The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword by gymnast86 in 1:26:45 - Awesome Games Done Quick 2021 Online

we also have a 100 donation from anonymous as well it says i am in awe of the yoshi's island speedrun very nice job and i can't wait to find my copy of the game and play it once more looks like we should also be ready to go check out the amazing skyward sword run coming up with gymnast take it away gymnast yeah hey guys i'm gymnast 86 and today i'm going to be running the legend of zelda skyward sword for you guys uh with me i have my fellow co-commentator copernicus hello i'm popernicus i'm a glitch hunter and router for this game and i hope i can give you some insight on this insane route today yeah because this game is uh it's a bit convoluted to run and to explain but we're gonna do our best uh so some initial information before we get started uh skyward sword any percent runs do take place on hero mode files and what pure mode means in skyward sword is that we get to skip all the in-game cutscenes we get to take double damage from all damage sources and we also get a much more powerful skyward strike attack for when we get the goddess sword uh so with uh that in mind we're also playing on the japanese version of the game and i believe we had a file name incentive uh last i checked i believe lamp in all caps was in the lead if we and have confirmation on that [Music] i'm pulling that up for you right now it looks like i just have to scroll for that okay it looks like lamp is indeed the winner by two hundred dollars exactly all right looks like all in all in all caps that's the important part yes okay great all right so with that i will give a countdown and we will get started so five four three two one go all right so starting out here we're going to be skipping some good old cutscenes uh the last time that skyward sword was shown off at agdq was at agdq 2020 about one year ago and at that point the run estimate was two hours and 30 minutes but you'll notice today that the run estimate is only one hour and 40 minutes and if i play well we can actually hopefully showcase a sub 1 hour 30 minute run here today for you guys because we have discovered some pretty big things in the uh past year that have helped whittle down this game to as short as it is now yeah so right here you can see um him talking to fledge that's not necessary for the story progression but we need to do it for some tricks we can use where we can use it later um so here's also some tutorial stuff still uh unfortunately we have to do it even though we're playing on hero mode um the professor recognized us playing on hero mode but still wants to give us a tutorial he's like oh wow you're playing on here mode well here's all the tutorial information anyway but yeah so uh we talked to fledge in the night academy not required in a casual play through but very important for the speed run uh we're also going to save professor hornwell's pet remlet up on the roof of the academy over here and we'll do a little bit of a precise jump here to skip over a text trigger that the professor would normally uh try to talk to us with a few seconds there safety animals yes like all good gdq runs skyward sword any percent does indeed save the animals and saving the animals is actually faster so it's a double win and we're pushing boxes running up walls doing some rolls we can go grab his pet and then bring it back to him so obviously uh this not being required in standard game play uh why are we doing it in the speed room uh whenever we do these specific events right like saving the remlet or talking to fledge uh the game sets a value in its memory to know that we've done those events so that you know we can't do them again and we call these values scene flags because these values are specific to whatever scene we're currently on and in this case we're on the skyloft scene because we're on skyloft at the beginning of the game and these uh flags will come into use when we do a trick coming up called back in time which we're going to be performing shortly here to perform back in time i first need to get to the game over screen and the fastest way to do that is to dive via the infamous killing post we have here this is usually where we'd get the you know oh man i'm so bad at this video game yeah cause it only took me three minutes to die so really i think yeah we're going to be resetting here but first we're going to hit continue and then after i hit continue i will reset the game using the uh home button and now link is going to just kind of fall into the title screen uh this right here is back in time whenever we have the ability to play the game while the title screen is up and this is basically our bread and butter for most of the run back in time is a very powerful glitch or well rather the techniques we can do in back in time are very powerful so to start off we're going to be running up here and we're going to intentionally fall over the edge of this fence to respawn past the closed gates that would normally take us or over to the upper part of the knight academy uh i'm going to be selecting file one and then saving at this bird statue but i'm not going to be starting file one because i just want to save file one on this weird state of the skyloft map right here and then i will be running over here towards the goddess statue because we have to go and uh place the emerald tablet right now while in back in time so thankfully this layer of the skyloft map just happens to have the goddess statue opened by default which is really nice and we'll go in here and get the goddess sword so that we can get the emerald tablet raise the pedestal and then put in the tablet yeah it's important to note that selecting files and back in time can have like effects on the area we're in so it's going to also be very important um for later and as well we are going to doing this right now with the fahren pill and bit because we don't want to get the tunic right now but we still want to get the pharyngeal so that's why we're doing what we're doing right now right so uh this first instance of back in time that we're seeing right here is to perform a trick called reverse bit magic uh now what reverse bit magic basically is um is that i'm going to be starting my first file uh as we see the light that forms the pharyn pillar uh hit the clouds in the uh next loading zone here uh or during this next cutscene and what i'm going to try and do is i'm going to try and start my file right before that happens because if i start my file and then the fahren pillar forms up during the fade out of my file starting uh the game will actually apply the value of the fahren pillar being open to the file that i have right and this is useful because now we have the fahren pillar open but we didn't get to go to the next sequence uh that normally happens afterwards where you know you get the hero's tunic and uh the headmaster says that like you know it's time for you to go lead skyloft because we don't want to do that yet yeah we still need to fire yeah but none of the other information that happened during that last sequence got saved right so like the game didn't save the fact that we got the goddess sword or that we raised the tablet pedestal or that we uh but actually we do see that the emerald tablet is actually in there still because that's uh just connecting an effect of having the pillar open yeah all right so this time i'm actually just going to strike the tablet pedestal and then i'm going to leave because there are still some things that we have to do on skyloft uh most notably we need to save our loft wing because if we don't save our loft wing then we're not going to be able to get off of skyloft which would be a bit of an issue so we got to go do that in general this is gonna be a little bit of a setup phase um because this run mostly gonna um use skyloft stuff we got off scene flags um so we have to do a lot of stuff here so we're safe for the rest of the run and we don't really need much more setup and we can go as quick as we want to right all of the like scene flag setup that we're doing here on skyloft uh won't really kick into effect for like 10 more minutes or so so yeah we're talking about it now but it's important to note about it now because there's also like a lot of nuances that uh come into play with it although right now we're basically just gonna be running across skylock for the next minute here uh regarding the movement of this game generally we're just going to be sprinting everywhere of course because sprinting is a lot faster uh than regular just walking around as long as we have the stamina for it so uh typically what we want to do for stamina management is we want to um basically just let the last quarter of the stamina meter refill because the last quarter is actually uh only used at half the rate that the first three quarters are used but it recharges at the same rate so basically uh during long sprinting sections we'll just keep on reusing that one part of the stamina meter instead also and if we have extra stamina we can pretty much just use it for rolling because each roll saves about a frame over sprinting right here we're just going to enter this house and leave just say hi uh uh but the main reason is that there's actually a scene flag that sets here that we're gonna use later um very convenient so we're gonna take it yeah like the the scene flags that skyloft holds or really that like any uh area of the game holds like span like the entire story of the game so it's really lucky that the ones we want to set we can just kind of get here at the beginning of the game otherwise the route would not work out the way that it currently does it's very very convenient and also quite fast as well yeah because i have to go very far out of our way yeah like a time general is a rather slow trick so if we want to make it like um useful we have to really you know put stuff in and it needs to have like a big impact otherwise we're not going to do back in time all right so right here i am intentionally taking damage because surprise surprise i'm gonna want to do back in time again later uh in total this run actually has 22 intentional deaths so we will be intentionally taking a lot of damage in this run from various sources and this is why being on hero mode and taking double damage is an extra advantage because it allows us to damage ourselves down to zero hearts sooner yeah otherwise it would be a little bit annoying sometimes all right okay so after we watch this cut scene with zelda i'm actually going to go over to the bird statue that's right here and i'm going to be saving and quitting uh my file and i'm going to be copying this file from file one to file three because uh part of what we're trying to set up here in the beginning is we need a file that has three specific uh flags on it we need a file that has saved the loft wing uh but we also need to have that file have the fahren pillar open and also have the ability to dive off of our loft wing before we save our loft wing so it's a kind of confusing set of flags um and you also normally can't get the ability to dive off of your loft wing before saving your loft wing so we have to do some back in time shenanigans to make that work yeah many are going to use that because back in time is just sometimes pretty crash heavy uh and we need that exact file to just avoid crashes if we want to ever leave skyloft back in time so that's what we have to do basically so now we call our loft wing and we are going into the lofting tutorial section here uh this is basically just an auto scroller so if uh we can read uh one donation now i believe or just flying around sure thing first of all i think it's very important to mention that one of game one is now at 130 000 very very very close to 131 000 out of the uh 160 000 so we're getting really close everyone just over 29 000 left please make sure you get your donations in for that it'll be coming up next would love to see that we still have time for one yes okay great we have a thousand dollar donation this is from incoherent who says i can't wait to bomb some to dongles but i'll have to unless you all donate too all right so now we're coming up on the wing ceremony cutscene skip which hopefully i'll be able to get uh this is basically just a cutscene skip where i have to hopefully uh mash for a side hop all right so very good uh we essentially side hopped out of the cutscene trigger for that cutscene uh and this allows us to go over here and just die on the west cliff of skyloft immediately afterwards and so being able to skip that cutscene saves about 75 seconds so that's a pretty good time save and of course we're gonna be doing back in time this time uh quite complicated one yeah so this is the file duping uh back in time iteration so what i'm going to be doing for this back in time is i'm going to be selecting file 2 and then going back to the splash screen and then i'm going to be uh opening up the splash screen again the splash screen is going to then load the contents from file 3 but still believe that file 2 is selected and then by saving it this bird statue it'll essentially copy the contents from file three to file two but the key difference here is that file two is like you know if you look at file two it doesn't look like it's copied it still just looks like a new game file and that's because the game hasn't like properly updated uh like thinking that file two uh is like you know basically a copy of file three right now and this is important because we're going to use the fact that it still thinks file two is a new game file to perform this next trick called a reverse bit uh where we started our file and then hit the loading zone that takes us to the sky which is going to start this file in the sky right now if you'll remember file 3 that we copied the file to has not saved the loft wing right uh we copied file one to file three and then saved the lock wing on file one so despite the fact that we have not technically saved our lock doing on this file we can still fly with our loft wing and we can specifically hit this high text trigger right here which gives us the ability to dive off of our lock which is what we wanted so now we're going to be going and we're going to save the loftwing on this file properly and so the fastest way to get back to where our loftwing is is to just do a death warp so i'm gonna get hit in the air by these octa rocks over here to help with that just remember the last place we actually saved uh right up in gameplay was at the waterfall statue 453 which it's where we did the copy so by death warping we'll just get put back there yeah so as you can already see it's kind of complicated to keep track of what's happening but we guarantee it'll all work out so don't worry i mean this one was quite complicated but yeah um it's just important that we basically use like something from each file and that's why we made everything the way we had to but now we can finally save her off wing again somehow he got back in the cage bruce's groose was really persistent and got him back in there again and all right so uh this is going to take us back to the loft wing tutorial but this time we have the ability to dive off of our loft wing which you normally do not have during the loftwing tutorial yeah uh so instead of actually doing the loft wing tutorial we're just gonna kinda fly over here uh normally the uh loftwing tutorial has invisible boundaries that the loftwing can't cross because it wants to keep you contained to a specific area but those boundaries do not apply to link so instead uh we can dive off of the loft wing and then i can begin skydiving forward and i can enter into the fahren pillar that we opened up right at the beginning of the run as link slowly moves forward here yeah so this is how we now get into the pharyn region uh despite never you know doing the wing ceremony or doing the follow phi sequence that you normally need to get the goddess sword and getting the heroes clothes and all that stuff so down into ferren we go so we can enter fern without ever needing to tunic and it's also gonna be a good showcase of how we're gonna enter farron and back in time yeah so back in time will like always start us um on skyloft in the exact same position um but back in time is particularly powerful because we can take back in time to so many locations in this game in particular we can take it to fahren which is very useful for this run so that's what we're going to be doing next so i'm going to be saving my files here in the sealed grounds and then i'm going to be dying once again to do backing time uh this is actually a special layer of the sealed grounds that you're not supposed to be able to like reach casually uh this is sealed grounds layer zero uh the reason that we're on this weird state is because of the fact that we never got uh the hero's tunic so like yeah there's no deku babas on this map and there's no fence that's like preventing us from going down to the spiral early like there normally is yeah they are basically just meaning a different version of an area so the keem gamete keeps track rear layer um what like should be shown in still grounds depending what story flags you have and story events you did all right so now we come upon one of the longest back in time sequences in the entire run i'm going to start by copying file 3 to file 1 because we don't need file one anymore uh and i'm going to be coming over here we're gonna bonk into this tree this is going to load in the scene flag information from file one and uh because we've progressed file one enough it has the upper academy gates here opened up which allows us to get to the upper academy without having to like void out again as we did at the beginning then i'm going to talk to that statue with file one save file two reselect file one to open the gate backup and uh now we're going to be on our way uh over to the farron region except this time we're going to get there in back in time uh the reason i needed to save file 2 was because uh file 2 has saved the loft wing and so by saving file two we basically uh load in the flag that says we can call our loft wing and allows us to fly over here and get into the sky and then we will load the the sky with the fire we've just set up with diving and everything and again the reason is we couldn't load with the other file because that would crash uh back in time so we have to enter the laughing tutorial and luckily though we have diving on our files so we can do what you just saw us do in normal gameplay and fly into the fire pill here it's also important to note that it's that we have to select specific files here mainly to avoid some cutscenes and stuff so we watch the intro cut scene on file to instill ground so by selecting that when entering here the game is not going to play the cutscene again and we can just uh it's just a little bit quicker because yeah i'm always going to save file one here uh for later uh because that's gonna be like that's the file before laughing so just keep that in mind and we'll explain later what it exactly means okay so our goal with this back in time iteration is we're trying to get all the way into the skyview temple right um so like with the upper academy gates that i mentioned earlier um we could use that log that links between the sealed grounds and this behind the temple area here to completely skip having to go through the sealed ground sequence like with impa and everything um and we're essentially going to be using a similar technique to uh skip having to you know find all the kiwis here in farron woods and get the slingshot yeah this is uh player zero right now so there's no key quiz here again it's just because of our files not having the right story events on our file so the game's like yeah it should be on layer zero uh so there's no kikwies um so the one thing preventing us right now to enter the woods to enter skyview is the vine that's not down but we don't have a slingshot but what we can do here is uh we can we have that flag um set up from earlier what we can do here is we can die on our file one um which is then uh allowing us to basically reload the area in the game looking at our scene flags from that file and that file has the scene flag for the vine so the game is like okay good okay you have that scene flag so let's just put down the vine and uh yeah that way we enter deep it's woods no that's uh entering kikwil's house by the way so that's lowering the vine right so yeah you can you can sort of think like of each of these scene flags that we're talking about you can kind of think of them as like having individual numbers within their scene uh so like you know exiting coopeial's house on skyloft is scene flag five and having the deep the vine to the deep woods down here is also seen flag five in farron woods so because they have the same number um selecting one of them and back in time will have the other one happen uh if like you know you happen to be in fairing here yeah so next thing i'm going to do is we're going to load deep woods and it's going to be important to load it on layer one because we want to have a cutscene happen here so first we're gonna text file two which has uh the flag for the crystal being hit so the chris is gonna hit and that's gonna activate this um cut scene here and uh right after this cut scene we're gonna have the intro cuts in here and we will do the reverse bit worm this time we're gonna use coordinates from our files because this is not a new game file um and then the game is actually gonna read the coordinates on our file three and apply them to skyview right so that was a lot that happened all at once but basically uh the end result is that um if you remember we saved file two um back on skyloft during back in time at the upper academy bird statue and essentially what that allowed us to do is when we reverse bit worked into the skyview temple the game instead spawned us at the coordinates of that save statue instead of spawning us into the normal entrance of the skyview temple which is why we like skipped the first two thirds of skyview temple like that uh we do have to go into this room and then immediately go back out though because nothing inside the skyview temple is loaded properly when you do a reverse bit work like that but if you just change rooms yeah and then go back in then that will be fine we needed it for the rope here otherwise we couldn't go to the boss and the boss key yeah this rope doesn't spawn in when you do a reverse bit warp so kind of need the rope to get across and i've been shaking the rope to make this goblin get off i'm gonna be doing a safety save here because uh dying in skyview temple is like one of the worst possible mistakes you can make uh at this point in the run so we definitely don't want that to happen if we hadn't saved you of course we do still have six hearts so like i would need to mess up pretty badly yeah uh the main reason why it would be bad is like we have done a lot of copies and deletions and stuff so it would be hard to recreate doing this what we just did yeah so right here we're gonna do subscriber strikes to hit these fines uh we don't have a slingshot but we do have a longer sky with strike because of the hero above we're on so that's allowing us to do this right here and allowing us to get the boss key this way right the uh the oh i'm surprised i didn't make that yeah be close let's try that again thankfully the boss key is not located too far over yeah with a bit more momentum pretty tricky that movement here there is a nice tutorial yeah the vines the vines in it like any zelda yeah sometimes be tricky all right there and then we can take the vines back to the boss door over here and then we can put the boss key in uh the boss keys always start at the exact same orientation so we just memorized like how we need to orient the wii remote to fit them into the slot each time now it's time for our first boss of the run gear him one uh so the first phase of the gear him fight um it's basically just like you wanna bait gear at him to one side with your sword and then you want to attack him from the other direction with the motion controls in combat that this game has so he's over to the right we attack from the left and then stab basically just do this four times and then that'll be it for the first phase as long as i don't move too quickly [Music] and as long as i can quick spin this there we go all right so at the start of the second phase i'm gonna try to get a hit off him immediately by doing a jump slash uh this will work if like he gives us the correct attack but he didn't so spawning in the darts right away and jumping back wow this is not not a good start for the rng yeah so basically darts are just uh time loss and teleporting as well so uh want to want to avoid all of that more darts yeah vertical darts are the worst because he's always forced to jump back from them so we want either diagonal or horizontal darts and so not very good rng there but that's fine usually like if you get bad rng it only weighs like 20 seconds or so so not the end of the world but it is kind of annoying could probably do a donation right yeah we can do a donation right now awesome i have so many donations for you so you let me know whenever you want donations first of all i think it's important to mention as i'm going to be doing probably the whole run that one of gamelon is up to 136 thousand dollars out of 160 000 that is so that is less than 24 000 left you all are doing great so far keep those donations coming in we can make it happen we also just for you jim have a 1 000 donation from i know from matt lold which is amazing who says hi jim it's great to see you bruce luck i've been dying to watch this run as much as link does thanks to everyone admittedly i've not heard that one before that one's good thanks to everyone at gdq and up the prefence cancer foundation for the great work you do happy to forego a couple of new lawn mowers to donate to a fantastic cause matt does love his lawn mowers that's a very interesting fact to know about someone i will thank you very much for that matt as we continue through the run here we just got the ruby tablet which will allow us to go to the elden region next but first we have to do a few things so i'm going to be saving at this safe prompt here and then manually resetting the game using the physical reset button on the wii remote um because for some reason if you do a reverse bid warp and then try to save and quit the game will take you back to the splash screen anyway so confused which file you wear um yeah so it's just faster to manually reset in that circumstance and surprise surprise it's time for more back in time so file two uh if i won sorry was saved in silk rounds at the start of the back in time sequence we did so when we started we'll gonna show up there and we can die quickly with all damage so that's convenient and we're able to do back in time again all right so this time i'm going to be doing a reverse bit warp into the goddess statue so that i can place the uh ruby tablet on file 3. so this run is kind of weird because we started this run more or less on file one but then we kind of uh have like we beat the skyview temple and we're gonna be beating the earth temple in the elden region on file three and then we're gonna be going back to file one after earth temple so it's it's a bit weird but this this is indeed the fastest way to make it work so yeah it's just important that fireworks before saving your loftwing and that's uh why it's so difficult sometimes we have to switch files here and there oh yeah reverse bit warp here this time it's gonna be a normal reverse paper if you saw before because we're oh that was a little bit too early it would be if i didn't start the file too early yeah that's okay though we can just try it again everyone is a little tricky all right but yeah yeah i started just press the a button a little too early yeah it's good because we can explain uh why there's different rews so at the start we did with a new game file and just loaded it normally and it just so happens too that when you have saved a prompt the game will for some reason kind of treated very similar to a new game file so we have saved at the sky view prompt and by doing an rbw with a prompt the game will actually also load the next area normally just that's just the way the game is loading information with the prompt for some reason which is very convenient because otherwise we couldn't do this rbw because they've got a statute is very um yeah there's just not much space there to land so basically every coordinates gonna put you out of bounds and yeah and then we're just going to put out forever [Music] so yeah again um the first bit work here starting and then entering the statue all right so we'll start later this time yeah make it into the loading zone there we go so it's also important that we place this tablet normally instead instead of rbm'ing it like the first one we could rvm it as well but this time we actually want a tunic and it just so happens that the tuning cutscene always plays after a pillar cutscene the first pillar cutscene has been done and this is our first pillar cutscene we're actually watching on a gameplay file you'll notice the cutscene is a little bit uh glitched um just because that's not the right stay here uh but luckily we can't skip cutscenes or we're not soft block yeah we couldn't skip cutscenes this one that you briefly see right here would just kind of stay there forever yeah and because we just did a reverse bit warp we have to manually reset again uh once we do our next save yeah now file fee has a tunic although you didn't see it but it has now all right so now i'm going to do something very exciting i'm going to start file 2 and then i'm going to save and quit the game and go back to the title screen yeah so this it seems completely useless but this will actually fix uh which map file 2 is going to pull scene flags from when we select it and back in time uh so uh yeah so um essentially by saying it on skyloft we now have it pull flags from skyloft um beforehand it was pulling flags from the sealed grounds because that was the last place that we saved it while not in back in time which is also why we save file one again because we need to fix the scene index for final one as well for coming back in time it's just very important that we always have like a skyloft file here because we did so much in skyloft we want to keep those uh events still available to us all right so uh this next back in time sequence is probably the most complicated one in the whole game um i'm going to concentrate during it to make sure i don't mess anything up so i'll just let pepper explain things so this one is going to be a very big important one so first of all we're going to bonk here um to again open the gates but this time it's going to be 503 again we fixed the scene flag so it has now the skyloft stuff um then we're going to check the statue with file one and uh bit save file two so the reason we check with five one is a little bit convoluted but mainly uh we want to keep whatever the event not like whatever number seems like number checking the statute is on file one and keep that and then we're gonna do the normal loading into this guy here um so again loading into this guy with a file that has diving and layer three um do not crash and then we're going to uh dive into the pillar so the idea um what you went we wanted to want to rbm here is the lake florida doors opening so we're gonna first have to reach fairwoods for that and the ua statue checking the e8 statue just happens to be the same number as the flag that starts the cutscene for the gates so that's very convenient so right here we're going to enter the pillar with file one and then select file two but when was the last file he selected so he could just uh wait on the title screen so file two again here to just avoid the cutscene and then um we're going to select file free because it has the um skyloft flags and talking to fletch just puts this lock down here he's gonna select it by opening a splash screen and he can use this to like get a little boost here a little bit faster and then right here we're going to first a bit save file three just because we want the statue coordinates for later and then we're also going to bit save save and quit one um which i i resaved file three because i might have been a little bit too far away for the thing that's going to happen after this so it's important to save and quit here and do go back to the splash screen here and the main reason is that just the the statue flag tends to unsets when you save and not when you save and quit um we're not quite sure why but we're glad because we want to uh also say if i want here and then we're going to enter uh fair woods here and we're going to the basically the moment we select the file it's going to activate the cuts uh the cutscene of the lake florida gates so we're going start skip this cutscene and you can see like the little movement of link that the cutscene started so that looked perfect because we're only gonna see what that means in an hour yeah yeah the effect of that is not gonna come back for a while yeah but now that we've done that um we can now make our way to the elden region also using back in time yeah so i'm basically just going back over here to the spiral to get enough full damage to die so yeah uh the the the main reason or like we want which we try to like get multiple things in so in this back in time we had two things first of all the rem we did we're gonna see later what that did and the other thing we did was spit saving file three at the handle table statue and just as we did in sky view um we gonna do a rbw again a reverse bit work and this time we're gonna use the back behind the temple statue coordinates we just saved that and back in time and he's gonna put us somewhere very cool in eldon so first we're gonna uh save file two here to get our loft wing again uh we could save any file that has the lock wing but we tend to do file two because again file three uh we want to keep these static coordinates so we don't want to save it over and i do just normally don't need to be anywhere else except for skyloft and then again um we're going to select file 2 but this time we actually selected file 3 before calling lockwing uh and file 3 has a tunic so we can actually load the sky directly because tunic just has more sky loading zones right here we're gonna use the zipper uh to get some extra speed with the lock wing because the game is gonna get confused and gonna keep gonna keep this did you really have to say the game got no i didn't confused confused it just got pulled in with the extra speed uh so um yeah uh so yeah starting and then entering the pillar it's gonna put us out of bounds here all right so now uh because we saved uh file three at the behind the temple statue we now got those coordinates to apply to us in the elden volcano region and this puts us uh pretty far out of bounds in the elden region and the elden region uh as well as the la navy region in this game just have these like huge swaths of out of bounds collision uh which in this case we can kind of just use to like free climb elden volcanoes we don't have to go through like the normal path that's expected of us so we'll just be running up uh the side of this lava river here we have a donation that we want to get and we can do that now oh yeah so before i attempt to read like a bajillion donations when we get time i have a couple things for you one of which if you all did not notice the beginning of this run we did hit 700 000 which is very very very exciting so thank you all for that also another wonderful thing we are over a hundred and forty thousand dollars for wand of gamelon that means less than 20k left everyone keep getting those donations in love to see it and uh gymnast if you had to put your donations toward a game or an incentive what do you think you put it oh absolutely one of gamelon who doesn't want to see cdi speedruns they're amazing yeah see you heard it here from the master himself gymnast the amazing zelda runner so this means it has to happen the amazing zelda runner who just blew himself up with a bomb [Music] well yeah of course that was intentional um so we climbed up all of elden volcano here um and we made it to the entrance of the earth temple where we're going to save and do more back in time so normally um when you go through the elden volcano you pick up an item called the digging mitts and the digging mitts allow you to dig up dirt patches and get various items like rupees uh rare treasures or in this case to get into the earth temple normally you have to dig up five key pieces so that you can form the key to enter into the earth temple but instead we are going to use the power of reverse bit magic or rbm to help us get into the earth temple instead so uh the earth temple door being open um on the elden map corresponds to the same scene flag that opening up the shed on nighttime skylock does so for this back in time instance we're going to be sleeping in a bed to help make it nighttime and then we will be exiting the house yeah yeah if you want to explain the nighttime stuff you can only uh open the shed at night so we have to do just have to sleep here right now um we also have to leave um the house with a pilot does not have a tunic because again back in time likes to crash and this is the only night later we can access it doesn't crash and that's before getting the hero's tunic and then we're gonna do the thing starting before the event happens and then the event gonna get applied to ellen instead and in eldon it corresponds to opening the earth temple door which is gonna trigger this cutscene here yeah and then we skip the cutscene which places us in earth temple we're going to immediately turn around the camera so that we can um keep some platforms off camera because this will affect their cycle and allow us to get onto this one without having to wait for it uh we're going to set up a particularly tricky trick here called uh the community likes to call it the key seat uh where i'm basically going to be using my skyward strike to cut the rope that is all the way up here normally because i don't have the beetle right since we didn't uh get any b wheel items but now we can see that the skyward strike cut the rope right there um so that's very convenient because it means that we don't have to get the beetle yeah also do some cutscene skips here by being in the air when the cutscene happens that's very convincing [Music] yeah so um i think it's also worth mentioning that at this point uh we did not get the slingshot and we did not get the beetle we're not going to be getting bombs or uh any other b wheel item for that matter yeah um because in this game you actually uh or not actually but if you try to get other b wheel items before you get the slingshot um the game is actually just going to straight up soft block uh if you don't already have the slingshot so by skipping the slingshot we pretty much have to guarantee skipping every other b wheel item in the game yeah basically we don't get the b wheel if you don't get the slingshot first and without the b will the game just can't really use items anyway so yeah so another back in time sequence here um and this time it's gonna be earth temp inside earth temple yeah this one is a bit this one's interesting because we actually never want to go off the splash screen uh until we enter the night academy uh if we get off of the splash screen then we're gonna be loading information from file three um but none of the files that we have will put us on a layer of the night academy that won't crash so uh instead to get the layer we want we can just simply never load any information and the game will by default give us the layer we want which is very convenient yeah and we can stay off of the splash screen by using the uh we motion plus tutorial prompt so that we can press the a button without ever getting off the splash screen otherwise the there's like a cutscene and starts after like 20 seconds yeah yeah which put us out of back in time all right so seventh text box starter file this is going to apply the flag of having talked to pippit to the earth temple and uh for this flag to fully take effect we do have to reload the earth temple uh you'll see that right here we're watching the cutscene which normally only plays after the bridge to the second half of the temple has raised up um because we we did set the flag for uh the bridges being raised up but the effect doesn't apply unless we reload the temple right here and so now we can see that the bridges are up and we can continue on without having to do the boulder rolling section yeah just some actors just need a reload and some don't that's just how the devs intended it i think we might have a chance for a donation since we have so many yeah we can do a donation we do have a lot sorry i haven't been keeping up with them because we have a lot of things to read well now we are under 18k for one of game one so let's get some donations in for once here we go 75 from emilia who says let's go jimbo here's some love from all of gym chat may the rng be in your favor and get the extending blow now let's all show some zelda love and bring on gamelon we also have a 50 donation from primal merchant who says skyward sword is my favorite zelda game of all time so excited to see it demolished so quickly we have a 50 donation from code and data saying super hype for gymnast run of skyward sword and foo's commentary coming up thank you wonderful event and an awesome cause also let's get that one of game one run bet how much time do you have uh we can do one more okay great 25 from 64-bit link he says good luck gymnast on the run here's hoping the earth's temple keys cooperate putting a bit of cooperate yeah yeah yeah they they seemed pretty good to me putting a bit of my money towards wand of gamble on let's make that run happen all right well thank you guys very much for those donation messages i do appreciate it all right so we just got the boss key after climbing up some slopes and now we see the boulder that actually is the boss scaldera go into the mouth of the dragon to be carried into the boss room they found everyone's favorite boss yeah so scaldera is uh a bit of an interesting boss especially because of the fact that we never picked up the bomb bag so uh we have to be we have to do things a little bit differently um thankfully the scaldera arena does give us bomb flowers but they're all the way at the top of the arena uh where scaldera doesn't really like to be uh so the upcoming boss fight is sort of gonna be like um a balancing act of sorts between keeping scaldera up high enough uh so that we can actually both stun scalder with bomb explosions and roll bomb flowers uh into his mouth from the top of the arena yeah and that's not even all we also have to um first but do like exact damage most of the time so we don't get like different phases especially his last phase we want to avoid that as much as we can because he actually will then always roll all the way down and our bonfires won't reach him anymore then so it's important to do exact damage here yeah so ideally the fight will only take about three cycles uh after girahim finishes his expository dialogue about how he's so sad that zelda keeps on escaping his grasp while he still spends time talking a link i didn't even see cello get kidnapped so i don't even know what he's talking about that is true we didn't never see zelda get kidnapped so i don't i don't know how she got down here in the first place well this is what it is speedrun story progression is fun all right yes so here uh we just turn around run backwards uh we will be positioning ourselves near the bomb flower on the left here and just kind of wait for scaldera to climb up uh when he's close enough i'm going to pick up this bomb and then wait for him to get it just the right position to throw it it's gonna stun him i'm gonna pick up the next bomb flower and bowl it down the arena and then i want to do a quick spin and then a single slash on the eye right here i got this side and then hopefully right here he does not run back up too quickly uh the rng can sometimes be bad here but that was very nice i would definitely take that he's burning like this uh you can't really hit him with bombs so i need to hope that he doesn't burn them all right so we did the damage we wanted to if i could get behind him that's fine yeah just slightly slower if i got behind him fast enough um sculdera would have just like instantly rolled down here instead of walking all the way to the top but now with that precise damage count i can do a skyward strike to stun the eye and then ideally i would have gotten in two quick spins there but i was a little bit too close um when i began doing the first one so the second one didn't make contact in time but that's okay because i can just finish off the fight with another skyward strike right [Music] here this last phase nice oh yeah yeah if you mess up this fight that means that we basically like have to die and respawn and come back over here so it's not very good if that happens it is possible to soft block this fight but i mean jim though knows what he's doing so that doesn't happen [Music] uh we have time for uh one donation quickly here as we run up the arena all right i'll do my best there's so many oh my gosh okay we have 25 from saldana who says jim always makes an excellent job of providing clear explanations for the weird tricks involved without missing a step on his gameplay also one of gameland hype [Music] all right so we have finished the earth temple and now we can go and strike the goddess crest and get our amber tablet to open up uh the neighbor region i can actually charge a skyward strike there we go we're almost done with ellen almost done not quite though we do have to do some more setup unfortunately skylop was not enough for the whole game uh so we just have to get a little bit more here yes so there's one particular scene flag that we want in eldon which is uh talking to a magma kind of near like the beginning of the entrance to eldon volcano yeah so we essentially have to go all the way back down the volcano uh right now uh before we do that though um going back down the volcano is going to take some damage so i'm going to sit down and heal one heart and then save this statue uh because once we get the scene flag we'll be death warping uh to get back up here now we're gonna go over and do this trick called an extending blow uh it is unfortunately rng so hopefully it won't take too many tries you'll know when it works though because it's you'll know when it works we'll try to get him to just be on the edge uh almost almost right there just be on the edge and then the game will delete some memory of the copeland which is going to be useful all right so unfortunately the rng did not work out for us there so i have to reset and try it again uh what we're trying to accomplish with this trick is i'm trying to quick spin the bokoblin in such a way that it lands on the very edge uh of the ledge that it's standing on uh the problem with that is that the coblin has or the the knockback distance that the column goes whenever you attack it is random uh there are four different knockback distances it has so we just kind of have to get the correct one if we want to go down the volcano here correctly that's definitely not going to work this one again all right there we go and four hearts yeah that trick right there is the extending blow uh where we quite literally just heated ourselves down the volcano so that we could go watch this cut scene for the scene flag that we wanted so what happens uh during that trick is that when the bokoblin lands on that very specific spot on the edge of the ledge the game tries to begin the process of killing the bokoblin even though it didn't actually uh like fall over the ledge so the game kills the mccoblin but we still have the ability to target and like perform a final blow on the coblin and uh if you try to perform a final blow while the bokoblin is already dead uh the game just defaults to directing link's final blow to the origin of the map which are the coordinates zero zero zero yeah uh which is why we got flung all the way down the volcano because that's where zero zero zero happens to be an elden volcano very convenient that we can actually reach the flag we need with that extending blow so right now we're gonna do another sequence of back in time and uh this time we're actually gonna say um basically goodbye to five three uh we're gonna see it a couple times but uh main gameplay now is gonna happen on fight one so first of all we're gonna again uh bounce through to get the gate open but this time we're gonna collect a rupee with five three and what's it's gonna do is it's gonna update the inventory information on file three and that's gonna allows us to place the amber tablet here because we want to keep playing on file one but five one doesn't have the amber tablet so we have to rem it on to five one here so we can actually reach and keep in mind uh five one is before the tunic and before saving the loft wing so um yeah so we'll suddenly lose our tunic but it's just because we switched files that we're playing on all right uh one other small thing that uh you might see me do is um i'll sometimes start a file right before a loading transition back in time like right here um for some reason doing that will just speed up loading the next area uh and back in time so it saves like a few frames most of the time occasionally you can save up to like one second but most of the time it's just a small time save all right so just like the beginning of the run i'm gonna start my file about one second after the light hits the clouds to open up the pillar and uh now we can now that we have the pillar on this file we can uh fly to the sky and then make our way over to linear every time for a donation before the crazy stuff is going to really happen yeah all right we're just gonna be flying here okay good to know we are less than 14 000 away from wand of gamelon you're making it happen keep it up i i believe in you all all right we have a 50 donation from lord nightmare who says james brown of skyward sword is something really special to watch and his explanations of how everything works are very understandable this duration goes towards wand of gamelon because every zelda game deserves a chance to be seen at a gdq save the frames beat the cancer yes we do okay great we have a 502 donation which is amazing from sai marth who says good luck on the run jim shout outs to 502 in the zelda community all right thank you two for those wonderful donation messages as well uh so now we have entered la neru which is where the even more complicated stuff happens yeah the reason why the game is uh so fast now it's gonna happen here all right so first of all we're gonna start things off with another instance of reverse bit magic so we're gonna save at a statue uh thankfully the game provides us some bomb flowers over here that we can die with so dying does not take very long then we will once again reach the game over screen and i will continue and reset to begin back in time uh for this next back in time sequence we're going to want to go visit uh our friend the demon man betreau uh betro lives in uh like this little house on the underside of skyloft and so we're gonna be taking some flags from file three to help us get there specifically we're going to be taking um the flag of the earth temple door being open which is going to open up the shed here on skylock and we're also taking the uh flag that we got after the extending blow with the magma which is actually going to open up betrayal's door because by default patrol's door is not open uh so if we want to have it be open we need to find that scene flag in some other area on some other file uh to have it open up and back inside here just remember when we like opened the earth temple door we did an rbm with the shad opening so it just makes sense that it you know connects back yeah here he is he's pretty scary yeah oh wait i know i can protect us with the me motion plus tutorial here we go now we're safe now it's not scary so once seed finishes screaming uh we just have to do a jump slash and build yeah be scared and we'll realize that he's not the scary man we thought he was and he also has a ton of dialogue right now um so if we want to have one more donation being read right now we can we're just gonna be rbming at the end of the dialogue here sure thing uh i did have one that i saw it's a 25 anonymous donation that says well excuse me princess let's get that one of gamelon incentive and then one for you i also have a 25 donation from dylan fitz who says everyone in the sky with sword discord is going crazy over this run keep up the excellent work jim thank you very much hope you guys are having a good time all right so uh back there uh after we did the rbm i went over and had a small conversation with a dead robot and then phi came out and said yes this robot is dead and then she went back away um the reason that we had to check that robot is because we needed to perform what we call committing our scene flags so in some regions scene flags won't immediately take effect once we do uh reverse bit magic so what we have to do is we have to make some other scene flag change in the area for the change to properly be applied which is why we just had to talk to the uh dead robot there and then uh on file three now because we already used the magma cutscene scene flag that we had earlier we're gonna come back into the earth temple where we have another scene flag that here that we want to use for an upcoming uh instance of reverse bitmap basically changing scene on file three just as we did earlier with skyloft because we need these flags now and not the ln flags anymore d yeah yeah so this uh next back in time instance is gonna be pretty short uh this you've heard us mention reverse bit works a lot uh throughout this run this time we're gonna do a regular bit warp or just just a bit work so a reverse bit warp you might remember was when we started our file and then uh loaded a new area to put our file in that area uh a regular bit warp is where we're going to start our file and save at a statue at the same time this is going to bring the back in time coordinates of the saved statue onto our file so our file still spawns on the same map but it instead has the uh coordinates of where we saved it in back in time instead and just like eldon uh we have a giant swab of out-of-bounds collision here in la neru that we're going to be using to walk all the way back near the entrance so uh we definitely have some time for two donations right now all righty did you say 2 or 40 because i could do that unfortunately only two maybe three to make them quick um we have a 150 donation from sebille who says yeah good luck jim and hype for wand of gamelan we also have a 250 donation from ryoku to says big gymnast fan here glad to see him on agdq live for the first time okay yeah but one more yeah i can do one more yes all right we have a another 250 donation from mr crease saying second time watching skyward sword speedrun and it still blows my mind let's beat cancer and make the world a better place donation goes to wand of gamelon i believe we are oh my gosh we're so close to hitting the 10k away very close anyway all right so we have now reached the navru gorge uh so this region in la neru is not one that you're supposed to reach until much later in the game uh what did you say basically the last region uh and so this is the region where you normally go and uh like get the linearus song of the hero which is one of the last quests in the game before you reach the end and we don't need the song of the hero but there's one very useful um mini game here that you can take part in after you get the piece of the song the hero which is boss rush and so everything that we do here uh in the linear gorge is basically in an effort to begin or to have the ability to play the boss rushmore game yeah okay so to start things off yeah we're going to be doing an rbm that's going to get rid of a very specific rock that's in our way that we can't blow up because we don't have bombs uh near where we need to blow up the rock yeah basically it's gonna be uh quite hard to make the bus rush be available to us we have to do a couple things so in order to get the the the right layer where we can talk to the thunder dragon we need to finish the minecart escort and in order to be able to talk to the thunder dragon have him be alive uh we need to trigger a certain thigh text that only happens on the layer after the mica discord unfortunately though we can't really complete the minecart escort right now for a bunch of reasons and the main one being we don't have any items for it yeah so we have to basically uh rbm our way through um and this one's gonna be for making us able to finish the minecart escort sorry i'm not i really broke away we couldn't bomb otherwise so yeah fair and big here um this time we're going to use 5.3 to enter behind the temple that we have set up perfectly for this this is going to give us layer one because it has a tunic where we can save the goron and file three also has a flag that activates this cutscene here uh which is the reason why we entered uh earth temple in the first place and now um we only have to commit it and you'll see which rock it's gonna go away yeah so it's that rock in the background when i bonk into this wall the rock just kind of explodes uh that's what we're talking about with committing our flags because bonking into that wall reveals a rupee which sets a flag because the game doesn't want you to farm rupees there and at the exact same frame that we set that flag was when the game realized oh yeah we have this other flag to blow up the rock and so it just blows up the rock at that same time too so that that rock was blocking the path of the mine cart so if we didn't blow it up the mine cart wouldn't be able to get to the end of the track where we need to get it so next up is going to be an rvm that's going to start the minecart escort so we can't start it right now just because of the layer issues um but we can start it we are rbm that's what we're gonna do um so first of all it's gonna be another fair bit uh most of these are going to be um because it's just a lot of flags there we can get so yeah i was just gonna say that like uh the flags that we're getting in fahren we unfortunately can't get on skyloft because like if we tried to get them the game would just crash like well before uh we would be able to get them unfortunately yeah that's just what we have to deal with and unfortunately we didn't even find this flag on skyloft so far which is sad but yeah um [Music] so again loading the sky uh with our setup file which is still file two um and then we're gonna dive into the fahren pillar and this time uh we want to save much because again we wanna save the animals not sure if mushy's not quite the animal but part way at least yeah machi is the first kiki that you're normally supposed to save uh in the fairing woods when you first arrive there normally uh we skipped that entire sequence earlier but as pepper says you know this is a good run because we have to save the animals yeah so we go back for it we have to do that um so basically saving the machi and talking uh to him is gonna allow us to start the minecart so that's nice so again uh loading into sealed grounds here this time with five three also doesn't have the cutscene that we don't have to watch a cutscene which is the main reason for loading and then we're going to enter fair woods this time we have to enter it uh on uh layer one in order to uh save machi otherwise uh he won't be there yeah so i specifically need to interfere with file too file one or file three is not gonna work for this yeah well two has the flags for that so i wanna make sure i don't get off the splash screen for just a little bit here it's also important to um have one uh selected before killing these pokoblins um and you know just so the game is like okay good okay you you killed the copeland's here um and then when you talk to him uh he'll actually make his dialogue for being rescued and then we're gonna start after and then close the first text box so that since uh the temporary flag uh for the minecart that we want uh this time for committing we're just gonna blow up this boulder uh if we can get the bomb flower to blow it up luckily we have the bum flow here though because we don't have any bombs yeah we could also bonk into like the pillar that's in the background there if we wanted to but it's just very convenient um bomb cactus is faster uh one thing to also note is that when we die here uh in the linear gorge it's faster to die into the void versus dying on the ground uh because link doesn't have to go through his whole like attempts to get back up and fall down animation that normally happens yeah all right so i have to remember to copy file one to file three here you do not need file three anymore at least the old file three yeah the old first thing [Music] right here yeah you can explain it okay so right here we're gonna do another bit work and another abuse of the out of bounds um area so we're gonna use the uppercase academy statue here again and do the starting and saving the same time and we're going to be out of bounds in linear gorge and the main reason is we want to reach the last checkpoint of the my cut escort and with the data button out of bounds movement we can actually reach that right here yeah so we're going to be running for like 30 seconds so we can probably sneak in a quick donation here while this is happening yes okay so we are less than 8k away from wand of gamelon i believe we can make this happen before the end of this run by the way we have a 20 donation from uncle jerry saying jim zelda runs were what first got me into speedrunning and i'm so happy to finally donate during one of his runs wrong game but ask for my help i'll put this toward gamble on because more zelda is always more good all right so right here um the collision unfortunately does not last forever uh so it does end about here but if i line myself up correctly i can jump up to this higher portion of the collision right here and this allows me to finally get to where the lion card normally is yeah uh so for the last checkpoint of the minecart escort um i have to get near the door that the checkpoint starts at uh to do that i'm going to have to go through quite a lot of quicksand um so i will need to go here to make sure i don't take any fall damage here because that would be very bad and then i'm gonna do this trick called the brake slide right here which allows me to slide through the sand at a much faster rate than i should normally be able to um i basically paused right there so that i could hold z and um slightly down on the control stick uh this will cause link speed to become negative and when link speed is negative the quicksand doesn't slow him down because the quicksand is only programmed to slow down link speed if link speed is positive so we got the full force of lynx momentum back there going through the quicksand which allows us to get to the door and get the minecart free and then this is where the boulder was that we blew up earlier otherwise the minecart would stop here and uh very cool thing that's going to come up we just have to wait for the mine cart to reach there within the next minute so let's hear those donations alrighty guess what they're a lot okay so we have a 500 donation from john ness saying so excited to see gymnasts running zelda for such a great cause huge thanks to the runners staff and all the viewers that make hq such a success a quick peek in one of gamelan we are almost at 7k away we can do it okay next next donation oh my gosh so we have a uh 50 donation from shady ashley who says this skyward sword run is intense we've gone back in time so much i don't even know what time it is anymore you keep up the impressive work gymnast put this donation towards one of gamelon of course i wonder what's for dinner all right so we successfully waited for the mine cart uh to be put in place so now we can save our first file go back to our third file that we copied during the previous bit work and on this file we're going to go get the goddess harp because the goddess harp is very necessary for uh being able to complete the game fast yeah basically race again of time right so if you'll remember um back at the beginning of the la negra region we did that whole reverse bit magic sequence with the demon man betroth who was very scary but he actually does something very nice for us uh by rbming his text we can set the flag for having visited the temple of times statue in la neru right so the temple of time statue is uh a statue you're not supposed to be able to access until you've beaten the leneva mining facility but because of rbm we now just have access to this statue in the top left of the region here and this essentially allows us to skip you know the entire linnae reminds the entire linear desert uh as well as the entire linear mining facility i mean we're going to be going into the mining facility for like a second because to trigger the cutscene where we get the heart we have to leave the linear mining facility but thankfully just this just works by like going in and going out again we will skip a cutscene with the two button and then i will skip a cutscene or attempt to skip a cutscene with another side hop uh after this save prompt right here all right very nice or the bag flip again window here so good job yeah thank you okay so we're gonna save this file here and then i'll be dying with this octa rock and now it is time for what is probably the hardest uh instance of reverse bit magic in the run it's time for the harpstrum rbm uh so for most of the rbms that we've done you know they've been things like you know start our file and like close a text box at the same time or like you know push the gravestone for entering earth temple early uh for this one i'm actually going to have to start my file while playing the hearth in the sealed grounds so it's a bit tricky just because of like having to use the heart motion controls at the same time as we're starting our file but we'll do our best here the good thing about this rvm though is that we're going to see a lot of brews so yes there will be lots of roofs during this rbm so there's that i know kung fu is excited bruce is the best yeah first of all we're gonna load the sky as we uh did before with file two and enter the fahren pillow but this time we're gonna enter the fern pillow with five three and five three just got to harp and in game play after you get the harp the next thing that's going to happen when you enter the ferrum pillar is the cruise cut scene and it you know that the same thing will happen if we enter the farm pillow with fire three so that's what we're gonna do here right now and then we're gonna see the cruise cutscene and the cruise cutscene is gonna put us where the goose cuts normally puts us which is behind the temple um and there we can then just talk to him and that's going to be nice to activate some story events that's going to allow us to get the cutscene of the stuff before raising the gate of time probably also important to note that the reason why we like we don't we can't get the statues um select screen because that's crashes and back in time so it's very nice to be able to land and back and uh behind the temple here with this cutscene which is it's just a little bit faster than landing in still grounds because again the statues like screen is always going to crash so we're going to avoid that right here we're going to keep the flag from talking to cruz because again that's going to activate this event here it's going to happen it's kind of important to stay on a splash screen right here because otherwise we're going to um not activate this event and we're gonna hear some nice uh goose noises [Music] in this um some text here yeah so uh the specific event that we're rbm in here is um learning how to play the harp with impa so normally what how the game like makes this work is you play the harp with impa and after you finish the tutorial it sets um a flag that says you've completed the heart tutorial pretty much and so we essentially want to get that flag onto our file here on file one and hopefully it'll work uh as soon as we get through this [Music] i got my harp strumming [Music] all right i think that worked if we get the thigh text here yeah all right yes there we go this is the one time we're very happy to hear phi speak because if i doesn't speak there it means that you messed it up and that you have to go try and do it all again [Music] so because of the fi text the thunder dragon is now considered to be healed and we can activate his boss rush mini game uh so in the boss rush mini game uh you normally aren't supposed to be able to like activate this mini game until you're way later into like the game's story progression so the game does make certain assumptions about what flags you have set right now and that's going to come to our advantage here so the first boss that we're going to be fighting fighting in quotes is prison one [Music] do you want to explain like how the flags here work because yeah so basically what happens is in order to make the fight work in the zeal grounds the imprison one fight um and the game thinking you have certain story events um already done uh the game needs to unset certain um story events so for this one to work you know um you don't want to have a cruisinator in here so okay um so that's gonna be on set and after we die or finish the fight the game will then put these flags back because obviously the game doesn't want you to keep away the story progression you just um acquired so it's going to give you these story flags back and now we have them so now we have a beaten ancient sister which spawns the crucinator and we have also beaten fire sanctuary which changes some attacks and grooves which is why it also gets on set all right so now following in prison one we're going to go and fight fight in very large quotes in prison too yeah as paprenika said we can either like finish the fight or just die obviously dying is a lot faster than having to finish an imprisoned fight so that's the course that we choose yeah um we're also gonna get a random message from phi here which has nothing to do with this fight but just kind of my consequence happens yeah it's another flag from imprisoned funding yeah and then once again uh we will be dying to the imprisonment's feat in uh in my splits uh for the skyways at any percent run this is my death by feet split yeah so the important part he was dying to imprison two not in prison one uh but we needed to die to imprison one to make in prison two not crash because if you don't have the gruesonator um in the prison two the game is gonna crash and as i said earlier um imprison one does set the crucinator being um out in the seal grounds and beating in prison two is gonna allow us to open the gate of time which is basically allowing us to reach the end of the game um right yeah yeah so uh there's one more thing we have to do we have to fly back to skyloft because we need a very specific scene flag uh for the next back in time we're going to do which is the last back in time sequence which as mentioned is going to be the one where we open up the gate of time so we need um we once again need the scene flag that we got all the way back at the beginning of the game when uh we rescued professor hornwell's uh remlet uh because that scene flag is what allows us to target the gate of time while we're in back in time and it saves a lot of time so it's worth our time so yeah we're going to save and quit here uh it's a lot faster to just save and quit and then die with file three because file three is uh still saved out here at the temple of time statue with the octa rock nearby yeah and only two hearts this uh rbm is a little bit complicated um but it's mostly understandable i think but first of all at least we'll we'll try we're trying our best um so first of all we're going to go back in time and again a bit safer too to get our loft wing and be able to uh call a loft wing and yeah yeah i i forgot that back in time here is a lot more precise than most areas for some reason um in the linear region like if you just watch the harp cut scene and you try to do back in time i need to do like the reset on my wii console immediately after pressing continue um most back in times you have like a full second after pressing continue to make it work but this one's only like a few frames so this should work now there we go yeah a bit saving photo and entering the sky and then we're going to use the um gru's cutscene again and again we didn't even raise the gate of time yet so we have to do both raising and opening in this one rbm here and luckily we can combine them which is quite fast so uh first of all again we're going to go to the gru's cutscene and activate the event that happens after and this time we're going to directly open the splash screen when we enter the sealed temple to stop the cutscene from happening that we use the other time [Music] so we can actually just go to and raise the gate of time so yeah all right so while we're flying and diving here we probably have time for another one or two donations real quick all righty so we have some really good donations right now uh we are just about three thousand away we're so so close for now we have a ten dollar donation from giggo saying basically we're going to save our donation and then open file three and reload into the agdq scene with the wand of gamelon flag set exactly that's correct see jim gets it i'm sorry i found that one really funny we also have a 100 donation from nat's fan he says this one looks confusing but it's all explained in the official time the zelda timeline you guys don't remember where link died 22 times and skyward yeah can we get a five dollar trade going to close out want to give one now you can do one more awesome we have a uh 15 donation from where's what i'm looking for oh no 25 donation from irvy who says a haiku great skyward sword run keep donations coming for wand of gamelon excellent all right so back into the sealed temple we go now this time i need to get off the splash screen immediately i'm going to be saving file one right here at this bird statue and then i will be entering into uh the ballad of the goddess circle and because of the scene flags that we have on file one we're just instantly going to get the battle of the goddess yay and this is going to start the gate of time raising cutscene and now that the gate of time has risen we can use the flags on file one once again to allow us to target the gate of time and then i will start by file slash the gate of time with the skyward strike and this will open the gate of time on file one and allow us to proceed to the past without us having to complete the linear mining facility the ancient cistern the sand ship the fire sanctuary the entire song of the hero sky keep absolutely none of that is necessary and that's more or less uh well that's one of the big reasons we can skip so much of this game the other reason is the uh rbm that we did about 45 minutes ago before we went to the elden region uh that rbm opened up uh the door to the past here or the door to hailey is realm uh which is basically the final five minutes of the game right here so uh that individual rbm saves about 75 minutes on its own because being able to open this door early skips the entire song of the hero and the sky keep dungeon and because we're on hero mode we can hold two to skip what would be a soft lock cutscene but thanks to custom skipping as well and now it is time for probably the most tense five minutes of the entire run with the final boss pilot right here you want to settle any good news cause we just hit one game alone oh nice very nicely everybody great job okay you can focus no thank you let me just get back to hacking and slashing all these guys here yeah there they're going really far back that was not uh that was a bit scary okay so unfortunately i took uh two hearts of damage from those blue captain coblins and i'm going to be taking two more hearts of damage up here um because i'm going to attempt to do what's known as the forge skip where i run up the shield of the moblin that's going to spawn on the left side here to skip an entire revolution around the spiral just like this there we go i don't have the sail cloth so i can't prevent myself from taking damage and now we're only on two hearts for the rest of the ride yes good luck to me yeah good luck for sure um so yeah he has only six hearts luckily he does have the two master swords so at least he can break the blockade of these bicolans but they still have a longer range than him for some reason even though he has a true master sword so he has to be very careful and there's also these aimbot archers next coming up so he's gonna make sure that's not gonna get hit by those because dying here is quite unfortunate so we're gonna hope here everyone needs to get their energy to gym right now um as we're going into the final fight of horde here after that it's mostly safe yeah i mean i have died even here before so yeah we're still on edge once we once we finish this horrid fight though then we won't have to redo it again yeah because it there's like a checkpoint there so if we die then we're just gonna get put back to the checkpoint try to use skyward strike spin attacks to get rid of all these ones they're very far away okay there we go nice then we will have links stand in the evil energy it's not supposed to be there it's not supposed to be here yeah it's because we never did seal grounds uh and never hit the spike at the very start all right so this is the gearing three fights uh this first phase is basically just slash him off the edge and then do a very epic looking final blow into his chest a bunch of times yeah even funnier if you move backwards and you jump like really far that's quite funny but we want to go fast so we're going to do a little a tiny one and jump down it's a little bit faster make sure to avoid this kick and we don't want to slash along the line that the c presents makes you want to slash perpendicular yeah press face down platform is going to go down and gear him is going to land in the evil energy even though this wasn't intended i really like this because it's great foreshadowing for the fact that gearhem is actually an evil character in this game great really yeah see the evil energy just gives him an entirely new aura we're gonna quick spin his sword away do some skyward stabs which is a skyward strike that we stabbed for one cycle this phase also black yeah the evil energy causes a lot of lag here if it's taking up most of the viewport so we do have to deal with that time loss and then gear him brings out the big boy sword which we have to break if we want to stab him again so we have to make sure that we once again go perpendicular to the sword and that's your hymns three yeah only one boss to go only one boss all right so to make this fight a little bit more interesting um i'm actually going to put on a blindfold for it uh once we go through this text right here uh doing this flight blindfold that i actually think is a lot of fun so i think i'll try it here doing this marathon run get my blindfold on put my headphones back so i can actually hear things can i say i'm really hyped for this now it's just listening nice all right good first phase and now we are on to the second phase which involves the lightning now once again be listening [Applause] [Music] stay nice wow amazing how my hair's all messed up all right that was awesome but yeah that was the legend of zelda skyward sword in however long that run took because i don't have the timer anywhere uh 126.45 all right very good 59 minutes faster than the run one year ago roughly so uh yeah that was pretty much a showcase of all the progress that uh the skyward sword community has made over the past year with all of our uh various discoveries and things to help make the game faster i'd like to shout out my fellow co-commentator copernicus for commentating this run for me and also for being uh someone who found a lot of the techniques that uh we got to show you guys today for this run so thank you very much copernicus thank you thank you for inviting me here it's a lot of fun and yeah i think no skyward sword marathon would be complete without shouting out azer as well yeah for sure uh azer is uh is like a huge help to the community with just you know testing and documenting all of the different flags that this game has so that we can uh make the routes that we do for this game azer is like basically the routing genius behind uh what you guys saw here today yeah uh yeah do you have anyone you want to shout out pepper yeah so one person i definitely want to shout out is aleppolog who all that is a lot of reverse engineering for this game and making it more accessible for like other glitch hunters like me um and also for uh making a randomizer to this game which is also very cool um so you can definitely check that out as well as our speedrun uh discord we have a lot of cool categories not just any percent all of them have very cool tricks uh but yeah so uh thank you guys very much for watching thank you very much to gdq for allowing me to run this game for a third time in the last two and a half years uh gives us a great way to show off all the progress that we've made in that time so uh yeah hope you guys continue to raise a lot of money to kick cancer's but i'm sure we'll be doing that very well in the future and uh yeah i think that is it from me so once again thank you guys very much and i will see you guys later later [Music] well thank you so much gymnast again that was a fantastic run very impressed with the blindfold at the end good oh thank you freaking work on that okay so i'm gonna get in a few donations real quick because i want to make sure that um gymnast gets to hear hopefully uh some of this there's so much love coming in for gymnasts which is totally understandable for example a twenty dollar donation from fousey fuzzy ski saying i love hearing people explain back in time during skyward sword speed runs it gives off major kingdom hearts storyline energy donation goes to one of gamelon we also have a 50 donation saying uh from sabre 13 who says first time donator and had to donate during the skyward sword run the zelda series has always been my favorite and watching gymnast totally break this game is so wild i'll be honest i totally lost track of what's happening with the save files but nevertheless an entertaining run oh and gotta donate toward that one of gamelon incentive we had a lot a lot of wand of gamelan um things as well coming in donations there's so much there's so much love during this run i have to say all right everyone so glad you were all here with us this evening hope you're all enjoying the marathon and we will be back after a short break okay 2021 online powered by twitch we are going to take a quick moment to learn a little bit more about one of our sponsors so fan gamer is a video game merch company that has new awesome games done quick hddq merchandise available now including event badges a limited edition pin a desk mat mug socks and more i have seen pictures of these i am going to be grabbing some myself they look amazing i can't wait you can see them on the screen right now they're so wonderful a hundred percent 100 of profits from gdq merch sales will be supporting the prevent cancer foundation you can go to fangamer.com that is www.fangamer.comgdq to check out this awesome merchandise and pick them up for yourself before we get on to our next segment we have a few donations to read i wish i could read all of these for you all because there's so many amazing donations that i still didn't get a chance to read but that's okay just know that you are loved i have seen them there's a lot it's well done so we have a 1 000 donation from inso noor who says woke up early to watch one of my favorite zelda runs thank you all for keeping up this event love from the eu we also have a 25 donation from not confused at all who says if kingdom hearts lore could be a speed run it would be skyrim sword are you managing six timelines we're going to be joined by some lovely fellow interviewers of mine to do another awesome daily recap take it away why thank you foo uh and you're not allowed on this one this this this one we're doing alone okay welcome to the daily recap this uh my name is jobs i'm joined with keys by kizron and spike vegeta as as expected you know uh we we got the the just three stooges up in this one i swear uh sorry in advance we're here to break down the runs that you maybe saw maybe you want to just see some highlights again or maybe some runs you missed since we did the last daily recap a lot of great runs today fellas like this this was a a good day full of runs uh and i let's just get right into them keys you actually i know are gonna go into some from last night yeah so i mean the horror block in general is just really really good but uh the the games that really stood out to me the most were left 4 dead 2 and fear and we're going to start off with left 4 dead 2 here now waifu is going through um i can't remember the name of the level they do say it in the clip so that's my bad but he gets he gets charged by a charger shocking a charger charges but he kills the charger like basically frame perfect so he doesn't actually get stuck and if you don't know how it works with solo play if you get caught by a special infected it's over you're toast so he somehow survives that and actually we'll roll into another clip that was immediately after where he just gets completely swarmed by a bunch of zombies and you're gonna see him fight them off for like a good like 20 or 30 seconds but somehow some way a hunter will show up at some point in time too and charge him and he'll like just absolutely demolish that thing i i cannot believe he did not die like he's healing damage how is he not dead how did that healing work there i was like how did he possibly get that off like how is he alive and he just he pulls it off he pulls out waifu waifu's sick waifu is fantastic at this game that's really all he can say about he makes it all the way to the end you're gonna see him eventually there's the hunter that i was talking about you're gonna you're gonna see him make it all the way to the end after all this chaos and he's just i i don't know what else to say he's nuts it's like a bullet hell with zombies one of two amazing performances today by waifu both in the context of these daily recaps this and devil may cry 3. watch out both those great performances yeah i know that was just kicking things off in kind of the horror block of the night though what about this next one so there's a lot of momentum-based tricks that you see in fear that use um you know exactly what i said momentum they'll take advantage of objects to be able to skip through things and this one's actually using a floppy drive that he has to hit behind this line if he passes this invisible line which is why he's leaning over the corner then the door behind him closes so he's actually using his gun to shoot the drive towards him and he's gonna put it close to the edge here and it takes him a couple of tries i believe it took him three tries but by using the momentum of shooting that and then jumping off of it he does an extremely large skip now i don't know what the actual name of the skip is but the new name for it for me is the sloppy floppy because it took three tries doesn't matter if it was sloppy doesn't matter if it was clean that was a really cool trick he almost gets it the second time he's so close you see him almost make it and in the third try he gets it oh my god amazing trick how could he like that's so unbelievable to me that he could just manipulate this prop in the uh like in the level to just be out in their firm to jump off of but let's uh get ready for the next one we saw a little bit of a preview of it there because later on we had the uh we we had several different games one of which was spider-man shattered dimensions this is one that i was hyping up a little bit during the last daily recap all we got for you right here is just a chunk of movement like just look at how great the movement in this game is you just go flying all over the place and there it seems like despite being a 2d spider-man game which is not something that i think you often hear a lot of praise for anything he still just goes flying all over the place then we go into the uh the playstation block soon after that or immediately after that which is you know absolute favorite of mine always spyro reignited trilogy being run by sick three here uh does a fantastic damage boost look at this thing just positions himself perfectly to get hit by that enemy and hopped up to the egg and then you could see a good old sire relief there from zick right at the end i just i could not believe that he pulled that off it's such a very difficult strat and now you got dev cow that picked it up right where zick left off going into crash bandicoot and st trilogy a couple years ago he tried to go for the skip was not able to hit it but now he's going to go up bounce off of this burn into some spikes and then somehow go whoop and then whoop and then john was getting whoop and then he's just up on top of the level right now and now you think okay is the trick done nope we're gonna show you nothing he's gonna start walking off to the side and eventually end the stage in there going off of only audio cues amazing amazing stuff right there by deb cal like i said tried to hit it a couple years ago hobbs you were on the couch this point he wasn't able to hit it then nailed it this time great i love seeing that happen because i've seen runs of the game and it's just always funny every time it's so good but we had a great run later in the evening didn't we one of the most technically amazing speed runs that i think you're ever gonna see at a gdq this was absolutely beautiful to watch from start to finish and it was capped off with the amazing 5'4 skip here by calco and yoshi's island you're supposed to take an auto scroller we do not like auto scrollers we are going to instead perfect flutter every six frames you have to be able to nail that flutter to go across this entire screen but not only that this is 100 so he's got to pick up coins he's got to pick up flowers so to get these reds he's got to pop off a batch dupe this red go to the right come back on get that second right off the duke dupe another one to the left pick it up pick more up and now we got half more auto scroller to go get that bank shot get rid of the flower bait the three bats because we're gonna need to bop off of them to get more height for our flighters did i mention that's a pit below him and by a pit i mean the entirety of this screen moving further across keep in mind he's got to both move yoshi and aim his eggs with the d-pad we don't got any analogs or anything this is from 1995 technology baiting him baiting the bat even further delaying off the shy guy for one final bop into a perfect flutter and at the end this was amazing beautiful run from start to finish but this was the run of the day i i've never even seen i've never even played rather uh yoshi's island and even i was looking at that with like my heart rate was just increasing constantly i was on the floor for that how did he pull that off okay well we we we gotta leave y'all with one just just silly just silly moment from a silly video game it's ice age scratch nutty adventure we talked about it in the pre-show yoshi pro is a super cool dude and actually starts this one off by running into some problems just look at the camera spinning all over the place he was trying to save it ends up dying and then has to kind of do this slide section over again and the whole time he's just constantly like whoa what's going on i'm bouncing all over the place this isn't supposed to be happening having to just work his way back onto the level this video game came out in 2019. this came out in 2019 we've just learned this 15 minutes ago how is that not a game from like you know from like 2001 or something right when those movies came out yeah we all saw that on the schedule oh that was probably like early 2000's no this game i just came out and it looks just fantastic yes in every sense of the word fantastic for sure check that one out but we're not done just yet everybody uh let's look forward a little bit let's look to a brighter tomorrow let's see what do we got up on the docket that people are excited for keys well i mean we we know what my answer is going to be tamara has pokemon platinum and you know i love pokemon and ecchi is a fantastic runner pokemon platinum has some really really amazing rng manipulation to make the beginning game so much safer and make you take a bunch of risks that you wouldn't normally see someone take so it's gonna be a fantastic run and i definitely recommend checking that out yeah that should be fun pokemon platinum like you said hasn't really been in before right or at least not in the world no yeah it's gonna be really cool uh spike what are you looking forward to that's great pokemon's one of the five actually good video games being played tomorrow the rest of it is awful block you go to sleep it'll be awful you wake up the games are still bad and you all should watch that actually looks like a fantastic video game but it looks goofy as heck epic dumpster bear there's an incentive up you can watch cut scenes if there's an awful block with an incentive for cutscenes you put down your donations for the cutscenes oh beyond that it looks like actually a great speed game with koala and lincoln's doing a race of it please watch that we'll be doing a post game race interview with them afterwards hobbs what do you like out of all these trash video games bears no sorry i had to do the callback that was your life all right no i'm looking forward to the wand of gamelon zelda wanna gamble on this philip cdi game is coming up next and it's just just so good like it's so good with how bad it is man i love that it's all cut scenes that is really the fun of that game i think and i've heard that actually the runs for these like phillips cdi games are surprisingly pretty difficult and like technical and can be really interesting too so i'm excited for that but i'm mostly excited to watch all those cutscenes again i i thought that was great uh we're pretty much out of time here folks i just wanted to thank you all again for raising a hundred and sixty thousand dollars for this stupid meme game man like thank you it was really like a bright moment of the day to see this game this bonus game get met um for for the all the money that got raised for the prevent cancer society so seriously thank you so much uh really needed this right now we're gonna go ahead and give it back to kung fu so we can get ready for that game bye everybody alrighty well i miss talking with you all but that's okay i forgive you no thank you for giving us an awesome daily recap really appreciate it hello welcome back everyone it's me we have a few donations that i would love to share with you all first of all there was a 2200 that's right 2 200 donation from blinks who said 100 per intentional death that was for skyward sword that's awesome we also had a 50 donation from anonymous saying awesome run by gymnast everything was perfect the runner the couch the host thank you thank you for make thank you thanks for making this event so great oh my we had a 25 donation from pressing power who says amazing run jim and blindfold final fight first try wow we also have a 500 anonymous donation it says enjoying the run of link dies uh skyward sword keep up the great work agdq putting this towards the experience that is cdi zelda i know i'm so excited to see it we have a 10 donation from tim redd saying this skyward sword run always makes me feel like

Channel: Games Done Quick

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Length: 110min 35sec (6635 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 11 2021