Pikmin 2 by Draz in 1:41:55 - Awesome Games Done Quick 2021 Online

owning user that says pay off that debt and with that we're going to give it on over to draz with pikmin 2. hello everyone welcome back to gdq i'm jack i'll be running pikmin 2 pay off debt and with me i have two of my illustrious commentators hi i'm the urban deer or urban i am also a pikmin 2 speedrunner i am cap and along with urban and jack i'm also a pikmin two-speed runner we're happy to be here okay so on that note and unless the sort of sound of god tells me i shouldn't do so i'll start in three two one okay so to briefly introduce the overall goal of this game i know i said it before in the interview it's about getting ten thousand pocos as fast as possible so that's based on the fact that the company that our main protagonist worked for has gone into some serious debt so we've come back to the planet that olimar got stranded on as traumatized as i'm sure that is for him to pick up some treasures which to me and you is sort of household items so the trick starts or the run starts pretty aggressively with like a very strange trick from day one so i'll let one of the commentators explain that if that's okay yeah so uh pikmin runs in general pikmin games in general are known for kind of having a tutorial day for the first day um and pikmin 2 luckily is the game that we had the pikmin game where we can pretty much entirely skip that tutorial day as you're going to see jack here whistle a couple pikmin and then throw them out of bounds and if you kill pikmin it'll automatically cause an extinction and the day automatically ends where that happens uh this ends up being a lot faster than going through the tutorial yeah so there you go unfortunate intended deaths that their deaths will be remembered yes they make the whole thing possible but yeah it's based on a trick on how captains throw pikmin so essentially they exist in the world behind the head of the captain so we're lodged right up against the sort of edge of the world and they can't exist there when we throw them so they go out about [Music] so the early part of the game here is really just about getting to the highest number of pikmin as quickly as possible as we can so obviously when you start a low number it's going to take longer to grow more pikmin so i'll explain sort of the basic mechanics as part of this so you can see here that pikmin seeds are generally grown from what's called an onion here so this is sort of our center of growth for all of our pikmin and yeah as a result of the glitch called day one extinction we only start with one pikmin because the game's like oh you lost all of your seagull have one just so that you can actually play the gift so this cutscene essentially teaching you how food works so we'll take it the same way pikmin duplicate by picking up whether it's like corpses or you can see these things that we call pellets and they use them as food to essentially grow more grow more brothers right sorry i would just say the cutscene you're seeing now is one of the ones that you would normally see on that tutorial day um but we'll see some pretty weird uh timings of a lot of those cutscenes that we would normally see on that day as a result of entirely skipping it so yes so the game doesn't really know what we're doing or what's happening in general it's like wait you're meant to be doing this in a completely different order so the cutscenes kind of freak out generally okay so here i'm gonna go for a trick called louie skip so okay too early so the goal of it is essentially to skip one of these early game cutscenes that we're talking about so it's louis finds the onion freaks out and does a bunch of whole other stuff so if i skip it then that means we won't see an extra cutscene it saves about 14 seconds something like that yeah i feel like the community sort of mindset changes on this like once every two weeks how much time it actually saves uh severe mental damage if you miss it but basically you can interrupt you can basically interrupt any cutscene with pressing start and so most of the time you don't want to do that at least in payoff debt but um in this case you can basically interrupt the cutscene with uh pressing start to end the day and by ending the day the end the ending the day interrupts uh the entire cutscene and so it just never plays as a result it is a one frame window so it is a perfect trick yeah we didn't get it so we're gonna have to watch the cut scene of shame oh it's a final testing because we get to see the louis eyes oh very true very true it's another result of the game freaking out that we've skipped all this tutorial stuff but we'll get back in time yeah sorry if you're wondering why jack keeps rapidly ending the day here uh there's a paper bag that you're supposed to knock down on day one that um that he never does uh and it has a weight of 15 and so jack has to basically quickly cycle through the days to you know up the pikmin numbers until he can quickly reach uh 15. so he grows we grow 13 on the first three days and so now he's in a position to get over that bag that's all yeah so the reason we have to end the days is because we physically don't have the resources on the map to feed enough pikmin if you want to think of that way to grow 15. so we've got to really go through the days all right cool so pretty good i missed one throw there but it doesn't really make any meaningful impact so here as kat said we're going to squish this back takes 15 15 boys sitting on top of it to weigh it down apparently yeah we finally now have access to a considerable number of pikmin so you see them grabbing those five bullets those are clearly worth five if they're taken to the correct color um the one pellets interestingly are worth two uh even though they say one on them but they're taken to the right color um so like cap and jack of both sides we're really focusing on growing as many people as possible right now um so that we can enter the first cave as quickly as possible okay i mean it's already gone no no it's always you see jack sort of meticulously pushing this egg down and this is just to save us nectarine time uh later because then you don't have to go up while we're you're waiting for the stuff to come in so you can grow it and so basically you know it just saves a lot of time something that the captains can do while we wait for the palace to come in so so unfortunate sort of thing there every now and then the 10 pellet that's up there will not like latch correctly for the pikmin it's not too much of an issue but it's as a result we're plucking these a bit later me show you but overall the rest of the splits gone fine yeah and just quickly to mention what's in that egg so in that egg is something called nectar um and what it does is essentially power up our pigment doesn't make them any stronger but you'll see them go from these this leaf stage to a flower stage and the flower stage not only runs faster but carries things much much quicker as well um so we definitely want as many flowers as possible yeah exactly because the whole name of the game is sort of making sure that pikmin can get to places as quickly as possible whilst making sure that you're doing everything else correctly at the same time you didn't get any skips so there's a different route for if you get the louis cutscene skip or a version so we changed the numbers right and so uh normally on day one you would you're forced to collect collected treasure but we skipped that day the tutorial day um so a weird thing happens when you approach a treasure for the first time it shows the treasure that you're supposed to approach for the first time that battery um we actually won't be collecting that right now we will be collecting our first treasure in this area when we come back later on i will talk a little bit more about what happens as a result of that um here you're going to see that the louis cutscene we were talking about uh something is a little wrong with louie's eyes here hopefully the pikmin aren't the way to see it keep your eyes out for it see if you can see it the game very confused and that's understating what is actually going on here the game has no idea why we're here because you're meant to be like all the way over to the right from where i am now so the game has set the eyes in that position and it's just completely losing it that we're in this area lovely yeah the benefit the benefit of having this all done has sort of come to light as well one of the other benefits of um day one extinction is that we have flower pigment here so those eggs only spawn i think it's on either day three or which normally you wouldn't have access to on the first day so obviously i say obviously i think we explained it briefly but flower pikmin carry treasures faster we'll get a bit more into sort of the implications of that now but because of this overall day one extinction saves around a minute to a minute 15 from the day one route just because of how much better a skipping the tutorial is and then also the flower pikmin literally carry us faster so yeah here we see jack um on his first sub level so he's gonna be entering several caves throughout the run and they'll have different sub levels and uh for the most part it's a little complicated but um the treasures you can almost think of as being sort of randomly placed um so a lot of times no run is going to look the same as uh as a previous run um so you'll see lots of lots of differences and a lot of this we run is about kind of moving along with things and keeping up as things are different each one yeah i think that'll show itself a lot more in later caves because the earlier caves they're much simpler there so for instance in this room there are only two positions where treasures can spawn so the only variance really that's meaningful is where the enemies spawn whereas in later caves like they can generate like billions and billions and inconceivably high amounts of layouts each of which can generally be categorized into like certain game plans but we'll we'll get more into that when we get there i think it definitely gets a lot more complex than that but yeah so the goal of emergence cave is going to make itself known pretty clear so this globe here is what's called an exploration kit item so these are items that essentially upgrade our captain's kit so think of them as like character upgrades so that one as you can see is a map so that is key for unlocking the next area that we're going to be going to and sort of continuing the progression and people familiar with the pikmin series will be getting excited hopefully at this point for the carnage that's about to be ensued because these are purple pigment and purple pigment do not mess around they are potentially some of the best and worst design pikmin in terms of like balance but they are very very very useful so they do increase damage and they have a blast radius where they land which means they can both stun and like just instant instant kill certain smaller enemies so obviously a speed runners delight their only sort of offset is that they walk and carry treasures quite slowly uh they do also have the benefit of they have a carry weight of 10 instead of one so you'll see this first this treasure we're looking at here is a weight of 101 and if you've ever played a pikmin game before you know that you can only have 100 pikmin in the field at once so you have to use these purple pikmin to get this treasure in and luckily they have a carry weight of 10 so you can throw five or six or seven on on the globe there it will get carried in yeah and another benefit of that as well which i think you'll probably see quite a few times in the run is that you can use one purple pikmin to like carry smaller items all by themselves so obviously well one of the goals of this is that you want to be carrying as many items as possible at the same time so multitasking and purple pigment really help with that because you can just throw one purple pigment off to the side and it takes no time but you know the items are beginning to move early so here we're just waiting for the globe to collect and that's essentially the end of what i would consider like the early early game i think we're getting into sort of pikmin expansion at a rapid rate in terms of population now so it'll go from i think we're at 53 now to 70 and then it'll carry on after that yeah i think otherwise i think that happened emergencies oh sorry uh one thing that happens in emergency cave is that you see that uh but there was a cutscene that mentioned where the ship collected bugs and didn't seem very happy about that bugs are actually a really important element of the pikmin payoff that speed run so bugs are not worth that much uh but they are worth something and over the course of the run we actually usually try to get around 250 poco's worth of bucks so you know which is about uh the same value as a couple you know treasures and so um throughout the run jack is gonna try to be you know getting you know bugs when prudent and that's gonna overall add to the global total and make the run faster yeah so it's one of them the nuances of the game so basically the overall objective as is getting money you need to understand what money is fast so some bugs bugs individually are never going to be worth that much money but if you can get them and it takes no time it goes towards that total the cat was talking about right um and just in case anyone was a little confused we refer to enemy corpses uh in caves as bugs or black bodies um so you'll hear us say that a lot probably throughout this run yeah that's a good point because they're not really bugs are they monsters yeah yeah yeah yeah so we affectionately call them bodies as evan says so on this day here you'll just see uh like jack said he's gonna be growing some more red pikmin additionally we're gonna be taking down this gate it's the gate in the game that i think has the most health out of all of them it doesn't matter yeah it's either this or someone in perplexing four but yeah this will be the thing that will take the longest time so everything else we're doing here we're doing while that gate is being knocked down because it's sort of the limiting factor for how fast we can go like it doesn't matter how fast we do all of this really to some degree it's just about getting the gate down as fast as possible so the reason we try and do this bit quickly is so we can use these pikmin that we're using now and the pikmin that they're growing we will then put them on the gate and that'll speed that up so think about it that way we're doing all of this to speed up what's happening over there considering that the gates being knocked down maybe this would be a good time for donations while we watch uh jack meticulously grow an ad yes completely agree absolutely we have a hundred dollars from the sneaky spy who says pikmin is a game that means so much to me it's allowed me to meet so many wonderful people and make great friends always excited to see it being run you got this jack shout out to the hickman speedrunning community amazing thank you indeed i was about to say sneaky a solid bro for the whole scene so you can probably yeah of course uh we have fifteen dollars from faust's last name that says first agent q i got to watch live had to donate during a game i love to play as a kid good luck on the run lovely so what happened there is kind of chaotic but those are called my tights they have a really low chance of spawning from eggs and i don't know if they don't they scare all your non-purple pigmen they're not usually too relevant for the speedrun so i didn't expect have to talk about them but there they are right they're uh it's a five percent chance that an egg will have matites in it and they're usually a cause of ire and chaos which is generally not wanted in the speed run but yeah even though pikmin is sort of inherently a chaotic game they do not help of course all right so we're entering our first sort of i would say meaningful cave like i think this is going to be the first one that actually has like variants that i will have to substantially adjust to on i think maybe one or two floors right so on that the first floor jack was talking about earlier there's only really two types of layouts that you can get uh there's only one treasure on this floor but it has seven different spawn points it can spawn in uh and the layouts can also the cave itself can also be a little different so it really ratchets up very quickly here as far as variability of different floors goes yeah exactly and here you can see that while i'm getting the treasure another goal i'm doing is getting these sort of bug bodies where possible and sort of where prudent so as we're waiting on this cross to move through the level i just have basically dead time that i can use to really efficiently try and gather all the bits so that's what we've done there and i think we've got maybe like eight extra yeah or something like that eight or nine which is like pretty good for that floor is like the worst part of beast one is that the best layout to have the worst possible in because i feel like that you actually can get a lot of opportunity to farm extra bugs yes well i guess that's something we should probably talk about it's quite general but like one of the results of the variability of sub levels is that some flaws will just be quicker than others so not all sub levels are born equal in terms of speed but this is not always the end of the world from a speed running perspective because as you say you can often make up for fare out or layout differences in terms of like gathering bugs or in terms of grabbing extra treasures sometimes as well which i guess we'll talk about is does someone want to go through treasure rooting or skipping or do you think that's a better time to go through that i'm not really sure um yeah i can talk about it real quick um yeah sure so we're basically trying to get to 10 000 photos as jack just mentioned before we'll do that with a combination of treasures and bug bodies however the treasure route that we take is not always going to be the same there is one floor in particular we'll definitely point it out when we get to it it's maybe 20 minutes 20 minutes into 20 minutes from now but one floor in particular uh the treasures you can get on there can have a big impact they can either be worth 120 or 60 pokos and so you can it really changes how the rest of the run is going to work and you end up being able to skip some treasures if you get lucky on [Music] it's the worst layout possible it's going to be well worth it to grab these treasures so these first couple caves here are very efficient in terms of coco generation um so you'll see us really grab everything and all yeah and we've the whole game's route has been rooted on the highest value treasures that you can get to as quickly as possible so that's just a general point about how we think about where we're going so obviously hold a beast as it has loads of high value treasures we definitely would come here even outside of a sort of important item that we'll get on the next floor so i think sublevel 4 here is the first one i was talking about where it has meaningful variability so that bull bulb has one of the treasures in it over there and there's my tights we'll probably make that second and hopefully final appearance you have to be able to read where they are oh say that this one's called in chaos but yeah so you need to be able to grab these to sort of contribute towards the body total because overall they're worth about 10. so on this floor you have to grab the two treasures find the tights and get to the exit in time and without losing anything yeah and we we use the my tights as well to nectar the purples that we grew back on too which really will help out with the trick that he's about to try on the next floor so you're about to see what will hopefully be uh a boss made completely um a non-issue so we'll see here yeah so i'll need an audio queue for it so yeah i think it'll be about now yeah yeah we'll explain it after but you'll see if i succeeded in about 10 seconds i think okay sounded fine nope not quite okay yeah okay i missed the cycle i was just gonna say uh there's a chance that uh she will just stay there and sort of be paralyzed when you're dealing with empress and uh if she does then you actually have enough pikmin in here to do her full wide bar nice but we got the backup so that's fine so i think that loses probably about 10 11 seconds yeah basically basically what you're trying to do is manipulate um so she will depending on how much damage she has has taken her name is emperor's gold wax um so depending on how much damage she has taken she will shake your pikmin off and if you can do the right amount of damage she won't shake your pikmin off but they'll all latch on and then you'll get the one cycle so she won't she won't do her little rolling animation at all which it's generally saw to 12 seconds it's not a huge deal at all [Music] i'll be honest i never knew the intricate details of that mechanic until now so there you go i just i just do the inputs i don't know anything about it yeah it's all it's all about her it's all about her damage cap um yeah very high but yes there you go so no disasters which is good because she can definitely like squad white especially like in the early days when you're sleep running this game if you mess up that trick and you don't get the backup it's actually quite hard to stop all your pikmin from dying or you have to be really diligent about it at the very least it should be noted that this is the last cave that jack will be cave completing for the rest of the run there will be unfortunately treasures that aren't worth them collecting for uh the remainder of the caves yes and those exactly yeah there can be really two reasons not to collect them either they're really slow to collect or they're not worth very [Applause] you don't yeah so it's only really worth that extra time in hall of beast because all the treasures are so expensive there are some caves where so for instance this cave there are definitely a couple of treasures that are not worth the time to grab and they have like an added time premium as well for having that cut scene on top of their low value so it's just a no-brainer to skip some of the stuff okay but yeah more simple flaws is similar to hola beast one and that we're going to be trying to get some of the bug bodies while we're doing this to sort of go towards that rolling total so i think that should be good for that half yeah i mean the kind of important thing to point out here is that obviously the ones that are the bug bodies that are coming in while this treasure is going in are 100 free pocos because the treasure is the only thing we're waiting for there and so they're the big thing that we're looking for and that's why they matter so much in the run because most of the time they're completely free so it's actually crazy we've rooted the entire game on the assumption that every runner is going to be able to grab a lot of these free bugs so it's definitely like a fundamental skill when you're learning the game as well knowing when to grab and when not and making sure that you stay on top of it as well so it's a good thing to keep in your brain at all times god knows i've struggled with sufficient blood body collection over my stupid career showcasing oh sorry and general jack is showcasing um like what i would say like typical good gameplay of pikminto speedrun so you notice that he goes for the far treasure first right and that's because the sub level is limited by how fast the last treasure you collect gets in and so i mean it seems basic when you say it out but you know especially when it gets more complicated it can be hard to keep this in mind but you know exactly basically showing especially in these floors just a really good basic fundamentals of like you know how do you approach a level you know go for the particles first you know get the free bugs ensure everything didn't carry you know just these really clear fundamentals exactly and it's it becomes it sounds really simple now just like well over there of course you get that one first it's really far away but then as kat says some of the levels are a big like pretzel shape or something like that and you're like okay well what's the furthest thing now like what am i going for so it's just about making those decisions later on and i think there'll be some more flaws where it'll actually be very interesting to talk about why i've gone for certain treasures in which order because that's one of the beauties of the game as well when the flaws are so complicated it's very rare that you'll be able to point and say that is the correct way you should have played this floor so i think that's one of the things that makes this game quite special like every runner has their own way of doing things [Music] yeah so like i said there's just a ton of routing on the fly uh through this and there's generally not a right answer um so what a lot of us runners like to do is you know share things uh share how we would have played a floor or something like that so really supportive community in that regard exactly okay so i'll briefly explain these new fellows that have joined our team uh these are white pikmin they are essentially speed fuel like they are the fastest pikmin they have like digging abilities which access access is exclusive treasures that are buried under the ground like that tape was there so having them is both essential in terms of grabbing some really expensive treasures and also they're just what you're going to want to load treasures with so this is a good example here we are putting whites on instead of purples because that movement speed is substantially higher we're talking like i think white some almost double purple speed more than double more than double speed more than double top equipment speed so like they are going to be the basis for all good play is making sure that you have whites on treasures that are going to be the slowest back and making sure that you manage that is like really important otherwise it's a really tight race between it's really tight race between purples and whites but i mean i would consider whites to almost be like the most important pikmin in the speedrun i mean purples are too it's a really tight race but for a second i thought you were sarcastically talking about their speed and i was like that was really rude to the purple strings another good question no i mean i mean they're they're very much polar opposites right but i mean that those two pikmin types basically are the the bread and butter of the of your pikmin two speedrunners the lifeblood yeah and so there that is an example of this kind of treasure we were talking about before you may have seen that mushroom i'll sort of i'll go back to it actually because the attitude so there that treasure is worth 30 pogos and getting it would get the cave complete so that's the cut scene takes 10 seconds and the cave complete takes eight seconds so that costs 18 seconds to get and as you've probably got a few or four already 30 pokers is really not that much so we skip it because it's not useful for our sort of win condition if you will and obviously the choice is the choice between the choice between the two treasures on that floor is obviously very clear the other one's worth 90. um so of course we're going to go for the chapstick there not that little mushroom yeah exactly and i've reminded myself internally to save for a trick that is i will remind you again thank you please do may seem crazy to those watching but the importance of saving here is crazy because this is in normal run attempts a trick we do after this that i mentioned in the interview is actually a run killing reset point so again here you just see you see that purples are really bored they just make every single boss so easy um yeah especially if you know how to use them in like really specific ways as well like later on there's a couple of quick kills that we may end up doing one of which we will one of which we may do that if you use purples in the right way they're just devastating like the game is not aware of how strong bubbles are oh there's actually three bosses never mind that we'll use it on sorry else i'm getting a bit forgot about one of them which i guess we'll understand later on but yeah i will now save i'm going to remind myself verbally so i have no excuse yeah so the treasure ejectors got their uh we called the dap sack the five man outside because it's a fatal title um but it's going to give us the power to uh lay down and when a captain lays down pikmin can pick them up and it will take them take them wherever we're going to be abusing this a ton um basically pikmin can only carry to certain waypoints and so we're going to use it a ton to to climb up ledges and get into caves way earlier and without pikmin colors that we should should have so we're about to see one of those here and afterwards jack is going to do that very difficult trick that we call early blues yeah the the bane of a lot of pikmin speed runner's existence in a lot of ways but also a very poor trait so it's a sort of love-hate relationship at its finest i think so snaps that can be a little fiddly sometimes but we got it okay so there's a lot going on so i really think there's not much point explaining it as i'm going it'll just be a bit hectic but we'll explain afterwards [Music] okay am i what yeah so that's uh that's a success nice great job what you like to see because that can be that could have been us sat here for minutes and minutes resetting so the result of that is that we now have blues so does someone want to explain that mechanical way well i just kind of entered so there's actually uh well there's actually um urbanizing tag team so the first one is actually a series of um exploits so the first one is what urban said earlier is the knapsack exploit so first you had to have the pikmin carry you to an area that you couldn't access then you used the scale glitch uh and what happened to that during a cut scene you can basically drop below the scale uh and that allows you to basically go out of bounds um urban do you want to sort of explain how like the early blues itself works yeah um so after you get out of bounds using the scale glitch you can kind of walk along the ledge um looks pretty precise it's actually not very precise about the ledge is huge it's an out of bounds ledge and then we kind of walk over to the area next to this blue onion and we leap across the void essentially again knapsacking while we leave um and when that happens the game instead of processing the captain as captain instead processes it as a treasure and that causes the captain to void out and go back to the nearest waypoint which ends up being by the blue bucket um if we did it knapsack the captain would automatically work back to the start um to the origin which is right by the ship uh so that's not a useful trick um it's a pretty complex trick and it's kind of miraculous that we ever found it in the first place without how complex it is um but basically what it allows us to do is we get to skip yellow pikmin entirely so a bit of a meme in the pikmin 2 speedway community like what is a yellow pikmin because we don't see them in this run at all i've never seen one i've never seen one before i don't know about you guys but um yeah shout out to claris as well for finding that trick i mean it's been around for ages and it's one of the fundam like most fundamental parts of pikmin speed running i think like if you think of payoff there and even the 100 category it's integral to both so it's hard to understand or hard to overstate how important it is yeah we're targeting several minutes i don't know go for it no there's seven minutes i'm just gonna point out that uh one thing that you can do with orange bulborbs the guys that wake up really early uh casually that's very problematic but we actually take advantage of the fact that they wake up super early and we actually lure them closer to the ship so that both the corpse and the treasure are actually you know way closer to our objective and which makes the sub level way faster all right i was just going to point out that lure because that was because for the most part they run faster than pikmin will be able to carry unless you get like a perfect load of a pikmin but even then it's like tight it's just way easier this is this is uh pretty good to point out here um so we talked about how levels can be really really variable we haven't really seen one of those yet this level that jack is on now is the very first one that we've seen that has huge variants jack got a absolutely terrible layout on this that's okay it doesn't matter too much you're still just going to see him start killing enemies on the way and then we have to collect the strawberry because it's worth 190 coconuts one of those we really don't have much say in whether we do it because the treasure is so so expensive so it's like even even if this floor takes two minutes that's still really good i compared to loads of other treasures yeah there's just no other options yeah so you just get it and it's fine but now as you can see there's a lot of other stuff i can do while this is happening so when this time will not be completely wasted let's put it that way right so he'll grow some whites and he can also collect some more bug bodies and things so again one of the biggest things with the speedrun is maximizing your downtime so you'll see lots of that and that's one thing that's happening right now uh he could have killed these enemies like on his way back but before he went out there but since the treasure was going to take so long to get in there anyway um we can start killing him he can start killing them yeah i was surprised you didn't just throw one pikmin on them i was thinking about it yeah for sure it's hard it's hard to tell honestly yeah okay so he ate one white off the treasure which is actually not that bad a loss in my eyes anyway um i just didn't want to risk him sort of because that's called a creeping crit from them or we call them like mums for sure and they can like knock off treasures but generally speaking they're quite easy to sort of distract if you just throw one pikmin they can't eat one pikmin very well they've sort of been designed to deal with crowds but if you just put one picture next then they get a bit confused right it's a very interesting thing in pikmin 2. there are a lot of enemies that actually just absolutely short circuit when you just put one pikmin in front of them they're like i don't know what to do with this [Music] sort of it's sort of funny there's going to be a couple other enemies in the game that work like that so it's always fun to see yeah it's like we were really trained to deal with more enemies than than we are seeing it right so so yeah mum's a perfect example of actually like a textbook example all right so this floor pretty simple we get this treasure even though it's only got a low value here of 40 because the comparative fastest way of doing this floor if we didn't get the treasure we'd be running over to this gate and knocking it down anyway which wouldn't actually save that much time to avoid the treasure basically [Music] especially because you can the gate can go down while it's while it's being like carried in which is really helpful which is great by great multitasking in general it's just like oh it's a very weird floor here here you'll see one of the first um we'll see one of the first enemies that is going to kind of like fall from the sky um those enemies are essentially 100 randomly placed the treasures that are just randomly sitting out on you know very the ground of different sub levels those do have some rhyme or reason to how they're placed uh but the enemies are just completely random so you do have to get a little lucky sometimes and jack was able to find this one using the treasure gauge which was that the treasure we picked up back in the first first cave i thought i killed a white accident but i did not which is great news congratulations this is a very hot light out yeah yeah this is really weird i haven't seen one like this in a while this is what i mean this is why i think it's part of the benefit of the speed run oh really that is unfortunate i was really hoping we were like oh my gosh the water is pointing that way let's go let's do it so this is actually going to be quite annoying to fix unfortunately but that's kind of fine i say that my heart is in pain but here we go i don't think we talked about what the what what the red pikmin do their main thing their main stick is that uh they are immune to fire that blowhog that enemy that was there was spitting out water so obviously they're not on to that and so they start freaking out a little bit and eventually they'll drown yeah which is uh not ideal even though spoiler alert we don't use reds for most of the run after this cave it's still really important because they we use them for growing more blues on the next split so they can contribute to speed there so you just never want to lose too many pikmin just because they're your resources at the end of the day so yeah we talked about but jack was able to use in the last level he was able to use the treasure gauge the thing in the lower right to figure out where the buried beetle was because even though you couldn't see the beetle you could see where the gauge was going up uh as you see right now um jack is not quite so lucky normally you have to you actually have to kill this antenna beetle over here who also has a treasure to make the gauge normal uh luckily uh jack knows how to scan spawn points for the bullboard so we actually did already find the other treasure even though the gauge wasn't able to help us so there's sort of a risk reward of like i'm gonna kill this ball bob on the way it's going to take some time but i think the benefit of actually seeing if the treasure's here first is i don't know better than the sort of moderate time loss yeah and again just to point out um so treasures that are in enemies are essentially randomly placed throughout the sub level um so complete complete luck there uh that jack was able to find the right one on his way there because it could be in other spots as well yeah i think every bulldog you kill is like a one in five chance it could be that whole six but yes is it six six of them are there only five there's something serious i'll have to consult the notes that's on me but yeah as you can see like this treasure spawned very far away so i guess if we were being hypocritical we'd say this wasn't technically speaking very quick overall play fine yeah the next four we're about to go on to is the one that i mentioned earlier which is going to determine our poco route so our treasure route what treasures we can get this is going to be the sub-level where you can get extra treasures sometimes um other times they're going to be water locked and we don't we've unlocked blue but we don't have any with us so we ignore them so basically he's going to run to the exit and hope that one of those treasures shows up it actually looks like it's quite possible that it might it is possible yeah so we're looking for an orange bubble from the sky basically yeah that's the board by the way are the the frog looking things there's lots of different types in the run uh yeah so unfortunately jack isn't gonna get any extra treasures here um that's okay we still have plenty of pokes that we can go for throughout the run yeah there's like loads of ways that you can finish the run that just saves a lot of time at like the fastest level because you can skip slow stretches yeah sorry no i was gonna say shout out to the japanese score attacker albert for discovering for initially discovering this quick kill um it's pretty cool we basically take advantage of the fact that purples can slow down the eating animation and we basically let it eat pikmin because it allows us to basically kill the affiliated snag rate in once uh one cycle with jack executed beautifully by the way um because normally he hops around the room like a complete lunatic and it just takes loads of time so that's honestly i don't even i kind [Music] we just get that floor entirely um so back when cap and i started running we would skip this floor entirely because that that quick kill wasn't really found um and so now now we have that we this treasure is pretty much always worth it so we go for it yeah all right so this is probably the most complex section in the game not necessarily to execute but at least conceptually so here the goal of the split is to grow loads of blues because we're going to need them for the rest of the game get the second globe treasure which you'll see soon and enter the final cave in awakening wood that we're going to do called both black's kingdom so a lot to do yeah globetrotter isn't gonna be he's gonna get either he's gonna grab uh four treasures total on this split which is quite a few so tons and tons of multitasking we've kind of routed these above ground splits to death um because really they're the only things that that we can route pretty vigorously right yes yeah exactly with 100 consistency these will be the same uh it should be noted yeah that we're going to try to collect a lot mainly because this actually is our first and only day in awakening woods this is uh i i know you guys are you know casually some people obviously spend many days per hour many days per area but you know we're basically going to try to clean up everything that we want to get here uh in in this day five so you know it's worth us to um yeah because we're not coming back here as soon as we're done with this we're gone because it's just hilariously slow to come back to an area again because there's a whole bunch of fanfare cut scenes so like it has to be worth it and we really we collect almost everything in the above ground area anyway what five out of seven treasures right yes yeah it's very efficient yeah so we collect a ton of stuff um the the two treasures that are left uh you actually can complete this whole area in one day but one of the treasures that is left makes it really really difficult because it's back behind that electric gate and you can't yell it you can't you cannot have yellows the first time you enter here so it's not gonna go in the tray that's used for it because it's insane um uh a masterful uh double knapsack to getting to be to go set yourself up for bk early jack that was very good that one can be quite fiddly but uh if you get it it's fine yeah bk is the next game all blacks kingdom death oh yes so the utility of that sack is being up there where we can walk over to fullback kingdom which you'll see later i'm not sure if that's worth it to grab but let's see gotta do it since he's just since he's just [Music] donating from the northeast smash community for jack who we know and love so much good luck with the run it's 5 am here in the uk so if you can finish as fast as possible that'd be great yeah that's that is so excellent yeah i've gotta say i've got work after this as well so everyone pray for me but yeah anything for judy qa sorry yeah you can continue yeah yeah we have twenty dollars from caro cola that says i've been watching gdq for a long time i'm excited that i finally have the means to donate pikmin tune is a fun game and i have many fond memories playing it good luck with the run and best wishes to all [Music] lovely i'd say like one or two more absolutely we have 25 from absolutely ash that says hey jack good luck from one of your favorite long and active pikmin 2 runners let's pray for good sh6 and late game oh and urban make sure cap doesn't go on a rant about d loading on sc x3 okay i'm sure the pikmin community will make a group donation later but i wanted to get one in myself cheers you just saw jack put his reds back in the onion um the red onion so we probably won't see those for the rest of the run barring some some disaster um fingers crossed that won't happen very unlikely um but we're not going to see run we're not going to see reds again we're only going to be using blues for pretty much the entirety of the run which is convenient because we have some water levels and stuff coming up maybe no uh we do another lure just like in staggered hole one with this uh very active boy and the treasure decided to launch itself back into danger so that's excellent yeah but if it's alright we handled it and if anything it gave uh the orange bulb some time to be collected i feel quite low on bug bodies right now so we have sort of internal splits that we have to determine roughly how many bugs we've got and whether we need to start going out of our way a bit more to collect some and based on my sort of internal couch i'd say i'm like maybe 10 or 12. something like that that's exactly yeah yeah so so that's something i'll be thinking about but i'm not gonna try and let it get in the way too much and i also don't wanna pigeonhole yourself i do just wanna point out so again we've talked about how it can different speedrunners can approach things differently but we all have the exact same number of like bug bodies that jack needs in our heads right now so um some things are different but some things end up being really the same for all of us a couple bets there unfortunately we tried to because you can leave pikmin in this sort of dangered state for quite a while and it ends up being okay but actually now that you're down to 98 that's actually not terribly sub-optimal because there's there's two purples back in the ship from the chance totem so actually it might have worked out it might have worked out for the best there uh which is which is breaking a lot of people's hearts to say that killing pikmin works out for the best but it's how the speed run goes you know yeah maybe not for the best but not the worst i'm gonna blow your mind cap he actually has three purples in the onion right now oh my goodness he left he left one behind earlier so i did quick kill another one yeah unfortunately pikmin ended up being pretty disposable aside from whites and purples so uh we don't worry too much about a couple events here and there they will be gone but not forgotten just remember yeah the glory of valhalla or something similar yeah this this floor here has two has two um two enemies that have treasures glowing again so they're completely randomly randomly placed uh there was some there was some some clenching there but we're good there were some flip glitch shenanigans um so to introduce one of my favorite enemies in the game from a pure fear and also speed running perspective those are anno beetles they use electricity and they link together and they can create huge lines of just electricity across sub levels and pikmin really don't like electricity like they don't like fire they don't like water but they really don't like electricity so they will just melt instantly so you will see in a lot of intermediate and like even lower level runs as well just people melting like hundreds of pikmin in like a second actually i'll wait for those two bodies to get in so yeah you can squad wipe really easily yeah for whatever reason electricity is the only only hazard in this game that kills pikmin um all the other hazards aren't just just yeah instantly kills pigments um all the other hazards there's a delay and they have they go through like a little animation and like jack said most of the time you can say that um in later pikmin games they changed that we don't know why they put it made it so terrible in this one they were worried that we weren't we weren't going to use yellows but guess what joke's on unity we're not using them anyway yellow stick oh two orange right next to each other hopefully we'll be able to deal with this but i suspect killing one will wake up the other which is quite scary yeah one one thing that one thing that might seem a little mighty model no stun which is unfortunate so pikmin lost there is not great but i think we lost three three purples which is less than ideal but overall fine yeah there's also there is a flower depending on depending on the timing of everything or you can just let it rock you know there's a lot of options yeah i think i'll probably let it rock you got to do it but worst case we can see like the absolute worst case you can throw more purples in the cave after this if that was absolutely disastrous but i don't think it was i mean unless it was and i didn't notice but it seemed good okay we'll say before you know um no i was just going to say if it was disastrous disastrous then [Music] [Music] of the sub level um jack kind of went straight toward where where treasures and things were and it might seem um a little surprising that he can do that but on at the start of a sub level there's a very brief cutscene where the captain is kind of like flying in dropping in um and so you can see a good chunk of the sub level and so a lot of us pick and runners we'll turn the brightness up on our screens and it helps us see and make a plan immediately for what we're going to do as a sub level happens and that last sub level it's one that we do that very frequently on yeah so the sort of eagle eyed among you will notice that the game is a lot brighter on your feed than it would have been when you played it as like a kid for instance because we've sort of cranked up the brightness to help with figuring out some parts of caves but generally we could figure out wider trends without the need to actually see a lot of stuff as well so it's a mixed bag so this is emperor bull blacks uh don't get too familiar with him yeah that was him for bob lex i think the best example of just like purple's melt stuff yeah absolutely melt stuff that is the final boss from pikmin 1 which we need you know bombs and 100 red pikmin uh here you can do it with like 12 horses no joke it's it's kind of crazy so the reason why that happens the reason why you can do that is uh for whatever reason um the the emperor roblox was did not get programmed with super armor on the wake up animation so while he wakes up you can just hit him with purples and all of that damage is calculated uh because for whatever reason he'd unlike other bosses he doesn't have some sort of super armor upon wake up so um so as a result uh as all the damage gets tabulated you see him last for around around three or four seconds before he has a very bad time let's put it that way but yeah so this treasure here is really out of the way as you can probably guess but there's a reason for that it's worth 250 pogos i think it's the second most expensive treasure we get like the whole run so we're really willing to go up away for it can i say that it's not even that out the way really yeah but yeah so we're good on money actually so we made up that small deficit before from the later levels of bob black's kingdom so that's actually really good for my mind yeah that's maybe one poco higher than our sort of goal i think yep okay so now this is gonna be crucial data time we're gonna need to figure out how many purples whites and blues we have so that we can make educated decisions about whether we need to grow more and this is only because of a result of that minor incident with the orange ball warbs um but yeah so i think any number above me to 21 i'm comfortable to carry going with all 20. it's a hard call because we need to enter one of the cages in this area with seven less than that so we enter with about 13 and that's best case scenario and having 13 purples is still good you can still do it but you have to be a bit more careful and it can really spiral out of control so i'm not sure what do we think team should i go home yes yeah okay okay my worst case we can show it the good news of purple's dying as well is that we get to take out more blues i guess for this split so i'll speed this up um and he gets too so jack we're now going back to the first day or the first area that we visited um you only need blues to explore the rest of this area and the first k we're gonna go in here is gonna get us some more white pikmin which which really speed things up can help speed things up so we want them next so we're going to see him do that in this first cave here um and the water wall here to wash the wall in the water is the only thing preventing us from accessing that can do so yeah so we've basically done all of these conditions if you think if you want to think about this way to help to get whites as fast as possible because we've done well not as fast as humanly possible technically but basically very quickly rooted in so we got blues because we need them to knock down this gate and then the first cave we go after knocking down this gate is a cave in which we get more weights so that's sort of the basic thinking around why we're doing things yeah and so you're also going to see jack put four purples on that treasure there um so we talked about earlier how we skipped a we skipped the first treasure that you're supposed to get in this area on the tutorial day however the first treasure that you collect in the above ground section of this area will automatically end the day so we are now going to try to get a treasure as close to the ship as possible um while doing other things so that we can end the day immediately and waste as little time as possible because if we were to go back to the normal tutorial treasure it's gonna cost you know an extra 20 or 30 seconds to walk over there and stuff um yeah if not more like it's it's brutal the fact that the day ends is like i think one of the biggest rooting challenges of this game and we've done a lot of investigating to try and figure out there's a way we can get the cutscene to not force itself to play but the game really wants you to like take a second and leave after you get your first treasure yeah so we talked about how sometimes you can do a pause exit so pause and then end the day to skip cutscenes if you do that on one of those cut scenes the next treasure that you collect in the above ground area will will instead end the day um so yeah the game really really wants you to do okay i'm gonna that this guy because i think something will pop over him uh on this floor here you're gonna see uh what is a buried treasure so um most of the time we can see treasures transitions but the very treasures obviously we cannot so jack is going to be using the treasure gauge for the most part to figure out where this treasure is located i think it's pretty close to him here yeah it is decently close [Music] this here is a good example of why purples are really good to have in quite a high number outside of just like needing them generally like they're so much more efficient at absolutely melting enemies if you have like a certain critical mass if you want to think about it that way so because you can just absolutely mash throws so here we're just putting more whites on that treasure so that it moves generally speaking a bit quicker not a huge thing but just good practice i think to me and generally speaking okay otherwise stx one good body collection yep got seven pocos from uh starting area oh and two [Music] this cave makes a lot of uh casual players and people who watch pikmin speedruns pretty nervous because there are lots of bombs and bombs can be pretty destructive so this floor here you'll you'll see some of those bombs uh they're just gonna be sitting out and if a stray pikmin runs toward one of them and hits it it will eventually blow up and that can take out a lot of bigfoot yeah it's like the probably the second biggest run killer or one of i don't know electricity is number one yeah electricity is probably number one i would say yeah okay we're getting out of the way of these farms this is a pretty good bus yeah this is a very difficult position because both the derivative bugs are loaded so those enemies are called careening duration bugs and they are an absolute menace so they throw bombs in like really unfavorable ways and even though they're overall slow their ability to just decimate an army is it can't be understated so yeah they are brutal but if you keep them off camera they don't really get up to their shenanigans as much so that's actually quite a big concept that we haven't spoken about before now the way the game appreciates the enemies are there is if they're on camera so like this guy here he's on camera so he'll get up to his antics right but if i take him off screen you can no longer hear his game sound and that's because the game doesn't know he's there it's mainly to save ram like i'll just say save memory usage i think was the idea and uh a second way that enemies can load as well is like if you imagine pikmin like each individual pikmin has like a little bubble behind it or bubble around it i guess that will load enemies in its area so just because an enemy is off screen you can't completely forget about it because your pikmin may walk past and then trigger some nightmare shenanigans so this is cat's favorite level yeah do you want to talk about this you've kind of lapped this out a lot this is one of the most complex complex levels that we're going to face in this round so go ahead yeah so scx3 is pretty complicated just because it um it can spawn a record number of rooms you know anywhere between five to six rooms which is really which is really complicated and um it sort of just has a very wide distribution of possible treasures so um what jack is doing right now is he's getting the gear which is one of the slower charges first which is really good um and then he's gonna try to fight a buried beetle uh yeah very beetle is frustrating because uh you actually can't get stuns uh from purple pounds and so he's basically gonna try to sort of set up the fight to you know work out for him but it is a more dangerous fight than most other beetle fights because uh he just is unrelenting in firing the boulders but that got a very good setup sorry guys no and i was gonna say like what you see here more than any other floors you see jack rapidly switching back and forth between the captains you sort of need to multitask this floor um at a very high level in order to you know make it all right and i think jack did a fantastic job yeah and one of the just to point out one of the big reasons for that is this this floor has three treasures on it um so it's a lot less cut and dry when there's one treasure it's really cut and dry what the fastest route is going to be uh when there's two it's a little more and when there's three it's kind of up in the air there are lots of different ways that you could do this that would be about the same amount of time yeah exactly so that's why i was saying sort of earlier in the sort of talking about it that's one of the biggest flavor differences you'll get between runners so like cap i would probably say is better than me at this floor or like just has it more as far a like thorough game plan for it like yeah so like he could potentially play this better than me or differently or could work out the same like he might have gone for the spring first something like that white's on gear first and then the gear gets back and use those wise to get the spring but it's all good exactly you're doing great no i'm doing great thank you [Music] he is the sage at that level so honestly that's completely fair yeah so jack on this floor is going to grow another 15 whites again super super useful fastest pikmin we want at least 30 is really the minimum we want moving forward normally we'll have 35 though [Music] [Applause] some people might be wondering like you're not doing you're not collecting any treasures here is this really worth it the answer is yes oh my goodness yes oh my goodness yes pikmin 2 is a lot of it is setting yourself up for success you know and like if you're taking some time now to get your squad you know super torqued out you know doing that now is so much better and puts you in a really good place to success for late game and so i think yeah even in top level world record speed runs i mean it's just something that you have to do you have to put yourself in a position to succeed it's like your due diligence you should think about it like doing this correctly will allow you to play your best everywhere else and like think about this way we don't collect our first treasure until maybe eight and a half minutes in so we sit literally zero for eight and a half minutes and that's all just about getting yourself ready for like the chaos ahead so this sub level is very very complicated so i'll pass off to urban or cap to sort of briefly explain what i'm doing but the stakes are high yeah so um basically like jack said this level is really difficult uh there are lots of annoying enemies so those anode beetles jack has talked about before they uh have electricity and that can kill your pikmin the other thing here you see the little spider things moving around those are evils they will grab treasures and they can actually run off edges carrying treasures that have pikmin attached to them and that will kill a bunch of pikmin uh there are also the training to ridgey bugs um that just or jack was talking about earlier that spit out bombs so just lots and lots of stuff to do here jack actually got a pretty easy to manage layout um they're also poison geysers which pikmin can't move through except for whites as well so this worked out really fantastically and yeah so the reason or one of the reasons i killed that first weevil here is so he'd pick up this treasure oh sorry oh sorry one of the reason i killed the first announce is so that weaver would pick it up so that way i wouldn't have to worry about any other treasures i sent back being sort of intercepted by him because they can absolutely ruin your day like they can just kamikaze off the level kill everyone get up to just antics lose time it's very chaotic so for my peace of mind but yeah i think no disasters here they exit in sort of a weird location as you can tell here the game spawned a really big corridor and was like we would call this we would call this a meme exit uh which happens on some sub levels and it's it's kind of just when the exit is really really far away from everything else yeah which in this case hopefully we saw it early enough so yeah it worked out i'm just going to say if you pause uh the exit is one of the few things that will actually show up on on your pause menu which shows a map of your screen social group your picture locations in your capital locations as well as the access locations exit locations um so if you ever don't know where one is just pause of course there's like a tiny time tax to pay if you do that but it's it's negligible like i think most runners will agree having the knowledge is substantially more important for most sub levels most so in this level there is a roaming groin a sort of a nomad rank if you will and that and jack got fortunately or maybe unfortunately hard to say uh that was at spawn so uh jack was just able to sort of deal with that roaming brink uh first thing and gives him time to sort of not have to worry about him sneaking up on the pikmin as he's carrying the treasures back here yeah so the benefit is it's safer the cost is i had to spend time killing it which ideally i wanted to spend that time running out to these treasures as soon as possible [Music] the orange and silver fish frog looking thing yeah the enemy enemy game design all the enemy design in this game is actually kind of hilarious and i think it's possible that people do love about this oh definitely and and all the product placement oh of course well capitalism alive and well in pikmin i will say the reason is definitely a product placement right very true it's just kind of cute charming indeed oh they're going this way that's an interesting one uh i think the game it must they must enjoy it so some fun some fun little some fun little directions so the game is decided right as opposed to left why who knows yeah so obviously the path that we and a lot of times will kind of know the path that a treasurer is going to take on his way back um but it's obviously not shown on the screen anywhere they're just way points put throughout throughout the map and pikmin travel from waypoint to waypoint depending on what waypoints have been discovered so sometimes it can really throw you for a surprise there um and we all were thinking that the treasurers would go around the other path but they went around that kind of longer path yeah so if i had known in my infinite wisdom that it was going to go that way i may not have killed the derivative i will save thank you for the reminder of this so at our request i'll grow more purples here just for safety to prevent more disaster normally we would not do this because these purples we would have sufficient amount like numbers to feel safe in all our adventures but right now we're slightly short to the point where like it could interrupt our levels so this is completely fine to do runs overall like this won't absolutely kill any newer run obviously a sort of world record level it will but any sort of deviation from the optimal route will do that i was just gonna say think of think of purple pikmin as the uh save um think of purple pikmin as the weighted blanket or blanket of pikmin 2. the way it's like that's a very good yeah very true and thank you for that very tasteful save reminder that i actually came in clutch and i felt my muscle memory kicking in yeah so the reason the reason jack needs to save here is because like we said uh the first treasure you collect uh in this above ground area is going to end the day and he's trying to set up the the can the treasure name is the utter scrap he's trying to set that up as close as possible so if that happens to go in it's going to end the day and kill the run kill any loose pikmin that are that are on the map it's not not a good time yeah so that is why just just in case that would be hard to recover from let's put it even in like a marathon context i think resetting there is faster than just letting that fly like catastrophic damages to a squad with the car so yeah yeah it's just basically here jack is going to be setting up the cleanup for the rest of this above ground areas we're gonna collect as the the good above ground treasures that are available um so you'll see him partway move uh this bear statue over here and you'll see on the next split where that's going to be and how it's in a much better spot than all the way up here because you have to walk all the way around to get up to it right now nice so the reason this can be tricky is in large part because of that throw there despite the fact the purples went up without too much fuss there sometimes it can be really fiddly and they'll slide down the slope and then you're gonna have to retry throwing the purples up and you get stuck in this whole funk of like you just get trapped there wasting time and while that's happening the scrap is heading towards the ship and it will kill your run it doesn't care about the fact you haven't put purples on there yet and you're a bit uncomfortable about that it will kill your run i think pretty much every top level runner has got an experience of like at least a decent run dying to this 100 getting getting scrapped as we like to say getting scrapped um luckily this has gone off without a hitch yeah so we're fine um frontier cavern here the cave that jack just entered i would say is the hardest and most complex cave in the run overall um it's pretty close with subterranean complex that kp was just in uh but it's still it's it's it's quite difficult to do quickly so i expect yeah i think that's actually a really interesting point so i think keeping your army alive or like making sure you don't have any disasters and going really fast i think are almost different skills one is essential and you need to do it all the time for obvious reasons if you have all your pikmin die that's not very conducive to finishing the speed game but like the other one is a completely separate skill like you'll find new runners often say when they're learning the game like well i haven't had to reset this time but this scx took like five minutes longer than i don't know the person ahead of me on the leaderboards or something similar like that and it's a completely different skill and i think it's why this game has so much depth [Music] just understanding how to really maximize that speed i you know i've run several speed games in my time uh i i'm ashamed to admit it i haven't i haven't just ran frequently in my time but i think i think the execution uh ceiling in pikmin 2 is still just unbelievably mind-boggling you know there's still so much that we can all do in this video game and i think it's what makes it fun to get into it what makes continuing to run it very fun yeah that's why oh sorry i was just going to say and it's why the community has like been very very very good in terms of resources for practice so shout outs to uh someone called pick hacker i feel like if i went through this entire run without mentioning him i would have kicked myself uh he basically created a practice hack for this game which will generate sub levels at any point in the game sort of at the click of a button so practicing this game is incredibly incredibly simple no going through and setting up practice says every single point and that's like accelerated the growth of the i think the competency of the community in more ways than i can really say so [Music] having a supportive community also really helps because we all like i said like we've all said before um really want each other to do well and so we share ideas a lot no one ever holds you know holds on to strategies or anything like that um it's it's a community effort and speed running when one of us does well we all do well so very excited yeah exactly that's why the most exciting thing i mean that's it's true in some degree for the other game but it's definitely true for this just due to its nature so okay it may pass past this guy i'm worried about this i'll be honest okay easy plan the whole time absolutely nothing wrong okay this is a little stressful but yeah so you saw there um it's something we talked about a few times but there is a bit of a hierarchy when it comes to enemies and how you want to treat them um so obviously the best case scenario is that you can completely ignore them or unload them off screen deload them um because that is going to take no time the other thing you can do is distract them with a captain or a single pikmin that's going to take a small amount of time and then the least desirable thing is going to be killing enemies especially killing them before you've latched on to treasures i think that is like worst case that's where you're really going to feel time lost on splits so this is this is a cool layout actually i don't know i feel about this uh all three treasures are in different areas so the fact that i split up earlier here is actually not good i probably could have done this later if i was being overly crisp about myself and this will probably have results against the fastest possible times this floor but we just we persist nevertheless we have nevertheless indeed and the good news is i guess we get this uh enemy here it's called a ball bear probably one of the scariest in the game he can absolutely just ravage pikmin so uh i'm glad to get him out of the way early uh one of the reasons this is another very complex floor and again one of the reasons this one is complex is there's three treasures and one of those treasures is also buried so we really don't know where it is um for 100 sure until until we find it until the trekking pole tells us that it's there yeah like i can have my best inkling in the world and i could logically ascertain it based on the fact that we understand how for those who call the interview before this run started we now understand how the game generates levels like what the rules of play are i don't think we'll go into it too much just for easy very complex yeah just for everyone's sanity because it is the difference between like absolutely perfect play and just really good play is knowing how the game will generate levels and it takes a very long time to sort of get a sense for it and even i don't understand that some sort of jayhawk would chastise me for at various points yes runs i'm doing but yeah whereas invisible treasures you can work it out but yeah you'll only know for certain when you get close for the most part yeah i think otherwise no disasters on this floor and with the game plan i went with i didn't execute it badly so that's sort of another good mantra in pikmin like if you have a game plan it's better to stick with it and make sure you play that game plan correctly as opposed to trying to confuse yourself and be like i should be doing this and like scrambling over yourself because that time you spend scrambling it's time you could spend grabbing treasures right the next one the next floor we're going to see here uh in my opinion is the most sadistic floor in the entire in this entire speed run uh so there are the anode beetles and electric gates so obviously those can kill pikmin there's also an enemy you see flying around there that little blue guy um called a careening snitchbug no so this guy yeah this guy what he does is he'll grab one of your captains um and if he grabs your active captain then all of your pikmin will automatically be dismissed uh but this floor has a ton of electricity and pikmin that are dismissed will run toward whatever enemy or hitbox is closest to them which a lot of times on this floor is is electricity uh and so then you have 50 pick and die yeah it's incredibly cruel design like the best kind of crawl i think that pikmin 2 has a reputation amongst the series for being really really mean to us players in like the best possible ways which from a sleep run perspective is great especially because this layout i didn't even have to deal with it which is fantastic that does sometimes just happen so you know what i don't even have any skills for this one the game says itself etc etc but yeah that is a it's a very tricky flaw and i think yeah a newbie killer could i call it that is that fair yeah i think that's fair yeah cool cool i have at least three or four emotes that originate on that floor [Music] none of them are good there you go yeah they are all bad news so these enemies are called mammothers and they are two of them so these guys can't kill pikmin so they're not too scary from a run perspective but they can bury your pikmin and as things are now digging up lots of pikmin at once is an inherently very slow process so the cost of not killing these guys correctly is that you have to pull up like you know 50 or like god that would actually be a very bad case but like 40 pikmin or something from the ground and that just hammers this time i mean i mean casually it's nice it's gardening but for speed running mammoths can be very very very very very frustrating and can actually they're one of the most benign enemies in the game that can just keep like smash uh pace if you guys are absolutely they nom nom nom nom all your pace they just swallow it up is that like gardening a great hobby but i don't think it can do super speed running as you see [Music] yeah yeah it's harder it's hard to understand how painful that is as well the floor jack is on now um is pretty interesting it is one of the few floors that we just completely walk through and skip we don't do a single thing on this floor and it's not the last floor that we visit in the cave either um pretty unique floor as far as that goes but there are uh treasures normally that are across water and blue pikmin move really slowly and they're a ton of enemies uh so here fc7 is a very important one or fc frontier cabin seven is quite a hard sub level in terms of like figuring out where the treasures are before so this is that skill we're talking about earlier of like understanding how to make a rough game plan based on what you can see because one of the treasures is buried and you can see them working on it now which is great news but it does mean that this ball ball i thought i may be able to leave i now have to deal with but while they're digging that up i can do deal with this safely and get the bodies and then just in time we'll switch here take the whites to get the second treasure which we will see shortly one thing that didn't really come into play on this layout this time but it can come into play a lot of times on this this sub level um you can use the information of where a treasure is not to really help determine where a treasure might be um so if you know a treasure is not in one of its possible spawn points and it has to be in one of two that sounds really simple and like duh of course that is but it it can be a bit more nuanced than that um so that's one piece of it one extra piece of information that we are always considering as speed runners yeah so there for instance i saw that treasures in the main room so i was like right based on one of the rules of that sort of algorithm we knew the score for this room it's sort of the value every room is given for placing treasures is hard so it basically becomes really unlikely that the second treasure is going to be in that room and then if you check every like sort of alcove bit and there's nothing that looks like it can be buried then yeah you can sort of reasonably conclude that the treasure will be somewhere else yeah you see he's moved the crushed can the underscore fairly close to the start here as those the last two above ground splits happen um and you're going to see the day end immediately yes uh just as a heads up now is probably a very good time for donations while we clean up this area sorry i know it's been a little bit but it's probably the most hectic part of the game so absolutely no worries we have 15 dollars from ultazetta that says good luck on the run jack shout out to the rest of the pikmin speedrunning community we're all cheering you on we have 25 from ghost cumulative so excited to see pikmin 2. my favorite of the trilogy out of gdq i love that pikmin one and three i've had multiple showings each but i feel like there was a titan dweeble shaped hole where which has now best been filled to giraz on the run let's get to 10 000 pocos and a hundred thousand dollars for pcs by the end of this run i think we can get to a hundred thousand dollars by the end of this run do it yeah let's do it let's do it you want another one oh yeah absolutely i think like maybe even like three or four at this point this is all very self-explanatory no problem we have 15 from super bunny that says first time i'm able to donate a little something to a cause that touches my heart as like many others cancer has affected my family and friends the pikmin series has been a part of my life in my life since i was a kid loved the game to pieces as well as this run who knew i would have so much fun to learn this game about 300 hours into the series [Music] [Laughter] dollars from raising that says i used to speed around the first twenty percent depth of pikmin two as a kid not anymore because i was too scared of the spiders later on in pikmin it makes me quite happy to see here now hopefully also destroying all the spiders good luck oh there'll be spider destruction later on don't you worry about it [Music] go forward no i'm just going to say feel free to continue sorry absolutely we have fifteen dollars from hassan that says hey jeff assange from london london melee here when i watched you starting to speed run pokemon and pikmin i never guessed to become a world record runner i'm so proud good luck with the run and happy new year thank you so much happy new year too since world record was brought up i do feel obligated if people want to figure out uh how competitive the speed game is i i have to bring up the crazy speed run statistic that in the year 2020 uh five the entire top five of pikmin 2 payoff that all held world record at one point last year ending with jack draz i was about to say i mentioned it in the interview but yeah it's like insane how competitive this game has been this year why the top level's been pushed further than i think any of us really expected you know it's it's you know it's very it's you know there's always people who are you know active and tight-knit and it's a great community in that sense too you know it's a very competitive active game even right now so yeah it's really great all right well i think that sort of rounds out everything there so we're done now with value propose which i think is probably the most stressful part of the run so it's a load off and you can see the money total here i'm probably about 27 pocos behind where i need to be the total we work with there is usually 8 100. so i think i'll be able to get that in just in terms of extra bodies in the coming levels so i think that'll be the play if there were more pocos that i was behind here there's an optional treasure that we'll run into pretty soon here that is worth 40. so that's like a i don't know it's like a plaster or a band-aid for a gory injury you never want to get in a run let's put it that way like only use it absolutely necessary something's gone horribly horribly wrong yeah exactly yeah exactly so lots of lots of the smaller above-ground treasures that we're going to see are things that will adjust based on the treasures that you got on sh6 so uh cyrus hole 6 that one that we talked about was very variable before since he didn't get anything he's going to just be getting pretty much everything uh yeah so we're going to be doing pretty much every yeah every treasure you could reasonably expect to run into that isn't completely awful in terms of the speed running context yeah i mean that's fine those runs like that are completely acceptable like from a high level perspective even though the fastest way is technically skipping a couple of the slightly slower charges it's still over very quick you know so there's so many there are many permutations i think it's actually apropos that i think what jack is doing right now i think this permutation is probably one of the most common right or you know no no love nugget no no stupendous lens uh i mean so i think in a way it's very apropos to see that at gdq but you know there are crazy permutations that you can come up with that are fast if you you know put your mind to it and depending on the uh the layout you generation yeah there's been some crazy treasure choices and runs that have happened historically like it's hard to yeah no it's crazy the variance is incredible and very creative as well like i think a new meta route that potentially came up just happened on one of the world records done by ice cube shout out to him as well like definitely changed how we all thought about this game in terms of how fast he can go yeah let's shout out the the other top five runner two who is iid we will all kind of agree on that he is far and away the best pikmin 2 player out there he is a japanese runner um fantastic guys super nice and always willing to share strategies and talk everything so really as well yeah he's really uh come into our scene like a lot more recently which is i think one of the greatest things like we could have asked for he's just fantastic of the game i also want to point out that these are white weevils can be very annoying from a speedrun perspective so uh here in uh jackson handled it you know as you know fairly well but what happened is that the dweebles sort of picked up the treasures and just decided to go rogue they're like i'm out of here you know so jack sort of had to rescue them from the evils which of course is very stressful and especially because they can move treasures with pikmin on them over hazards so i think that's something that floor really shows like dweebles can set your pikmin on fire by proxy so it's pretty sadistic but i think i think that's overall tolerable yeah one one small thing i want to mention about uh the procedural generation that we've been talking a little bit about throughout this run uh the number of gates that show up on floors gates are the lattice things that take that you've got your pikmin on to to get to what's behind them but the number of gates on floors is fixed uh so if you know where the gates are then you're going to know whether or not they're jason for the treasure even if you can't see that treasure um so like on this floor for instance the number of gates is fixed at two so there will always be two gates on this floor um and so once you know where those two are there aren't going to be any and that's becomes a pretty big thing in a lot of speed runs which is why i've seen there are two gates here so i'm just putting the rest of my picture on there and then getting these two treasures because i know i can do the gate in front of the exit last because that'll be the last thing i do so there's no rush i have more time to sort of get it done i say no rush but we've rushed the parts that need to be rushed now we can sort of sit and smell the roses slightly saying no russian as we remember the fruits of your labor check that's exactly it this is what you're doing you're enjoying the fruits of your life yeah that's the thing the thing that jack mentions about the exit as well is a lot um has a lot to do with the forward thinking that we have to do as pikmin runners um because things are so variable and you've got to plan several moves ahead of what you're doing right now can you just do what you're doing right now that it's not going to be perfect yeah so a sign that although it may not have been the perfect way to play the floor the sign that the game plan i came up with went well for me was that the gate was destroyed pretty much at the same time the last treasure went into the ship that's generally quite a good metric i'm gonna gamble the corridor what i think so here this floor we don't get any treasures so we can just absolutely hemorrhage time destroying gates trying to get to the exit but this layout actually isn't so bad and in fact this treasure here time capsule is quite good and you wanted to get it you were you were really low on bodies anyway yeah and the fact there's no gate on here so for instance if there was a gate in front of the exit here it may be worth it because i know i'd have to wait for the gate to come down anyway it may have been worth it to collect time capsule which was over there before because in the time that's moving back to the starting area that day is coming down so that's like using your time more efficiently so fast so the first thing the person who hated spiders you're about to see that purple's crush spiders yeah so they really want you to have yellows at this point i think they really expect you to but it was pretty cool so oh yeah never mind so yeah you're super destroyed that is like not consistent at all again again again that is he's got some weird like homeopathy pseudoscience for getting that consistent but to be honest that has to do with how how you approach the damaged cap and whether or not the bll beady long lights um shakes all the purple off of him um while they're attacking so yeah but that's nice i mean fast pll that's like not a huge thing it saves probably like eight seconds i think maybe do we have a consensus on that okay you have enough purples to do my normal strategy which is just as fast as fast after this or fastball okay [Music] he just sits there and acts really confused and dies obediently which is honestly all you can ask for for an enemy yeah and again we're talking about different strategies that each of us has um and one thing that we kind of like to joke about is that if you showed any of us top runners a video of another top runner we could probably pick out which top runner was like responsible for it with no other like identifying information which is pretty interesting because like i said a couple times everyone really has their own style um yeah and it also means learning from each other is like even if you're like slightly better than someone on a leaderboard or like someone's up and coming and but they're still not like world record level or something close yet you can still learn loads because the way they're going to play the game they're just going to value different things to you and they'll have different skill sets that will develop sort of naturally so it's it's incredible that's why new runners in this game like usually can contribute something meaningful pretty quickly i think i was like in the scene for about a year and i rerouted something and like a paper aria like famed super mario sunshine 100 runner like he also contributed a route change relatively quickly and it's just like quite a bit to go at yes more people that like that run a game the more people that have eyes on a game you know the more optimized it gets and i think that a lot of us uh some of us don't have pride and those that do you know learn to swallow it you know in the face of you know new information and i think that we're just we're really accepting in that sense you know like anyone can contribute you know as long as your ideas are good and as long as the timer is fast then you know we we want to have your ideas you know yeah exactly a lot to go up all right so last cave in the game unfortunately a very stressful cave you can see the only hazard there in glutton's kitchen electricity guess what hazard we don't have any means of dealing with in the sort of conventional way electricity so we are at risk here the other the other thing that makes this cave really stressful are enemies called redbugs you'll see one of the next excuse me sorry you'll see one on the next floor but they can snag treasures snag enemy corpses all that stuff and take them underground and if they take them underground you got to kill the bread bug and they are a pain in the butt to kill um yeah we'll see we'll see if he's gotta kill one here probably not here um yeah so it's basically imagine the inconvenience of dweebles before but then just exacerbate that even further and it just because they take so long to kill as well whereas weebles you can just melt them and they drop the treasure but here they will steal it the treasure is gone you can't negotiate they won't just give it back like you have to actually kill them and the fastest way of doing that is hitting them one by one and i think each hit that's about like not like an eighth or ten percent of his health or something so it takes a really long time yeah it's definitely less than an eighth and probably less than ten percent it's probably 16 hit 12 or 16 hits i don't know exactly it's too many it's how many it's bad but it will kill your run straight up if you're unlike pb pace a lot of times and and purples don't do extra damage to red bugs for whatever reason um so all pikmin do the same amount of damage uh so that's one reason that that there's such a pain one enemy purples cannot just absolutely run over without thinking about it so here we see both the breadboard spawns are quite close here so they have these little homes essentially they will take treasures back to when they're stealing them so it's actually really nice to have one i'll have them both that close oh i didn't feel like i i'm probably gonna do that before i'll destroy select the gate first finish off the anode so i can deal with the rest in a peace of mind and i'm aware that that blowhog as well is moving so i'll need to be careful about that too in fact i'm gonna do this so that enemy over there is called a puppy i think it's puffing or withering one of those two that one is a puffy yeah yeah so popping blogs can like a puppy blow hogs can push pikmin off treasures but they can't push purples because purples are chonky boys and they can they get the job done no matter what it takes so as you can see the blues and whites sort of fell off the treasure there but the purple's sort of true but large lads yeah so they sort of just marched through it all and i i'm happy to take that sort of small amount of time for insurance like loading the purples on there to make sure they got through him unscathed was really important so even if it did take like three or four seconds away from the overall probably end time of the floor okay so the only thing i'm now thinking about in the back of my head apart from don't kill all your pikmin is make sure i get 10 bug bodies or maybe a little bit more i think so there are enemies on this floor that i think i'm going to need to be pretty thorough with collecting to make sure that i can hit that total because you don't want to be a guy in the final floor of the game with your hands down and not enough money that's embarrassing so we're trying to avoid oh i thought this was we already had that meme yeah yeah yeah another fun fun thing about this floor um any floor with red brooks really uh is that sometimes the game cultures randomly crash uh it's very unlikely and it happens maybe like a half a [Music] this has been years ago but had the luck to have a game crash on a world record-based run uh and that almost broke me it made your character it's your like sad backstory this is a heck of an origin story yeah thankfully it's not something in general you should be too worried about right i think it's starting to flash it through your mind when you're world record pace or something but for now i'm not like i'm not worried about it [Applause] there's also a on a couple of these floors one this one that you just is about to clear and on the second floor of this cave um sometimes treasures can be in high locations you're supposed to use yellows to get them uh you can actually use some kind of glitchy purple throws um purples have weird collision so you can use that and that will give them some extra height that can get up to those ledges we didn't see any of those throws in this run um hit up the pikmin discord if you want to see them because they're pretty cool yeah they are very cool and it's again another creative solution for not using yellows under any circumstances better than that never never i refuse early blues is too cool yeah this is actually so this floor very stressful cannon beetles in the middle of everything just they wanna they wanna absolutely wipe you they wanna nuke your board but we are not having it i will say the nice thing about this does end up being that uh we're toward the end of the run so we really don't care too much about our pikmin counts or anything like that um so he's not going to kill too many of the enemies that are in the way unless they're just like really really in the way luckily there actually weren't very many at the top so no it's actually like falling which is fantastic they decided to be cool so that's that's nice so yeah this layout was you know kind of run we're so close we're so close to the end we've got to keep up keep possible with us are actually relentless they won't stop chasing sometimes if a treasure is moving slowly enough you'll actually see an army of dwarf bull bears just like chasing the the the antenna it's pretty funny to see yeah basically little liam neesons they will do anything they can to absolutely destroy you you need people you need they will find you 13 bodies you know that thirteen no i think just three cause that means what what was that sorry you're you're you're you're nine seven i'm probably including the giant giant book and i'm not yeah oh okay yes yes yes this is right yes so we collect this enemy here another bane of existence of pikmin speed runners type enemy i think the giant bread bug which so they've actually made bread i was just gonna say he is he's a loaf bread uh these guys could be argued that their bread they're like little brioche buns this is the traditional way to do damage to bread bug enemies so if you've ever seen them once we run this out but if they carry an enemy corpse or a treasure what they'll do is they'll automatically get damaged when they get sucked up toward the top of the ship so you saw the giant breadboard it's going to take two hits to get on there the regular breadbox take yeah like one like you could just throw a pikmin on it like here and it would confirm the kill so now i think we've got pretty much everything in it looks like everything's coming through in the correct time so here if you get the bread bug in this cut scene you can see he's died because he collected an annual beetle before and this touching sort of killed him are we gonna get exactly if we're good we might get actually exactly 10 000. for a gdq it is maybe solid maybe because i think half break will collect yeah no but it's fine right because you're because you need 10 more pokes correct yeah you do oh the giant bread you're gonna get the best that's right that's very neat urban urban called it right because you just don't collect that um that small bread bug under any circumstances it's all according to plan so there you go i think we've rooted everything correctly yeah i ended up uh time is time is rapidly approaching by the way uh yeah so it's around 30 seconds from now yeah so time is when it cuts to black after the it says like you are paid off the debt and then it will cut to black and that's been timeless but yeah so everything went well no resets no disasters which can't cast too much more excellently on the last flip but there you go i think that's pretty much everything covered as well so yeah the game will sort boot you out here but thank you we've repaid it gg is jeff ggs congratulations jack first time pikmi 2 has ever been included uh and then you injected a fantastic run so congratulations now i asked what the final time is i suspect 143 by the way uh 141.53 is what i have okay that's i'm actually happy with that um so i guess yeah final shout outs huh um the pikmin speed runner community it's been a pleasure to be a part of it and to get to know everyone and it's been fantastic we've met up at gdq several times i think we're at that perfect size where it feels like i know everyone and everyone knows everyone so it's just fantastic and they're so diligent and passionate about the game and it's really inspiring yeah i also want to do just a quick shout out to some of the old boys who have been around the community for a really long time who have inspired a lot of us uh to keep pushing so that'd be pi pusher tcp trio and ghostly um who i don't think we've talked about uh yet so i just want to say thank you to all of them um you guys have made this community fantastic so thank you and if anybody of course i mean it kind of goes without saying is interested in playing pikmin please find the discord on speedrun.com and i personally will answer your questions that's a promise unless like thousands and thousands if you show up in which case [Music] i can guarantee you that when a new runner goes live the entire top runners just bombard the twitch chat you know we have we will watch your new run we will do it that is a threat we will be in there you know so like we're going to help you so if you want to if you want to take a run you know we're glad to show you the ropes and i think that's i think that's everything from us yep so yeah i think it's everything yeah thank you so much everyone thank you guys alrighty great job draz that was a fantastic pikmin 2 run thank you so much for showing that to us before i head off here i have a couple of donations i want to share with you guys we have 50 from bobby berm here's the 50 i promised from my light matter run for all deaths involved thank you all for watching and shout out to everyone behind the scenes for putting this event together and let's keep the hype up for the next week lamp hype we have 15 dollars from cheermorg that says about to head to bed after staying up way too late watching pikmin 2 here but i'll gladly donate a bit during this run to help meet 10 100k by the end of this last day or first day thank you so so so much for that we have five hundred dollars from a versa that says thanks to agdq and keep up the wonderful work donation goes towards purple ghost casper's choice hey that's me i'm gonna be putting that donation towards the bonus run five super mario 64 blindfolded we have not gotten near that incentive yet so make sure you send those donations in because i promise you that run is going to be fantastic all righty guys and with that thus concludes my hosting shift thank you guys so much for hanging out and donating and just being a supporter of the runs i am so excited for the rest of this week and i know you all are too and i will see you very soon up next on the hosting mic we have venbright so make sure you show them lots of support and now with that we'll be showing off some of the prizes all right let's just go ahead in do you start out with oh um hi hi everyone how how are you uh i'm sent i'm here to talk about the prizes i'm not okay look i i was told that we really didn't need the red pikmin for the run and i figured they were there i i thought they were ordered for the table it's up sorry i'll get my own i'll get my own don't worry about it anyway uh with the end of that amazing pikmin 2 run uh now is the absolute last chance for you to donate to win all of the amazing prizes we had in that diddy kong racing 2 pikmin 2 prize block prizes like these absolutely beautiful pikmin amigurumi dolls here from doug reichel uh thank you so much doug for sending them out to us uh prizes like uh the amazing metroid sun catcher we have from meredith frederick absolutely beautiful you can head over the tracker real quick and see a picture of it you know beautiful stained glass piece and of course prizes like this incredible black and gray artwork of samus fighting ridley from elias maines a 25 donation right now will get you entered into all three of those and a bunch more amazing prizes and it'll get you 25 into our grand prize which is of course 250 cumulatively throughout the marathon so get those donations in right now because with metal gear solid four comes a whole new host of prizes and we gotta talk about them because they're also super cool so many good prizes then i am just so excited to get to show them all off to you now uh from kawai's we have yet another amiibo this one is of course bowser jr he's bowser's son is he related to the koopa kids is he actually bowser's son is super mario sunshine canon i don't know and i think that's probably for the best but what i do know this is a pretty cool amiibo five dollar minimum of the nation uh thank you go wise uh now from our great friend puzzle p we have this absolutely beautiful echo the dolphin doodle painting it's just on a 5x5 piece of wood here uh lovely monochromatic painting doodle with a little echo in the center super cool always love puzzle p's work you should check out a great picture of it over at the tracker at gamestonequick.com and it's a ten dollar minimum donation again from now until the end of torok so you have from metal gear style to torok for all the prizes i'm about to talk about uh now let's see oh from our friend plumato we have this beautiful mario pillowcase just featuring all kinds of different mario characters you know we got mario luigi peach daisy rosalina toad yoshi wario waluigi the list goes on it's a beautiful pillow and guess what it's actually a pillow case so if you really want you can take the pillow that's included right out and put it on your favorite pillow instead it's a ten dollar minimum donation uh thank you so much flamato uh from wolf shadow we have this absolutely adorable echo the dolphin plushie i mean just just look at it from from all these angles it is a beautiful echo plushie it's a 25 minimum donation again from now until the end of turok thank you so much wolfshadow for sending it out it's one of a kind it's handmade you can't go to the store and just get yourself an echo of the dolphin plushie but you can donate 25 before turok and maybe you'll win one super adorable thank you again wolfshadow and that's not all you'll be entered to win if you donate 25 because we have this absolutely wonderful ghostbusters cross stitch from skater 43 it might be a little hard to read on camera especially behind the glass but it is a cross stitch of the ending screen of ghostbusters uh you know famously the congratulations uh by completing this game you have proved the justice of our culture now go and rest our heroes uh shaky localization it's a super iconic seed it's it's a super well done cross stitch it's so many stitches it looks beautiful again you can head over to gamesdonequick.com check out a picture of the tracker to see maybe uh a version of this with a little bit less glare a lot of studio lights in here 25 minimum donation from now until the end of turok later this morning there are of course so many prizes and we can't talk about prizes without talking about our grand prizes that's right grand prizes we have to this event both of them are 250 cumulatively throughout the event so if you donate 25 you'll begin you'll get entered into all of the prizes that are available in this block as well as getting yourself 25 towards that cumulative 250. um now for our grand prizes we have from red wolf networks uh this amazing gaming pc uh that is to my left over there it is beautiful you can head over to the tracker check out all of the specs on it but here's the important one you need to know it's got a 30 70 in it and it's really hard to get a 30 second let me tell you after agdq i'm going to go camp outside of a micro center for a week until i can get one because it is so hard to get those cards right now but it's a great pc you should definitely check out the specs a huge shout out to red wolf networks for somehow finding one and putting that together for us uh and of course from our friends over at heroic replicas especially dave shout out to david heroic replicas we have our customized heroic replica grand prize there's a whole list of different replicas you can choose with all kinds of different customizations you can do with them i want to talk about one of them real quick of course it's the tried and true it's the master sword i've gotten to handle several of these over the years the craftsmanship on them is great and they're just super fun to have around now with the master swords you can either choose to have a bronze tilt with a tempered high carbon blade or you can go with an aluminum hilt that has a stainless steel blade instead whatever you'd prefer but either way that's going to be a full tang blade so it's gonna go all the way through the hilt and it is going to be plenty sharp uh if you'd like it to be we it also comes with some lovely machined bronze accents and you get your choice of uh color for the you know cross guard and the pommel purple and blue two really awesome colors that i've seen people go with there definitely a cool cool prize again shout outs to heroic replicas and to dave for setting that up for us and you can head over to the tracker to see not only images of all the different prizes you can choose but uh info on how you can customize them anyway that is going to do it for me remember you can always head over to gamesdonequick.com it has all the information you need click on the tracker you're going to see the schedule with all of the amazing speed runs left in this event speed runs like metal gear solid 4 coming up speed so many great speed runs we got a great week to bring in the new year uh the incentives you can donate uh for in the marathon we have bonus games we have different challenges we have bid wars we have file names all of that's going to be in there because you don't have to donate specifically to the prizes you can donate to the incentives as long as you donate the minimum amount you're going to win some prizes speaking of you can also of course find the full list of prizes how much you're going to need to donate to win them and when they're going to be available head over to gamesquik.com check out the tracker but in the meantime let's go back to the great the break screen let's play with that virtual crowd we have which is so much fun as we get ready for metal gear solid 4. all right welcome back to awesome games done quick online 2021 my name is van bright and i'll be your host for the next few runs so so happy to be here as we get ready for our next run which will be metal gear solid 4 guns of the patriots by jaguar king we're going to go ahead and read a few donations real quick we have 35 from jerry g54 that says first time donating and happy to support this cause thank you so much and we have a 25 donation from daniel whitlock with no comment thank you so much and we're gonna go ahead and send it over to a twitch ad you

Channel: Games Done Quick

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Keywords: AGDQ, GDQ, SGDQ, Awesome Games Done Quick, Summer Games Done Quick, Games Done Quick, SDA, SRL, Speed Demos Archive, SpeedRunsLive, Twitch, Video Games

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Length: 117min 7sec (7027 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 11 2021