand dollars $4,000. Oh!
Ah!
From the Yeti who says, hey all,
Yeti here.
Here's $4,000 for the four horsemen of Link Sounds.
Thank you. Oh, $100.
Let's go!
Cool game!
What is happening?
Yeah so this is a soft line. I'm going to try and get it in the air. Okay. cool game
yeah so this is a soft lock
i can't let go of our rock all i can do is target the tail and uh yeah it's okay though i'll catch back up to spike
yeah you will see i want to see if he eventually moves because
you can't just kind of fly around the arena with him if he eventually goes away
come on this is a very cool game
i don't think he's going to fly around, unfortunately.
Extra $100.
There we go.
Woo!
Thank you for the change, everybody.
It's all going to a good cause yeah so these are pretty precise where you got to place each of these claw shots to actually get linked to go up on top now we're gonna
shimmy to the side and we're gonna try to set up for this let's put into a double can we get it
something something stop glitching. In my randomizer!
Nope. oh close didn't quite get knocked into the void there it's a pretty tough claw shot right here.
We'll give it a shot and why not try that?
Okay, cool! Now we can switch over to Iron Boots
because you want to drop down with them on
so you can try to catch this earlier cycle and catch this guy
okay sick
yeah a lot of what they did here is you have to anticipate the shots a little bit.
You got to lead them.
Do you have a moment for a couple of very important donations?
Of course. Because I have $25 here from Sharknado
who says, you guys have it all wrong, clearly
the best fishing minigame was in Link's crossbow training.
Please tell me it actually has one!
So few people have played that game
that no-one can actually fact check if it's even
has fishing in it. Can any of you audience? I can, so
I think what they said is true. No one just, no one lied!
Give me a yippee if you have actually played that game.
Oh my gosh!
It's like 12 liars in here.
I disagree. That's way too big a number may i also share with you
i have five dollars from your game console yours and it would like to say
don't do the thing I did that is not faster.
I did not download
the tutorial for that one.
So Arnrock is one of those bosses
when you first start playing this
he takes forever.
You're here for like
an entire lunch break.
There's actually a lot of ways to speed him up, including right
here he's supposed to be able to fly back around the arena
a second time for this phase one but based on your camera
manipulation I can hopefully really quickly get you out for this phase one. But based on your camera manipulation,
I can hopefully really quickly get a regrab before he gets going.
Okay, nice. So that speeds up phase one quite a bit.
Hey you know what? I could keep talking. This is such a long cutscene, please read like 30 donations.
Ooh exciting! I love reading donations.
I've got five dollars for you from Skybills.
What's up Skye?
We would like to say hey Spike and Jim.
It is fantastic to see you all on the big stage running Twilight Princess.
I'm so thankful for y'all friendship.
Spike it has almost been 10 years.
When did we get so old?
Thanks for everything y'all have done for the community!
We're lucky to have you, thanks to staff and volunteers
for all your hard work. I miss y'all, love Skybills.
Love you, Skye.
So now going into the phase,
so people have found ways to speed up this fight
by a good minute like, minute or so
once you get here.
Right here at the start, Jim and I are both going
to be immediately actually jumping off
because that's going to just
get Argaroc to spawn sooner
in the middle of the arena.
So take off Iron Boots just so we can have more momentum
behind us really i ruined something down there and now we're going to put back on the iris i'm
going to be listening for very specific audio cues right here
to know when I'm going to try to go for an Artorok animation skill.
So, trying to go up here in two shots.
Spike's doing the gamer lean.
Oh! Spike's doing the gamer lane.
Okay...
Okay, so what happened right there is effectively he thinks he hit us with the flame. So that's an immediate early first hit right there,
our first set of hits.
We're gonna do the exact same thing on the second cycle now
and then third one we're going to switch it up just a little bit
but same premises
we're going to try to get up on in two claw shots.
Whee!
If you've got to move fast, otherwise it starts roaring and you don't want that...
Oh, it's over here!
Okay, so we're going to go ahead and drop off just to reset this up was so we listen for the roar
lock on as soon as I see the flame, push down.
Claw shot up. We have once again tricked his AI into thinking he hit us.
Go a couple more over.
And so for this last one, we're actually... I don't understand.
Lunar, can you explain how this works?
Why this works?
Do we have any idea um what you see dragon gober
it's gonna be some weird manipulation here where by taking the iron boots off at one point all right so i'm gonna
go four over one two three counting despite's right. And then we're gonna put
the Iron Boots on right
now.
And by taking them off, he's like, what happened? Oh I screwed it up. That's right you can watch Jim's side.
He can show you.
Yeah so we're gonna take off the iron boots go three P hats over this way wait for him to
or wait for the flame to eclipse.
The last p hat that we just shot put on the the iron boots, go down.
Uh Argar is now going to turn around so we take the iron boots off after he
begins shooting and then that cancels his shooting animation
and we can flush onto him to get the last inning quickly.
And now we have even more time for donations!
So much time!
Ooh, I love that.
I have $759
from JubJub. That's a lot of money.
Yeah, claps for that! They would like to say from a fellow bonus game runner I learned how stressful
watching that donation goal can be so here's my drop in the pot upon $1 for every kill and my wrath of a machine run. And reminder that we actually have two bonus games open right now where we also have that bonus any percent run, is less than $7,000 away.
So if anybody has some time to spare
to click on that low incentive button
we'd love to see that get met.
Do you all still have time for one more?
Yeah.
Because we have $100 from the period who says, pretty cool game.
I'll match the $100
Stallard skip incentive. Donating towards Ocarina of Time,
Ganon floor is really cool trust me it really
is! Yeah so we've reached a point where
we have each done simultaneously
All the things we need to do
To go beat the sea
We can now go to Hyrule Castle
But because of y'all's generosity
We gotta go beat two more dungeons
We're just gonna pick one and we're gonna go.
I'm going to Goron Mines...
I guess I'm going to Arbiter's Drowns.
Woooooo!
I think the shadows to Isaac for like, you know go through we gave him like preferences on what dungeons he wanted to see and now we're just doing all of them anyways thanks for betting one with all our favorite
yeah so for our dungeons all we'll have to do well all i'll have to do is find the boss key um spike
is going to actually have to find three separate pieces of the boss
because he's doing Goron Mines.
Putting on the iron boots and then mashing out a jump slash here,
you saw it in his side as well,
you could land on the bridge
and cut out a lot of the swing around in the water that's so slow.
Best of luck, Jim.
You say how long has it been since you've done this, Skip?
Over a year and a half.
But also, it's basically the hardest trick
that you do in any speedrun of Twilight Princess.
I don't remember what the setup is so if it works
it's going to be by some miracle
you know generally they say you know like make sure you practice your speed runs before you uh
do them up at a gdq And I've learned at least like three
strats to do this in a year!
Jameis about to do something that
no one should ever go for,
and you're doing it at least in a randomizer and you're doing at least in a randomizer
and uh you have not done it in a year so this is great
gdq improv done quick that's great yeah stylus skip
is specifically something that never should be...
It should never be faster to do in the randomizer,
because if you're beating Arbiter's Grounds
you still need to beat Styler
to get the dungeon reward.
But of course we've set up
a perfect scenario for Styler's Skip to be shown off in Randomizer.
Except that... again, I'm not going to get this.
That's Quit talk, Jim!
Spike and I have each entered
our respective dungeons so we're going to be
going through them. Arbiter's Grounds, for the most part,
even if the boss key is in a very convenient location
I still will have to do a decent chunk of the dungeon
because I do have to get four Poe Souls
to open up the second half of the dungeon uh because i do have to get uh four posals
uh to open up the second half of the dungeon
or at least specifically kill uh four pose to open up the second half of the
dungeon they do have random items in them
hey that okay that speaks well we've already got one key shard
so we need three of those in order to beat the dungeon
uh let's drop down here and go for the lja variant of this room
put it right above this guy that'll lock him over there
and then jump slash man i really want that dude to get destroyed. It usually does.
By the way,
the scroll wheel in Twilight Princess,
I love that item menu.
It's really fun because like in one to two inputs,
you can get every single item
in this.
I know because of key logic, this has to be a small
key right here. One of the first two always has to be. So we'll see. It would
nice to speed up these bonus dungeons with at least got three key shards early
but the odds are pretty low.
Yeah, with Goron Mine specifically, just because you need to find
three pieces to get the boss key, it's pretty common
that one of the pieces will end up in
the second half of the dungeon.
Do you have time for a few donations?
I got time for one, yeah.
Alright we've got $25 from Advo who says a few years ago
I watched her Wind Waker race versus Linkus which got me into the community and I even met
The love of my life and have my wonderful daughter because of it. So thank you, Jim
and thank you GDQ for changing my life."
Love you too, Advo.
All right so right here I'm going to be doing this little bit of a
finicky trick called Poe One Skip even though we already got the
poe but normally you'd skip the first
poe. All right there we go Just a little jump up there like that
It's actually a lot more finicky than I made it look
I don't know how that worked but uh
We made it work somehow
Yeah, it's a little bit weirder in randomizer because of
Fast iron boots behaving differently with sand.
I clipped, don't worry about that.
Yeah, let's hear it for the clip.
Let's hear it!
All right, so we have got... So you're just looking for your boss here.
I've never even seen this before.
I don't know what you're about to do.
Yeah, so this is currently just the path to get to what is normally the fourth Poe.
The reason this saves time in a speedrun
is because you can actually get the Poe scent
in the dungeon from any of the Poes.
Normally though they don't expect you
to be able to get to any of the pose
until you get the scent off of the first one but with that little finicky jump
that we did in the previous room we can get to the fourth po and get the scent
off of the fourth po which allows you to then skip the first Poe
because for some reason
the gate to the second half of the dungeon
only checks for the second, third,
and fourth Poe
but not the first one
because reasons I guess.
That's just like 3D Zelda flags in general.
Everyone always talks about how
as long as you get the shadow and the spirit temples done
that's all the game really checks for
being able to gain access to the light arrow gun scene and everything.
I'm sure it's simpler from a coding standpoint.
Yeah so got a little bit of some RNG manipulation that we're going
to try to do here with this Poe. So depending
on which direction we get... Okay, so
this direction I do nothing and he should begin
spinning around immediately. Alright, very good.
Sometimes the Poe can just kind of like
dally around Link for a while, which can get kind
of annoying.
She looks like he's actually...
Okay there we go finally and then we got this one over here and so this is the second of
the four Poes that we need.
Still have not found Boss T yet.
I do feel like we need to point out, if you play Twilight Princess casually
This is way faster than it would normally be.
It was like probably day one, they were like, ah we're going to make a
TP rando and
that's not going to move that slow.
So actually that patch came
pretty late. Oh what are y'all doing?
Well, so we found it at first
but then it caused issues with Argorok
where you would hang on the hill and nothing
would happen, so we had to do more science
and Decomp really helped out with that.
Yeah, that's extremely good quality of life.
I don't think I would like Dora Mines that much
if we had to move at an inch per second.
Okay. move like at an inch per second. Get out of here!
Do you have time for more wheeze and other things from fine donors?
I'll do mine.
Oh, wonderful!
Yeah, let's hear it.
Because we have $10 from French4Yes, who says whee!
Wheeeee!
I also have $250...
Let's go.
...from Moose,
who says thoroughly enjoyed Animal Well.
Would love to see an extra any% run of it.
Now if I could only find those last few eggs.
And now as not a connoisseur of animal wealth personally but a fan of Zelda I choose to believe that those are Zora eggs. Yeah?
We need to find the Zora eggs! Let's do it only six thousand dollars away
all right coming up on power number three here
this one's honestly one of the more annoying ones just because
of these other bubbles that exist in the room with us uh yeah all right yes we kind
of missed that there because the targeting priority got messed up and wasted a few of our
seconds Wasted a few of our seconds.
I am running a little low on chunks, ooh, right as I say that,
that is our second key shard. We need one more of those bad boys
and we'll potentially skip the last portion of the dungeon We got like five checks left before then.
And there's five more that's locked behind the bow check.
I'm going to do another nifty little LJ right here,
where I'm going to get it above the door back there
and we can just slip through that hole and not have to knock it down. We don't have another small key, so there's like a key has to be in this room.
It's either a small key or the third key shard. So we're rooting for that
key shard, show it to me right here! Don't show me that small key!
Oh vanilla! Hey that doesn't mean anything though...
Yeah I got a nifty little LGA coming up over on my side here to skip having
to pull this chandelier, just gotta make sure we get the bubble out of the way there
and then we get onto
the corner of, uh...the ground right here
aim up at the ceiling for the targets just about right there
and then you can get up on to thisambalaya and skip having to pull it
nice Just give me the key shard.
We've got like three checks left, and then we gotta go to the back part.
Hey, you know what? You all didn't donate for me to skip parts of dungeons.
Although I guess if we are speedrunners that's probably what we inherently do. Alright, so this room in Arbiter's Drowns is very annoying.
But thankfully we have our good old friend Val and Chain here
So we can use it to take care of him We have our good old friend Val and Chain here.
So we can use it to take out all of these little stout children
here that like the crowd around,
And then we can also use it to get rid of the ReDead that's back here.
Otherwise these ReDeds are very annoying to deal with.
On our way to our last hoe.
I was trying
to go for a nifty little ledge grab
skip right here, but we failed so this time we're gonna try it
again because i don't want to knock wait where were all that's good okay That's fine. All right, SVA, my dude.
Let it happen.
We got two more checks
then we're going to the back part.
Isaac did not bet this part.
There's been so many purple rupees, dude!
How many purple rupees are there in the pool, Lunar?
A lot. I was gonna say 20. how many purple rupees are there in the pool lunar uh a lot
all of them are in spike c right here yeah
it was one final chest and we are committing to the second loop of the dungeon Oh, really?
Alright. I'm being weighed down by
the rats. There we go
Just... right here!
Thank God, no Dengoro today.
Poor guy.
Alright, alright, alright. Poor guy. Spike, I have a special donation for you. All right, all right, all right.
It's $50 and it says it's from OxoCarb but
I really think it's from one of those chests
you opened.
Okay!
It says, hey listen two of my favorite runners with one
of my favorite games.
Take my purple rupee.
I'm so upset.
I'm not.
I'm not. Yeah, you know what it is for charity.
Thank y'all so much once again.
$1.1 million raised already
for Doctors Without Borders.
Let's keep it going gamers.
Animal Well and 8% bonus run.
Ocarina of Time Bonus Game. If you're watching this,
You probably like Zelda.
Let's get him in the marathon.
Right here, we're going to try to snipe this one from a little bit of a distance away. So I'm gonna put on the bow and just do a little shinny around here you should be able to
okay I looked at LG there for like one second of this run all right now head
down over and we have got what's the name of this boss again virus fire is
yeah my dude I forgot to read the wiki before we started this that's my number
one website that's great
i will best of luck with whatever you're about to do
this is normally where the boss is we Spinner so cool.
Can I flip in another very timely donation?
Sure.
Because I have $5 for you from Tomomodachi, who says,
You spin me right round Zelda!
Right round!
Let's get that bonus bonus dungeon!
We did get that met!
Ooh yay!
Claps are on the back couch.
All right.
So I already kind of messed something up.
Let's try that again.
All right. So we're going to try
to move around Stallard on this side.
Go up here and see.
I need this and I need
this. Something like that.
Uh, let's see.
Do I remember
what the lineup here is?
I don't think I do, but it's something
like this. Oh no, that's definitely not it.
Uh... It's something like this. Oh, no that's definitely not it.
Oh! That's right, that's what it is. It's THIS.
You do that one two three four...
Five? Jump attack.
Jump attack. One, two, three
four
Yeah yeah he's to hit me unfortunately.
Anyway so if we were set up in the right position
The next thing we would try to do is this
Nope nope didn't quite get that
So we're trying to do a trick here called claw shot actor displacement
where basically we're trying to pull this guy here all the way over
to actually hold on.
This can soft lock I should save first.
Hold on a second.
Alright so...
Okay, we weren't quite in the right position there.
I want to at least try and get this because it does look very funny if we properly
get it. And I don't wanna get damaged by Stellar, okay? So I need more over on
this side let's see and then okay so we got the
claw shot after displacement and okay yeah we did not go to the right place
so unfortunately uh the trick is dead so we'll just have
to fight stallard regularly.
But basically, we pull this guy into the corner over here
use him to clip out of bounds once with a precise clawshot aim
to get in to the wall and then use a damage boost
to get out of bounds to fight him again.
Also I'm just going to take damage here
to reset my room.
That's honestly like...
that's super cool you went for it,
that impossible trick,
but also the quick kill on Stall Lord I think is one of the most satisfying things
that can be executed, can be seen in this run.
So I'm glad Jim's going to get to showcase that.
Thanks, Lee and Twilight Princess.
We just respawned at the start of the boss fight here so it's not a huge deal
and while he's doing that so i've done all the dungeons that i have to do jim
i will start to scout out where the small keys
and most importantly where the big key is inside of hyrule castle so hopefully be able to
just give them some information we'll be able to hold hands going in to save high rule together Yeah, so for the actual Stallard fight
we have to basically break
Stallard's spine three times
Ideally we jump off here immediately and it can get
another hit in on the spine.
Okay, we got a pretty clear path there, thankfully.
Where the Stout Troopers spun up is
RNG so you kind of have to
like in the moment...
Oh that's a giant wall of them. Let's not do that.
Okay so he's got the three back there.
Do we have anybody to hit off those?
Any bros!
Got to try again for the pinball strategy here.
We're going to aim for this guy right here...
That was weird but we made it work.
Nicely done. works nicely done
and so what's going to be coming up here on jim Jim side is that he's going to try to manipulate sort of trick Stallord into staying a little closer to him in phase two than he should.
And then at a very specific timing, start the spinner motion and get on the wall
and if you do it correctly with precise timing,
you're able to jump off and knock him down almost instantly.
What does this say?
Oh cool! There's thing there's nothing in the sky baby
what a great hint at this point so here we are in high road castle the big
thing we're just trying to find is the Big Key.
You always need a minimum of two small keys.
I'm gonna let them come up and hit me,
that's going to be my trigger to pull out the bomb
because the bomb is by far the fastest way
to deal with all these Mabre ones oh nice and they
all died actually great job that bird we don't care about those kind of mean
sorry I love you yes there's like nine or so checks out I'll find you.
Yeah, so there's like nine or so checks out here in the courtyard and we're just going to go finagling through them
as we are getting a quick knockdown from gymnast.
Nicely done. And now try to go into this perfect chaining together
of the jump slash into the triple hit quick spins right here nice one cycle Nice one, Cycle!
Alright. We did six dungeons collectively.
God, we have been here for so long and now we've got six dungeons.
Actually, you know, pretty fast we're only going to do six of these.
And now we're in the Hyrule Castle looking for all our keys.
The only reason why we would need
the third small key is if the treasure room was immediately there's two double boomerang is this tie the tasmanian tiger now oh yeah so uh if anyone doesn't know i'm
holding the boomerang right now so we know that as a face do you want to get it? Yeah.
Oh no!
You are a fool!
So yeah, fun fact Twilight Princess does not have like ice traps
or anything like that but other games have it and we thought
it'd be cool so we added them in.
We like a mild amount
of suffering.
Yeah, so ice traps as with other games, if I love that, yeah.
Yeah and so ice traps as with other games if it's a free standing item that's an ice trap it'll appear as a fake item which is why we saw a second Gale Boomerang there that was not actually a Gale Boomerang.
Yeah, it wasn't
clear. We knew
just based on the settings because obviously
Twilight Princess Dungeons are a little longer. All of
the checks that were in the... Ah!
Were in the other three dungeons
were all junked effectively. They all
had to be bad. So the fact...
You would never go in there. So I thought it was a fake boomerang? That was great.
Oh, big key! Big key.
Big keys! Alright.
So that immediately eliminates the treasure room actually
so from here we just have to find two
small keys. So we know Jim's got to come over
to this right side. Let's go! He's getting the shield.
We're getting the Ordon Shield.
And donating to charity for it?
Yeah, donating 500 rupees
to charity for it.
Yeah, now the randomizer quality of life is normally you have to donate like 50 rupees
over and over again
so we changed that to 100
and you only have to donate $500.
Oh there's a Bonk! One more dollar from Crane.
In the interest of the Bonks, can I share with you a beautiful donation?
Yeah please!
Here is $250 from man of teal who says
it says link bonk sound i did my best i love how many are do this thing.
The exact word in the script.
Yeah, so in the interest of splitting up Hyrule Castle
I'm going to go to the left side here which is much
shorter than the right side. So hopefully by the time that spike is done
with the right side i'll be able to clear it up a bunch of the left side here yeah there's potential
we just get our two small keys here and we're just done but we might be looking in the second area we'll see
otherwise you might have to go for a pretty precise skip called the Double Dark Knight
Skip.
Double Dark Knight Skip.
Small key...
Now there are none on...
Well, not none.
As we traverse, do you have time for a couple more donations?
Yeah, we're just looking for small keys.
Go for it.
Wonderful!
I do have quite a few fishing mini game takes
for you i know you never would have seen that coming right
we have ten dollars from fishman who says the best fishing minigame in Zelda
is the Bylocite fight from Skyward Sword.
Where else can you
anger...
Angle? Anger a windfish?
Something like that.
We also have
$100
from Kathy42
who says, best fishing
would have been Majora's Mask.
Fishing while the moon is about to crash?
Sign me up!
All right, so we've got one small key on this side
from King Bulblin.
But it was small. Let's's go i'll see if a second one exists in any
of these other chests yeah thankfully we won't have to find three of them for the treasure room.
Yes, all you need from this side is the big key.
Yes, I guess Ed,
uh...
The only way that you could possibly
or that we could possibly have to do double Dark Knight is if both the small keys are locked behind the Double Darknets.
Right. There's a couple other checks from there. One more check down here in the corner...
Well, oh but you already have a ball you already have a small key there
all right one small key from gomo chat is this gonna be the one is it no okay No! Okay.
Oh!
That doesn't mean anything, don't worry.
Alright so we do have to do something inside of Ganon's Hyrule Castle. What it is, I don't know.
I love this right here! This is the simplest little skip in the world so
right here...I'm about to screw it up. Um no there's a barrier
It is the laziest spawn-in timer ever so we just do I'm about to screw it up. No, there's a barrier.
It is the laziest spawn in timer ever,
so we just didn't have to fight all these dudes.
You were waiting for these guys to come over?
So now they're probably quite confused.
As long as you just know where it's going to spawn you,
don't got to do it
do you have a moment for another very special donation go for it because i have 840 dollars from the sgQ Poker Tournament.
Oh!
This is what we like to hear, all right.
They would like to say raised $840
on our event poker tournament
and then a million exclamation points. That's a lot
Thank you so much
I also have here $10 from StealthyDragon who says,
Can we start the Ocarina of Time goal off strong with a $10 train?
More GDQ is always better.
And I have to say, We are starting off the Ocarina of Time goal, real real strong. We're almost at 10% of the way there already.
Y'all that's incredible! Keep it! More Zelda! I really like Zelda!
I like Zelda!
Zelda is fun!
So Big Key was just in the set of three chests? I'm going to go with the double door.
That's a big key was just in
the set of three chess.
Yeah, it is on the left side
.
The left of the lefts. Am I do the double door that's good uh if you want to you could just
you could just forge on ahead anyway and i can do it after you haven't found a
small key by that point yeah
wanna leave that one up to the coach.
I do want to say Jim has been an amazing coach
and co-op partner this entire
time for just
getting to learn the randomizer and everything.
So I've learned like a million things watching him.
Jim is an incredibly talented speed runner,
but also a very good person
and the kind of person you want
as like an ambassador for the 3D Zelda speedrunning community.
The 3D Zelda speedruns are super, super cool!
The randomizers are super cool and Jim,
you're a great representation of that so thank you.
Thank you very much.
Yeah, no, it's been a lot of fun. You're a lot of fun to play with.
Always some
hijinks to get into.
Right here we got another barrier.
This one's a little more specific.
So we're gonna just skirt the outside
and there's only like three waves of enemies
you gotta worry about there.
Just put on the lantern.
Try to get up to the top
of the Hershey bars right here drop on down and then if you light just a
single torch here i guess the game is confused i don't know what it is and the entire room is lit
up now including the one on the right i don't know why it isn't just at least like
those two. Yeah, normally the
beat, like completing that
fight down there is... Oh, there's our small key!
Ah, okay, what a guy!
We're gonna hold hands together, let's go!
Normally the lights in this room light up once you beat the fight that we skipped.
So beating the fight is what makes the entire room light up and makes that chest appear
so you don't actually need lantern to make that just appear we'll go phantom do you want
to explain a little bit about how we're going fight dark nuts and eventually gain it
so darknuts by hitting the shield on the
darkness it effectively stuns them for a little
bit so lincoln run around smack him in the back
knocking off all the armor so Link can run around and smack him in the back,
knocking off all the armor.
Jim is doing the ball-and-chain strat.
Lunar, you probably know
more about how that one works.
Ball-and-chain,
flagging how that one works. Oh yeah, ball and chain um so uh like I mentioned if you hit them with the sword it kind of stuns them and then you can just swing the ball in chain and it goes really fast
and it hurts and you know if you get hit with a giant ball and chain in the face,
I'd cry too so...
Yeah, it's a really nice technique that exists
that little running slash
that you can do without losing any momentum
because that allows you to get behind it
and allows the entire strat
to work. Yeah, there's a lot of stuff you can do
with just movement and slinging your sword
that no other Zelda game has
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Great job, everyone.
Also just as a treat would you all permit me one more length sound? Just one I promise.
Promise! Because we have a 50 donation from village mascot who says
what is link's favorite hotel to stay at that That, YAHT! It's high-end.
It just smells high end.
Thank you.
I hate that I love that one. Yeah, that room the gym's going through right there.
It's one where there are a bunch of invisible rats on top of you
but if you take some good movement and spacing there
you can actually just bypass
the entire thing.
Yeah and this is where the hard or at least the hard
logical requirements for a lot of these items
come into play because logically for
this passageway right here you need the double claw shots.
There is a way you can get through it with just a single claw shot.
It's not actually that bad, but sometimes it takes a while
because it's kind of tedious to do properly.
It is fairly tight, but it is very doable
and then we want bomb arrows here for these guys oh i don't know how you escape out of that all
right and then this is where the spinner uh is...is hard- or not as hard to part. Is logically required.
Uh there is a way to get past this spinner requirement too with a bunch of stupid LJAs.
Weeeee!
Once again, this one's just a couple pixels to work with.
Unfortunately because the randomizer
skips cutscenes so quickly
we can't actually skip this dark nut
which is typically skipped in
vanilla speedruns.
Well I mean technically on the version
they're on there's a setting that can...
True, true. You could disable
cutscene skips
and do it manually.
Yes, I'm going to wait for Spike here so we can go tackle
the final bosses together.
Now there's pressure on me.
Here's a running strike, that'll trigger him.
Back...
Okay so his armor's all the way off. I don't have a shield so we're trying to just dodge that any way we can, it's fine.
One, two, pull out the ball and chain. Can we catch him?
Oh, come back here! Come back here you come back here from there yeah that's right
let's go
perfectly in sync so j, Jim you gonna do that? This is so close!
I'm gonna do what? The Zelda crash? No...
Yeah, so this final gauntlet I'm going to go with the puppet Zelda.
Yeah, so this final gauntlet
right here we got four fights
starting off with Puppet
Zelda now this is actually
normally friends of like links
in the past one up and maybe
don't know TV it's almost like the blue balls of this game
where there's just a percentage chance that puppet zelda will give you the correct attacks or not um
this in the randomizer, thankfully
the RNG is set.
So on the first
third and seven
attacks she will
always give you her
light orbs.
Yep.
Any chance that
she can throw an
electric ball?
She will.
There is still
RNG on the
middle attack so whether they're the triangles
on the ground or as she flies at you
another thing that was also fixed with
RNG in this fight is
in vanilla there is a random amount of frames between each attack,
between 50 and 150. And we just locked it in at 100 for the
randomizer. Yes also while we're essentially
going through this what is an? Autoscroller lunar.
Where can people go if they want to find the Twilight Princess
randomizer?
So if you want to find the Twilight Princess
randomizer, you can go to www.tprandomizer.com
not to be confused with DK64 Randomizer.
But yes, TPRandomizer.com that's
where the web generator is linked
to Discord all the fun resources can
be found there.
Have you also just gotten all triangles? I saw
one swoopy-doop. Okay, I'm just getting all triangles
I just went triple triangle I'm just getting all triangles.
I just want a triple triangle.
While we're fighting Zelda,
can I give you a donation from Princess Zelda?
Sure. Of course!
Because Princess Zelda donated $25 to say don't you just hate it
when your legendary hero decides
he'd rather go out of his way
to explore more random dungeons
instead of coming to save you?
Our bad. It was for charity. to save you
our bad it was for charity so now we go immediately into b-scan right here we got to get off a quick arrow shot or ball and chain shot
right away then we gotta react to where he falls too.
Whoop!
So right now I'm going for a more beginner friendly strat
where I'm doing the double jump slashes. Jim is trying to go for one
that's going to manipulate him to have a very specific amount of health,
to have a very quick third hit. We did do some manipulation right there,
also having him land in the center already facing us
Pull it out into another double jump slash
So now we're going into our third phases, where Jim has had probably a slightly slower
first two phases but he will spawn faster.
I'm just gonna have to see where the portals go.
Yeah because of the amount of damage that I he is just going to spawn in a single portal
To try and catch us off guard which we see right here
Oh man, he did catch me off guard apparently
A button. There we go.
Ilya, Ilya, Ilya! What did you say one of your friends thought that said email?
My chat seems to think it says e- that the chanting sounds like a What did you say one of your friends thought? It said email.
My chat seems to think that the chanting says, Email me.
Email me!
So we talk about how we get to the final boss of Twilight Princess
to have a boardroom meeting with Beast Ganon.
And now we go into the third phase, this is definitely
one of the trickier ones, we have got
Horseback Ganon and we're going to try to do some
pretty specific movement to manipulate him getting in front of us
I do have the Great Fairies tier
So i'm going to try to two cycle them
But we'll see how it goes down
Yeah so ideally, we want him to try and swing at
Us right here
And then get behind him just like this
This is my preferred RNG. I really like it when this happens
I know that he's going to try to juke me to the right here
So I'm gonna hold right uh okay well unfortunately we did not turn
fast enough so zelda was not able to get the straight shot onto ganondorf there
that's the second one.
And then is he going to try and juke us again?
No, not really.
Okay.
I am stunned! okay so now i'm gonna make sure i put this on because I want to try to stay right behind him and go for a second.
Oh he's giving me the loosey goosey! Come on...
Because yeah there is no RNG as far as like how Zelda is concerned.
Let's go ahead and actually drink the thing because now we'll do double damage for like 10 seconds
so hopefully we can catch up to him.
Oh yeah alright, do the free cycle and the two cycles.
So now we just got the final, Vandam.
And just like Phantom was talking about earlier that running slap strike
We're going to try to manipulate that
to...
Jim's about to kill him
in 10 seconds,
good luck.
Well actually...
Fishing rod.
Hold up.
Yeah, hold up.
Fishing minigames?
Yeah.
Let's go!
All right. Are we fishing minigames? Let's go!
Excuse me. Hey, there is a fishing rod.
You got to reel of him, Jim. No.
You got a reel!
All right well hold on do I...do we have Ganondorf in the fish journal here?
You haven't caught him yet no?
No we haven't caught him yet, no. No we haven't caught him yet darn it.
Alright well...
Oh hello.
One more time here we go and
oh no
Guess not unfortunately. No Ganondorf fish today.
It's one knockdown?
So you do need to delay your jump strikes just a little bit.
That's two.
That's three.
I can't man you!
Wow, put on the iron boots. Oh darn it got up for me.
And... oh!
Do it! You've got this. He was waiting so long
for me. Time is coming up as soon
as we get this third knockdown. We're putting
on the boots! We're jumping on them! Time!
Okay.
Whoo!
All right, we have a winner here.