Sonic Advance 3 by KirbyMastah in 1:25:55 - AGDQ 2018 - Part 27

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bizarre run category I love it I usually miss a lot of the games I want to see do to work in time zones but I can still do my part good luck on the runs and may the frames be ever in your favor it's $15 from shiny Alice saying dkc hype I can't watch right now because I'm at work but good luck to the DKC runners and shout out to my favorite game of all time alright now we are going to Dwayne go eh see he's got a test demonstration of the warp that void did to do reverse boss or if you're wondering how he did it Dwayne go AC is gonna show us hello hello and welcome yes am i loud enough apparently I am I am Dwayne go AC this of course is void I'm here to show off exactly what we just saw in slow motion using tasks tools so I'm gonna demonstrate exactly how difficult what void just did was in slow motion using an emulator that emulates the entire Super Nintendo in this case Donkey Kong Country in frame perfect frame by frame capability you could say so what I'm gonna show first is a lot of people hear the word frame but it's kind of hard to understand what frame really means so I'm gonna use uh I mean he was uh get a little close here there we go oh yeah I love the sound of how awesome I am okay so I've got a an emulator here called LS and es made by Allari I'm running on a Linux laptop here from system 76 so that's kind of a weird setup but what I have here in the emulator is the ability to quickly go back to an earlier state so I can hit this one button and go back any as many times as I like right as many times as I like it's it's a great way to practice what I want to show is what a frame is now I'm gonna press a button and this is gonna go for one second that's that's one full second right there you can see there's a pointer right here in the upper corner I'm starting at frame 9400 and if I press this button it'll advance 60 frames we end up at nine four five nine but there's a lot of individual inputs that happen when you split up a second into 60th and one sixtieth of a second so I'm gonna just manually walk through this one at a time you can see how many different opportunities for input there are over the course of an entire second when you have 60 different opportunities during a second to put to give the game input and you have to hit a very very small window it's a lot harder than it might look okay so that's a demonstration of a frame a frame is one sixtieth I'm sorry one sixtieth of a second it would be sixteen point six milliseconds and the window that void has to hit is exactly three frames he has three frames to get this trick right so I'm gonna go forward here a little bit we're in level three to orangutan gang and right here you saw this all this glitch just demonstrated a little bit ago when the glitch goes correctly and and here you're you're setting up pushing both diddy and donkey through the door yeah when the glitch goes correct you end up here yeah what I'm gonna demonstrate next advanced here a little bit farther forward here right about here so you start a jump and in this upper right corner of the screen you can see this list of buttons were pressing so there's the frame number we're at and the list of buttons that are being shown it's right here frame nine six seven six he stops jumping and holding why so well I must be really quiet it's the mic okay all right well I'm being told I'm too quiet okay so my loud enough now all right you'll have to do I'll just talk louder so right here we run frame nine six seven six you can see he stops holding B&Y and starts holding right so this is a listing of all the buttons you can possibly press if I change this to have him hold the jump just one frame longer right button right here and not press left until the next frame in other words he's late by one frame it looks similar but what happens is slightly different so donkeys gonna throw the barrel get Diddy to come through the door at the same time and instead of going to five three we end up here instead yeah this is the bonus in row p rym page which is the second level in the game one two right and this is no that's not what you like to see undo what we did so again this is just by being late by one frame it completely changes the outcome now since I'm an enemy later I can fast-forward through this there we go and now we should be if everything goes correctly we're back at the correct level so there is a one frame one it's 16 16 milliseconds difference between success and failure here so going back to this setup here when you're at this jungle I'm gonna back up just a little bit back all the way down to the bottom how do you know as you're walking through this that you're jumping well I should stop jumping I usually release at the peak of my jump that's my visual cue and if I walk into the bonus I know I'm not gonna get it if I just go into the bonus instantly that means I I got to set up correctly I see well you can definitely tell there's there's a difference in appearance and what's happening right here the graphics look really strange like as if Donkey Kong's spine has been replaced by white meat yeah that's because yeah that's because expresso takes the form of donkey because you're holding the invisible objects so if you're releasing it then like everything gets messed up well apparently I'm really quiet sorry you can hear him really well you can barely hear me oh well I just shout louder maybe you should me you should have this mic maybe I should have that mic I have three mics here this is getting a little obscene okay now I bet you can hear me just fine oh yeah that's so much better so just kind of walking back one more time this is what 60 60 60 frames in a row looks like I have a button here that advances a full second 60 frames trying to hit something in three frames out of 60 you got a 20 millisecond I'm sorry 50 millisecond window or one twentieth of a second how many times does it take you today to do it four times yeah more than so took them about four times I'm pretty impressed it only took you four because this is not an easy glitch now yeah and one thing I want to point out is that when we're doing tool assisted speedruns it's way easier for us to just go oh well it didn't work I can just quickly adjust change it and I can I can repeatedly try as many times as I like I can backup as many times as necessary to get it perfect and that's the beauty of being able to do a tool-assisted speedrun you have to do techniques that at one point in time we're thought to only be TAS or possible in a TAS and the tool assisted speedrun and you're doing them live in real time that's just amazing so I'm going to hand you this bat mic back they say the mics working again there's one other thing I want to demonstrate and that's that in addition to frame perfect tricks where you have to hit a button on an exact frame there's also the concept of a pixel perfect trick and that's best demonstrated right here in this segment here so he gets the barrel now right here he's moving back and forth see how he's kind of teased resetting and I'm advancing one frame at a time some kind of demonstrated what he's doing right here is trying to align Donkey Kong just right so that when he throws the barrel the throwing mechanic actually pushes him back correcting you're actually like starting to hold rice as you throw the barrel okay you do that because you want to yeah because I won both Kong's - and to accept the bonus at the same time exactly because if only one Kong exists the bonus there you can crash the game I did yeah advanced a little further up here let's go over here and let's change that so right here got him jumping in the barrel and let's mess with it a little bit so you start pressing right yeah what happens if what happens if you start like holding right later let's have you not hold right there see if that's enough let's just do a lobotomy here and keep taking frames away yeah so what I'm gonna do because I want to start working in this segment right here yeah what I'm gonna do right there I'm going to make a new save State eat the mic okay I'm being told to eat the mic Rodgers Zulu okay so let's do this one more time I'm gonna make a new save state here so this means that I can easily go back to this exact spot you can see you can see Donkey Kong can kind of dance back and forth and even if I mess up I can always go back right here let's see so right about I went too far you'd frame events so let's remove a couple of pressing rights right here just remove like five of them so that he starts going right just a little bit later yeah at least five yeah you still got the double exits right there yeah we did yeah actually this is permissive yeah that's actually kind of nice at it so yeah it's pretty generous I thought as long as you find the right big stool you get yeah let's remove a good ten of them here that's one more now this is a method of doing a test with the I think it actually did something different no no same thing well this is very permissive this is a method of doing tool assisted speedruns where you're using a movie editor rather than than just recording buttons in like a corded fashion where what you're holding as you advance a frame is what now he's done went through the door didn't he I still did yeah that's that's cool it's annoying because it's disapproving my point there's one more time and then we'll hand it back over the interview the the main desk here let's just do a few more here like ten or so I think you'd be good yeah there you go yes you don't want yeah exactly so knocked again yeah yeah so there's a lot of ways to mess this game up aren't there yes well I think that's a pretty good demonstration of what is is possible what is what things can go wrong by all means you come to tasks videos that'll work for more tool assisted speedruns there is a tool-assisted speedrun of donkey kong country that beats the game in lots of credit goes to tompa and other people for finding these various difficulties yeah definitely shouts to tompa Arnie the great aren't agreat yeah yeah there's a ton of people that deserve credit for this yeah Sweden yes exactly I'd like to thank void for everything he did today I'm gonna have hand pass it back over thank you very much thank you for having me yep and I'll be back again later this week Thank You Dwayne go for that awesome tossing demonstration my name is proto magical girl I am gonna be your host for this upcoming Sonic block we are going to have sonic advance three Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic mania now I'm gonna read a couple donations before we go into the action we have 1/16 dollar donation from we have two $8 donations with the comment we have for 4 dollar donations from we have a 2 dollar donation saying we have sixteen one dollar donations but did you follow that I hope so we have a 25 dollar donation from Jack Sparrow that's JX Sparrow long time watcher first time donator very recently doctors said to a friend that his mother had cancer she's now doing chemotherapy doctors are hopeful and so are we this money goes to destroy cancer and also for the breath of the wild master mode incentive forgive the bad english i'm from france baguette another ten dollars at the announcer read my name correctly here's hoping we have a fifty dollar nation from Andhra Limonov ski DKC is my fav game from my childhood thanks to all the runners on gdq for great entertainment greetings from compton UK we have a 15 dollar donation from Tony Sheehan 0-0 finally on time for the sonic and Rockman blocks what an awesome event every year I didn't miss an event in donation since 2014 thanks to all runners staff and commentators for keeping this event so great we have a one hundred fifty dollar donation from Habra May I hope I pronounced that correctly hello from France just an awesome reverse donkey kong country great cause so to have to donate and say good luck to our speedrunners miss $30 donation the anonymous donor says awesome DKC run been watching gdq for a couple years now always great fun and a great cause thanks for all the hard work all right ladies and gentlemen we are now ready to begin our sonic block with sonic advance 3 with kirby mastah take it away Kirby alright ready alright hi I'm coming master we can have a roll call on the couch I'm Gareth I'm Alec 847 and I messed Bret all right and before I start I'd like to introduce this game this is sonic advance 3 the third game of the Sonic Advance franchise on the Gameboy Advance and we're gonna have some fun with this run so like if the audience can go crazy you'll know you'll catch on yes that's what I like to hear that is exactly what I like to hear I would give like a tutorial on how to be what to yell but I think you'll catch on you'll catch on I trust I trust the audience all right there goes my game on there goes my game data so the category I'm running is best ending or some people like to call it 100 percent where the goal is to pretty much get the best ending involving to seven Chaos Emeralds so if we have the timer ready we're good okay three two go so this game involves having five characters and and connect where you can pair the character with another girder you effectively have 20 different tables get control in this game unfortunately you only have Sonic one of the requirements go to bed then he has to also unlock her daughters dream the Bulls and Amy one of you can also go over to that mechanic to start think about that gives you boost the air skills and Thomas getting proofing students actually trained perfect but we do ours cover backside yes the idea behind the Chows is there's ten in each act one in the hub and the remaining ones during the acts once you have all ten of them each stage will start spawning special keys which we need to get into the special stages where we'll be collecting the Chaos Emeralds right and so he's going to rub it up he hasn't rounded out so that he's going to get the last child in a stage and get then get the key after that in that same stage yes so that does affect stage order in each of these yes so in particular each stage has two possible key layouts so he's rotated out in such a fashion that after collecting the last chow in most cases he will be able to go through a key for both layouts oh yeah don't mind us just technical difficulties nothing out very DQ so tails sonic is very very good especially for levels with a lot of horizontal movement and has a lot of it so that's the primary reason for using this team over Sonic and Tails with Sonic and lead which is a bit better for vertical movement you wouldn't necessarily think that because tails has flight but he moves up very slowly whereas you'll see later sonic tails has one particular move that gives you a lot of very fast vertical mobility but in the meantime he's just speeding through these levels using the tag action and white and blue smug you can see detail is kind of cleared that means you have boost also on one thing that's worth mentioning is that more rings just affects your acceleration and soul and war rings is generally better so he prefers in most cases to keep rings instead of lose them right we don't see a lot worth tagged up with Sonic because sock immediately puts you into a boost state but on other character combos you'll see it's gonna be a bigger deal to note you can only enter boost state if you have Sonic on your team similarly there are things called power attacks and it's game 2 which will become relevant later in the run relevant later in the run which are only possible if you have knuckles in your team yeah you don't want to forget the child this is the third stage so that means he's going to be collecting the last Chows here and then the key to enter the special stage at the end so he obviously opens the special stage which is where you get the Chaos Emerald so there's a small little issue with the keys though there's a glitch that if you're in the level and the keys are supposed to spawn if you're at the point of one of the keys should be spawning that when you pick up the last shell it actually will glitch out but not spawn yes so be careful to make sure so you call around yeah that'll be relevant a little bit later in ocean base it will find out when that's about to happen yeah essentially the way it works is that you just kind of deactivate a spawn point so if the game besides that is the point where it's gonna spawn you just don't get a key all right so wait a second I'm supposed to get a chow that's not good um oh the hub Chow that's why yeah that's an issue so alright alright alright well the same parents on nerves I missed the very first challenge supposed to get in the hub and I said oh well I'm just gonna get it on the way I'm just gonna get it on the way out and I completely forgot about it so I'm gonna improvise they're out here really quickly there's a child here the specials I need to read u.s. agent zone one but I'm just gonna do that at the very end of the run because it's faster to do that at this point so let's get the Chaos Emerald after the credits yeah that's actually one thing that's important to mention is that you do have to do the credits once to access the true final boss once you get all the emeralds you have to enter the game with each area beaten basically and so this is general and Tails destroys him in the future you'll see him fighting in general as Sonic and that's just because the general stages are where you unlock different characters and like Kirby said you need to unlock those characters all right we need some audience you little right the most important quote is coming soon alright ready for this yep alright that's known one mostly mostly again I made a rounding mistake forgot a Chow I need to redo its own but as long as you remembered to do it after the credits knock on wood it shouldn't be too bad it's okay we'll remind you may be alright so I need to redo a reset here at the game saves me finishing the first zone on the white out here and I'm gonna take advantage of this reset to switch teams it is almost always faster to reset when he switch teams as opposed to actually going back to the pub by stuck by a few seconds and I'm gonna be swapping to sonic tails for two acts in his own one of them you unlock Knuckles the other one it's just faster overall to do it as Sonic and Tails instead of tails Sonic because of hub movement and I believe it's actually slightly faster as tails sonic but not by enough to make that difference so back there you saw what I like to double leapfrog it's the tag action of tails so prematures get a lot of vertical height using it so it's really really good on the vertical base stages and then if he uses this tag action in the air with tails it's pretty much just the fly that you're used to seeing and pretty much all to these Sonic's at this point yeah this is totally not Greenhill I mean it's orange yeah how can you call it green hills it's not very green and the music is definitely not the same at all now it has the GBA sound chip which is inferior yeah you know it's true so yeah this team is actually used for two reasons one it's really good fresh one and three especially where to chow all right right I forgot about that but the tower and really high spots so you really want to else is high action the other reason for this is I don't remember someone mentioned this but to unlock knuckles I need sonic as a lead character when I beat act 3 yeah I mentioned it okay yeah this is also true of the other two character unlocks which are later on so I'm actually delaying a cue for later because Act II was the last act I want to do that's the only act into this zone where after the last channel I can get both patterns with a special key in one go I cannot do that for act to react one so I won't want to leave act to you for last so this this acts one of my favorites disgust it's a lot of vertical movement unless I make a mistake like that oops oh well you fill down again yep I fell down girl down there we go so a mistake I'm not really sure where these top ones are we're gonna wing it oh well that's not a big deal okay massive shortcut here so I'm skipping a lot of platforming thanks to tells us high action which is really handy yeah doh ciao Yeah right here's another general fight there is a bit of luck with it every general fight we saw his first one this one's not too bad the pattern comes down to whether he that - it's a chi or not if he that should actually once it's not really a big deal I got a perfect pattern there so that's a really good fight yeah and he's going to reset again after unlocking knuckles again the game auto-saves and there's a cutscene that he's going to skip by all right all right but he does still have knuckles unlocked after that reset there so I want to use knuckles tails because there's a power barrier there's a child behind a power barrier in the next zone and as I mentioned before I need knuckles on my team to destroy power barriers so since I basically get a phrase team swap here yeah oh no no oh no yeah yeah yeah we got a free team swap here so I'm taking advantage of it yeah if you're wondering why it's a free team swap resetting on the character unlocking a character cutscene is saved a lot of time yeah it's something like 20 or 30 seconds it's very significant and knuckles tails basically trades boost mode for the ability to climb and brake power barriers otherwise it's actually pretty similar to Sonic Tails that's a path swapper right there that he just hit that is one of the core mechanics of all the 2-d Sonic games you can be on either a foreground or background layer and the game will switch you between them as you go through specific parts of the level that is how loops work in a 2-d game which is theoretically flat for example and that's going to be abused later on I'll just leave it at that for now yeah so the route I'm taking here is actually around 10 seconds slower than going straight to the end but that's because I want to make sure I can get both special keys and taking this route guarantees that can get a special key so he already got the key so the other location is at the bottom of this waterfall I'm taking the stage yeah that is a bottomless pit and if you jump into the B you will you cannot glide by tails all right right yeah the bus bomber can be a bit of a buzzkill that's done all right so I have a special key it gives me an attempt at the special stage and their base the special stages are especially time sections the ring attack world record for this is 263 so that's my goal so we're gonna get hyped for that if I get it but meanwhile we have some time for some donations so this is a great time for that all right well we have plenty we have a $50 donation from Ali doodle making my annual agdq donation during the sonic block good luck to all the runners please a sign donation incentive to runners choice we have an anonymous $10 donation hey Kirby nice to see you again at agdq a huge fan of your stream since I saw you speed run Fire Emblem 7 a few years back good luck on the sonic run and the Sacred Stones run coming up thank you this is going to Erica route because we all know she is best girl I think we have time for two more it sounded good we have a $50 donation from ygor's zero four five nine my friend got me into gdq recently and i love watching all the great runners lost a good friend last year to cancer and i hope every day that we beat this disease donation goes to announcers choice and i have to say my announcers choice pick has got to be Jedi Knight Jedi Academy all levels because the bonus levels are amazing and we have a $10 donation from geister Carly I probably totally butchered that who simply says sonic hype go faster gotta go fast gotta go fast I missed you ring reset runs dead ring out ring out oh no it's over it's over is that totally not a lot of quotes from sadx an essay to be all right so I got the Chaos Emerald it's time to go straight to the boss and this boss most of the bosses in this game in my opinion have really cool ideas although they're not exactly very well programmed there's still better than rush bosses and rush bosses by far and defense - yeah yeah this boss is a boss that rolls around an arena which is kind of cool and cute but it's very random how far he gets knocked back this random thankfully knuckles his uppercut attack has a really massive vertical hitbox so it makes it easy to hit him with a lot of patterns ow so if you notice he's using knuckles and Tails here little helps for the general movement and attacking the boss if you saw the Run 2 years ago which was all stages he used cream and cheese the boss with cheese and all right and since he doesn't have dream unlocked that's not even an option for this category yeah it's really convenient that novelist Hales ends up being a good team for his boss because I want to switch it to them as soon as after the free cutscene skip I got and stick to this team for the rest of zone 3 which is coming up yeah the next area does have some power walls which are rather important to get past and there's a fair amount of views for knuckles climbing and gliding abilities as well ocean basins to get a lot of flack on casual terms due to its vertical nature and the fact that it has a lot of pressures which is a perfectly fair complaint about this game as a whole yeah the crusher mechanics in this game are probably its first element honestly yeah the game structures are if you're not careful here it can lead some to some crushing time losses yeah I'll give you that woman along with your hopes and dreams oh yeah first the stage actually has for Chow the first Street our kind of laid out in such a way that you can't cleanly get all three of them at one go quickly without making a massive detour so what I'm gonna do is get that challenge away okay the checkpoint that's around halfway across the stage right here and then really hope I can make this jump which is a really stupid jump I know okay I plan it's not pixels for that it's not pixels pixels yeah sub pixels are exactly what they sound like they're a unit of positioning that is smaller than a pixel they are sometimes maybe both sometimes not depending on what it is and depending on the game they can be absolutely essential or they can just troll you in certain cases and there he did not really collide with that path right way that he wanted to the chose between the two barriers is doing ie knuckles those two barriers are both powering you notice and took several hits for knuckles to get through that barrier that is the power of barrier yeah my oops oops oh no no no you remember that deathwarp is intentional and I want to give shout out to - done for routes he actually worked on a TAS for this category Sam I recently around the past year and a lot of routing a put into this game was based off of some of the decisions he made and that deathwarp is one of the big ones yeah so it does keep the Chows that he collected and now he's at this part of the level which it seems quite a significant amount of time taken him a while so no there's yeah so when you collect a Chow it's permanently collected yes when you collect a key on the other hand you need to complete the stage with it to keep the key that wasn't it ended but Oh make it work oh okay we're good it would have been cool if I got into the ring all right all right act 2 is again it has a lot of vertical movements it's one of my favorite access feet around honestly cuz he loses the steam flows really well with this act it's not strictly the fastest team Sonic entails is actually faster but not by too much again because he's instead of doing swapping characters whenever he wants and doing each level from the main menu he has to do the hub world movement and that is a big factor in this run and it's routing yeah you want to avoid switching teams unless it saves a lot of time because it cost a good chunk of time you got to take into account just reset itself switch itself and going back to the ring the layouts and the hub layout for ad zone 3 is really linear there's like no shortcuts anywhere so I was too slow to make that cycle that's okay so if you haven't noticed yet especially after the last stage ocean basses built very vertical instead of the normal sonic horizontal levels so it makes it gives a really unique taste for I think it's our than the bad series they usually have at least a Burkle like area yeah starting with egg rocket I would say okay so I'm skipping nice cannon so I'm just using hills as tag option to damage boost it saves a bit of time with everyone and there's a switcher and supposed to hit here you'll activate a platform but again I'm skipping amitiel since I action having the right team for each level is very very important yes if you if you want see how big of an impact it actually can be Kirby has a all stages run that uses it uses a already complete game file so he has all the teams already yeah so things in the strats are completely yeah but things in perspective we mentioned earlier there's 20 teams in total I believe all stages uses 16 and 420 T optimal is 14 but for the sake of a marathon I use 16 that's cooler whereas here you're going to see a total of five tickets seven six or seven it's not that many but you do see some interesting teams you distract us from subpixels thank you there's a random chance that you just get completely stopped there it takes to stuff pixels alright alright so x3 coming up is actually kind of not that vertical but it's not worth switching teen switching to a Sonic partner team for it so I'm sticking to this team again hub world movement yeah it's a world of difficulty alright there's a really dumb glide coming up that's really tight to make or I can accidentally charge my tag action curly well that worked out tchau tchau so this stage actually this zone is interesting because our for chow in the first two acts and to chow in the third act and no chow in the hub world so most zones have like three in each result each acts with one in the hub but this zone is actually one of the exceptions gank damage boost here I want to try to avoid touching this waterfall so I could fall faster like that actually pretty tight because he for too far left without an enemy and this is one of those spots where having the sonic in your team it saves a lot of time because of that boost pad but it's not worth it ultimately that damage boost is attended and we see the first use of the speed shoes in this game speed shoes are not that useful in this game mainly because most of them are pretty out of the way and a lot of times you also have sonic on your team to instantly entered boost state but in the case like this when I'm using a non sonic team and the speeches is on my path it's really convenient okay so my couch talked about how a specialty candy spawn if you go to it it's the application before last right here it right here yes one if you go too far right there is a key that spawns there that is the keeper hopefully getting there's another one on the route but if we go too far right then we can't get that key yeah basically it doesn't really matter actually because they're both right here that that that first one would have despawn so that it's good that he didn't go too far right the other one was just a bit farther right all right so we got the special key work this time dude at a special stage which is pretty convenient it's right above wing boy unfortunately most of the special stages are really difficult to do good ring attacks for like this one has a really stupid strat you get like five rings after popping a black bomb so chances of getting any gaining the ring attack record is pretty stupid very little slim so just not much to talk about when this specialist at stage so feel free to take it away with the donations and do Kirby we have a $500 donation from Chad 766 who says all right I guess I'm going to pay for this thanks for the many years of entertainment for a good cause good amount of money we have a 15 dollar donation from Algy donating 15 dollars during each Sonic game I'll make it 20 if the crowd says gotta go fast gotta go fass good job had a twenty seven dollar donation from Allister to 34 long time watcher I always make sure to catch sonic block really enjoying watching my favorite Sonic Advance game dat destroyed and I am so hyped for Sonic mania good luck to all the runner we have a 200 dollar donation from lusion good look again on another successful gdq and looking forward to seeing some great sanic mania tech bonus points and maybe donation if anyone there can do the full rap during either act of metallic madness go fight cancer thank you very much the rap is just this is annum or in act 1 it's just this is anime and I just ruined the song for you you're welcome alright there's a third emerald alright so the boss coming up is a boss that it has a bit of luck a lot of luck in it Eggman will be flying up over you and he'll fall on top of you with his legs either open or closed if it are closed you can barely get two hits in which is really hard if they're open which is a better pattern you want them to be open and you can consistently get three hits in addition to that I will get two hits right out to started a fight so if I get the perfect luck I'll be able to recycle this boss if not then it can end up being a four or five cycle and again this is more technical in this category because he does not have access to cream cheese would cheese this boss much like it would have the previous one that I mentioned thankfully teratogen is really nice that's good you little make it make it make me make it yes okay nice ball perfect luck all right hold up laws we got something to say here you're going to pay for this there you go okay all right so I'm gonna be slopped doing a team so up to tail sonic again because they're a really good team and they're the best team I can use for two of the acts in the next zone coming off so yeah something to mention though I'm actually losing time like around to two or three seconds of time on most boss fights in this game because I'm actually running this game on the PAL version the power version and Japanese version oh I forgot to reset the foul in Japanese version of the game are exactly the same gameplay wise but the power version and the North American version have the same sound effects including the voice acting very important the voice is getting paid for it the voice acting is essential yes but there are other gameplay differences such as somewhat I think Alec mentioned that the more rings we have the more air mobility you have that mechanic is much stronger in the POW in Japanese version than the North American version and it saves time overall alright so there's a cycle at the very start at the stage I want to make it's pretty lenient 17 seconds I made a bit of a mistake but as long as I don't make other mistakes i shouldíve to make it yeah toy Kingdom has pretty much cycles the area for mostly worse there you go yeah it's it's a stage that really likes the toy with you I can probably imagine wonderful truly wonderful game next cycle is a 30 second cycle I'm not making it after that I flew solo so if I try to - now I'm gonna get crushed so I want to go again this cycles are off now so I need to ah so crush Spartacus 3 crush boxes are not designed well in this game at all as you just saw yeah I almost commentators curse but then I got interrupted because I was about to say crush mechanics in this game because you slide how to avoid that and then it just happened anyway yeah oh well it happens not the end the world alright I'm gonna try to do some anypercent strats hopefully I remember them there we go I haven't done that in like over a year so I'm saying this very very safe so here's the thing about this game the Sonic Advance series as a whole if you die cycles continue they do not reset so after that death I had no idea whereas cycles are so I had to completely win this but fortunately after those blocks cycles do not matter anymore so I'm just pretty much it's gonna try to fly to the end because you know kills his fight is ope look sounds are really on the link perfect okay alright time for act 2 all right talk about the best partner this is mighty else as a partner not sonic gotta troll fast you gotta troll fast indeed alright cycles matter here again there's a very tight cycle earlier and I want to make it's really difficult to make I've made it like twice on our own to practice meaning I'm probably not gonna make it because that's how speed learning works we'll see what happens I can make it oh that was actually a lot closer to just be killed than you'd think yeah yeah because again the crush mechanics in this game are a thing yeah I've actually made another mistake so I missed a cycle here but it's just still make the level overall easier the next cycle I want to make is ideally 47 seconds but I made too many mistakes to make that so the next I client can make is probably I think 52 that's a good cycle to make at this point so hopefully I can make it my life I miss you I don't know if I'll make it here obligatory maybe Agathe life yeah ciao ciao so typically speaking I make the 57 second cycle which is another 5 second time loss really bad execution of the stage means I get that 102 second cycle which really sucks but hey if you made the 56 second cycle which is more than that can ask for an American setting so pretty happy with that oops balloons tails having too much fun just playing around with me a bit too much right there are three giant slides I'm actually just playing over because you know tails there you go all right okay so act 3 in this zone is another actor I'm unlocking about a character a me this time um and again I need Sonic as a lead character so what I'm gonna do here is since I'm conveniently over here there's a hub Chow right here I'm gonna reset there because the game just saved me collecting that show because remember I have the last act I do I have to get the last Chow on that act fortunately sonic tails itself is a very solid team they're actually bit faster for this act when I timed it for act three coming up my only other option is talkin uh close which is a really bad team for mobility really good for bosses but terrible for mobility so my only real options is team chow all right there's a cycle coming up at the start which is really lenient as long as I don't hurt her which given what has happened this one internal applause yeah and we're good oh that has never happened before I've never hit that wall before but that's been dashed at 140 counts all right so this stage can't be dangerous those little pick enemies are really annoying because if you take damage from them they eat all your rings because you know they're a piggy bank get it yeah sonic gets it yeah sonic gets it so jeez jack-in-a-box toys mechanics here some people think they're random they're not if you pay close attention they have like a blue red diamond on them and it alternates that's on a global cycle if it's blue it gives you a spring if it's red it hurts you that's how you know so there's a Chow in this upper corner here and then there's one more child higher up in the stage platforming is difficult did you know that so these two Springs send you at different heights I want to take the right one that's them to higher sonic agrees ok last out here there's two special key locations one is straight down two other is on the path after this special case cute there so that's a better location the other location is right past the screen that I just jumped up jumped over which is a little slower not a big deal we have general fight yup random and he has the key to the kingdom yeah that's a good pattern just keep staying there nope still find out and again he's going to reset to skip the ami cutscene as usual all right so I think casually speaking ami tends to be a really underrated character in this game she some of her - some of her team's do suck but the some of the teams to use it with are some of the best in the game and I'm actually taking advantage of is reset to skip the cutscene and switch to Amy sonic which is the fastest team for the next zone coming up yeah look lovely couple indeed so amy has a hammer and that hammer is very useful and sonic has boost they also have a good tag action so a lot of vertical mobility and amy is pretty much the best boss killer so it's a very useful team overall he's also going to want it for the next world yeah likes more specifically speaking for axe one and three tails Sonic is actually a bit faster than me Sonic because tails can fly but not by much not by more than a few seconds act - amy Sonic's is much much faster than tail sonic which I mean in this game you - people typically you would think that delete character is the more defining character of a team but when actually your partner is more of what determines the team mechanics so like tail sonic Amy sonic Knuckles sonic scream sonic those are all really similar teams because they all have the same tag action yeah pretty much pretty much the main downside to this team is that he doesn't have flight but he has the team throw whatever you want to call it mechanic to get tons of vertical height the hammer it can extend his hitbox and hit bosses and enemies and things like that and the hammer twirl is also good for doing just basically extending jumps and your momentum through particular sections so you'll see that used a lot as well so as long as you don't need to wing it so to speak it's a very versatile team yeah so you can go ahead and read a couple donations we'll probably have time for one all right well we have a 500 dollar donation from the Jumbo who says not another speeding ticket I'd contested in court but I don't think they'd accept gotta go fast all right then yeah we can feed one more we have a $100 donation from mallanna best of luck to my good friend Kirby mastah who doesn't play kirby games gotta go fass Thank You mallanna that's actually one of my friend my friends from the East Coast she's a cool person okay time to go to the boss and yeah so you want to explain this boss Kirby or if you want I have all the time to explain it involved it really takes the bosses here to a new level all right so this boss is kind of interesting in that you try your goals in Nakhimov requires ten heads and every time you hit Eggman he has one of you does one of three attacks that attack you see is a jack-in-the-box that has a 5 second animation is the best pattern you can get that's very good already the second pattern is the ball and chain which has a 10 second animation the third pattern is the missile animation which is 12 seconds and is the worst pattern getting the three blackening boxes is already ridiculously good because the chances of getting attacked and a box go down with every hit until after the seventh it where it's flat-out impossible so if we see a jack-in-the-box after the fourth hit even though it's technically possible it's gonna be really rare so the fact I caught three jack-in-the-boxes and no missiles at this point is actually a really good fight also sonic dies a lot yes but there's the missile pattern now no it's very rare to get through here without any missiles almost unheard of I've only I'm very sad because I've only got some nine missiles on the fight once I was very sad I didn't get ten very disappointing so from a net full game run personally I consider like a two-minute fight the mark for like average below two minutes is good above two minutes does make mediocre to bad the world record Isle world record is by Wurster which is a 128 the second best time is by me which is a 132 which really goes to show how much time time varies this is with a spud um fight so yeah where's there's time just finished my personal best just finished and this is still good is this still good honestly yeah all right so now he's gonna try to kill the boss off-screen we meet we've got something important yeah it's gonna be hard to time though cuz get off screen you're going to pay for this 157 is a good time we need a lot of up we need more applause than for that for luck I gots required a lot of execution good job getting that Lockerbie yeah alright so twinkles snow coming up is one of my favorite zones it has awesome music it's really chill and it's also very difficult the first act is kind of the warm-up act although there is like an important cycle I just started a sack I need to make back to an actor I think where runs die basically so we'll see what happens also if you have a nose Amy still as a guest then - I'm like everybody else if she gets a spin - when pyro sonic she can also kind of spin - what if she's fair with knuckles but she doesn't actually fall off which itself can actually be a good thing depending on a situation but she can't spin - if paired with aim with cream or tails Jo so DARS for Chow in this stage three of them are kind of in a circle no getting it to quote spike vegeta getting hit under water is like taking literally taking a year to regain control of a character does it stop so I'm going back to up to take this spring up here thus no one also has kind of a little mechanic where you kind of roll oh no Happy's little black brown black things that you can kind of lower as Springs and they propel you to high up depending on how far down you charge it up all right Ami's air - let's you've maintained some of the air - speed when flipping a Ledge takes a bit of time here and there I lost my rings which is gonna make this jump really iffy cuz I want all the air mobility I can get there we go that jump looks really easy but it's really hard cuz you have to jump high enough to make it over a spike and also low and also pull back and jump low enough to not lose all your speed from a spring which I did so that worked out it's like almost impossible to make that on the North American version all right Amy says yeah where'd she get that confetti the same place she keeps her hammer right just vote left heart speed strat okay this act is as act at Amy saves over a minute over tails and sonic well we'll have to speak for itself I will let us speak for itself yeah intentional damage hey what's up so yeah fully intended you eyes intended you remember how I mentioned paths whoppers well he just skipped one that should have made something solid that are now not solid and so he's just able to kind of go through here like so he has to do the tag action slightly under the water and then Amy can run on it and then he's gonna have to go up into the stage and do some tricky stuff here in a little bit it doesn't railed up block so you have to go underneath it this is probably my favorite thing in the run just yeah this takes it but over about a minute and a half with if you don't use that about and that is the reason I use Amy Sonic just for that trick because you need someone with an aerial hammer attack and not only teams that have that our Amy tonic and Amy knuckles yeah and it's not just the trick it's the no because you died and then immediately followed by yeah because you beat the stage it's just too perfect and it's also really hard so that was really impressive for him to get it so cleanly on the gas but in fact I found that trick like when I was rerouting this and I was like home let's see if I can take that upper path using Amy's hammer holy crap I'm out of bounds what happened here so I literally found out on accidents shoutouts to complete accidents and I feel bad for - John because I think he was working on it what this category ta yes at the time and he had to redo it because of that alright one child left good job I'm not missing that Chao yeah I missed that town practice once I didn't notice oops okay the reason that's important is because this is the one okay no it's okay there's a nearby checkpoint right go ahead okay so this is the one stage where it's we're going to get the last chow here but we can only get one key one of the two possible combinations of teas cleanly on this route so if we don't see it then then we need to die and try again what happened before subject sells sub-pixel stopped him there that's you know just something you kind of have to deal with running sonic yes it happens passed out all right fifty-fifty if I miss it I have to I have to kill myself and respawn from the checkpoint and try again unfortunately there is no daughter to act our worst for this oh yes the RNG decided to be cool okay so we have the special key thankfully the special spring is literally right above us right there very convenience so special stage one which I accidentally skipped two and five which is this one are the only special stages were that are easy enough for me to go for a world record ring attack in no marathon so while I very heavily concentrate on this I will leave it to the hosts to go ahead and read some donations all right best of luck Kirby but over here we have a one thousand dollar donation and that is from an K Flint RL of system76 whose name you may remember from that laptop Twingo was using earlier and says it's always a pleasure when you find your products used for something wonderful we spotted one of our users today hosting the twitch livestream best wishes for a successful fundraiser thank you very much and we have a one hundred fifty dollar donation from mystic with no comment but thank you very much mystic thank you we have a fifteen dollar donation from just Flandre who says I guess all right and you're going to pay for this are gonna be stuck in my head for the week now good luck to all the sonic runners this buck and if we can get the runners or the people on the couch to sing City Escape for Sonic Adventure 2 i will donate an extra $30 warming up over don't want that wait I did I missed it what that flan Dre yes yes Andre you're probably behind us yeah Andres here alright you can keep going with a few more all right we have a thirty dollar donation from I am aa son hi there obligatory donation during the sonic block an excellent selection of sonic games this year with some excellent runners to boot let's shred cancer please put my donation to Super Monkey Ball Master stages gotta go all the way unfortunately I miss a super ring special stages have super rings which are really hard to distinguish they give you five rings instead of one and I actually actually took a wrong route so unfortunately I missed the record by four reset oh no oh now it's over so this boss coming up is actually one of two bosses in the game that has no luck factor in it it's also kind of harp oops hard one oh I'm taking this route now but a lot of casual players immediately don't like it because it's not very well programmed kind of see a tendency with this game but with a lot of practice you can make it pretty consistent so two gimmick of this boss is that you're constantly kind of an auto-scrolling you auto-scrolling upward and you have to keep jumping from platform to platform or else you die and you have to keep trying to drop platforms on Eggman to hurt him so here we go you little oh you little oh all right I'm gonna wait here to dodge the spiked ball ow oh yeah that was too far left I missed a perfect fight that's okay little Oh that was still a good fight yes Eggman's off-screen this is the second time that's ever happened good you're gonna pay for this so um I got a weird glitch just now I've only seen happen at once ever where Eggman when he is in his death animation he's centered and keeps bouncing up and down but he bounced to the right and off-screen for some reason in the North American version that would actually stayed like three seconds so I don't know this game is weird it's a sonic game what do you expect alright so this first act is the biggest the main route change between North American version and the power and Japanese version there is a child between two power barriers in North American version but for whatever reason in the POW and Japanese are doing the right barrier is not a power barrier so that means I can skip a team swap which otherwise I would use knuckle sonic the downside is that I have to do a really stupid jump to get around to the other side so if I take more than like two attempts Etta I lost all the time I would have saved from that route change I'm going on there you go so if I start missing it you know what jump it is but I will probably miss it but you'll never you never know the cyber tracking witchcraft can I get back up there yes I can okay there you go cyber Trek as you see has this changing gravity gimmick it's not quite as get abused Wow category but nice so yeah that is uh not easy but he did abuse it right there yeah I did a really tight slope jump where I have to charge tonic stag action and release it at the perfect part of the slope to gain all the height I need but if you're too far rights you're a good dad you're on a slope that's to sleep such that you're just gonna lose your tag action but if you're too far left then you're just not gonna get enough height so those machines back there that kind of put Kirby into the ball ball for ya you can actually clip into those from outside and not the actual entrance which is going to be used a little bit later alright so here's the scene swap at three of Sipho track is an act where I can unlock another character it's meeting I have to have Sonic as a lead character and Sonic Tails is also a really good team for app too so I'm switching to them now yeah and there is a Chow right here unfortunately right next to a special spring we just do my left but I can't get this child laughs because again I have to get a special key to use a special spring so it's kind of an annoying detour but it can't really be helped all right so this stage has a lot of fun little shenanigans with gravity there we go would have thought but they never use gravity mechanics in a neon or Sonic game obviously I got to take advantage of that and have some fun so would that be a Kirby fell up if every fella I mean yeah okay so if you might have notice back there when you use tells us fly tag action socks hitbox kinda doesn't exist it's but at the same time it kind of does and that's what we're going to use believe coming up in this level as well as next I think that bit of a skip there actually by the way to uh skip into the clip and some of those bought boxes get a little like jump around I guess yeah if you don't have tails ground tag action then there's a little bit more stuff you have to do but again the theme of skipping things with the proper partner is alright I'm glad I managed to fit that in before they all right because alright it's about what I was gonna say okay all right so some little mechanic I'm using actually where when you charge the stag action it takes one-and-a-half seconds to charge it but if you interrupt that charge and continue holding the charge button it only takes one second to charge it and I took advantage of that just now I've actually been doing it all over to run but it's something that most people wouldn't really notice you have to like run the game yourself to notice but it makes a really big difference and that's what was talking yes you just saw a sonic clip into the the inference box there so yeah when you're using tells us fly he has a hitbox but doesn't you can also collide and be able to hit get hit by enemies but like if you're going up onto a platform tells his hitbox is the one that actually determines if you land on the platform or not so I'm gonna do a little clip three times in this stage the stage is kind of broken yeah Oh why are you ball mode alright I'm gonna have to wing this a bit oh all right um let's go here there we go course again wanting to get where you actually want to go without the gravity sending you somewhere you don't want to go so there is an auto spawn clap oh oh oh strats special key can be here and it is so that's a better location there's another location that can be it cost around five seconds optimally to get it but I got the better location so that's nice the all location is just below where I jump stuff jumped over right so this little clip here skips going around a giant block and riding on a platform and you want to do a one tap spin that or else you're gonna fall to derail and die because sonica bans rails are very well program okay railed against them enough they're not the worst rails in the trilogy but they're still not great and there we go that's gift having to use though auto and platform you can't have tails carry you into that but 90% at a time tells us us go in and drop you to your death he's getting revenge for all the yoshi's have died in Super Mario World ok so this is the last second I saw its last in stage yeah so if there is one more fight it is easily the most involved of them but there are a couple attack patterns that you can do in this one that are still oh that could still troll you alright who's a Amy fan here cuz we're about to see more Amy after unlocking cream I apologize cream fans I'm a green fan don't worry we will see cream once it's unfortunate you unlock cream so late because he would actually probably get some used in the earlier zones and it is all knockers totally I mean you can imagine you can cheese a lot of boss fights with it but that's partly part of it I don't know if it'll be worth swapping to cream just for a boss fight probably not but hey never know alright special stage time you know what this means more donations and oh we're being attacked world records unfortunately Oh No Oh No all right okay let's take it away over here we have a $50 donation from Hodel ski long time watching first time donating it's past 3:00 a.m. here in Korea but I am sleepless hey its sonic lock and mega man is following up my aunt has been diagnosis thyroid cancer recently but thanks to the early detection she successfully overcame it and is in their coveri phase now hope everyone receives proper treatments before it's too late donation goes to Sumi Chu is to sing Snake Eater and let me tell y'all if yo we need to meet that snake Peter incentive it is going to be a treat and an incentive for the ages for sure we have a 15 dollar donation for michael steffie's I'm making an agdq in honor of my mom who passed away from cancer I'm donating during the sonic block since she gave me my Sega Genesis for Christmas igniting my love of Sonic and Friends we have a 15 dollar donation from n Man 36 one man raccattack says ciao seriously though kirby good luck on the run my man kind of wish I were there in person this year but maybe once sgdq rolls around put this donation to whatever Kirby wants thank you and man is a sonic a fellow Sonic Rush runner and he also speedruns quite a few other games in Sonic Heroes as well and sonic Chronicles Dark Brotherhood but he's a cool guy unfortunately it wasn't able to make it but that's unfortunate blackest life also I would expect the Rack Attack in twitch chat isn't my favorite emotes for some of them alright this boss coming off is another example of a boss with a cool interesting or unique idea but not very well programmed this yet Vince my least favorite faucet they took a bit of a shot in the dark with the design but that out it didn't really pan out with most gates unfortunately all right so I'm in the hub world I'm actually gonna do kind of a skip here well I'm supposed to kind of go take like two more pinball machines to get to the boss but I'm actually gonna take a back route right here bit of a tight jump there we go getting over this booze pad is so stupid okay there we go so I want sonic Amy sonic because one hammer to Sonics tag action and three when Sonic is Perry was Amy he does not spin jump by default meaning he will not screw up screw with anything in this fight so go so this boss is not actually random at all the problem is unless you're playing tool-assisted your actions are not going to be exactly the same every time so in later parts of the boss it might as well be random yeah it's not actually random but it acts essentially like it is bottom line is that the boss shoots out more projectiles and acts more unpredictable later into the fight so you want to get as many early hits as possible so unfortunately house you didn't see their song can get in the way of something change their trajectory which is never good usually not at least sometimes he does save you but this time though that looks good there you go that was actually a pretty good fight we're all speed runners right this timing might be a little bit difficult because Eggman does not fly horizontally atratus so ready you're going to pay for this okay there you go that's on three stick all right chaos angel is a is also a big reason why I'm using a Masonic because there's a really good team for the first two acts yeah it can get a bit chaotic as you'll see in a moment yeah so like these are the kind of stages where there's a lot of massive open areas so you want both a lot of horizontal and vertical movements these are the hardest stages in the game barn on the other alternative I could use a sonic and cream which is actually fairly slower for the two first two acts but Amy sonic barely beats em out shadows - Jay ash who came up with the idea to use Amy sonic 40 stages - is another sonic advance tree runner okay ciao I want to fall through his rails I'm falling through a rail it's the fastest way to do that that sometimes just finishing charging attack action and you have to time it properly it's a nice little spring here I didn't mean to do that there we go another spring here Amy's pretty good oh hi you fell down again Kirby fell down um how can i I've never done that this is probably at me too high yeah I've never fallen down here with this team before I'm not sure what to do oh I'm doing it then okay I haven't done this part of the loved one from ever so it's gonna be a little fun you kind of that part there we go good there we go well you know what to do now I know what to do now oh no it's over it's over no okay frankly that does not crush you get up there okay I will take this very slowly so Kirby would you say you're paying for this okay I am certainly paying for this unfortunately okay I was I got scared of that zombie so this is a bit of a train wreck but we'll make do okay okay one more stop the stylish curvy come off oh okay but zero rings might be a little scary don't hurt me okay don't die okay we in there the Jama not dying speedruns improv quick kind of okay that armadillo enemy you pillbug enemy whatever their hitbox is really massive by the way okay this is all over a bottomless pits it's kinda scary it's chai latte up here oh there you go okay okay I'm not too familiar with this route there is obstruct I can take what that requires a power bear power character which I don't have so I okay there so it's fine shout here ciao checkpoints my best friends versus parts a little scary okay I'm on it that's okay there's a checkpoint Victor say this this levels gone in going not entirely well but it's okay I have a really high estimate so and this is chaos angel frankly if it's going to happen somewhere it's probably going to happen yeah okay at least arel cooperated that there is a small chance he will just fall through the rail because sonic commands rails oh there you go yeah it happens let's roll with it all right so just jump is a man pretty massive torque um ticking it's really stupid to make with the steam though nope I was too far right there we go ciao back to time which is what actually probably my favorite act in the in the category so just enjoy the speed cuz it's gonna be fast hopefully there's a pretty cleverly hidden Chao up here right up here there we go damage boosts to skip that hammer to spring for Heights to make that shortcuts yeah hammering the spring actually acts like hitting it now you get double speed from hammering Springs it's the only force on till once where you get double speed for one grouping frame in other words it's kind of pointless massive shortcut here just jump over it hey sonic like what are you up to okay it slowed down so I don't hit the overhanging of that little platform I want to follow through down here left there's actually a little weird clip you can do the Falls to each platform super heavy enough speed you kind of don't want to do it an RTA run because you will probably fall to your death unless your name is TAS is the last challenge of stage all right this part looks really cool if I do it properly well about that I know that's too low Dixie all right two minutes is good enough all right so I'm gonna swap teams just for one act cuz act 3 is an act that has three platforms that effectively act that's autoscrollers and they take forever and I don't we all know how much we love all our scholars right I want to hear the crowd for this do we well too bad too bad if you like Auto scholars we're about to skip all three with this team making my job easier thank you very much yeah so one thing about tails ami that you might think is bad oh I just did an il strat on accidents hey there we go yeah is that tails has reduced flight duration but amy is still the best choice overall because of the tag action she has again the partner being arguably more important than the lead character although in this case tails this flight is pretty essential also so even though they're spikes there they have a small little safe few pixels that you can stand on which is great for getting through the site details yeah I believe this is also technically possible with cream but just incredibly difficult you notice a lot of teams actually like if your partner isn't a like an you can skip all them wait that get special key no I did not I complete forgot about that um damage control time can I make this oh there it is okay time to not die hopefully don't die I hear me it seems get to the platform I just let me awesome when we take over Kirby fell down on purpose oh no it's do I yeah that's a bummer I did hit the checkpoint so it's not the end of the world okay there's the key that's a better location mm-hmm okay so now I can actually skip this the other location is as he saw halfway across that autoscroller so yeah you have to ride out like I'm on ten seconds of it but hey worked out oh right alright so this boss coming up is kind of yeah it's kind of a boss it's not very good it's kind of similar to the cosmic angel boss from advanced one except force and very very random and yeah if you get hit you almost lose all your rings it is possible to regain a ring but they kind of go all over the place so it's like ah two rings back thanks Amy nope nope and that can happen where he just changes sides without any warning because you know good bosses I like like that okay you want to jump every time you bounces or else you get bounced into spikes little oh all right so he's gonna start spinning the direction he spins in is random but duration of it isn't always set so put a little with proper timing I can always guess where he's gonna end thank you Amy oh there you go oh please don't stop here nope no Gary oh thank you ring it came back they came back to me really died that's the unfortunate formerly ran rings were out that boss yes all right there we go dude dude all right so we go straight to ultra mode which is the final main boss and we're gonna have one last fight with general which again is very random we're stuck with this team unfortunately which is a team that works for the last boss but it's I start other teams I strongly prefer using this patterns divorce pattern but on the plus side it's really easy to hit him after so it's like the consistent that that pattern is bad because he ignores your invincibility frames when he tries to grab you so very bad pattern although technically it's fast but it's risky so if I get a perfect pattern I can get into the eggman fight around the 22 second mark this 28 seconds could be worse all right so this boss you cannot hit em from the ground directly without any special abilities you're supposed to wait for his hands to go down and fry it them and hit Eggman but if you you use the right teams for this you don't have to bother with that yeah this boss is absolutely trivialized by a couple specific teams this is not one of them yeah that's why I weighed it there I could I've gone for a second hit before that but if I did I wouldn't enter and die and that's random if you're going for il the center pattern is actually the best but you're kind of yoloing and expected expecting it we're gonna do with the hands thank you for the ring this is a little risky I'm gonna wait it out now oh you little oh not that yet let's do a little you little alright I just activated a glitch I have controlled tails but I'm not supposed to woo that's a trend upon end yeah that's just involving charging it precise you just have to have but yeah if you have a me sigh action charge on the ground before you lose control of your character you use a Mesa action control so that is the last boss but remember the category it's called best ending there are multiple requirements for this as we mentioned the seven Chaos Emeralds being one of them another one being unlocking every character which I've accomplished and unfortunate thing about this category is to go to the best ending I have to beat alternate with Sonic as a lead character after having seen a post-credits cutscene meaning we have to watch the credits once so which is why I delayed emerald 7 to after post credits because there's no port making a detour to the special spring when I have to go back to alter animals anyways for to refight on the plus side we're gonna see some cream so yeah we're gonna see some cutscenes Amy kind of hitting on Sonic after all the time we spent together in this run and go ahead with some donations we have crates more donations so take it away alright Kirby we have a $10 anonymous donation so think about this during all these cutscenes is it chaos angel or Chows Angels where does Kirby end and sonic begin spins within spin we have an anonymous two hundred dollar donation without a comment thank you very much anonymous give a $20 donation from 0ex long time watching first time donating my wife lost her father to cancer a few years ago and she was happy to find out that this year's GDQ was going towards prevent cancer may the rng be easy on all run we have a $10 donation from Gauri Chris Kirby mastah tutorial videos on GBA Metro it's got me on speed running the series thanks for an amazing show thank you thank you for an amazing donation we have a $50 donation from Ginny the cat who says gotta get in on a previous donors bid to have the crowd sing City Escape will donate another 50 if it happens I believe that's about 70 dollars riding on that so y'all might want to start warming up one more before I say something yeah sure all right so Mona okay go communications hard surprise but I definitely want to give a shout out to Mike 89 number one because my canine had the original speed run for this category originally called 100 percent but it's the same height same thing really which he is like over ten years old um on SDA but at the category is kind of what got me into this category into first place and I made a lot of routing updates including implementing a lot more sonic tag action to it but without his run and execution just really would not have happened and he's also just been an awesome member of dishonored community but I definitely want to give a shout out to him because he is fortunately pretty much retiring from speedrunning for the most smokes kind of but he's definitely been one of my favorite runners and he's a cool a cool guy to talk with and without him me running any of the advanced games would not honestly not have anything especially this category so thank you very much Mike 89 for being you so also other shadows include shadowed CJ ash which I mentioned before for some of the route changes and supporting me a lot whereas therefore a lot of those aisles I learned this game off of initially and - them for working on the tas for this game which i learned a lot from as well and of course thanks to my couch as well where you can cost them and supportive yeah credits aren't over yet I was expecting this Tim - but we have more donations all right Kirby we have a $25 donation from Oh grupe donating during the sonic block because I'm excited to see the games that plagued my childhood get crushed here's 25 - winner's choice for the essay to be race and another ten for each of knuckles wraps that either runner or couch sings along - during the race congrat congratulations alright so there are three different flags that you unlock after you beat the game and they're only unlocked after you see these starting cutscenes so right here that right there is what you need to say to unlock the best ending after that the game tells you you unlock sound test and you lock false attack but since I haven't set those flags by seeing those cutscenes I don't have sound that's our boss left the faucet act on lock unfortunately so I'm gonna this is kind of gonna be fun cuz I still haven't gotten to first Chaos Emerald so I'm gonna do this stage with the team I'm not familiar with this can only go very well we're doing it live we're doing live improv three roads live free routes lot done live or would that be rewrote done quick all right so creams tagged action gives you control over cow cheese but on the other hand when you use in the air she also gives you a direct boost to your vertical movements so the higher vertical speed you have the more height you gain out of her tagged action all right can I try to slow down here let's get crushed so speaking of unusual teams wins every single possible il in the game I did that for the stage absolutely that's kind of a project I started okay so I should be guaranteed to get a special key as I take this route here one you see I can do this properly I'm gonna take the safe also you can notice that cheese is the color of the main character whenever a cream is the partner there it is good all right I only lost a minute no big deal all right all right so now to do the special stage unfortunately but you know routing mistakes that's Evans so this is my last chance to get the ring attack world record and this is the easiest one so no pressure at all let's go to 40 is the goal wait there another 8 here and then we have time for another couple donations yep good time for that all right we have a $15 anonymous donation I'm teaching a class on Sonic next semester so this is technically research a $50 donation from Just In Time good luck to all the runners and kick cancer in the butt money to hear the dulcet tones of Snake Eater and a $45 donation from genius gamer n hey there agdq it's exciting being able to wake up for some speedrunning excitement first thing I missed out on a lot of fun from work but I won't miss out on any chance to start up donations good luck to all the runners out there you have a $10 donation from Kedzie I'm gonna pay for this shoutouts to Eggman's Jedi Mind Tricks we have a thirty dollar donation from Demon Lord Zul let's make that $70 - singing City escape to an even 100 just before all the record world record son live as an FYI on Sonic Center this ring attack worker has I got 15 ways I alright so after that detour I step so now that I got my routing mistakes out of the way I need to go to his own 7 sub to do the last emerald okay so time to go to his own 7 oh yeah sonic gets a little snazzy attack when paired cream it's actually a homing attack if there's an enemy nearby and fun fact nut goes in this game can homing attack when paradis cream he can homing attack by pressing B while gliding so if there's an enemy nearby there's a lot of really neat tricks in this really neat like unique team mechanics in this game like for example if we have knuckles and Amy which is one of them clueless teams you can actually spin - vertically up walls which is really cool things like that and tail and also tells can instil in this game when parents knuckles so you know a lot of people probably didn't know that oh yeah we have a hopefully not so dangerous specialist age coming up well going on right now so more donations let's go all right we have a $50 donation from Zeta 176 since Sonic Adventure 2 battle is the last good 3d Sonic game and the one I grew up with I had to get in on the action I'll donate 50 more if the crowd sings City escape put my donation towards runner's choice this better be a good song y'all it's like wow we have a $25 donation from Scott Ensley currently going through one round of chemo this week today is my first day and so far so good I scheduled my treatment the same time as agdq without even realizing but I'm so happy I did now I can relax and enjoy my week with everyone at agdq thank you for all you do and a ten dollar donation from unsigned reality check greetings from Finland let's kick cancer out the door with the help of some awesome gameplay $15 from gogo rider the second time watch her first time donator thank you to all of the hard work y'all do to give us such an enjoyable event thank you alright okay so now that he has all of these various requirements completed he can go and access the actual final boss that code is if you want it for whatever reason you want to replay all seven special stages in a row very good for marathons right yeah let's do it totally should have been a donation incentive right yeah it's definitely a good donation incentive okay yeah there's a lot quite a few options we have for the boss the best team for his boss was tonic as a lead character it's not knuckles but they're terrible for navigating the hub sonic amy is better for the health in this team but they're a bit riskier for the boss so sonic cream is like the most reliable fast team I have and of course as you see he has to do these fights again the general final fight and the Eggman statue robot whatever it is with the hands again and then he'll get to the true final boss of this category yeah so you guys can actually use cheese but cheese's actually it's not that optimal because you can't buffer cheese hitting the boss this boss or general on the first possible frame because cheese will not attack the boss during their invincibility frames so I'm better off using a double jump to damage the boss instead most cases well then in this case I'm gonna play it safe and just fire cheese but that's a good thing I played it safe whilst I'd be dead there we go okay Wow Wow you will all evolve on me new their little alright cuz we have only I'm very sad this is probably the last time we'll be able to say this in this run but let's make it count all right so now we see if three requirements are set yep they should be general free trades Eggman spoiler alert oh no you mean all right so this boss is kind of interesting you're supersonic paired with Eggman and your tag action opens up the final boss this weak point and then you can dash into it to weaken the boss let's go non-aggression don't ask why I don't know why either but general ideas I want to finish this boss before it's spin attack so I wanted to delay it spin attack as long as possible it does a set of armed attacks missiles a set of armed attacks and laser spin and for the two sets of armor taxes can attack me between one to five times I wanted to attack me as many times as possible to delay the spin attack so the worst possible pattern is one one so fingers crossed no it's called non-aggression because you're working with Eggman but you are being aggressive you're not being aggressive against Eggman like you usually are that's why it's called on aggression but see here you're technically still being aggressive with Eggman because you're literally just grabbing him and slamming him into non-aggression that is the worst possible pattern thank you thank you non aggression and these missiles are also random and your hip hop's is way bigger than it looks like that so you always want to be careful okay how many armed attacks now that was way later than usual all right oh I got the worst possible pattern well happens marathon love airs on luck all right so yeah it's possibly not very well but not going very well but that's life yeah that's a spin attack you want to avoid you pretty much can't connect man during that not NIC man jamero - its away I'm will be coming up soon time there you go sonica master you best ending yeah so I think we're good I know cleared and run so that run was alright yeah thanks for having me up here and up Nexus that's A to B so that's gonna be pretty hype yeah yeah all right

Channel: Games Done Quick

Views: 73,890

Keywords: Awesome Games Done Quick 2018, AGDQ2018, Awesome Games Done Quick, Games Done Quick, AGDQ, GDQ, Video Games, eSports, Competitive Gaming, Speedrun, Speed, Fast Gaming, Legend of Zelda, Zelda, Super Mario 64, Mario, Mega Man, Hasty Play, Fast Run

Id: KHS83LQ5i1o

Length: 103min 58sec (6238 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 11 2018