I Attempted a Speedrun (and got a world record)

i think we all know the gist of what a speedrun is play game fast but there's so much more that goes into it than what's on the surface people spend hundreds of hours practicing games finding optimal routes discovering the most precise glitches that can save from minutes to just a few frames which if you don't know is basically risking your entire run just for a few milliseconds of time save i've come to love speed runs watching them at least something about them is really cool to me and i think the community is really cool it's all cool i've been lurking and watching various speedrunners for a decent amount of time and i decided that i wanted to do a speed run now i don't really have the time to set aside hundreds of hours to hone my skill on whatever game i want so i decided i had to do a blind speed run where i just play it for the first time and try my best i spent a few days racking my brain on what game i'd like to run i like pokemon maybe i could run a pokemon game uh but that's a lot of researching and memorizing and luck i could try a mario game it's a popular category but i don't know if it's for me then it hit me the perfect game of course why hadn't i thought of it sooner i ran to speedrun.com to check if anyone has run it yet no one none i'm gonna be the first person in the world to speed run cooking mama 2 dinner with friends that i know of why did i choose cooking mama because dude cooking mama is awesome if you haven't played it's a ds game where you follow steps to make food and impress mama the better you do the better score you get plus i'm at an advantage when it comes to preparing food i've seen food wars i know all the techniques and secrets if you're under 18 don't look it up why did i choose the second game and not the original that's the one i bought duh i used to play cooking mama all the time as a kid with my friend kate i always thought mama's english was really your best funny i still love it we even had this system where if we kept failing at a recipe we'd have to change chairs because that one had bad luck obviously i don't have that luxury this time because i have to stay by the computer so i'll have to come up with a better strategy also extra movements lose time i need to be efficient here anyway i wanted to have some sort of challenge so i decided to add some rules to my run one i have to fully complete the main game mode cook with mama two i have to receive a gold medal in every single recipe that means i can't make a mistake ever can't burn a single onion can't accidentally pour the rice into the sink can't smack my hand while pounding mochi if i do the whole recipe needs to be redone three that's it do it fast i guess the first recipe is pizza and i was off to a pretty good start obviously it's a speed run so i didn't have time to read the little description on what to do each step but for the most part i was able to use my massive iq and big strong brain to decode the objectives in split seconds except in the last step where i didn't know how to work the oven and failed immediately again off to a great start after deciphering how the oven worked i was moving on quickly peanut butter poke the peanuts done oops recover adapt overcome done sea bream carpaccio exfoliate the fish chopping restart choose smaller knife easy peasy corn soup ew balled the corn boil strain oh come on not all the corn came out alright admittedly i was making a lot of mistakes at the beginning i was nervous because it was my first speed run and i didn't know what i had to do most of the time and was generally panicking but then i remembered that no cooking mama 2 speed runs exist yet so that means i'm on world record pace and that made me feel better one mechanic i had to learn the hard way was when it comes to the oven choose the low heat the first attempt i decided to go with the medium heat to go a little bit faster and look at this oh no what was that that was a speed run in itself burn the apple pie as quick as possible you know how there's separate categories and speed runs mario odyssey has the one where you take mario's shirt off as fast as possible called nipple percent i want one for cookie mama 2 called burnt apple pie percent where you just burn the apple pie as quickly as possible anyway i redid the pie and it's moving on bonk ill rice bowl we're about an hour in at this point i had my friends in a discord call so they can help me take notes so i didn't have to re-watch all the footage again for the script and they decided to look up how many recipes there actually were in the game i didn't know because i wanted to go in completely blind and you know what they discovered there are a total of 80 recipes in this game an hour in i was on recipe eight which would be impressive in real life but not here so either we were gonna pull a cooking mama all-nighter or i had to start picking up the paste sorry shrimp this is gonna get violent it wasn't perfect and i was still making some mistakes but i started getting into the zone it helped that i was starting to get familiar with the mechanics and actually know what the game wanted me to do for most of the steps now waffles chili dog meatloaf lobster i was one shot in all of them i even put two mama flags on the lobster which was a bit risky but you know me i live for the danger i almost i almost forgot to put the lobster on let me pause and tell you a story of my childhood i already mentioned my love for cooking mama as a kid even 12 years ago i set myself the goal of getting gold in all the recipes but one haunting memory i have of this game was my struggle against the mama rice cracker all the steps are relatively simple but at the end you have to stamp all 18 crackers with a mama stamp that's what makes the mama rice cracker the mama rice cracker but as a kid my ds was old and i dropped it a few times which messed up the calibration on my screen in a way i couldn't fix so that meant at the very end of the recipe it was extremely hard for me to stamp the stamp in the exact spot that mama wanted i spent weeks i'm not joking trying to get the gold on the mama rice cracker it was the last one i needed and i couldn't do it i just couldn't i'm pretty sure i was eventually able to pass but let's just say i didn't for the sake of drama either way i was having ptsd i was going through all the steps washing the rice putting the rice in the little hole mochi pounding the rice scoop and then it appeared the screen that caused the most pain a video game could to a 10 year old i was slowly making my way down the line everything was going well then all of a sudden on the 10th cracker i accidentally tapped the screen when i was lining up my pen causing me to not brand the cracker enough i'm not one to believe in spiritualism or star signs or destiny's child whatever that stuff is but that moment in particular made me question if it was all real and my only fate is to eternally fail the last step of the mama rice cracker recipe until i inevitably die in an unaccomplished old man that makes ugly rice crackers i did it right the next time but that would have been unfortunate right with the mama rice cracker conquered now nothing was in my way and i was making my way through the rest of the recipes at the 2 hour 37 minute mark 27 recipes in uh ari got out of his cage and was running around the room so i had to spend precious time getting him back under control that was a loss of two minutes right there then i miss slice the ravioli so i'm blaming all of that misfortune on ari i actually struggled a lot on the ravioli recipe the pasta is really hard to cut because you have to time the splice with the line but since i was so focused on when to cut a lot of the time i would deviate from the actual line to cut from and mess up then when i was able to get past that stage for some reason the mic had trouble hearing me blow so even though i was doing what i was supposed to i'd fail anyway no i do you hear it overall i had to redo the ravioli recipe six times and i spent 11 minutes on it not great thanks sorry but after that i was able to one-shot both the cake and the spring rolls and can we talk about how the ice cream recipe literally just makes you scoop out store-bought ice cream and put sprinkles on it that's been my favorite recipe so far skipping forward a bit let's talk about the mango pudding this was ravioli part two the first step i had trouble with was memorizing the order of the ingredients it was a six-part simon says memory game and my big smooth brain can only handle one number at a time before the concept of object permanence leaves my body i inevitably got a lucky pattern that was easy to remember and after a few more steps in the end i had to draw a line at a specific speed that would remove the pudding cleanly too slow and it wouldn't come out too fast and it just for the life of me i couldn't get the pacing right three consecutive times in a row and with the combined difficulty of that along with the memorizing i spend another 10 minutes trying to get it right and still failing my confidence was shattered and i had to take a mental health break i'll be back for you mango pudding i'll come back stronger and i'll cook you so well i'll become the mama i was in shambles from the pudding but was able to move on and started getting back into a rhythm all these foods i was knocking them out one by one i will note that i struggled with popcorn because i thought there was gonna be some sort of indicator or something on when to open the lid so i just sat there until i realized i burnt it all oh wait so i was like oh okay i'll open it when i hear the popping sounds and then i opened it with like five popcorns but it's okay i was able to figure it out overall the rest of the run went on without any major problems i was able to finish up the rest of the recipes and at the six hour 38 minute mark i only had two recipes left the bento box and of course the mango pudding time is ticking we're in the end game now also my discord friends were ready to never talk to me again i thought i could just get the bento box over with quickly because it's like you just put food in box right well actually i didn't realize i had to include food from all the categories mama gave me or something so i failed it like three times and was on the brink of insanity trying to figure out what mama wanted from me the food is in the box mama what the f what's what's what a bunto boxes food and box what else do you need blood a blood sacrifice it didn't say anywhere in the instructions that i should have put more variety in there not that i was reading the instructions anyway i still right now don't know what mama wanted but at least i finally got the gold after four minutes that meant i only had one last recipe 79 were completed the mango pudding was the only thing standing between me and the first cooking mama 2 dinner with friends world record i clicked it nervously but i climbed my mountain i trained with mama and i've come back a new chef peeling slicing blending i was quicker than ever there was the memorizing i was doing well until no i restarted i was sweaty and shaking my brain was shutting down my eyes had only been seeing cooking mama for the past 6 hours and 45 minutes every breath was cooking mama every neuron in my skull was cooking mama every atom in the universe at that moment was cooking mama but my next attempt oh my god oh jesus is this the one i nervously went through the rest of the recipe until i arrived at the last step it's been about 3 hours and 15 minutes since i practiced removing the pudding from the mold and to be honest i don't remember the removal strats first one second one [Music] let's go i got all the puddings out flawlessly i waited until the results to confirm it boom a hundred points on the mango pudding stop the timer i did it at long last all 80 recipes in cooking mama 2 gold in 6 hours 47 minutes and 27 seconds there might be some room for improvement there overall i had a really fun time with the speed run it's not even close to a good run and the time can easily be halved but i still pride myself in knowing i was the first one to complete and document the cooking mama 2 all gold percent and also burnt apple pie percent if there's any speed runners out there wanting to try and take my crown uh i'll share some speed strats i thought of during the run if you complete the steps too quickly you get a bonus and at the end of the recipe if you get five bonuses you receive a gift that you can't reject or skip which loses a lot of time you're smothering me mama so if you can get no bonuses within the entire game you'd be saving a lot of time another tip is if you're gonna mess up the recipe uh don't mess up the last step because if you do you have to wait through mama giving you your score and clapping for you and being like yeah it's almost perfect and the whole time you're like yes mama i know it's not perfect i dropped an egg and then she gives you like three presents in a row because you got too many bonuses and you're just screeching at her to shut up the whole time i didn't discover any glitches that would save time unfortunately uh i don't know what a cooking mama glitch would look like but it doesn't sound pleasant but it doesn't matter because as of this moment right here i'm the one with the cooking mama 2 dinner with friends world record guess i finally did something with my life after all anyway thanks for watching my first attempt at a speed run i think in hindsight i should have chosen a game that could have been done in a few less hours because i feel like i aged 20 years after this but you live and learn i wanted to submit my run to speedrun.com but since no one has run the game yet i need to submit a request to add cookie mama to dinner with friends but i only made my account last night and to make a request i need to have had my account for seven days so i'll submit it in seven days but it's not gonna be interesting i didn't record my audio with it it's just six hours of cooking mama gameplay also we're working to drop some new merch in the shop really soon i don't know if it's on the site yet but it's coming and we've got some real fun stuff in the works alright that's it see you later

Channel: Jaiden Animations

Views: 20,842,391

Rating: 4.9591384 out of 5

Keywords: jaiden, animations, jaidenanimation, jaidenanimations, cooking mama, speedrun, speedrunning, world record, jaidenanimation speedrun, jaiden animation speedrun, jaidenanimation cooking mama, jaiden animation cooking mama, jaidenanimation world record

Id: YEoCQSXl_EY

Length: 14min 31sec (871 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 11 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/MrAnderson345]

This is hilarious. I like the animation. hahaha

[u/Negroni808]

I remember watching failboat playing Minecraft, and one of the guys he was playing with said that “if you want to make it in YouTube you need to do a cooking mama speed run.” . I think he might have done one himself, but not to sure.

[u/ZestyData]

Crazy how influential Egoraptor has been to the animation scene that nerdy animators even in 2020 still speak somewhat like him, with his slurred bouncy speech style. Which is not a criticism!

[u/Hoooooooar]

lol people have already created the burn a pie speedrun and there is tons of submissions already.

This world record is going to be seriously short lived. Someone is doing a full speed run as i type this, i promise.

[u/Xciv]

This was delightful.

[u/msgs]

And a new speedrun craze is born. :D