and we are back from that twitch commercial uh we have just hit another major Milestone with $420,000 so thank you to everybody that's made that uh possible sorry vagin just giggling indiscriminantly on the couch cuz he's a meme Lord yeah and uh I think we're ready to go from the couch so all right best of luck poxel and take it away all right are we ready to go all right so I do character control timing for this game so it'll start about 20 seconds after I uh start the file and I'll let you know when that happens all right we are going to go then all right so this is illusion of Gaia which is an action RP RPG made by quintet also made actraiser earlier in the marathon this is part of a Loosely connected action RPG Trilogy along with soul Blazer and terranigma it's kind of loosely known as the soul Blazer Trilogy and start and then this is going to be a 100% run which means I'm collecting all 50 red jewels and then completing uh Gem's Mansion which is the um optional uh dungeon that's unlocked when you get all of the jewels before I started the run I actually did some RNG manipulation in order to get that fisherman to appear on my way to the cave here otherwise that would be a really really really annoying bit of Randomness about uh like a minute into the Run uh big shout outs to um uh a runner in t or Named Desire to kind of cracked how the RNG for um for that [Music] works so we're getting through these Cuts scenes guess we can do a quick roll call too I'm poxel I'm volan I'm [Music] Taz this is a fair bit of uh just running around South Cape at this point collecting a couple red jewels and completing you know kind of the intro stuff in the game uh just the basic story events so not a whole lot of like action-packed stuff right now but it's going to pick up real real soon yeah I mean it's only about 5 minutes generally to get into the first dungeon uh one thing that I do love about this game too is that um it's one of the only um like RPGs where the English version is significantly faster than the Japanese version because of Tech speed differences actually cuz you notice I'm just kind of flying through all these text boxes and cut these cut scenes here cuz they're all they're drawing out one at to frame and there isn't any real lag before I can advance to the next box that's exclusive to the English version in the Japanese version the uh text boxes draw out one character at a time so it's it hasn't really been measured too much but it's easily like a 15 to 20 minute difference between English and Japanese text it's kind of unfortunate too because the Japanese version is actually quite a bit easier but for quite a variety of reasons but uh we are here to go fast I have to wonder if there are Japanese players who uh run the English version of this game yes for faster texts I agree this game has pretty m mhm I don't really like to talk about story too much dur when during speedrun commentary but just kind of the general premise of the game is that you're a boy named will who uh recently gained psychic powers after returning home from a Voyage to the Tower of Babel with his father who disappeared as part of it and uh I guess you are off looking for Clues to his whereabouts then that eventually results in saving the world of course naturally so a little subtle trick I'm going to be doing to save I think about a minute and a half over the course of the run is whenever I move somewhere in the world map I'm going to hold the start button after I enter my destination cuz normally um after you enter and then it displays the name of your your uh where you're going uh the camera will zoom out and back in in glorious mode 7 but if you press the start button at any point and you can even buffer it by holding it um that actually skips that I it's been a while since I looked at how much time each one saves but it's it's very significant if you do it every every time you move then this is a fun little speed boost here so movement in this game largely consists of uh dashing around and uh kind of a irritating thing for speedrunning this game is that the dash uh requires you to double tap a direction on the d-pad uh there's no other input that will do it there's not like a button so yeah you're just constantly double tapping direction that didn't that didn't get invented until terranigma sadly the Cal so this is this is a Time based um story sequence here I have to examine one section of the uh prison bars the ball and chain and then one of the pieces of moss around the edge in order to start a timer before the uh the bread appears here to advance where else about a speedrun would a description like that make any sense at all then we get to do a little fun exploit to save about half a second here too because uh um after this next uh bit of text here we we um have I mean we did a little brief tutorial on how to use Will's telekinesis back in the cave um in South Cape where we had to move a statue now we get to do it again here to move to learn that we can use it to collect um item drops from enemies but I for how long this is exactly there's no depth physics in the game so just standing in the corner there U makes the um the crystal that you have to collect just drop on you and saves like half a second over actually doing what you're supposed to with telekinesis another thing if you didn't notice uh will stat is a flute mhm I feel like it's too early to blow the punch line on uh certain other identities in this game we'll get there all right so we're coming into Edward's prison which is the first dungeon uh despite how early in this in the game this comes I consider this one of the more challenging dungeons to speedrun I mean cuz when you play this game normally you're going to be fighting all of these enemies and every time you kill every enemy in a room they drop a jewel that permanently raises one of your stats uh strength HP and defense by one but we're skipping all of that so now only are our stats going to be low but we also have the challenge of having to just avoid all of these randomly moving enemies that we have kind of tight uh space to move around so there's a lot of little techniques that pexel is doing that we'll be able to explain over time uh one little thing that he's about to do coming up so he has to uh kill this enemy here not the skeleton but this snake thing to open that barrier and then while the barrier is opening uh while the thing's flying towards it you can actually open the menu and that causes it to immediately actually go away even though the the animation is still going so he uh uses that opportunity to also uh equip and use one of the red Jewels he's collected and that causes it to fly away to gem the Jeweler and uh just saves him some inventory space and uh also of course gives him an opportunity to open the menu nice got a health drop um Health drops aren't actually very all that common in this game there's only spe specific enemies that can drop them and the uh drop rate is it's under I I don't actually know what it is but it's I would guess it's between like 25 and 50% yeah this this game is really really rude when it comes to your health yeah especially if you're not increasing your HP in defense through normal means too I will be getting some pretty significant boosts to my stats throughout the run to make it actually possible to finish in uh in a single sitting that will we'll explain that mechanic once we get there not going to be doing the entire game at 8 HP see yeah hear you only need to kill that one enemy to open these blocks then I could have used what I call the orb cancel glitch um with going into the menu to go in here early although there's there's like one specific pixel I'd have to hit to enter the dark space early but there's it would actually be bug in the freedan Statue would be missing if I did that so I would have to just leave and go back in and it wouldn't actually save any [Music] time speaking of which we now have the coolest character in the game mhm the coolest hair in the game exactly I mean that's what makes him cool is the hair nice so uh what boxel just did there is uh while he was running he performed I don't know exactly what you call this trick um if frame dashing is what I call it right so he uh performed an attack while he was uh running and performed a quick move uh manipulation with the d-pad Stars waiting to see if he got the best things without dying yeah um and basically what you do is you let go of the direction uh attack and then immediately hold the direction again uh and you're able to attack and use the ey frame from the attack animation to pass through an enemy yeah you can technically do it with all three playable characters in the game will frean and Shadow but it's really difficult to do it as will because um doing this doing the normal inputs for it as will causes him to do his jump attack because of the d-pad input there so you'd have to actually cancel that by uh doing a perpendicular d-pad input first in a super tight window and to be honest there really aren't that unless you can do it at will like a a t there aren't really that many points in the the run we're doing iframe dashing as will would actually save time at will like really I wasn't even planned but sure we'll go with that not of my buddy Brena so uh we're about to get the best item in the game mhm arguably in any video game that's right and uh I'm sure the game will take appropriate at length to uh show us to commemorate this momentous occasion here we [Music] go um n n n n all right then all that's missing is him holding it above his head triumphantly uh Zelda Style got a few more cut scenes before we move on to the next uh next bit of action so you can probably squeeze in a few donations oh yeah I'd love to uh I have $25 from yagam moth oh Yer morning sir he says pxel and iog is an amazing combination we have a bob on the microphone and a random vagin and a green takaz excellent enjoy the run thank you for running and good luck this goes to to kaz's Choice uh bullen's looking at me so I'm going to uh put this to Good Taste oh wow good choice what am I surrounded by on this couch we have $28 taste we have $28 from Ghost King he says hello poxel hey ghost King glad to see the man who got me into RPG speed runs and inspired me to become a runner gets a chance to run at another G DQ it was awesome meeting you and dozens of other RPG speedr Runners back in May as a thanks put half of this to runner's choice and half the Bob's Choice my choice is good taste your choice is good taste uh even if that money does happen to go towards good taste and not demon Chocobo uh for me it's going to be naming the girl in Final Fantasy Adventure any% Sam so thank you very much $15 from an anonymous donator that says greetings from Japan best of luck poxo on the run you are my favorite speedrunner I was going to go to sleep so I could go to work but it looks like I may be sick tomorrow thank you thank you all right so coming up here I'm just going to be doing a really minor um if you could even call it a skip where I go in and out of this house and that actually skips me having to wait for um Lily and Cara to get to these stairs here cu the game just loads them already here and now we're about to get our first uh combat ability here um you're I mean which combat abilities you can use is based on which form you have will free down or Shadow and then Will's first upgrade is called uh psycho Dash which is required in order to get through this town basically because it can break walls but it's also very useful for um fighting too just because it does uh I forget the formula but it does it does at this point twice as much damage is I can do with a flute combo and I can get two hits with it too with the right positioning I guess we didn't really mention the fact that will is in fact fighting with the flute mhm this is this is a very very video game jump jumped off the edge there to save a little bit of time the that's dad to yeah yes it is I guess I I it's kind of weird to think about the idea of just swinging your dad at enemies to beat them away but he seems to be largely okay with that another another optimization here is actually to Ram into that post next to the ramp there because if you just Dash down and go you'll almost make it to the top of the ramp which would seems like it'd be be good to save time but you just can't quite get there and then you have to Skid back down so it's a little bit faster to just kill your momentum like that and then run for the ladder so coming up here we have a fight that's pretty obnoxious at base stats like I am here just cuz I have to kill I think it's five of these caterpillars before 20 seconds passes or else I have to redo it and they've got some pretty annoying Randomness in their movement let's see how it goes so he's going to use uh psycho dashes there he got uh two of them at the same time which is the sort of thing that he wants that was really really good good fight nice so those guys can get really obnoxious really quickly um it's it's more common to finish with like less time on that clock remaining yeah yeah at the end they were really really Cooperative as far as clustering together like that I mean that's why I made the call to do a second Dash instead of using the flute for the clean up there was a little bit of manipulation I was doing there too in that um if you line up with one of them in a straight horizontal or vertical plane they'll usually roll at you and I really really wanted to avoid getting them to roll down cuz if one of them breaks away from the group and goes to the bottom of the map then I have to chase after it and that makes just winning at all before the timer runs out a little iffy all right so after this cut scene here we're entering the Inc and ruins it's got some of my favorite music in the game and I just love the dungeon the speedrun too just cuz it's got some really cool skips and uh movement optimization as a completely random tidbit if you haven't paid attention before the uh music themes in the dungeons are the same uh they're Li motives of the music uh themes that you play with the flute sadly we won't get to hear the flute Melody for the inan ruins so he destroys that head there to open up the stairs that he can leave with just uh getting it on the way out as opposed to the way back in so that the stairs are already there when he goes back inside then the the statue that I killed in this this previous room here is just part of the setup for this right here cuz fortunately the hitbox for that um slot for the diamond block there actually extends above the statue so I don't actually need to kill it but if I hadn't killed that other one there it would have shot me uh while I was um paralyzed in the cut scene and got that that's a very very minor time save but it looks really cool yes that's a very similar trick to the uh iframe Dash where he um while dashing he does a similar input but using the guard instead of the uh attack and uh that one's really easy well it's not uh it doesn't require doing anything crazy and yeah so that dance back and forth he's able to hit that statue just barely you're intended to get uh freedan to be able to kill that but while dashing uh if you time it right while dashing will able to get a little bit of extra range yeah and then then uh to speed up getting across the pit too I did a trick I call called ramp boosting which is where if you do a jump attack when you're or if you run up against kind of the top of the ramp and then do a jump attack with the right timing you'll instantly build momentum and then zip across basically right it just saves in that case it just saves having to run around and uh up the stairs to be able to get down the ramp but later on it's going to result in actual sequence breaks those guys can be trolls sometimes I can take it a little bit safer just how I move to spawn them if my Health's running low or [Music] something speaking of guys that can be trolls yeah that's not that's pretty rare to kill all four of them with one dash cuz I just cuz they block the way generally so I just charge a dash so I can just kill enough of them that I can um get just get to the gem chest without uh too much grief as needed I'll be taking safety heals by talking to Gaia I don't actually have to talk to Gaia except for one occasion in the pyramid which is the one of the final dungeons anyway okay so another the next part of the dungeon we're going to be skipping is getting The Melody of winds which you're meant to get and then play in order to highlight which tile um opens the switch to the next door but if you already know where it is you can just stand on it and Skip have either get or play The Melody which is nice too just because um if if I had to I would have to become will cuz freedan doesn't have the flute then I'd have to become freedan again to fight Casto the first boss that's coming up here indeed I will donate $1,000 you yeah yeah it's probably the uh hardest trick in the game to do in my opinion it is yeah my wallet feels quite confident in this bat H I don't think it has much to worry about ah hit me all right so he is totally safe if he stands in that bottom corner there but uh yeah getting the one cycle on this boss is basically Tas only at this point it's yeah oh it's very possible to do in real time but um I mean just just you there's a lot of RNG that needs to line up for you to even really have a shot at it between um just cuz it's not really consistent as far as I know when he opens his eyes and you need to already be in your in your sword swing animation when he does it and kind of near the end of it bit right then you also have to he he has to do the same uh pattern for both of his Crystal shots so that you don't have to uh you won't either get hit or have to move to avoid the second Crystal and then you have to get all 20 hits in with pretty much a frame perfect Rhythm to around your um cool down I've gotten it exactly once in the five years off and on that I've been speedrunning this game yeah it's pretty uh I guess it's good to mention attack Rhythm uh because it's one of the most like important things about running this game that is kind of frequently underestimated um in order to get like the maximum damage on enemies you have to have really good attack Rhythm there's a certain obviously amount of time before you can swing Wheels Buton again I think 17 frames I think is the number I've heard yeah and so obviously the closer you can get to hitting the button exactly that often the you know the more efficient you're being but uh it can be very easy to just lose you know little bits some time if you just flat out just Mash you're not you're you're not going to be getting the most efficient Rhythm right and just because most of the pretty much every boss in this game is cycle based uh as far as there only being specific parts of their cycle that you can hurt them um it's yeah it's important to just get really uh consistent at that so we got few minutes of cut scenes here before well before getting to the raft which is uh another another few minutes of cutscenes so take it away Bob thank you very much uh it seems that Vin's faceless minions are rising up as we have a $100 Anonymous donation all hail the demon Chocobo we have $100 from sweet use who says pexel is one of the best commentators and speedrunners out there best of luck and thanks for doing this oh thank you bug under a rug sends $100 and says illusion of guia was one of my most frustrating games to play when it grows up though it remains one of my favorites good luck Runners and save those animals uh x i i so I guess it's 13 Lightning donates $5 and says hey poxel I work up to the surprise that illusion of guia had got added and even better I woke up just in time to watch it from the beginning good luck no thank you I have uh $10 Anonymous donation who says nothing I mean it there's nothing here it's astounding all jokes aside guys I love what you are doing here's to the runners commentators all of the tech people in desperate need of sleep and all in this wonderful British accent Also let's not forget the animals there's other things we need to achieve here's to the SK Skyrim glitch exhibition um so anyway for the raft here here I mean every day has a just a trigger I need to hit in order to advance the story uh for the first day I needed to talk to Cara twice and then eat the large yummy roast like of yak uh for this day I need to just hit one of the fish and then wait about 30 seconds um this is so autopilot I don't actually remember this exact sequence but um uh we'll have more comments in a bit but when the when I actually have to catch fish uh it's worth pointing out that um the trigger for advancing is to have full HP and I could actually use my medical herb that I picked up in the inin ruins in order to skip needing to catch eight fish which saves about 5 seconds on average over the uh time that catching the fish uh takes but uh since this is a Marathon run I'm going to be saving that herb for a boss coming up at about the hour mark which uh is the most difficult boss in the game by quite a bit this would be it here so while I uh pray for good fish RNG here let's have some more donations all right I have $60 from rukun he says this illusion of guyun is so chill it's the perfect run for chilling with my knitting while waiting for my plane here's $20 each to poxel Ven and takaz for whatever they want so I know you're demon Chocobo you're good taste so you're the tiebreaker takaz I'll actually go for the Skyrim glitch exhibition wow nice the CPP up though actually let me check on that cuz that was very close to being met so if that's already met I'll go for good taste then oh this guy no but we are very close to that that's currently at $1,273 out of 12,500 so we are close to Skyrim glitch exhibition um sharks oh my goodness yeah this is another time event too just talked to Cara twice and then do whatever I like would like to amuse myself while waiting for the story to advance the Sharks don't come up onto the raft if you hit them with the flute you're going to need a bigger raft or bigger fluid do I have time for a quick one yep okay stat toast sends $20 hold on a second one here there will suddenly will fell over unconscious that's one of my favorite text boxes in the game will is quite the overpowered narrator so static gives us $20 and says I love illusion of guy it's one of my favorite games of all time let's hope the vampires give you good RNG and that troll fanger may not troll too hard we can hope a lot of the red jewels that I have to get is part of the 100% category actually permanently missable to like uh everyone up until now just cuz I can no longer go back to the South Cape or the other areas nearby and then like that one that I got I stole out of that guy's yard I the only time I had to pick that up was after leaving the house before talking to Cara some of these are really rude too like the one on the uh inan boat uh that you can only get what after sleeping after sleeping before um triggering the Shipwreck it's so stupid as a good yeah fortunately the uh the English version of the game did have a strategy guide in the ble that had all the jeel locations so that's the sole reason I was able to 100% this game as a kid speaking of rude uh you have to do some pretty despicable things in order to get 100% in this game too like here I'm actually going to be ratting out and escaped um slave I mean laborer in uh the English translation to This creepy hooded dude like yep who put something in my belongings is what the text said super subtle yeah and I'm about to do the ffor mentioned uh writing out Escape laborer yeah so if you if you haven't already gotten the idea will is a huge jerk I don't think there's really oh by the way I just broke down a door with my flute that's I mean that's that's my tool of choice mhm yeah will uh there's not really a time during this game when will doesn't do something that's just completely like jerky man words are failing me today all right so we're coming into the diamond mine then the next dungeon uh objective here is to get is to well rescue the prisoners though I only act technically need to rescue one in order to get what I need but there's a decent amount of running around and uh backtracking that I need to do to get some keys and then use them to advance although I'm going to be this is the first time I'm going to be taking an intentional death in order to uh warp back to the entrance to the dungeon and then skip some backtracking so I'll be doing that after I get the first key there's some pretty annoying Randomness with the enemies here to most notably these purple Beholder wannabes just cuz when they start their laser attack they'll just move in a often times a pretty unpredictable uh direction if they decide to turn to Stone which they can just do uh they're just they'll just be in your way so funny thing about that uh worm he just killed uh if you psycho Dash downwards it won't hit it yeah the hit there's some pretty funky hit boxes in this game so he had this specifically psycho Dash SWS like the side and then that killed it [Laughter] because what a great dungeon mhm I didn't get the glitch if you get hit while the wall is still exploding you'll actually get released from paralysis the cutscene paralysis and you can actually start moving towards the uh exit and then the minor actually just rude just despawns um when he gets off what was intended to be the edge of the screen so just to be clear uh when he if he does die he returns to the entrance of a dungeon so he really really does not want to die yet uh he does want a death warp but uh not right now cuz it would be a giant waste of time and again here you see more of the orb cancel glitch to uh get rid of those barriers slightly more quickly and also return a few jewels to gem the Jeweler cuz it's otherwise nearly full SN that wow not I mean Health drops always appreciated but uh yeah it's in this case it's more more likely just going to slow down the death warp than actually make the make the Next Room safer but yeah thanks anyway so here we get our first uh combat ability for free down the night I really love the name of this attack too also the fact that you can use it before the game tells you how to like that dark fryer so the dark as you just saw the dark fryer is a ranged attack that um freedan can use when you if you um hold the attack button to charge up for a few seconds it does the same amount of damage as I believe the psycho Dash does you can also get two hits with it with just cuz the the the fireball starts out moving kind of slowly and then you gain speed so with certain enemies you can uh uh knock them back so that they take a second hit from it I do have to wonder sometimes what uh the translators back in the uh early 90s were thinking sometimes stuff like dark frer yes I would like my theory is that it would probably better be spelled FR FR y e r but uh right it's just such a more delicious name for an attack when it's spelled f r i e e [Music] r all right so here's the first elevator key that I need in order to get to the next uh layer the elevat I already pass the elevator I'm in the second room of the of the mine so actually so this is where I'm I'm going to take an intentional death in order to get back there faster another benefit of uh death warping is that my health gets refilled as part of it too so I was able to just play more aggressively getting down to the first key since I didn't have to worry about um conserving Health to dodge enemies on the way back [Music] out and then I hope you like this music you're going to hear it a few more times yeah much as I love the soundtrack to This Game the generic dungeon theme I'm gotten a little bit sick of just because it's used for about half of the dungeons in the game and uh but I love the unique dungeon themes though I like how they uh decided to uh call the the the slaves laborers but then here they have just a morg yeah ordinarily I'd get that key without actually fighting that snake but I miss miss the missed lining up with the uh hit box for it there's another room that is really annoyingly easy to just take a ton of damage uh the nice thing is that these enemies occupy a single Tire tile mostly uh some of them their hit boxes big enough that if you try to run above them uh you'll get hit but uh the little purple dudes for example only take one tile so you can run around uh the top or the bottom yeah and then like for the lizard man it's the like their legs basically or their HT [Music] box taking some damage here isn't too much of a problem just cuz once I'm finished with the diamond mine I'm going to do another uh death abuse in order to get out but I don't want to die before getting the key and using it so I play I played that room pretty conservatively so sorry other two laborers Sam is the one that has what I need this I love this little Easter egg here too just cuz the melody the memory Melody he's teaching you which hey it can cure Amnesia just like in real life um it's actually the music for Anor watt which is a dungeon uh I'll be going to probably about an hour from now which is the in the part of the world where all these uh people uh are from oops this way yeah can I pop in with a quick donation yeah please do we actually yeah we've got a couple minutes to cut scenes all right I just received an anonymous $500 donation dang hey guys great job with an amazing event keep up the good work and good luck to to all the runners save those frames and rip the animals a new one we have uh let's see here $25 from par went to bed thinking today was going to be a tight schedule woke up to find a surprise pox 100% eye illusion of guyan this week just keeps getting better and more awesome one of my favorite SNES games run by a great guy with cameos by vagin and Bob and even yagam moth in the donations so I will match his $25 shout outs to the law Runner $20 from starbugs he says greetings from Germany I'm a first time viewer and donator happy to watch a game my mom didn't want me to buy because it looked too violent on the [Music] box thanks for making this week more enjoyable at work and let's kill the animals welcome to sgdq since this is your your first time viewing must have must have been the back of the box cuz as I recall the front is just the logo for the game and not much else well In fairness I mean maybe she did some research and figured out that you do swing your father at enemies to beat them to death and uh abandon slaves to slavery in a diamond mine speaking of which I have a $20 donation from Griffin 18 that says since some people in CH apparently haven't heard of Illusion of Gaia here's a very quick plot synopsis your dad is a flute your friend gets eaten by a whale then they become a whale a very sad thicking happens to a pig and you save the world by turning into a slime man in short this game rules all true statements and I have an anonymous $100 donation that says as a person with sister fibrosis I can't imagine being born in a place with poor medical care what you guys do is amazing please keep it up save the people kill the animals you could also say this game promotes like poor hygiene cuz all that text I just mashed through was about uh well read it for yourself I won't spoil on the bright side they do pr OTE uh you know General Health through uh scurvy prevention oh yes yeah we did get a tutorial on how to prevent scurvy $5 from action man says mind blown I spend so much time trying to get that blasted Red Jewel on the docks at the start we all did and seeing it done so easily now shout outs to Childhood Nostalgia and sgdq and all of its runners and a five an anonymous $5 donation says hey poxel it's Eric Dark Knight here from Germany I'm so happy you're running my most favorite game of all time unleash the dark fryer and don't forget to eat some pork oh thank you you didn't even go for it wow yeah you can get you can squeeze between Cara and Lance to get to deal there but it's Pixel Perfect and if uh if you miss you're going to miss pretty hard basically if you walk into one of them $15 from Sir Banquo Poo's running here's an offer to give thanks to the demon Chocobo because he is such an awesome Runner Let's Help doctors Crush games and remember why we're really doing it the demon Chocobo commands it # never forget all right so we're coming into Sky Garden the next major dungeon the sky Garden's just it's basically four sections each one I have to find a crystal ball that I put into these slots here in order to build a bridge to the boss and then the difficulty is pretty uh inconsistent here too like this first section is pretty trivial as is the third one but then the second and fourth are a bit harder after each Crystal I'm going to be death warping back to the entrance too so couple places where I'm just going to choose not to run around enemies in order to wear down my health a little bit I'm not going to do it quite as aggressively as I would in like a PB attempt cuz I don't want to die prematurely so this dungeon has the really cool uh gimmick that uh you can go on both the top side and the underside of the dungeon um and you of course have to in order to Traverse it um so every time you see him just kind of jump off the edge and then you know he's landing on the other side side um which is actually like it's weird it's it's not exactly like accurate like if you jumped on the underside it wouldn't be oriented the way it actually is but whatever it doesn't matter it's a fun video game right so this section's a little more difficult just well just there's a couple enemies that I have to kill in order to open passageways and then uh so and then there's the more difficult fights that I have to do in the skyu involve like having to kill a specific enemy while not getting murdered by others that are nearby CU of course when he picks up freeden um and then subsequently death warps uh that's going to take him out of free to end form so he's going to uh in this dungeon he's not going to care too much about that that but uh in general uh you have to be aware of that and you can't necessarily just death warp willy-nilly if you uh willy nilly [Laughter] [Music] nice sorry it's too early in the morning that's a pretty fun quick kill there and I'm just going to fight these guys to be safe cuzz if I if they just cluster together in the corner like that then if I don't get a good iframe Dash through them I'm probably going to lose half my health in one shot basically and make this next fight pretty dangerous and I grabbed a safety save at the uh dark space there actually because if I'd have if I'd have been too slow at getting through that um wall there after I did the uh orb cancel glitch and opened the chest after the explosion animation started it would have actually crashed the game uh it's I mean if I'd have noticed that I wasn't going to make it in time I could have just waited until after the animation to open the chest all right so this section's pretty fun first time setting up getting the uh Jewel so the ramp is only one tile high you can jump over it with a jump attack like that yeah cuz the way this section of the sky Garden is intended to be done is that you uh it's kind of a puzzle section where you have to um through killing enemies on both the top and bottom side you build a path across the whole bottom row there so that you can run and build enough momentum to just run up that ramp but uh yeah we'll just we're just skipping that all all by uh um by using jump attack and then right here too for doing this death warp after getting the jewel that's one of the reasons why I picked up that uh why a dumpster dived for that um single HP juel and friia just cuz that gave me an extra HP in case that happened basically where I didn't uh make it in time and I missed the uh okay fine all right all right he trying to do a ramp boost to get up there uh so yeah this section is fairly dangerous uh there are a lot of enemies around and he does need to make it through uh a fair bit of stuff so he just ran up and left there to spawn an enemy a little later on uh so that when he comes over here yeah it's this fire snake right here yeah yeah I would have died if it if I have hit the caterpillar there so I'm very much going to be grabbing a safety heal here Al and I'm going to take a save too just cuz if I do die in the next fight it would be faster to reset and go back here than to get all the way back and become freedan [Music] again cuz in order to um get actually I'm not going to talk during this fight yeah there's enough enemies around here to come on makes his life miserable and he needs to move this statue onto the switch without getting killed which he has done there is an alternate Strat for this puzzle here too where you can actually get hit on Purpose By The Sword and then abuse the fact that when you're in frames you can't you won't jump off the uh ledge here but um if you mess it up it's pretty pretty significant as far as getting back up here and I've heard there's also a chance to soft lock if you die while while doing it too where's uh where's that one of the ones found by DJ um I believe so actually not 100% sure myself so here's a boss yeah this is Viper I messed up the positioning there a bit so he's going to be trying to uh manipulate Viper to kind of do the swoop thing and he going to be doing the uh jump jump attacks during that and even though this is uh probably one of the easier bosses uh he still dies in Two Hits so he still has to be very careful he swop the wrong way should still go to three cycle though um actually not almost it's all good oh man all right so something we might not have mentioned earlier with Casto uh as you might have noticed his HP just went up a full Bunch uh so whenever you kill a boss you uh uh well let's start with this part earlier poxel mentioned that when you kill all the enemies in a given area you get a power up uh it either increases your HP or your attack or your defense nice catch by the way Perfect 10 out of 10 um fortunately falling on a moving airplane in the sky does not cause your legs to telescope uh I highly recommend that you try it I'm sure it'll work just fine um yeah shout outs to Lance by the way and his how he's just kind of casually hanging on to the tail of the plane like that too that I mean I'm sure that's safe um but yeah so uh every time poxel goes through a room without killing all the enemies in the room he's skipping a power up he could be getting to one of his three stats and uh when you and when you get to a boss and then kill that boss it actually just says okay well you killed the boss so whatever and it just gives you all the power ups that you skipped um so that means that you're basically significantly underpowered until you get to the boss and until you kill the boss but then you get a big catch up yeah and then another mechanic too that's very nice too is that your strength stat is actually Irrelevant for Boss is to the amount of damage you do per hit is just completely based on your form it's one one damage per hit for will two for freedan and then three for shadow right so it's really pretty much uh because of that and the fact that you really don't need to fight a lot of regular enemies uh it's almost never faster well I think it's never faster to like Farm the enemies in a level to get one of the powerups yeah there's two situations where I can do it for for safety one of them I will be deing for sure the other probably not it's probably a good time for donations Bic I'm just going to be going through this Palace getting three red jewels and then um get purifying the uh The Poisoned well at the bottom in order to um C I guess turn the people here from Monsters to people or something cuz which I only do because one of them casually stole the key to move from the vampires and says here you take care of it all right I have $50 from The Amazing toaster he says vagin I'm so sorry you have to sit between these two non-believers all glory to our Lord and Master the demon Chocobo Su hero sends $20 and says whoa whoa whoa whoa wao whoo wo you can't just sneak a speedrun of one of my favorite SN games ever on us on the dead of night like that if I had known this was going to happen i' have played my entire schedule around it $50 from Eric F that says I love that you guys are doing illusion of guy it was one of my favorite games growing up does so much to plant the seed of wonder about the world we live in thanks to everybody involved for doing such a great work for such a great cause kale sends $50 says thanks to very much to everyone behind the scenes and all of the runners for another fantastic gdq $10 from Anonymous hey guys I'm so happy to be watching one of my favorite Runners playing one of my favorite games always awesome to see more RPG runs at gdq I am sorry poxel but I must Proclaim all hail our dark lord the demon Chocobo thanks for the donation so a little um I waited until after purifying the well to get that third Jewel too just because if I'd have gone for it first there would have been some enemies that would have been a little inconvenient to avoid in the [Music] way it's also probably good to mention uh just about Inventory management earlier we mentioned that he sometimes consume uh consumes the red jewels to them to gem uh when he's doing you know orb cancel glitch or really just periodically in general um and as you might have seen during that inventory trip or right there just now uh his inventory is really full uh I mean literally full so uh he really needs to make sure that he's got space for the stuff that he's going to pick up uh in moo there's going to be a couple items he's going to pick up so he uh needs to have that space or else he's going to just get stopped when he gets to those things yeah and then the rout for you for do using the jewels is a little bit different for the my Marathon safe route than the one I'd use for a PB attempt to just because of holding more medical herbs meaning I have less other space to use so moo is an extremely long and confusing dungeon um you end up running around the kind of the same area multiple times after lowering the uh the Water um and it's very difficult there's lots of enemies that deal lots of damage and uh don't like you very much m i mean one one very fortunate thing about moo is that I'm not really too underleveled at this point just because my stats all got cut up when I finished the sky Garden I haven't done any other dungeons since then I mean this there I guess you could technically call the seaside Palace a dungeon but it's but it's a weird one in that you don't there's no stat boosts from any of the enemies in fact you can't even kill them normally I think if you just if you run out their HP they just phase out phase out basically I think because they're supposed to represent uh NPCs that have been turned into monsters so here's everyone's favorite enemy The Wiz robe I don't I have no idea what they're actually called in this game but they're they're Wiz they're Wiz robes and they're just as biger of jerks as whz robes in the legend res Alla series [Music] may it may look like I'm just picking the statue up out of just a random spot on the floor but this is a little puzzle where there's two statues that are currently both off screen that are and where their eyes line of sight intersect is where the uh the statue is and uh my friend Lily here is now giving me a tutorial on how to find the statue that I just got it's actually a fairly clever like puzzle design because they have a bunch of chests in various other places in moo as you approach here uh where the chest is positioned so that there are two statues facing it in the same way and uh you know it's an RPG you're going to open the chest so like you're like ooh treasure and there's nothing in them but by the time you get to the third spot you see those two statues and you know what's going on yeah and then there's a pretty there's a much more complicated version of that puzzle to get the second statue of Hope too where the um the statues that give you your queue are pretty far apart from each other I think you have to kill enemies to even make them here at all too it's been a long time cuz it's not required to find the Statue there's a few like we actually I did it on the way in but I don't need to do it on the way out to where I'm abusing the fact that will is Invincible when he's doing some of his attacks the only one I have at this point is the jump attack with the flute so I did that to get over the spikes there here earlier now this is a prime place to get wizr trolled oh here we go all right that wasn't that bad yeah they can and will just spawn directly in front of me and uh give me a high five so there's a skip coming up here too where you're supposed to have fre end and I'm just going to kill this guy for Marathon safety you're supposed to use frean to uh oops to um to wake up that Golem and get past but I can abuse the fact that there's actually a row of pixels at the top of that ramp to that counts as Solid Ground and I can actually just get up there and hit it with the fluid the the closer you pull the bouncy ring as I call it the uh easier it is and I I had it at first but then I messed up the rest of the inputs oh man this guy all right looking pretty good on health still though just cuz uh those robes haven't uh it should be mentioned that he's not planning on death warping in this dungeon so not yet at least I do after getting the second statue oh okay completely forgot that one it's a really really significant uh skip too just cuz uh it would be a lot of backtracking otherwise all right so here we actually get what I consider to be the most uh overpowered combat ability in the game the psycho slider um it's B if you just press the attack button while running then will just does a slide but it does the same amount of damage is the psycho Dash um but but you don't have to charge it up you just attack while running and you cannot get two hits with it too just based on positioning uh when you start and end the slide right so it's not only going to be useful for killing enemies but also for like passing through enemies uh if you you know even with the knockback when you hit an enemy if you time your slider at the right place you're going to pass through it yeah I'm probably going to be depending on the RNG I get here I'm probably just probably going to use it to get through that there right so you also get the eye frames from doing that attack little back scratch there and then it is a required ability too cuz it lets you slide through certain gaps like that too which I need in order to uh complete moo I didn't I don't think I ever explained this too this is what I call guard dashing which is basically what it sounds like I'm uh doing the same inputs as I would for um iframe dashing only with with the lrr button instead of the attack button and then that lets me move while guarding and I am technically guarding and using telekinesis while doing it too so was a really minor optimization to that uh bounce ring puzzle there so this is where as mentioned there's two statues far off in the distance staring at this one spot um but of course he already knows what the statue is so and then the the play the second room of Hope where I need to use this to lower the water level again is conveniently located right next to the entrance to Moo so now I'm going to take an intentional death to warp back there and save probably like at least a minute or two worth of backtracking going all the way back is actually only only happens if I die with under 100 dark gems to those are the little silver orbs that regular enemies uh usually drop when you kill them collecting a 100 of them gives you I think the game calls it renew power which is pretty much a oneup and if you have that if you die you'll respawn in the same room that you died in instead of going back to the entrance but in a speedrun that would actually be bad also because you it only gives you half Health instead of full health too despite supposing supposed to be a bonus oh this pattern huh what a Jerk It's a pretty rare pattern for him to uh guard that hallway like that usually just conveniently walks up left or right instead wait where am I going blanked out and thought I was uh back at the start I was just going to say I was wondering why you didn't slide through the Gap and I just thought maybe I didn't remember the game as well yeah casual on the Fly rerouting so the one last order of business before I get to the boss the uh the vampire couple is to get to Rama statues but they're pretty they're really fast to get compared to the statues of [Music] Hope s go ahead for the second statue I'm going to be uh showing off a uh an an interesting glitch too I'll explain it after I do it all right so by opening the chest with either either in the middle of a jump attack or a slide if I do this with a chest that has a key item it has the nice little effect of making me completely Invincible um it's although if I either do an attack that that causes it again uh that or leave the screen that I did it on then I'm Invincible again if that's a word so it's not quite as useful as it sounds but like there just because the time to set it up is pretty trivial I did it just to make um remove the risk of getting hit by the enemies on my way out so I'm grabbing a safety save here just because uh if you die you don't generally lose progress in the game but you don't get back any medical herbs that you used and then this next boss coming up here is the most difficult in the game and I've been saving my three herbs specifically for this fight yes so recall that we mentioned that this game is really rude when it comes to your health uh there are a very small finite number of medical herbs or medicinal herbs in the game uh what it's like single digits isn't it uh it's more like maybe 15 16 something like that I think there's more more than you can actually hold at once including the stuff like Lola's Melody that you have to hold nice and uh those don't even restore all your health either so uh yeah actually they restore less Health in the US version than they do in the Japanese 8 HP instead of all of it yeah so he's going to need to have those as a safety buffer on this boss which is some serious time here yep hardest boss in the game you can explain what I'm doing as I do it though sure so basically what he's trying to do here is perform attacks in a set Rhythm so that he is always passing through the her boxes of those vampire attacks as they're going uh the vampires themselves don't have her boxes it's just the projectiles so as long as he does these vertical attacks with a pretty good Rhythm which he's doing pretty well so far he should be fun he also almost is taking down the male vampire the male one is actually a lot more dangerous than the female so that's really nice to get out of the way the the way they move around the the female one uh tends you can think of the map kind of as a grid she will only move like one space on the grid while the male will move anywhere he wants which is a little unusual why he took down the male one first because usually he's off in the corner during his own thing right he just got really lucky and that was fantastic that was a really good fight you can uh kind of time your yourself how well that fight goes just based on the bomb timer so 85 is a pretty solid time yeah and the fact that I didn't even need to use any medical herbs at all is really really really good too I'm so happy with how that fight went yeah the man the the male vampire was super Cooper was really yeah cuz yeah like um Taz said the male vampire can do longer teleports around the room than the female can and it was really he was really Cooperative as far as just letting me catch up to him and uh set up some uh jump attack Loops so you'll just have to remember that you have all three of your herbs s up on your inventory later on yeah I'm going to need to be care pretty mindful of that too just start eating them randomly if I get the munchies yeah so I mean yeah the vampire I mean the difficulty of the vampires comes just cuz it's there's both tight execution you have to do as far as timing the Rhythm for the jump attack loops and there's just a lot of Randomness to react to too as far as um how they move and uh attack but yeah the really convenient thing like um villigan said is that they they don't deal contact damage to you so you can just camp out inside their hit box and then um time the jump attacks that you're not get taking damage from their Shields and you really really really don't want to get hit by their combo attack too cuz without the stat UPS from moo it does I think like roughly half of your max HP in one hit but fortunately it's pretty easy to avoid if you know it's coming all right so we got bit more cut scenes before getting to Angel Village so let's have some donations oh yeah let's take a look here we have $5 from Jim Jam he says I love seeing pxa running this game perfect way to start my work day hopefully my boss isn't watching the stream as well money goes to runner's [Music] Choice $7 from an anonymous donator that says I could never beat illusion of guy as a child those vampires always wrecked me here's some money to pay them back from preventing me from getting farther in an otherwise gorgeous game Public Service Announcement if you play this game normally please please please get freedan before you fight the vampires uh the reason we don't in the speedrun is because um you'd have to do about a two and a half minute dour to go to the other dark space and moo cuz the unfortunately the one in that you get the psycho slider from doesn't also have a freedan statue but uh the other one that I never actually went to does and yeah getting freedan haves the number of hits you need to kill each vampire and also gives you a ranged attack and it's still a hard fight even with that all right so this is the first time I uh can talk to Jem the Jeweler without having to uh go out of my way in any real manner so I just cached in all the jewels I was holding there and that gave me plus one all of my stats along with a minor upgrade to my psycho Dash which I'm going to be making use of exactly once in this dungeon [Music] oops we've got some really fun quick kills against these lizard enemies here if I get them right oops which I didn't so I guess we get to use the uh and bats are Js use the dash and what I was trying to do there was Psycho slide and then kick both hit theit lizard and then kick the bat that was nearby into him to to to do to finish it off two Health drops man you should consider buying lottery tickets didn't get any from those though all right just cuz I messed up that quick kill and took a ton of damage I'm actually going to use one of the safety stat UPS here and I'll well I'll still do it anyway just just cuz I said I was going do but uh yeah just killing both of those gives me an h plus one HP which whenever you get an HP up it refills your health to full too right so there's two rooms in the game where there are two enemies uh and that's all you have to kill in order to get this B up so so it's a pretty short uh time loss in order to get a full HP refill there yep some kind of clever puzzles here too cuz like for the first one the Secret Door was where the Flames were bent towards and then for that one it was based on an audio queue for when the sound of the waterfall was loudest and here we've got some memory puzzles where I have to identify the uh object that's different fortunately it's there's no Randomness at all it's the same solution every time and the uh detection for selecting it is pretty generous like these first two rooms it's the jars this next one's a little need to need to not space out too much though because uh the difference is what's in the chest it's an herb in the first room and a redle in the second but uh after I solve the puzzle if I actually leave the room without getting the jewel I can't go back again fortunately I've never lost a run to uh to doing that but uh just like one of the uh 25 or so red jewels that are missable and then you can't go back to get them mhm that's the last one for quite a while actually until the Tower of Babel what a Troll game yeah and for the last puzzle if you didn't catch that the difference was in the first room there was no wind in the second room you can see Will's hair moving around so we just Mash uh uh mash the kind of input then you're you're already selected on yourself all right see if I can get the world's most awkward hug here yeah being at the edge of the portrait when I kiss [Laughter] it yeah so after I'm passed the vampires the next leg of the run about half hour or so is actually a lot more relaxed just cuz um yeah I mean the fact that I have the psycho slider make and that I just that I'm Invincible while doing it makes just getting through or around enemies a lot uh easier and also this is probably the least efficient route they can take by the way to get from Angel Village to uh water Mia but uh guess they're just enjoying the scenery I love this perpendicular turn and then this 180 Dee like all right yep I mean that's how I get from place to place yeah can have put in some more donations here basically just the next thing I have to do is yeah just go find um Lance and his father and then um do a get watch some really really awkward uh teen romance and then do kind of a really trolly event trigger where I have to read a letter that Lance snuck into my uh inventory and the game didn't give me any kind of clue whatsoever that he did all right the Invincible FL Lawler is back making good on his promise from earlier with $25 saying as promised I have done anything again during poxel run great job on the vampires and all of moo that is the hardest level for me but you made it look super easy looking forward to seeing the rest of your run my donation goes to runner's Choice which as we have learned by now is demon Chocobo I mean good taste that's better I tried man I tried uh I have $5 from C Genesis who says hi there boys and girls my second time watching and second time donating I've always admired what Doctors Without Borders are doing since I learned about them back when I was a child seeing them getting these huge amounts of donations by video games which are my biggest Hobby and passion honestly astounds me everybody at gdq give yourselves a big round of applause since what you are doing is so wonderful okay you guys are just great I hope one day to be part of a gdq myself put this donation to good use for those who need it regarding the marathon that is so save the animals I have $75 from Christian who says Hi everybody illusion of guy is awesome but do we have any plans for soul Blazer in one of the next marathons also this donation goes to family Jewel 7X soundtrack for Crypt of the ne Road answer awesome game and even more awesome soundtrack everybody have fun and thank you to the people involved AR gives us $50 and says Hamlet is still one of the most tragic moments in video games spoilers if he has to die then the other animals should live all right so we got the Great Wall here um kind of a lengthy dungeon although I'm going to be doing some sequence breaking and doing some uh some stuff kind of out of the intended order and then the it's I mean it's a kind of a long series of events that and then the ultimate payoff is that I can skip the final section so I'll just kind of explain each part as I'm doing it then for the some of a lot of these archers I'm going to be trying I didn't get it there trying to um okay got that one trying to start my slide when I'm close enough that um I only get one hit in so then I can just keep running afterwards instead of having to kick again or run around them right and that requires actually a fairly precise timing with uh theer slider relative to the enemy position [Music] so Splat for this next Archer here I'm intentionally getting two hits just to make uh getting back between them a lot more easy it's the one and only jewel and uh great well that's a big part of actually why 100% is only about an extra 10 minutes over the any percent category of this game is just because the bulk of the red Jewels are in the towns instead of the dungeons so I don't really have to uh go out of my way in Dungeons and fight extra stuff terribly often if ever can I just make a very quick announcement yeah go for it I just wanted to let you guys know that we have met the Skyrim Glitz exhibition so we have made the 12,500 that we needed for that so thank you to everybody that donated te chops will be pleased right so coming up here is is the first sequence break I'm going to be doing in the Great Wall I do that by sliding into that ramp here cuz in order to get into this particular section here you're supposed to have the spin dash which is Will's next combat ability but by doing that slide there to kill my momentum I can um gain access to this part without spin dash and um the whole reason why I'm coming in here is to get uh freedan who I need for one specific use later on speaking of freedan I have a $15 night I never actually knew you could use freedan while fighting the vampires oh no that sorry to hear that I'm so so sorry yeah I'm soor his $15 from that tip also save the animals thank you atarian just killed that [Music] one forgot he'd still be [Music] there okay so now that I have free Dan I'm actually going to skip this next section for now now meaning like 20 seconds or even that cuz the only use that I need free down for in the Great Wall is just to shoot this guy cuz uh he opens that uh barrier in front of the stairs going down there so now that that's done now I'm going to go back and do this section which is where I get the spin dash that is much less satisfying fall yeah so because I've already done what I need with freedan um but and now now and then I'm in freedan form that I I turned back into will form when I learn spin dash so that's going to let me do the next section as um as will instead of freedan which makes doing another skip that I'm going to be doing in that part easier than lets me skip the entire uh area afterwards because I'll already be F and able to use the spin dash to get to the boss instead of having to explore the final area and then find a dark space to transform what a great description use the attack and LR buttons for power yeah yeah yeah I have to charge up like I like for oh by the way go and up that is really booking it up those [Music] stairs cardio yeah you have to charge up and then do and then start mashing the l&r buttons you have to hit them like five times or something like that something like that all right so this is meant to be a telekinesis puzzle here where I move these dolls around and then you hit the switch to turn them into archers and then kill them but I can just do this instead to uh it's a form of telekinesis to get past them shout outs to Nitro johon another Runner of this game who taught me that trick a couple years ago oops okay and then because I'm already will I can skip going down those stairs to uh explore this part instead just go straight to the boss ah the boss yes okay so this is sand fanger also known as troll fanger who's the easiest boss in the game in my opinion but also the most random as far as um how just how what he does affects how quickly I can kill him we' already seen two of his attack patterns not all three now yeah so I really what I really want to see is what one that one he did first where he um pokes his head out of the sand and then spits some just cuz I can get up to eight hits I believe in one of those patterns whereas with the two different diving patterns I can only get two and unfortunately there only a one out of four chance for him to do the egg laying pattern or in speedruns approximately one out of like 136 something like that approximately then when he does the eggs I mean he's got several different kinds of eggs so I'm trying toh position myself so that wow what is that okay wow yeah thank you I can tell just by the the colors of the eggs than with than just the pattern that he spits them out and what they're going to do after they hatch and the only real the only real way that I could die to that boss is if I lose control of the uh baby uh fangers that he creates cuz they just start they start popping out and shooting shots at me while I'm trying to deal with the uh with the actual boss that was overall a really really good fight as far as the RNG I got it's kind of just an I I mean I love so much about this game as a speedrun but not really so much this that boss just because of how late in the run it comes and how it's just totally up to luck as far as how fast you can win I appreciate Lance asking will to take care of Lily so will just leaves yep good quintet games are pretty Infamous for uh you just abandoning your loved ones like that so well we've got some more uh awkward uh young romance here can squeeze in another comment or two actually what I would like to do is encourage those guys that are donating to take a look at some of the other donation enters we have available I know you are all very very passionate about save and kill the animals however we have a bunch of other stuff that is unmet at this Point good taste that's much later poor Exel sorry did I say that out loud only slightly um so coming up the next unmet incentive we have is during T Trials Fusion the invisible bike is sitting at $1,033 out of $7,500 so that could use some love and then for Elder Scrolls 5 Skyrim there is the bonus run of Two Worlds that is currently sitting at $2,792 out of 5,000 so please as much as we love the fact that you guys like to save and kill the animals there is a lot of really cool stuff sitting around uncompleted so please put your donations in towards those and thanks to everybody that crushed the incentive for this run to to uh to um actually get 100% And complete Jem's Mansion fight uh salador too which we'll be doing pretty late in the game speaking of bonus content how are we doing on the witness on the witness let's take a look here with the witness we are sitting at don't do this at home by the way folks for the witness we are sitting at $1,192 out of 10,000 you until like tonight to get that done I think I think we can get it done I like to view this mini game as will being a horrible person again and using his um psychic powers to cheat as as far as knowing which of the cups is poisoned if you weren't able to read the text while he was mashing through it basically he just played a Russian rouette but with uh drinks that are poisoned or a drink that is poisoned and this dude who is a man of Honor insists on drinking the last drink that is definitely for sure poisoned yeah if you read the text there you do find out that he was terminally ill and was gambling basically to make sure his family was taken care of but will still a jerk this is a will doesn't know that yeah he didn't know it at the time for sure this is a family friendly game mhm oh yes maybe that donator mother had uh knew something about the game yeah yes so there was one more Jewel that I could have gotten there and haven't yet that's in the the uh the big Casino area that's because there's actually this is another kind of trolly move by the uh developers where the one and only time you actually have to backtrack to a previous area to find a jewel is coming up where I have to go back to water Mia and talk to um Lance to get a jewel and then because when I do that I'll have over 30 which gives me um a upgrade for friedan's dark fryer that I'm and and Gem the Jeweler is in that room I'm just going to go pick it up then and then immediately cash it in should do quick a quick inventory check though just to make sure given that I've got all those herbs I set up fireworks there's going to be we're going to see that right like the ending of Chrono Trigger or something like that with some cool uh mode 7 parade and fireworks right right right well when you use the dark frer maybe not so much I like to call that the lowbudget party okay let's see I'm actually find out of all the jewels in the game this is the only one that I find kind of tedious to get and it's not really that bad I need to get get three three of these apples and give them to a maid in The rolic Mansion here I'm going to give her two of them now and then get the third Apple but I'm not actually going to give it to her until I have to come back to advance the story in case you needed a reminder of how arbitrary some of these red jeels are to acquire I'm trying and then what I'm trying to do too just to speed up getting to the Apple Merchant is just run down that ramp and Bonk into one of the other stalls or uh pillars nearby to to kill my momentum to save like a second or two over just going straight and then back up you'll really like the uh plat trigger coming up next to after I get this other horribly placed jewel in the alley there we've got an elderly couple here that's arguing about rumor here the rumors about a magic teapot that has ghosts in it so we're going to go find it after getting more Jewels it seems like a great expenditure of our time yes probably get time for some donations yeah so I'm just going to go I'm going to go get Lance's Jewel now that you have that you can't get until after you've left water Mia and then go cash in with gem again to get the dark fryer up all right then territus sends $50 says dearest poxel I just wanted to wish you best of luck with your run run run the Lord and Savior demon Chocobo cometh run for your life I actually should have used one so I can get you Omega goo donates $50 and says spoiler-free ending for the illusion of Gaia the world we live on is the world we live on also will can breathe in space all right 32 is exactly where I need to be at $10 from Doc Jazz hey brenta what what do you call a group of Physicians that lose all confidence in their craft and have to be institutionalized as a result he doesn't know what doctors with doubts and mental disorders ah ah yes yes it was okay I'll improve the conversation by pointing out that something I've been doing subtly throughout the whole game too is that I've been buffering my uh inputs for selecting destinations on the world map because you can start you can you can start selecting the input before just after the camera finishes uh zooming out but before the menu actually appears all right so the mountain temples I mean it's if you know where you're going it's a really easy easy dungeon just cuz there's nothing here that does a whole lot of damage and you've got the spin dash and psycho uh slider but knowing where to go it takes a while just cuz this is probably the maest dungeon in the whole game yeah everything looks pretty sey in this dungeon so it's pretty easy to get confused about where exactly you are and where you should be going yeah and there's several parts too where I'm where when I have to go a really long distance in a straight line I'm going to charge a spin dash just use for faster movement cuz if I have to go in a straight line it um it's significantly faster to well I don't know but significantly but it's faster to um to spin dash that line instead of just running yeah the threshold is a pretty significant distance though so the vast majority of the time he's not going to be using it like there's only even a handful of times to use it I think in the entire run mhm for that purpose so there I just did the chest invincibility glitch again if you missed the earlier explanation if I open a chest that has a key item that plays is that the extended Fanfare in it um with either a jump attack or a psycho slide AKA move that makes you invincible doing it the game just forgets to make you uninvent um until you either do another move that would cause it to reset or leave the screen so there I just did it to um just run through the spiders on my way back little D2 here to get the one Jewel and Mountain Temple and the way this dungeon works is that there's three uh there's three um mushroom drops I need to find in order to grow Vines to lead to the next section so that just kind of forces you to go into these side areas to find the mushroom drops see there's one of the aformentioned places that I'm just spin dashing for faster movement you can see what a long distance this is so it's pretty worthwhile to do it but this is a more fun way to get back that's just him showing off this is one of the one of only generally two places in the game where lag is a thing too just because of how many enemy spawns are in close proximity here so I'm going to be doing just a few subtle things in this next screen especially to try to reduce like a bit like when I spin dash through these skulls here I'm going to try to kill one of the fire Sprites with uh with the end of my Dash here and that's just that there's one less that will be on screen when I'm coming back with the mushroom drops so I'll have less chances of getting a bunch of lag if there's four of them on screen at [Music] once and if you didn't notice he did the uh invincibility glitch again those uh what' you call them fire Sprites fire Sprites or fire fairies or something I've never had a name for them other than those awful things yeah they're really annoying so using the invincibility glitch there is really nice because otherwise those guys just get in your way and they're the highest damaging enemy here too they only do three damage though which is pretty trivial with the amount of HP I have here yeah there's nothing here that's scary there's just stuff that's annoying cuz yeah just getting hit in places you don't want to slows you down and I guess theoretically if you just like got hit a million times by the fire sprits you would still die mhm but and then actually ran into that one on purpose just to um just cuz I do need want to wear down my health a bit for just cuz the F the enemy closest to the teapot that I'm going to be using to death warp off of isn't terribly fast to get hit by i' kind of like to run down about half of my health before I get there and I didn't do the invincibility glitch there actually because I would have lost it when I jumped off that next Vine there just cuz you're Invincible when uh when you're jumping like that so the game resets so your your state then would be kind of nice if it was possible just to be able to clip through all these spiders on the way out so we're coming up on the end of this place that noise though yeah like an air conditioner is going on or something when I'm doing this spin dash movement too something I do have to be careful about is that I have to come to a complete stop before I start mashing L and R because um if I'm still moving um when I do it I'll just guard and lose my charge instead of um starting up the spin dash haven't actually done that yet and hopefully won't before the end of the run all right so yeah so now I'm just going to ram into this fire Sprite until I get Warped back to the [Music] entrance and now for one of the jerkiest moments of will yep the huge jerk thanks to the translators I have heard that he's is considerably more friendly to Neil in the Japanese version I'm trying to imagine how this is translated such that it it takes on such a like strong Jerky like I I don't even have words for it yeah so going into this secret room here and talking to that guy actually gives me a strength Jewel um stren strength um is mostly irrelevant stat in this run just because it doesn't affect fact how much damage you do to bosses that's fixed based on which form you're at at the time but there's a couple non-boss enemies that I have to fight in the next two dungeons that that take a few less hits if I get that strength so it by my very rough testing it's about a wash between the time spent getting the Jewel and the time that it saves but more importantly it gives you some safety in the pyramid which is the most difficult dungeon in the game so now I'm getting the uh the final jural in Euro City there oh I the one that I yoinked out of that Shrine there I just just said hi to the laborers and then left the game doesn't even let you rescue them too if you want to so yeah Neil's parents were ghosts mhm and Neil understandably is depressed that his parents are dead well not just dead but murdered and then replaced by ghosts that were impersonating them too but and will is ashamed yeah how dare you mourn your parents wow what a guy this is kind of meant to be a meant to be a um fake out that the Jackal finally found you or something yeah there's a there's a there's a bounty hunter called The Jackal that's been stalking us the most pretty much ever since we escaped from Edward's prison although you wouldn't know it because we're skipping uh all of the NPCs that that mention that he still exists also it doesn't make any sense at all no but instead we get Hamlet car's pet pig it'll be nice to have him along with the group for a good good long time yeah he'll make it all the way to the ending I'm sure so here I'm just speeding up the uh cut scenes here by going into the house to get my friends to catch up then going back to talk to them and then so for this next sequence here by the way I do I do like who both will and car assume is waking the other person up by the way because um uh Cara thinks that will is like poking her or something but will thinks that Hamlet is I think we can get some more comments in here too while we get a uh family Revelation about our protagonist here too sounds good along with a tasty snack soil worker donates $100 and says I was super impressed with the necro dancer Runner agdq it'd be cool to see them slay the witness too have $100 from Fast be he's saying wa forgot the illusion of guia was even on the schedule that's cuz it wasn't until ex here's a donation for improving my morning at work I hope the vampire fight went well it did very much thanks bro uh Trey guy donates $5 and says thanks glad to see Po's illusion of guia run got in don't have much to give but I figured this seemed like a good time to do it my favorite Runner playing one of my favorite games hopefully the mummy Queen isn't too trolly also all hail good taste so we just found by the way we just found out that uh Will's mom was possessing Hamlet so just just put it in perspective Will's dad is a flute and Will's mom is a baby pig hey that's rude man and uh I don't know I think that explains why will is such a jerk how um uh Hey anyway we're in Anor wat now which is um it's a dungeon yeah it's a pretty the main reason it's kind of a lengthy dungeon is just because uh of the way that uh death warps work or don't work in a lot of cases my theory is that it's kind of programmed as three uh three dungeons in one as far as the the fact that it has checkpoints that still work even if you don't have 100 dark jems that was one of the enemies by the way that uh was a little faster to kill because of getting that strength Jewel in [Music] Euro oops now we get to pay homage to uh Indiana Jones here only it's bugs instead of snakes there's noises though yeah contet has some great sound effects that they really enjoy using in every single game they ever made since it's been a while probably mention orb cancelling again actually well how about if fun of you guys does it so I don't mess up this room uh okay go ahead you okay so uh certain enemies uh will open up uh like kind of the next area by blowing up a wall and if he pauses uh while that's happening uh before the explosion appears on the screen you can still just pass through it like it did yeah the game already has Collision detection for that barrier or whatever disabled when you unpause even though the animation hasn't finished yet and there's a lot of parts of the route where I'm combining other menuing that I need to do with having to open the menu to um activate that glitch isn't care is great by the way I mean it's great in every like major dungeon but it's great here and the Flies can be kind of obnoxious in the garden there although Health Management isn't too big of a deal um in Anor wat so now we're going to be actually going to be quick using the uh dark fryer upgrade that I got for 30 jws there's a weaker version of it you can get for waiting in line for 2 and a half minutes in Euro but we're not interested in that cuz the the ver this is something I didn't know until I started speedr running the game is that the the je the jewel version you can split at will instead of having to hit an enemy and we're going to be using it again to skip EarthQuaker which is otherwise is a useless power up but streamer how is this 100% if you aren't waiting in line for 2 and a half minutes um no so anyway so what I did there was I split the shot using kind of one of the markings on the wall as a visual cue um and that comboed the Golem about that was off screen at the time to death before it um finished waking up cuz what happens when that I mean if you get anywhere near that Golem and aggro it it um just just becomes permanently invincible and is basic and it's just an impenetrable wall and you're supposed to get the EarthQuaker power for freedan to uh that paralyzes it and lets you kill it before um um before it wakes up at all but with this with the upgrade I can just do that uh anyway so the reason he just stepped outside a minute ago was to step into this area and get this respawn point so that when he went to pick up the red jeol he could just take a death warp and come back here instead of to the actual entrance of the dungeon which is what he was referring to when he said multiple dungeons in one yeah and then it also transformed me from freedan who I needed to skip Earth Quaker back into will who I needed need in order to slide through a couple passageways here so I don't remember exactly how you're supposed to get through this area but apparently I don't either you can navigate this blind there you go it's a little bit awkward so it's not super uncommon have problems with it yeah just cuz the sliding point isn't per it isn't perfectly aligned with the corner there I have to kind of guesstimate where it is really I mean I what I was using in order to tell where I mean other than just memorizing the room layout I was also using the fact that will switches from running to walking when he hits a wall to tell when I hit walls in the room and um and then also the way the camera Scrolls too cuz if you're at the edge of the screen it and then like right like I am right now I the camera doesn't follow me so I was using that Will's position on the screen to tell when I was rounding a certain corner to get to the stairs I mean what you're I mean what you're the natural route is to get some dark crystal glasses in a different part of uh Anor wat to um let you actually see what you're doing there good luck finding the exit with exit blind literally cuz of uh cuz you have to slide uh and if you just go in straight lines and various places you'll fall into pits but in a speedrun that's a giant waste of time okay now we're going to be getting to see some fun mode s effects too because uh something I've been doing all throughout the run is skipping the camera zooming out um when I enter a destination just by holding the start button but doing that when I enter anchor wat for whatever reason glitches out this cut scene here and makes the camera not zoom out so instead of seeing a futuristic city we get to see a really smooshed futuristic city this is also the only main dungeon like the dungeon a dungeon with its own theme that does not have a boss in it mhm there's just nothing you just get to the end you get the thing and leave yeah and I always wondered if there was ever intended to be a boss in Anor Wad and it got cut out during development or something they just couldn't come up with anything the top sand fanger yeah and and that's actually a bit of an unfortunate thing for speedrun purposes too just because that means when I go to the pyramid the next uh um dungeon that means I'm really really really underleveled like more so than any other part of the game yeah just to to recap that again every time you kill a boss uh it catches you back up on levels cuz every time you clear a room the game gives you some stat stat boosts um and uh we're obviously not doing that uh so every time we kill a boss it uh conveniently giv us gives us all these stat boosts that we're just ignoring yeah that Mech I mean if that mechanic didn't exist I don't think this would really be a Speed game because uh once I'm pass like um the second dungeon and anything and everything in the game would oneshot me and then like the non-boss enemies that I'm required to fight would take uh like 20 hits or something to kill in some cases probably well maybe not that many but it would be a lot yeah at the least it would just be really tedious this gu being a bit of a jerk and the Flies yeah that was I mean that death warp I did after getting the last jewel is I mean doesn't really save much time but I did it just for a health refill mostly right it's a double edged sword the fact that there's that second checkpoint there you can use it to get that little death warp after getting the Red Jewel but that's not as timesaving as it would be if you could death warp back to the entrance after getting the Gorgon flower yeah and the checkpoints actually only activate when you enter them from like south to North so I'm not hitting any checkpoints on my on the backtrack so if I died like right here I'd go all the way back to the uh to um the one before the final Temple another reason why I got that uh did that death warp just for healing in case the Flies were thirsty for blood which they were they always are all right so I'm just going to collect two gems here and then move on to Da so can have some more donations here get the we have here we go $554 hey bro centa what do you call medical professionals that dislike dark beers Doctors Without Porters if it's easy to figure out but before the pun is finished being red yeah I feel like it's a little weak yeah I think you can do better come on yeah we've got uh $10 to hear Bob say schedule [Laughter] [Applause] again don't applaud that but you say it so nicely thank you uh $100 from trci s my son Aussie looks forward to Summer Games Done Quick and I think very highly of Doctors Without Borders what a great combination entertainment making the world a better place play on so this is where momentarily uh he's going to take out these two enemies and uh this is the second time in the game where there's a room with two enemies where when you take them out you get a thing in this case it's a defense boost so that's going to really really help in the pyramid where everything kills you really fast too I mean I don't think you're really intended to get through some of these rooms without damage just because of how the enemies are positioned I mean in a casual playthrough you'd be taking like one or two damage per hit and you'd have a lot more HP but in a speedrun I take if I if I even with getting that defense juel I'm going to take five damage per hit from the uh the main dangerous enemy here this is also the one time you must talk to uh Gaia in order to get your aura just it's just called Aura we'll be seeing it in action right now yeah so the aura lets you melt into the ground and it's uh it's required to use in several parts of the pyramid just to melt through floors but I it's you're also Invincible while doing it and there's a glitch you can do with it too that will explain a little later okay probably not going to talk too much during these first couple rooms just because of how difficult they are yeah for sure so one of the scariest things in these rooms I mean there's many scary things in these rooms but one of them is those orbs that shoot the little lasers they deal a crap L of damage and uh they're very very aggressive by which I mean they sit in place but they just they shoot you that's pretty aggressive uh the interesting thing is you think that uh with will getting his kind of final form that uh it would be probably the easiest part of the dungeon uh but the shadow parts of this dungeon are probably the harder Parts just because he lacks any sort of good uh movement ability whereas will has uh uh his uh slider and uh the spin right yeah no ranged attack either so he's trying to take a lot of advantage of uh uh if Fram dasing in order to get through places but yeah there's also little random things about the pyramid like this where you have to sit here and watch the stupid thing slide down I just did a knif frame Dash to hit that switch early oh it's look I've got so many herbs too but yeah we're coming up on the scarest part of what I call the fun room which is door three just because of how many laser ORS there are and just how difficult getting through them without d damages yeah there's a clump of six of them just in the corner of a two tile wide hallway so you get over there and they just will destroy you but if you have a good Rhythm like that you can just kill most of them yeah it's possible to do that damage list too cuz I'm what I'm trying to do is just wait until I see them spawn and then go to the bottom row so that I can close the rest of the distance and set up that stun lock on five of them before they hit me yep so that was pretty good mhm I like to go for pseudopod poses when I'm collecting the uh hieroglyph Stones too there's like three or four different frames of the attack that look really nice when they're paused like that so the end of each room of the pyramid there's one of these teleporters that brings you back to the top level here you can can also death warp to get out of any of them too but um I'm not doing that yet just because I would lose my shadow form and have to retransform right in order obviously as you see in order to get down to by the way what the heck is that red jeel like who would why would you like thanks quintet yeah I used to have a theory too that um like that third door right there was designed by somebody who was on their last day of working at Quintet it's CU of how trolly it is oh man speaking of trolls birds are jerks and those uh guy those bird men are no exception I agreed you won't see it this time but momentarily he's going to come back here and go through there uh this is just the first visit to this room to get this Red Jewel and yeah cuz unfortunately I have to make two trips to two of the rooms in order to get jewels I mean I have to go back into that one just because is um because there's no way to get back up after you melt down there and get the jewel then using the teleporter and then the other one that I have to do a revisit for is the uh third door which I need Wills spin dash to get but I need shadow in order to get to the bottom which I already did yeah this one is a lot more uh it's a lot slower but in any case when he goes oh jeez okay so that's what the herbs are for and you can see it barely still over restored like any of his HP but whatever so as he pops down here there's a high likelihood the bird is just going to do that exactly that what a surprise I was using a glitch there called the aura attack glitch by the way too where when I was up at the top I attacked and then canceled the attack animation by using the aura to melt and then that lets me actually keep attacking even though there's no animation during the Melt and I'm using that um in a couple places like right here to too so that I can knock the Birdman away if he's right under me when I reform like that but it unfortunately doesn't stop him from just waiting a moment and then stabbing you stabbing me yes as he did several times in my last practice run he's definitely on his game both of those times so I good if frame Dash to get through those we got the uh pencil uh pencil pose there as I call it so Inventory management is really important coming into the pyramid because he's collecting these six hieroglyph stones which remember your inventory is only 16 spots so that's a huge chunk of your inventory not to mention that uh you have all the Melodies here that you've gotten throughout the game and the r that you uh were given by Gia a lot of uh inventory is being taken up by required items all aspects of this game are very well designed how many herbs are you sitting on right now like I had like six I think coming in cuz I had three didn't use any of them on the vampires so I'm being more liberal than I other with them than I otherwise would be just cuz I cuz I'm I'm know I'm going to be running out of space really really early with holding that many herbs an option I another option is just to go and talk to Gaia to heal between rooms if I need it to the checkpoints in this dungeon uh do work on a room by room basis if you die in a room you'll go back to the beginning of that room but uh you'll become will so you have to go back and get Shadow for these several rooms where you need to be Shadow got the wave here all right so we are done with Shadow until the boss now because I can use will for the other three rooms two of them I have to because they have uh spin dash ramps and then door number six I can be any character for and I'll just be will just for just because spin dash makes lets me get through faster and as a consequence of that as just mentioned he'll get to use uh death warps in order to leave those rooms instead of having to teleport and sink back down so he's taking a lot of damage here but he's going to be immediately death warping so doesn't matter too much this isn't the game glitching out by the way there is an invisible enemy in the corner there that shooting those projectiles that I was just ramming into invisible Jerk Bird yep that's exactly what it is so for the will rooms too there's actually some pretty slick looking do enemy dodges I can do to um get through rooms without damage but there's no real incentive to do it just because I need to death warp after each one to get back to the uh Hub quickly and taking a couple hits on Route speeds up um how quickly I can death warp afterwards this is the room by the way that you can use any of the three characters to complete but just because there's several sections where you can use spin dash for faster movement I do and it's also just so so much easier to uh to spin dash through instead of what I was having to do with with shadow in those other rooms all right two more tablets to go and then we have a roasty toasty cut [Laughter] scene that's a word for [Music] it there's a couple little Annoying nuances about the dash ramps and mostly in room one um as far as um places where you just need you need to have a certain amount of distance in order to um just make it all the way up without before you lose your uh Dash momentum those are some of those aforementioned like kind of nice enemy Dodges that are pointless because uh now I just need to take more Dam intentional damage to set up the death warp oops I love those optional Spike walls yeah or ceilings as scary as that Spike Crusher ceiling looks it actually only does one damage regardless of your defense what those herbs dude got to eat more it's a filthy habit now since I still have another tablet I'll just do this now then um yeah and then I mean the order that I'm completing these rooms in by the way too is designed just to optimize the number of times I need to go into dark spaces to transform in this case not at all after the first time and then um and also collecting the red jewels and then I'm do I saved room number one for last because um mostly because the um this is the room we're doing a death warp after getting the tablet would be the slowest out of all of the rooms that I can complete as well cuz I'd have to I'd have to dash back across another Dash ramp in order to just get to any kind of enemy it's also pretty easy to get through here without taking much damage too which and I want to have my HP full or close to full before fighting the boss just because remember how underleveled I am well it gets even worse cuz I didn't I haven't actually gotten any of the uh stat UPS from the pyramid so uh the does 15 damage ahead at my stats so that's a two shot all right so I have all of the I could have i at any point I could come back up here and place the tablets but there's just there's no reason to do so before getting all six of them we can probably actually do a donation here but uh yeah pay attention to Will's hair during this uh this cut scene here get another cut another donation sure I have a donation from karic who donates $100 and says had to get in while pel's rocking iog glad to see it got in even if only I just woke up and we have to catch the start after the end real life sequence break money to runner's Choice thanks cleric just a very quick DJ hack with $5 great job for a great cause flame retardant here Joel sadly the Jackal didn't have any this is so creepy by the way too I'm really impressed that this made it past '90s uh Nintendo game uh rules like the way his hand is shaking like that too is just and the death rattle yeah oh man's he's asking will or she's asking will right after we did that it's an odd question he literally just lit someone on fire to stop them been watching too much DX so obviously once he puts the hieroglyphs in he's going to get access to the uh boss of the pyramid you really really want those herbs I think oops this menuing actually really sucks it's not particularly easy yeah just cuz I mean depending on how many herbs you have have or don't have at this point the tablets are going to go into different slots I mean there's a there's a diary you can get back in Dao that tells you the solution but it's just basically from rooms 1 through six that's the order that you put them in the uh slots I actually had no idea that that was so that's all there is to it dang so obviously he's going to take Shadow to the boss because trying to fight The Mummy queen as anything other than Shadow would be completely insane and slower cuz shadow shadow does the highest possible damage to bosses and three a great start here right I'm not going to talk much here just cuz I die in Two Hits yeah for sure so each time he uh hits the mummy Queen until she hits half Health uh she's going to split into this large circle of blue ghosty thingies uh and he's just going to kind of use the aura to wait it out and uh then she'll reassemble nearby kind of at the center of where the things are located and then he'll just hit her again and hopefully not get hit by that giant scary attack and repeat until she hits half Health at that point she's going to get a little dier so she's going to have a second uh second response that she can do at that point which uh will be that she splits into a smaller ring of these little ghosty thingies we did not see this on the next hit yeah yeah and uh if she does that there's a specific one of those that you have to hit the bottom left as you see there in order to get her to reassemble uh so you actually want her to do that cuz it's really not that difficult at least for plexal to hit the bottom left one wow but unfortunately yeah and it's um it's it's one out of four odds to get the spreading ghosts um instead of the Ring during phas too but yeah every time you get the ring it's really easy to just nice that was pretty clean mhm yeah RNG wasn't the greatest cuz I got two spreading ghosts during phase two but I mean I the the circle didn't Escape for me at all when when it happened which is how you lose time on the fight if assuming you don't die I I don't actually know if I ever noticed before that the jackal's corpse is now there as like a skeleton yeah he has actually burned away to just Bones the fire did stop eventually this game is family friendly maybe uh K was nice and put the Flames out while you were fighting the boss rated E for everyone baby yeah all right so the pyramid was effectively the final dungeon of Illusion of guy the final like main story dungeon cuz we're going to the Tower of Babel next which is I mean it's just a boss Gauntlet where I'm refighting every uh every boss from the main dungeons um there are I haven't um as soon as I get into the tower I'm going to be getting the 50th Jewel but there were three that I didn't get yet in um da that I'm going to be going back for so I guess while we're while we're doing yet another crazy parachute uh out of Aion we can have a few donations yeah no problem we can put some donations in we have uh really okay I I I I I I think I can see where this is heading yes yeah yeah um we have hey brenta what do you call a group of medical professionals that don't have anyone that wants to date them Doctors Without [Music] quarters however to count to that I do have a $256 donation nice from vard oh hey and it says you've found a large yummy donation put this towards Poo's choice and good luck on the rest of the Run thanks V and Anonymous donates $5 and says can Bob please say aluminum you thought you were going to trap me into saying aluminum didn't you well they were right yes [Laughter] true oh man damn those cunning donators I played right into their hands hey Brena what what do you call physicians in a terribly designed Hospital doctors without corridors you know you can see it like you can see it coming like an oncoming train yet it still it's like it's like a disaster but you can't look away it still just runs you right over yeah we have $10 oh my God they're still coming uh we're doing bad msf puns here's one what do you cool medical professionals that like to get right into the main course what doctors without wh derves so all right so B all fired so the B bosses are pretty much the same as the first fight except they're massively easier because you get to fight them as Shadow some of them have do do have a little extra surprise in that Casto can shoot two Crystals at once instead of one but uh when I'm doing three damage a hit getting the one cycle which from the original fight is the hardest trick in the game in my opinion is pretty trivial here right you just automatically transform into Shadow for each one which is great and uh other than that the only real difference uh or other than those things the only real difference is that the the Arenas are just slightly altered and they're in the weird like isometric uh diamond shapes so it actually makes some of these Arenas like really annoying they're just very awkwardly shaped also we get to see the quinch background yes you might remember this from the final boss of actraiser it's in every quintet game at least once so one Viper since I'm doing triple damage to what I did to Viper first time he only lasts one cycle if even that so next is the vampire's refight which is the it's the most technical one just cuz it's I'm doing a pretty different strategy than I did because of getting to be Shadow if you remember the aura attack glitch I mentioned in the pyramid I do that by um us attacking and then canceling the animation by using the aura to melt into the ground and while I'm doing that I can actually continue attacking only there's no animation and then I can abuse the the fact that the vampires have no uh do don't do any contact damage in order to set up that glitch and get a bunch of hits in although just like the first fight it's a little random how easily I can set it up so I depending on what they do I may not to not do it and just smack him with the my pseudopod on the bright side they deals significantly less damage although you still don't want to get hit by those attacks but yeah you can see how quickly the female vampire is going down to that mhm I've got so many herbs I'm just I'm going just face tank the male vampire Le least I got to show off the glitch on the female so yeah it was just melting and then her HP was draining away a really really clean uh setup can do over half of one of their health and one use how many herbs do you have left three uh two just a reminder that even if you ate all of them you still wouldn't regenerate to full health because this game is and the return of our buddy troll fanger yeah fortunately if I get really really lucky I can kill him in two two cycles which I'm not getting [Music] nope well he's pass the point now where if I if he did the egg pattern then I'd be able to kill him and now it's just getting uh silly because cuz if he does I mean I'm I'm kind of waiting for it to happen for the last hit where it doesn't actually matter okay there we go I was expecting him to just never give it to you yeah or never give it to me at all yeah what a boss oh if you have any questions uh about why losses are now becoming my transportation to climb the tower uh good I do too this is a fine video game so then the mummy The Mummy Queen refight which I mean it's no it's not really any different than what I did like five minutes ago but um it's meant to actually be harder just because she does actually technically do more damage in the first fight that because I actually have real defense stats instead of nothing it's much much easier and this then also the room layout in this case makes the fight easier because in the original fight in the pyramid there were blocks in the middle in front of the uh the entrance door that make dodging her um shots a little harder in some situations and that's just not here a thing in the arena for the refight so once again once she drops below half health I'm uh hoping that she gives me both both hoping that she gives me the um the small ghost ring and that I can hit the uh the correct ghost that start always starts in the lower left corner before the ring breaks away if it breaks away then I lose a bunch of time just cuz it bounces around and I have to chase it well it's the next hit ah okay that was always going to be spreading ghosts all right it begins uh okay let's get recovery yeah you can uh if you are able to tell I I'm pretty sure the stream is 60fps but basically the way you can tell the difference between the One You're supposed to hit and the ones that don't matter is that uh the one of course uh the ones that don't matter are flicker so uh they you know appear slightly transparent all right that was fine and just because she gave me a spreading ghosts right off the bat that kind of kind of made the rest of the fight a little more difficult too just because if she forms the small ring when she's in the kind of close to the right edge of the screen the ring bounces off the wall in a really big way that's uh really really easy to get hit by if you don't know it's coming so I was trying to be a little cautious there even though I probably didn't need to be because of having two herbs left plus the ability to uh plus two different means that I can use to heal before the final boss so just to clarify the whole like story deal uh there's a comet coming it's going to obliterate everything or something like that interfering with Evolutions yeah that's happening for some reason I don't know whatever there's your story yep good video game should we have a twitch CH guess the number here yeah yeah um it takes 30 uh snake hits in order to uh win this mini game to get the last two jewels that I'm collecting I'll say what my PB is after I'm finished yeah I I think you should guess somewhere between 30 which he needs and let's say like 700 that's probably a good range there'll be a few winners in there I guess I have a donation about the snake game go bles for saying hey pxel he's hoping for 103 or better on the snake game okay now see that's a spoiler I'll donate again if you reach 100 or more uh also what's your favorite F uh I mean quinch game good luck yeah I should add that to my twitch bio this takes a minute by the way a yeah I was if i' have been like a pixel or farther to the right I would have gotten more hits on the right one cuz I saw it I missed it a couple completely a few times all right now chat mods you've got to figure out uh who guessed uh the clarus without going over price of right rules good luck with that and here's our donation incentive yep which got smashed before the Run even started so this is Jem's Mansion which um is the it's the grand prize for for getting all 50 Jewels which good if you actually did that without a guide you have my utmost respect congratulations now here's a dungeon with a whole bunch of annoying enemies and a ton of lag yeah so I'm going to be using the slider to kill as many of these eyeballs as I can without a whole lot of uh detouring for um just to reduce lag especially on this part here just cuz all the enemies on the right on the left side of that wall to my left are still loaded also shout out to the little Gap under this staircase which it literally took my brother and I like a year to realize existed all right and then this is solid arm who was also the first boss of Soul Blazer and um if you actually read the text he explains kind of the nefarious purpose behind the red Jews so this fight he's going to make it look really easy uh it is like it's somewhat easy in a in a strictest sense but like what he has to do every time he's attacking he's uh moving forward very slightly and then he's hitting this conveyor belt moving backward very slightly or sorry forward even more very slightly so has to adjust position just a little bit took two you did get the swag like you know jump attack finish though so that that was good yeah what I was actually trying to go for was to um jump attack at a certain point in his rhythm that I went jumped over the fireball last Fireball and then didn't get hit by it just not quite swag enough so yeah now the 100% requirements are fulfilled [Music] so off to the final boss got a few minutes to cut scenes before I fight uh first the chaos Comet and then dark guia so guess we can get a last couple rounds yes we can uh swag donates $100 and says so I heard you like puns huh all right what do you call Doctors Without Bard uh never mind I already I donate half towards saving the animals half towards killing the animals and half towards announcer's Choice that's a lot of halves you might say that that donation was halfcoordinated speaking of half ordinated I have $5 from the book who says this one's for you half pretty badly I I really really need to be a bad right now and uh the book is putting their $5 towards Sam for Final Fantasy Adventure girl name which was half coordinat runner's Choice 20 what I will do however is plug the Humble Bundle because they' have been working with us for a while now and they have done over $75 million for charity such as work with Doctors Without Borders and many many more head over to humble bundle.com and you can find our sgdq bundle that includes games such as dust force guacamelee or melee I guess super Meat Boy Escape go bunch of serious Stam stuff s Freedom planet and vvv vvv you could also say Malay if you want to cover every possible base yeah but I don't really fair [Music] enough all right so in typical quintet fashion we now gain a attack that lets us shoot Phoenix's well and Cara kind of do a Fusion to be able to do that and then yeah and then we finally find out the purpose of the Mystic statues we've been collecting the whole game which we up until this point right before the final boss we had really no idea why we were doing this other than that our uh a flute told us to now instead there are ghosts telling us to and we still have no idea why we're doing it mhm RPGs and also and in also typical Quintet fash the music for the final boss is [Music] incredible so i' had studied a lot of astronomy and I can tell you for a fact that this is exactly what comets look like so this is a great first phase of the final boss every time you hit him uh the phase becomes un attackable and uh starts shooting acid at use of his phas takes forever but it's otherwise really trivial he just uses the aura to avoid the uh acid actually hitting him yeah I mean quintet was nice and that only gave um gave the comet head um half of a health bar basically so that this phase doesn't really out stay its welcome too badly for the most part it's pretty straightforward so there's not a huge danger of him like I mean there's almost no danger of him dying on this phase and then there's actually fairly low danger of dying on the second phase as well it's kind of a reward for the final boss is not super dangerous so he'll be doing the our attack glitch just to get that last attack in on the frame that the face comes up all right the second phase is very similar he's just going to kind of be swinging at the boss but it's not going to be available to attack all the time so he's just going to have to keep waiting um um in the meantime he's just going to try to make sure he's constantly attacking so that when the face does become attackable yeah cuz it is there is a bit of Randomness as far as how many um homing shots she shoots before the face uh opens up so ideally he could get this in three Cycles it looks like he's on good Pace to do that to be ready on yeah it's not guaranteed but if I get five hits on the next cycle then that'll be it a time is when the the face becomes quite ugly and explodes anytime now please ah it by one hit all right so that costs about 20ish seconds if I have to get a four round it's it's something that's just really it's it's something that's just really really hard to just like get a like 100% consistent setup for because of the RNG with uh when the mouth opens next hit is and yeah next hit is time and time there it is so your time was 22134 nice that is quite good that's very good for Marathon safe rout so uh now we're going to I mean you're a little bit underestimate so we're going to sit and uh enjoy the credits right um the ending oh yeah um I think we probably better move on to to the n games coming afterwards think people should play the game themselves to uh are you sure the next game is shatter hand like so so the toss up here is do we want to read 20 minutes of slow scrolling text that you can't speed up or do we want to watch cage do a run I I think we want to watch some uh some bullets get punched out of thin air yeah CL is in favor of the credit I thought I recognized his voice but I wasn't 100% but yeah but yeah that was 6 minutes faster than my uh sgdq 2012 run of this game in category so I'm really happy with that ladies and Gentlemen let's he it one more time for poxel and while we are setting up for the next game I'm going to try and power through a bunch of these illusion a GAA um donations that we've got in $10 from Cipher who says great illusion of Gia run I hope to see Teran nigma next year shirato $20 greetings from Japan I haven't been able to watch most of the runs live because of time zones but I've been having fun catching them after the fact best of luck for the remainder of the lusion of guyan Seth Carlson sends us $20 and says fun fact when I was a kid I thought illusion of guia was a spin-off of Legend of Zelda because their logos have similar fonts and they play kind of the same
