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12-31-2025 · 12h 13m
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Hello everyone and welcome on in to the game's done quick hotfix and welcome to
out of the box on this the final day of the year 2025. It's been an interesting one. I know
it's been difficult at times but I hope there's been good times too. We're going to have a show
this evening with some fantastic games from 2025 and on out of the box what I'd like to do is
kind of simulate the experience of going through the year. First we're going to take a look back
kind of going to voyage through a very charming adventure called Lego Voyagers with our friend Sonic
7 and then we're gonna charge ahead into the new year,
fearlessly with Hades to on a fresh file,
showcase with Mininet.
Without further ado, let's build something
one last time in 2025 to remember together.
It's an any percent solo run of LEGO Voyagers
with Sonic 7.
All righty.
So this is gonna be LEGO Voyagers,
any percent.
I'm gonna be playing both players
on two different controllers, keyboard and controller.
With me I've got my commentator,
cartoon, cartoon game introduced yourself.
Hello, I'm cartoon, also I'm with this game,
and I'll be copying Sonic commentator's run.
Yeah, all right, so we can go ahead and get started.
I'll give you a countdown for time.
Three, two, one, start.
Good luck to you, Tom.
Thank you, thank you.
This game's very unique because it's one of the LEGO games
that isn't based off of like an IP or like,
it's own thing.
So we've got these two little dudes, blue and red.
I don't know if that's their names,
but I'm pretty sure it's fitting for them.
So you'll notice, as I said,
I'm controlling both players.
That's kind of a big thing in a lot of LEGO games,
first key running is you can kind of do twice as much
with both, if you use both players.
So I've got my left hand on my keyboard on WS&D
and I got my right hand with my pointer finger
on the left stick and I think he on the buttons primarily.
And so that's not a little bit.
Many Lego games are what you might affectionately
called co-optional, where co-op is faster in speed running
context because you can have a second version join you.
Voyagers is intended to be played as a co-op experience,
which is to say there is no single player mode.
Unless you are in Sonic 7 and choose to make one for yourself.
Exactly.
exactly. So here we're going to see kind of the intro of the game. There's not
much to explain here because kind of just get to see how we start. So the whole
story by this game is these two dudes and they live on the silent and then they
see like a cool rocket launch and they want to go to space. So they go on this
a big adventure to try and go to space.
You know, I never really like boil it down, but this literally is if two lego bricks were
the space square from portalism to.
Literally, yeah.
Like, they're such good one thing and that was in this space.
Let's true.
Pretty much a pinnacle map.
Yeah, I would say this kind of does as a game what movies this far back is like fantastic
Mr. Fox or like spider verse it gives something more recent to it kind of pieces together
a number of different visual styles there's these really like enjoyable touches in design
with, like, you saw the, the rocket kind of take off with, like, a different animation style than everything else we've seen in the game so far.
And there's all these sorts of touches like that, like you could see, um, I don't know how well it translates across to the Twitch stream, but this is also very much an RTX showcase title, which is funny, because the Lego bricks aren't inherently reflective, but they really need to do that.
Right, yeah, now this team did a kind of work to build an inviting world for you to play around him with a cool apartment.
Yeah, so a lot of Carco didn't find out about here at the start.
So what something to do right now is he's boosting his other player up by sort of jumping onto them.
And what he just did was also latch onto the other player.
the status of mechanic that you can use.
And I'm going out of bounds here,
he's able to jump on top of this rocket collision.
And he's also going to be going far enough
for the red player to be able to respawn this Blintwader
close to the red, so that it doesn't have to be the jump twice.
And that's a pretty big section with platforming.
It's slightly slower to do that.
Respond work, strap, with player 2,
But judging that this is solo, I'm not going to go enough,
but the movement is doing with blood players.
If you're doing a call up run, you might would do that.
Which I'd say that's where this game kind of shines
speed on my ass is like with a lot of other games,
call off I would say it's harder once you get one,
two, two, two, three down because like you have two
different people who like are thinking different things.
And I have to like coordinate with each other.
With this game, that's still the case.
but there's so much more complexity to having
to be controlling both players in a entire time,
rather than being able to drop play the doubt,
that being able to do a lot of movement
as it's like it walks with another player
just makes it so much faster and easier.
Yeah, we were talking while you were setting up
that in a fashion,
this is almost being able to do a 1p2c run on my QP1c,
where it's all about reading the other person's intentions
having that muscle memory down. This is almost kind of more like knowing how to play a piano or a drum kit,
where you're teaching your body to do different actions in different parts in time with each other.
They were doing another player of course, and playing more of them. These are pretty common throughout the game for this video.
because you can kind of just climb really high with them.
Like there's a lot of sections we can just skip,
because we're able to do this.
Like I don't think it's intended for you
to have so much range on the clean
or for it to will feel a player,
but it's something that can happen.
Another thing that we forgot to mention,
right at the start, it's actually skipped the first island,
like the entire two minutes of it or whatever.
There's a way you can control both players
for where you can just skip the minute height
or infinite distance through water.
And the reason I didn't go for that is,
I don't understand how it works yet.
And so I kind of just mash.
And that's a big root of all the methods to the bug.
And I think that would be a great way to start,
because it's also just a big reset point.
But in the way that is a nature of friends
that are, you know, games that are new,
that run, they're still developing.
That's why the times often come back,
two, three, four, five years after their first appearances
in no research showcases to see
how the community has developed the tricks to the outlaws.
Yeah.
How can you explain what's happening here as I'm doing it?
Because I kind of want to be the focus on this work.
Here at then, so we still have a bunch of these while clients and latches.
And what Sonic is going to do up here is something called a great skip.
Normally you're supposed to fall down that hole,
and for the long section, I'm going to have this mountain,
but if you jump off the screen, you can actually latch on to the brick there and skip that entire section.
But since we have to get our other player over as well, he's going to be making the play over with the moon first.
It's going to be pretty tricky, but what he's going to do now is he's going to abuse
the respawn mechanic and by getting red to much onto Blue here, he should be able to get
to let over to the Lewis on the flip there.
Like I actually get the, there we go.
Very nice.
Do a little bit of secretized for me.
Okay, that's our first instance of a respawn warp.
There will be a lot more of those later,
but that's another way we're going to use the games mechanics
to be able to get farther ahead.
Here we're taking a better line by clinging on the bat
like a lot to it.
Another one of these sections where I'm doing newments
and jumps to both players.
it's kind of tough because like if I ball it any of the players I just
will mess up my algorithm and I'll essentially just get one player
straws and then do it with the other player after that which is tougher or slower
I mean even though it would be easier here's another section that has a
skip up that we don't do over there on the right there's that one of those
like spinning things that I just went across one of these platforms there's
one that breaks when you try and go across it it's kind of like that oh you
can't go this way and there's a way to get across still but it's a very
precise jump that only saves the dot 10 seconds and you have to do with both
players so it's not really worth it
Here we've got another section where I'm going to introduce a new piece of
tech. Well it's very similar to what I've been doing, but it's using one of these
level blocks I like arc of its plan. Sure thing, so normally you're supposed to
weigh down the pain platform there, which might seem a little less. So that's
something that Sons is going to do here, so he's going to do clues to play her up.
And much like with the extended clings or grab studies doing, he's going to be able to
I grab blue from underneath and phasing through the floor there.
There's an application in it.
That's another thing we'll see is just going through certain objects sometimes.
That's a good example of new messing up.
Now I have to do it.
That's it.
And then head moves.
There we go.
There's another strike here that's going to pull off that I don't do.
I think you call up what I'm going to do right, Parker.
We use to, yes, but we don't want to do more.
Essentially, you can skip, um,
mucking that pillar down and get a jump off midair,
but I'm not entirely sure how about works.
Yeah.
That's another one of those, uh,
stress that are now exactly worth it yet for one PCC.
Like, there's so much stuff that isn't done in solar.
Well, not like a ton, but there's so much time saved in solo.
That just didn't have a minute yet that the game's not competitive enough.
Like, record is burnt co-op right now.
It's like 52 minutes.
The record for solo is by cartoon.
It's like 59-30 or something.
And there's like only a handful of co-op specific tricks
done in the run or trucks done and called that and done. So a lot of the time
safe is just from having two brains playing the game. Here's another
full trick where we do another clean work and then I'm gonna specifically, okay, I
don't know what that was. Anyway, it was very clear. Yeah, I should have not
fallen after that. So then we can do another work and here's another section or
I guess we skipped the other section where you'd walk in like this, but there's a couple spots in the game where you do that.
I used this knock-up approach that we can just skip by doing that jump and then I can play more food.
So this is our first encounter with batteries.
The mechanic and a lot of the chapters where you put the battery in the blue thing and it gives it power and
Late coming up soon we'll be able to smuggle a battery into a section that you use the batteries and so that way
We can give some time with that here. I'm doing a jumper cross and then doing that jump which actually gives you a steam achievement
I don't remember the statement she can't call, but he's going to get the battery over here.
And then here while I'm doing gate skip, actually that's not here yet, I forgot.
But it's a moral of KTC here to build a bridge.
I want to grab the blue-backed pieces because they're a longer.
It makes the jump easier.
And so here I can get a nice, like, priority timing edge jump.
and I get the process bridge and then now back to the Carcounilite,
go through this up a little bit.
So this is another section for solinfo,
really after you use this more PTC facilities,
where he's using both characters at the same time.
He needs to loosen the connection to follow that speaker there,
and then get across with both players,
and that can be very exact in to do.
Yeah, and you can see there, I did another result more of just
because it's much faster than to the parkour.
And now it's not precise.
It's just a key die while on that side.
They'll get worked.
There's a lot of see how many, even this early on.
You can see how many different parts of puzzles
have multiple points of articulation
that both layers are expected to interact with.
So knowing that Sonic needs to keep instructions
for how to do each side in his head
basically all times, and gives you an idea of what makes this so difficult.
Yeah, that's one of the fun parts of one KTC is eventually a lot of sections become muscle memory,
especially in more of the main one, my cooking is like, there's sections I can do, like my main
speedrun game is like going in a jones, and there are many of the sections that I want KTC just
become muscle memory, like very quickly, and so it's just like, okay, let me do this,
if I'm doing it the same way every time, in my hands, just know that we have, like,
I like the thing a little different because it's like how the physics works and how the
interaction with the environment works. It's much less the same thing every time and a
lot of like let me figure out how to do it this time because I have to mash buttons while
I'm jumping and hopefully the rotation is correct because it's a lot of like oh I'm
rolling around of the Lego object I need to be this rotation or I need to be at the
site. There as well as another player boost and then a cling war. And then coming up
here is gate skip that I was talking about. It's actually the first gate skip that we do.
That's another bottom and I have to focus on it. That's what I do today. Another one
of the park road section. But that will happen a lot during a casual co-op
Yeah, I'm surprised, not necessarily surprised per se, but to see the values that the connection
move has in this feed-run context is like, in a casual playthrough, you will probably
shy away from using that with another player, so I'm really need to try to understand what
Let's do it with it.
Back to it.
Then, part room, you can take over here.
You can do it.
Sure thing.
Say just a song to face free that gate.
Maybe it looks a bit weird.
But if you hold forward and spam your jump and the...
I'm key.
You can sometimes just face free that gate.
Not sure what that happens, but it's very neat.
It looks good.
Nice.
And that was him doing the battery steel strap where you can smuggle the battery past that gate.
And she'd normally wouldn't be able to do.
And that's going to help us coming up in the next section here.
RIP.
I think it's some funny response from this game.
Yeah, this is a very important battery to take because there's this whole complicated skip that we would have to do before and where we were trying to get this battery without spending too much time.
And now we can just take one from the floor.
We can do another respond work there.
I actually could.
Okay.
I guess that counts.
That's not what I was going for, but we got across.
So now we have one of these batteries on the boat.
We can cover the boat with the battery.
And then we're going to use this battery here later on.
I'm going to go ahead and set it up right here.
I'm looking a little bit of time.
I'm going to skip that with the hind on the other player.
But this is one of the two vehicle sections in this game and I'm going to take a little bit of time to
click the left blue and red and put some talking. Oh yeah, did we not mention earlier?
You have a dedicated button that lets you do this at least later. It's true.
We'll see some more of that at the train section.
I'm kind of in the road spot here, but I'm going to try and make a work.
Okay, I need a little bit of a little bit over here for us.
I can't help but imagine this is one of the few sections of the game.
It was actually easier as a one player two controller configuration.
Well, cock to do the review.
Yes, absolutely.
Do you need to come up with a lot of period of mind you need for a co-op with this as in saying,
in the same. There's often a lot of tensioner after shot of my co-op partner.
Just please go left or similar.
Yeah, once you get that movement down on the car and the boat, it becomes pretty easy to get around.
Like here I know, okay, stop holding forward on player, on red, then I'll go that way.
Or is the same thing with the other player.
So here we're going to do some more movement to grab a battery, but then I'm going to do like a
respawn work to be able to get back to the boat faster. Grab the battery, I'm on the boat now with red.
So while I can move a little bit forward with red and then jump up the boat and if both players fall in the water at the same time,
I've heard some more times that we can get a warp to the boat, getting blocked by that right now that's going to funny.
Usually in this boat section, we'll take another two minutes because you're going to go to the right and get a battery.
There's also one of the left, which gives you a different steam-ish unit.
We were talking about that earlier as well.
I need this battery.
But instead we can just take that battery from before and it saved this kind of added intersection
Because the don't drop before was you
Do a funny player boost and then you try and get the
Battery the warp or frost to be other player and then you get over to the other player and that way you can climb over a fence
But instead of doing that we just take the battery. That's much easier
So here we can see the clock at again
We really want to get across, but oh no, we're too short, the chair doesn't like it, so we're going to have to figure that out.
Yeah, perhaps I'm surprisingly one playing casually, a lot of the puzzles here in a
ball of building things, and in many cases here, we're seeing we're just skipping those sections,
like the puzzles with the batteries and to involve like building your way over to something,
or getting flung over to the battery and then building your way back.
Is that there?
I'm excited to get to chapter 32 33 34 and 35 where we I guess not 32 but 33 35
Would probably take 20 minutes actually that's an exaggeration probably more like 12 minutes to do speedrun wise
But we just kind of skip the sections and we don't have to
So take more like or through it three minutes
You can see we're back at the home island here, I actually get on the elevator, this
is the hardest part of the whole room.
There's always one thing out.
Getting into the houses we've built at the difficult.
So here, there's stop-lock potential.
We're not going to stop-lock because there's a way to avoid it.
But before that way to avoid it was known, you would just sometimes stop-lock in this
section.
And however, spaghetti code they used to program this part, I guess they didn't expect
you to be so fast when all the cars in the soft block and line-all are just like going
too quick, like just walking.
So you'll see after this section we'll explain what's happening with the soft block and
what we're doing over there.
Here we just wait for this yellow piece to be clean on it and get off.
now the dude start building a little rocket. They're very eager to get the space.
And while they do that, I'd like to let everyone who is eager to get to AGDQ know that
it awesome games done quick 2026 will be held alive in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. From January
4th to the 10th it's going to be so soon after tonight's show. Registration is available
now through the event, so be sure to register if you want to experience the event in person.
Is it gdq.gg for more information?
Yeah, definitely go to that. Very, very fun to watch on stream. I bet it's even better in person.
Much like this game, it is something special to experience.
Ily recommend both.
So here, I kind of want to bring up that red and blue, moving this big rocket thing all by themselves.
I don't know how they're doing it. It looks very heavy, but props to them.
I mean, by the changes in the background and like the stuff off the trees, I would say the answer to how they're doing it is very slowly and carefully.
Sure.
As you want to take any massive task like making it through another year.
Exactly. Very fitting.
So here, we just found the battery. Now we get to wait.
This weather is probably very fitting for many of the people watching right now.
This is the cold section of the game, and after this we're going to get to the one section.
You'll see that in a little bit.
But, cool thing about this island is there's a lot of stuff to interact with.
We don't exactly have time to do that right now, but it's the speedrun.
But there's many fun things to miss this rocket.
Oh, and now we're remembering that this section doesn't end until I get on to the rocket.
So we've lost a little bit of time.
So there actually wasn't something to do, and I didn't do it.
So now that we show off how cute this game is, I'm just going to put that out there.
Like, like, you guys have to see the rocket.
Let me actually launch it now that we have time to do so.
Now we wait.
Oh, you can see it's getting a little colder here.
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All right, so you can see here I'm waiting, that what it's not me making mistake this time.
You have to wait for that and came up in and out and or else you softlaw sometimes.
Like sometimes the game will, I think it tries to load the next like section earlier something and it'll interrupt your beta black with just a cut to black and then you kind of just step there.
there. So we figured out, I think Niko, one of the other runners of this game,
co-op world record holder right now, figured out by watching a casual playthrough that
if you kind of just wait there for a little longer, then you won't softlock. And I think
that's very strange. I don't know why that happens, but like I'm just happy that it's
not our own softlock, and they're running more.
Yeah, this isn't a little looking sound like, so I'm assuming it tries to load that
sector.
All right, but so now you're here, we're no longer a short blue has grown a little bit,
which is great for us because now we can go to space in theory.
Like we're tall enough for the chair now.
It's light for a shadowy.
Yeah, a little bit for shadowing.
Well, we have some downtime, you want to talk a little bit about what a co-op run is
the light and the difference is the point solo.
Sure thing, so solo requires you to play both characters by yourself as Sonic is
doing currently, and co-op entails that two players are allowed to play at the same time.
Part of what makes co-op very different is that you have to coordinate two players, which
can both be easier and more difficult, especially for sections that require a bit more coordination.
But overall for a movement in such, it can make such very huge difference, because it needs
to be a lot easier to navigate both players for rocky sections like these.
Here's a good example where I opt to connect those players together, just to the little
easier to get through here.
In co-op, it would save you a little bit of time to just not do that.
But actually, because you can then have to make this jump here is I don't know if there's
a name for this skip, but typically there's a section over there where we grab some
leg-oblocks. Instead, we're just going to use this one piece here. We get to put it here.
Now, blue with the toggle guy. We put him there. We're just still a little dumb. I messed it up.
Now, we can double jump so we can get right up there and then we can do a rest on more. And that saves
a decent amount of time. I don't want to actually be the minute part of it. This is one of those, like a
sneak peek at one of these moving sections again. You see if I die, I just respond to the start,
and I'm walking right there. That's not the enhanced Aliyub capability now that Blue is taller is great.
Exactly. Here I'm getting Blue up sooner, is all my fireball business store. And then
And now I'm just a more movement.
This part is significantly easier in co-op,
I can imagine, just because I want to make this cycle
but I'm controlling two players and I'm bumbling.
But now I have to wait.
I like air, huh?
Like, are you gonna real?
Yeah, we could have made so many more cycles
if I control the players better.
But like, you can pull off obviously that's easier here.
How can you explain this like a focus?
Oh, shrifen.
So normally what's supposed to do is get over to the other side there to lower the radio
tire that you see there.
But I'm just going to use the movement that the velocity that you get from launching
the other player by raising the platforms there.
and that's going to be able to get both players across.
I'm currently out there we go.
Wow. That's a lot less likely to work than the other gems.
I agree. I agree.
And here's another good example of a restaurant work.
We're bottleneck by Blue, we get them up first.
Then we can just jump into the void and rise up here now.
But now I'm blue's ahead we can hit this letter by doneness and move the bridge
Here we're under chapter I think the chapter 20 this plane doesn't say time also behind in which case I was there
And so just barely missed a thing with red there
Generally this cycle the times on what strategy you here. I want red at front because it makes us move it here
If I had fallen there, again, I would just back to redo it, because I was the responsible.
Here's another one of these like tiptoes sections.
Well, so one of my favorite sections here, this jump, which is kind of frustrating to go.
But here we're waiting, and then, okay, tiptoes perception moment.
You could, and should go around, but this is slightly back to if you first try it, so we're kind of gambling.
It also depends on the cycle here, but I prefer that.
And here we get a response that we can do that without worrying about.
I think that even our little like Tomb Raider slash uncharted climbing along cliff edge sections
are built into the puzzles that you get back for.
You have a puzzle, you have a little movement, do another puzzle.
It's a very enjoyable kind of cadence for when you're playing with another player.
I'm sure.
There's another section for your character, because this is maybe the technique of the
guy.
I think that's what I mean.
You gotta search try.
So what you can do there is you can place those bricks over and then boost your other
player up there.
And the gears is just doing another response here.
Yeah, I, okay, I didn't hit that time.
I learned right before the stream today that you can get a farther respond more
better, but I must not have walked far enough. Yeah, that's pretty key. Here
we're on to the conveyor belt section. This park can be kind of annoying for
these crushers here. I was on a bad cycle so I got to wait. I'm gonna try
the thing together, Australia, that car can mention to me. So now it's either
all of us get across and none of us get across, which is fine because I would have
way to do this there anyway. So at the end of this section here there's the spot where
we need a climbable wall and it's slightly too high for us to reliably play or boost.
So my chances of getting pieces of grass I'm grabbing two of these but we really only need
one. That was very close to getting crushed. Here I'm going to use this piece. I'm going to
make sure it's turned properly and I can do another player who's good like that and
then here's our first peace double jump of the run. Do your inputs correctly. You
can just get extra height with just a player and a piece. There is on a weird angle.
That was kind of skill issue but with a good example and now I'm up.
Oh, Chad has started with the ponds. It's interesting to see how this run is
He's together.
That's true, it's true.
You want to.
You want to.
You want to.
Follow us on our chat once we get to the train section.
I'm hoping to see a lot of you choose.
Yeah, I'm still understanding why later.
And hey, maybe a hype train and supported the game from clear topics and with excitement
up coming up for AGVQ 2026.
That's true.
What the f***?
Oh, this section.
If this section is, it's a pair of what they are casually. Absolutely. So here we can just
stop with jump and then if you don't even have to do anything with player one, you just
get a warp. So that's that entire section done. Yeah, it's fantastic.
There we go. That was a crazy recovery. All right. So that's another one of those sections.
of those sections, here we have to do a little jump actually. Now, the other gate skip,
that card can get explained real quick. Sure thing. So what Sonic wants to do is to get the
other side of the skate, and there's this small little hole to the left here actually that
he's going to be jumping cast, and if you can curve it far enough in records, you can jump up
the collision and up on the other side, so he's just going to be doing that with both layers here.
Yeah, it almost has to be added this fall so you couldn't do this jump, but it's slow so you still can.
Yeah, this is some classic Mario 64, a lethal lava landing game and you just go around the post they put up to try to keep you from getting to the star.
That's very good.
That's essentially what we're doing here.
This part is kind of cool.
Like we grab one of the metal pieces so that the magnet thing can grab us.
There's another one of these, but we're just going to skip it, like we can hit it on a
lease fund, we're right here, hit that jump, hit that jump, hit this jump, and now I'm
going to take it one at five, oh, I did this. Okay, we can back to such stuff. All right, so if
you don't jump far enough, you don't get the lease fund. Apparently I'm not going to
get the lease fund on that, so let me, okay, that one worked. So we got the
respond. Here, it's very important that we get seven of these pieces specifically because
we need seven to be able to build a bridge in a second. And in his play this, we might remember
this magnet infection, which I can only assume is parable casually. It's a real brain teaser.
Like, you, I would say in our experience, we figured it out kind of one piece at a time.
Yeah, that sounds about right. Instead of doing that, we're just thinking these pieces that
or just kind of for show and then we're going to do kind of a player launch here.
It's going to be our first one of these, but you see if I can actually hit it fast.
So you think of momentum of the roll, we can get a jump and then you get a response or get launch
all the way across, but other option is do some funny, yeah, something like that, ideally
we get the momentum here, all those. There's probably a better way to do this, I kind
of just throw myself at it, blah blah blah, it's an ideal. But like it's one of those tricks
where like, there we go, it just kind of worked that time.
Yeah, like I'm hypothetically what you're doing in some cases is actually because the
players are using it different cases than they don't, you know, fall into the pit together all the time.
You could be building up momentum with one character that carries over to an expom,
like connects with the other in a unforeseen way.
Yeah exactly like, you could be so much more careful with your movement in this game.
But like just by the fact that it's like a physics-based game and you're in solo control in both players,
right. It's much easier to just gamble and hope that what you're doing is going to work
just now. Like I don't exactly have setups for this game yet for a lot of tricks just because
I don't. I it's not at that level like I don't need a first try everything.
Here I kind of just talked through this section but we thought this bridge did you three across
one down three across and we're able to just jump up the collision and skip that whole section.
There's another respawn warp once we get past the second one of the parkour, we can just
respawn to the other cross.
There's a bunch easier solo.
Carpoon actually found that one.
And here's another section that it's kind of top.
Oops.
But, okay.
I got my, I don't know what that was, but we were decent.
Anyway.
We can just, this is how you're meant to stop the puzzle, but instead of doing it a second time,
we can, again, just respond more. I get blue on the lever and then I input that yellow piece down there, and then work path.
So, um, here's another thought for downtime, we get to kind of just wait.
You can talk now a couple of occasions, just because of the nature of the tricks of this run,
and where you are and where they kind of solo category is that, you know,
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Before we shoot you, I want to take a quick second up, appreciate the soundtrack of this game.
There's a lot of spots with some great music and a great ambient, but all of the
sections are secreted, so I really enjoy the voice line with that kind of spam here.
Yes, I appreciate that there are a few unique sections of dialogue where it's more than
and just the m-b-b-b.
We're exactly reacting what's going on.
Alright, Carcon, you've got this whole section, because I need to be able to use my query.
Sure thing.
So this section is, uh, section where you're supposed to use a truck to collect pieces and, uh,
fixed the rails so that you can progress with the train. We figured out pretty
risky that ditching the truck entirely is faster. So what we're going to do is
we're going to be running up all the bricks for their players and then once we
have enough we'll be heading straight over to a gate to do a small little skip.
But in the meantime, so I've noticed the gathering these pieces by activating the
dispensers and getting enough with both players.
You might have noticed I moved red to the right first before grabbing the pieces.
That's to give the camera a little more range to stretch because if I hadn't moved that
like that way I would have been waiting on red to be able to get all the way over as
blue to the section with the pieces.
As you can see there that may have gotten respawn more backwards as just having to
red.
There's another section that's really tough to solo because like the angles that you're rolling
are very strange especially because they're different based on your towers like orientation and stuff like that
and I also am using keyboard and controller so it's not even me doing the same input on both like
it's just slightly different and then here like Carpenter was saying we just kind of
get this gate. Since we're really tall right now, we can just climb over it, and we don't
have to worry about like a silly switch that's in our way, that kind of thing.
All right, so here we put these pieces on. I'm going to use a red and a real quick to make sure
that they all get for it, but sometimes you can get stuff in each other.
In the meantime, while that's happening, I'm moving down here with both players, so
that way Blue can actually get this switch, because we need to come through here later.
As we did with bringing the blocks bare, we need to bring them back once they're with
the process, we can get a respawn wall here, and the gates open, I may get back just
time to collect these rail pieces. We want as long of a build as we can get, because that makes
a much easier to move with these. That's probably a good shape. We're only in the eight of these
build that I can get one more of these in a good spot. Okay, that's not great, but it's not
hard to rebuild. That's probably fine. Now we can just roll. I'm actually going to rebuild
more time than cool. That's much better. I don't understand really
so that's quite yeah. I'm about the shape and in fact, the movement of the both layers.
Yeah, for sure. Like I don't get the physics
clear, but like long-shade equals better here. That's all I know.
I just, you know, but the levers and filcrums and all that stuff that they tried
the teacher is a kid in science classes. While it was neat to build shapes with
like balsa wood and stuff, the actual underpinning is, yeah, it can be kind of tricky
in practice, as you're seeing. Yeah, clearly they were preparing me for this speedrun.
Exactly. This section is, okay, that guy was in the way. This section is tough on PTC,
but, okay, this is certainly the thing that can happen.
Yep, just taking up to be pieces when they're probably going to need to one other.
All right, I would totally need both sections separate, one of each player, but that's much easier
I know. And then we're actually getting some insane initial planes because usually you have to
build a lot of moving them around. Yeah, I'm reorienting to put them as close to where they
eventually need to go, but sometimes the way the pieces snap into places is extra nice to you.
Exactly. So this is to other
section we're ready to train more than two as we're right in here I'm using my
monitor settings right now to turn on night vision mode it's coming up here
it's we're gonna be in the dark a little bit there's a skip we can do where
we just there's a light we're gonna pick up that we can entirely skip if we
wanted it saves about our viewers are gonna be in the dark you will
yeah yes exactly but we're gonna up to grab the light to make it a little
better for the viewers in a little easier for me, because you can do this whole skip in the
dark, but I'm not going to hit it first try in the dark right now, so no more have
I either, it's it was all the final couple days ago, but I'm going to pass it over to
Kirkman again to explain this section if it were past the train.
There's also a lot of fun interactions like one that we talked about setting up for the
show and then didn't you just there is if you use the truck for that section and you
the truck in front of the train, the train will impact the fish right through the truck.
Yeah, you can see the machine with that as well.
Actually, it doesn't bear on people and I get three different buttons that speak on controller.
I just get the act of button hang.
Control, they're just better, uh, mass and keep, we're just better, I guess.
Yeah, especially on the train.
All right, so I'm going to go for it.
Sure thing.
So, some of the things that's together with both players I'm alive here,
and he's going to be using inputs on both players.
For some reason, this makes the orientation a lot more stable,
and it's faster to move vertically like this.
So, just be doing that to the E-true this section.
And like he's going to be sticking to the light and here to make it a bit easier to see.
This gives active light source for obvious reasons.
Here we're not skipping the light switch, but in theory good.
So here Sonic is going to be,
Well, that was very close.
But he's getting his blue player up there and then normalizing his
decision by singing here and that puts him upright.
And then he can simply flip over and try to grab a red here.
He needs to get both of them up there, which can be very, very tricky.
There's one of the sections where you don't get a response after climbing, so you have
to do it two times a day.
Yeah, I don't think the developer is actually in thing to get up here, but I'd like
to speak.
There we go.
There we go.
All right, so now he's going to try and boost his second player up there.
Oh, look.
It's okay, I close.
There we go.
you could you could do a third clean work there but it's much harder and it's also
you have to first try it so I'm just going to do a response work. We lost time on that but
if you hit everything first try that's it about 45. And then while I'm on this elevator
I'm going to turn night vision those back off because I can.
Coming up is a special part in the game.
You get to build your own rocket, actually.
The game gives you some pieces, and also a kind of a canvas to be able to put those pieces
on, and then they'll actually stick to their rocket.
I've preemptively prepared our rocket in honor of the LEGO Speedrun community.
We'll see it in a full glory later, but you can kind of see the pieces of it
This took more than an hour
Maybe more hours. I kind of thought you're sent to see the end. This took more time than I care to admit
Yeah, understandable
You'd also give them fun colors
Sadly, we can have to get rid of those colors.
Here's another good time to talk about getting into like a speedrun like this.
Like, when you first start out, especially with many LEGO games,
to, I'd say, to be competitive at all,
and many of LEGO games, you have to learn one way to see.
Which sounds like a major drawback and a major choke point for getting into these runs,
But it becomes the most fun part of LEGO's doing in your life.
And there's so much more depth in the games
when you control both players at the same time.
There's a much higher skill ceiling.
And it just kind of gets you really good at a skill
that you wouldn't really think about.
And so even if you're starting on a game,
I just said that's very one pitch you see you heavy.
Don't let that stop you from learning the season
because you very quickly learn how to adapt to it
and learn how to do all the movement. And it's very rewarding.
So now we built our rocket.
Yeah, I guess one thing we mentioned earlier was how muscle memory sort of routines don't be to see,
but one PTC is a very transferable skill. So,
you need to learn it for like a voyage, for instance. You'll find
great use for it elsewhere as well.
Hmm.
Like, just being able to do one PTC opens it or learning any of the LEGO means,
Like, that's the main similarity between them.
Obviously, not kind of the fact that they're all, like, uh,
this next section is Chapter 33.
And this is one of the longer chapters in the entire game.
Um, and we're just not going to play it.
If you play the game casually, you'll remember this big gauntlet, uh,
uh, basically going to a rocket school for the number of rocket scientists.
And instead we're going to do a skip called college skip where you just go around the door.
Like here you're going to do all these puzzles you're going to do all this astronaut training.
Rather than doing that, we're going to be doing college skip, which I'll let,
Park Learning, explain what that plan looks doing this.
Indeed, and to be your own fashion. So what we'll be doing here is that
So I'm going to be trying to essentially build a bridge and well, so I'm just going to do is he's going to jump around with this blue player here and hopefully end up on the other side of the gate.
Very nice.
Remember to move these pieces away.
Now he's trying to set his respawn point so that he can make a nice point for red to latch on to.
I might be good.
Okay, this might take a couple of threads. There we go, perfect.
All right, that's our first skip in this section. Now I do an explicit skip.
This was found by me when I thought, what if you just go over the wall, like how will it be included?
And then, don't hear.
I could really need you to get up there because there's loops going to be a second there.
There's a section, like the section before, you can do an upboard to get up top.
So we knew the sauce that we got here.
Here, I've gotten right to stop.
I've never done that before.
But this time, I actually want you to find a thing that's not there.
If I can get up here with blue.
All right.
I'm going to up the reload of the chapter here.
I'm going to do it in the back.
This is just the right back to where I was.
And so here we're just going to find over the wall.
You see I got a first try there that's what should have happened before.
And now that I'm grabbing this face to this blue, I'm just going to climb up top here.
Hopefully not fall.
Now I'm up on the yellow. I can jump over this whole wall.
And now we're going to roll for a little while.
Here, there's a trigger, this is the one time in the game, or I guess one of two times in the game, where blue is not with us right now.
And so this becomes the one player game pro a little bit.
You can hear Reds going to be really sad, and the camera moves now blue is not here.
There's a trigger we hit, even though we didn't do the section properly.
That just makes blue the way.
So here, we're going to do some jumps to get the camera fixed.
I'm obviously stuck in the wall here, so I need to go around that.
There we go.
So now I'm over.
Now we're doing, that was chapter 34.
It's skipped essentially.
Now we're going to do chapter 35 skip.
But this is big water puzzle.
They're doing that big water puzzle.
We're just going to go up the elevator.
Then we go down the elevator.
And this gives us control while we're on the elevator to jump off and then we can do every song work here
and we skip that problem in a long time.
Perfect.
Yeah, that's another puzzle that's a real mind-bender.
I'm going to reference a game that I would be surprised if more than adults and people watching right now have played.
It's a Bart's nightmare of the Super Nintendo.
One of the mini games in that is one where you were trying to get through a temple like Indiana Jones style.
And when you jump on platforms, they either go up or down one level, and so when you're building the different platforms in the water section, I was thinking of that because like you're working with a different verticality to build a path across.
I would say it's kind of unfortunate that we skipped so much content in a row because those are really cool and really a conception.
But they are also very long and difficult to one BTC.
They'll take it.
Here we're essentially done with the run.
The last two splits are kind of autos.
We've got one more trick left.
It's very minor.
But now we get to see our Lego Speedones rocket in all its glory.
And this is kind of a dramatic point in the game's story.
Grad is short.
Blue is tall, which means blue can go to space.
And that has to be in the Shink control.
Yep, only good can operate the chair.
This is the moment when you start to realize that, you know, as much as you've gotten attached to the care through that you were, you know, you've been playing as and your co-op partner is gotten attached to theirs that, uh, your fates might end up being a little bit different.
Yep.
That's all I want to call out, I'm going to be speaking through a lot of the top eights I've been seeing, what I'm done,
mashing the top button, it's like a little radius static, like that's, I think that's a little touch.
The two previous chapters, one of them was red following along as Blue gets suited up,
and the other one is red, building the platform that Blue kind of goes in through a diving
bell, and repair is part of the facility.
Yeah, we skipped those first, but essentially, that was the build-up to this as well.
Yeah, that was to the LEGO Speedrunning community.
Big shout out to the engine, both on the stream and on the side of the rocket.
Exactly. Another, taking another opportunity here to say, very welcoming speedrunning community.
Lots of opportunities of different games to run, different streams to watch.
But highly recommend, at least poking your head in the discord server,
seeing what's going on, maybe you're interested in learning a game or something.
All right, here it comes up our last trick of the run.
Instead of walking or I guess rolling, I'm going to jump into the void,
and it's going to warm me a little bit forward.
The last respawn warp.
And there's our one second time, so there's...
We theorized that if you let this timer count down,
eventually launched their rocket that no one's tried it. I was wondering.
See if it does impact autopilot, but no, I also did not contribute to figuring out
whether it actually does set it up. Yeah, one day I probably will.
Yeah, as we're sending the rocket on its way, just a reminder that if you want to
appear on GQ Hoppix, we're currently accepting submissions for the winter season.
If you've got a run showcase for something else that you would like to show off on
the games on the fric channel, send it our way at gq.gg4ds-club-ticks4ds-submit or type
exclamation points of mith in chat for more information about that.
Hey, it's almost like we're counting down to something important happening tonight.
Yeah, what about that is four, three, two, one,
happy Lego Voyagers, everyone.
like a 90 second slater, it also would have synced up for with midnight in GMT minus one.
I think people who were four hours ahead of eastern time. We should get the
does to change the game for that. True, true. But here we got Red's Tall, we got Blue and the
Sky, and they're talking up at a very sweet ending. She had this team achievement, I don't know
I don't know if it's gonna be really installed.
But once they did black happen, that'll be time.
All I think is opportunities to say,
thanks to Hot Bakes for having me,
thanks to Cartoon for the comms.
Definitely recommend getting into any fantasy during it all,
very rewarding, very fun.
It's been a pleasure being with me.
Thanks to Chitri as well for being a part of each circuit for voyages of parents and that's time.
Gradulations.
Thank you very much.
So yeah, I set it all day at least be run.com board.
And you've previously mentioned that your time was a 59 something.
And this run was a little bit faster than that.
A little bit.
We'll see you gradually.
So the world record, you know, some other thing plus out the year.
That's true.
Straight from Carter.
Yeah, thanks again for having me.
Well, my sincere pleasure.
Yeah, let me go grab Walgaret working in that and going into our break before our next run.
run I'm going to go ahead and be the favorite of grabbing the speedrun link to the link to the
Lego speedruns discord so we'll have that again. Thank you so much Sonic 7 and Karkun.
The both of you for joining us. I knew that everyone who tuned in for this run was really
going to enjoy themselves and find something new and special about this run. That's one of the
things that I enjoy most about both our hotfix content and our GQ mainline events is people
getting turned on to games they've never seen before and like taking up that passion to
run them for themselves, so thank you so much for making that possible for our viewers tonight.
Yeah, thank you very much. But that's not all for this show, nor for our evening,
come on back in just a few minutes after our break for a fresh file showcase of Hades to
that's going to be something amazing as well. Take care of yourself, take a few minutes and come on back
for more.
Welcome on back to Out of the Box on the Game Stun Quick Huffx.
My name is the T-Tree.
I always enjoyed watching these last stream before AGDQ.
Something about having that metital just gets you excited for what is to come and that
is absolutely true of me and AGDQ-26. I'm so glad to be able to bring you this part of
AGDQ's broadcast schedule. I never thought I'd be the one doing the last stream before
AGDQ but you never can't tell what the future will bring, which is a theme of our next game.
Would you have probably seen on this channel before? But not like this. This is a fresh file
showcase of Hades 2 from the extremely talented Mininet.
The Mininet, let's get it going.
All right. Well, hello, everyone. This is a fresh file showcase of Hades 2.
And so right off the bat, a couple of things I just want to get explained before we get started.
If you're unfamiliar with how Hades 2 works, you are playing as Melanoi, and she has the
the goal to kill the final boss being Kronos.
You might have heard of her catchphrase,
Death of Kronos, in gameplay trailers.
And so fresh file is incredibly unique,
because it is an incredibly scripted encounter phase,
where almost every single encounter in the game
compared to most other runs
has some form of set structure,
whether it be enemies or room dynamics,
or how the boss is operate.
And so, there are two main unique differences that make fresh value unique to other casual play runs.
That being a concept known as the God pool and a mechanic known as Eris.
And so, Eris is mechanic that for any casual runners, you might have encountered when you're playing a fresh file.
Eris gives you a curse known as the blessing of strife, which increases the damage taken as you play throughout the game.
There is a way to work around this mechanic that being, she only spawns it if you enter a new region at above 50% HP.
The other one is a freshfile god pool.
Clutch learned to other normal runs in Hades 2.
You're only allowed to get 4 of 5 available gods, a Polo, Demeter, Poseidon, Aphrodite, and Hestia.
All of these mechanics will be further explained as we enter the run, but for now, let's get started.
Timer starts. The moment I created new save slot,
Timer starts in 3, 2, 1, go. Now. Good luck.
So, while the intro cut scene is being played, I just want to reiterate one more time.
Every single region has a set scripted encounters, all the enemies are going to be the exact
same and every single fresh follower, just in different ways.
So, how's we get started?
are going to be entering our first encounter.
Before we do this, I'm actually going to disable the auto sprint option.
I play without auto sprint and for some odd reason,
first run first file has a flag that actually enables auto sprint
for mouse and keyboard.
It's only on first run, too, and only for KBM.
So this is chamber two of Eris, like I said,
it will always have a fixed encounter,
So there is a set strategy that fresh flow runners have kind of developed to clear this as efficiently as possible.
So our first room, like I said, will always be a call.
Just give me some time to read some dialogue.
First, yeah, and you know, there are some like one of the things that you'll typically see in
in Hades 2 to be runs on this channel,
is multiple weapon runs where part of it is watching
or around a rapper head around the complexity
and the mechanics of multiple different weapons.
In Precipile, you only have discura or the witch's staff.
So in a sense, your tactical options are more limited,
but that also gives you a sense of clarity and direction
as to how the combat of the run goes.
So our first dive virgin's from the meta-fresh file strategy
is actually going to be taking the blinding
much option instead of Nova Strike. Nova Strike is the popular speedrun option as it
allows for a boon called breaker rush later on down the line, but that is very reset and
RNG heavy. So instead I'm going to be taking our lining rush which allows for a lot more
build flexibility later on down the line. For those who may have watched a Hades 1
fresh fall around the fort, you met picking dash up as the first food may sound familiar
and Hades one fresh fall. The first food is scripted as well and people there will always
pick the first food. Pick dash as their first food.
Yep. So first things first? It makes sense.
If we have our first non-opalogod which is dinner, one thing I did mention earlier on is that
in order to unlock. There's actually unlock conditions to get Aphrodite and Hestia that being
unique to first unlock Demeter and Poseidon first. This is an mechanic. Again, unique to a
first run fresh file and so getting Demeter early on is very nice. We're going to be grabbing
our Arctic ring which applies a freeze effect on our cast which is a very good utility option.
These are minor rewards that's in the coming room, these don't matter to anything in a run.
These are for meta progression, since this is a first run fresh file, we don't
about any meta progression they need to worry about.
Once again, we're using our cast as of both deals damage and is a good utility option.
Oh, I am going back to a side end, which is another great god.
So, if this is our first mini boss of the run, the root stalker, a root stalker has a very
Oh, I missed him there.
The root stalker defploys on AOE of Bines,
which can hold a milleno a temporarily in place
if she steps inside, and that is what happened there.
And he nets dashed right onto one of those zones
and spoke a bit of damage.
Not too many more of those, and he might die.
We do have a bug up in case this happens though.
Hopefully we don't go through.
Yeah, depending on when and where,
like you have a range of options,
you just want to just pull up another run at it,
delete and create another fresh file.
We have plenty of time to make those choices.
Should we need to just like you'll often be in a good road like
Exactly.
So like, so we're all about improvising.
Yep.
So this is one of our first midshops, our K-Ron.
We don't have enough bolt to buy anything.
This year's meta progression, we don't need it for a first run.
brush file. So instead we're going to be saving the gold for some of the else. So another thing you might be noticing is I will be trying to use these trees to increase my damage as much as possible.
Those trees are part of the environment, but they do indeed do a lot of damage.
Yeah, there are environmental damage options, and I think all of your environments here,
but they're easiest to work with here in our bus.
So it's definitely a good opportunity to talk about them now.
Also, one thing that you, I don't think you've gone into yet, but really makes fresh
bile challenging is when enemies spawn with that yellow health over their standard red
health.
That's armor.
And until the armor is gone, they don't suffer knockback or have their attack pattern
to interrupt it or anything when you're hitting them.
So it's the first part of each enemy that spawns with armor has to be handled, especially
delicate.
Mm-hmm.
And that's kind of why Archive Ring is so good for a utility, because the freeze effect
actually does help them moving despite being armored.
So I'm actually going to be grabbing a steady growth here.
Local climate, the Omega Trust, is great, but it has very niche cases.
I strike, I already have a freeze effect, and I would rather have some other, uh, God, in my
attack slot that can do more for me in general.
We're going to be grabbing our health instead of a money because we want to live and I already have a lot of money to work with.
This is a no reset setting after all.
And hey, even after that extra 25 health, you should be roughly at that 50% mark we've talked about earlier.
So adjusting to be ready for the next location should be fairly easy.
So this 30% found for a 20%.
Yes.
There is a from the end of every region and that heals for 20% and so you want to be
exiting every region at about 30 thankfully it is at or equal to 50% so you can be
exactly 50% HP and still be fine. So we are now entering our first end shot of
the run, this is the shop that appears before the boss fight. I'm going to be buying our
site and looking for slippery slope perfect right here. This slippery slope, your splash
effects from the site and also in fact fall splash effects include wave flush and wave strike.
You can see that splash right there. This is a requirement to unlock it as soon and so this is great
because when you attack an enemy inflicted with broth, you have a chance to deal extra damage.
So it's just more damage. And since in the first round, you don't really have many
meta upgrades to work with, any amount of damage you can get is good. Anyway, this is Heketi,
the first boss of the run. She is the one who trained Meleno a to go until Kronos, and she
She wants us to face off against her to prove that she is worthy.
Mm-hmm.
I could use patterns include magic, teleporting around, and more as you'll see.
Yes.
And I appreciate that as Superdine always does, as they did in Hades 1, there is special
dialogue for certain circumstances in this case for reaching the end of this location
quickly enough.
There's also several ones for completing a region without picking any damage.
So right off the bat,
what you'll notice is me dashing in and actually using this tree for a nice first of damage.
So this is a triple-debuted move. There is an audio cue that you can use. However,
it's, I just liked to guess.
So, she has three phases, phase one, is what you just saw, we kind of be lying through
it using a tree for extra damage, and between each phase she becomes vulnerable and you
need to kill those switches that's far in order to make her vulnerable, and then deal here,
we're going to be using a tree, and we're actually going to be trying to use some of these
orbs, ooh, what we do that, I want to explain this, this is the sheep ball, if you've
ever hit by it, it makes you turn it to a sheep and making you vulnerable or unable to do anything.
You know longer have any attacks you move at about 20% speed. The camera zooms in on you
so the entire section while you are a sheep is just about dodging what the heckity in the
witches they're all at you. Yes. It is however still possible to deal damage technically.
It's just terribly efficient unless you're there. There isn't an achievement
or defeating an enemy well-sheet.
Mm-hmm.
An easy way to do that is to just break one of the trees while you are sheet.
So you might have noticed me taking some intentional damage right there at the very end, walking into that circle.
That was intentional. I was at 17 HP out of 55.
Unfortunately, that does put me over the 50% mark.
If I do take this fountain healing at the end,
17 HP would put me at, I believe it is 28, which is just barely above that 50% HP mark,
meaning I will get Eris if I enter Ocean as here, which is our next region.
So I had to take that last hit, putting me very low at 5 HP.
However, this does allow me to go below that 50% threshold and avoid Eris.
Now, and now for the hardest region of the run-out arguably, yes, this is a region that many fresh wild players hate.
Oceanis, a chamber one, again, is a very fixed structure.
The encounter will always be the same, and they will always be these lurkers and hiccups.
This is a very, very annoying encounter, because lurkers are some of the most difficult enemies to deal with in the game.
game because of a back step attack that does A.O.E. damage. If you see me pause, I apologize
that is on instinct. This fresh file first run is an IGT timed category so that was
just muscle memory. I will try to avoid that as much as possible.
I do what you need to do. You have plenty of time to show off how this run progresses. If
you need to breathe their bile names.
So, this room, again, is a very fixed structure.
I have Arctic Ring, which makes this room an absolute freeze.
Essentially, you've had-
Thank you, Ms. Peabab.
Yes. That encounter summons a bunch of small fishes
that dash at you.
Arctic Ring does stop them their track before they can reach you.
So the strategy is just to kind of hide in a corner
and let them come to you.
get frozen, so you can deal some easy damage.
And turning to another shop here, we have two options for a mid-boss, a follow-and-demeter.
I will be going for the Demeter but first, I am actually going to be buying some health
because the mid, I'm very low and the mid-boss can deal a lot of damage and can kill
me on accident if I am not careful.
I'll be taking the Arctic Gail here.
I am not really using mana,
so I don't necessarily need the game for that.
Local climate, like I said earlier,
is a very niche case, Arctic Gail,
just makes my cast all that much stronger
with a slowdown effect on projectiles.
Something I see we did not bring up yet
was the existence of so-called duoboons.
Duoboons are special shiny dunes
that have the effects of two gods combined.
Our objective at a fresh fall run is to get some specific
at ones of those.
The ones we are going for right now are called each ball
and the other one I forgot the name of,
Trophicle Fleglone, thanks for getting.
Yep, local climate, same deal, last choice and deal.
I'm going to be grabbing the Snow Queen that gives me
a barrier that stops one instance of the animation.
you're going to get all that much more production.
Yeah, that's some terrific boss encounters
survivability or just any other mistakes
that happened at the beginning of the fight.
Armour had those very pretty easy encounter
because I do have that Arctic ring.
I will actually be grabbing the health here.
I think the site was the better play
in almost every world, however it is very much up to RNG,
because of something you'll ask for the priority.
I don't know if that's the official name
if community has it.
Essentially, Hades will, the game will want
to try to fill up your core bones
as much as possible.
Those are the bones you could see on the right-hand side
or flat-hand side of the address.
The ones attached to specific abilities,
like attack special cast that's.
If you have any open slots for any of those,
they will try to fill those up as fast as possible.
And so, any dual-goons that I try to get,
we'll have a much lower chance. And so, instead,
I will be going for the health, just to play safe, and I know reset setting.
We now unlock Castilla, as our next guard, which is one of
which is, in my opinion, the best guard to get in a fresh file setting.
Sorge is an effective unique to Hestia that essentially adds a damage over time effect that does
a lot of damage. Yeah, right now we have that on Gale in our past, but being able to get
Scorch and modify Scorch effects, I can absolutely imagine is a real nice boost there, the GIF.
Yep, so this is what we're talking about, our flame strike, which is a Corbune, the game will always
try to fill those up as much as possible. Flamestrike gives me a scorch-afflicting attack,
which means every time an enemy gets hit with an attack, they will take a stacking 30 damage
over time. Now, this beside it is very great, because it opens me up for two possible dual
balloons. I can either get one with a scorch effect, plus a fraught effect, nor a scalding vapor,
Or I can get one known as beach ball, which is opened from any Poseidon Boone and a Apollo or Poseidon Rushland.
Or? Oh, hey, the third option.
The third option in the being natural selection, which is also great. This means
your boons in the left most column, otherwise, notice your core boons could be five.
Again, plus levels spread across however many you have, it just means it takes that
plus eight and randomly distributes it to these four available options that I have.
If I had a game boot, then it would also distribute those plus eight levels to that as well.
But since I don't. So essentially we just gained a ton of pomegranate all along.
Exactly. So now we enter into our second guardian region, Syrians.
You may remember from Hades 1 the heroes boss fight where you are fighting against two
different boss enemies. Well this one's that but more you're fighting against three of them and one of them
can literally manipulate the floor. Create aOeys. Each of the sirens has her own abilities
And the drummer creates the AOEs, the guitarists rushes out to you and causes some extra
projectiles to peer on the field and skill as the main boss and I mean that will be
following you around and screaming at you, you'll see what I mean by that.
So three names, more specifically is skillet, which is being the main singer that you
You can see here we have a chatty being the guitarist.
You see above-skilla and Roxy being the drummer on the left.
The three of them are responsible for the music we heard on the way through Asfadell.
Fun fact.
Yeah, the closer you got to this room, the louder the music and the vocal effect gets in
the background.
Again, like with LEGO Voyagers before, this is the attention to detail from the devs
of the night's games is impeccable.
Yes.
So the main strategy for this run is to actually immediately rush and chatty.
The reason is not because we want to kill jelly first, but it's actually because we want
to kite skill up around.
Skill up cannot move around Roxy, and therefore we can put some distance between us immediately.
And the scream attack is now over.
We actually then want to rush Roxy here, because she creates the field A we, and that's
something that I do not want to do with.
Then we go J, because she is the most volatile, and Sfila being the slowest is kind of easy
way.
Now, this is a feature mechanic, normally in normal runs, any of the three science can
be feature.
However, in Freshbile first run, only Jettie can be featured, and so a strategy you can do
is she will always open up with a rush attack, so position yourself behind the boxy,
like I did, and she will actually collide into Roxy, making them line up for a very quick
face. Similar concept as we use to bait Skilla around and be allowed to her rapidly and
face one.
All right, now it's time to finish off the skill of herself and manage our health as needed.
So this is how you may notice we are above 30% of our health and don't worry, we'll
be working on that in a moment.
Okay, very good.
I did not forget that.
So on the side of the arena, you see two little tanks here, normally these are supposed
We stage hazards that when exploded creates steam,
we are actually going to be using them to our advantage.
After the explosion, we dash into the steam
and take a lot of damage.
Oh, I see exactly the amount of damage we need to do.
I see, yes.
Yeah, these are the equivalent of aerobuses trees
and that they can be used to control enemies
and deal damage, but in this case,
they also have a secret additional use.
Yep.
So now, killing up, we put ourselves at exactly 50 HP,
which puts us in place for threshold.
And that would take it lost.
Yep, now for the fields in morning,
this region is unique to the rest of the game.
As you saw prior,
the heat is too underworld,
which is the power of your currently taking.
Normally has one encounter per location,
fields is unique in the sense that you see two rewards.
That's because they're actually two encounters
in one location, and so a lot of the time loss
actually comes in traversal.
And so one of the skills you need to pick up
is actually reading the room and knowing where to go,
or where each reward can actually spawn it.
For those who have speed around Hades 1,
it.
Patience 2 is actually much nicer about it.
Patience 1 is the speed on that game.
You have to learn every single room and where to and how to route along that because of
a difference in how enemies spawn locations worked between the two engines.
So, oh, grab the extra help.
Those are my rewards that can spawn around the field region.
So if you're unsure, you can pick up some meta upgrades, you can pick up some actual
in-game or like in-run upgrades.
I can.
The minor ones are represented by being like physically smaller or visually smaller and they
don't start the extra encounters if a major boons do.
But you need all of the major boons to be able to lead to these locations.
And of course, they're not as powerful.
Right.
So, I am going to.
And casually, there are also those golden trees somewhere around these aren't
either that let like light up where all of the boons found in each room are is running
as a speedrun, even though it's like the IGT base is that more base around knowing the
relative position of the room to like the first boon you find.
Yes.
For do you actually use these trees?
This is the golden tree that you're talking about.
This is stationed in every field to location, unfortunately for first file, this is
a meta upgrade.
And so you're, oh, okay, and so, and so, normally in every other encounter, or most
other casual playthroughs you want to be looking for to that, to show you where every location
is, fresh file doesn't have that, and so you're kind of just blindly guessing.
This is the vampire miniboss.
Once the name suggests, it's a vampire.
I am going to quickly kill all of the additional enemies in the room because the vampire
can actually hit those enemies and heal.
This one is a very simple fight, just be very boldly move honestly in a circle and since
the attacks are very linear, you can just avoid them.
Now the blue and I'm actually going to grab, but if you're all like Mike here is very strong
in terms of actually clearing rooms, I'm actually going to be grabbing a flood game here
in order to lock our last Corbin slot. The Corbin slot, if open, every god passed this slot,
will always try to offer this game, which means we have a reduced chance of finding more
to us. And we don't want that. We want more to us and so I'm going to be grabbing our floodgain.
Here we are in counting another fresh-pull specific mechanic for this game.
Fields usually does not have a mid-shop. It does not have a shop in the middle of the biome.
It is replaced by something called a story room where you encounter a non-playable character
which gives you some reward. Instead, because storyrooms cannot exist on the first run,
because of some some Haiti's biogeneration rules, a shop appears instead.
So this guy is actually very lucky. Right off the bat, King time legendary is a 10% chance
I believe, or less than that. It is 12% percent from the regular rooms, 10% from many bosses.
Yes, I just happened to unlock all the prerequisites for it, and so I guess we did it, see?
Uh, so I will be taking the left room. Normally, if you're more worried, you can probably
have your health, yet for old, I will be grabbing for more movies. More chances for getting
our duel wounds, which are our massive endgame builds.
This is one of the field's main bosses that can actually spawn outside of the official
mini boss.
Do we have an official name for this?
Just the mini boss, mini boss?
I don't know.
I don't think so.
No.
He'll go dug up the file at some point and didn't really name it.
They're secret mini boss.
It's actually just like an encounter that you can get that is kind of like a mini boss.
It makes these, there are a lot tougher enemies, but since I have the freeze effect, it is much easier to deal with.
Alright, here's a talk of a lot of free damage.
there is a strategy for field later on on the line that I will be showing if I do
the HP threshold, it is called thorn strategy. It's essentially a way to make to reach that 30% more without really having to deal with the aquarium itself.
It was out to the fleeting endgame time because reminder this endgame time category.
and
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So, Beth, like, fresh file, you say.
So right off the bat high beach ball and sculpting this is incredibly lucky decided
I will be grabbing our beach ball beach ball is the single best boon that you can grab actually
In fresh wealth beach ball is the fresh file do boo, so this is actually perfect that I get this
So like I said born strategy
It's essentially there's a thorns up the end
to shop or boon or whatever you get before you enter our third guardian region, you just run into
this thing until you reach that 30% threshold. So you don't need to deal with the guardian.
So there is no dialogue for the next guardian. So because I can't really pause, I don't really
want to pause in the middle of it. Just to explain what that next boss fight is, it is a boss
That is, I like to categorize as kind of like a juggernaut.
It is a very slow moving boss.
However, it hits like a truck.
That's why most fresh file runners prefer to drop
to below that 30% threshold before the actual fight
because it is very easy to actually overshoot it.
And so it's better to get yourself out 30%
and do the fight without getting hit compared to risking
everything. If you're familiar, this is Cerberus. I would say I was going to say this
and someone you may or recognize or may remember from Hades won't even if you
don't recognize them. And so the Cerberus. We're just doing a little bit of
descaling right now, but there's needs to good clean.
Exactly. So the strategy for Cerberus fight is like I said, it is a very slow
boss and so you just need to be very patient for it. The more patient you are, the easier
the fight will be because the best way to lose this fight is to try to rush in and get yourself
caught in one of his attacks because you are locked inside of an animation. Yeah, every AOE in this
fight is larger than you think it is and especially in the second confirmed phases here as the
patterns of the ground pop A. Lee's like start overlapping each other and you basically have to remember where to move to next or where it's safe to move to.
That gets very tricky casually, but extremely well done. Yes.
In this fight, many net didn't even lose his Snow Queen boon in that encounter, which is a really difficult thing to do on service.
There is a lot of stuff, a lot of A.O.E.s that can randomly pop up near Melinoe and have her run into it on the Snow Queen because of that.
even if the zones do no damage.
Yep.
So now entering our final region of this run.
Parts.
If you played Patees one, you may recognize me.
This room should be familiar.
Where is this?
This is at the exit of Tartarus, all to Asfidel.
and Melinoe is about to drop down to the entrance of Tarder's.
Yeah, Mel has to use an axis, since the main gate is blocked by Kronos.
So whereas Zag was came out through the main entrance after getting past 80s to go outside,
Mel's basically going down the garbage, to get as far down Tarder as possible.
Just to showcase off the scenery and the amazing art this looks incredible.
That's a clock.
So now, Porter says a region is, again, very unique.
Unlike every other region, Porter's unique to fear five encounters.
They will be marked by Roman numerals as you can see, shit.
Right there.
Express route set. There are there will always be there may be branch in
parts that can be on the room size, but you will always need to clear those
five encounters marked by the Roman numerals in order to progress to the
boss. Now, like every other encounter, this first room is set in stone. And this
This is known as RT1, with a very poor reputation in the first fall community for being
incredibly agonizing and RNG heavy.
The reason is because enemies spawn in 1x1, and if you've ever tried to speed run
a game before, having enemies spawn in 1x1 is incredibly annoying.
Luckily we got an incredibly small room, and so we were able to deal with it very quickly.
So using our beach ball, which is a very strong run that I've realized I didn't really
explain.
Beach ball is essentially a do-boon at that short-years-up behind you as you sprint
as you can see with this water or letting go of sprint fires off that beach ball which
explodes like a mini-nuk.
Yeah, it's a large A.L.E.
Especially for this point in the game in the meta-prodression or lack thereout and it does
the equivalent of several hits of damage.
So, adding that to your own AoE, which is been all mentioned by a very carefully selected
and very luckily gained series of boons that are meant to increase AoE, meant to increase
survivability.
Like, we're just sitting about as pretty as Freshfile can right now, I think.
Yes.
The only difference between my current build and a build that an actual Freshfile speedrun
would go for, which is more of a set heavy, is instead of blinding Rush, they would have
breaker rush, which is the site in the sprint.
It all the Jones up to Damage.
Sorry, here I go.
It also changes the damage rotation up at a tiny bit, though many that is currently doing the breaker rush combo.
That is to say sprinting into the enemy, the doing an attack.
That's a lot of attack.
Yes.
We've got days which have 20% chance to cause enemies to miss when they're
days, as opposed to breaker rush, which when you stop bashing or
re- is it when you contact an enemy or when your dash stops?
It is when you come to the early early early early early early early early.
Okay, yeah, it is.
We'll run directly into them to do damage and deal a little bit of knockback.
Yes, the strategy is to pass the right before you hit an enemy, so the knockback
actually gets prevented by the cost.
Because the cost of the word sentence, which I realize.
And preferably one picks up an Aphrodite cast which pulls in on a maze or a
Demeter cast which freezes them in place to have the knockback not matter at all even less so than with a cast as it's
This case that does matters in Spineet does not have
have a slightly sprint.
So this is what I mean by extra chambers.
I have cleared all five encounters that are required
to mark with the Roman numerals.
If you do wish to add any improvements to your build,
such as in this case of pomegranates,
you can go for them.
They'll just be extra encounters.
Extra rooms you need to clear.
You will get the rewards.
But again, it will always need to clear five encounters.
In this case, for most fresh file first runs,
you typically want to avoid those
if you're just extra buying some functions really.
So, anyone like to do math?
$4.50 plus $125 plus $90.
That is $5.75.
Should be enough money.
Yep, by about $14.
Wow!
Wow, this run is incredibly lucky.
which is for a showcase, great.
Do not expect this kind of walk in your runs.
We might actually be able to see it
coolerly, easter egg.
So winter harvest is Demeter's Legendary,
which if there is any enemies that are
affected by freeze, which is this status effect here,
and they drop a little 10% HP, they instantly die.
This does affect bosses as well,
which is a cool little Easter egg in that he might be able to see in this room.
And a cool Lord Carram.
Should talk to Carram actually.
This is Carram.
Diving into the river of sand.
another repeat
very memorable location from 80s one yep
something I also did notice is this
Just remember for the boss fight, even though it's supposed to be a replica from Hitties
One, it actually is a bit wider, I believe.
To make the fight work, yes, yes. Right.
So that's a cool little thing I noticed.
I'm going to appropriate to give you this paste in the universe.
You kind of made it.
And then it will die on the catholic doctrine that I bow to, but there is no escape from
hatred in the sky.
I'm at a screen shake.
Quite a good call back to Hiddys 1 as well, who's every time you end the run, you get something
to the effect of you even when you succeed.
It can fate be escaped.
So another fun little error game.
Yes.
Another fun little Easter egg that I'm going to immediately do is chronises the Titan of Time
And in an sort of full-breaking thing, what is a way that you
the player can stop time? Well,
that was mentioning this earlier, but exactly it is by pausing the game and
chrono-sposin voice line for it.
He used to pause your game if you did this at some point in early
actual. This is what he was pretty around me the first time.
However, they didn't really do it the most, as you could read pause after.
Yes.
They removed Kronos forcibly unpausein your game for accessibility reasons, but you only
get the dialogue once.
So Kronos, by the time immediately starting with the suction attack, for some reason despite
not doing any damage, it does count as a hit, which means our one hit protection from
Snow Queen does get removed. These are swipe attacks that you typically want to a time. There is a boomerang attack that will always fly
Clockwise. So a way to avoid that one is to run in a clockwise direction. Do not move counterclockwise. You will run directly into it
This attack you want to be a hugging of wall and dash in right before he does his own dash
Which means all the orbs that he summons will collide into the wall and not with you
This wipes again be patient and you should be able to time it's dashed in as well.
I'll wait to avoid them.
It's just to wait for his sound cue or visual cue of him going for a dash and to dash
perpendicularly to where he is moving like so.
I threat.
So I'm just playing this fight incredibly safely right now, killing all the enemies that can
and a due damage because I have a lot of damage and I'd rather not to fight a GG question mark.
All right, that was rough, though.
Well, is what we would say the fight were over there is a face to avoid yes
This is Corona's a certain moment. He'll be being the taking the time doesn't necessarily happen on your schedule
Corona's will instantly start his face to with an instant kill move the way to avoid that is to stand in one of the
Roman numeral times
That do that
doesn't flash rep. This attack is very easy to avoid. He will not do anything while in this phase.
So just dash into the middle of the circle and free hit. Now this is his phase two of his phase two.
P2.2 has to be like the call. This is too too if you will. Yes, too too.
He will spawn. He's tempo on which do not do damage to you. So they're not a threat to you.
However, they do heal Kronos, which means they are still someone you want to be dealing with.
And that's with all the other enemies of that type.
If you are on top of where they were defeated, they will make a small pocket of AoE where you get frozen in place.
Yes.
That's unlawful.
One last instant kill, then we should soon see Kronos run out of lies in the moment.
Not after one close call there, though.
Well, there's the stand, there's...
And the Fierre.
That was the Shadowful Winter Harvest.
And that right there is time.
That was 82 fresh file.
The question is, is it incredibly interesting thing concept wise because a developer
when designing a roguelike, or roguelike as 82 is, and 80s need to first have the idea
to even allow the player to beat the game on the first run. There are developers who
wouldn't let the player do that or do everything in their power to prevent the player from
doing that. And yet it is possible every single time.
Yes. So, the speedrun.com separates thresholds to categories. There's the first run
category and the unrestricted category, unrestricted is an RTA-con. First run is a IGT-con.
Unrestricted just means when is the first time you're able to kill others, whether it be
in your first run or if you do die in your second run, whether you clear with a different weapon,
that's just what unrestricted means. Most runners stick with first run, and so that was what
I was playing here. So if I were to submit for our speedrun.com, my final time would be an
18 13 or T-cell.
And that's with several extra minutes of closing through explain mechanics and the choices give
it really fantastic they've done. Where can people find you if they want to want more content
or want to join you in doing what you do and running categories of Pades do?
So I am actually very active on the Haiti speed running discord and you can find me
move most often in the Haiti's to fresh file channel. Otherwise I have a YouTube where I upload a lot of
my fresh file clear. It is mini net 02. You can find me there. I am currently trying to do a fresh file
wind streak. I'm trying to reach a legendary fresh file speedrunner from Haiti's one nitros wind
street record of 100. That is an incredibly. Did you want to tell the viewers what this
wind brought you up to? If I were to have counted this, this would have brought my wind
streak up to 19 currently. I am currently uploading all of my winds to my YouTube channels so
if you do want to see more, you can find them there. That's fantastic. Anyway, I'm seeing a chat
that there is still a lot of time left, which is true.
Don't worry, not we have a few things prepared for that.
Yes.
So there is that final cutscene where you do story progression.
However, that's not part of the category, and therefore, we quit.
It's mainly for spoiler purposes.
So instead, what I am going to try and do is,
I have some safe states prepared showcasing some other builds, if you would like, or we can start brand new from a fresh file and see what other gods I can get.
If you want to go ahead and load up another state, we've definitely got another 15 minutes if you'd like to.
All right, let me go. We'll have another safe state right now.
And this one will be a much more priority focus on a God we did not see in this one.
That will be Aphrodites.
So do we want to start from server service?
Let's start from service because that fight was very, very fast.
That's true.
faster than I normally do it. So this build is a focus on the god that we did not see in the
showcase run that being offered. Aphrodite is a very much a melee focus. God where her two attack
and special course require you to be nearby enemy fups. That range for nearby is about the distance
some Malenaways attack, so if you have it on her attack on the staff, you're almost always
beginning to be parsed. She also has a status effect known as weak, weak is incredibly
powerful because it essentially gives you 30% damage reduction to anyone nearby.
Glamourgain is the best game group you can get in fresh file because any enemy you stand in
nearby, it's inflicted with weak meaning you want to be in melee range, everything in melee,
give the old 30% less damage, it's a win win situation.
However, I also has a duo boot known as violent getaway, that is incredibly powerful,
because one you take less damage from your rifle, uh, foes, which is another 15% damage
resistance. I believe they're multiplicative, instead of additive, I'm unsure of that.
More importantly, boons from Aphrodite tree all flows is nearby. Oh, that's that's curious
Which means that negative side effect is removed. I am just getting a cost of 1.45% on my attack
All enemies in the entire screen will be afflicted by
The legendary is called nervous wreck whenever you look to me also randomly effect curses from other Olympians
Unfortunately for off-scored
etc.
Ah, fraud, scorching, etc. Unfortunately, for fresh file, this spoon is actually quite weak
because you're only able to inflict a person that you've already on, like, from Olympians,
you've already unlocked. So, in casual players, you might be fishing for things like Zeus's
blitz or a freeze effect from Demeter, however, in this run, I only have Aphrodite, Ascite
has Stia and Apollo unlock, which means the only curses like an influx are gaze, which I can already
inflict, scorch, which I can already inflict, and fraught, which I can already inflict.
Demeterous. A freeze effect, since I don't have her unlocked, is not available as an option.
So you essentially just get extra cast, so the things you can already do.
Exactly. Sometimes you just don't have to do them yourself. I see.
Yep. So in this case, I have so much for money.
I'll be grabbing the plump, this updated back burner, which if struck off behind, it's just a backstab effect with bonus damage.
This is actually a global I believe, not global, but has a lot more effects.
Or that backstab is weird in a sense, because this is looking for directional things.
So a special is directional, your attack is directional, even beach ball is directional.
which is weird considering it's a circle AOE, but I don't know.
So in this case, we have a lot more HP than before.
Again, this strategy is just to run face first into this pile of the warms until you reach that 30% threshold,
because serverus, again, does hit like a truck.
You can see in game time is not going down in shops and Hades 2, which is why this is a tie to say if it is in a speed race.
So if you do not get beach ball or if you don't get the luck that I got during the show face run, this is what a serve fight might work like.
So, which is a lot more focused on the attack.
Once again, you want to be playing patience, patience is the name of the game.
Because there's attacks have a very wide error reads like that.
If you rush things, you can get caught off guard and take a lot of damage.
Otherwise, it is a very simple running back and forth.
I'm trying to get around servers back side because again we got that enhanced ability that backstab damage is
75 in addition to the overall damage boost we have on all attacks from the advanced version of afterdatties
Also it's just the easiest way to dodge is attacks because his circles do sure start where his slam is
which is
So if you just run behind them
This is attack we weren't able to really see because I killed them too fast in the previous one
It's just he fires some explosion per tank does this is a chase slam attack your sprint will always be able to outrun it
He will always do eight so if you want to count
just count to eight
and
Now, one tip I will give is whenever you are approaching servers, I'm going to see if I can
get him to do the attack.
Always run in a zigzag trotter because of this attack here.
This is a fireball attack.
If you are running out of in a straight line and he does this on you, you will die very fast.
So he also has some dash attacks that he can do.
His chase sequences, everything essentially is very one dimensional in terms of his attack
You'll always be running at you, and therefore if you're running on an in a straight line, that is a very easy way to get hit.
Another tip that's vital is try to, in his face to, try to avoid having him be directly next to a wall.
If he spits one of the explosion fireballs, if he shoots one of those at you and they hit the edge of the arena, then they will immediately explode.
to play a play.
So if you notice when services around like here, I was always trying to play away from
the ball.
So whenever he does do his projectiles, they do not instantly collide with the wall and
instantly explode.
I have lost maybe a dozen ones to that interaction and they're very annoying.
So once again back in Taurus, we'll see this time if
If part C1 is not pleasant for me in this run,
because it was very pleasant during my showcase run,
so let's see if that holds true with that.
Oh, a lot more strong, all right.
Alright, first enemy spawn at 11.05. Let's see how long this takes.
You may recognize this chamber from Hades 1.
It is one of those that were picked back up for Hades 2
and the three arts that, whatever you want to say to that.
Re-design, but clearly reminiscent of the same chamber from Hades 1.
I also noticed here that we had a boom we hadn't had a chance to talk about called perfect image.
This is eventually the I'm really good at this game boom, which is when you haven't been hit for at least 15 seconds.
You'd be the additional damage. Yes.
Another one Hydraulic might that we talked about that I didn't pick up last run.
It's essentially at the start of each encounter, you deal more damage for the first 10 seconds.
Some history on the Apollo sprint pick, actually, on the first boot, but I mean, I brought up earlier that it is not the method pick currently.
But that wasn't always the case.
At some point early in early access,
right when people started to discover that beach ball is actually like pretty strong.
In fact, the strongest moon in fresh file.
The idea was at first to maximize chances of getting the boon we want,
right?
One of the requirements for beach ball is to have either a polo sprint or precise sprint.
as well as the as well as a core food from the other god, so it seemed logical to pick up the the
Apollo sprint that immediately appears on the first boom however since it is slower to do that
the consistency aside people eventually pivoted away from that.
There's also the simple fact that the Poseidon sprint just feels a lot of damage if you are
Very good at it. The current World Record holder sandwich has a time of I believe 11 minutes with a
Poseidon sprint and a beach ball start in an arabas
It is an incredible run and I highly suggest you check it out if you want to see how a
Professional with both breaker rush and beach ball
Manages to clear so quickly
for context my showcase run which I have incredible RNG on was 18 minutes so with a couple of minutes for
explanation but even if you put it at 14 or 15 minutes that's still yeah so I should have
brought the house but I don't really get her yeah this is bonus time yep this is bonus time
And if I lose, oh, well, it is what it is.
So, one fighting chronos at a lot more melee range
compared to the beach ball launching new
everywhere with attacks and specials.
The gameplay pattern is largely the same.
Just stick to him, be patient with your dashed findings.
And be careful when actually when you use your specials,
your specials actually have a quite a bit of action.
quite a bit of a unlock, and so they can actually make you very vulnerable.
So again, clockwise movements for the boomerang.
I also like to kill these enemies beside enemies because they have a very annoying,
and I take a lot more damage than I should to them.
Yeah, they knew the supplicants are a real pain in the neck and that there are later
a modifier specific to this fight that you can get in later runs of a game, and one
of the options is make a lot less of these enemies appear during the fight.
So very safely to dealing with Kronos has been being very patient, the moment you see him
going for an attack, just hold all activities and just wait to dash.
keep in control over the character is in both games fresh file a really important skill to learn
because the bosses are oftentimes designed for first of all the player having more damage and in the case of
Hades 1 fresh file the player having more dashes or reasons I won't get a 2cc, this isn't the Hades 1 show case
I realized it never explained what those flags are.
Essentially, they're flags that are almost in sunlight.
Every time they're proct, they just give one free hit point.
Again, just run him into a wall whenever he does his orb, attack like that, make sure
the wall eats all of the orbs, not you.
It's very important to do it because he can do his dash attack.
So if you are not careful, the orbs can actually hit you
even though you do dash away from the attack.
This is the talk we've never seen before.
Just stand in between some of the circles.
Make sure you're not too close
because if he does his boomerang, you will get hit,
so you just figure a couple of steps back like this.
So if he does his boomerang, it will just...
This is a clock, maybe the gaps?
Yes.
This attack, oh, yes, sorry.
I interviewed this.
In the gaps between the nearest bubbles to Kronos
during that bubble attack, you will always be safe.
From that attack, that's the most consistent way to avoid that.
Not if you're too close. I have taken damage. I'm probably too close.
This attack is just don't stand in the, um, where the clocks are flushing.
Oh, that was close.
I mean, it all is to ran into a tempest bubble, which might have killed him if, because of the
insta-kill going off at a similar time.
The insta-kill can't be eye-framed, but it is quite tight for this.
And the tempest bubbles, if you do get fun of them, just makes you unable to move.
That's cross again.
Well done.
You see it once more?
Yeah, I know you've done your shout out, but it can't be said enough that we're only going to be seeing more and more impressive
Hades 2 speed running in the near future.
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I'm going to get out of here, honey.
things that are not human also I'm saying that we're maybe doing something to my
microphone alright it's fine it's all well and good my name's Satan herself I am the
host of your show and I am so excited to ring in the new year with all of you the
clock wheel strike midnight on the east coast while we're live I believe so that
means that this is your new year's run. I'm really excited to bring in
2026 with Hollow Knight so it's song. This was truly the year of this game. So
you want to give it some love and we want to show you the best we could possibly
show you. So this is true ending by Lane who is the World Record Holder for
this category by a pretty significant amount. I have some fun with Hollow Knight. Enjoy!
Thanks for having me. I am no longer the World Record Holder though. That is
is Nebula.
Oh, wow.
Things changed so quickly.
Yeah, you beat my time by like five minutes, but this game is wild.
I was the second person to get a stuff three hours time.
But yeah, this is so song I'll be running trending, which is a pretty weird category.
We have to do a lot of random arbitrary quests in order to enter Act 3 and then meet the game in Act 3.
So, go ahead and get started.
Yeah. Three, two, one, go.
Good luck. Good luck, Lane. And also just to say hi to everyone as well. Hi, y'all.
My name is Marksy. I shall be commentating lanes around here tonight. I am super excited for this.
I'm a big holiday fan. And I have not seen a full run of training yet as well.
So this will be just as much a going through what I know plus seeing it all put together.
I'm very excited to see how you do this, Lane.
Yeah. Thank you.
This act one cut scene right now will wake up on the floor of Moscow at a after falling
pretty significant margin.
And two trade likes they're falling in charge for these hands they really do.
I'm going to get up to the effect immediately, I'm going to the right.
I need to be sure, so we'll have to do all of the bone bottom donations as some of the
points. notice thing you're jumping and diving
constantly because that's the fastest way to move through sort of this
beginning part of the- yeah before we get
strengths I think we settled on following the neutral
close so I'm going and then releasing fully
template before I get the ground so I think it's
done. right here just move it forward so
So normally, this is a lot faster than just walking normally.
There's what people were doing before,
you can just do a full jump and then pogo
and you don't get stunned, but that's a lot slower
than just releasing the forward input when you get close to the ground.
Hi, I have no kids.
Honestly, glad to see that this is in D-Faster overall,
as well.
Just thanks for some nice skill expression being able to do this
for a very thin period of time, too.
Yeah, some people hate these, but I kind of like them.
I mean, they're really fun to watch. It's really that rhythm, man.
At least it's not like shield-dashing in a symphony of the night, so this is at least a little bit nicer over all to do.
It's a long period of time. That's a tough bit of movement right there.
I'm gonna send the leads this part you just have to get in real quick.
Technically the first boss did not really.
the
are nice
all
you can learn her to attack in the corner if she goes to the left side is really slow because you can't actually get her
I guess she gets too high up.
Let's talk to the chapel maid.
Oh, that doesn't look good.
Yeah.
We're fine.
Ripped Jean looks on.
I hate my grains.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Hey.
I'm about to...
Just have to...
Spend text for a whole bit and then we can get another one.
The main engine of horror.
Yeah, we were talking about horror in the green room about the text language that we're using.
And I see that it's Mandarin.
Yes.
And yeah, what is the advantage of that?
less X and then it also just grows faster for some reason
It just
What do you click through faster than English or any other languages?
There are actually some languages that are slower
Which is really funny
Yeah, that's all right. It's not only they just use the same engine and the problem I did
The purpose is well, which I think would make sense too
Fun to see yeah, there's a lot of already. It's a lot of very similar things to all the night
like we use a bench hard-said work thing a lot as well.
Yep.
That makes sense.
Very nice piece of movement, this.
Yeah.
And this is going to be the first big skip.
Do okay?
They were early in the run.
Oh, I see what we're doing.
Yep.
Nice.
And that's good.
Two minutes of the narrow.
And we just go straight to the chakra.
I really mean to.
Another requirement for a track 3 is to buy all the shoppers maps and do her quest in
by a water.
Ah yes, so we will actually have to buy all of her maps even though we don't actually
need them.
Yeah, the size of this game we made to Hollow Knight, especially my first playthrough,
I was so reliant on the maps to be able to find my way around here.
I think I used the compass way more in this game than I ever did in Asia as well.
Yes. So many different areas.
Yeah, I don't know. I don't remember what I did in my casual Hollow Knight.
I think there were soaks on when I think I ever took the compass off.
Yeah. It's just... It's so big.
And the way the things just interlocked and changed over the Axis well,
just made it necessary.
I guess that's another skip. That saves a little bit of time. We just get to pull you straight up here.
Seeing a lot of Push-Honka fans in chat as well. Very nice.
Yes.
We do have to see Shocker a lot.
To get to the map for each area, we actually have to be in the same room of Shocker with some exceptions.
Like, wormways and blasts and steps, we just need to defeat the last judge.
to get the map, but for basically every other area we have to see her.
Oh yep, sometimes that'll happen.
I love the addition of being able to grab the lead in this game as well, but as
and then he just does he look at him and he's like, yeah, he's so cute, good creature.
Oh, I'm just one.
I can't recognize.
Yeah, this is our second time having the holiday theory.
Wow, good.
I mean, it's good reason I messed that up, but we just got to stand here for like 10 seconds. It's fine
10 to chill. I think I could time just somebody in chat asked about do we need the mask specific for actually three
Now for actually if I'm wrong it's not that we need to brag three, but to get a hundred percent
We do have to play all the way through a stripper's quest line in particular with a choir is a patient
So shoppers' quest is just one of the required quests to have silpensal offer. So
So it is a hard requirement, basically, for no major glitches that they used.
Makes sense.
But we don't have to get any of the maps that Shocker doesn't solve.
Gotcha.
So we just, we buy, like we don't need any of the Sibado maps, or like the Slab or
Future Pride Ducks maps, where you just like pick them up.
We only need the ones that Shocker will sell to us.
makes sense.
I don't think I'd survive that.
I can take a day.
I want to show you this.
Yeah. I think that's what's happening.
We have a little part now, which is going to be a lot more useful later, but right now,
right now is we just kind of have it.
I'll do the right here.
We're going to do good outs saves like three seconds
because it takes a really long time
for more than two wake up there.
And it's literally faster for our with loader moves
anyway.
It's faster to just put out.
I hear that I'm just like more in it for real.
I need to be you.
Hey, let us take the wake up too.
Yeah.
OK, have your coffee.
Just get some time. Yeah, it's a continued through here. We are going to have to hit all the bells eventually even though like three of them are just basically
Hard required to get through the game in general, but we will be getting the other ones
Because we have to we have to the feet last judge so that the police in the
to bring two fleets up and they have to go to the last steps first and they can't go there
flash judges for there.
I love the fleets so much.
Team Charity's the song is a merge.
Yeah, I think I need them for my ground.
I think there were some flashes, so I'm not sure if there was a flea one.
Well, they made a grub plush for the first game, so that's hopefully they make a flea
too.
Yeah, probably well, eventually.
It's going to make quick detour.
I'll be coming to grab this me.
And this is going to be like the first major difference from any percent. We're actually going to go into Hunter's Martian set of feet box.
Okay.
Oh.
Uh, we're fine.
Yeah, good heal.
Oh my god.
That's my ideal.
This guy's tough. Oh nice job. It's not ideal, but I should be fine. I do also like the change where the the full focus that the still feel in this game is a
If not quite a full heal, but just gets it all in one. So instead of having to wait to get you know the full. Yeah
Healing in this game is a lot better. We actually do pick up the equivalent of quick focus because it's so much stronger in this game
Yeah, I felt that way when I was playing this
Yeah, there's injector band is insane and we pick it up as soon as possible and if they simply just let's see a win every
So this is 120 or so it's which we will need pretty soon
Yeah, imagine the the the
Currency routing or for this run in particular is this pretty tight do we do we have any moments where we have to be sitting in the farming
The rosary is anywhere?
No.
Thanks, Lee.
We don't need nearly as much as 100%.
Where they do actually just have to farm for like 10 minutes.
We just get enough rosaries to where we can buy all the maps, which is and do the donations.
That makes sense.
the
so that she will stock 100's merch map later, which is basically the main reason we come here
in the first place, and there's not really a better time to come here
this avoid this traps
it's really bad to die here, because it gets sent all the way back to the arrow
the hard save that era
And we're going to use the
two
three
three
and we're going to be a lot of the same stuff that I
need to send those for like the first hour or so
or
a little less than that for like the first 30 minutes at least
I think one of the big questions about combat in this game in particular that I'm not sure
of how is in Hollow Knight especially spells were so much more powerful than the actual base
male in terms of damage out. But are we going to be seeing something similar here where once we get
some of the more these abilities will be relying on those more or is it in primarily nail focus
in this game for combat? We pick up silk spear and that's it but silk spear is busted so it doesn't matter.
Awesome. Great. Love that.
Soksphere deals three times whatever your current needle damage is which right now it's five so each
Soksphere is 15 damage and it can be animation canceled really easily with
If you hit a wall basically the sphere returns to your hand almost immediately so you can throw it again
So it's like the ventral spirit like with twice as fast sometimes
I think ventral spirit did more damage than
I guess I don't actually know that I'm supposed to do it right now.
I'm not supposed to have those 100s more trucks.
I'm just going to buy a ventilator so I pick them up.
Gotcha, make sense.
I think it's reasonable to do.
Yeah, Ventil Spirit did it.
I think it was also three times, but the main thing is that it could vary consistently
multi hit, especially off the big bosses like the True Champion.
Yeah.
We don't get multi hits, so we can hit multiple enemies at the same time with so it's here
There are some bosses you can technically multi hit because they have two hit boxes, but
It's like the most part we can only do
All right, but you want to hit her into lava. I think that deals like 40 damage for some reason
And we're done.
Nice.
I didn't realize a lot of actually didn't want him.
Yeah, it deals like 40, which is 8 hits.
Oh wow.
A lot's good 10.
Yeah.
It's not worth going for.
She's not going to just do it on her own, but it is like, it is really fast if you can just get it to line up.
Being a really fast year movement is now just lining quick all over the world.
Yeah, it's so cool a lot.
It's gonna, we're gonna get faster, but right now,
until we get a tool that makes us run faster,
we're doing the Pogo dashing.
So we use the downward momentum of the Pogo
to just boost our software over and over.
Yep, yeah, the neutral Pogoing here is still being useful as cool.
I think as soon as I got the silk is used to make you run faster,
that also did not come off in my casual play there.
So much faster.
Yeah.
We will pick that up.
we actually will delay driftersclope so we can pick that up immediately.
Okay.
As fast as fast.
That follows thing goes fast first.
Yeah.
And I'm just going to be feeling a bunch of random enemies because we actually, we will
be doing a new quest to kill 100 different enemies for.
Gotcha.
I don't think it's required but it's a pretty fast quest points and we do need a tool
patch up for you to do the last going bottom donation.
Yeah, that makes sense. Easy when you're out into considering how many different areas you have to go through and the lot of the enemies are just on the way anyway.
Yeah, we're going to fall air and then by the bench that saves the time it takes her air to show up.
Immediately going back to the mirror.
I don't think I'll be able to dodge.
the
it's close enough to the
the bell-dog anyways
will be fine
all hard save is now it uh... swift up so
the
yet
yet
I always would forget that the uh... the ability things were were hard save so we're
multiple times where do get the ability my play if there will be like
i'm just gonna go back to my bench on be fine after like getting close to death and
like oh yeah it's not how this goes
But it's a really funny strategy that maybe I'll post the breeze hit that guy in spikes
And then this is one way to the literature split. We're gonna go straight and gray more with the fleas
So we picked up five fleas and one of the active requirements is to have the fleas in plutopia
So we will have to get 22 fleas and we're gonna have to move them and later anyways, and it's just kind of convenience
That this just takes us straight to gray more
Also, let's skip murdering. We don't it's unfortunate like no category fights warving anymore
I'm going to look at the fleas.
I'm pleased to have been to preachers in my corner this is what I like.
For a long time, I thought the fleas that are laying down were like their years
I thought they just had really like messed up eyes for some reason and then I saw it
I saw one wake up and I was like oh, that's just ears. Yeah, yeah, I see what you mean. Yeah, I thought
some of them just had really weird eyes for some reason. So they're just really old. Yeah, and
We're here in Bellharts. We didn't have to fight more way because the flees moved to where more way would normally be so
They're in a different location. We're gonna put on flavor. We're not gonna be using it awful lot just yet, but we're there's a couple of skips and
I guess not right now, but
But it's just right there. Just good put it on
Money
the
list of you can do right there for that guy
oh
she's not a bit of that
all
Aruh
a
as
a
was
a
We did it.
Then we'll use a fleeber there because we just have to stand still anyways.
Just using fleeber is not faster than the pogodashing because of the time it takes to
use the fleeber.
So but when you just have to sit around the way you can use one.
And then when we get so speedy, I can go and get it as faster.
So I've seen this kind of discourse online, whether Hollow Knight and Silk Song are
platformers with combat or combat games with platformers,
platform elements.
I mean, it's a Metroidvania, so it's truly both.
But like, what do you think as a speedrunner of this game
sort of the balance it?
I don't know.
It's platforming until it's not, basically, I don't know.
It's, there's a lot of just, really difficult combat
in this run, particularly.
So we can have difficult combat.
We will not be fighting since we're split here at all.
We will just be ignoring her.
Gotcha.
Gotcha.
I'm feeling this is something to do.
Yeah, we're just, so normally you have to fight
since there's splinter to get walljump,
but we're just going to do that
and we don't have to do that.
And it's really funny because they nurse
since there's splinter, but no category fights
since there's splinter.
Say it would like more wing.
Only like bells, any percent fights more wing now?
They tried to help us.
Oh, Dan.
Nope.
That did not work.
I don't know if I can just go straight to the good up.
Nice.
And I do just want to let chat know that if you're enjoying watching Hollow Knight, so I'm
fond of much as we are, and you're ready for this this three hour run, you've sat down,
you've had a nice drink, you're ready to go. If you want to watch even more Hollow Knight
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I think that's right.
And what are we, uh, what are we doing here, Lane?
Uh, we have to fight widow. This is like the first real boss.
Where we don't just kill them in 15 seconds.
But still pretty fast.
Just want to use silksphere whenever we can.
And then because we did widow before drifter's click we had the needle in.
and so we can go when we do drifter's cloak we can go to the weakness with
silks feet and clits and just pick that up and then quit out.
If you're, this is actually one of the more annoying parts to do without drifter's cloak,
but it's been labbed out by the any percent runners. So if you're to doubt,
I'm gonna say that it's just if you fall, you don't have cloaks so you just go all the way to the bottom.
Yeah, yeah, do it.
the
There is no item. We just pick it up and it plays a cutscene and we don't get anything. It's really funny
There is no item. It's not real. The item is alive
I think this is witho might be another weaver, but
This is a very similar to the first center cutscene, which unfortunately we don't get to we don't fight that loss, but
It's like the only one where you just like locked in a
Dream sequence like this
I'm pretty sure that's the girl from the album cover for that one neutral milk hotel album.
I know idea what you're talking about.
I don't know if it's like 10 people in Shath that are cackling right now.
It's right.
Yeah.
One feels like I don't know.
What's that fruit?
That's like white and like brown on the outside.
Is that coconut?
Yeah.
Yeah, we're having fun men use as soon as the room starts shaking you can quit out here and it's faster than waiting for the beltering.
Because you have to wait for the beltering and then also wait for the bench to pop up and then sit on the bench for the door soap.
So if you just quit out it just lets you leave.
And we use loader move timer, so there's no discrepancies between loads.
We're actually going to go this way for the last, or one of the last follow-ups.
We do unfortunately have to speak to Grey Roots because it's a very quick bus point.
Oh, I need this money.
I'm not taking that the quarter of my way home from work yet it is like almost like
worth a quarter in so song economy it's like 60 resources but it's really
good.
I'm not I did not take um so song economics this is not a part of my
You know the one day after the guy with a gun walking out the hallway and he picks up the time and keeps shooting it.
Guys, that's what's happening right now.
Yeah, I...
Yeah, let's see Nelson.
Sorry, good.
Yeah, they mostly, they mostly fix the money issues.
There's open menus so that we can interact with stuff there.
But we're also going to sell the apartment that we got earlier.
This is used to sell for 90, which is insane.
Now we get 180.
and the three games factory, so we just like,
it's not reasonable to get the other two.
And then there's one just sitting out,
and the Citadel, it's like right on the way to Trouille.
So we might as well get it.
Thanks, then.
And we do actually, we have to talk to Paavo,
because that otherwise he won't offer
the first Bell Heart donation, which is really funny.
So if you just say, Norem, you can never help the town.
Yeah, I feel like I got to get the talk to them once and then it doesn't matter what
you talk to him and just won't happen until the first year.
Another requirement for I3 is the bad home key and then so we have to do basically every
bellheart donation and quest.
Sometimes that guy is just like isn't in the right position so you just miss, which is really
funny.
but then she here
once we're done once we're done with her just looking to put out back to the three
and yeah earlier we were talking about patches and like the latest version are
replaying on the latest version I believe this is latest match
there is unfortunately it's likely that we're going to have to downpatch
likely that we're going to have to downpatch because of the volt vessel
co-goes are just so much faster and the let's skip roll and go straight up the
carnivorous at you. But until until someone beats against like a time with it
I'm just going to keep running late as a patch because that's I don't like
the skips I know how that feels. That's so fair. I mean speedrun the way you
want to speedrun that's something I think the show before I said at the box
especially, but a lot of us sort of emphasize here.
And GDP is that it's kind of about how you want to play the game.
It's about how you want to speedrun, it's not about what everybody else is doing right now.
Yeah.
We'll make your own fun.
Yeah, it's just the main issue with downpatching is that we have to go back to RNG.
So the courier quest, there was a basically like a 33% chance that it would re-offer the same delivery you just did.
And so you'd have to go to Songplay and the war do the delivery again, so trying to get the other one and Songplay was really out of the way compared to the Pilgrims rest or a bomb at him
So it's just like so like two hours into the run. There's like a 50 30% chance. He just leaves two minutes
Rough
Yeah, that's the main reason I don't want to do this, but I don't know. Oh, hopefully figured out
I'm hearing in the chat some rumblings of potentially skip some of the current patch.
Yeah, there's there's a skip on the current patch using the compilo and pins and those are significantly harder than the mobile vessel.
Pogos that people have been doing 100% already.
And the statue skip from what I've seen is just like almost orangey because you have to do it line three times in a row.
Or both of those have a much bigger hitbox so you can kind of do them blinds consistently, but the pins are just like
Just look so miserable
Yeah, sometimes it's just not it's really not worth especially for a run this long to there are
There's always going to be other things that can be optimized first that really
Switching back to save a few seconds on a specific escape like that is just it's not in this so yeah
the main oh you okay oh yeah we yeah no one fights forthcars we just kind of go around
them yeah you can do that without anklets or for the flavor but it's a lot harder
and I say that's that's really fun yeah we're gonna venture because we're gonna go to the
graymore Bell real quick and then just put out and now we have to just
Oh, you have your perspective, so you can just get through here pretty easily.
And now I will basically be trying to spam Fliber whenever, because with subsuit inputs,
it is actually faster than just a normal running, even with the, uh, the model, the animation
startup.
And you can also do this with Fliber, is where you just like go up the wall really fast.
Oh, that's cool.
So we'll use that in a couple of slots, and fortunately I'm going to hold right here,
but when you come up here for the first time, it always puts you out on the left, no matter which way you're facing,
so you set the jump over that whole kind of annoying.
and we will have seen chakra make life harder to enjoy
and that skip sucks but you'd pretty once you learn how the super birds work you can
get it pretty consistent yeah there was a there was a fair few uh probos of the first
I'm trying to be in my run there as well. It's just like please cooperate. We saw doing this. Yeah, yeah, I
So much you can do with critters. I'm gonna do what they want to do right. We will be coming back and mass occurring a lot of this merge. So don't worry. Oh
good. Oh, yay
Yeah
Okay, no, did
I would say the burns are the closest faction to like the how the mantises are in the original.
I feel like the answer closer to the mantises, I'm not sure.
Oh wait, no you're right. In terms of that, like at least it's more so like the burns
respect what you're doing once you have the display of power. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, afterwards.
Which yeah otherwise the answer definitely the better analog.
Yeah, actually, that's I didn't really think of that
It is interesting just seeing the parallels of how these civilizations all like coexist in and mingle with one another
Yeah, especially since while the holonest is more of like a
Adensibilization this feels a lot more lively
Accidentally a factor so I have to reload the room oops yeah
Yeah, fortunately, she's so gender. Yeah, with this, this freak we have to talk. Oh, I did it again
One mode and it's fight
This is a common platform where I see yes, yeah
We will not be doing the curse, but we do do this class. We can really quick, and then we don't need to pick up the tool. We can just leave
You can also use fleaver to cancel hardballs, which is nice.
Oh, that's cool. I didn't have anything there.
This is so cool.
It's awesome to see a little mic rock in these things that we've got already for this.
Despite how relatively new it is.
Yeah, I was, people were not sure that, like, something hours was possible.
And then I don't think anyone expected it before the end of the year.
Yeah, I think it just goes to show how dedicated the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the
the speedrunning fan base for this game. Now, I do want to ask too. I don't believe you were a speedrunner for the original Hollow Knight, correct?
Yeah, no. I just played it casually for a long time. I got into, I did some 112, like, unrequited,
112 runs, like, towards the end of Hollow Knight, when Substorm was about to release, but they were all, like, two hours behind,
whatever the World Record was. I had a lot of fun with those, but I wanted to, I wanted to get into it,
and so something out, because I really liked the one 12-grams a lot.
Do you feel like you had, do you feel like doing the one 12-step before hand was a benefit
for you in getting into this game?
Or do you feel that there's sufficiently different enough that it was learning a new game over again?
It was really different, but it, I don't know, just having played Hollow Knight before was a big hell.
was a big hell, like I didn't get stuff on a lot of losses, like I think, like, or there
were a couple of losses, I think like last judge took me a while that it was, I didn't
have issues with the run back like other people did, I just kind of like, I don't know,
I didn't really feel like anything was like super unfair. Yeah, I mean, it's nice that they
also fix the, or if it not fix, change the damage on the run back to the last judge, so that
with that style double damage on the beam bar metal stuff.
Yeah.
I never had this shoot with the double damage hazards,
but I understand why people hated them.
Yeah.
I think the only place I really was frustrated with it was with
them, not the clock tower.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Those were really super annoying.
Yeah.
There we go.
We kind of, we get to cheese that area with wings,
which is really funny.
So.
Oh, good.
Please do so.
For me, I just look at anything in this game
I'm like this looks extraordinarily difficult, yes.
So, any accomplishment in this game was me?
Yeah.
This is probably the hardest category.
I low percent might be harder, but I'm not sure.
Just like...
You're seeing the hardest of the hard game, though.
Yeah.
Ah, alright.
Yeah, this skip sucks.
Get up, wait.
Yeah, I'm going to show up on that.
I'm kind of curious how...
I'm just going to burn.
There are enough, honestly.
And backup sets, but they're four.
But yeah, that's good say.
Is it a neutral jump off that world, then?
Yeah, there's a...
There's a wall you can cling onto there.
It's really precise.
It's really difficult without free brew,
and then it's like pretty consistent with free brew.
Gotcha. Gotcha.
There's a similar jump in the patron area of H.P.A.
It's getting us a water hose while that's like super small area. You can just barely get around it.
Yeah.
But that skip saves like 50 seconds because I really miss really long. So it's really important to learn.
I am going to buy this bench because if I died of last charge or cockroach dancers, I don't want to go all the way back to show it.
Yeah, I don't blame you.
No, I don't blame you at all for that.
How easy is it for you to route in like extra rosaries to be able to pick up these benches?
It depends like the hundreds more trucks are like pretty easy before like one bench
But it gets a bit harder after that
You've also stopped picking up the the free cylinder from
Like at the multi-papers melody, so we're like down to 100 from there
Not you if you have still if you have two still care you can start playing the needle and you don't have to talk to these guys
I don't want everyone to know that these guys are not lengthy because they last
judge my last judge let's share them with them if you go through the mist. These guys
We're not here.
The tree come out.
They just get destroyed. It's so funny.
Weaver also increases our tax speed.
and
this is a really good spot for so scared where you can hit them all
there
where you can't touch them and why don't you
not
that is so fun to watch
well done
that explosion actually deals triple damage which is so funny
and raise your hand if you die to the purple day.
I understand, you know, you did.
I immediately recognized, oh, that's gonna kill me.
And I ran away.
Yeah.
I knew it.
And I was right.
And I saw clips on Twitter and people died.
And it was so funny.
It was people, yeah.
It was just like, it's gonna blow up.
It's so obvious.
Like, I don't know.
It's an explosion.
Go away from the explosion.
Yeah.
And that is actually what I got.
I got it.
Nice.
It became tells you you're done.
And then, well, I guess you're not.
Well, it says X2, but instead of you're done, but we're going to be an X2 for the next hour and half.
Okay.
All right.
Settle in chat.
So in case you didn't know, you do not have to go through the underworks at all.
You can just do this by forming early.
And this wall of critical on both sides.
Oh, okay.
Normally you would come here after going through the other works, but instead we can just
come straight up here.
And there are no enemies spawning yet, which is really nice, but if we were to come back
here later, there would be just enemies all over the place.
This isn't intended route that we can do this and that's doing the end of works.
I think so.
I feel like they would have passed it if they, if they didn't want people doing this,
I feel like, I don't know, it's a little weird, because there's also the Deepbox
Lower Deepbox for you would normally use a simple key to enter.
You can break the wall from far field side and enter without the simple key.
like there's a couple of weird like two-way wall breaks that you wouldn't expect, and we're just gonna hit that guy I get straight up here.
I always appreciate that about Team Cherry's just game this time to ask me that there's so many routes you can take and that there's the secret like,
oh yeah, if you know you can just do this, just go the other way up. Now I'll do it with a monster gonna match there because dying here is really bad.
Yeah.
the
L
that's
was a spine like the their hitbox appears at like random times you can't just print through their always
and
all
I'm watching this really a really nice platforming section with all these preachers, I didn't
want to talk a little bit about what makes this game so I'm a creature corner viable because
you might look at Hornet and you might go, you know, that's kind of a human question about
humanoid, but I'm probably definitely not, I don't know some of the lore, so I wanted
Ask a little bit more about sort of like for you guys to describe sort of what horn it is, and you know, what
What about horn it makes her able to do all of these on things. Yeah, she's a bug. Yeah, she's a bug
Yes, what about her being a bug bug. I see
About Lane explain. I
I don't know, as she is a spider.
She does produce still out of her characters.
Oh, so then that makes sense.
I think she's going to have a process, she's a spider, and her body.
Bugs scientist right here.
Yes.
Let's put the silk heart to make a bestie up, and then for the reinforces and
trinkets of our natural silk produced in quality.
Yes.
Got it.
Actually, soul.
Oh, excuse me, so
Excellent little
Kind of seen skid there. They're not supposed to do that for that long
That's weird
I know they're alive, I guess
That was something unusual
The problem here is that they're running they're not accounting for a daily saving time so they're a little off. That's just rude
That's that's so annoying
I hate you.
Nice.
We do get a kill. Kill them twice. We will be doing for Donions at World Tower.
Also shout out to the blues and chat y'all are doing great.
Keep those coming throughout their own.
And that's it. All right. Nice. Nice.
I remember in my my casual playthrough I died to the 4th pop phase
fought with dancers like 3 times because they moved so slowly. I just couldn't get in my
head that they were just going to move slower.
All right.
And then as soon as it splits and nicely we can put up.
And skip like 30 seconds of the the room.
Moving and turning into this.
Now here we're going to pick up the plus for three full melody and we're not going to
start on that immediately but we're going to basically just get the rest of the
movement and then do three full quest.
the
of dodging these gears
Oh.
I don't need that door, but I'm a coward.
There.
It's gonna be so long to get this room down.
I hate this room.
You're doing a great job with that.
Yeah, I spent so long practicing.
It's shows.
This room is even worse.
Alright, we're gonna hit this lever from later, and then I'll move that thing to
where we can move through it vertically later.
that's why it's supposed to be just get to do this
yeah I can see that
I'm not sure if I can get the
one.
Yeah, collecting the enemies are one one place and doing so
spheres very satisfying to see.
Okay, come on.
Come on.
I got him.
He's so rude.
Fuck.
I hate you.
The planning.
I'm sorry, man.
I
That was really slow. He can be a bank damage. I just
Wanted to not die there
Yeah, that's nice
I
Drops a lot of money and it's a journal entry for later or so
Relatively quick
If you don't pick up this white work, do you do belong to Stools in cells that you for like 200 or 300 or something?
That's awesome.
If you rescue do belong to the fort picking up the key, you have to pay for it and that's so funny.
That's just good news to say.
Yeah, never hard saves here.
And we talked to caretaker.
So when we do our next put-outs, song play will appear.
appear. And there's a mechanic called time passes elsewhere, where whenever you bench
quit out or do something that like updates the game, it basically moves like quest lands along.
So right here, I was in a different room and I could go out. So it's going to
progress the story. So now it's long like is here.
So open this money and we're going to go and do this donation.
You could do that if you watch a TVQ as well, Chats.
You can donate.
Just a suggestion.
It would be pretty cool.
That'll be starting on Sunday, by the way, just as a reminder, everyone.
Our opening run is going to be super Mario Sunshine at 12 p.m. Eastern time on Sunday.
So, if you're looking for something to watch next week, absolutely turn the channel back on.
AGDQ will be live the whole week, including a possible bonus run of Hollow Knight
so have time on our final day Saturday at 10th.
So, Exlemish Mark AGDQ will give you that schedule, and you can still attend in person
by the way, go to gq.gg for more information if you would like to register to attend in person
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
It's really, really cool. It's super fun. I'm gonna be there. I cannot wait to see everyone in person and to see all of the runs
Now if you can't go in person, no worries. We're gonna be live on both which and YouTube the whole week
So you don't have to go anywhere you can watch it all right from wherever you are
It's gonna be really really fun
And we get that leave it spear.
And this is actually the only payload we be picking up.
Gotcha.
But there's more than any percent, so we will be dealing twice as much damage to them.
I'll certainly help you.
You have to do fine pints as a quick quest and an older patch is that the pints used to be a 50% chance to drop.
So it was just miserable.
Another 100% but we have to pick up 12 instead of 10 but like that doesn't matter at all
You can agar that guy
You just have to be like 20 in the many ways, so yeah, that's fine
All right, and then these guys drop a lot of money so we can
and buy the grandboe here.
Don't know quite enough for the venture,
but we can buy that later.
It's not a big deal.
They should've led the room
because that animation takes only years,
approximately.
That would be far too long for the broadband.
Yes, and we're gonna go back to Belhart
and get needle two,
and pick up another quest
and then put out back to Soundclave and fight trivia.
Here, we're going to pick up this quest for later. This is the one in
sinners road where you saved the the courier's brother and we will actually be doing
for your bus later so we do need to do that in addition to it just being a fast bus.
You also get a quest point for upgrading our needle with a yellow
oil but if you don't talk to them it just doesn't show up in your bus log but we still
of a point no matter what.
Gotcha. I think also a good question to ask you, too, is like the quest points in particular.
What are those needed for why are we going out of a very collectum?
So to get to act three, you have to do silkinsol, which in order to unlock, you need to do
the world state has to be fleasantly topia, you have to have a great on-flow, you need lace to
defeated in the cradle. That's wrong. And then you need to have the bell home key. In addition
to 10 required quests, which include like Dr. Slok and Bomp for the wounded, a couple other things,
and then there's 17 optional other quest flights. And then after you do all that, you get
still can solve from caretaker, and you can attractory.
Gotcha.
Five, six.
Oh.
Sometimes he just goes into the floor, and there, he can't do anything about it.
I was rude, I just sat in the explosion so I couldn't hit him.
Okay, patterned but little stuff I love the voice actor.
We do actually pick up Jeremy to Mary because with the injector band is actually a pretty
reliable source of damage. Just reload the room to get the elevator all the way down.
Then the elevator back up because we're going to go down there after we explore.
You can dash again there to a good hardfall.
I'm going to open the inventory to get rid of that screen and then put nearer and
batch. And that is the only spot that requires drifter's look. They patched out that
the wall jump, that was on release patch, but you do get clawing without drifter's look.
the
we need to anyways so I'll lend the super-allot for us
hmm
let's skip there
you need that letter for the floor for some reason
There's another one of them, or it's special for now.
Yes.
These are their roles.
I was a common thing in the earlier parts of the Polynate, but as far as I can tell,
there's very few lever through the walls that we can hit in this game.
Yeah, there's like two, it's like one near Fanson and then the one in to whiteboard that
we actually get in this run.
What you have to do, it would meetle strike, you can't just do it with the normal attack.
I'm not sure if it's been known for a while and they haven't touched it.
Maybe they like it.
This arena is a lot faster with people too well, so...
Oh.
This dude.
Ow.
Those are good.
I just use that guy to kill the other.
And it's done.
Nice, nice.
But now we can leave. We can get the sacred cylinder
And then we're actually going to delay the ball keeper's melody.
We're going to get it like 30 minutes for now instead of just right now.
But we are just going to pick up the cylinder now because it's right here.
And this is the only time we're going to be here ever again.
And because we did not kill fans,
actually have to worry about the steam cycles in this room.
Yep, that's right here. It's kinda hidden. I'm not sure I found that in my casual play there.
I have the cylinder. It doesn't matter if it's still in there remains.
I don't need to get that way. We're not going to keep us in the lead. We're going this way.
I need to get that out of my muscle memory.
It's a smooth win.
It's that true.
Okay, we're going to kill these guys for pins.
Yeah, so imagine if that opinion didn't drop there. I just have to spend like 20 minutes doing this
Reloading stream over and over again. I'm very glad to have to imagine that that's how I did that
What was farming in this room? It saw. Yeah, yeah, I didn't. When I did this as well, I didn't realize that it was like supposed to be R and G. I just thought like the quest was about to do it. Oh
and
and
here we're going to rescue the one
and while we wait for her to show up, we're going to get this money back here.
Come on.
Alright, now I can just leave the straight to this lab.
and
if this last pin and there's four more I'm going to just add so we're done
yeah we'll be getting wings here soon right yeah we're basically we're going to get wings right now
and I'm looking forward to seeing the movement with us for this year's performance going to help us out here
We're not talking to him, but he's there.
Okay, sure.
That is the last minute and we're done.
That doesn't feel like an hour has gone by, not to be.
This has been so, so fast already.
This time that, let's get through this room real quick.
That guy for silk.
And that's like one of the sphere wall cancels where it's just like the sphere comes back to my hand so fast
so I can immediately input another attacker.
Wait a sec, wait a sec, okay. I do need 200 shards here.
With after this we're going straight to bone bottom to do the donations.
Hmm, by the spur leader when we leave, and now we're gonna get wings, and we're
gonna be skipping most of them out there. Good, just a minute. We do, we see some
slopes with the right of the ends.
It's place looks frosty, which is reminding me of something else that happened this
week for me for my segues.
The frosts, the towels 20, 26 schedule did drop yesterday and if you are a fan of
Hollow Knight, well, you are in luck.
There's a Hollow Knight run on that schedule as well, so if you'd like to check that out,
then it's on the Patel Stage on the GQ website.
I'm really excited about it and I hope you all are too.
It's going to be a super super fun time, and if you don't know what that event is
kind of about.
Well, frame details, it's a community of women and friends who share fashion for
speedrunning, aiming, and charity.
In addition to their two flagship events, including for off-salteles, they have
sexivities here around in their community discord, like game of the month and randomizer
events.
You can type, exclamation mark, FF, and chat, and learn more, and get involved.
It is a super wonderful community we do have an event coming up for off-salteles,
26 with again a halonite run on that's casual and lots lots more to enjoy so definitely go check that out
It's gonna be
Y'all grabs all this bag. I'm on and pay towels. It's gonna be awesome. That is a very fun run. I knew I was gonna do a great job with them. Oh
Totally to ask you of course, you know
Plastic legendary
Solidite runner back for another another good run, so it's gonna be great. We all know it
Those are one of the two skips who actually do basically a shade skit in the game with
our computer.
And that skips basically the entirety of Mount Bay.
Now we do another one with fleebrew right there, just get just a little bit of that section
down there.
It's just so impressive to watch the precision of inputs is ridiculous.
Yeah, this is, there's a lot of movements, and then it's mostly movement, but it's just,
also every hard boss in the game. So you get to do everything. And now we'll have links.
So we have access to every move in ability until accurate.
Ahhhh
Ahhhh
Means yes
Bird up
and
and now
we won't freeze either
but we're not coming back here so
doesn't really matter
but
we're going to venture to stay down
is a
hard save
and we're going to do another quick
quick
we're going to get a fleet
and then
How much routing in this game? That's another thing that it may say about this category and other long longer Metroid B had a grace and Hollow Knight category
This is just there's so much you have to consider as to what would be the best order to do things in and have to maximize that time. It's really really cool to watch
Yeah, there's a lot of stuff we have to keep track of here just
Just how many things we have to do compared to any person
I mean, any percent is how long I'm going to go?
15 minutes now. Yeah, 15 minutes now. Oh, my honor. He's patching them bells is a
53 up one tree.
It's just so fast significantly longer to ending time for Hall of Nine.
It's just more than few in this game. It feels like overall.
Yeah, there's this game is bigger and harder. There's just more more things and
just, uh, I don't know, I don't know what I'm gonna do, all right, we just a lot more to do, and the true
and inner environments are a lot more strict.
Now here we're gonna pick up everything above, I'm sorry, to do this donation, and then pick up all these
quests, and then we're gonna get the Hunter's Evolution Crest, which we'll basically give us
needle three but only if we don't get hit. Yeah kind of the reverse of the
the damage list or the one hit. Yeah if you're the forward. Yeah there you
good thank you thank you for yeah we have we have something similar we have
barbed bracelet which is yeah almost but it's like significantly worse it's
like only like 20% damage increase and you take double damage on everything.
Yeah no more than this game no yeah I did not want to use it at all when I
I got it. Yeah, it's kind of miserable.
Can you actually mention that this game is already huge and the DLC is of course around the horizon as well now we know.
I'm I'm really hoping that the DLC introduces something that replaces silver bills that is all I care that's all I want.
just please anything that is a it's like the only RNG quest we have left
where we just have to like go below Bellhart and pick up Silver Bells
because there's not anything faster than you
all lane once for Christmas is this team Sherry yes please I don't want to do it
Yeah, we are counting down in a year, so by the way, Chad, we're getting closer.
Hour and a half?
Yeah, for these ghosts.
Isn't there?
You just want my birthday to be over, I get it.
That's the best.
No.
I want 2026 to happen, that's what I want.
I thought it was 3026, 25.
Whoa, what year are you living in?
That's two ghosts with me, right?
I don't know how to explain the truth. I'm scared.
So that explains why Linus so good at speedrunning future stats.
Of course.
I did not immediately get gaps as soon as Nebula started running this category.
That definitely did not happen.
You were still so impressive at this.
I mean this has been so much fun to watch and it doesn't you know matter if there's somebody else factor
It's just so cool to see people complete this game quickly. Yeah, this is this runs a lot of fun
I really I really hope that we
Can continue having it be fun
But right now it is
I really like where it's at and there's still a lot of a lot of time safe
because we got the 100s evolution crests. We actually did a time pass as elsewhere
command. So we can go ahead and do the second boom bottom donation without having to
quit out.
It's good to be interested in seeing if any of the DLC that gets released is going to
have a much of an impact on the any of the routes that are already, especially
joining. Yeah, I sure hope so. Yeah, I need of course this game didn't come out super
super super recently, but it came out recently enough that loft is still being developed.
I'm sure this is a really good time to get into this speedrun as well.
Yes. If you'd like to, do you have any tips on where people could go to learn a little bit more?
just join the speeder in this word and install the bug mod that is like the best tool that you'll ever have access to. It just lets you practice everything.
Yes, I will, I'm in a hard run for that. The holiday communities view bug mods are some of the best in all of the speedrunning I will say it.
because it's not just like safe states and stuff, there's just all sorts of little features that just make all sorts of experimentation, even outside of speedrunning possible
But there's any percent for all and I'd be a original game the glitches that are found in that were made possible by the B-Mugbot
is this the way it does. So absolutely recommend it.
Take the bug out of the bug game and make yourself time by better time.
the
days
these guys have one
health they're not like the opposite of the
good answers were
they share helpful and you hitting them both
the weeks
out for both of them so when we hit both of them with a spear they both take that
damage so it's like double damage
Yeah, I don't know. I need to practice that more. I'm not so much sure how that works.
You're going to pick up Needle Strike mostly for a skip later, but it is helpful in combat and then also let's
As a sprig, the brick wall is a lot faster.
It's just one shot's every brick wall.
Oh yeah, and we've been needing to use a couple shots
on each time, right?
So, dig time safe throughout the run.
Yeah, we're mostly only considering it
because it lets us do the elevator skip and white word,
but it has other uses that are really nice.
And this is probably the most difficult
new in that section.
I have that rock ball on that guy for a journal entry.
I have side question.
Yep.
I feel like I will be wait.
Oh, that's fine.
That's fine.
I got this.
I'm not gonna go.
There's so much to keep track of.
Cool.
Nice.
Well done.
Oh, okay, sometimes that breaks into hits and sometimes it breaks into three.
I don't know why, but I wanted to put a local off of it to get up here.
We have to look at Shocker there, so she'll sell us the map later.
Okay, okay, chill feel like I'm through journal tree safely and then there's another plea in here
All right, there you guys
Ooh that juggle into co-go so smooth. Yeah, that one that one's pretty difficult. It took me
There's a pretty easy backup. So if you miss it, it's not the end of the world, but it is it's really nice to do
And here we can use the needle strike to just get through these balls really fast.
And then take out that guy for journal entry also.
And this is the Santa Carrack Circle key and we're going to put out and break in 3, 2, 1,
now.
Alright, so chat, we will be back in just a little bit.
We are going to take a nice little wellness break, and we will return with more Hollow Knight
looks on true ending very shortly.
So go ahead and grab a snack, get a stretch, and come on back.
We're back welcome back to Hollow Knight. So it's on true ending lane. Let's get back into it
It's supposed to be three two one and
All right, let's have that those
All right
Call aerobic and then go up to some cave
I think it's a good time to ask, oh sorry actually, first.
Okay, so now that we're done with all the movement, we have a qualifying double jump,
we're going to finish the three-fold building and get to Lace 2, and I'll talk to Sherna here,
and this is another part where we've routed the time passes elsewhere to be, with there
no redundant quiddouts. So here we're going to turn in five pins and then immediately pick up
up the cloaks of the choir and then we've talked to Sharma and then we're
going to white word and then we're going to put out back to here and then get
Sharma's quest and then go into white word all of doing the cloaks.
I think there's a tighter cycle you can do there but I've learned it and this is
why we hit that lever there so we can just follow down through here.
and
and
and this is probably
like the most
like farming we will ever do
these guys just dropped so much money that we don't have to pick up a lot of extra throughout the run
of
all
and
this is going to be the elevator skill
Okay, we send the elevator down, and then right here, and we get this lever through
the wall, and then we'll go in here to whiteboard, and see if this text pops up, we can
put out. We're not supposed to be in there from that side so it's just completely dark.
What were you gonna ask her later? I was gonna say I think all of us in chat are wondering
uh which ones the Hollow Knight in this game? Hollow Knight uh it's that guy yelling at me.
Oh the editing.
the
the
the
the
the
the
the
the
used to deal double damage on release patch and they took it away for them and I
don't think I don't think he deserved it he should he should sell it as
double damage. I agree as a day one player for this game to let me tell
you y'all have it too easy I'm a sad no idea the trenches we were in on that day.
I'm so glad I did this game on release patch before they just nerfed everything.
No no it's it was fun it was fun to like really get that challenge to yeah
Yeah, like the game doesn't really have that sort of challenge in it at this point.
I'm hoping we'd have got home expansion at some point, yes, like I need a password.
It'd be nice to have a sort of difficulty option.
I won't waste for it.
You could talk between, because I think it's really nice to have accessibility options for
people who, you know, maybe haven't played Hall of Night or just have a tougher time with
this kind of game, but then also, it's nice to have a difficult challenge to really
to really work on as well. So, you know, we want to focus.
You've also, that's actually been a huge debate, especially on the
soul side of things too. There's, there's been a fierce debate online
of whether or not difficulty modes for games like Dark Souls or Hollow
Night are actually more beneficial or not in the long run, because the main
argument for is for accessibility, you know, there are
arguments against it is like, I think part of the game itself is about
it's difficulty and you having to over come that.
And so this story is based around you having to persist,
you know?
It's tough to say, right?
Yeah.
What do you think, Lynn?
You look like a lot of people refuse to leave and come back to things.
Yes, yes, but I was just going to agree with that.
Yes, there is a lot of people where they just like threw themselves
at one thing over and over and then quit after they couldn't get it.
Yep.
When they're really quite hard to do that mentally.
Yeah.
Really stick with something for that long.
Because it starts to really wear on you, taking breaks is super important.
Yeah.
I completely agree.
That's the deal.
You're 100% correct on the leading things.
That is the biggest people I've ever seen.
Especially on the side of the Hollow Knight.
My main thing is, like, the Kizo Super Mario World stuff.
Being able to put something down and come back to it later,
once you've done other things, is just so essential in these games.
Because you can, because of the non-linear nature,
you might find something that's just not meant to be fought right now.
You can go and do other things to get stronger.
Like it's part of the game.
Yeah, and everybody has a different philosophy
that I've got about it.
But I do think the just from a speedrunning perspective as well,
as speedrunners, I think it happens all the time
when you leave a game for a while,
and then you come back to it and you get this big TV
and you're like, well, why did I do that?
Because I'm not playing as much as I was.
Well, it's really about sort of that reset
and able to sort of like,
you know, approach it with a new mentality
and with, you know, restored energy.
so definitely a interesting talk to talk about the link. Yeah. Yeah.
The, uh, uh, open the use. I have enough money. I just need to put this.
Right, 950. So we're good on money. We can skip that cylinder.
Right here we're going to get your attention on there. Yeah, uh, and now he's just he just sounds like that.
Don't worry about it.
It's all you can.
And now the cylinder has remained unparamed up until this point so we get to turn it in and learn the first of the three abilities.
Guys, saying something about our weaver or something.
And he would kill us otherwise but he's too much of a guy would actually do it.
Well, fair enough I guess.
the
normally on the older routes we would
not turn in the cylinder we would pick up the one that's laying on the floor that's like
twenty seconds extra to get when it's like two hundred and we just got to the point where we don't need it anymore
yeah
out to the future too, where that 200 is like now useful for us.
It's good to have those options available.
Yeah, I think it might, like there's a, there's a tool in, uh,
being in bi-ilgrams arrest that's the weighted belt.
Apparently, it makes you fall faster.
I don't know, I need to do, I need to time it, but it's, um,
like, if you get that cylinder, you can buy the weighted belt.
And you get the fall faster.
I, I only thought it was like the steady body where you just don't
Yeah, and really set us at a fall faster, mechanic.
Me too, I had it on, like, I went into my casual file for something, and I realized
that was just falling significantly faster than I was supposed to, and I had a really
belt on.
So I need to see if that's, like, actually, something that we should look at in the
app.
Yeah.
Check the chested out and see if it's real packed.
And I was, there was some tech in the early patches for all, and I, where if you, like,
open to the map or the menu, you would just fall way faster too, and that was way, useful
enough that certain categories were done in older patches because it makes save so much time.
Yeah, they can see that being a big difference with this game in particular.
Like the inventory drops?
Yeah, inventory drops, thank you, though.
Yeah, that's so much.
Yeah, they don't even to where, like, you had to get them like almost frame perfect, but you
can still do them on the later patches.
Yeah.
Many things is like the frame perfect for it is like I could never get good at first,
right?
Yeah.
and if to save jule on unfortunately
is a one of the required lists that we have to do no matter what she's doing her best
and then check her band just makes a seal significantly faster so I can basically just heal whenever I want now
and that's everyone you get the shell shards from these guys
Now we have to go to the gale lake so that the fleas we can tell the fleas to go there later and if we don't go there
they won't know where to go. They'll just stay at the Grand Gate forever.
You're really hard just kind of doing everything for them. Yeah. Thank you.
I'm really like how distinct each area is from each other visually and with the you know
I really like how distinct each area is from each other visually and with the, you know, enemy mechanics.
Oh, okay, uh, refined.
Oh, maybe not.
Oh, goodbye.
Speaking of enemy mechanics.
This area is so brutal.
All right, you fall in the liquid once and it's like, yeah, just follow you.
All right, we're fine.
We can get out after this.
Good afternoon.
Good.
Yay.
All right.
And you just quit out right after you pass that rock in the foreground.
And we're fine.
I think I have for some salt.
and
that's why we open that door earlier so you can just go straight here without having to redo that platforming section
how do you navigate through these doors to like
specifically set up like the the different rotating room and stuff and just navigate this area with the bridges which are paying for me
Yeah, oh, I missed that up, but that's kind of favorable. No, okay
I haven't gone to the side so long
But let's find
One thing about the the the the silk sphere. I really appreciate in this game to convert to the ventral sphere
It's a fact that it can also be used to pogo in the same way that, you know, your regular pogo is
Yeah, really helps to be able to do the vertical movement in sections like this. I'm particular. Yeah
Yeah, I'm going to the gears because honestly, I was just thinking that they look so pretty that I just want to like
I don't know like touch them. I don't know
I like a little you know like a little toy and then they kill me and it's fine
I will dissect that in therapy later, but otherwise, so we have this puzzle we're doing right now.
Yeah, it is the same every time, so you can just memorize the solution, which is really nice.
This is the only melody that actually hard saves us for some reason.
keepers and the conductors did not.
I'm noticing we have a lot of stimmers in chat. Thank you for watching.
Big stimming hours on New Year's Eve y'all.
You know, grab a fidget spinner if you've got one, grab a fidget ring, whatever you want.
I've never really scared. Oh yeah, that's a good choice.
I'm just gonna heal right there.
We game Rubix cubes actually. If you are looking to come to AGDQ, and if you are a hot
fixed fan, which I'm sure you all are, because you are listening to me right now, we're
going to put a table that's set up for some really cool information about hotfix, and we're
going to have a bunch of activities including a custom Rubix cube with a bunch of the
you mask out on it. So if you want to say some really, really cool stuff, go to gdq.gg
and then you can attend a register. We are going to be at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
from the 4th to the 10th. So that is really, really soon. And if you'd like to come on down
if you live in the area or if you happen to be there, you know, register to attend
or just of course, watch. We're going to be live here and on YouTube. I know I've said it
a ton today but this is the last stream before AGDQs. So we're really, really
public for it. Exploration work, ATDQ and chat and they're very well, might be a
silk song run there if we unlock that bonus game on Saturday. Yeah, and if you
go to an ATDQ as well, with a Rubik's Cube, that will have, I've already
jumbled it and I can't fix it. So if I'm tabling that day, and you can fix it, I might
sneak you a press.
Yeah, that's a true. I made the Rubik's Cube, so I know.
That kind of takes her in.
Oh, we're doing this.
All right.
It's really cool.
Fuck.
All right.
Nice.
Done.
There is a faster way to get through the second gate, but it's like, it's, I don't know if
it's actually hard, but I've never tried it.
So, the only percent people have mastered it at this point, but, and then, this is probably
one of the harder sections we got.
We kind of get to play it on using mode because of all of the appearance we have, but it's still pretty difficult.
He's in effect.
Hell.
Oh, the healing inventory buttons are right next to each other so that'll happen
sometimes.
and
the
of
the
One of it.
And we're done.
Nice. Beautiful.
and this is the last melody and I would invite least to.
Christopher Locke did an amazing job because I don't check on this game.
Oh, just same with all of that.
Amazing.
Honestly, one reason I like having the games on the show so much is just it is such an audio vision of the light
The full time
Yeah.
Such a like an soothing and iconic melody.
Yes.
Yes.
This.
and
this is basically where any percent would be over is
excluding all of the stuff we just did
for the most part like they don't get double jump they don't get it's closed
they don't do all these quests they just go up straight to the list to and fight it
uh... what is
the final boss of the base game
but we have still have about
and other silk. And then after this we're gonna do some cleanup and there's still about an hour and a half left of stuff we have to do before we can actually
finish the game. Yeah, the second half of this run truly is just clean up so we can access the last boss. Yes
I mean, it sucks on, so it's fun to clean up.
Oh, I sure. No, no, we're on.
This is time loss with this my favorite pet scene, so I'm just going to watch it.
Oh, yay.
You're so cool for this, actually.
I love getting a little cutscene treat.
It's so nice to be here.
Chad enjoyed the cinema
What the heck, the animation?
I wish I was here.
Awesome.
Okay.
Come on.
Okay, sure.
the
issue to get to the top of the edges here to
uh... yes but it's like 15 so it's not worth it all
actually
it's so it's so dumb
it's like one needle that compared to eight
nice
It's been in search of actually dead this time.
Got to make sure.
Can't have her coming back.
I don't know where I'm going.
I'm going to get him.
For sure.
This is the second silver card, which is really helpful for
or the subspeak like that. So basically just makes it
where we always are moving at full speed.
Lane, if you could be any bug, what would you be?
You just think question.
I cleared the fifth.
All right.
I can't discussion. I pick, um, uh, right now it's first beetle. Oh, that's what I would
do it. You know what can I answer your own questions? I'm thinking. I'm like an Atlas
Muff. Ooh, that's a good choice. Chad, if you could be a bug, please do tell us what bug
you would be. Yeah. I felt earlier so we can just leave straight out of here and we're
going to work. Chad is celebrating another time zone the new year because the hour
rolled over. We are getting really close to East Coast New Year, less than an hour so
If you'd like to celebrate it with us, we would be doing a little happy new year at that time of course.
The rest of the stuff we're going to do is just going to be mostly clean up.
We have to come here to unlock a shortcut for later.
And it's just not really a better time to do it.
So we're just going to do it now.
You can knock that guy into lava. That's really funny.
I'm not going to get in love with him.
That's where I'm.
I grab my ground.
Dying your sucks because you have to wait like 20 seconds for this thing to open every
single time.
Hmm.
I don't know why I don't know why I decided to make this one take so long to open.
But it's just like like 15 seconds from the time I hit the lever.
Hmm...
Ow!
We're just feeling the heat.
We're watching this fast fight. You might have to share a somewhat controversial cake on the whole bug debate.
Okay, I'm the bug debate, sure. I feel like Blizzard should be bugs. Why?
They kind of bug energy? No, they go.
Well, you can disagree with me, but I still think they have bug energy.
Okay, yes.
This is awesome.
I struggle with this fight so much in my play.
More so than the last judge, this fight in particular, I don't know why.
Yeah, this one's a great wall too.
that is saying some real things that would be including roll-a-pollies, spiders, fire flies, good choices.
I'm losing. What was the strip of the bug? Why not lizard beat bug?
Hmm.
At least we're stuck because you can't jump over them.
I know, right?
Yeah, they're just gonna hit that thing and then we can quit out and then I'll open that door from the other side
And we will have to come back here later and if we come back in that three
That boss gets the enemies get weighted so they have double health
Which is not ideal
Now we're going to go back and deal across
We're also going to get these kilograms for their clothes.
Oh, good.
That's going to be fun.
Yeah, it's a totally normal and chill thing that we're doing right now.
No, no, I'm one shot.
It's like recycling.
Yeah.
He's got-
Do you think Undertaker's was cycle?
I sure.
Have you not had their jobs?
I like that's bad for the environment.
I don't know what kind of conversation I'm getting by self-added.
I'm going to end just opt out of this one.
We have to talk to Creege, so that he'll tell us to go kill the stupid birds.
And this quest is required for actually for some reason.
It's just, it's not even like a fast point. It's just required.
Use half to do it.
I don't know why.
to
the
the
and then those
and
the the picking up the enemy drops
of this game was
such a great and I'm glad they made it less RNG
Yeah, it was like just pins that was R&G base for some reason. I don't know why they decided to make them just those like that
Okay, thank you
and
there's also a thing here
I do think it's really funny too that you beat up a bunch of crass to get there there here and the responses I'm not I'm going to get my older brother to come beat you up
yeah
I'm so sad that the the crawfother is like in RNG fight like you're to get it to show up
You just like it just makes that fight so funny
Okay
I do this arena with wings and the next run needle upgrade is so much better
Oh, for sure.
Yeah.
Are they a one-hit shot for the little crowds with the base needle?
With the silk sphere, it's one, but it's okay.
And we're done.
We don't even need to touch the area.
We just need the pickups and that's the fastest place to get them.
Nice.
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Sorry, during the show, I was back and so soon.
Hopefully that should be enough during the winter. I think we're probably going to be at like a hundred
something. I already. Yeah, we're we're going to talk to you right now. It's like 70 or something
just from the arenas that we do is it's probably lower than that, but it's like most of the enemies
we get are just from required arenas that we have to do anyways so we pick this up and it's the easiest way to get an extra tool pouch.
Hey so how many more enemies left do you think you have to finish the honor drills like six or seven or something like
what what did you just say to me how many okay one hundred one that's closer than I thought it would be
up stun luck um I was wondering how many more enemies we had left to finish out the
hundred show for this quest it's one thing right we need a hundred we just did it always
100. Okay.
That is not pleased with the question I ask and I just want to make a clear shot. I'm asking for you. I am your voice.
That's certainly.
Chad and you dislike whatever Mercy is doing online. You can't start that hype train that is almost
activated in chat. I think one sub would do it with where we're at right. Where are you at five?
That's six because of a lovely prime self in addition to six or seven will make it work. Of course
Unfortunately we have to save crap
Because he's really fast and he's right there, but we don't have to talk to him or interact with him at all
So we can just leave him there nice
Look at him
Unfortunately, we do have to look at him one more time, but that's okay. Okay. I got him myself
And that's why we got this double key. We're going to be freeing the Green Prince instead of doing
Corel Tower if it's Corel Tower is a bit slower than Denver, Donia.
Okay, we're just going to talk to these guys. This is another relatively fast fast quest.
gonna get roach guys and then we're gonna kill a bunch of roaches and then come back to these guys. So we're gonna do a loop around
Senator right before leaving
By the way, just we want to thank chat for hitting that call. We do have a hype train active right now
If you'd like to get in it, I know there are new hype training modes. There's some pretty cool stuff for
and then you to have the sub through AGDQ as well, which means you'd be able to engage in chat, post emotes, all that good stuff.
So now it's a very, very good time to get that subscription to the channel.
Make it your last one of 2025, perhaps.
This money. And now we should be good on money for the rest of the run.
Ow. I would not have thought that would happen, less than 2 hours in the run.
Yeah, we basically only have to do the donations and shoppers in apps.
We don't buy anything else.
Yeah.
Makes sense.
And like 100% just has to buy literally everything.
There's not enough money in the game to buy literally everything.
Yeah.
They just have to sit around in farm for like 10 minutes.
I got asked.
Do you know where specifically they farm for the rosaries?
I believe it's for the grand reads at the top of the city.
I'm so glad that's where I farmed it.
Yeah, my instincts in sing we look at shocker again, and just leave immediately
Open this and then turn in the key. I
Love his art like his carapace. Like it's just so the colors are so good. Yes, it looks extremely out of place in this area too. Yeah, I'm for real
So, like this whole area is very green as well, but it's just a vibrant green compared to it, so it sticks out while still feeling kind of thematic, like he's, it makes sense that he's been in snare here.
Yeah.
He's going to be a little dramatic, but he does leave without us talking to him.
the
three-hand
three-hand scroll same I get it
so relatable
I love the end C.P.A.
to this area
then skillet techniques. If you're gonna get bar brace like you would go down there, but I am not going to do that because that is scored simple.
Yeah, that's what I said when when the red strats, you know, and I started being a thing, I'm like, I'm good fam. I enjoy playing this game. I don't want to ruin that.
Sometimes that guy lines up really nice and you can just put a lot of them get straight up here.
Yeah, that was a time she's mean and you have to go all the way around.
and
is that's a lot of them
is that's the English version of what I said yeah
yeah
that the record show and confused
we know
that we don't reach cuts
they do give us tax and we actually will use those later
Yeah, because they're free, okay.
Sure.
That's fine.
There's a guy who can hear her for heels.
Yeah, those big news I always just like
would sit underneath the bridges that they'd walk on
and hit them from underneath, so I didn't have to deal with them.
And that guy just responds whenever you load a room.
So you can just see that if you need to.
More flee here.
Nice.
now we're going into by a lot of
just everyone's favorite location
boy
it's like it's not that bad
with what we have to do we just
the hardest thing we have to do is like do
roll without the safety bench but like that's
not too bad
yeah I think this area is certainly a lot
harder as a casual going through just because
there's like one bench I think in this area
super high up and it's hidden to begin with and otherwise for the the boss of this area
it's just a super long run back yeah finding the bench helps but it's just I had to
look at my guide to find it I could not locate it I would know I was I died a girl
lunch and then I was like there's no way this is the only bench so I started looking around
the found the secret bench yeah that's I ended up just having I was like
cat please somebody go look this up for me so I don't have to get spoiled it's like the same
think of. You know, somebody else does the word for me so it's okay. Yes, I didn't
necessarily, but we did pick up a map in Weedness Atlas so that when we buy all the maps from
Shopra, the long map tutorial pop up does it show up and that saves you. Oh that's good.
I don't realize that I'm getting one of the weedness maps to skip that, that's cool.
Yeah, let's see that one's really quick to pick up and the only we've missed we go to you, but I
It's just this is small thing you can do. I'm not sure how much time it saves exactly. It's not a lot
Yeah, yeah, it's
Shame you can't get more of the we missed stuff for the wherever the girls that I'm so bad with names wherever the girl that powers you are
Eva yeah, thank you. They're even solubers blessing of this game. Yeah
That's, that takes so much. We have to like, yeah,
I pressed and then like almost every memory lock it.
Yeah. And it's like, we want to use the 100
stress for the majority of the run.
If you use lockets on the 100 stress, it doesn't count
towards the, that ability, which is kind of insane.
I can't wait to see the inevitable like 170 billion
percent run. It's going to exist after the DLC comes out.
It's going to be, they're going to go nuts.
that's a bit that will be fun to see speaking of big numbers I do want to give a shout
a shout that has now let that hype train reach level four that's huge that you're
really impressed I get the end of 2025 here's sneaking that in before the new year
rolls over so you'd like to get on that it is still active for just a couple more
minutes the one chat I know you can get that high chain up to like level six or seven
you can do this she's been having too much fun with this not good
I think that's what she really does help us out.
This is probably the hardest section of Act 2.
We have to do the career quest and then everything that we haven't done yet at the same time.
I hate the career quest. I run few to do the career quest for so long.
That and the the the pale flower quest in H.K.
Or just I hate I hate quest like this. Yeah, the the flowers so much harder than any of the career
for sure, because it's just like this one, it lets you get hit like three times.
They're like, yeah, but then like you get hit like several times before, like it actually matters.
Yeah, I appreciate that they changed that a bit, just because an HK just became a slag of,
all right, I'm going to go all the way through. I'm just going to kill all the enemies that are on the
way and then walk it back and then hope I don't run to thorns or something. The green area. Yep.
Right now we're going to do silver bells and this sucks because it's just completely orangey.
They just have to wait for those to drop and we need to aid it to them.
Wings makes this a little bit better because we can just go straight up here without having to go all the way around, which is nice.
I really hope Bellhum gets expanded in one of the DLCs. I just feel like this area is
Undercooked, but just that there could be so much more here. Yeah
Alright, I think that's five
six
oh okay, and that's really bad because now I am two hits this whole
tyrant. Oh, almost did again. You got this.
Chattlet's send our energy. I believe in lane.
I hate you. You suck. All right.
Oh, okay, I'm just kind of, all right, we're done.
Nice!
Good work.
All good.
I can count the five and so you can chat by the way that hype train keeps going.
Just so nice.
Quick reminder, if this is pretty cool, we can begin this going.
the
deeper fur and assault song when you sort of move around in these really kind of encased
and tight spaces or whether it's kind of the big open maps with the platform is kind of floating
in space.
I don't know, the fence.
Yeah, I suppose it certainly does on the design of the area.
the
they look very different to move around in
out they actually
probably the topic of the DLC stuff to actually I do want to cook for a moment
I feel like this game having a Richter's mode where they bring like the night back
from Hollow Knight and having them be like a secret character you can play through as well as gifts of the story would be kind of dope
I think that's a problem. I think some of it, like there's a mod for that.
Ooh, I think we're like you. I see, I keep seeing clips of the night in, like, fighting some of the losses.
I'm not sure. That's awesome.
How, like, practical it is, because I feel like the night gets stuck in Moscow without any abilities.
Yeah, there probably be some places that maybe need to be adjusted, but like, I don't know.
I wonder what they're going to put that because, like, I mean, spoiler alert.
We do see the night at least once in this game, so I'm wondering if they'll have more of a presence in the future.
Yeah, I feel like he'll get like a bad one boss if they ever do that, but I'm all right.
Who would that be fun?
Here we did not turn in the most various earlier.
I actually suggested doing this later because I saw them doing it a hundred percent and I also want everyone to stop the whipping
Jury and Zy. It's so useless. Don't do it. It's nice of time. It doesn't do anything. You have to hit twice before it gives you one. So don't put it on. It's bad.
It's bad. It's so true. No, didn't you have to un-equip it anyways when you get in check your band and try to get in here.
I think in ahead.
I'm just I think that's my secret plot to everyone to stop and flipping out.
I see we're learning about it now in Judy Human.
He should leverage your leader for position to influence my gameplay.
That's awesome.
Yes.
Oh.
I feel like if you get record for one of these all night categories, you should just get
to implement a rule for like a month.
And any point really.
Well yeah.
Pin Pogos are officially banned.
You hear her first.
You're not allowed to do anything.
Let go.
And just you have to, you have to have your runny beat and have a new like arbitrary rule.
And so I think it would really spur, what's the word, um, competition?
What's it called when society progresses?
Innovation. Thank you.
Thank you.
Ah, this is normal.
It's relaxing.
Yeah.
It's a little scary, but we're safe now.
to
And we turn it into everything else to bone bottom.
Also, just thanks to chat for that high train.
That was a really, really cool thing that we did to close out the year.
Thank you so much for all of your contribution towards the game's end quick.
and they do genuinely really help us be able to put on these shows, make sure that y'all have your lovely
entertainment year round not just at our our larger events or our other charity events. So
y'all are doing a wonderful job. Thank you for being here. Thank you for watching. Thank you for
contributing if you did. The all are wonderful for you for excited to ring in 2026 with you.
that is the harder one done
nice uh... we're some demo silver bell so he's going to
send out
that i think i have enough money to be at all ready but
yeah like re-huntered over
i don't know maybe not that the first one yet
i mean we're like a hundred over that's why
Better to be you over than under? Yeah. Yeah, I actually had one of my
the the first one I did after all of these routing changes. I didn't have enough money and then I also like
died during Solar Bills. And it was still 306 59, which was faster than the run was zero deaths.
Oh wow, which is so funny. It'd be like that sometimes. Yeah.
times sometimes oh that's true I get a few hardfall I take it deals damage in the package which is so annoying
the
use mechanical areas might be my favorite
yeah
this is a walk-in
to do the serena now and some later so that there's not a chance that these enemies get waited
I love these are also bugs as well so like theoretically these places aren't really big
like imagine going in the park and overturning a rock and there's just industry under there
That's right. Oh, yes, no, I think of that all about my defensive I guess and we're good
And this opens a shortcut for later nice
Do not want to bench there because you want to quit out immediately
and that's the that's the hardest part of this one. The bone bottom
nation is significantly harder because you have to do a lot more with this
weeks. You just have to run around.
You know later I'm actually curious you have a preferred crest that you
that you like to use like in casual play fair like is it just the
understress you use or do you prefer something else like the wanders? I think
I use like Reaper for most of my casual play through because I think it did
more damage and it does not and then I didn't find wadvers until super late so I didn't
and but once I found it I started using that for every time basically that's the one I
ended up settling on as well because it's like oh oh no all right we're fine I've got the
Okay, I see you guys there.
Nope, I don't want to talk to you.
And then we're back in Belfort and that is
Almost everything done with active. We just need to go through by the water again and do this donation real quick.
Yeah, so like 230 over, we're gonna refill the fleebers also. When we travel to the fleece.
Are you ready here?
the
this is probably
like the most difficult part
from like a routing perspective
because we're not
if we die here we go all the way back to build her
and we have to ask time all over again
yeah that would not be good
it's just not really a convenience spot
around here there's not really any benches that are nearby and the only ones are like out of the way
Yeah, it's like the secret question. Then if we get the secret bench, we like have to run out of
by a water, which also takes forever. So yeah, all right.
Now definitely better to just keep the the bench where you're after the saving
what later, then to, you know, just struggle through here. It's fine. There's ways to save
yourself into like, just take it slow and heal if you need to, but yeah. There's actually a room
that you can go into and heal like really slowly if you need to. Is it the one with the
another hunter in the sinner's path? There's like these flies on like the very end. I think
there's like a memory lockhead or shards or something over there. But I'm pretty sure you said yeah.
Okay sometimes like I jump side enough where you can run under him. It's really hard to not
I'm not taking damage there and that should be the last flee nice all right final
over is chat there you go I guess I think I will just use that real quick I don't
want to be at super this yeah yeah yeah that's the yeah
out.
Peace someday.
Also don't want to die in advance of our next break.
Yeah.
Alright.
Worst in my sense.
Okay, that's fine.
Mmm.
It's fine.
It doesn't matter because we, um,
the water and shockers room, uh, clears the maggots.
Oh, that's right here on it.
It doesn't.
It's like, it's still annoying for the platforming because it eats away at our soup.
But yeah, it doesn't really matter.
I do love that a solution in this game. It's just go take a bath and you're fine now.
Yep.
So if we just hang out this water for a bit, it'll get rid of those.
I think a map is a solution to a lot of problems. I think that's good at life advice.
Yeah.
But it's good self-care.
Sometimes, and everything shower involves doing your taxes, I get it.
Well, okay, it's probably not going to help with your taxes.
This is how I want to go out.
Yeah, yeah, I don't play you, actually.
Under a waterfall, under a waterfall.
Waterfall, and some dude shows up with a guitar and just lets one rip.
I'm not saying words.
Maybe we do need a break for you.
We charge that voice box.
Yeah.
Now that we're done with that, we can go fight roll.
I
Which apparently will only has like 600 health, which I I thought he had way more, but if you just hit him he dies like really quickly
I shrub it so much of a girl. I think girl might be
Is he to them or like the flamingo to answer that's took me in the most time in this game?
Like Chobio
I know Chobio via the girl that you do in the memory. Oh
Oh, Carmelita, Carmelita. Thank you. Yeah
Yeah, we will be fighting currently to also. Yeah, thanks, sense. Okay.
It really want the full focus so that we one shot these guys with the needle strike.
But I got hit several times, so that was a good slow. You can't just end this corner here.
here.
I'm not sure if I can see him.
So here these guys should get one shot.
Then after this room would be, would that be a good time to take our little break?
Uh, yes, after this put up.
I can be perfect.
No, you're all right.
I'm fine.
I also just want to make sure we get it in so that we can do the new year's countdown
together.
We can get the break done and then do that together with chat.
Time sure everyone's excited for.
Yeah, you're totally fine.
It's hard to remember.
and
This looks very difficult to manage with the platforms and the liquid underneath. Oh
I wonder when people first started celebrating the new year
Probably it wasn't like oh, it's in one now. We got a you know shoot off the fireworks off the church year like a couple centuries
Okay, you're fuzz.
But it's not a question.
We're having a little swim, nice food.
Yeah, we have to wait like half a really long time for the spends to appear, so that we can get out.
Or send out you's the spends.
It doesn't begin, no mercy running.
Yeah, no mercy running.
Yeah, no mercy.
All right.
I'll put out here, break, and bridge, no.
Fantastic.
So, Chen, it is time for you to grab whatever you'd like
to do to celebrate the New Year.
If you've got like little poppers, if you've got snacks,
if you've got whatever it is, no, grab it.
We're gonna take a little break before we do a little
bit more holiday and a little congratulations
for the New Year when it strikes midnight on the East Coast.
So, be back very, very soon.
Welcome back, Chats. You are a new year's eve, Hall of Night, sook song, true ending run.
Let's get back into it, Lane.
All right, and here's like about 3, 2, 1.
It's habitat again.
Classic.
You make sure that didn't do anything. All right, we're good.
Yeah, so, we've done all of the quests. We are officially a homeowner, but we will not
That's definitely in that house, unfortunately.
Oh, we don't even get to see it.
This is a run to the freaking homeowner.
Yes.
And data does.
Yeah, we're going to refill our free brew.
And then travel with a police to blast it steps.
the
does a desktop song have like a
all home designer mechanic or something like that a little bit kind of you can buy furniture and stuff from me
the bell heart merchant
Oh, I love games with a little hum design of a panic.
That's maybe one of my favorite little features in games.
People talk about a fishing minigame, no, I want,
I want to be able to decorate my house.
That's what I want.
And here we're going to do time test elsewhere,
where we go into different rooms and they quit out,
because we're going to be hard to save that the police.
And then that's one of the reasons we should play a journey.
By the way, yes.
Stuff, you get to see more things in the game.
Here we're not going to travel as if we're going to stay behind so that we can
otherwise we get stuck in future products or so it's not a good time.
I've accidentally done that many times.
And now we don't have to look at Cretany more.
He's gone. He's gone forever.
Bye, Cretany.
the
run around and do some stuff.
Yes, the third be the last of the, I guess there's
a bunch of running around, but this is the last of the
the aimless running arounds.
I do think you've managed to describe every platformer.
Yes, true.
Now we finally talk to this guy.
He actually doesn't just sound like this.
We do have to talk to him.
I see.
And it's going to upload all of the lore dialogue that we
seeps, so we just have to spam text.
until, eventually, falls us out for wanting to just replace your other still.
And then we get slow, console.
I think I've been sure already, but we're going to get the other two souls
and put back here.
It was also why we picked up Snare Sutter.
We need Snare Sutter for this.
Hmm.
What's it doing?
I'm not used Snare Sutter at all.
There.
There or not?
I might know at least in an answer to this question.
There, but there might be more things you can say to this.
But, Lane, what was your favorite game or what were your favorite games of the year?
of the year 25.
I don't think I played another game except some since September 4th.
You're so real for that.
Yeah, that's totally fair.
Especially with this game.
Yeah.
I think that I hate these two has been looking really good.
I haven't gotten around to the full release of that yet.
I'm sure it's positioned 33 who's good to, but I'm not late back game.
For sure.
And Haydysube was on actually earlier tonight on out of the box.
was the game before us. So very cool stuff. If y'all would like to see that by the way,
we replay ancient shows after our previous shows done. So all you have to do,
see that show is just continue watching. It'll be that. You know, for a show called out of the
box, it does require you to play the game in the most in box way possible by only doing just the
base stuff from the beginning. If y'all don't know what out of the box is, by the way, which is the
show before creature corner, essentially the mechanic of it is, is that you get to play
you get to see runs that can be done with a like a fresh file situation.
You just open the game up and then you do, you know, you do whatever you don't have to
set anything up. It's not a J+.
It's et cetera, et cetera.
Et cetera, you are wonderful hosted then and they are great.
I would they do?
And that is still console completes and now we can actually move into Act 3.
into Act 3. Okay, Act 3, then we're getting there. When I was playing this, I was like 20 minutes away from
getting to the part that starts Act 3 and I had so many of my chat just be like, you're going
to Act 3 now and I'm just like, what do you mean Act 3? I didn't know yet. It was so mad. Don't want to
get mad like that. Yeah, though it is such an insane reveal, it's just like, I thought the game was
was done like I was I was just like where's the the percent meter I don't know how much is left
and then eventually got this and I thought it was just like I don't know I legit thought
that they just gave us two bad endings and then that's all you get me.
I'm way to the DLC. Look up everyone. Yeah that's what I thought was happening.
And we saw awesome, especially with so-sox weight they're like we you know you wait 1225
and you get to do that index and do it.
And be very kind of funny though.
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.
I would have not have been surprised.
Yeah, no, that's exactly that's fair.
And this is normally where any percent would end, but we still have an hour left.
So much more.
Hey, where's the song?
And we only have about seven minutes a little bit less of that until the new year comes on the East Coast so chat get whatever it is you want to get ready.
We're gonna do a little celebration when that comes around.
Oh, this is so intense.
I'm ready.
I wish I was her.
And we're done.
Hey guys, see you guys one.
She dies so quickly when you have anything other than like the base.
Yeah, that would be nice.
Yeah.
I can still.
Of course you do that.
And that's a nice, beautiful, but not the end of the run chat, not for quite a while, in fact.
So about 15 minutes.
More shadowing.
It came to pass, you could have thought.
the
animation's
no
no
that doesn't look good
what I got this I thought this was just the end like I
didn't I didn't expect there to be what we got
yeah that's very fair I mean I I could see this and think this was the end
and
that's not time
It's not time.
I'll see you tonight, Harry, on this train.
So, guys, it's a team, Harry.
That's why I can free Chinese now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We're just trying to spell.
What's that?
and
the
the fight takes
not very long if you just had any equipment it's like she has no health it's just kind of insane
but I don't know I guess the whole night from
the first game also had zero
Yeah, I mean, yeah, it's just kind of a muscle.
Yeah, so.
I do love characters that are just big circles,
and then like, Austin can attach.
That's kind of the whole character design.
I think that's ethos of Polynesian.
And that's beautiful.
Hey, three.
Hey, three.
Less than three minutes away from the New Year.
He's the one who's in the world and he has to be with me.
How did you feel kind of coming?
Both of you coming across as ending.
Thinking that it was kind of it.
What was it feeling like?
say just unfortunately for me somebody told me oh yeah it's not it's
pandemic before it happened and I was like brother brother I'm playing
this for the first time I don't know I I was like oh is that it and
then I immediately said oh it's not it okay
at three this all right you're like can I have more I know this this man and
that's a son that means three yes true that's true I didn't know that but no I
I do. Nice. Yeah, it's the one of these things doing Mandarin, which I have for a couple years in middle school, so I know that they have a very intuitive. Yeah, system. Yeah, written system.
All right, chat for getting there. Once it gets down to a minute, I will call that out.
and
actually unacquips all of our tools so i have to do the the poet ashes again for a little bit
was so annoying when this happened i just like why can't i have my belt on still
but he being my fans fell off when the world ended
yeah
but the world ended and my kids fell off what happened to take it anymore
yeah
and forcing you to use the hunter's aggressive so funny.
It's like now it doesn't matter, but it's like when I was playing this game, I was like,
oh, I don't know how to use this.
Yeah, that's exactly what happened. I'm like, sorry.
We have to do the combat to get out of here.
I'm just like, what is this to low speed?
When it gets to 10 seconds down, we're all going to count together. Is that all right?
Uh, yes.
All right, 10 seconds till then.
Okay ten, nine, eight, seven, six, seven, five, four, one, yay, that's me, dear.
You're gonna have one death like it sucks coming back down here with the steam but at least like you're not it's not that much progress less yeah.
There's a cocoon set up, don't worry.
Thank you, thank you, yeah.
Yeah, that was really awesome.
What a moment.
It was like six, seven, again, my bad.
Thank you, chat for saying happy new year with us.
I see this dream is changing colors, thank you, Richard.
Hi, that's so cool.
I think both I get.
Okay.
Nice, nice, nice.
I also see in chat, Gro has been on this run since last year. Wow.
I've been doing this round for a whole year. It's so slow.
I can't believe it. It's not.
It's your ending takes a long time.
Yes.
This is probably like the coolest post game content I've ever seen.
Like this is just the way they did it was just extremely interesting.
Yeah, absolutely.
It just changed the entire world and then added more stuff.
Yeah, it's like it's both post game content but also like it's the game really.
It feels like it's going in this direction like I've already compared this to Symphony the night
But I think this is the the closest we get to like the inverted castle sort of thing where it's familiar but different
Here it's put all our stuff back on we are gonna use tax
Some of the bosses
The first we have to go visit the green prince
I was just love it and you get running sections in this game honestly.
Oh no, you did that.
Oh no.
I can't have the voices.
Oh my god, that's so here.
I actually don't know. So I'm excited. We killed them.
Yeah. He was going to do it anyways, but we didn't find it.
Now I'm recall. Yeah.
We have to talk to them there. Otherwise we're done.
doesn't spawn.
And just like the world, this is the most of the game.
It's more enough.
Ran, who dared you to slush her in the new year and a longer body.
Interesting resolution. Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This boss sucks.
This is like the only thing to actually just is bad.
I think.
Oh.
You hit me.
That's crazy.
Wow.
This boss is just kind of an auto-scroller in a game where most of us
is have some ability to do things most of the time.
Like you move it like a little bit better.
Yeah, I think it's a fair comparison.
Like it, well, but at least you move
has like a one cycle, you can't one cycle this,
but it's like slightly better, okay.
That's just rude.
It's slightly better and slightly worse.
Yeah.
A longer body is a very interesting area of isolation.
I think I should do that too.
I don't know how.
I'd like to end 2026 either vertically or horizontally different, you know?
Yeah.
Dad, if you've got any resolutions, put them in.
I want to see what you've got.
I've got what you've all been got.
You know, my resolution for 2026 is finally to obtain a legendary treasure that easing curse.
Hmm.
They do tend to be oh, I sit or assist you can run over here. There's nothing over here, but let's you go over here
Yeah, I was like what are you going to do?
You're just back flipping on that and just do it with them. Wow brutal wow styling
Oh, that is a good noise, you've gotta be telling me you've got a plus top 10 creature right there
there. And this is actually the obvious boss music, which is really cool, and no
a thick string game, so we can teleport to all of the dollizations immediately, but nowhere else.
I did like the implementation of this in this game, like it's the same not to have
like, dreamgating the same way, but I did like the war back to the fast-traveling.
Dreamgating was kind of busted.
Yeah, it was like, it was so good.
Honestly, the big problem with Dreamgating is that there was no real economy for the essence that you clicked.
Like there were milestones with the moths, but like, you spend one piece of Dreamgating, like, that's nothing.
Yeah, I didn't even know that that was like a thing. I didn't know that it did that until like I started speed running on 12. Yeah, I just I never noticed it
Yeah, it's it's nothing like you usually even just pick one up randomly as well. I would generally offset it
Look and these guys are just snail shaman's apparently
Which
Is it really cool and like kind of obvious like once you look at them. Oh, yeah, but it's like I did not think this about this at all
to
go to where you're going next
to
know how we're not with stands to keep in the place
Well, I don't know, she doesn't see, she doesn't let you get in the lava, I guess.
We're standing on the hot poles.
And because we did that arena earlier, we could just come straight up here without having to deal with the voided enemies.
And then Bala is like, oh, the world's ending, I guess I'll help you.
Thanks.
Stop here, Vethy.
Yep.
And this is the shortcut we opened earlier after fighting the four brothers.
So we don't have to do them.
This room used to be really awful, but we practiced it and now it's really easy.
Love that
Okay
Bye died
Wow, oh, yeah
Nice
Night sleep time
Okay, I'm dying there. That's fine. That would have been embarrassing. I said oh, it's really easy now. I'm gonna just die to me. The way yeah
We already did the New Year's death
Yeah, he gives us the key.
And now you're supposed to find this way earlier, and then we like,
oh, what is this? And then you know it's here, and you can come back.
But we just can come here without having ever seen it before.
And if you don't bench before closing the door, it doesn't actually heal you, which is really annoying.
this
this
this is also not skippable
this really wanted to watch
the herb like compressed into a cube
Like what we yeah, oh no way
Skip them right at least time. Oh
Aww
These are the one-scene chair. She's like extra proud of they're like and skip this. Yeah, there. They're just watching to see if I do you know
Oh, it's watching. Yes
Now we're in the office and we're stuck here
until he gets so sorry.
Okay, that's fine, there's a bell.
These guys, I hate broadcast sources.
I'm still done with them.
I don't know what they're called.
They're new, new, take.
All right, news bench there, so it doesn't matter.
And Grandmother Silke's traps under there.
Now Hornet is having hallucinations of lace.
I think the 30th lead brews are catching up to her.
I'm gonna be a Bruce, he's with a new year girl saying.
But it's like, it's children friendly Bruce, he's alright.
Well, apple juice.
Alright.
I can't have that.
Oh, that's true.
You're allergic to apples.
That is easier than the blasted suck skip.
I did, I missed earlier.
that is like I will I will dial that hill. This gives easier than that.
First fact. You did make it look like he said that like three times.
But still anything you have accomplished in this game looks easy to meet.
This is the real last year.
And it's crystal dash except up.
I'm so nice. I mean, I missed having Chris Lodash in this, but this game is
Okay, I saw this take early on when this game first came out this game gives you movement that is all vertical
And this game is super horizontal. Hollow Knight was super horizontal, but only the horizontal movement is very strange
Yeah, that is true. I don't know it was like
like, you didn't get a lot of force on a little bit,
I don't know if you just said double jump.
But like you jumped way higher.
Like you would just like, you would just have a,
no, that was true.
Like playing Hollow Knight after this game is just like,
it's so weird.
The way this is, it's work.
Yeah, no, for sure.
You just, you feel heavier in this game.
I mean, I missed my wall clings through it.
Oh yeah, I think they, they nerfed.
They nerfed while jumps in this game.
they made them like to where you have to be closer to the wall and like I heard some
of you think they did that because they couldn't fix the wall thing storage.
They just that would be that would be really funny.
They just like that would be funny.
Okay.
They like they with the the wall jumps without drifter's cloak are really annoying.
So I don't think they expected you to get wall jump without drifter's cloak but I don't
But then once you have drift just hook it like it makes the wall jump significantly easier for some reason.
I'm gonna keep it real, like Team Cherry has like 30 speed runners phone numbers on speed dial.
They would be solving these problems at any point and they're too busy being like, I'm gonna invent maps, but like, you know,
bug map and spending two years developing that and sort of asking us for help.
Oh no, they...
I don't know. I was trying to think of an actual thing and I just give them their
work and see my bed. Don't worry about it. They'll all be fixed and see a Sarah.
Exactly. That's true. All right. It's going to be everything that's going to be fixed and see
a Sarah. Follow the night see if they use the she's on a boat now. They're over to
wait to help you and they can cruise out into the water. It's only unexpected
Good glad.
I feel like Quarney would make a good fortnight character.
Why are we here now?
That's good.
What are we doing?
Staking thoughts and sharing them with the world.
Stop.
I don't know.
Oh.
That's G.
This is great.
You still mean to me I'm not burnt, but I'm not gonna use this because that's what you're on the other side of the road.
Yeah I'm exactly.
A water.
Yes.
This looks so perilous.
This section, this is, this is a scary section.
Yeah, it really is.
You can just skip the entire platform section by using some service to funny.
Yeah, way around, everything.
It's so fun. Oh my gosh. Love that. Bye.
Who needs it?
That's a very fun little skip.
You used to be able to be sitting called out of this room, but they passed it out.
I'm assuming because if you didn't hit that lever, you would like softball yourself out of this room, but there's nothing in here.
So I don't know why they bothered.
and
the areas are able to do the
the besin call and such a hard
of the next exam sometimes it's just like one on here. It's fine.
It's inconsistent. Yeah, we have to go back to the shamans.
Got it. We know what the issue is.
Do you know I do a flicker skirt?
Back to the show, and it's me like hey by the way, I figured out the problem. Yeah, there's stuff coming out of the ground. It's bad
I figured out the problem and I have a solution
That's stopping me that
The ground spaghetti is evil
Morning, is the greatest hero in all video games.
After much deliberation, they are allowing me to help.
Okay.
Now we have the energy that needs, so we can go get the hearts and then finish the game
from there.
We have to get power from old people or something in that exactly sure.
And we have to burn them here later.
And democracy.
Why not?
And there's actually four you can get.
You can, there's the three that it tells you about.
And then the green grants.
There we go.
Don't hurt.
Yeah.
Um.
We're not going to do the four out of power because that one is.
It's really slow now because we don't get a old filament.
We used to see a fulfillment in Shaman's crest and that delts like a lot of damage.
damage, but those got nerfed on the later patches.
So now that we don't get it, now that we don't get it, it's just like it's really far
out of the way.
It used to be a lot closer, but now it's just for Donnie, it's just definitely faster.
Can you carry taking everything out of us?
I don't know.
The Volt, the Volt shaman thread storm stuff was like kind of worrying, but like this is
way more interesting.
So it looks weird so much more fun than thread storm.
Yeah, that's fair.
Okay.
One thing I really admire and enjoy about Holonite and Holonite so far,
It's how readable the animations are.
You can really tell, you know, even in the midst of a fight, you know, what's happening, where each attack is going, where are you?
Or, it is.
You know, it's really cool.
For the most part, if you get hit in this game, it is a skill issue.
Yeah.
True.
Night, man, we're done.
So with the bolt vessel pogos that people were talking about, you would just go straight,
like during the Pilgrims Resquire, you would go up through a permanently
a statue where about to go through now, and you would skip that arena entirely, which is why it saves so much time.
So like here, we would be able to go up here without soaksort, but normally you're not supposed to be able to do that.
I'm going to get the bridge over there, but I'm not going to get the bridge over there.
Here you have to wait a second and then you can reload the room to get the bridge open.
If you do it immediately, it doesn't actually look in the door, which is kind of annoying.
Oh, yeah, I guess that is annoying.
I really like that, though.
that ant just gets deleted by the big dude. It's so funny.
Oh, no.
A little rings. You can clap our mop up.
Yeah.
The platform is going to see us a lot of fun.
Uh, I know that up.
I don't know if this is a fully true, I need to watch both games a little more to be sure,
but I think I enjoy watching platforming in this game a little more.
Well, I had some interesting platforming sections.
I don't think anything the game comes close to Path of Pain in terms of difficulty.
Yeah.
But like, I just so hope on videos.
Yeah.
The service climb is nowhere near as difficult as Path of Pain.
It's like, it's not close in my opinion.
but it's like the potential for platforming.
This game is a lot more interesting.
Like just a claw line itself is just such an interesting ability.
Yeah, for sure.
Now, there's more options.
I mean, I'm more options.
You can kind of play it with it more.
But also, yet, if you're interested in Hollow Knight and Path of Pane specifically,
I'd recommend that you go on over to our YouTube channel
and look at a little of Hollow Knight run that was done at Flame for Tal's 2025.
I'm not going to say any more than that. Just go watch that run. And also, by the way,
two things about YouTube. First thing is that you can go to it with youtube.com slash game so
quick, pretty cool. Second thing, and actually we're going to do three things. Second thing is that
we're almost 1 million subscribers on the GDQ YouTube. So if you'd like to be one of the first
million definitely get it on that. That would be super cool if we could hit that
during 2026. And finally we will be streaming a GDPQ 2026 which starts on the
fourth aka this Sunday on YouTube as well as which big news. So if you all would like
to see a GDP you can do it on either Twitch or YouTube. It's going to be really
really cool. And you can attend in person as well. GD for more information on
that. You can come to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from the fourth to the 10. And you
And I also see the schedule by typing,
X-Lamation Mark AGDQ or X-Lamation Mark's schedule in chat.
Wait, that cow drops strat is so sick.
True.
Oh, what?
Do you then do the second scream?
Huh?
Yeah, well, not really, it's like she'll like stand in the corner and like she'll grow that and then do the next face I maybe it wasn't paying attention
Oh, you're all sane
That's saying the RNG was wild on that. Yeah, that was like best possible attacks
Yeah, can you me
Gaming
you know sometimes you'll just like run into you and like there's nothing you can do
about it but she didn't do that all to me. Those nice. Wow. And also tools in the
dream sequences are free so I just have a second flavor here.
and
never going up to burden
the
It also do it at the blast instead of bench, but on the more optimal routes you won't buy that bench, and you skip some rosaries.
This is why we talked to him earlier, this area would not be here, we didn't talk to him.
It's color scheme really pops out.
Yeah, they made a, I think they made this area just like completely gray.
Just like, yeah.
Because like, when we get into the dream, it's like, the complete opposite.
It is a really good way to sort of emphasize that things are indeed not very good.
Right now.
the
series really cool you can like talk to them and like he's like slowly gains his memories back as you do more stuff in here but we're gonna skip all that unfortunately
all of the moon is amazing yeah
some of the parts we kind of get to do this for a lot of them but
There it is.
Why don't we, this room we can't just skip with once it's here.
Chattas in our walls, I'm seeing the chat right now.
I don't quite know why.
You might want to look in your walls for chat everybody.
I'm going to put out one of those chat traps.
It's a catch them. It's just like a 24-7 GQ stream.
That's a tiny phone.
We've got them.
It's a big metal bar.
It's down, softly on them.
That's the dream though.
I would love a 24-7 GQ.
Yeah.
A JQ runs 24-7 for the seven days of fun.
That's true.
I plan to be on the screen for as much a time as possible for two things
As much time possibly
It's you think I got two things
Anyways, don't worry about any of that
Well, don't worry about anything
Hey
This is this is one of the more annoying bosses because you just celebrate your house
that is
is like no help so it's fine but it's like it's still annoying
it's it's it's but for real
that gives us five words instead of one so we only have to get two extra basically
these guys would be annoying that they'll leave us alone in a little bit
I'm not sure if I can do that.
Okay, I appreciate that.
Fine. Yeah, you can reload that room over and over again to kill that guy for so if you
get to.
We also skip this entire room with one source really funny. I don't think they realized that people would have this ability when they was on a serious
something.
Like normally, there's a bunch of cool platforming you do, but you don't do any of it.
And this fountain takes a really long time to appear. It's actually just like four seconds faster to reload the
room. It's really funny.
I also just want to shout out, Blaine real quick, that you've been playing this very,
very difficult game for almost three hours. So Jack, just wanted to give a shout out for
chats like, chat to really appreciate just how difficult this is and to shout you at
for how hard it is to really keep up that stamina for that long. But especially one where
you really have to be on target a lot of the time, our Orgrist, losing losing time to death,
sorry to miss, miss movement. So very, very, very end of this. The string is a lot of like,
It's an endurance run of really difficult things. You just like have to do everything. That's really hard all back to that
Yep, all the time. It's definitely a master class in the skills that you need to be good at this. You can make that without
So we're good. I missed it up at the variance. I made it and then I fell
Just showing us how to do a focus
I think I'm going to get a little bit more of a
attack here. And this fight's really interesting because we actually get
a really good human skin.
And phase one, son.
I like those little strike threats.
Yeah, it makes that cycle a lot more lenience.
I
All right, this is pretty bad that her yeah, he's being rude and we're done
Now he's very good
Oh, no.
I don't know what the characters need to do.
Yes, but gay looks the same as ours.
No worry.
Oh yeah, but I don't know what the names and genders look like.
Love this love even a small bug.
I do agree.
I do agree.
Thank you.
Yes.
We support.
This realm like really shows like the amount of effort they put into this last thing because this whole area is just completely different than the ruins.
the right now we're doing the underworks elevator, which is where you would normally do this right after last judge, if you're playing casually, and you didn't know about the shortcut, and you get hard saved here.
here we need to go up or the last arts we're going to go
and then we're going to take a break in three, two, one, no.
All ready, Chad. This is our final break of the run, so just hang tight. We'll be back soon.
You cap off this run of true ending. Do not go anywhere.
okay chat we are back for our final segment of true ending lane let's bring it home
yeah there's not a whole lot left I think it's like 30 minutes
okay final sprint
I don't know if I can do that.
Okay.
Not ideal.
Is that?
Honestly, the...
I'm just gonna open that.
Just in case.
So, um, it goes from Hollow Knight.
Like, sound wise.
Yeah.
Okay.
Fendo.
For a Ringo.
I really like a lot of the voice lines in this game.
They are a lot of fun.
I'll just pass this so hard.
Oh my gosh.
Like, he's garagled with this one.
It looks really, really pretty.
He's so fast.
One thing I like about so songy, and this is just from a viewing perspective.
It looks like a lot of the bosses could be people that are fighting you,
but they're own moves that too.
And it doesn't often feel like that in games.
No, I agree. Nice.
I don't know if you chat knows what I mean by that.
But if you do, thanks.
I feel like Team Sherry has a wonderful um, battle, like platformer fighter in their future if they just want to reuse all these characters.
Oh, that could be cool.
Evening that fight looks so easy, oh my gosh.
I think this is honestly the hardest of the three boss fights you could get the end.
Yeah, Seth is, Seth is harder than I let's, honestly.
For sure. I think that I wanted sets of either dream fight, but they didn't really make a lot of sense.
Yeah. Yeah, I was so like, it's just so fast.
And I listen to how to, I'm going to be on the wall on such, but like, it's half by far. It's just, it's a technical.
I really love how they immortalize Seth in this game. Yes, it's a really difficult fight.
I agree. I really like to that they like take time to highlight them as well in them.
I'm trying to remember
I know there's a reference to it somewhere in the game or the game files, but that was really nice.
Yeah.
Oh, just context for those of you don't know.
Seth is a character designed by, I think the kid's name was Seth.
It was, it was, he had that it believed was suffering from cancer, who designed the character protein cherry
and they wanted to honor them by including their character designed in the game.
Oh, wow. That's really cool. I didn't know that's right.
Well, that's yeah. That's really lovely that he got a really difficult memorable boss fight to
That's why it's so important.
That's why it's so important that we're as you know,
Judy Q is supporting organizations like the prevent cancer foundation to help with,
you know, better awareness and just better understanding and being able to take care of these things and to catch these things early.
Yeah, no, we are benefiting the prevent cancer foundation at AGD 2020-26 that is going to be starting this Sunday January 4th through the 10th
We are indeed going to be benefiting these PCF and they do a lot of stuff that is also they do prevent cancer
They do early detection all that good stuff. They also you can't do a research and
You know funding treatment development as well and helping fund people's people's treatments too
So, they are making sure that they are attacking cancer and all fronts.
It's a really valuable organization to be supporting, and I'm really excited to be there in person.
If you'd like to be there in person as well, we are live from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Sunday.
So, go to gdq.gg to find out more information about how to register.
And then, you can pick up your badge in person and hang out with us.
But if not, we'll be live here, and we'll be live on our YouTube,
game sun quick on YouTube as well. So yeah, come on down. It's going to be absolutely
wonderful. There's a lot of fun surprises over the week. I already know about a lot
of them. It's going to be really cool. Definitely check out that schedule. How
did I? It's not fun. It's a bonus game. We might see it on Saturday. There's one.
Also, this boss looks incredibly different. It's brutal. Don't get it right. You just, oh my god.
Oh, that is
I'm with it, I'm with that, aren't you?
That attack is like really annoying you can't do anything about it, basically.
Yeah, no it looks like the time when it's just really hard to dodge an attack.
Oh good same. Oh my goodness.
Oh wow, just having to go from one wall to the other without going to the floor.
Oh my gosh.
Oh, I can't get up at this.
No.
Okay, 9 left number dies.
Oh, good total.
Oh my god, I'm so impressed that I don't know.
Oh that's so hard.
But yeah, you just don't have a floor for the second half of the fight.
Yep.
That is so, that it, that looks so tricky.
Amazing.
We should do it with Shaman's crest and you just literally can't heal on the second face because you don't have a floor.
Wow.
We're just so funny.
So the fight is like a little bit easier but like it's still...
Easy, you're gonna go one of the harder ones.
Yeah for sure.
You're just allowed to heal.
That is the last arcs.
Wow, we're getting up to the end of this front chat. Not too much longer.
Enjoy it while you got it, especially because we're not live again until you do the cute.
Just go back after tonight's there.
This is the last thing we have to do before the actual file boss.
and this is probably like the coolest like movement sequence in the game
that's getting this is was there's another still card right
or this is the ever blue so it's just being into the void
we have a question chat of what the hardest boss in this run is as well
So what the hardest boss hardest boss. I think it's just karma leader. Oh yeah, yeah
That makes sense. Karma leader or lost lace, but I don't know. I
They're both like about equally hard. They had like lost lace has more health that like there's that fight feels like it goes by a lot
Picker without we've been optimizing it recently
Like, permanently it also just has like the random BS patterns where she just like runs into you for no reason.
That thing is.
Also, every time that Hornet calls, I really want to bring her into the doctor and do a little concussion protocol on a airport thing.
Yeah.
This, you can't be okay.
A lot of,
I want this.
Yeah.
Fortunately, we don't get to read or look at any of the dialogue here, but we get to watch the cut scenes.
You don't have to play it for yourself, Chet?
She's just a little guy.
It's so fun and discount right now, because I know that there's the big winter sail on steam.
I think it was. I'm not sure.
Let's check it out.
Yes it is. It is discounted. It is 20% off right now.
right now so chat if you would like to go play so far for yourself now seems like the best time
you have xbox game that's also it is pretty good that's huge
it looks like it's five bugs off right now five bugs off all
i approve of that one
we like creature dicks late hall night you might recognize this area
Actually, I do watch it all night. I don't know just a village. That's where the weavers are from for the hangout. Yes, yes, sir. They hang out in the in all of us
Pretty cool. I do like that the face is so blurry because it's just a distant memory for hornet
You didn't really really remember how it is. Maybe hornet is so cute. It's unbelievable
I think you can still be capable of spreading this information.
So I understand information. I'm just abusing it out.
Anyways, that movement was sick.
Yes, it's definitely one.
But he intends to be the game.
Yeah, number the hive.
That's the queen.
Well, when she was smaller.
Yeah.
I guess she's really lurched in the background.
Yeah, she grows pretty big.
I only remember like the the ghost is like being like your size she was more normal
but like there's definitely like something to do with um size and proportions and such
there's a gigantic identification of certain insects or certain bugs in this game
once they go through like certain like levels of power and such I don't know if it's ever fully
explained but you see that with like the Hollow Knight gets a lot bigger um yeah things like that
Oh, that's so, that's so annoying, all right.
You got this.
That's a good one, also.
I think this is too low.
Yeah.
All right.
Just showing us again, see the cool movement.
I don't think anyone is actually like fully practiced this section.
Yeah, I don't blame him.
That makes sense.
It must be difficult too.
It doesn't like fully working debug lot either you have to like do the whole thing from the start
Which is probably part of the reason
If you like low to say say in the middle red memory, it's just like a black
It's like the barrier in is it loaded yet interesting
I wonder how the maps work for that in particular then yeah, I think it's all just like one big room and like when you get to the area
And it just loads that area I'm not shot
And there are certain rooms that lurk like that in the Hollow Knight as well that we kind of like work around to for any person routing.
I don't know exactly how they work though. I just know they function differently than the normal room to room stuff.
Now we have the Everglutum and we can actually enter the couple of us.
Taking it deep from the coordinates memory.
I wish I could just dream hard enough, and suddenly I have a flower, yeah, that would be convenient.
Yeah, good.
It's a plot of Foster's home.
I can imagine who he could.
Oh.
I'm old, I know, shut up.
No, it's just like you're right.
It's like you're right.
Also, we're coming up on another New Year's for Central Times Zone.
So do a little call out when that in 10 minutes.
Oh, what's that?
It excited, CST.
Now we have to go back to the diving bill.
Just bench there, because it's free, that door takes so long, it doesn't matter.
Okay.
That's probably clear.
We do have to talk to Balo otherwise he doesn't know what's going on, because we...
probably thought we were dead because we didn't actually talk to him after we escaped the
of this.
It's just been sitting there morning you in a life half hour, yeah, he's just been like,
I don't know, he's just been sitting there, he's like, I can't leave my post.
And then when you talk to him, you want to go back down.
And now you can enter and exit the of this with the bell.
and
you can do that as soon as you escape the abyss but we don't have to come back here until we're done
make sense
there's not a whole lot down here there's like a relic and
a couple of like lord things and journal entries
there's an arcane egg down here which is really cool
yeah that was a fun little Easter egg to find that down there
and
Oh, the cutscenes are just so beautiful.
Yeah, it's one's great.
Thankfully, this one is not skippable, so we do have to watch it.
We can get it required when yay!
you
Oh, that's not their own way, but it's fine
I
Nice nice
Huh?
good nice those still trickle damage also
love that. Thanks, you, Jay. Thank you, Jay. Very cool. I think even if you didn't know anything
about this game story, this would come across as just as climactic as it is.
the
after you know play a little music
that I was a grandma was she's
watching a dollar for another
and
she learns you a power so you can shoot the silk spear far enough to get out of the wood
so cool
and
time
She is!
That was so cool.
Watch from the watch.
The strength is so fun.
Such a cool run. You did such a good job with a joke.
Oh yeah.
Thank you.
There was a marathon of a run.
You did an amazing job with that.
And for your first marathon of parents.
Oh, it's awesome.
Incredible.
It's a great job, Wayne.
Thank you.
And bring it in the knees.
This is my favorite cutscene, I think.
Yeah, let's enjoy.
It's all night.
What?
Oh my gosh.
I mean, okay, let's be real.
That's not the whole thing.
That's not that night.
That's the best thing.
This is the guy.
It's just some food that woke up some day.
This is a little bite.
I love that he recognizes you though,
and chooses not to simulate you to the void.
It's really cool.
It's...
Oh yeah, I know that, bud, yeah.
Because that's specifically the night, too, because each of the different shadows has its own shape, that corresponded to the body that they originally were born with.
And that one was the unique one for the night.
This shows the the shade board from the Gotham bed.
Yeah, the flash of that too, did the show that the night has ascended into this void form via the power of the shade.
Which is what I'm hoping that the one of the DLCs expands on.
I should have.
Who doesn't?
It's the only possible interpretation of this.
Thank you.
Thank you.
There's no other way to read it.
Yeah.
Truly.
Totally.
Probably.
That's not taking this for a month.
Well, that was a lot of fun, Lane, if you have any shoutouts for either where the folks can find you at home or just anyone or anything you'd like to shout out now is your time.
join the speedrunning discord that is where everything happens and you'll find a bunch of resources lots of friendly people and
That's how you get debug mods set up if you want to practice anything. Yeah, mm-hmm
Yeah, absolutely definitely go play this game as we've mentioned reports 20% off on steam right now and free on Xbox game pass definitely go play it seems really really fun and cool
I say it seems because it's too hard for me.
I love to watch it, so thank you very much for showcasing it here.
And Marcee, if you have any shoutouts, now is your time.
Yeah.
I just like to say thanks for y'all.
Have me on for commentating this.
This was an amazing run.
I needed a fantastic job.
It was super fun.
Give me a hangout and watch you just absolutely crush this run.
As for me, I stream on Twitch.
And I will be on GDQ, commentating for Satan during their run of the race for
for Jasmine as well as being in the S&64 realized. So please make sure to check both of those things out. They're both going to be absolutely fantastic.
Yeah, I can't wait. We've been having a lot of fun in preparation for all of that stuff. And yeah, on that note chat, we are going to be live for a GDQ.
So please do check back in on Sunday for now. That was actually our last stream until then. And I also do want to say a quick little happy new year to those of you in the central times though.
we did make it across that mark.
So if you're celebrating the new year right now,
I'm happy to hear.
And if you're still waiting,
well, have a happy new year later.
And of course, if you missed out
out of the box or creature corner,
you can stay tuned as we replay both shows after this.
And tune in on Sunday, January 4th,
at 11am Eastern for awesome game sun, quick, 20, 26.
A weak full of speedruns in support
of the prevent cancer foundation.
Go to gdq.gg if you'd like to attend
type X-Limish Mark A-GDQ in the chat if you'd like to see this schedule or find out more,
and we will be back on Sunday with more A-GDQ after the replay that is coming up,
see you later, happy 2020, do any sigs!
Hello everyone, and welcome on aim to the games done with graphics and welcome to
out of the box on this the final day of the year 2025. It's been an interesting one. I know it's
been difficult at times but I hope there's been good times too. We're going to have a show this
evening with some fantastic games from 2025 and on out of the box what I'd like to do is
kind of simulate the experience of going through the year. First we're going to take a look back
kind of going to voyage through a very charming adventure called Lego Voyagers with our friend Sonic
7 and then we're going to charge ahead into the new year, fearlessly with Hades 2 on a fresh
file showcase with Minimet.
So, without further ado, let's build something one last time in 2025 to remember together.
It's an any percent solo run of LEGO Voyagers with Sonic 7.
Alright, so this is going to be LEGO Voyagers, any percent.
I'm going to be playing both players on two different players. Keep wording and filler.
With me I've got my commentary to a cartoon, cartoon, and introduce yourself.
Hello, I'm Carcune. I'm also a runner this game and I'll be helping Sonic
commentate this from.
Yeah, all right. So we can go ahead and get started. I'll give you a countdown for
time. 3, 2, 1, start.
Good luck to this.
Thank you. Thank you. This game's very unique because it's one of the leg-o games
that isn't based off of like an IP or like its own thing.
So we've got these two little dudes, blue and red.
I don't know if that's their names,
but in pretty sure it's fitting for them.
So you'll notice, as I said,
I'm controlling both players.
That's kind of a big thing in a lot of Lego games
for speedrunning is you can kind of do twice as much
with both the two use both players.
So I've got my laptop on my keyboard on WS&D.
And I got my right hand with my pointer finger on the left stick and my pinky on the buttons primarily.
And so many Lego games are what you might affectionately call co-optional,
where co-op is faster in speed running contact because you can have a second version join you.
Voiders is intended to be played at the co-op experience, which is to say there is no single player mode.
Unless you are a Sonic 7 and choose to make one for yourself.
Exactly.
So here we're going to see kind of the intro of the game.
There's not as much to explain here because I just get to see how we start.
So the whole story by this game is these two dudes and they live on the
Thilein and then they see like a cool rocket launch and they want to go to space.
So they go on this big adventure to try and go to space.
I never really like boil it down, but this literally is if two Lego bricks were the
space square from poor to listen to.
Literally, yeah.
I don't know if that's good one thing and that wasn't in the space.
That's true.
Pretty much a panel on that.
Yeah, I would say this kind of does as a game what movies this far back is like fantastic
Mr. Fox or like spidervers to give something more recent do it kind of pieces together a number of different
individual styles. There's these really like enjoyable touches in design with like you saw the rocket kind of take off
with like a different animation style than everything else you've seen the game so far. And there's all these sorts of
touches like that like you could see um I don't know how well it translates across to the twitch
But this is also very much an RTX showcase title, which is funny because Lego bricks aren't inherently reflective, but they really do this.
That's the right.
Yeah, now this team did a ton of work to build an inviting world for you to play around in with a cool apartment.
Yeah, so I'll let Clark to spend time with Phil on here to start.
So what some are just doing right now is he's boosting his other player by sort of jumping onto them.
And what he just did was also latch on to the other player.
This side is a mechanic that he can use.
And going out of bounds here, he's able to jump on top of this Walker's collision.
And he's also going to be going far enough with the rep player to be able to respawn his blue player.
close to the ground so that it doesn't damage the jump twice and that's
a pretty big section with platforming. It's slightly slower to do that
a respawn warp strat with player 2 but judging that this is solo I'm not
comfortable enough but moving to do it with both players. If you're doing a
clock run you might would do that which I'd say that's where this game kind of
time speed on lines is like with a lot of other games co-op I would say it's harder once
you get one P2C down because like you have two different people who like are thinking different
things and they have to like coordinate with each other with this game that's still the case
but there's so much more complexity to having to be controlling both players the entire time
rather than being able to drop players out that being able to do a lot of movement as it's
like it walks like with another player just makes it so much fan-series here.
Yeah, we were talking while we were setting up that in a fashion this is almost
being able to do a 1p2c run unlike dp1c where it's all about reading the other
persons intentions and having that muscle memory down. This is almost kind of more like
knowing how to play a piano or a drum kit where you're teaching your body to like do
different actions in different parts in time with each other.
Right.
If we're doing another player boost, and playing more of a time of silence up there,
these are pretty common throughout the game, for this beta, because you can kind of just
like climb really high with them.
Like there's a lot of sections, we can just skip because we're able to do this.
Like I don't think it's intended for you to have so much range on the claim, or for
It's a world-feeler player, but it's something that can happen.
Another thing I forgot to mention, right at the start, is you can actually skip the first island,
like the entire two minutes of it or whatever.
There's a way you can control both players, where you can just skip a minute height,
or even a distance through the water.
And the reason I didn't go for that is, I don't understand how it works yet.
And so I kind of just mash.
And that's the agreed upon methods of art.
Yeah, I think that would be great, because it's also just a big reset point there.
But in here, that is a major of friends that are, you know, of games that are new,
that are still developing. That's why games often come back, you know, two,
three, four, five years after their first appearances in, in memory set showcases,
to see how the community has developed the tricks to the utmost.
Yeah.
How can you explain what's happening here as I'm doing it because I've got a lot to do the focus of the scope?
Here at then, so we still have a bunch of these while Climbson latches.
And what Sonic is going to do up here is something called a great skip.
Normally you're supposed to fall down that hole and go for a long section of timing up this mountain.
Now, if you jump off the screen, you can actually match on to the Rick there and skip that entire section.
But since we have to get our other player over as well, he's going to be making the way over with Blue first.
We're going to go back over that one.
Yeah.
It's going to be pretty tricky.
So what he's going to do now is he's going to abuse the respawn mechanic and by getting
bed to latch on to blue here, he should be able to get red over to our blue is on the
flip there.
I got to actually get the Syria.
Very nice.
Do a little bit of secret ice for me.
Thank you so much.
That's our first instance of a respawn war.
There will be a lot more of those later, but that's another way we're going to abuse the games
mechanics to be able to get part of it.
I had here we're taking a better line by clinging on the bat, like a lot today.
Another one of these sections where I'm doing movements and jumps with both players.
It's kind of tough, because like if I ball it any of the players, I just will mess up my whole rhythm.
Now, I'll essentially just get one player's cross and then do it with the other player.
And with that, which is tougher or slower, I mean, even though it would be easier.
would be easier. Here's another section that has a skip that we don't do. Over there on
the right there's that one of those like spinning things that I just sort of cross one
of these barbones. There's one that breaks when you're trying to go with barbones so
just kind of like that. Oh you can't go this way. And there's a way to get across the
hill but it's a very precise jump that only saves about 10 seconds and you have to
do it both players, so it's not really worth it.
Here we've got another section where I'm going to introduce a new piece of text.
Well, it's very similar to what I've been doing, but it's using one of these Lego blocks.
I let Kirk and his plan.
Sure thing. So normally you're supposed to weigh down the hanging platform there,
might see the left. That's something that Sona's going to do here is he's going to
use his playerop and much like with the extended things or grab studies doing
he's going to be able to grab blue from underneath and facing through the
floor there during the application of it. That's another thing we'll see is just
going through certain objects sometimes. That's a good example of me messing
now I have to do it separate and then pet moods. There we go.
There's another strike here that's done in Colop that I don't do. I think you
you're called going to do it right Carpeys. We use to yes but we don't
anymore. Essentially you can skip walking that pillar down and get a
a jump off midair, but I'm not going to tell you how about that works.
Yeah.
That's another one of those straps that are not exactly worth it yet for nptc.
Like, there's so much stuff that isn't done in solo.
Well, not like a ton, but there's so much time saved in solo.
that just a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of the game is not competitive enough.
Like, record is per kilowatt right now, it's like 15 minutes, and record for solo is by
carcune, it's like if you had 30 or something.
And there's like only a handful of cobs, specific tricks down in the run, or treks
done in club that I don't know. So a lot of the time save is just from adding two brains
playing the game. Here's another cool trick where we do another thing more. And then I'm going
to as specifically, okay, I don't know what that was. Anyway, it was very clear. Yeah, I should have
not fallen after that. So then we can do another war. And here's another section. Or I guess we
skip the other section where you'd walk in like this because there's a couple spots in the
game where you do that. Here's this north ever bridge that we can just skip by doing that jump
and then I can think more through. So this is our first encounter with batteries. The mechanic
and a lot of other chapters where you put the battery in the blue thing and it gives
it power. And coming up soon we'll be able to smuggle a battery in two of section
that user batteries and so that way we can save some time with that. Here I'm doing a jump across
and I'm doing that jump which actually gives you a steam achievement. I don't remember
with the steam achievement, it's called, but you're going to get the battery over here,
it looks quicker. And then here I'm doing gate skip. Actually, that's not here yet, I forgot.
But there's a moral of PTC here to build a bridge. I want to grab the three-by-three pieces
because they're a longer, it makes the jump easier. And so, here I think it's a nice,
like, priority timing edge jump. And I could think across this bridge. And then, now back to
the car crew will like focus up a little bit.
So this is another section for Soundful.
We really have to use this one, PTC abilities,
where he's using both characters at the same time.
He needs to use the connection to follow that speaker there
and then get a prospect of both players,
and that can be very exacting to do.
Yeah, and you can see there,
I did another reason more of just
because it's much faster than doing the parkour.
And now it's not precise, it's just if you die while on that side, you'll get work.
Here's what you'll see how many, even this early on, you can see how many different parts of puzzles have multiple points of articulation that both players are expected to interact with.
So, knowing that Sonic needs to keep instructions for how to do each side in his head basically all times.
It gives you an idea of what makes this so difficult.
Yeah, that's one of the fun parts of one PTC is eventually a lot of sections become muscle memory, especially in more of the main one in the game,
like there's sections I can do, like my main speed on game is like going in a jones, and there are many of the sections that I want PTC to just become muscle memory, like very quickly.
And so it's just like, okay, let me do this for them doing it the same way every time in my hands, just know to do it.
I did think a little different because it's like how the physics works and how the
interactions with the environment works.
It's much less the same thing every time and a lot of like let me figure out how to do
it this time.
Because I have to mash buttons long jumping and hopefully the rotation is correct.
Because there's a lot of like, oh I'm rolling around to the Lego object.
I need to be this rotation or I need to be at the site.
There as well as another player boost and then a... a cling war.
And then coming up here is gate skip, but I was talking about it.
It's actually the first gate skip that we do.
That's another bottom and that the focus on the setting.
That's not how you do that.
Another one of these parkour section.
But that will happen a lot during a casual co-op playthrough.
Yeah, exactly.
I'm surprised.
like not necessarily surprised per se, but like to see the value that the connection move has
in this speedrun context is like in a casual playthrough you will probably shy away from using
that with another player, so you'll need to try to understand what to do with it.
I'm going to take over here because I got a picture.
Sure, if I say just a Sonic Phase 3.8, maybe it looks a bit weird, but if you hold
forward and spam your jump and the on-key, you can sometimes just face free that gate,
not sure what happens, but it's very neat.
Nice.
And that was him doing the battery steel strap where you can smuggle the battery past that game.
But you normally wouldn't be able to do.
And that's going to help us coming up in the next section here.
Rope.
We're getting some funny response from this game.
Yeah, this is a very important battery to take because there's this whole complicated skip.
That we would have to do before and where we were trying to get this battery without spending too much time.
And now we can just take one from the floor.
We can do another respond work here.
I can actually do, oh, okay, I guess that counts.
That's not what I was going for, but we got across.
So now we have one of these batteries on the boat.
We can power the boat with the battery.
And then we're going to use this battery here later on.
I'm going to go ahead and set it up right here.
I'm looking a little bit of time on this because that was behind on the other player.
But this is one of the two vehicle sections in this game.
And I'm going to take a little bit of a time to click the left wheel and read some talking.
Oh yeah, did we not mention earlier?
You have a dedicated button that lets you do this, at least where it's true.
We'll see some more of that at the train section.
I'm kind of in the wrong spot here, but I'm going to try and make a work.
I can't help but imagine this is one of the few sections of the game that is actually easier as a one player to control or
the duration.
Well, Clark, who did it in the air?
Yes, absolutely.
Who did it in the air?
You don't have to fear your mind you need for a co-op, which this is insane.
There's often a long time to have to shout at my co-op partner.
to please go left or send it over there.
Yeah, once you get that movement down the car in the boat, it becomes pretty easy to get
around like here, I know. Okay, stop holding forward on the player, on the red, then I'll
go that way or the same thing with the other player. So here we're going to do some more movement
to grab a battery but then I'm going to do like a respawn work to be able to get back to the
boat faster. Grab the battery. I'm on the boat now it's red so while I can move a little
bit forward with red and then jump up the boat and if both layers fall in the water at the same
time or similar times I can get a walk to the boat getting blocked by that right now that's kind
of funny. Usually this boat section will take another two minutes because you're
going to go to the right and get a battery. Oh and there's also one of the left,
which gives you a different steam-ish movement. We were talking about that earlier as well.
Okay, I need this battery. But instead of we can just take that battery from before and it
to just kind of add a intersection.
The ground before was you do a funny player boost,
and then you try and get the battery to warp or trough to the other player,
and then you get over to the other player.
And that way you can climb over a fence,
but instead of doing that, we just take the battery.
That's much easier.
So here we can see the rocket again.
We really want to get across, but I don't know.
But to short, the chair doesn't like it.
So we're going to have to figure that out.
Yeah, perhaps I'm surprisingly one playing casually, a lot of the puzzles here involved
building things, and many of the cases here, we're just skipping those sections.
Like, the puzzles with the batteries tend to involve like building your way over to something
or getting stung over to the battery and then building your way back.
Exactly.
I'm excited to get to chapter 32 33 34 and 35 where we, I guess not 32 but 33 35 would probably take 20 minutes, actually that's an exaggeration. Probably more like 12 minutes to do speedrun was, but we just kind of skip the sections and we don't have to do that.
So, it takes more like we're doing three minutes, you see we're back at the home island here.
I actually get on the elevator, this is the hardest part of the whole room.
There's a voice around for you.
Getting into the house is also difficult.
So here, there's soft-lock potential.
We're not going to soft-lock because there's a way to avoid it.
But before that way to avoid it was known, you would just sometimes softlock in this section.
And however, we're going to go and use to program this part.
I guess they didn't expect you to be so fast when all the causes of the softlock,
the mineology is just like going too quick, like just walking.
So you'll see after this section we'll explain kind of what's happening with the softlock and what we're doing to avoid it.
Hey, we're just waiting for this yellow piece, we clean on it, and get out the dude
start building a little rocket. They're very eager to get the space. And while they do
that, I'd like to let everyone who is eager to get to AGDQ know that it awesome games
done quick, 2026 will be held alive in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. From January 4th to
the 10th, it's going to be so soon after tonight's show. Registration is available now through
the event, so be sure to register if you want to experience the event in person.
is a gdq.gg or more information.
Yeah, definitely go to that.
Very, very fun to watch on stream.
I've got it even better in person.
Much like this game, it is something special to experience.
I really recommend both.
So here, I kind of want to bring up that
red and blue are moving this big rocker thing all by themselves.
I don't know how they're doing it.
It looks very heavy, but props to them.
I mean, by the changes in the background and like the stuff off the trees, I would say the answer to how they're doing it is very slowly and carefully.
Sure.
As you undertake any massive task, like making it to another year.
Exactly. Very...
Ditting.
So here, we've just found the battery. Now we get to wait.
This weather is probably very fitting for many of the people watching right now.
This is the cold section of the game, and then after this we're going to go to the warm section.
You'll see that in a little bit.
But cool thing about this island is there's a lot of stuff to interact with.
They don't exactly have time to do that right now because of the speedrun.
But there's many fun things to mess with.
This is this rocket.
Oh, and now we're remembering that this section doesn't end until I get on to the rocket.
So we've lost a little bit of time.
Actually, what's something to do?
I didn't do it.
So now we're trying to show off how cute this game is.
I'm just going to put that out there.
Like, like, you guys had to see the rocket.
Let me actually launch it now that we have time to do so.
We...
Now we wait.
Oh, you can see it's getting a little colder here.
Well, we're waiting for you to head over to or open up another tab at gdq.gd slash
hotfix and take a look at this week's schedule.
You can also submit your runs to be showcased on the hotfix at that same site.
So if there are things that you are working on that you're interested in running and
you'd like to show them off to everybody here who's watching the game some quick
hotfix.
Head over to gdq.gd slash hotfix.
Stay a look at that and get more information.
All right, so you can see here I'm waiting, but it's not me making mistakes this time.
You have to wait for that and came up and happen or else you saw a flaw.
Sometimes, like sometimes the game will, I think it tries to load the next like section
earlier or something and it will interrupt your beta black with just a cut to black
and then you kind of just stuck there. So we figured out, I think Nico, one of the other
this game, co-op road record holder right now.
Pick it out by watching a casual playthrough that if you kind of just wait there for a little
longer, then you won't stop lock.
And I think that's very strange.
I don't know why that happens, but like I'm just happy there's not a random self-lock
and there aren't any more of them.
Yeah, this is a little bit of looking sound like, but I'm assuming it tries to load
that section. All right, and it's so now you're here. We're no longer short. Blue has
grown a little bit, which is great for us because now we can go to space in theory.
Like we're tall enough for the chair now. Slay for shadowing. Yeah, a little bit of
more shadowing. So, Parker, while we have some downtime, you want to talk a little bit about
What a color-operative life and the difference is between solo.
Sure thing, so solo requires you to play both characters by yourself as Sonic is doing currently.
And co-op entails that two players are allowed to play at the same time.
Part of what makes co-op very different is that you have to coordinate two players, which can both be easier and more difficult.
Especially for sections that require a bit more coordination.
But overall for movement and such, it makes a very huge difference because it makes it a lot easier to navigate both squares for rocky sections like these.
For example, where I opt to connect both sides together, just because of the little easier to get through here.
In co-op, it would send you a little bit of time to just not do that, especially because you know, I've been making this jump.
Here is, I don't know if there's a name for this skip,
but typically there's a section over there
where we grab some Lego blocks.
Instead we're just gonna use this one piece here.
We can put it here.
Now, glue with the top guy.
We put him there.
We'll just build a little help.
I messed it up.
Now we can double jump, and we can get right up there
and then we can do it with Reston work.
And that saves a decent amount of time.
Oh, my gosh, I didn't even know that properly.
one of those like a sneak peek at one of these movement sections again. You see if I
die I just respond at the start and I'm walking right there it's not. The enhanced
alley-up capability now that blue is taller is great. Exactly. Here I'm getting blue up
sooner because I bought it on my file then in the store and then now I'm
to some more movement. This part is significantly easier and curl up I can
imagine just because I want to make this cycle but I'm controlling two players and I'm
bumbling but now I have to wait like here I have like a real yeah we could have made
so many more cycles if I control the players better but like in co-op obviously that's easier
here um I can you explain this second focus oh perfect so normally what the
of us to get over to the other side there to learn the radio tower that you see there.
So I'm just going to use the movement that the velocity that you get from launching
the other player by raising the platforms there and it's going to be a little long
to get both players across.
I'm currently out there again.
Oh, wow.
That's a little more or less like than less likely to work than the other gems.
I agree.
I agree.
And here's another good example of the respond of work.
We're bottlenecked by blue.
We get that much dirt.
Now we can just jump into the void and rise up here now.
But now blues ahead.
We can hit this letter if I don't miss.
I move the bridge.
Here we're under chapter.
under chapter 20. This claim doesn't save time, unless you're behind, in which case I was there.
And so just barely missed the claim with red there. Generally this cycle depends on what strats you use.
Here I want red of the front, because it makes this move easier. If I fall in there again, I would just back to redo it.
because that respawn. Here's another one of these like tiptoes sections. We're up to one of
my favorite sections here. This jump, which is kind of frustrating to go. But here we're waiting
and then okay tip perception of it. You could, in should go around. But this is slightly
factor if you first try it, so we're kind of gambling. That also depends on the cycle here,
But I have to put that and here we get a response we can do that without worrying about that even our little like Tomb Raiders slash Uncharted climbing along cliff edge sections are built into the puzzles
Do you get that break like you a puzzle a little movement doing other puzzle?
It's a very enjoyable kind of cadence for when you're playing with another player
There's another section for your character because this is maybe taking a cup of time
Okay, let's try. So what you can do there is you can place those bricks by there and then boosts your other player up there.
And the gears is just doing another respond there.
Yeah, I, okay, I didn't hear that time. I learned right before the stream today that you can get a farther resound,
more of those better, but I must not have walked far enough.
Yeah, thanks a bit, Feliki.
We were on to the conveyor belt section. This part can be kind of annoying to the
these pressures here. I was on a bad cycle so I got to leave. I'm gonna try to
bring together a shred here that Carcune had mentioned to me. But now it's either
all of us at a cross or none of us at a cross. Which is fine because I would have
to do that player anyway. So at the end of this section here there's a spot where
we need a climbable wall and it's slightly too high for us to reliably play
or boost. So my chances of getting a piece of the cross I'm grabbing two of
these but we really only need one. That was very close to getting crushed.
There I'm going to need this piece. I'm going to make sure it's turned properly and I
I can do another player, but it's not like that.
And then here's our first key stubble jump of the run,
where if you do your input correctly,
you can just get back to your height,
but it's just a player and a piece
that I don't know where it angle.
That was kind of a skill issue, but we're doing an example.
And now I'm up.
Oh, Chad has started with the puns.
It's interesting to see how this run is pieced together.
Let's true, true.
Yeah, we're good.
You want to.
While we're talking about chat, once we get to the train section up, I'm hoping to see a lot of
cheat shoes.
I'm still in the same violator and hey, maybe a hype train and supported the game from
clear topics and the excitement of coming up for AGDQ2026.
That's true.
Look at this section.
Oh, this section.
This section is, there's a bit of air casually.
Absolutely.
So here we just, you stop the jump and then, we don't even have to do anything with player
We just get a work. So that's that entire section done.
Fantastic.
There we go. That was a crazy recovery.
All right.
So that was another one of those sections. Here we have to do a little jump actually.
And now, two skates skip the other skip.
That car can get explained real quick.
So what something wants to do is to get to the other side of this game and there's this
volatile hold to the left here actually that he's going to be jumping past and if you think
of curve or enough in records you can jump off the collision and end up on the other side
so you're just going to be doing that with both players here.
Yeah it's almost as if they added this hole so you couldn't do this jump but it's so
so can. Yeah, this is some classic Mario 64 and Leica lava land game and you just go around the post. They put up to try to keep you from getting to the star.
That's very good.
That's essentially what we're doing here.
This part is kind of cool. Like, we got one of the metal pieces so that the magnet thing can grab us.
There's another one of these, but we're just going to skip it. Like, we can get another respawn work right here.
Um, hit that jump and then hit this jump and now I'm going to take it one at five.
Oh, I did miss. Okay, we can back this up still. Alright, so if you don't jump far enough, you don't get to respawn.
Apparently I'm not going to respawn on that, so let me, okay, that one worked.
So we got that respawn. Here it's very important that we get seven of these pieces specifically
because we need seven to be able to build a bridge in a second.
Anyone who's played this will remember this magnet infection,
which I can only assume is terrible casually.
It's a real brain teaser.
Like you, I would say in our experience,
we figured it out kind of one piece at a time.
Yeah, that sounds it all right.
Instead of doing that, we're just thinking these pieces
that were just kind of for show.
And then we're going to do kind of a player
a player launch here, it's been a bit of a personal one of these, but we'll see if I
actually hit it fast. So you think the momentum of the roll, we can get a jump and then
either get a respawn or get launch all the way across. The other option is do some funny
something like that. Ideally, we get the momentum here, almost. There's probably a better way to do this.
I kind of just throw myself at it, but it wasn't ideal.
But like it's one of those tricks where like there, yeah, it just kind of worked
that way.
Yeah, like I'm hypothetically what you're doing in some cases, actually, because the players
are using it different cases, and they don't, you know, fall into the pit together all the
time.
You could be building up momentum with one character that carries over to an expom,
that connects with the other in a unforeseen way.
Yeah exactly.
There you could be so much more careful with your movement in this game, but like just put it by the fact that it's like a physics-based game and you're in solo controlling both players.
Right. It's much easier to just gamble and hope that what you're doing is going to work this time.
I don't exactly have setups for this game yet for a lot of tricks just because I don't.
I, it's not at that level. Like, I don't need the first try, everything.
Here, I kind of just talked through this section, but we've done this bridge.
Did you three across one down, three across, and we're able to just jump up the collision,
and skip that whole section.
Here's another respawn work. Once we get past the second one,
I'm the parkour, we can just respond to the other cross.
Which is actually easier, so, a car crew and actually found that one.
Here's another section that is gonna top, oops, but, okay, I got my, I don't know about it,
but we were using, anyway, we can just, this is how you're meant to block the puzzle,
but instead of doing it a second time, we can again just respond to the work, I get blue on the
And then I am for that yellow piece down there and then work out.
So, um, here's another thought for that time, we get to kind of just wait.
Hey, you can talk about a couple of caveins, just because of the nature of the tricks of this run,
and where you are, and where they kind of solo category is that, you know,
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Before we shoot to take a quick second of Chris Shateus soundtrack of this game, there's a lot of
boss that's in great music and discreet ambient, but all of this section is
pretty creepy, so I really enjoy the voice line that we have to stand here.
Yes, I appreciate that there are a few unique sections of dialogue where it's
more than just the mb
with the reasonably reactable it's going on
Alright, Carcon, you got this whole section because I need to heal these memories
Sheriff Ag
So this section is
section where you're supposed to use the truck to make pieces and fix the rails
so that you can progress with the train.
We figured out pretty recently that
ditching the truck entirely is faster.
So what we're going to do is we're going to be
running up all the bricks with our players.
And then once we have enough,
we'll be heading straight over to a gate
to do a small little skip.
But on the meantime, we'll talk about this
period of gathering these pieces by
activating the dispensers and getting enough with both
players. You might have noticed I moved red to the right first before grabbing the pieces.
That's to give the camera a little more range to stretch because if I hadn't moved that
like that way, I would have been waiting on red to be able to get all the way over as blue to
be section with the pieces. As you can see there, that may have gotten respond more backwards
as just happened to red. There's another section that's really tough to solo because like the
The angles that you're rolling are very strange, especially because they're different
based on your towers like orientation and stuff like that.
And I also am using keyboard and controller, so it's not even me doing the same
in puts on both like, it's just slightly different.
And then here, like Carcon was saying, we just kind of skip this gate.
Since we're really tall right now, we can just climb over it, and we don't have to worry
about like a silly switch that's in our way, that kind of thing.
Alright, so here we put these pieces on.
I'm going to use a red and real quick to make sure that they all get
for some times I can get stuck in each other.
In the meantime, while that's happening, I'm moving down here with both players.
So that way the blue can actually get this switch because we need to come through here later.
As we did with bringing the blocks there, we need to bring them back once they're
their processed.
We can get a responable up here and the gates open, I'm going to get back just in
time to collect these rail pieces.
We want as long of a build as we can get, because that makes it much easier to move
with these.
Like that's probably a good shape.
going into eight of these, though if I can get one more of these and a good spot, okay, that's not great, but it's not hard to rebuild, that's probably fine, and now we can just roll, I'm actually going to rebuild them more time to glue, that's much better.
I'm about the shape and impacts the,
movement of the players.
Yeah, for sure.
Like, I don't get the physics.
But like, long-shared equals better here.
That's all I know.
I just, you know, but the leaders and folk rooms and all that stuff,
they try to keep you as a kid in like science classes.
While it was neat to build shapes with like,
also wooden stuff, the actual underpinning is,
Yeah, it can be kind of tricky in practice, as you're seeing.
Yeah, clearly they will prefer me for this speedrun.
Exactly.
This section is, okay, that guy was in the way.
This section is tough one, PTC, but, okay, this is certainly a thing that can happen.
Yeah, yeah, just pick up to be pieces when they're probably the way to one another.
I would say we need both sections separate, one of each player, but that's much easier, I know.
And then we're actually getting some insane initial planes,
because usually you have to kill a lot of people in the middle of the enemy.
Yeah, I really am too to put them as close to where they eventually need to go,
but sometimes the way the piece is snapping the place is extra nice to you.
Exactly.
So this is the other section we're writing in between.
more to choose. And we're right in here. I'm using my monitor settings right now to turn on the
night vision mode. This coming up here is we're going to be in the dark a little bit. There's a
skip we can do where we just there's a light we're going to pick up that we could
entirely skip if we wanted. It saves about a year where we're going to be in the dark. You will
let me know. Yes exactly. But we're going to up to grab the light to make it a little better for
the viewers in a little easier for me. Because you can do this whole skip in the dark, but
I'm not going to hit it first try in the dark right now so no more have I ever it's it was not the
found a couple days ago but I'm going to pass it over to Kirkman again to explain this section if
we were passed a train. There's also a lot of fun interactions like one that we talked about
setting up for the show and then didn't you just there is if you use the truck or that section
and you park the truck in front of the train the train will impact push right through the truck.
Yeah, you could have seen the stream a bit as well.
Which actually doesn't bear on people and I get three different buttons that speak
Unventroller, I just get the echo button.
And...
I'm sure they're just better...
Massing people are just better I guess.
Yeah, especially on the stream.
All right, so I'm talking to you.
Yeah, go for it.
Sure thing.
So, some of the keys sticking together with both players I'm alive here.
And he's going to be using inputs on both players.
For some reason, this makes the orientation a lot more stable,
and it's faster to move vertically like this.
So, just if he didn't have to feed through this section.
And if he's going to be sticking to the light in here to make it a bit easier to see.
This skip is actually called light source skip for obvious reasons.
Here we're not skipping the light switch, but in theory, but here Sonic is going to be
So that's very good.
But he's getting his blue clear up there and then normalizing his
position by singing here and that puts some up right.
And then you can simply flip over and try to grab the right here.
You need to get both of them up there, which can be very, very tricky.
There's one of the sections where you don't get a response after you're climbing,
so you have to do it.
I don't think the developers actually need you to get up here, but I'd like to speak.
Yeah, maybe, maybe.
There we go.
All right, so now he's going to try and boost his second player up there.
Ah, what? Oh, that's a good request.
There we go. You could you could do a third clean warp there, but it's much harder and it's
Also, you have to first try, and so I'm just going to do a response work.
We lost time on that, but if you hit everything first try, that's it about 45.
And then while I'm on this outlet, I'm going to turn my vision back off because I can.
I come up with a special part in the game.
You get to build your own rocket, actually.
The game gives you some pieces and also a kind of a canvas to be able to put those pieces on and then they'll actually stick to their rocket.
I've preemptively prepared our rocket in honor of the LEGO Speedrun community.
We'll see it in a full glory later, but you can kind of see the pieces of it.
This took more than an hour, maybe more than two hours.
I kind of thought you're something to stick to end this took more time than I care to admit yeah understandable
You're also good some fun colors
Sadly we got to get rid of those colors here's another good time
Talk about
getting into like a speedrun like this. Like when you first start out, especially with
like with many Lego games, to I'd say to be competitive at all in many of the Lego games,
you have to learn one PCC, which sounds like a major drawback and a major choke point for
getting into these runs, but it becomes the most fun part of Lego scooter in any of my opinion.
Like there's so much more depth in the games when you control both players at the same time,
There's a much higher skill ceiling and like it just kind of gets you really good at a skill that you wouldn't really think about.
And so like even if you're starting on a game, I just said it's very one pitch you see heavy.
Don't let that stop you from learning the season because you very quickly learn how to adapt to it and learn how to do all the movement and it's very rewarding.
So now we've built our rocket.
Yeah, I guess one thing we mentioned earlier was how muscle memory sort of hurricanes
that won't be due to sea, but one pity sees it very transferable skills.
So, you can feel it in for like a voyage, for instance, you'll find great
trees for elsewhere as well.
Like, just being able to do one beauty sea opens at all, learning any of the
LEGO means like, that's the main similarity between them, obviously, not
count in the back to that they're all like a. This next section is chapter 33 and this is
one of the longer chapters in the entire game and we're just not going to play it. If you play
the game casually you'll remember this big gauntlet of basically going to rocket school to
begin the rocket scientist and instead we're going to do a skip called college skip where you just
just go around a door.
Like here, you're going to do all these puzzles.
You're going to do all this passion-out training.
Rather than doing that, we're going to be doing college
good, which I'll let Park Hoon and explain about that line.
Whoops, doing this.
Indeed, and choose be your own fashion.
So what we'll be doing here is that Sonic will be trying
to essentially build a bridge.
And while Sonic's going to do it,
He's going to jump around with this blue player here and hopefully end up on the other side of the gate.
Very nice.
Remember to move these pieces away.
Now he's trying to set his respawn point so that he can make a nice point for red to that jump too.
I'm happy good.
Okay, this might take a couple of threads.
There we go, perfect.
That's a first skip in this section. Now we're doing space escape. This was found by me when I thought what if you just go over the wall like how we're doing through it and then go here
Like there's already new you can get up there because there's oops. I want to do something there
There's a section like a section before you can do an upboard to get up top. So we knew it was possible to get there
Yeah, I've gotten red stuff, never done that before, but this time I've given you this
kind of thing, okay, back in the back here with blue.
Alright, I'm going to opt to reload the chapter here, so I'm going to do it with that.
Because this just puts me right back to where I was.
And so here we're just going to find a little wall.
You see, I got a first try there, that's what should happen before.
before. And now that I'm grabbing this base to this blue, I'm just going to climb up
top here, hopefully not fall. Now I'm up on the yellow, I can jump over this whole wall.
And now we're going to roll for a little while. Um, here there's a trigger. This is the one time in
the game. Or I guess one of two times in the game where blue is not with us right now. And so this
This becomes a one-player game for a little bit.
You can hear reds gonna be really sad
and the camera moves now blue is now here.
There's a trigger we hit,
even though we didn't do the section properly,
that just makes blue the way.
So here, we're gonna do some jumps
to get the camera fixed.
I'm obviously stuck in the wall here,
so when you go around that, there we go.
So now I'm over, now we're doing,
That was chapter 34.
Let's get essentially now we're going to do chapter 35 skip.
So this is big water puzzle.
They're doing that big water puzzle.
We're just going to go up the elevator.
So we go down the elevator.
And this gives us control lower on the elevator to jump off.
And then we can do every slot more clear.
And we skip back a couple minutes along.
Perfect.
Yeah, that's another puzzle that's a real mind-pender.
I'm going to refer in to game.
Then I would be surprised if more than adults and people watching right now have played.
It's Bart's nightmare. It was super Nintendo. One of the mini games in that is one where you were trying to get through a temple like Indiana Jones style
And when you jump on platforms, they either go up or down one level. And so when you're building the different platforms in the water section
I was thinking of that just like you're working with a different verticality to build a path across
I would say it's kind of unfortunate that we skipped so much content because those are really cool and really
Confection but they are also very long and difficult to one PTC. They all take it here
We're essentially done with the run the last two splits are kind of autos rollers
We've got one more trick left. That's very minor, but now we're gonna see our Lego
and all its glory, and this is kind of a dramatic point in the game's story.
Rad is short, Lewis Tall, which means Blue can go to space and Rad has to do mission control.
Yep, only Blue can operate the chair.
This is the moment when you start to realize that, you know, as much as you've gotten attached to the character that you were, you know,
You've been playing as and your partner has gotten attached to theirs that your faiths might end up being a little bit different.
Yep.
I also want to call out,
Do speaking through a lofty talk, exactly.
You can see what I'm done.
Mashing the talk button.
It's like a little radio static.
I think that's a little touch.
The two previous chapters, one of them is red following along as Blue gets suited
up and the other one is red, building the platforms as Blue kind of goes into a diving
bell and repair-respart of the facility.
Yeah, we skipped those first.
The Conta, but essentially, that was the build up to this as well, that was to the Lego
speedrunning community. Big shout out. We're going to do both on the stream and on the
side of the rocket. Exactly. Another taking another opportunity here to say very fun,
very welcoming speedrunning community. Lots of opportunities of different games to run,
different streams to watch, but highly recommend. At least poking your head in the discord server,
seamless going on. Maybe you're interested in learning a game or something.
right here comes up our last trick of the run instead of walking or I guess rolling
I'm going to dump it into the void and it's going to work me a little bit forward
the last respawn work
there's a one second time
The theorized that if you let this time recount down it, it'll eventually launch the rocket, but no, it's trying to.
I was wondering. See if it does impact autopilot, but no. I also did not contribute to figuring out whether it actually does that or not.
One day I probably will.
Yeah, as we're sending the rocket on its way, just a reminder that if you want to appear on GQ topics,
we're currently accepting submissions for the winter season.
If you've got a run showcase for something else that you would like to show off on the game's
on the quick channel, then that our way at gq.gg forward slash clubfix, or slash submit, or type
exclamation points submit in chat for more information about that.
Hey, it's almost like we're counting down to something important happening tonight.
Yeah, we're not gonna do it.
Four, three, two, one.
Happy Lego boy, Tracer everyone.
That's just cinematic moment.
Like, obviously one of the most masterful late title cards considering it's right at the end of the game.
Yep.
It is a reflection on everything you and your co-op partner have gone through so far.
There's not quite the end of the run yet, but you do get the conclusion chapter chapter 37
Which makes it a bit like a 90 seconds later. It also would have synced up for
with midnight in GMT minus one. I think people who were four hours ahead of eastern time
We should have just got the devs to change the game for that true true. And here we got reds tall
They've got to do in the sky, and they're talking a bit already out.
They're very sweet ending.
Chew this TV treatment.
I don't remember what it's called.
But once the faded black happened, that'll be kind of.
Honestly, this opportunity to say thanks to Hothpicks for having me.
Thanks to Hothpicks for coming through the comms.
Definitely recommend getting into any kind of speedrun at all.
during it all day, rewarding, very fun.
I guess we're in a pleasure being with you.
Big thanks to Chitri as well for being a partner in each journey, for voyages of
parents and that's time.
Congratulations.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
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Thank you very much.
and this one was a little bit faster than that.
A little bit.
Let's see the graphics.
I should've done the world record.
It's a little bit of a great thing.
Close up the year.
Okay.
Julia, straight from Carke.
Yeah, thanks again for having me.
Oh my, sincere pleasure.
Let me go grab while we're working in that and going into our break before an extra run
I'm going to go ahead and do the favor of grabbing the speedrun link.
There's the link to the Lego speedruns discord.
So we'll have that again.
Thank you so much to Sonic 7 and Cartoon.
The both of you for joining us, I knew that everyone who tuned in for this run was really
going to enjoy themselves and find something new and special about this run.
That's one of the things that I enjoy most about both our hotfix content and our GQ mainline
events is people getting turned on to games they've never seen before and taking up that
passion to run them for themselves so thank you so much for making that possible for our viewers
tonight. Yeah, thank you very much. But that's not all for this show. Nor for our evening.
Come on back in just a few minutes after our break for a fresh file showcase of Hades to that's
That's gonna be something amazing as well.
Take care of yourself.
Take a few minutes and come on back for more.
I'm going to take a look at the camera.
I'm going to take a look at the camera.
I'm going to take a look at the camera.
Welcome on back to Out of the Box on the GameStun Quick Hoppics, my name is
is the T-Tree, you know, I always enjoyed watching these last stream before AGDQ.
Something about having that material just gets you excited for what is to come and that is
absolutely true of me and AGDQ-2026. I am so glad to be able to bring you this part of
AGDQ's broadcast schedule. I never thought I'd be the one doing the last stream before AGDQ,
but you never can tell what the future will bring, which is a theme of our next game.
Would you have probably seen on this channel before, but not like this?
This is a fresh file showcase of Hades 2 from the extremely talented minnet.
So, minnet, let's get it going.
All right. Well, hello, everyone. This is a fresh file showcase of Hades 2.
And so, right off the bat, a couple of things I just wanted to get explained before we get started.
If you're unfamiliar with how Hades 2 works, you are playing as Malenoi,
And she has the goal to kill the final boss being Kroneus.
You might have heard of her catchphrase, Death of Kroneus,
in gameplay trailers.
And so fresh file is incredibly unique,
because it is an incredibly scripted encounter phase,
where almost every single encounter in the game
compared to most other runs,
has some form of set structure,
whether it be enemies or room dynamics,
or how the boss is operate.
And so there are two main unique differences that make fresh file unique to other casual play runs.
That being a concept known as the God Who and a mechanic known as Eris.
And so Eris is a mechanic that for any casual runners, you might have been comfortable when you're playing a fresh file.
file, Eris gives you a curse known as the blessing of strife, which increases the damage
taking as you play throughout the game. There is a way to work around this mechanic
that being, she only spawns it if you enter a new region at above 50% HP. The other
one is a fresh crowd-god group. Plot village to other normal runs in Hades 2, you're only
allowed it to get one or allow it to get four of five available got a
Paula Demeter Poseidon, Aphrodite, and Hestia.
All of these mechanics will be further explained as we enter the run.
But for now, let's get started.
Timer starts the moment I create a new save slot.
Timer starts in three, two, one, now.
Good fun.
So, while the intro cut scene is being played, I just want to reiterate one more time.
Every single region has a set scripted encounters.
All the enemies are going to be the exact same in every single first follow up just in different ways.
So, as we get started, we are going to be entering our first encounter.
Before we do this, I'm actually going to disable the auto sprint option.
I play without auto sprint and for some odd reason, first run fresh file has a flag that
actually enables auto sprint for mouse and keyboard.
It's only on first run, too.
And it will only for KBM.
So this is chamber two of Airbus, like I said, it will always have a fixed encounter.
So there is a set strategy that Freshfile runners have kind of developed to clear this as efficiently as possible.
So our first room, like I said, will always be a problem.
Just getting some time to read some dialogue.
Of course. Yeah. And you know, there are some like one of the things that you'll typically see in
and Haiti's two speed runs on this channel,
a is multiple weapon runs where part of it
is watching or a run a wrap their head around the complexity
and the mechanics of multiple different weapons.
In fresh file, you only have discura or the witch's staff.
So in a sense, your tactical options are more limited,
but that also gives you a sense of clarity and direction
as to how the combat of the run goes.
So our first dive virgins from the meta-fresh file strategy
is actually going to be taking the blinding
option instead of Nova String. Nova String is the popular speedrun option as it allows
for a boom called breaker rush later on down the line, but that is very reset and orangey heavy.
So instead I'm going to be taking our blinding rush which allows for a lot more build flexibility
later on down the line. For those who they have watched a Hades 1 Freshball run before,
You're making a dash up as the first boot may sound familiar and Havies one fresh fall
The first boot is scripted as well and people there will always pick the first boot
Pick dashes there first boot. Yeah, so first things first it makes sense if we have our first non-apolog刷
Which should dinner
One thing I did mention earlier on is that in order to unlock this
There's actually unlock conditions to get Aphrodite and Hestia that being you need to first
unlock Demeter and decide in first.
This is an mechanic.
Again, you need to a first run fresh file and so getting Demeter early on is very nice.
We're going to be grabbing our Arctic ring which applies a freeze effect on our cast which
is a very good utility option.
These are minor rewards that's in the coming room, these don't matter to anything in
a run, these are for meta progression, since this is a first run fresh file, we don't
got any meta progression we need to worry about.
Once again, we're using our chance to ask both the old damage and is a good utility
I am going back to Poseidon, which is another great god.
So if this is our first main boss of the run, if he root stalker, root stalker has a very
old item that's there.
The root stalker displays an AOE of vines, which can hold a milleno a temporarily in place
if she steps inside, and that is what happened there.
And he nets dashed right onto one of those zones and took a bit of damage, not too many
more of those, and he might die.
We do have a backup in case this happens, though.
Hopefully we don't go there.
Depending on when and where, like, you have a ranked options,
if you just want to just pull up another run at it,
delete and create another fresh file,
we have plenty of time to make those choices.
Should we need to, just like you'll often do in a good real quick.
Exactly. So, like, so we're all about improvising.
Yep. So, this is one of our first midshops,
our K-Ron. We don't have enough bolted by anything.
This year's meta progression, we don't need it for a first run.
Fresh file. So, instead, we're already saving people for somebody else.
So another thing you might be noticing is I will be trying to use these trees to increase my damage as much as possible.
Those trees are part of the environment, but they do indeed do a lot of damage.
Yeah, there are environmental damage in, I think all of your environments here, but they're easiest to work with here and I have a bus.
of us. So it's definitely a good opportunity to talk about the mouth. Also, one thing that you,
I don't think you've gone into yet, but really makes fresh bile challenging is when enemies
spawn with that yellow health over their standard red health. That's armor. And until the armor is
gone, they don't suffer not back or have their attack pattern interrupted or anything when you're
hitting them. So it's the first part of each enemy that spawns with armor has to be handled,
especially delicately. And that's kind of why Arctic
ring is so good for a neutrality because the freeze effect
actually does help them move in despite being
armored. So I'm actually going to be grabbing a
steady growth here. Local climate, the omega
trust is great, but it has very niche cases. I
strike already have a freeze effect and I would
rather have some other God in my attack slot that
can do more for me in general. We're going to be
grabbing our health instead of a money because we want
to live and I already have a lot of money to work for this isn't no reset setting after all.
And hey even after that extra 25 health we should be roughly at that 50% mark we've
talked about earlier so adjusting to be ready for the next location could be fairly easy.
So it's 30% fountains.
Oh, for a 20%.
Yes.
There is a function at the end of every region that that heals for 20% and so you want to be exiting every region at about 30
Thankfully it is at or equal to 50% so you can be exactly 50% HP and still be fine
So we are now entering our first end shot of the run
This is a shop that appears before the boss fight.
I'm going to be buying our beside and looking for slippery slope. Perfect, right here.
This slippery slope, your splash effects from beside it also infects,
splash effects include way flourish and way strike.
You can see that splash right there.
This is a requirement to unlock this spoon.
And so this is great because when you attack an enemy inflicted with
it with broth, you have a chance to deal with for damage. So it's just more damage and since
in the first round you don't really have many meta upgrades to work with, any amount of damage
you can get is good. Anyway, this is Hackettie, the first boss of the run. She is the one who
trained Meleno to go and kill Kronos and she wants us to face off against her to prove that she
She is worthy.
Heightedhees patterns include magic, teleporting around,
and more as you'll see.
Yes.
And I appreciate that as Superdine-Off always does,
as they did in Haiti's wander,
a special dialogue for certain circumstances,
in this case, for reaching the end of this location quickly enough.
Yes.
There's also several ones for completing a region
without picking any damage.
So right off the bat,
you'll notice is me dashing in and actually using this tree for a nice burst of damage.
So this is a triple divide move. There is an audio cue that you can use,
however, it's, I just like to guess. So she has three phases. Phase one is what you just saw.
We kind of be lying through it using a tree for extra damage and between each phases she becomes
in vulnerable and you need to kill those switches that spawn in order to, well, you may
perform vulnerable now. Then deal here, we're going to be using a tree and we're actually
going to be trying to use some of these orbs. Oh, what we do that. I want to explain this. This is
the sheep ball. If you've got ever hit by it, it makes you turning to a sheep and making you vulnerable
or unable to do anything. Yeah, you no longer have any attacks. You move it about 20% speed. The
The camera zooms in on you, so the entire section while you are cheap is just about
dodging what the tech team and the witches they're all at you.
Yes.
It is however still possible to deal damage technically.
It's just terribly inefficient, but let's see.
There isn't a achievement for defeating an enemy while she.
Um, an easy way to do that is to just break one of the trees while you're marching.
So you might have noticed me taking some intentional damage right there at the very end
walking into that circle.
That was intentional.
I was at 17 HP out of 55.
Unfortunately, that does put me over the 50% mark.
If I do take this found in healing at the end,
17 HP would put me at, I believe it is 28,
which is just barely above that 50% HP mark,
meaning I will get errors if I enter Oceanist here,
which is our next region.
So I had to take that last hit, putting me very low at 5 HP.
However, this does allow me to go below that 50% threshold and avoid errors.
Now, and now for the hardest region of the run argue, I believe.
Yes, this is a region that many fresh file players hate.
Oceanis, chamber one, again is a very fixed structure.
The encounter will always be the same and they will always be these lurkers and hippos
This is a very very annoying encounter because lurkers are some of the most difficult enemies to deal with in the game because of a backstep attack that does a
We damage
If you see me pause
I apologize that is on instinct this fresh file first run is an IGT time category
So that was just muscle memory. I will try to avoid that as much as possible.
Hey, do what you need to do. You have plenty of time to show off how this
representatives so you need to breathe or buy all means.
So this run, this room again is a very fixed structure. I have Arctic rain, which makes this room a
absolute breeze. Essentially, you've had that.
You can't miss for that. Yes, that encounter summons a bunch of small fishes.
That dash at you, or did ring dust, stop them in their track before they can reach you, so the strategy is just to kind of hide in a corner and let them come to you get frozen, so you can take, you can deal some easy damage.
And training to another shop here.
We have two options for a mid-boss, a follow and demeter, I will be going for the demeter.
But first, I'm actually going to be buying some health because the mid, I'm very low.
And the mid-bosses can deal a lot of damage and can kill me on accident if I am not careful.
I will be taking the Arctic Gail here.
I am not really using mana, so I don't necessarily need the game for that.
Local climate, like I explained earlier, is a very niche case Arctic Gail just makes my trust all that much stronger with a slowdown effect on projectiles.
Something I see we did not bring up yet was the existence of so-called duel boons.
duel boons are special shiny boons that have the effects of two gods combined.
Our objective in a fresh fall run is to get some specific ones of those.
the ones we are going for right now are called beach ball and
tropical sea.
Yeah, they're one I forgot the name of.
Yeah, tropical sea.
Thanks, I think.
Yep, local climate, same deal, ice-tripe, same deal.
I'm going to be running these snow queen that gives me a barrier.
That stops with one instance of damage and giving me all that much more protection.
Yeah, that's some terrific, awesome counters, reliability, or just any other mistakes
that happen at the beginning of the fight.
Um, um, armor kipos, very pretty easy encounter because I do have that Arctic ring.
Um, I will actually be grabbing the health here.
Um, I think the site was the better play in almost every world.
However, it is very much up to RNG because of something known as Corbun priority.
I don't know if that's the official name if the community has it.
Essentially, Hades will, if you gamble, want to fill up, try to fill up your core bones as much as possible.
Those are the bones you can see on the right hand side, or left hand side, I apologize.
The one that patched this specific ability is like a packed special cast.
If you have any open slots for any of those, they will try to fill those up as fast as possible.
And so any dual-boons that I try to get, we'll have a much lower chance and so instead I will be going for the health just to play safe and I know reset site.
We now unlock Festia as our next guard which is one of which is in my opinion the best got to get in a fresh file setting.
Scourge is an effect unique to Hestia that essentially adds a damage over time effect that does
well a lot of damage. Yeah right now we have that on Gale on our cast but being able to get
Scourge and modify Scourge attack so I can absolutely imagine this real nice boost there the BPS.
Yep so this is what we're talking about. Our Flamethrack which is a Corbune the game will always
Let's try to fill those up as much as possible.
Flamestrike gives me a scorch-ethlecting attack,
which means every time an enemy gets hit with an attack,
they will take a stacking 30 damage over time.
Now, this society is very great
because it opens me up for two possible doable.
I can either get one with a scorch-effect,
plus a froth-effect, no a scalding vapor,
or I can get one known as beach ball,
which is opened from any Poseidon Boone
and a Apollo or Poseidon Rushman.
Or?
Oh, hey, the third option.
The third option in the being natural selection,
which is also great.
This means your Boone's in the left most column,
otherwise known as your core Boone's could be five.
Again, plus level spread across however many you have,
It just means it takes that plus 8 and randomly distributes it to these 4 available options that
it have. If I had a game loop, then it would also distribute those plus 8 levels to that as
well. But since I don't.
So essentially we just gained a ton of pomegranate all along. Exactly. So now we enter into our
second guardian region, Syrians.
You may remember from Hades 1 the Heroes boss fight where you are fighting against two
different boss enemies. Well this one's that's more you are fighting against three of them
and one of them can literally manipulate the floor. Create AOE's. Each of the
The client has her own abilities.
And the drummer creates the AOEs, the guitarists rushes at you, and causes some extra
projectiles to peer on the field and skill as the main boss and I mean that will be
following you around.
And screaming at you, you'll see what I mean by that.
name is more specifically a skillet which is being the main singer that you
can see here. We have a chatty being the guitarist you see above skillet and
rocks it being the drummer on the left. The three of them are responsible for
the music we heard on the way through asphalt on fact. Yeah, the closer you
got to this room, the louder the music and the vocal effect gets in the background.
Again, like with like a Voyager before this the attention to detail from the
bags of tonight's games is impeccable.
Yes. So, the main strategy for this run is to actually immediately rush and
chatty. The reason is not because we want to kill Jenny first, but it's actually
because we want to kite skill up around. Skill up cannot move around
Roxy, and therefore we can put some distance between us immediately. And the
screen attack is now over. We actually then want to rush Roxy here because she creates
the field AOE and that's something that I do not want to do with. Then we kill Jettie
because she is the most volatile and skillet being the slowest is kind of easy to make.
Now, this is a feature mechanic, normally in normal runs, any of the three science can
be featured.
However, in Freshbile first run, only Jettie can be featured, and so a strategy you can
do is she will always open up with a brush attack, so position yourself behind the
Roxy, like I did, and she will actually collide into Roxy, making them line up for a very quick face.
Similar concept as we use to bait skillar around and be allowed to her rapidly and face one.
All right, now it's time to finish off skillar herself and manage our help as needed.
So this is our update notice we are up of 30% of our health and don't worry we'll be working on that in a moment.
Okay, very good.
Yes.
I did not forget that.
So on the sides of the arena, you see two little tanks here, normally these are supposed to be stage hazards that when exploded creates steam.
We are actually going to be using them to our advantage.
after the explosion, we dash into the steam and take a lot of damage.
Why?
Exactly the amount of damage we mean to you.
Yes.
These are the equivalent of aerobuses trees and that they can be used to control enemies and deal damage.
But in this case, they also have a secret additional use.
Yep.
So now killing up, we put ourselves at exactly 50 HP.
Which puts us in low energy service threshold.
And now it's a good last.
Yep.
Now for the fields of morning, this region is unique to the rest of the game.
As you saw prior, no heat is to underworld, which is the path we are currently taking.
Normally has one encounter per location.
Field is unique in a sense that you see two rewards.
That's because there are actually two encounters in one location.
and so a lot of the time loss actually comes introversal.
And so one of these skills you need to pick up
is actually reading the room and knowing where to go
or where each reward can actually spawn in.
For those just speed around 80s one,
it 80s two's actually much nicer about it.
A is one that you have to speed on that game
yet to learn every single room
and where to end hell to hell to hell.
that because of a difference in how enemies spawn locations work between the two engines.
So, oh, grab the extra help. Those are my rewards that can spawn around the field's region.
So, if you're unsure, you can pick up some meta upgrades, you can pick up some actual
in-game or like in-run upgrades. The minor ones are represented by being like physically smaller
or visually smaller and they don't start the extra encounters with the major boons to do.
But you need all of the major boons to be able to lead each of these locations.
And of course, they're not as powerful, right?
So I am close.
And casually, there are also those golden trees somewhere around these arenas that let
like light up where all of the boons found in each room are is running as a speed run,
even though it's like IGT base, is that more based around knowing the relative position of the
room to like the first one you find? Yes. Or do you actually use these trees?
This is the golden tree that you're talking about. This is stationed in every field to location,
unfortunately for a fresh file, this is a metal upgrade.
Oh, okay.
And so, yep.
And so, normally in every other account,
or most other title playthroughs,
you'd want to be looking for that,
to show you where every location is.
Freshfalt doesn't have that,
and so you're kind of just blindly guessing.
This is the vampire miniboss.
That's the name suggests, it's a vampire.
I am going to quickly kill all of the additional enemies
in the room because the vampire
can actually hit those enemies and heal.
This one is a very simple fight, just be very bold,
move, honestly, in a circle.
And since the attacks are very linear,
you can just avoid them.
Now, the boon I'm actually going to grab right from all
like you might here is very strong in terms of
actual clearing routes.
I'm actually going to be grabbing a flood game here
in order to lock our last Corbum slot.
The cork and slot, if open, every god has this one, will always try to offer this game,
which means we have a reduced chance of finding more duels. And we don't want that, we want more
duels, and so I'm going to be grabbing our floodgain. Here we are in counting another fresh
foul specific mechanic for this game. Fields usually does not have a mid-shop,
It does not have a shop in the middle of the biome.
It is replaced by something called a story room where you encounter a non-playable character
which gives you some reward instead, because story rooms cannot exist on the first run
because of some of the handy biogeneration rules a shop appears instead.
So, this one is actually very lucky, right off the bat?
King-Tide Legendary is a 10% chance I believe, or less than that.
It is 12% from regular rooms 10% from many bosses. Yes. I just happen to unlock all the prerequisites for it and so I guess we get it
So I will be taking the left room normally if you are more worried you can grab the extra health yet for gold
I will be grabbing for more
more chances for getting our duel rooms, which are our massive endgame builds.
This is one of the field's mini bosses that can actually spawn outside of the official mini boss.
Do we have an official name for this? Just mini boss mini boss? I don't know.
I don't think so. No, HIPO dug up the file at some point and didn't really name it.
They're secret animals essentially just like an encounter that you can get that is
Kind of like a mini boss
It makes these there are a lot tougher of enemies, but since I have the freeze effect
It is much easier to deal with
I just took a lot of free game
Well, when I saw the first hit, I thought to myself, oh, that's probably intentional.
Oh, no.
And then you said something of it, well, now I'm less sure.
There is a strategy for field later on on the line that I'll be showing if I do eventually get to it.
The HP threshold, it is called thorn strategy.
It's essentially a way to reach that 30% more without really having to deal with the guardians.
was that was the pleading in game time because reminder this is the end game time category
and this feels about as good a time as any for a don't a message as long as that
yeah okay no duo been here so skill free to kind of do a mess of cheer
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So FF like fresh file you say.
So right off the bat.
High beach ball and scalding this.
This is incredibly lucky to decide it.
I will be grabbing our beach ball.
Beach ball is the single best boon that you can grab actually in fresh file.
Beach ball is the fresh file doable.
So this is actually perfect that I get this.
So like I said, born strategy.
It's essentially, there's a thorns up the end shop or boon or whatever you get before you enter
our third guardian region. You just run into this thing until you reach that 30% threshold.
So you don't need to deal with the guardian. So there is no dialogue for the next guardian.
So because I can't really pause, I don't really want to pause in the middle of it.
Just to explain what that next boss fight is, it is a boss fight that is I like to categorize
as kind of like a juggernaut, it is a very slow moving boss,
however, a hit's like a truck. That's why most fresh file runners prefer
to drop to below that 30% threshold before the actual fight because it is very easy
to actually overshoot it. And so it's better to get yourself up 30% and do the fight
without getting hit compared to risking everything.
If you're familiar, this is Cerberus!
I would say Alex is going to say this is someone you may recognize or may remember from
Hades one, even if you don't recognize one.
And so be sure. Don't worry. We're just doing a little bit of a desgaling, right now.
Cerberus needs a good clean.
It's exactly. So the strategy for server's fight is like I said it is a very slow boss
and so you just need to be very patient with it. The more patient you are the easier
the fight will be because the best way to lose this fight is to try to rush them
and get yourself caught in one of his attacks because you are locked inside of an animation.
and
every early in the spike is larger than you think it is, especially in the second third phase is here, as the patterns of the ground pop A alleys, like start overlapping each other and you basically have to remember where to move to next or where it's safe to move to, back it's very tricky to actually, but extremely well, yes.
In this fight, many net didn't even lose his Snow Queen boon in that encounter, which is a really difficult thing to do on serverist.
There is a lot of stuff, a lot of AOEs that can randomly pop up near Melindaway and have her run into it on the Snow Queen because of that.
Even if the zones do no damage.
Yeah, so now entering our final region of this run.
Partors.
If you play babies on your way, I can, this room should be familiar.
Where is this?
This is at the exit of Tartarus all to Asfadell and Meleno is about to drop down to
and to the entrance of Tarder is not meant to be.
Yeah, Mell has to use an access shoot since the main gate is blocked by Kronos.
So whereas Zag was came out through the main entrance after getting past Hades to go outside,
Mell's basically going down the garbage shoot to get us far down Tarder is as possible.
Just to showcase off the scenery and the amazing arch, this looks incredible.
That's a clock.
Yep.
So now, partners as a region is, again, very unique.
Unlike every other region,
partners you need to fear five encounters.
They will be marked by Roman numerals as you can see.
Shit.
Right there.
Fuck.
Expressory set.
There will always be, there may be branching
depending on the room size, but you will always need to clear those five encounters marked
by the Roman numerals in order to progress to the boss.
Now, like every other encounter, this first room is set in stone, and this is known as
Part C1, with a very poor reputation in the first fall community for being incredibly
agonizing and RNG heavy. The reason is because enemies spawn in one by one and if you've
ever tried to speedrun a game before, having enemies spawned one by one is incredibly annoying.
Luckily we got an incredibly small room and so we were able to deal with it very quickly.
So, using our beach ball, which is a very strong room that I've realized I didn't really
explain. Beachballs essentially do a boon at that chargers up behind you as you sprint
as you can see with this water or letting go of sprint fires off that beach ball which
explodes like a main nuke. Yeah it's a large AoE especially for this point in the game in the
meta progression or lack thereof and it does the equivalence of several hits a damage so adding
that to your own AoE which has been augmented by a very carefully selected and very luckily
game series of boons that are meant to increase AoE, meant to increase survivability.
Like we're just sitting about as pretty as fresh file can right now, I think.
Yes, the only difference between my current bill and a bill that an actual fresh file
speedrun would go for, which is more of a heavy, is instead of blinding rush, they would have
breaker rush, which is Poseidon's sprint.
you're when your dash stops. It is when you can really, really. Okay. It is. It will run directly
into them to do damage and be a little bit of knockback. Yes. The strategy is to cast right before
you hit it enemy so the knockback actually gets prevented by the cast. It is the cast of
root sentence. Which I realize. It's preferably one. The preferably one picks up and effort
die to cast which pulls in on a maze or a debitor cast which freezes them in place to have the
not bad, not matter at all, even less so than with the cast as it's this case, that's
all the matters that's gonna need it does not have fighting sprints.
So this is what I mean by extra chambers.
I have cleared all five encounters that are required to mark with the Roman numerals.
If you do wish to add any improvements to your build, such as in this case Pomegranates,
You can go for them, they'll just be extra encounters, extra rooms you need to clear.
You will get the reward, but again, it will always need to clear five encounters.
In this case, for most first file first runs, you typically want to avoid those because
they're just extra buying some machines really.
So, anyone like to do math?
450 plus 125 plus 90.
That is 575.
Should be enough money.
Yep. I about 14. Wow. Wow, this one is incredibly lucky. Which is for a showcase,
great. Do not expect this kind of luck in your runs. We might actually be able to see a
It's a cooler Leasturac.
So winter harvest is a Demeter's Legendary,
which if there is any enemies
that are affected by freeze,
which is this status effect here,
and they drop a little 10% HP, they instantly die.
This does affect bosses as well,
which is a cooler Leasturac
and that we might be able to see in this run.
And a quote, Lord Karan.
I should talk to Tehran actually again.
How about this is Tehran?
Diving into the river of sand and another repeat to come up.
Very memorable location.
Yep.
Some thing I also did notice is this anger for the boss fight, even though it's supposed
to be a replica from a Hitties one, it happens that it's wider, I believe.
To make the fight work yes, yes, right so that's a cool little thing. I noticed
I'm a little appropriate to give you this piece to maneuver you kind of need it
I'm a discreet shake
quite a good pull back to
He's one as well. It's every time you end the run you get something to the effect of you don't even when you succeed. It's a can fate be escaped
So another fun. I'm going to immediately do is
Crown us is the Titan of Time and in a sort of false wall breaking thing
What is a way that you the player can stop time? Well shot was mentioning this earlier. Exactly. It is by
causing the game. And Chronos hasn't voiced line for it.
He used to unpause your game a few did this at some point in early
actual. This was pretty funny the first time.
However, they didn't really do it the once as you could
repose after this. They removed Chronos
forcibly unpause your game for accessibility reasons,
but you only get to die a lot once.
So, Chronos fly time immediately starting with the suction attack.
For some reason, despite not doing any damage, it does count as a hit, which means
our one hit protection from snow queen does get removed.
These are swipe attacks that you typically want to, time, there's a boomerang attack
that will always fly clockwise.
So a way to avoid that one is to run in a clockwise direction, do not move counterclockwise
you will run directly into it.
This attack you want to be hugging a wall and dashing right before he does his undash,
which means all the Orbs that he summons will collide into the wall and not with you.
This wipes again be patient and you should be able to time.
This dash isn't as well, I'll wait for them to wait for his sound cue or visual cue
of him going for a dash and to dash perpendicularly to where he is moving.
Like so.
Like that.
So I'm just playing this fight incredibly safely right now, killing all the enemies that
Can't do damage because I have a lot of damage and I'd rather not
And Gigi question mark
All right, that was rough.
Mile is what we would say the fight were over. There's a face to avoid. Yes, this is
Chronos is pretty cool.
He's been being the type of time that doesn't necessarily happen on your schedule.
Chronos will instantly start his phase two with an instant kill move.
The way to avoid that is to stand in one of the Roman numeral times that do about
what doesn't flash for.
This attack is very easy to avoid.
He will not do anything while in this phase.
So just dash into the middle of the circle and free hit.
Now, this is his phase two of his phase two.
P2.2 has me like the call.
Yes, he is too, too, if you will.
Yes, too, too.
He will spawn these Pemper,
which do not do damage to you,
so they're not a fraction.
However, they do heal Carlos,
which means they are still something you want to be dealing.
And that's with all the other enemies of that type.
If you are on top of where they were defeated,
They will make a small pocket of AoE where you get frozen place.
Yes.
That's unwell.
One last instant kill, then we should soon see Kronos run out of lives in a moment.
Not after one close call there, though.
But they're the Eastan.
And the Shader.
That was the Shadow from the Dervarvest.
And that right there is time.
That was Hades 2, fresh file.
Freshfall isn't incredibly interesting thing concept wise because a developer when designing a rogue like, or rogue like, as Hades 2 is, and Hades need to first have the idea to even allow the player to beat the game on the first run.
there are developers who wouldn't let the player do that or do everything in their power to prevent the player from doing that.
And yet it is possible every single time.
Yes.
So, the speedrun.com separates Freshfond to categories.
There's the first run category and the unrestricted category.
Unrestricted is an RTA time.
First run is a IGT time.
understood, it just means when is the first time you're able to kill crumbs, whether it be in your first run or if you do die in your second run, whether you clear with a different weapon, that's just what understood it means.
Most runners stick with first run and so that was what I was playing here.
So, if I were to submit it for our speedrun.com, my final time would be an 1813 27.
And that's with several extra minutes of pausing to explain mechanics and choices you've made.
Yes.
Really fantastic they done.
Where can people find you if they want to watch more content or want to join you in doing what you do in running categories of babies too?
So I am actually very active on the Haiti speed running discord.
And you can find me most often in the 80s to fresh file channel.
Otherwise, I have a YouTube where I upload a lot of my fresh file clear.
It is many, that's O2.
You can find me there.
I am currently trying to do a fresh file win streak.
Trying to reach a legendary fresh file speed runner from Haiti's one.
Nitros win streak record of 100.
That is an incredibly big deal.
Did you want to tell the viewers what this win brought you up to?
If I were to have counted this this would have brought my win streak up to 19 currently
I am currently uploading all of my wins to my YouTube channel so if you do want to see more you can find them there
That's fantastic. Anyway, I'm seeing a chat that there is still a lot of time left
Which is true don't worry not we have a few things prepared for that. Yes
So there is that final cutscene where you do store progression, however that's not part of the category and therefore we quit.
It's mainly for spoiler purposes.
So instead what I am going to try and do is I have some Steve States prepared showcasing some other builds.
if you would like, or we can start bringing you from a fresh file and see what other gods I can get.
If you want to go ahead and vote up on the other state, we've definitely got another 15 minutes
if you'd like to. All right, let me go. We'll have another safe state right now.
In this one, we'll be a much more priority focus on a god we do not see in this run.
that will be afterdites.
So do we want to start from server service?
Well, let's start from service because that fight was very, very fast.
That's true.
Much faster than I normally do it.
So, this build is a focus on the God that we do not see in the showcase run that being
Aphrodite.
Aphrodite is a very much a melee focused God where her two attack and special course
require you to be even nearby enemy folks.
That range for nearby is about the distance of Meleno is attacked, so if you have it on
her attack on the staff, you will always be getting the boss.
She also has a status effect known as weak.
Week is incredibly powerful because it essentially gives you 30% damage reduction to anyone
nearby.
Glamour game is the best game you can get in Frutchfout because any enemy you stand in nearby
gets inflicted with weak, meaning you want to be in melee range, everything in melee,
get the old 30% less damage, it's a win win situation.
I also have a duo boon known as violent getaway that is incredibly powerful because
one you take less damage from your right foot flows, which is another 15% damage resistance.
I believe they're multiplicative instead of additive.
I'm unsure of that.
More importantly, boons from Aphrodite tree all flows in your body.
Oh, that's the best.
Yes, which means that negative side effect is removed.
I am just getting a plus 1.45% on my attack.
all enemies in the entire screen will be reflected by you.
For Legendary is called nervous wreck whenever you inflict me,
and also randomly fit curses from other Olympians.
Unfortunately, fraud, scourge, etc.
Uh, fraud, scourge, etc. Unfortunately, for fresh file,
this spoon is actually quite weak because you're only able to inflict curses that you've already
on like from Olympians you've already unlocked. So as casual players, you might be
fishing for things like Zeus's blitz or a freeze effect from Demeter,
however, in this run I only have Aphrodite, Acyden, Hestia and Apollo Unlocked,
which means the only curses like can inflict are days, which I can already inflict,
scorched, which I can already inflict and fraught, which I can already inflict.
Demeter is not a freeze effect, since I don't have her unlocked, is not available as an option.
Do you essentially just get extra tasks, so things you can already do?
Exactly.
Sometimes you just don't have to do them yourself, I say.
Yep. So, in this case, I have some extra money. I'll be grabbing the pump.
This upgraded back burner, which if struck up behind, it's just a backstop effect with bonus damage.
damage. This is actually a global I believe, not global, but it has a lot more effects.
Or the backstab is weird in a sense, because this is looking for directional things.
So a special is directional, your attack is directional, even beachfall is directional,
is weird considering it's a circle AoE but I don't know. So in this case, we have a lot more
HP than before. Again, this strategy is just to run face first into this pile of the ones
until you reach that 30% threshold because servers, again, does hit like a truck.
So as you can see in game time is not going down in shops and hades too, which is why
that this stress is a high say this in a speech place.
So if you do not get beach ball or if you don't get the lock that I got during the
showcase run, this is what a surplight might work right. So which is a lot more focused on the attack.
Once again, you want to be playing patient, patient is the name of the game, as his attacks
have a very wide AoE attack. If you rush things, you can get caught off guard and take
a lot of damage. Otherwise, it is a very simple running back and forth, kind of fight.
to get around service back side because again we have that enhanced ability that back
step down is 75 in addition to the overall damage boost that we have on all attacks from
the advanced version of Aphrodite's students.
Also it's just the easiest way to dodge is attacks because his circles do
Star where his slam is which we can just run. So if you just run behind them
This is exactly what I'm able to really see because I killed them too fast in the previous run
It's just he fires some explosion protect us. This is a chase slam attack your sprint will always be able to outrun it
He will always do eight so if you want to count just count to eight
and
chasing down. One tip I will give is whenever you are approaching servers, I'm going to see if I can
get him to give the attack. Always want in a zigzag trotter because of this attack here. This is
a fireball attack. If you are running out of in a straight line and he does this on you, you will die very fast.
So he also has some dash attacks that he can do. His chase sequences, everything essentially is very
The one dimensional in terms of his attack pattern, he will always be running at you.
And therefore, if you're running on an in a straight line, that is a very easy way to get
hit.
Another tip that's vital is try to, in his face to try to avoid having him be directly
next to a wall.
If he spits one of the explosion fireballs, if he shoots one of those at you and they
hit the edge of the arena, then they will immediately explode.
That's what I was worried about.
So if you noticed when services around the sheer, I was always trying to play away from
the ball.
So whenever he does do his projectiles, they do not instantly collide with the wall and instantly
explore.
I have lost maybe a dozen runs to that interaction and they are very annoying.
So, once again, back in Taurus, we'll see this time if parts C1 is not pleasant for me in this run.
Because it was very pleasant during my showcase run.
So let's see if that holds true well done.
of
a lot more strong
right
first enemies spawn at 11.05 let's see how long this takes
you may recognize this chamber from eight is one it is one of those that were
That's where picked back up for Hades 2 and 3 hearts, but however you want to say that.
Re-designed, but clearly reminiscent of the same chamber from Hades 1.
I also noticed here that we had a boom we haven't had a chance to talk about called Perfect Image.
This is essentially the, I'm really good at this game, Boone, which is when you haven't been hit for at least 15 seconds, you'd be a additional damage.
Another one Hydraulic Might that we talked about that I didn't pick up last
run.
It's essentially at the start of each encounter, you deal more damage for the first
10 seconds.
Some history on the Apollo Sprint pick actually on the first boot, but I need to
brought up earlier that it is not the metamorphic currently and that wasn't always the
case. At some point early in early access, right when people started to discover that beach
ball is actually like pretty strong, in fact the strongest boot and fresh file, the idea was
at first to maximize chances of getting the boot we want thread. So it one of the requirements
for Beachball is to have either Apollo's print or Poseidon's print,
as well as the, as well as a core boon from the other god.
So it seemed logical to pick up the Apollo's print
that immediately appears on the first boon.
However, since it is slower to do that,
it becomes a system CSI, people eventually pivoted away from that.
There's also the simple fact that the Poseidon Sprint just deals a lot of damage if you are very good at it.
The current World Record Holder sandwich has a time of about 11 minutes with a Poseidon Sprint and a beach ball.
start in arabas. It is an incredible run and I highly suggest you check it out if you want to see
how a professional with both breaker rush and beach ball manages to clear so quickly.
For context, my show based run which I have incredible R&G on was 18 minutes.
So we have a couple of minutes for explanation but even if we put it at 14 or 15 minutes that's still
Yeah, yes. So I should have brought the house, but I don't really care.
Yeah, this is bonus time. Yep. This is bonus time. If I lose, oh well, it is what it is.
So one fighting Chronos at a lot more melee range compared to the beach ball launching
you can get everywhere with attacks and specials. The gameplay pattern is largely the same,
just stick to him, be patient with your dashed findings, and be careful with actually when you
use your specials, your specials actually have a quite a bit of end-lock, and so they can actually
make you very vulnerable. So again, clockwise movements for the blue ring. I also like to kill these
enemies beside enemies because they are very annoying and I take a lot more damage than I should.
Yeah, they know the simplicums are a real pain in the neck and that there are later
modifiers specific to this fight that you can get in later runs of a game and one of the
The options is make a lot less of these enemies appear during the fight.
So very safely to dealing with Kronos is again being very patient and moment you see
him going for attack just called all activities and just wait to die.
The big control over the character is in both games, fresh file, a really important skill to learn.
Because the bosses are oftentimes designed for...
First of all, the player having more damage and the case of Hades 1, fresh file, the player having more dashes.
For reasons I won't get into since this isn't the Hades 1 Showcase.
I realized I never explained what those flags are.
Essentially, they're flags that I promised me to summon every kind of big
product that they just give one free hit point.
Again, just run him into a wall whenever he does his orb, attack with that, make sure
the wall eats all of the orbs, not you.
It's very important to do it because he can do his dash attack.
So if you are not careful, the Orbs can actually hit you even though you do dash away from
the attack.
This is the attack we've never seen before.
Just stand in between some of the circles.
Make sure you're not too close because if he does his boomerang, you will get hit.
So just take a couple of steps back like this.
So if he does his boomerang, it will miss.
is a clock in the gaps?
Yep.
This attack, oh yes, sorry.
I interrupted the quest.
In the gaps between the nearest bubbles to Kronos during that bubble attack, you
will always be safe from that attack.
That's the most consistent point to avoid that.
Not if you're too close.
I have taken damage.
I'm probably too close.
This attack is just don't stand in the
Where the clocks are flashing? Oh
That was close mean it always ran into a 10th his bubble which might have killed him if
It's a bit because of the insta kill going off at a civil time
I guess the kill can be I friends, but it is quite tight to this and the tempest levels if you do get fun and then just makes you unable to
That's cross again
Well done, you do once more
Yeah, I know you've done your shoutouts, but it can't be said enough that we're only
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and Alex for this really fantastic showcase and being here with us to send 2025 off ride.
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That's not all for our evening, but that is all for out of the box.
Coming up next on creature corner, we have something really, really special for you.
I'm not going to ruin it, so you just stay tuned and Satan herself will be with you shortly.
that are not human also I'm saying that we're maybe doing something to my
mind from all right it's fine it's all well good my name's satin herself I am
the host of your show and I am so excited to ring in the new year with all of
you the clock will strike midnight on the east coast while we're live I believe
so that means that this is your new year's run I'm really excited to
to bring in 2026 with Hollow Knight so long.
This was truly the year of this game.
So we wanted to give it some love,
and we wanted to show you the best we could possibly show you.
So this is true ending by Lane,
who is the World Record holder for this category
by a pretty significant pouch.
I have some fun with Hollow Knight.
Enjoy.
Yeah, thanks for having me.
I am no longer the World Record holder, though.
That is Nebula.
Whoa.
What?
Oh, things changed so quickly.
He beat my time by five minutes, but this game is wild.
I was the second person to get us up three hours time.
But yeah, this is so song I'll be running trending,
which is a pretty weird category.
We have to do a lot of random arbitrary quests
in order to enter Act 3 and then beat the game in Act 3.
So, we're going to start it.
Yeah.
Three, two, one, go.
Good luck.
Good luck, Lane, and also just to say hi to everyone as well.
Hi, y'all, my name is Marksy.
I shall be commentating, Lane's around here tonight.
I am super excited for this.
I'm a big holiday fan, and I have not seen a full run of training.
Yeah, as well.
So this will be just as much going through what I know,
plus seeing it all put together.
I'm very excited to see how you do this, Lane.
Yeah, thank you.
This act one cut scene right now.
we'll wake up on the floor of Moscow to have their falling pretty significant margin.
And Team Chair likes their falling interest for these hands, they really do.
What the heck?
Immediately go into the right.
of
the
I'm noticing you're jumping and diving, constantly, because that's the fastest way
to move through, sort of this, are you getting ready to go?
Yeah, before we get sprints, I think we settled on following the neutral close-ups, so
I hope we're going and then releasing forward input before I take the ground, so I don't
get sunned.
Right here, we just move it forward.
So normally, this is a lot faster than just walking normally.
There's what people were doing before,
you can just do a full jump and then pogo,
and you don't get stunned, but that's a lot slower
than just releasing the forward input
when you get close to the ground.
Hi.
Hi.
Hi.
Hi.
Hi.
Hi.
Hi.
Hi.
I'm so glad to see that this is in D-Faster overall, as well.
Just makes for some nice skill expression
I mean, they're really fun to watch. It's really that rid of me now.
Lisa's not like shield dashing in a symphony of the night, so this is at least he's a little nicer overall to do.
That's a tough, tough, tough at a movement right there.
and
I'm sending this part of the staff to get the new one
technically the first boss did not really
a
nice
you can learn her to attack in the corner if she goes to the left side it's really slightly because you can't actually get hurt
you should get too high up
It's up to the chapel made.
Or...
Oh, that doesn't look good.
Yeah, we're fine.
Ripped in, soksong.
I hate my grins.
Yeah.
Hey, y'all.
Hey, y'all.
Hey, y'all.
I'm Papa.
I'm Papa.
Just have to...
Spam text for a little bit and then we think that we're good in the
Mejina for you. Yeah, we were talking before in the green room about the text language that we're using
And I see that it's Mandarin. Yes, and yeah, what is the advantage of that?
It's less text and then it also just grows faster for some reason
They just
What do you look through it faster than English or any other languages?
They're actually some languages that are slower
Which is really funny.
Yeah, sounds like they use the same engine as Hollow Knight did the previous as well.
Which I think would make sense too.
Fun to see.
Yeah, there's a lot of similarities.
A lot of very similar things to Hollow Knight.
Like we use a bench hard save work being a lot as well.
Yep.
That makes sense.
It's a very nice piece of movement for this.
Yeah.
And then this is going to be the first big scoop.
Okay.
No, we're early in the rut.
Oh, I see what we're doing.
Yeah.
Nice.
And that's two minutes of the narrow.
And we just go straight to the chakra.
I'm really clean too.
Another requirement for act 3 is to buy all the chakras match.
and do her quest in Bialater.
Ah, yes.
So we will actually have to buy all of her maps,
even though we don't actually need them.
Ah.
Yeah, the size of this game, we married to Hollow Knight,
especially my first playthrough.
I was so reliant on the maps to be able to find my way around here.
I think I used the compass way more in this game
than I ever did in Asia as well.
Yes.
So many different areas.
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't I don't remember what I did in my casual all-night victory but for soaks on I don't think I either took this off
Yeah, it was just
It's so big and the way the things just airlock and change or the access well just made it necessary
I guess that's another skit that saves a little bit of time. We just get to plug it straight up here
Thing a lot of Pashaka fans and chat as well very nice. Yes
We will, we do have to see Shaker a lot.
Uh, they get the map for each area.
We actually have to be in the same room of Shaker with some exceptions.
Like, we're in ways in blasted steps.
We just need to defeat the last judge.
They get the map, but for basically every other area,
we have to see her.
Yep.
Oh, yep.
It's sometimes that'll happen.
sometimes that'll happen. I love the addition of being able to grab the ledges in this game as well, but yeah, sometimes you just
You got me.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Oh, he's so cute.
Good creature.
Oh, and this one.
Exger attack nice.
Yeah, this is our second time having the hull and Xere got now.
Wow.
Good.
Good reason why.
I messed that up, but we just gotta stay on here for like 10 seconds, it's fine.
Time to chill. I think I could time just, uh, somebody in chat asked about,
do we need the map specifically for act 3? Now, for act 3, if I'm wrong, it's not that we need
the bract 3, but to get 100% we do have to play all the way through the shoppers questline in particular,
which requires a painting on that. So the shoppers quest is just one of the required quests to have
have silken soul offered, so it is a hard requirement, basically, for no major glitches that
waste.
Makes sense.
But we don't have to get any of the maps that Shocker does itself.
Gotcha.
So we just, we buy, like, we don't need any of the Citadel maps or, like, the SLAG or
FuturePredDux maps where you just, like, pick them up.
We only need the ones that Shocker will sell to us.
That makes sense.
It's so hurt.
I don't think I survived that.
I like it taken.
I always chose made a film.
Yeah.
I think that's what's happening.
We have a little part now, which is going to be a lot more useful later, but right now,
always we just kind of have it.
I'll do that right here, we're going to do
without saves like three seconds because it takes
a really long time from where it's awake up there.
It's literally faster or with lower moves anyway.
It's faster to just put out.
I hear that I'm just like where I need to be.
Hey, with a stick to wake up, they don't get it.
Okay, had your coffee.
It's a mistake. Sometimes.
Yeah.
I continue through here.
We are going to have to hit all the bells, eventually, even though like three of them are just basically hard required to get through the game in general, but we will be getting the other ones.
Because we have to, we have to defeat last judge so that the police can move through two fleets.
and they have to go to blastsets first and they can't go there if blastsets are there.
I love the fleece so much.
Team Charity System is a merge.
I think I need him for my ground.
I think there are some flashes, but I'm not sure if there's a fleece one.
Well, I made a grub plush for the first game, so that's hopefully they make a fleece too.
Yeah, probably won't, actually.
Yeah.
Just gonna make quick detour.
I'll be from a grab just me.
and this is going to be like the first major difference from any percent we're actually
going to go in the hunter's march instead of feet box okay oh
Okay, okay.
Oh my god.
That's not ideal.
It's guys hot.
Oh.
Nice job.
It's not ideal, but...
Should be fine.
I do also like to change where the full focus, the facility on this game is a...
It's not quite a full heal, but just gets it all in one, so instead of having to wait to get the full heal.
Healing in this game is a lot better.
We actually do pick up the equivalent of quick focus because it's so much stronger in this game.
Yeah, I felt that way when I was playing this, yeah.
This injector band is insane.
And we pick it up since possible, and it basically just lets us heal whenever we want.
to
the
so this is one hundred twenty rosary switch
we will need
the
currency routing for this run in particular is the pretty high do we do the have any moments where we have to be sitting in the farming
on the rosaries of the where no
nearly as much as 100%, where they do actually just have to farm for like 10 minutes, but
We just get make we just get enough for a series to where we can wild the maps, which is end due to donations
and
that that arena can be rough
we will actually just low walk out of here because we do need to
trigger shopper scene so that she will stop 100 from a bit or which is
basically the main reason we come here
and there's not really a better time to come here, it's avoid those traps, it's really bad to die here
because it gets sent all the way back to the arrow, the hard save that arrow.
and
and we borrowed that set for many percent we do a lot of the same stuff that any percent does for like the first hour so
a little less than that but for like the first 30 minutes at least.
I think one of the big questions about combat in this game in particular that I'm not sure about
is in Hollow Knight especially spells were so much more powerful
than the actual base nail in terms of damage output.
I'm really seeing something similar here
where once we get some more of these abilities
we'll be relying on those more
or is it in primarily nail focus in this game for combat?
We pick up Silk Spear and that's it,
but Silk Spear's busted so it doesn't matter.
Awesome.
Great, love that.
Silk Spear deals three times with every recurrent needle damages,
which right now is five, so each Silk Spear is 15 damage,
and it can be animation canceled really easily
with if you hit a wall, basically.
The sphere returns to your hand almost immediately,
so you can throw it again.
So it's like, eventual sphere, like,
with twice as fast, sometimes.
That's it.
I think eventual sphere did more damage than three.
Oh, I need to.
I guess I don't actually need to,
right now, but I'm supposed to do that right now.
not supposed to have those hundreds more trucks. I'm just going to buy a bench later, so I think I'm up.
Yeah, I'm making sense. I think it's reasonable to do.
Yeah, a benchless spirit did.
I think it was, I think it was also three times, but the main thing is that it could vary consistently multi hit, especially after the big bosses, like the true champion.
Yeah, we don't get multi hits, but we can hit multiple enemies at the same time, this looks fair.
We're done. I didn't nice. I didn't really feel like I actually did my dad. Yeah, it deals like 40 which is 8 hits
Oh wow, that's a good tip. Yeah
It's not worth going for she's not gonna just do it on her own, but it is like it is really fast if you can just get it to line up
Being a really fast here movement is now just
Lining quick all over the world. Oh, yeah, it's so cold a lot. It's gonna we're gonna get faster, but right now
Now, until we get a tool that makes us run faster, we're doing the poker dashing.
So we use the downward momentum up the co-go to just boost our self-awaret over and over.
Yep.
Yeah, the neutral bow-going here is so being useful as a school.
I think as soon as I got the silk is used to make you run faster, that also did not
come off, and my casual play through.
So much faster.
Yeah.
We will pick that up.
We actually will delay drifters' clothes, so we can pick that up immediately.
Oh, okay, I suppose that follows thing goes fast first, yeah.
And I'm just going to be feeling about your grandnames, because we actually, we will be doing
new quest to kill 100 different enemies for...
Gotcha, I don't think it's required, but it's a pretty fast quest points, and we do need a tool patch up
pretty to do the last one bottom donation.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Easy when you're out into considering how many different areas you have to go through and a lot of the enemies are just on the way anyway
Yeah, I call air and then by the bench that saves the time it takes her air to show up
Immediately going back to the mirror
I don't think I'll die but I'll just fetch
the regular those to reduce hit that guy. I'm spikes. And then this is one way to the
later if you're spoke, we're going to go straight and gray more with the fleas. So we picked up five fleas,
and one of the active requirements is to have the fleas in flutopia. So we will have to get 22 fleas,
and we're going to have to move them later anyways, and it's just kind of going to be nice,
that this just takes a straight to gray more. Also, let's skip glory. We don't, it's unfortunate,
like no category fights for me anymore.
I don't need.
Look at the fleas.
I please.
I've paid.
Creatures in my corner, this is what I like.
Yeah.
The show's all about.
Yeah.
For a long time, I thought the fleas that are laying down were like their years
or down.
I thought they just had really like messed up eyes for some reason.
And then I saw it, I saw one wake up and I was like, oh, that's just ears.
Yeah, yeah, I see what you mean.
Yeah, I think so.
I thought some of them just had really weird eyes for something.
So they're just really old.
Yeah.
And we're here in Bellharts.
We didn't have to fight more way because the flees moved to where more way would normally be.
So they're in a different location.
We're going to put on flavor.
We're not going to be using it awful lot just yet.
But there's a couple of skits and I guess not right now, but it's just right there. Just go ahead and put it on
Money
Let's get you can do right there off of that guy
I should not have done that, I don't know.
Alright, let's try.
Alright, I messed up the setup by using the second sphere, but it is fine.
It's all about the backups. Why would you alive?
Yeah.
Oh, we're on this blast. We were able to hit that guy.
Get in! We did it!
And we'll use a fever there because we just have to stand still anyways.
Just using a fever is not faster than the poet-aching because of the time it takes to use the fever.
So, but when you just have to sit around in a way you can use one.
and then when we get so speed anchor, you get it is just faster.
So I've seen this kind of discourse online, whether
Hollow Knight and Solksong are platformers with combat or combat games with platformers,
on-form elements. I mean, it's a Metroidvania, so it's truly boat.
But like, what do you think as a speedrunner of this game, sort of the balancing?
I don't know. It's platforming until it's not.
Basically, I don't know. There's a lot of just really difficult combat in this run, particularly.
So you can have difficult combat. We will not be fighting since there's no threat all.
We will just be ignoring her.
Gotcha. I have a feeling this is something to do.
Yeah, we're just so normally you have to fight since there's splinter to get wild gem, but we're just going to do that, and we don't have to do that.
It's really funny if they nerds is slender, but no category fights is slender
Say it would like more wing only like bells any percent fights more wing now
They tried to help us oh
I did not work
Not enough self
And now we have a watch out, and we can just go straight to the door.
Nice.
More hanging.
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For the start of the video.
and
what are we what are we doing here land uh... well we have to fight with a
this is like the first real boss
where we don't just kill them in 15 seconds
but still pretty fast
just want to use silks here whenever we can
and then because we did with a report director's clip we have the needle in so we can go
when we do drifter's cloak we can go to the weakness with silks we neglect and just pick that up and then click out
if you're this is actually one of the more annoying parts to be without drifter's cloak
but it's been been labbed out by the any percent runners so
I don't know if you hear that I'm gonna say that it's just if you fall you don't have
clothes so you just go all the way to the bottom. Yeah yeah do it.
I did not follow Dashboot with so clean.
item, there is no item we just pick it up and it plays a cutscene and we don't get anything.
It's really funny.
There is no item. It's not real. The item is a lie.
I think this is widow. It might be another weaver, but
this is a very similar to the first center cut scene which unfortunately we don't get to we don't fight
that loss but it's like the only one where you just like locked in a dream sequence like this
I'm pretty sure that's the girl from the album cover for that one neutral milk hotel album.
I know idiot what you're talking about.
I don't know if it's like 10 people in chat that are tackling right now.
That's right.
I don't know.
What's that fruit?
That's like white and brown on the outside.
I'm talking to it.
Yeah.
We're having fun.
Men and youth.
As soon as the room starts shaking, you can quit out here, and it's faster than waiting for the
Beltering.
Because you have to wait for the Beltering, and then also wait for the bench pop up, and then sit on the bench for the door open.
So if you just quit out, it just lets you leave.
And we use low-vermove timer, so there's no discrepancies between loads.
We're actually going to go this way for the last, one of the last follow-ups.
We do unfortunately have to speak to Grey Roots, because it's a very quick best point.
Oh, I need this money.
you think of the quarter of my way home from work, yeah it is like almost like
worth the quarter in so long economy it's like 60 resources and
right, but it's really fun.
I did not take um so strong economics this is not a part of my, you know
the one get the guy with a gun walking at a hallway and he picks up the
dime and keeps shooting it the guy's just what's happening right now.
Yeah, you know what, Leslie Nelson.
Sorry, you're going to.
Yeah, they mostly, they mostly fix the money issues.
They just open the menu so that we can interact with stuff there.
But we're also going to sell the quote,
maybe we got earlier.
This is, these used to sell for 90, which is insane.
Now we get 180.
We need a, oh, hey, they, they updated the, the currency.
Yeah, announced for selling.
Yeah, it was so low to start out.
Yeah, they made stuff cheaper and they gave you more money, which thankfully they did, but
Yeah, no, it's it was way too low to begin. You can also skip the scut scene on latest patch
Nice
And then how much oil are you gonna be gonna just win just one? Just one. The third one is takes
Ways too long to get and then the fourth one is locked behind the three games and actories, so we just like it's not reasonable to
to get the other two and there's one just sitting out in the middle that's like right on
the way to Trilias and he might as well get it.
Yeah, nice sense.
And we do actually, we have to talk to Paavo because that otherwise he won't offer the first
bell heart donation, which is really funny.
So if you just ignore him, you can never help the town.
He has like, I got to get the talk to him once and then it doesn't matter what he
and it just won't happen until the first time.
Another requirement for a three is the bell monkey,
and then so we have to do basically every bell heart donation and quest.
Yeah, nice. Sometimes, like, guys, just like,
isn't in the right position, so you just miss.
Which is really funny.
I think that's here.
Since we're done, once we're done, we're just going to split out back to this room.
going to keep running way as bad because that's I don't like this
hips.
I know how that feels.
That's so fair.
I mean, speed run the way you want to speed run.
That's something.
I think the show before us, that is the box especially.
But a lot of us sort of emphasize here.
And GDC is that it's kind of about how you want to play the game.
It's about how you want to speed run.
It's not about what everybody else is doing right now.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's just the main issue with downpatching is that we have to go back to RNG.
So the courier quest, there is a basically like a 33% chance that it would re-offer the
same delivery you just did.
And so you would have to go to Songplay in the War due the delivery again, to try and
get the other one.
And Songplay was really out of the way, compared to the Pilgrim's rest or the bottom.
So it's just like, so like two hours into the run, there's like a 30% chance he's lose two minutes.
Oh, that sounds rough.
Let's go the ambulance.
Yeah.
That's the main reason I don't want to do this, but I don't know.
Oh, lovely to hear it out.
I'm hearing in the chat some rumblings of potentially skips on the current patch.
Yeah, there's there are there's a skip on the current patch using the pimpillot and pins and those are significantly harder than the mobile vessel
Pogos that people have been doing 100% already and
The statue skip from what I've seen is just like almost RNG because you have to do it blind three times in a row
Or both Pogos have a much bigger hitbox, so you can kind of do them blinds consistently, but the pins are just like
Just look so miserable
It's really not worth it, especially for a run this long to.
There's always going to be other things that can be optimized first that really
switching back to save a few seconds on a specific skip like that.
It's just, it's not going to necessarily be added.
That means, oh, you okay.
Yeah, oh, yeah.
Yeah, no one fights fourth course.
We just kind of go around them.
What?
I just didn't know you just run ass.
It would just let us not talk.
You can do that without anklets work for the flavor, but it's a lot harder.
That makes sense, that's really fun.
Yeah, we're going to venture, because we're going to go to the Gringmore Bell
Replik and then just put out.
And now we have to just...
Hi, Bob.
Now we have different strokes, so we can just get through here pretty easily.
And now I will basically be trying to spam flavor whenever, because with a soaps of
It is actually faster than just normal running, even with the the bottle.
The animation start up.
You can also do this with leaders, where you just like go up the wall really fast.
Oh, that's cool.
So we'll use that in a couple of spots.
That's...
Unfortunately, I'm gonna hold right here, but when you come up here for the first time, it always spits you out on the left.
No matter which way you're facing, so you just have to jump through that hole. It's kind of annoying, but...
We will have seen Shockro.
I'm going to.
I'm going to.
And that's gives sucks, but you'd pretty, once you learn how the stupid birds work, you
can get it pretty consistent.
Yeah, there was a fair few, oh, it was not the first time trying to see when I run
the birds well.
It's just like, please go operate.
We're not doing this.
Yeah.
Just be here.
I know you do so much.
You can do with critters.
I'm going to do what they want to do, right?
We will be coming back in mass occurring a lot of those birds, so don't worry.
Oh, good.
Yeah, okay, no, did
I would say the birds are the closest faction to like the how the mantises are in the original
I feel like the answer closer to the mantises, but I'm not sure oh wait no you're right in terms of that like at least the it's more so like the birds
respect what you're doing once you had that display of power. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, afterwards, but yeah, otherwise the answer definitely the better analog
You're uh, yeah, actually, that's I didn't really think of that
It is interesting just seeing the parallels of how these civilizations all like coexist in and mingle with one another
Yeah, especially since well the holonest is more of like a
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Yeah, we will not be doing the curse, but we do do this class. We can just really pick and then we don't need to pick up the tool. We can just leave
You can also use flea to cancel hardballs, which is nice. Oh, that's cool. I don't know anything
This is so cool. It's awesome to see a little micro optimization that we've got already for this despite how relatively new it is
Yeah, I was
people were not sure that like 73 hours was possible, and then I don't think anyone expected it before the end of the year.
Yeah, I think he just goes to show how dedicated the speedrunning fanbase is for this game.
Now I do want to ask too, I don't believe you were a speedrunner for the original Hollow Knight Crack.
Yeah, no, I just played it casually for a long time.
I got into, I did some one 12, like unrequited, one 12 runs towards the end of Hollow Knight,
I went so far and was about to release, but they were all like two hours behind, whatever the world record was.
I had a lot of fun with those, but I wanted to, I wanted to get into it when so soon came out, because I really liked the 112 grand so much.
Do you feel like you had, like, do you feel like doing the 112 stuff beforehand, like, was a benefit for you in getting into this game?
of the game or do you feel that there's sufficiently different enough that it was, you know, learning a new game over again.
It was, it was really different, but it, um, I don't know, just having played Hollow Knight before was, um,
was a big hell, like I didn't get stuck on a lot of bosses, like I think,
hmm, like, there are a couple of bosses, I think like last judge took me a while that it was,
It was, I didn't have issues with the runback like other people did.
I just kind of like, this is, it was, I don't know.
I didn't really feel like anything was like super unfair.
Yeah, I mean, it's nice that they also fix the,
or if it not fix, change the damage on the runback to the last judge,
so that's not all double damage on the, being environmental stuff.
Yeah.
I don't know, I never had this issue with the double damage hazards,
but like, I understand why people hated them.
Yeah.
I think the only place I really was frustrated with it was with um not the clock whatever the clock tower is. Oh, yeah, I big years
Yeah, I work more and those were always super annoying. Yeah, I got what there we go
We kind of we had to cheese that area with wings, which is really funny. So oh good. Please do so
All right, I just look at anything in this game and I'm like this looks extraordinary
Really difficult. Yeah, so any accomplishment this game blows me. Yeah
This is probably the hardest category. I low percent might be harder, but I'm not sure
Just like you're seeing the hardest of the hard game. Yeah, yeah, yeah, this gets us get out of the way
Yeah, I'm on strike by that. Yeah, I
Fair enough, honestly and backup sets with their four
Yeah, that's good say that's a neutral jump off that wall to him. Yeah, there's a
There's a wall you can cling on to there. It's really precise. It's really difficult without flea brew and then it's like pretty consistent with flea brew
Gotcha, Gotcha. There's a similar jump in the the patreon area of HK to get up to waterfalls well, that's like
Super small area. You can just barely get around it. Yeah
Yeah, but that skip saves like 50 seconds because that room is really long, so it's really important to learn I am going to buy this bench because if I die to last edge or cardboard dancers I don't want to go all the way back to show it
Yeah, I don't blame you. No, don't blame me at all for that
How easy is it for you to route in like extra rosaries to be able to pick up those benches it depends like the hundreds more trops are like pretty easy before like one bench
But it gets a bit harder after that.
You've also stopped picking up the the free cylinder from
Like at the multi-papers melody, so we're like down 200 from one or
Not you if you have still if you have two silk here, you can just start playing the needle and you don't have to talk to these guys
I don't want everyone to know that these guys are not wavy because they last judge
Let's just let Sharma through if you go through the mist. These guys, we're not pure.
They just get destroyed. It's so funny.
Weaver also increases our tax speed.
and
this is a really good spot for so sphere where you can hit them all up there
where you can't touch them and if I stop right
nice
on the watch.
Well done.
That explosion actually deals triple damage, which is so funny.
That raises your hand if you'd like to the triple damage.
I immediately recognize, oh, that's going to kill me.
And I ran away.
Yeah.
I knew it.
And I was right.
And I saw put some Twitter people died.
And it was so funny.
There's people, yeah.
It's just like, it's going to blow up.
It's so obvious.
That's an explosion, go away from the explosion.
Yeah, that is actually what I get.
I get, though.
Nice.
The game tells you you're done, and then, well, I guess you're not.
Well, it says X2, but instead of you're done,
but we're going to be an X2 for the next hour and a half.
Oh, all right.
That'll in chat.
So in case you didn't know, you do not have to go through the
underworks at all.
You can just do this path warning early.
And this wall would break along both sides.
Normally you would come here after going through the underworks.
But instead we can just, I'm straight up here.
And there are no enemies spawning yet, which is really nice.
But if we were to come back here later, there would be just enemies all over the place.
is this an intended route that we can do this and that's doing the
networks I think so I feel like they would have passed it if I if I didn't want
people doing this I feel like I don't know the it's a little weird because
there's also the deep box lower deep box for you would normally use a
simple key to enter, you can break the wall from far field side and enter without the
simple key.
Yeah, it's here.
So, there's a couple of weird, like, two-way wall breaks that you will expect.
I'm just gonna hit that guy, I get straight up here.
I always appreciate that about Team Cherry's just game does Uncle Laske, that there's so
many rounds you can take and that there's the secret, like, oh yeah, if you know, you
You can just do this. Just go the other way up. Now deal with it.
Most are going to match there because dying here is really bad.
Yeah.
Ow. That's rude.
Those guys spawn like the their hitbox appears at like random time. So you can't just strip through. They're always.
Hmm.
Oh, that's really nice platforming section with all these creatures, I just want to talk a little bit about, you know, what makes this game so I'm pretty different or viable, because you might look at Hornet and you might go, you know, oh, that's
Oh, that's kind of a human question mark humanoid, but I clearly definitely not if you know some of the lore
So I wanted to ask a little bit more about sort of like, oh, for you guys to describe sort of what horn it is and you know what
What about horn it makes her able to do all of these fun things?
Yeah, she's a bug.
Yes, she's a bug.
Yes, but what about her being a bug?
buggy
I see
I don't know
She's a spider
She does produce silk out of her characters
Oh, so then that makes sense
She's a spider
Uh, I forgot
Body
Bug scientists turn here
Yes
Let's put the silk parts together
For the reinforces and trunks are natural still producing quality. Yes, yeah, it's actually soul
Oh, excuse me soul
Excellent. Oh, cut scene skip there. They're not supposed to do that for that long
That's me
I know they're alive, I guess
Just something unusual
and
the problem here is that they're running they're not accounting for a daily saving time so they're a little
off that's just rude that's that's so annoying I hate you
that we do get to kill kill them twice we we'll be doing for dolly and subball tower
Also shout out to the Aweaus and chat y'all are doing great.
You keep those coming throughout their room.
I remember in my casual playthrough, I died to the 4th thought phase fucker dancers
like three times because they moved so slowly.
Like I just couldn't get in my head that they were just going to move slower.
As soon as it splits in my sleeve we can put out.
and skip like 30 seconds of the the room moving and turning into this now here we're
going to pick up the quest for 3 full melody and we're not going to start on that
immediately but we're going to basically just get the rest of the movement and then do
You're gonna be a cool bust.
Good dodging these gears.
Yep.
So tightly.
All right.
I don't need that door, but I'm a coward.
It's like me so long to get the room down. I hate the room.
You're doing a great job with that.
Yeah, I spent so long practicing.
It shows.
This room is even worse.
All right, we're going to hit this lever for later.
And then I'll move that thing to where we can move through it vertically, play her.
Nice.
And that's why it's so fierce busted.
You're just good to do this.
Yeah, I can see that.
I'm collecting the enemies along one place and doing so spares very satisfying to see.
Okay, come on.
Come on.
Here you go.
He's so ruined.
I hate you.
I'm applying.
that that was really slow but he didn't think of it so I just wanted to not die there
and it didn't yet that's nice
and I should have called
six
And it's a journal entry for later so
Relatively quick
Yeah, if you don't pick up this white work. You belong to steals it and sell it to you for like 200 groceries or something
That's awesome
You rescued you belong to the poor picking up that key you actually have to pay for it and that's so funny
Now we're hard. That's just good business. Yeah, never heard saved here and
and we talked to caretaker, so when we do our next split out,
it's on clay who will appear.
And there's a mechanic called time passes elsewhere,
where whenever you bench,
quit out or do something that updates the game,
it basically moves like quest lands along.
So right here, I was in a different room,
and I quit out, so it's going to progress this story.
So now it's long-legged as you're.
So for this money and we're going to go and do this donation.
You could do that if you watch 80 DQ as well, chat.
You can donate.
Just a suggestion. It would be pretty cool.
That'll be starting on Sunday, by the way, just as a reminder, everyone.
Our opening run is going to be super Mario Sunshine at 12 p.m. Eastern time on Sunday.
So if you're looking for something to watch next week,
Absolutely, turn the channel back on.
AGDQ will be like the whole week,
including a possible bonus run of Hollow Knight
so it's on our final day Saturday, 10.
So, exclamation mark, AGDQ, give you that schedule,
and you can still attend in person by the way,
go to gq.dd for more information
if you would like to register to attend
in person in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
It's really, really cool.
It's super fun.
I'm gonna be there.
I cannot wait to see everyone in person
to see all of the runs. Now if you can't go in person, no worries! We're going to be live on
both which and YouTube the whole week. So, you don't have to go anywhere. You can watch it all
right from wherever you are. It's going to be really, really fun.
Okay, oh, oh, okay. Perfect.
And we get that leave it to spear.
and this is actually the only pay a lot of people
and this is more than any percent so we will be dealing like twice almost twice as much damage to them
I don't certainly help.
Okay, look here at least.
We have to do fine pints as a quick
West and on older patches that the pins used to be a 50% chance to drop. So it was just it was just miserable
But now they're on still that they changed. Now they're 100% we have to pick up 12 instead of 10, but like that doesn't matter at all
You can aggro that guy.
Use that to kill like 20 in the many ways, so yeah, that's fine.
Alright, and then these guys drop a lot of money, so we can buy the grandboig here.
Don't have quite enough for the venture, but we can buy that later. It's not a big deal.
They should reload the room because that animation takes 20 years, approximately.
That would be far too long for the broadcast. Yes. And we're going to go back to Belhart and get
needle to and pick up another quest and then I've put out back to Soundclave and Fighter Vio.
Here, we're going to pick up this quest for later. This is the one in Synergy Road where you
save the courier's brother and we will actually be doing for your
bus later so we do need to do that in addition to it just being a fast
bus. You also get a plus point for upgrading our needle with a
paleo oil but if you don't talk to him it just doesn't show up in your
bus log but we still have a point no matter what.
Gotcha I think also a good question to ask you or two is like the
the quest points in particular. What are those needed for? Why are we going out of
a very collect them? So to get to act 3, you have to do so console which in order to unlock
you need to do the world state has to be, for least in fleetopia, you have to have
a very don't cloak, you need lace to defeat it in the cradle. That's right. And then,
you need to have the bell home key. In addition to 10 required quests, which include
like Drifter's Cloak and BOMP for the wounded a couple other things and then there's
17 optional other quest points so and then after you do all that you get so
open soul from caretaker and you can attractory.
Gotcha.
Five, six.
Up.
Sometimes he just goes into the floor and there, you can't do anything about it.
I was rude, I just sat in the explosion so I couldn't hit him.
and
and
to
send
and love the boy's acting
to actually capture the mayor because with the injector band is actually
a pretty reliable source of damage
the
issue of the room to elevate our way down
from the elevator back up because we're going to go down there after we call
the
I'm going to open the inventory to get rid of that screen, and then put nearer and bunch.
And then as the only spot that requires drifter's cloak.
They patched out that the wall joint was on release patch, but you do get claw line without drifter's cloak.
Gotcha.
We need it anyways, so the wind is super relevant for us.
to
skip there
and if I'll ever do the floor for some reason
Just another one of them or it's special but no.
Yes.
Amazing through walls.
I was a common thing in the earlier batch of the Polynipe, but as far as I can tell there's
very few lever through the walls that we can hit in this game.
Yeah, there's like two is like one near fans and then the one in to whiteboard that we actually
get in this run.
What you have to do it with Neville Strike, you can't just do it with the normal attack.
and
just because of the extended
yeah, it's a much bigger hitbox
I feel like they will patch them, but I'm not sure
because it's I feel like it's been known for a while and they haven't touched it
maybe
Mr. Rain is a lot faster with these little two also.
Oh, this dude.
Ow.
These are...
I mean, just use that guy to kill the other.
And it's done.
Nice, nice.
And now we can leave.
We can get the sacred cylinder and then...
We're actually going to delay in the bulky personality. We're going to get it like 30 minutes
or now instead of just right now. But we are just going to pick up the cylinder now because
it's right here. And this is the only time we're going to be here ever again.
And because we did not kill pants, we actually have to worry about the steam cycles in the
this room.
You have Ben's right here. He's kind of hidden. I'm not sure I found that in my casual
playthrough. I got the cylinder. He doesn't care if that's the cylinder remains important.
and
I don't need to do that way we're not going to buy people something we're going to say. I need to get that. I don't know this little memory.
Hmm, so true
Okay, we're gonna kill these guys for the pins
Come on
Yeah, so imagine if a opinion didn't drop there. I just have to spend like 20 minutes doing this room for reloading this room over and over again
I'm very glad to see. I don't have to imagine that. That's how I did that class was farming in the zoo.
Yeah, I did. When I did this casually, I didn't realize that it was supposed to be R&G. I just thought like the quest is going to turn it up.
I'm going to be pretty free.
Here we're going to rescue you to Lana. While we wait for her to show up, we're going to get this money back here.
all right now I could just leave the straight to the slab
It was last pin and there's four more on the way to the slide so we're done.
Yeah, we'll be getting wings here soon, right?
Yeah, we're, we're going to get wings right now.
And I'm looking forward to seeing the movement with us.
With this here, Simon's going to help us out here.
We'll not be talking to him, but...
He's there.
Okay.
Sure.
We're in, but that's okay.
And that is the last minute, time we're done.
Thanks, you're near.
That doesn't feel like an hour's gone by not to me.
This has been so fast already.
This time that.
Just get through this room real quick.
That guy just silked.
And that's like one of the sphere wall cancels where it just like the sphere comes back to my hand so fast
so I can immediately input another attacker.
the
short
idea to judge our
after this were going straight to go and want to do the donations
by this for
leader will leave
and I'm doing things
were miskipping most of them
Good, in just a minute.
We see some slopes with the right at the end.
Space looks frosty, which is reminding me of something else that happened this week.
Forgive me for my second base.
The frost was also in 26 schedule.
drop yesterday and if you're a fan of Hollow Knight, well, you are in look. There's a
Hollow Knight run on that schedule as well. So if you'd like to check that out, that is on
the Patel's page on the GDQ website. I'm really excited about it and I hope you all are too. It's going to be a super super fun at time.
And if you don't know what that event is kind of about. Well, Frank Patel's is a community of women and friends.
You share a fashion for speedrunning, gaming and charity. The addition to their two flagship events,
including Cross Patel's, they are sectivities here around in their community discord.
Like game of the month in randomizer events, you can type
x-lamation mark ff in chat, and learn more, and get involved.
It is a super wonderful community.
We do have an event coming up for us at the town of 2046 with again,
a Hollow Knight run on that schedule, and lots lots more to enjoy.
So definitely go check that out.
It's going to be fantastic.
Yeah, I'll grab all this bag.
You might not know if it's going to be awesome.
That is a very fun run.
I know I can go through a great job with that.
Oh, totally.
And I can, of course, you know,
classic legendary Poly Knight Runner back
for another, another good run.
So it's gonna be great.
We all know it.
Yep.
Those are one of the two Skips who will actually do
was basically a shade skip in this game.
With archape.
And that skip is basically the entirety of not big.
So we do another one with fleebrew right there.
Just give just a little bit of that section down there.
This is so impressive to watch.
the precision of inputs is ridiculous.
Yeah, yeah, this is there's a lot of movements and then it's it's mostly movement
but it's just there's also every hard boss in the game.
So you get to do everything.
And now we'll have links so we have access to every move in ability and still accurate.
Ah!
Ah!
And yes, I heard of.
So many creatures in that creature.
Yeah, and now we won't freeze either, but we're not coming back here, so.
It doesn't really matter, but we're in a bench here because the bait on is the way.
We're going to bench here because the bait on is a hard saved, and we're going to do another
but out real quick, we're gonna get a flee and then go out and then.
So much routing in this game. That's another thing that amazed me about this category
and other long longer Metroidvania categories and Hollow Knight categories is just,
there's so much you have to consider as to what would be the best order to do things
in how to maximize that time. It's really, really cool to watch.
Yeah, there's a lot of stuff we have to keep track of here.
just um just tell me things we have to do compared to any person.
I mean any person is um how long I'm gonna go? 15 minutes now. Yeah 15 minutes now.
Oh my. Honoury patch and then Bells is uh 53. Oh, I'm sorry.
Yes, I'm just so fast. So significantly longer than I'm sure ending time for
for Hollow Knight.
It's just, there's just more to do in this game, it feels like overall.
Yeah, there's, this game is bigger and harder.
There's just more, more things and just, uh, I don't know, uh, I don't know.
There's just a lot more to do, and the, the true ending requirements are a lot more strict.
Now here, we're going to pick up everything above that.
So we're going to do this donation and then pick up all these quests and then we're going to get the hunter's evolution crest which will
Basically give us needle three, but only if we don't get hit
Yeah, kind of the reverse of the the damage list
Are the one hit yeah, if you're the forward yeah, yeah, there you can thank you. Thank you for yeah
We have we have something similar. We have barred bracelet, which is yeah almost but it's like significantly worse
It's like only like 20% damage increase, and you take double damage on everything.
Yeah, not worth it in this game. No. Yeah, I did not
Want to use it at all when I got it. Yeah, it's kind of miserable
And you're mentioning that this game is already huge and the DLC is of course around the horizon as well. Now we know
So I am I'm really hoping that the DLC introduces something that replaces silver bills
That is all I care. That's all I want. Just please anything that is a it's like the only RNG quest. We have left
Where we just have to like go below bell heart and pick up silver bells
Because there's not anything faster to be
All-lane wants for Christmas is this team, Jerry. Yes, I'm pretty sure you hear what I'm perfect and patch pink. Oh, please, please. I don't want to do it
Yeah, we are counting down in the years by the way, Chad. We're getting closer.
Hour and a half? Yeah, for these ghosts in there.
You just want my birth that to be over I get it, let's just do that now.
I want 20.6 to happen, that's what I want.
I thought it was 30 choices, 25.
Whoa, what year are you living in?
That's you guys, so are we right?
I don't know how to explain it, but I'm scared.
So that explains why late is so good at speed running future strats.
Of course.
That's what I think.
I did not immediately get gaps as soon as Nebula started running this category, but
definitely did not happen.
You were still so impressive at this.
I mean, this has been so much fun to watch and it doesn't, you know, matter if there's
somebody else faster.
It's just so cool to see people complete this game quickly.
Yeah, this is, this runs a lot of fun.
I really hope that we can continue having it be fun.
But right now, it is, I really like where it's at.
And there's still a lot of, a lot of time safe.
Because we got the Hunter's Evolution Crest, we actually did a time pass as elsewhere
Come in, so we can go ahead and do the second bomb automation without having to quit out.
It's good to be interesting to see if any of the DLC that gets released is going to have a much of an impact on
The any of the routes that are already, especially true ending.
Yeah, I sure hope so.
I mean, of course this game didn't come out super super recently, but it came out recently enough that lots of still being developed.
I'm sure this is a really good time to get into this speedrun as well if you'd like to.
Do you have any tips on where people could go to learn a little bit more?
Just join the speedrun discord and install debug mod that is like the best tool that you will ever have access to it
Just let's you practice everything
Yes, I will I'm in a hard repathas the the Hologna community's debug mods are some of the best in all of speedrunning
I will say it because it's not just like safe states and stuff
There's just all sorts of little features that just make all sorts of experimentation even outside of speedrunning possible
of the
of any percent for all of the original game
glitches that are found in that were made possible by the
the magma assistant way to us so
absolutely recommended to take the bug out of the bug game and make
yourself have a better time
the
of
these guys have one
health they're not like the option of our dancers were
they share a whole full and you hitting them both
for both of them. So when we hit both of them with a spear, they both take that damage. So it's like double damage.
I'll come on.
Yeah, I don't know. I need to practice that more. I'm not a soloist. How that works?
Here we're going to pick up Needle Strike. Mostly for a skip later, but it is
is helpful in combat, and then also let's
break the brick wall's a lot faster.
It's just one shot's every brick wall.
Oh yeah, and we've been needing to use a couple shots
on that each time, right?
So, big time saved for that run.
Yeah.
We're mostly only considering it because it lets us do
the elevator skip and white word, but it has other uses.
That are really nice.
And this is probably the most difficult movement section.
Have that rock ball on that guy for a journal entry.
This side question?
Yeah.
Looks like I will wait.
Oh, that's all.
That's fine.
I've got this.
It's so much to keep track of God.
Nice.
Well done.
Oh, okay.
Sometimes that breaks into hits and sometimes it breaks into three.
I don't know why.
But I wanted to pull the off of that to get up here.
We have to look at shocker there, so she'll sell us the map later.
Thank you.
Okay.
Okay, chill.
I feel like I have to turn on tree safely and then there's another tree in here.
Alright, there we go.
Nice.
Ooh, that juggling to Pogo is so smooth.
Yeah, that one's pretty difficult.
It's took me...
There's a pretty easy backup, so if you miss it, it's not the end of the world, but it is really nice to do.
I'm here. We can use the needle strike to just get through these balls really fast.
And then take out that guy for sure. And this is the Santa Carrack simple key. And I'm going to put up and break in 3, 2, 1, now.
Now, all right, so chat, we will be back in just a little bit, we are going to take
a nice little wellness break, and we will return with more Holonite folks on true ending
very shortly.
So, go ahead and grab a snack, get a stretch, and come on back.
I'm back, welcome back to Hollow Knight, so it's on true ending, Lane, let's get back
into it.
3, 2, 1, and...
All right, let's have that out, that was...
That was...
All right.
Good enough.
I'm going to call Aerobic, and then go up to Soundclave.
I think it's a good time to ask.
Oh, sorry, actually.
Oh, you first.
So now that we're done with all the movement, we have a hotline double jump, we're going to finish the three full buildy, and get to least two.
I've talked to Sherena here, and this is another part where we've routed the time passes elsewhere to be where there are no redundant quits.
So here we're going to turn in fine pins and then immediately pick up the cloaks of the choir.
and then we've talked to Sharma and then we're going to go to white word and then we're going to
quit out back to here and then get Sharma's quest and then go into white word all
of doing the cloaks. I think there's a tighter cycle you can do there but I
don't learn to and this is why we hit that lever earlier so we can just fall down
appear. Okay. And this is probably like the most like farming we will ever do. These guys
just drop so much money that we don't have to pick up a lot of extra throughout their
I'm going to kill the air for safety.
you. We can knock this guy all the way down. It's a really funny.
This is going to be the elevator skill.
All right, we send the elevator down.
Yeah, I'll go on the two, three, four, and then right here.
I'm going to get this lever through the wall, and then we'll go in here to whiteboard.
And since text also we can put out we're not supposed to be in there from that side so it's just completely dark
What were you gonna ask her later? I
Was gonna say I think all of us in chat are wondering which ones the Hollow Knight in this game
That me all the editing
So, I don't know.
Major.
Now we're going to go back and do the same path again. We're going to get the rest of
Cloaks and we're actually going to go into Lightward this time.
I just, I love how horizontal that guy is.
Yeah, he used to deal double damage on release patch and they took that away for him.
for them and I don't think I don't think he deserved it. He should he should still
have his double damage. I agree as a day one player for this game too. Let me tell
you y'all have it too easy. I'ma say it. I have no idea the trenches we were in on that
day. I'm so glad I did this game on release fast before they just nerfed everything.
No, no, it was fun. It was fun to like really get that challenge too. Yeah. Like the
The game doesn't really have that sort of challenge in it at this point.
I'm hoping we'd at God Home Extension at some point.
Yes.
I need a password.
It'd be nice to have a sort of difficulty option.
I want least for it.
You could have it between.
Because I think it's really nice to have accessibility options for people who, you know,
maybe have a played hall of night or just have a tougher time with this kind of game.
But then also, it's nice to have a difficult challenge to really work as well.
So, you know, we want it both ways.
You've also, that's actually been a huge debate, especially on the soul side of things too.
There's been a fierce debate online of whether or not difficulty modes for games like Dark Souls are Hollow Knight,
are actually more beneficial or not in the long run.
Because the main argument for is for accessibility, and the other argument against it is like,
I think part of the game itself is about its difficulty and you're having to over-stunt that.
And so the story is based around you having to persist, you know?
Yeah, it's tough to say, right? Yeah. Yeah. What do you think, Lane?
You like a lot of people like refuse to leave and come back to things.
Yes, yes. I was just on a group of them. Yes. There is a lot of people where they just like
through themselves at one thing over and over and then quit after they couldn't get it.
Yep. When they're really quite hard to do that mentally.
Yeah. Yeah. Really stick with something for that long because it starts to,
it starts to really wear on you. Taking breaks is super important.
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
I completely agree that's your 100% correct on the leading things that that is the biggest
piece of advice I gave especially on a decide-hull and I mean things like ISO, Super Mario
won't stuff.
Being able to put something down and come back to it later once you've done other things
is just so essential in these games because you can, because of the non-linear nature,
you might find something that's just not meant to be fought right now and you can go and
do other things that you get stronger like it's part of the game.
Yeah.
I mean everybody has a different philosophy than that about it but I do think the just from
a speedrunning perspective as well, you know, as speedrunners, I think it happens all the time
when you leave a game for a while and then you come back to it and you get this big
TV and you're like, well, why did I do that? Because, you know, I wasn't I'm not playing as much
as I was. Well, it's really about sort of that reset, being able to sort of like, you know,
a proshit with a new mentality and with, you know, restored energy. So definitely an interesting
talk to me to talk about the link. Yeah. Yeah. I've opened these. I have enough money. I just
need to be this. All right, 9.50. So we're good on money. We can skip the cylinder.
Like here we're going to get your attention or there. Yeah. And now he should see just sounds like
like that. Don't worry about it.
It's not good.
And now, the cylinder has remained unparamed up until this point.
So we get to turn it in and learn the first of the three qualities.
Guys, say something about our, a weaver or something.
I need to kill us otherwise, but he's too much about it to actually do it.
Well, fair enough, I guess.
the
normally on the older routes we would
not turn in the cylinder we would pick up the one that's laying on the floor that's like
twenty seconds extra to get with its like two hundred and we just got to the point where we don't
be dead anymore.
Yeah.
It's also the sort of thing to where like who knows maybe there will be reouts in the future
to with that two hundred is like now useful.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think it might like there's a there's a tool in
I mean, and buy it programs rest. It's the weighted belt apparently it makes you fall faster. I don't know I need to do I need a time it's but it's
Like if you get that cylinder you can buy in the weighted belt
And you get the fall faster
I
I thought it was like the steady body where you just some people. Yeah, and really said a fall faster
I mean, I had it on like I went into my casual file for something and I realized I was just falling significantly faster
Then I was like, oh, and I had really the belt on
So I need to see if that's like actually something that we should look at
There was there was some tech in early patches for all and I where if you like open to the map or the menu
You would just fall way faster to and that was way too
useful enough that certain categories were done in order patches because it makes save so much time
Yeah, they would say not be in big difference with this game in particular in the Tori drops
Yeah, in the Tori drops. Thank you them. Yeah, that's so much
Yeah, they made them to where like you had to get them like almost trained perfect
But you did still be in the later later patches
Yeah
Anything it's just like the frame perfect for it is like I've never get good at first thing. Yeah
We have to save you to long unfortunately
There's a one of the required lists that we have to do no matter what she's doing her best
And then check your band just makes a seal significantly faster
So I can basically just heal whenever I want now and
That's everyone we get the shell shards from these guys
Now we have to go to the
to be able late so that the flees we can tell the flees to go there later and if
we don't go there they won't know where to go. They'll just stay at the grand gate forever.
You really are just kind of doing everything for them. Yeah. Thank you.
I don't know if that guy for a journal entry.
I really like how distinct each area is in each other visually and with the, you know,
Okay.
Oh.
Okay.
Refine.
Oh.
Maybe not.
Oh.
Goodbye.
Speaking of enemy mechanics.
Oh.
This area is so brutal.
All right.
You follow the elected ones and it's like, yeah, just follow you.
That's fine.
All right.
We're fine.
We can jump.
We could out after this.
Good.
Yay.
All right.
You just quit out right after you pass that rock in the foreground.
And we're fine.
I think I have for some silt, and that's why we opened that door earlier so we can just go
straight here without having to redo that platforming section.
if
I have a few of these doors to like
specifically set up like the the different rotating room and stuff and just navigate this area with the bridges
I'm gonna pay for me.
Yeah, I missed that up, but
That's probably the sameable.
Okay.
I haven't gone to the side so long.
But that's fine.
One thing about the the the silk sphere. I really appreciate this game too. Compared to the the ventral spirit
It's a fact that it can also be used to phogo in the same way that you know your regular Pogo is
Yeah, really helps to be able to do the vertical movement in sections like this in particular
And if you go into the gears because honestly, I was just thinking that they look so pretty that I just want to like
I don't know like touch them. I don't know
I like a little toy and then they kill me and it's fine.
All right, we'll dissect that in therapy later.
Otherwise, so we have this puzzle we're doing right now.
Yeah, it is the same every time.
So you can just memorize the solution.
Which is really nice.
This is the only melody that actually hard saves us for some reason.
keepers and the conductors do not.
I'm noticing we have a lot of stimmers in chat. You thank you for watching.
Stimming hours on New Year's Eve y'all.
You grab a fidget spinner if you've got one grab a fidget ring, whatever you want.
I'll go grab a ruby skeer. Oh yeah, that's a good choice.
It's gonna heal right there.
We can group excuse actually.
If you are looking to come to AGDQ,
and if you are a hot fix fan, which I'm sure you all are,
because you are listening to me right now,
we're going to put table that set up for some really cool information about hot fix,
and we're going to have a bunch of activities, including a custom Rubik's Cube,
with a bunch of the GQ masks on it. So if you want to say some really, really cool stuff, go to gdq.gg and then you can attend a register.
We are going to be at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from the 4th to the 10th, so that is really, really soon.
And if you'd like to come on down if you live in the area or if you happen to be there, you know,
register to attend or just of course watch. We're going to be live here and on YouTube.
I know I've said it the time today, but if this is the last stream before AGDQ so we're really really
pumped for it, Exclamation Mark AGDQ in chat and they're very well might be a soaks on
run there if we unlock that bonus game on Saturday. Yeah and if you go to AGDQ as well with
the Rubers Eve that we'll have, I've already jumbled it and I can't fix it so if I'm
tabling that day and you can fix it, I might sneak you a prize.
Oh
Yeah, this is true. I made the Rubik's cube. So I know
Fixed her. Oh, we're doing this. All right. It's really cool. Oh
All right
Nice
There is a faster way to get through the second gate, but it's like it's I don't know if it's actually hard, but I've not ever tried it. So
but the any percent people have mastered it at this point.
And then this is probably one of the harder sections we kind of get to play it on
easy mode because of all the upgrades we have but it's still pretty difficult.
the healer in the two buttons are right next to each other so that'll happen.
Then the punch.
And I'm done.
the
all right and this is the funnily
and we're done nice beautiful
and
this is the last melody and I will fight these two
I was using
Christopher Loken did an amazing job. Good soundtrack on the skin. Oh, yeah same with all of the
100% this
Amazing
Honestly, one reason I like having the games on the show so much is just it is such an eye-efficient with a light
The full time
That's what I like and see the thing in iconic melody.
Yes.
and
and this is basically where any percent would be over is
excluding all of the stuff we just did
for the most part like they don't they don't get they don't get double jump they don't get to just
close
they don't do all these quests they just go straight to the list to and fight
uh...
what is
the final boss of the base game
but we have
We still have an about-
Yeah, Grandmother Silk.
And then after this, we're gonna do some cleanup and there's still about an hour and a half left of stuff we have to do before we can actually finish the game.
Yeah, the second half of this run truly is just clean up so we can access the last boss.
Yes.
and
and each soksong so it's fun playing up
or showered no no we're on this is time loss with this my favorite that scene is
just gonna watch it
oh yeah you're so cool for this actually I love getting a little cut scene
treat
it's so nice to be
and
chat enjoyed cinema
off
Oh, what is that animation?
I was supposed to...
Awesome.
Okay.
Come on.
Okay.
Sure.
Does she take it today? I went top the edges here too.
Uh, yes, but it's like 15, so it's not worth it all.
That's it.
It's so, it's so dumb.
It's like one needle compared to eight.
Nice.
It's been in churches actually that this time.
Got to make sure.
Can't have her coming back.
I would never have.
Point, point, point, point, point, point, point.
This is the second silver card, which is really helpful for the supposed to be like that.
So basically, it just makes it to where we always are moving at full speed.
Lane, if you could be any bug, what would you be?
I...
You just think question.
I believe it is.
All right
I can get a discussion. I pick um
Run outsource beetle
That's what I would do it
You okay answer your own questions? I'm thinking I'm like an atlasm off. Oh
That's a good choice
Chad, if you could be a bug, we'd still tell us what bug you would be.
Yeah.
I'm about there earlier so we can just leave straight out of here and we're going to
you.
Chad is celebrating another time zone in the New Year because of the hour roll
over. We are getting really close to East Coast New Year, less than an hour or so,
Chad, if you'd like to celebrate it with us, we will be doing a little happy New Year
at that time of course.
Now the rest of the stuff we're going to do is just going to be mostly cleanup. We have to come
here to unlock a shortcut for later, and it's just not really a better time to do it. So
So we're just gonna do it now.
Yeah.
You can knock that guy in the lava. That's really funny.
Yeah.
Get in lava.
That's wrong.
I grabbed my frog.
Dying your sucks because you have to wait like 20 seconds for this thing to open every single time.
Hmm, I don't know why I don't know why they decided to make this one take so long to open, but
It's just like like 15 seconds from the time I hit the lever
Ow
Or it's feeling the heat
Okay, we're watching this fast-fight, do you mind if I share with somewhat controversial, okay?
On the whole bunk today?
Okay, on the bug debate, sure.
I feel like Lizard should be bugs.
Why?
They kind of have bug energy.
No, they don't.
Haha.
Well, you can disagree with me, but I still think they have bug energy.
Okay, yes.
This is awesome.
I struggle this fight so much and I feel like I'm more so than the last judge this fight in particular
I don't know why yeah, this one's a real all too
Kind of saying some real bugs and being put in role-lethal these spiders fireflies good choices
What was a trick is bug why not lizard be bug
At least we're stuck because you can't jump over them.
I know, right?
That is annoying.
Yeah.
We're just going to hit that thing and then we can put out and then open that door from the other side.
And we will have to come back here later.
And if we come back and act 3, that boss gets the enemies get pointed.
So they have like double health, which is not ideal.
Now, we're going to go back and deal with the cross.
I'm gonna get these pilgrims for their clothes.
Oh good.
That's a little.
Yeah, it's a totally normal and chill thing that we're doing right now.
Oh, normal and chill.
It's like recycling.
Yeah.
Is that all?
Do you think Undertaker's was cycle?
I'm sure, I mean, none of their jobs?
I feel like it's not to the environment.
I don't know what kind of conversation I'm getting myself into.
I'm going to just opt out of this one.
Oh, we have to talk to Freeze, so he'll tell us to go kill the stupid birds.
And this quest is required for actually for some reason. It's just it's not even like a fast point.
It's just required. He's half to do it. I don't know why.
We're gonna let this guy hear us out of the animation and we're done with those.
the
the picking up the enemy drops in this game was
such a grind. I'm glad that they've made it less RNG.
Yeah, it was like just pins that was RNG based for some reason.
I don't know why they decided to make them just those like that.
Okay, thank you.
and
and there's also a thing here that we're getting
I do think it's really funny too that you beat up a bunch of crawls to get there up there here and the responses I'm mad I'm gonna get my older brother to come to you up
Yeah, I'm so sad that the the crawfathers like in RNG fight like you're to get it to show up
You just like it just makes that fight so funny
Okay
I'm doing this arena with wings and an extra needle upgrade is so much better.
Oh, for sure. Yeah.
Are they a one-hit shot for the little cause with the base needle with the silks here?
With the silks here it's one, but it's okay.
And we're done. We don't even actually need the big ups and that's the fastest place to get them.
Nice.
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Sorry, during throw-out stacks and so-so.
Hopefully that should be enough during lunch. I think we're probably going to be at like 100 something.
I'm already. Yeah, we're we're going to talk to you right now. It's like 70 or something just from the arenas that we do is it's probably lower than that, but it's like most of the enemies we get are just
skimmer quieter in this that we have to do anyways. So we pick this up and it's the easiest way to get an extra little pouch.
We just did it. Always honored. Okay.
That is not pleased with the question I asked and I just want to make a clear shot. I'm asking for you. I am your voice.
That's your way.
Chad, if you dislike whatever Marcie's doing online, you can start that hype train that is almost activated in chat.
I think one sub would do it with where we're at, right?
Where are you at five?
That's six because of a lovely prime sub in addition. So six or seven will make it work. Of course, yes
Unfortunately we have to stay in crap
Because he's really fast and he's right there, but we don't have to talk to him or interact with him at all, so we can just leave him there. Nice
Look it in
I'm fortunate we do have to look at him one more time, but that's okay. Okay, I got him.
And that's why we got the symbol key. We're going to be free in the Green Prince instead of doing Coral Tower.
If it's Coral Tower is a bit slower than Denver, don't you?
to the
of us get a talk to these guys this is another
relatively flat fast quest we're gonna get
rich guys and then we're gonna kill them
to reach is a comeback to these guys so we're
gonna do a little bit around centers are
before leading
By the way, just want to thank chat for hitting that call, we do have a high train
active right now if you'd like to get in it.
I know there are new hype training modes, there's some pretty cool so for you to cue and
then you'd have the sub through ageie to cue as well, which means you'd be able to engage
in chat, post emotes, all that good stuff.
So now is a very, very good time to get that subscription to the channel.
get your last one of twenty twenty-five binghaps.
Smoney, and now we should be good on money for the rest of the run.
I would not have thought that would happen less than 3 hours in the run.
Yeah, we basically only have to do the donations and shoppers maps. We don't buy anything else.
Yeah.
And like 100% just has the buy literally everything. There's not enough money in the game to buy literally everything.
So they sit around in farm for like 10 minutes. I got to ask you know where specifically they farm
Resuries I believe it's good the grand reads at the top of the city. I'm so glad that's where I pharmed it
Yeah, my instinct in saying
I'll be look at shocker again and just leave immediately
Open this and then turn in the key I
the
I love his are like his carapace ladies are so the colors are so good
yes it looks extremely out of place in this area too
yeah for real
like this whole area is very green as well but it's a vibrant green compared to it too
it sticks out while so feeling kind of thematic like he's it makes sense that he's been
here. Yeah. He's going to be a little dramatic, but he does leave without us talking to him.
Great pence. Girl, same. I get it. It's so relatable.
I love the M CPI town of this area.
I'm gonna take notes if you're gonna get bar brace like you would go down there, but I am not going to do that because that is for a simple.
that's what I said when when the red strats in how I started anything I'm like
I'm good fam I enjoy playing this game but I don't want to ruin that
sometimes that guy lines up really nice and you can just spuggle off of them get
straight up here. Yeah that was sometimes he's mean and you have to go all the way around.
No. He's guys look like their names are Sneed and Ted. It's pro-invention which is
like almost there. Oh, that's good too. That's like the English version of what I said. Yeah.
Yeah.
But they're I could show I'm confused. We know.
Oh, we've done the Roach Guests. They do give us tax and we actually will use those later.
Yeah. Because they're free. Okay. Sure. That's fine. There's a guy who can hear for
for heals.
And those big news I always just like with sit underneath the the bridges that they
bought on and hit them from underneath so I didn't have to deal with them.
Yeah.
And that guy just responds whenever you load a room so you can just see that if you need
to.
Come on.
Another flee here.
Nice.
Now we're going into by a water.
Just everyone's favorite location.
boy, it's like it's not that bad.
With what we have to do.
We just, the hardest thing we have to do is like,
do grow without the safety bench, but like, that's not
too bad.
Yeah, I think this area is certainly a lot harder as like
casual going through just because there's like one bench
I think in this area, like super high up and it's hidden
to begin with and otherwise for the the boss of this area
it's just a super long run back.
Yeah.
Finding the bench helps, but it's just I had to look a bit bad to find it. I couldn't locate it.
I don't know. I died a girl, but I was like, there's no way this is the only bench.
So I started looking around and I found a secret bench.
Yeah, I ended up just having, I was like, can't please somebody go look this up for me, so I don't have to get spoiled.
It's like the same thing though.
It's like, you know, somebody else does the work for me, so it's okay.
Yes.
I didn't necessarily, but we did pick up a map in Readiness Atlas so that when we
buy all the maps from chakra, the long, match-utorial pop-up does it show up and that saves you.
Oh that's good. I didn't realize that I getting one of the Readiness maps is good, that's cool.
Yeah, let's see, that one's really quick to pick up and the only Readiness we go to, but it's just a small thing you can do.
I'm not sure how much time it saves you exactly, but it's not a lot.
Yeah, yeah, it's shame you can't get more of the weaness stuff for the wherever the girl is that I'm so bad with names, however the girl that powers you got
Eva yeah, thank you the even Saluba's blessing of this game. Yeah, that's that takes so much. We have to like yeah,
and then like almost every memory lock it.
Yeah, and it's like we want to use the hunter's crest
or the majority of the run it.
If you use lockets on the hunter's crest,
it doesn't count towards that ability.
Hmm, which is kind of insane.
I can't wait to see the inevitable,
like 170 billion percent run.
It's going to exist after the DLC comes out.
It's going to be, they're going to go nuts with it.
I will be fun to see.
Speaking of big numbers,
I want to give a shout a shout that has now let that hype train reach level 4. That's huge.
Chat, you're really impressing at the end of 2025 here's sneaking that in before the new year rolls over.
So if you'd like to get on that, it is still active for just a couple more minutes.
The fun chat, I know you can get that high China till like little six or seven. You can do this.
She's been having too much fun with this.
That's not good.
I'm really does help us out.
This is probably the hardest section of Act 2.
We have to do the career quest and everything that we haven't done yet at the same time.
I hate the career quest.
I run used to do the career quest for so long.
That and the pale flower quest in H.K.
I hate quest like this.
The flower is so much harder than any of the career quest.
Oh, for sure, because it's just like, this one that lets you get hit like three times
or like, yes, that's been like you get hit like several times before, like it actually matters.
Yeah, I appreciate that they changed that a bit just because they just became a slag of,
all right, I'm gonna go all the way through. I'm just gonna kill all the enemies that are on the way and then
walk it back and then hope I don't run to thorns or something. Uh, in the green area. Yep.
Right now we're gonna do silver bells and this sucks because it's just completely orangey.
So you just have to wait for those to drop and we need to eat of them.
The wing is makes this a little bit better because we can just go straight up here without
having to go all the way around, which is nice.
I really hope Bellhum gets expanded in one of the DLCs I just feel like this area is
undercooked but just that that could be so much more here. Yeah.
Alright, I think that's five.
six
out again and that's really bad because now I am too hit to school tyrant
oh almost it again you got this chitlets under energy
i believe in lane
i hate you
you suck
okay
All right, we're done.
Nice.
Good work.
Oh, good.
I can count the five and so can chat, by the way,
that hype train keeps going.
Just took place.
We click reminder.
And this is pretty cool.
We can't we get this going?
you prefer and sucks on when you sort of move around in these really kind of encased
in tight spaces or whether it's kind of the big open maps with the platform is kind of floating
in space.
I don't know, the fence.
Yeah, I suppose the ceiling does on the design of the area.
They look very different too, move around in.
They actually, well, we've been on the topic of the DLC stuff too.
I actually, I do want to cook for a moment.
I feel like this game having a Richter's mode,
where they bring the night back from Hollow Knight
and having them be like a secret character you can play through
as well as gifts of the story would be kind of dope.
That's a cool idea.
I think there's a mod for that.
Ooh, I think we're like you. I see I keep saying clips of the night in like fighting some of the losses
I'm not sure. Awesome. How like practical it is because I feel like the night gets stuck in Moscow out of without any abilities
Yeah, they're there probably be some places that like maybe need to be adjusted but like
I don't know. I wonder what they're gonna cook out because like I mean spoiler alert
We do see the night at least once in this game, so I'm wondering if you'll have more of a presence in the future
Yeah
I feel like he'll get like a bottom-blossom that they ever do that, but who would that be fun?
Here we would not turn in the most various earlier.
I actually suggested doing this later because I saw them doing it 100% and I also want everyone to stop the equipment to redside.
It's so useless, don't do it, it's waste of time.
It doesn't do anything.
If you hit twice before, it gives you one silk.
Don't put it on.
It's bad.
It's so true.
No, didn't.
And you have to unequip it anyways,
when you get injector band and throw you over here.
Uh, thinking ahead.
This is my secret plot, you're everyone to stop
and pooping out.
I see, we're learning about it now, and Judy, you are.
The usual leverage, your leader,
position to influence the game play. That's awesome. I feel like if you get
record for one of these all in my categories, you should just get to implement a rule
for like a month.
Oh yeah.
Pinpo goes officially banned. You're here first. You're not allowed to do anything.
Let's go. And just you have to, you have to, you have to, you have to, you have to
have your run DB to have a new like arbitrary rule. I think it would really spur what's
the word competition. What's it called when society progresses?
In a nation. Thank you.
Ah, this is normal chat.
It's a little scary, but we're safe now.
You got it. We dropped.
It was awesome.
I always do this, and I'm down to help him with the package.
And we turn into everything else to both of them.
Also, just thanks to Chat for that hype train.
That was a really, really cool thing that we did to close out the year.
Um, thank you so much for all of your contribution, Swords.
games in quick and they do genuinely really help us be able to put on these shows. Make sure that y'all
have your lovely entertainment to year round not just at our our larger events or our other
charity events so y'all are doing a wonderful job. Thank you for being here. Thank you for watching.
Thank you for contributing if you did. Y'all are wonderful for you. We're so excited to
to bring in 2026 if you.
That is the harder one done.
Nice.
We're some demo silver bells so we just go in and train this in now.
I think I have enough money to do it already,
but yeah, I'm like 300 over.
I don't know if I can out there haven't done the first one yet.
Hmm, okay, we're like 100 over that's fine.
How did it be over than under?
Yeah, yeah, I actually had
One of my
The first one I did after all of these routing changes. I did never have money and then I also like died during Silver Bells
And it was still
306 59 which was faster than the run with zero deaths. Oh wow, which is so funny
if it'd be like that sometimes yeah sometimes oh that's true
if you hard fall it feels damage to the package which is so annoying
the
is mechanical areas might be my favorite
yeah in the game
just a walk
to do the serena now in some later so that there's not a chance that these enemies get
wasted
I love these are also bugs as well so like theoretically these places aren't really big like imagine
going to the park and returning a rock and there's just industry under there
That's when I almost threw the one I didn't even think of that.
It's all about my practice, I guess.
Nice.
And we're done.
Very good.
And this opens a shortcut from later.
Nice.
Do not want to venture because you want to quit out immediately.
And that's the that's the hardest part of this one. The the bone bottom donation is
Significantly harder because you have to do a lot more
But this makes sense you just have to run around
You know later. I'm actually curious. You have a preferred crests that you that you like to use like in casual play fair
Like is it just underscresse to use or do you prefer something else like the wanders?
I think I use like reaper for most of my casual play through because I think it did more damage and it does not
And then I didn't find water since it like super late, so I didn't and but once I found it I started using that for
Yeah, that's the one I ended up settling on as well because it's like, oh, oh
All right, we're fine. I tried that I forgot that guys there
only
no, I don't want to talk to you
and we're back in Belfer and that is
almost everything done with active we just need to go through the Bial water again
and do this donation real quick
Yeah, so like 230 over we're going to refill the fleebors also when we travel in the fleece.
I'd be right here.
the
and
this is probably
like the most difficult part
from like a route in perspective
was we're not
Yeah, that would not be good and it's just not really a convenience spot
Around you there's not really any benches that are nearby and the only ones are like out of the way
Yeah, it's like the seeker bench and then if we get the seeker bench, we like
I would have to run out of by water, which also takes forever. So yeah
And it definitely better to just keep the the bench where you're at for the saving what later then to
and you know, just struggle through here.
It's fine.
There's ways to save yourself into like,
just take it slow and heal if you need to, but, yeah.
Yeah.
There's actually a room that you can go into
and heal like really slow-leaf you need to.
Is it the one with the,
you know, the Hansler and Sinter's path on?
It's a, there's like these flies on like the very end.
I think there's like a memory lockhead or shards
or something over there.
But, you just, I'm pretty sure.
I think I know what you mean.
I'm pretty sure you said, yeah.
Okay sometimes I got to jump side enough where you can run under him. It's really hard to not take damage there
And that should be the last week. Nice. All right final moves, chat.
All right. Get on my way through.
There you go, I guess.
And I think I will just use that room real quick because I don't want to be at super this.
Good, yeah.
Yeah, that's the, yeah.
out.
He's so nice.
Also don't want to die in advance of our next break.
Oh, okay.
It doesn't matter because we the water and shockers room clears the maggots.
Oh, that's right here.
It doesn't.
It's like it's still annoying for the platforming because it eats away at our silk.
But yeah, it doesn't really matter.
I do love that a solution in this game. It's just go take a bath and you're fine now.
Yep.
Yep. So if we just hang out this water for a bit, it'll be really good.
Yeah, those.
Taking a bath of this solution to a lot of problems.
I think that's good at life advice.
Yes, cool.
Oh, no.
We're not on the other side.
Yeah.
Hi.
It's good self-care.
Great.
Sometimes, and everything shower involves doing your taxes, I get it.
I guess.
Well, okay, it's probably not going to help with your taxes.
This is not I want to go out.
Yeah, yeah, I don't believe you actually.
Under a water bottle, a water bottle, a water bottle.
Waterfall and some dudes shows up at the guitar and just lets one rip.
Maybe we do need a break for you.
We charge that voice box.
Yeah.
Now that we're done with that, we can go back roll.
Which apparently only has like 600 health, which I, I thought he had way more.
But if you just hit him, he dies like really quickly.
I shrunk so much with the girl.
I might be, is either them or like the Flamenco dancer that's
took me in the most time in the game?
Like, Chobio?
Ah, not Chobio, the girl that you do in the memory.
Oh, oh, Carmelita.
Carmelita, thank you, yeah.
Yep.
We will be fighting Carmelita also.
Yeah, thanks, sense.
Okay.
Ah, from so brutal.
and
it really want the full focus of the one shot is guys with the needle strike by the I got hit several time so that was a good slow
and you can't just end this corner here
to avoid those
so here these guys should get one shot
and then after this room would be it would that be a good time to take our little break?
uh yes after this put up I can do that.
No you're all right fine.
I also just want to make sure we get it in so that we can do the new years count down together.
We can get the break done and then do that together with chat.
I'm sure everyone's excited for.
I
Yeah, you're totally fine. It's hard to remember
This looks very difficult to manage with the platforms and the liquid underneath. Oh
I wonder what if people first started celebrating the new year?
probably it wasn't like oh it's one now we got a you know shoot off the fire
who works off the church here like like a couple centuries what okay it's a
That's a lot of question.
I'm having a little swing of my foot.
Yeah, we have to wait like half a really long time for the spend to appear so that we can get out or send not use the spend.
That's in the game. No, we're speed running.
I'm on. All right.
Now I put out here and break.
Rage.
No.
Fantastic, so Chen, it is time for you to grab whatever you'd like to do to celebrate
the New Year if you've got like little poppers if you've got snacks if you've got whatever
it is.
Oh, grab it.
We're going to take a little break before we do a little bit more holiday and a little
congratulations for the New Year when it strikes midnight on the East Coast.
So be back very, very soon.
Welcome back, Chants. You are new years Eve, Hollow Knight, Silk Song,
Brew Ending Run. Let's get back into it, Lane.
All right, and you back out three, two, one.
It's have got to go.
That's it.
You make sure that didn't do anything. All right, we're good.
Now we've done all of the quests. We are officially a homeowner.
But we will not step foot in that house.
Oh, we don't even get to see it.
This is a run to freaking a homeowner.
Yes.
And then we're going to refill our flea brew and then travel the flea's to the blasted steps.
Does the socks on have like a all-home designer mechanic or something like that?
A little bit kind of you can buy furniture and stuff from the
the uh... the bell heart merchant
oh i love games with a little home designer mechanic that's this that's
maybe one of my favorite little features in the games people talk about
fishing in the in-know i want
i want to be able to decorate my house
that's what i want
yeah here we're gonna do time test elsewhere where we go into different room
and they put out
because we're gonna be hard to say that uh... at least
and that's one of the reasons we should play a journey by the way
yes stuff
You're good to see more things in the game.
Here we're not going to travel with the fleas.
We're going to stay behind so that we can,
otherwise we get stuck in future products, which is not a good time.
I've accidentally done that many, many times.
I did not pay attention.
And now we don't have to look at crab anymore.
Please go on forever.
and
and
that should be done with everything so we can go straight to the city all and get something sold from caretaker
The part of the game will be run around into some stuff.
Yes, the third be the last of the, I guess there's a bunch of running around, but this is the last of the, the aimless running around.
I, do you think you've managed to describe every platformer?
Yes, true.
Now we finally talk to this guy. He actually doesn't just sound like this. We do have to talk soon.
Ah, I see. And it's going to, uh, run load all of the Lord dialogue that we skipped.
So we just have to spam text until, eventually, all this out for wanting to disperse
my mother's silk, and then we get silk and soul.
I think I've been sure already, but they're gonna get the other two souls and put back
here. There's also why we pick up snare setter. We need snare setter for this.
Hmm. Considering I'm not used snare setter at all. There. There and up. I might
know at least in an answer to this question. There but there might be more things
you could say to this, but Lane, what was your favorite game or what were your favorite
games of the year, 2021?
I don't think I played another game except some since September 4th.
You're so real for that?
Yeah, that's totally fair.
Especially with this game.
Yeah, I'm that I hatey stew is been looking really good.
I haven't gotten around to the full release of that yet.
I'm sure it's the addition 33 is good too, but I have not played that game.
for sure. And Haydice 2 was on actually earlier tonight on out of the box. Um, was the game before us. So, very cool stuff. Um, if y'all would like to see that by the way, we replay each of shows after our previous shows done. So, all you have to do to see that show is just continue watching.
It'll be that. You know, for a show called out of the box, it does require you to play the game in the most in box way possible by only doing just the base up from the beginning.
If you although know what auto the box is, by the way, which is the show before Creature Corner,
essentially the mechanic of it is that you get to play, you get to see runs that can be done with a like a fresh file situation.
You just open the game up and then you do, you know, you do whatever you don't have to set anything up, it's not an NG plus, et cetera, et cetera.
Et cetera is our wonderful host of that and they are great. I would say do not go.
And that is silk and silk completes.
And now we can actually move into Act 3.
Okay, Act 3, Tim.
We're getting there.
When I was playing this, I was like 20 minutes away
from getting to the part that starts Act 3.
And I had so many of my chat just be like,
oh, you're going up to Act 3 now.
And I'm just like, what do you mean Act 3?
I didn't know you were just like,
was so mad.
Yeah.
I don't want to get there.
I don't like that.
Yeah, no, it is such a insane reveal. It's just like I thought the game was was done like I was
I was just like where's the the percent meter? I don't know how much is left and then eventually I got this and I thought it was just like
I don't know I legit thought that they just gave us two bad endings and then
That's all you get. I'm waiting at a deal. I'll see
Yeah, that's what I thought was happening
I'd be so awesome, especially with Soxog's weight, they're like, you know, you
wait, so I'm putting 25 and you get 2 band index and you wait.
Ah, it'd be very, that'd be very kind of funny though.
Yeah, that, I don't know, I, I wouldn't, I, I would have, I would not have been surprised.
Yeah, no, that's that exactly, that's fair.
and this is normally where any% would end but we still have an hour loss
so much more
hey, what's that sound?
and we only have about seven minutes a little bit less than that until the new year comes on the east coast so
chat get whatever it is you want to get ready we're going to do a little celebration when that comes
This is so intense.
I wish I was her.
And we're done.
Nice.
Nice one.
She does so quickly when you have anything other than like the face.
That was nice.
Like with. Yeah.
Let's do it.
I personally do that.
And that's it. Nice. Beautiful.
But not the end of the run, Chet. Not for quite a while, in fact.
Yeah. Still about 15 minutes.
4 shadowing.
It came to pass.
You look good of thought.
Wow.
Yeah, mate. It's just nothing.
Oh. Oh.
Oh. Oh.
That doesn't look good.
When I got this, I thought this was just the end.
Like, I didn't expect there to be what we got.
Yeah, that's very fair. I mean, I could see this and think this was the end and that's not time.
I'm not crying.
I'm not.
I'm not.
I'm not.
I'm not.
Time.
I think you have a very in this train.
So, cheers.
Team Jerry.
That's why I couldn't reach Chinese now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We're just trying to...
No.
We're just trying to...
No.
the
the
the
the
the fight takes
the
the
the
The first game also had zero health.
Yeah, I mean, yeah, that is just kind of a mess.
Yeah, though
I do love characters that are just big circles and then like us make a test
That's kind of the whole character design. I think a few those so pollinators. And that's beautiful
Okay, thank you.
Less than three minutes away from the new year.
Yeah, how did you feel kind of coming?
Both of you coming across this ending and thinking that it was, you know, kind of it was
the feeling like?
I'll say just unfortunately for me somebody told me oh, yeah, it's not it. It's
pandemic before it happened. I was like brother brother. I'm playing this for the first time laying with me
I don't know I I was like oh, I said it and then I immediately said oh, it's not it. Okay
Actor at this all right you're like can I have more I know this this man and that's a son that means three
Yes, true. That's true. I didn't know that but no, I do
Nice. Yeah, it's yeah, the one of the easiest things doing Mandarin which I took for a couple years in middle school
So I know because they have a very intuitive. Yeah
system. Yeah, written system for
All right, chat for getting there once it gets down to a minute. I will call that out
and
and actually unacquips all over tools so I have to do the boba dashes again for a little bit was so annoying when this happened
I'm just like why can't I have my belt on still but what do you mean my fans fell off when the world ended
yeah
the world ended and my pants fell off what happened to take it anymore
yeah
But forcing you to use the hunter's aggressive so funny. It's like now it doesn't matter
But it's like what I was playing this game. I was like I don't know how to use this
Yeah, that's exactly what happened. I'm like sorry. We have to do the combat to get out of here. And I'm just like what is this slow speed?
When it gets to 10 seconds down we're all gonna count together. Is that all right?
Yes, all right 10 seconds till then
Okay, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 7, 5, 7, 2, 1, 1, yay!
Okay.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
I can't wait.
I'm going to hold you now.
I'm going to hold you now.
I was done.
That was the first step.
I think those actually the first step.
That was the first step.
That's the first step.
Honestly, this is one of the least fun.
It's 25.
I mean, we can die.
If you're going to have one death, like it sucks coming back down here with the
the steam, but at least like you're not, it's not that much progress last.
Yeah. There's a little bit of a tune set up, but worry. Thank you, thank you. Yeah. Yeah, that was, that was really awesome.
What a moment. It was say 670 in my bad. Thank you, Chad, for saying happy new year with us.
I see this stream has changed in colors. Thank you, Richard.
That's so cool. I think don't die again.
Okay, nice, nice, nice. I also see in chat, bro has been on this run since last year. Wow, I've been doing this run for a whole year. It's so slow.
I can't believe it. It's your ending takes a long time.
Yes.
This is probably like the coolest post game content I've ever seen.
Like this is just the way they did it was it's just extremely interesting.
Yeah, absolutely.
It just changed the entire world and then added more stuff.
Yeah, it's like, it's both post-came content but also like it's the game really.
It feels like it's going in this direction.
Like I've already compared this to Symphony the night.
But I think this is the closest we get to like the inverted castle sort of thing where it's
where it sits. I'm really ill but different.
Here, it's put all our stuff back on. We are going to use tax for some of the bosses.
The first we have to go visit the green prince.
I always just love it and when you get running sections in this game, honestly.
I don't know who did that.
Oh no.
No, no.
No.
No.
No.
No.
I'm doing.
I can add the voices.
I can do it.
Oh, well, that's still here.
I actually don't know.
So I'm excited when?
We killed them.
We hit.
That was the whole work.
It's okay.
Oh.
Yeah. He was gonna do it anyways, but we didn't burn your right now I recall. Yeah. Yeah, we have to talk to them there otherwise we're done.
And this is the world. This is the world.
It's where the brand new pair due to the usher in the new year and the longer body interesting resolution. Yeah. Yeah.
This boss sucks. This is like the only thing to actually just is bad, I think.
That's crazy.
That's crazy.
Wow.
This boss is just kind of an autosroller in a game where most of the bosses have some ability to do things most of the time.
Like you move it like a little bit better.
Yeah, I think it's a very comparison.
But at least you move has like a one cycle.
Yeah, you can't, you can't one cycle this, but it's like basically better.
Okay, that's just rude.
It's slightly better inside you, worse.
Yeah.
A longer body is a very interesting new year's resolution.
I think I should do that too.
I don't know how.
I'd like to end 2020-26 either vertically or horizontally different, you know.
Yeah.
Shout out if you've got any resolutions.
Put them in.
I want to see what you guys got.
I want you all in good.
you know my resolution for 26 is finally to obtain a legendary treasure that isn't
cursed
they do tend to be oh I say I resist you can run over here there's nothing over here
but let's see go over here yeah I was like what are you about that to you just back
flipping on them just to do it
Wow, that is a good noise. He's got a big tummy ache.
A plus top 10 creature right there.
And this is actually the pelvis boss music, which is really cool.
And now we have fixed string gate.
So we can teleport to all of the globalization immediately, but nowhere else.
I did like the implementation of this in this game, like it's the same not to have like
Dringgate in the same way, but I did like the war back to the fast-trained, I don't know
how that was.
Dringgate was kind of busted.
Yeah, it was like, it was so good.
Honestly, the biggest problem with Dringgate is that there was no real economy for the essence
that you would collect.
like there were milestones with the moths,
but like you spend one to use a dream gate,
like that's nothing.
Oh yeah, I didn't even know that that was like a thing.
I didn't know that it did that,
and so like it started speed running on 12.
Yeah, I never noticed it.
Yeah, it's nothing.
Like you usually even just pick one up randomly,
as well, that would generally offset it.
These guys are just snail shandans apparently,
which is really cool and like kind of obvious,
like once you look at them again, but it's like I did not think this about this at all.
Yeah, we do have to talk to them to go to where we're going next.
Oh no, howarnit with stands to eat in this place.
She doesn't.
Well, I don't know.
That's she.
She doesn't unless you get in the lava, I guess.
stand on the hot poles. And because we did that arena earlier, we can just come straight
up here without having to deal with the boy to dynamize. And I'm ballads like, oh the
world's ending, I guess I'll help you. Thank you.
Yeah, and this is the short cut we opened earlier after fighting the four brothers
So we don't have to do them
That's sure we used to be really awful, but we practiced it and now it's really easy
I love that.
Okay.
If I died.
Wow.
Oh yeah.
Nice.
Nice.
Nice.
Okay.
I'm going to wait from dying there.
That's fine.
That would have been embarrassing.
I said, oh, it's really easy down.
Then just die immediately.
Yeah.
We already did the New Year's death.
It's the real one.
Yeah, he gives us the key.
Now you're supposed to find this way earlier, and then we're like, oh, what is this?
And then you know it's here, and you can come back.
But we just can come here without having ever seen it before.
And if you don't bench before closing the door, it doesn't actually heal you, which is really
This guy is also not skippable.
I just really wanted to watch her be like compressed into a cube.
Like, well, yeah, I wonder why.
Skip them already this time.
Oh, oh.
These are the one steam chair, she's like,
extra proud of, they're like, and skip this.
Yeah.
They're just watching to see if I do.
You know?
You know, you're always watching.
Always watching.
Yes.
Now we're in the office.
And we're stuck here.
Until we get soops.
Okay.
That's fine, there's a bit of that.
These guys, I hate protestors.
I'm still done with them.
I don't know what they're called.
New, new, take.
I don't know what they're called.
New, new, take.
All right, we just mentioned there so it doesn't matter.
And Grandmother Silke's traps under there.
I don't know what it is having hallucinations of lace. I think the 30 cleab erus are catching up to her.
I love her.
She's bobbin of the bruise case with a new year girl's fame.
But it's like not alcohol. It's children friendly bruises.
I can't have that oh that's true you're allergic to that's that is easier than the the blasted
stepscape I did I missed earlier that is like I will I will die on that yellow this
skip is easier than that
first back you did make it look like that that's enough like three times but still
anything you accomplish in this game looks easy to meet and this is the real
I mean, it's true, and it's crystal dash except up.
I'm so nice.
I mean, I'm miss having crystal dash in this, but this game is, okay.
I saw this take early on when this game first came out.
This game gives you movement that is all vertical.
And this game is super horizontal.
Hollow Knight was super vertical, but only the horizontal movement is very strange.
Yeah, that is true.
I don't know.
It was like,
we didn't get a lot of force on a little bit of an Hollow Knight.
You just said double jump, but like you jumped way higher.
Like you would just like, you would just have a little bit of a screw.
Like playing Hollow Knight after this game is just like,
it's so weird with the way the physics work.
Yeah, no, for sure.
You just feel heavier in this game.
I missed my wall clings for this game.
I think they nerfed, they nerfed while jumps in this game.
They made them like,
to where you have to be closer to the wall.
And like I heard some of the things that they had here,
I think they did that because they couldn't
fix the wall clean storage.
They just, that would be really funny.
They just like, ladies, that would be funny.
OK.
But like the, with the, the wall jumps without drifter
smoke could really annoying.
So that don't think they expected you to get wall jump
without drifter smoke, but I don't know.
then once you have drift just hook it like it makes the wall jump significantly easier for some reason.
I'm gonna keep it real. Like, Tian Cherry has like 30 speed runners phone numbers on speed
dial. They could be solving these problems at any point and they're too busy being like,
I'm gonna invent maps, but like, you know, bug map and spending two years developing that.
And so the basket is probably out. Oh, no, they, oh, okay.
I don't know. I was trying to think of an actual thing and I just came to the room and see
him. I'm not worried about it. It'll all be fixed and see you, Sarah.
Exactly. That's true. Alright, it's gonna be a-
Everything is gonna be fixed and see you, Sarah.
All the night see if he used, she's on a boat now. There's over to Lytopia and he can cruise out
into the water. It's a water-
It's a water-
It's a water-
It's a water-
It's a water-
It's a water-
It's a water-
It's a water-
It's a water-
It's a water-
It's a water-
It's a water-
It's a water-
I thought the corner would make it good for it and I carried her.
Why are we here now?
I don't know what are we doing.
Staking thoughts and sharing them of the world.
So, I don't know.
Oh, no.
Oh.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Not that easy.
Oh, this is great.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
Not for these ghosts, but that's oh, what you're on these ghosts, nevermind. Yeah, I think that's what I need to do that.
A water. Yes.
That's like so perilous. Oh, huh.
This section, this is, this is this area's section.
Yeah, it really is.
You can just skip the the entire platform section by using some story so funny.
Yeah, way around.
I don't know.
That's awesome.
That's so fun.
Oh my gosh.
Love that.
Bye.
It's a...
It needs it.
That's a very fun little skill.
You used to be able to be something called out of this room, but they patched it out.
I'm assuming because if you didn't hit that lever, you would like soft block yourself out of this room, but there's nothing in here.
I don't know why they bothered.
and
at the areas you're able to do the
the best in calling such a hard
of notes and some times it's just like why not here. It's fine.
It's inconsistent. Yeah.
We have to go back to the shamans.
Now that we know what the issue is.
Do you know what's the secret skirt?
I'm back to the show and it's like hey by the way I figured out the problem yeah there's
stuff coming out of the ground it's bad I figured out the problem and I have a solution
let's fix it it's not doing that the ground spaghetti is evil
morning is the greatest hero in all of the
the games after much deliberation they are allowing me to
the to help.
Yay!
Now we have the energy that we can go get the hearts and then finish the game from there.
We have to get power from old people or something when that is actually sure.
And we have to burn them here later.
The democracy is fine now.
And there's actually four you can get.
You can, there's three that it tells you about.
And then the green prints.
There we go.
Don't hurt.
Yeah.
But we're not going to do the four outs sour because that one is.
It's really slow now because we don't get a old film that.
We usually have old film at Shaman's crest and that delts like a lot of damage.
But those got nerfed on the later patches. So now that we don't get it now that we don't get a
moment. It's just like it's really far out of the way. It used to be a lot closer, but now it's just for Don
It's just definitely faster
Can carry thinking every day or mess? I don't know the little shun on 3rd storm stuff was like kind of worrying
But like this is way more interesting
So it's so serious someone's worth on the 3rd storm
Yeah, that's fair. Okay
I think I really admire and enjoy about Hollow Knight and Hollow Knight so so it's
how readable the animations are. You can really tell, you know, even in the midst of a fight,
you know, what's happening, where each attack is going, where you are. It is, you know,
it is like, for the most part, if you get hit in this game, it is a skill issue.
Yeah. True.
Black.
White.
So, with the, the vote.
That's so po-goes that people are talking about.
You would just go straight, like during the Pogrums Rest Quirrior, you would go up through,
with hermely, just that you were about to go through now, and you would skip that arena.
And, entirely.
Which is why it saves so much time.
So, like here, we would be able to go up here without soaps or,
been normally you're not supposed to be able to do that.
Here you have to wait a second and then you can reload the room to get the bridge open.
If you do it immediately, it doesn't actually open the door, which is kind of annoying.
Oh, yeah, I guess they're just going to rain.
I really like that little picture design.
It's sometimes that ant just gets deleted by the big dude.
It's so funny.
Oh, I know.
A little rings you can plot for a month of.
are yeah platforming in this game is a lot of fun. I miss that up.
I don't know like if this is fully true I need to watch both games a little more to be
sure but I think I enjoy watching platforming in this game a little more in the original
whole night. All night had some interesting platform sessions like I don't think anything in
the game comes close to a path of pain in terms of like difficulty. Yeah but like I'm so
So how one video seems like the service climb is nowhere near as difficult to
spend the pain.
It's like it's not close in my opinion, but it's like the potential for platforming the
scene is a lot more interesting.
Just a claw line itself is just such an interesting ability.
Yeah, for sure.
Now there's just more options.
I mean, you have more options.
You can kind of play with it more, but also, chat, if you're interested in Halloween and
path of pain specifically. I'd recommend that you go on over to our YouTube channel and
look at a little pollinite run that was done at Flame Patel's 2020-25. I'm not going to
say any more than that. Just go watch that run. And also, by the way, two things about YouTube.
First thing is that you can go to it with youtube.com slash games one quick, pretty cool.
Second thing, and actually we're going to do three things. Second thing is that we're almost
just one million subscribers on the BGDQ YouTube.
So if you'd like to be one of the first million, definitely get it on that.
That would be super cool if we could hit that during 2020-26.
And finally, we will be streaming the AGDQ 2020-26, which starts on the 4th aka this Sunday
on YouTube as well as which big news.
So, if you all would like to see AGDQ, you can do it on either Twitch or YouTube.
It's going to be really, really cool.
And you can attend in person as well.
Thank you for more information on that.
You can come to Petsford, Pennsylvania from the 4th to the 10th.
And you can also see the schedule by typing,
Exclamation mark, AGDQ, or Exclamation mark schedule in chat.
Wait, that cow trops, strats, so sick.
Sure.
Oh, what?
She didn't do the second scream.
But he's not really. It's like she'll like stand the corner and like she'll improve it and then do the next phase.
I maybe I wasn't paying attention. Oh.
Oh, you're all same.
That's saying the RNG was wild on that. Yeah, that was like best possible attacks.
Yeah.
Gaming?
you know sometimes you'll just like run into you and like there's nothing you
can do about it but she didn't do that at all to me. Those nice. Wow. And also
tools in the dream sequences are free so I just have a second flavor here.
and
never going up to the day
and
the
I'm also doing it at the blasted set bench, but on the more optimal routes you don't buy that bench and you skip some rosaries.
This is why we talked to him earlier this area would not be here if we didn't talk to him.
It's color scheme really pops out.
Yeah, I think they made this area just completely gray, just like when we get into the dream, it's like the complete opposite.
It is a really good way to sort of emphasize that things are indeed not very good right now.
and
the series really cool you can like talk to them and like he's like slowly gains his memories back as you do more stepping here, but we're going to skip all that unfortunately
all of the movement is amazing yeah
some of the parts we kind of get to do this for a lot of them but
I'm sorry, this room we can't just skip with one silks, sir.
Chattas in our walls, I'm seeing a chat, right?
I don't quite know why.
You might want to look in your walls for chat, everybody.
I put out one of those chat traps.
catch them. It's just like a 24-7 GQ stream.
He has a tiny phone.
We've got him.
It's a big metal bar.
I have a staff on a softly on them.
That's the dream though.
I would love a 24-7 GQ.
Yeah.
A JQ runs 24-7 for the seven days.
That's true.
I'm here.
Pretty cool.
I plan to be on screen for as much as I can possible.
for two things as much tired as possible
if you think oh yeah two things
anyways don't worry about any of that
well don't worry about H and Q
this is one of the more annoying bosses because you just
help her drowns
that's right
yes
he has no health so it's fine but it's like it's still annoying
yes it's nice but for real for real
but that gives us five words instead of one
so we only have to get two extra basically
these guys will be annoying with all
they just alone and a little bit
Okay. I appreciate that.
Fine. Yeah. You need to reload that room over and over again to kill that guy for
Silka if you need it too.
We also skip this entire room with one silkservice to really funny. I don't think they
They realize that people would have this ability when they was on a Saturday or something
It's like normally you just there's a bunch of cool platforming you do, but you don't do any of it
And this this fountain takes a really long time to appear. It's actually just like four seconds faster to reload the room. It's really hard
I also just want to shut up, uh, land real quick, that you've been playing this very, very difficult game for almost three hours, yeah.
So, Chad, this wanted, like, give a shout out for a chance, like, Chad, to really appreciate just how, like, difficult this is, and to shut you out for,
How hard it is to really keep up that stamina for that long?
Um, a body game, but especially one where you really have to be, you know, on target a lot of the time,
our orbers losing, you know, losing time to death, so I promise this movement.
So, very, very, very important.
Well, this, this run is a lot of like, it's an endurance run of really difficult things.
You just like have to do everything.
That's really hard all back to that.
Yep, all the time. It's definitely a masterclass in the skills that you need to be good at this game.
You can make that well, it's so weird that I messed it up at the marians. I made it, and then I fell.
Just showing us how to do it both ways.
Perfect.
Thanks, here.
This fight's really interesting because we actually get a really good experience here.
And face one time.
I like those little spike tracks beginning smart. Yeah, makes that cycle a lot more
leanance.
Nice.
Alright, this is pretty bad pattern. Yeah, he's being rude.
and we're done now it's very good
Yeah, the whole point.
I don't know, I don't know what the characters need to do.
Yes, but gay looks the same as ours.
No worry.
I don't know what the names and genders the game love this lot you hit them small bugs
I get a great and do a great thank you. Yes
This is the last thing because this whole area is just completely different than the ruins.
Yeah, absolutely, and it's really like it's it's content they obviously you've got to want to play if you're enjoying the same
But it's it's still technically post-game
There's an interview. They like they hit the percentages so that people that like we're
Thought like they concluded the game at like the start didn't feel like they were missing like the whole game
And then it only shows your percentages after after three
And right now we're doing the underworks elevator, which is where you would normally do this right after last judge if you're playing casually and you didn't know about the shortcut and you get hard saved here
But here we need to go up or the last parts we're gonna go
Okay, and we're going to take a break in three, two, one, no.
Alrighty Chad, this is our final break of the run.
So, just hang tight, we'll be back soon to cap off this run of true ending.
You're not going anywhere.
You
Okay, chat. We are back for our final segment of true ending lane. Let's bring it home.
Yeah, there's not a whole lot left. I think it's like 30 minutes.
Okay, final sprint.
Okay, not ideal.
Good site. Honestly to put. I'm just gonna look at that just in case.
So the ghost from Hollow Knight. Like sound wise. Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
Friend though.
I really like a lot of the voice lines in this game.
They are a lot of fun.
I'll just pass it so hard.
Oh my gosh.
I should have rubbed with this one.
It looks really pretty.
You're so fast
One thing I like about so song and at least just from a viewing perspective is it looks like a lot of the bosses could be people that are fighting you with their own movesets, you know, and it doesn't often feel like that
In games, no, I drink this
I don't know if you chat knows what I need me that
But if you do
Thanks
I feel like Team Cherry has a wonderful
Battle like platformer fighter in their future if they just want to reuse all these characters
Oh, that could be cool.
You made that fight look so easy on my gosh.
I think this is honestly the hardest of the three boss my chance to do to get the end.
Yeah, Seth is set this harder than I was.
Honestly, first sure.
I think I wanted Seth to be the dream fight, but they didn't really make a lot of sense.
Yeah, yeah, I was saying like it's just so fast. Nile is tough to have it to be on the wall and such but like it's at my far as just
So technical
I really love how they immortalized
Seth in this case. Yes, it was a really difficult fight. I agree. I I really like to that they like take them to highlight of that as well
And then I try to remember I know there's a reference to it somewhere you do in the game or the game files, but that was really nice
Oh, just context for those of you who don't know, Seth is a character designed by,
I think that the kid's name was Seth.
It was, it was, he had better believe was suffering from cancer, who designed the character
for Team Cherry and they wanted to honor them by including their character's line in the game.
Oh, wow. That's really cool. I didn't know that, Charlie.
Well, that's yeah. That's, that's really lovely.
that he got a really difficult memorable boss fight to us and sort of some memory of that.
That's why it's so important that we're as GDQ is supporting organizations like
the Fernand Cancer Foundation to help with better awareness and just better understanding
and being able to check out these things and to catch these things early.
Yeah, no, we are benefiting the Fernand Cancer Foundation at AGDQ2026 that is going to be
starting this Sunday, January 4th through the 10th.
They are indeed, like, be benefiting these PCF.
And they do a lot of stuff that is also,
they do prevent cancer, they do early detection,
all that good stuff.
They also do cancer research.
And, you know, funding treatment development as well.
And helping fund people's treatments too.
So they are sort of making sure
that they are attacking cancer and all fronts.
It's a really valuable organization to be supporting.
And I'm really excited to be there in person.
If you'd like to be there in person as well,
we are live from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Sunday.
So go to gdq.gg to find out more information
about how to register.
And then you can pick up your badge in person
and hang out with us.
But if not, we'll be live here.
And we'll be live on our YouTube
that game's done quick on YouTube as well.
So yeah, come on down.
It's gonna be absolutely wonderful.
There's a lot of fun surprises over the week.
I already know about a lot of them.
It's gonna be really cool.
Definitely check out that schedule.
How long it's up son? It's a bonus game. We might see it on Friday.
I'm gonna move on.
Also, this boss looks incredibly different.
It's brutal. Don't get it right.
You just, oh my god.
Oh, that is horrific with that R&G.
That attack is like really annoying. You can't do anything about it, they slick.
Yeah, no, it looks like the pattern news is really hard to dodge an attack.
Oh, good. Same. Oh, my goodness.
Oh, wow.
Just having to go from wall one wall to the other without going into the floor. Oh, my gosh
No
9th Amber dies
Oh, good poem. Oh my god
So impressive. Oh, that's so hard. But yeah, you just like don't have a floor for the second half of the fight. Yeah, that is so that it that looks so tricky
We used to do with Shaman's crest and you just literally can't heal on the second face because you don't have a floor.
Wow.
We're just so funny.
So the fight is like a little bit easier but like it's still easier.
Still one of the harder ones.
Yeah for sure.
You're just allowed to heal.
And that is the last works.
Wow, we're getting up to the end of this front chat.
Not too much longer.
Do it while you've got it, especially because we're not lying again until you do to you.
Just gonna ask what you're nice there.
and
this is the last thing we have to do before the actual
bus
and this is probably like the coolest
like move-mits sequence in the game
that's getting this is was there's another cell car right
This is the Everglue, so it was a thing into the void.
We have a question in chat of what the hardest boss in this run is as well.
The hardest boss.
I think it's just Carmelita.
Yeah, yeah. That makes sense.
Carmelita or Los Angeles, but I don't know.
They're both like about Eatley hard.
like, Lossly says more health that like there's that fight feels like it goes by a lot
like her without we've been optimizing it recently.
Firmly, it also just has like the random BS patterns where she just like runs into you for
every reason.
Hi, fingers.
Also every time that Hornet Falls, I really want to bring her into the doctor and do a little
a little concussion protocol on her for me yeah this we can't be okay
a lot of what was yeah unfortunately on her you don't we don't get to read or
look at any of the but I love here but we get to watch the cut seems you
don't have to play it for yourself chat she's just a little guy
It's so slow I'm just count right now because I know that there's the big winter sale on steam.
I think it was. I'm not sure. Let's check it out. Yes it is. It is discounted and it is 20% off right now.
So chat if you would like to go play Sox 5 for yourself. Now seems like the best time.
I'm going to get the Xbox game. That's also. It is pretty much. That's huge.
It looks like it's five bugs off right now.
Find bugs off?
Oh.
I approve of that one.
Me, like, creates your dicks.
Like, Hollow Knight.
You might recognize this area.
I'm actually, I do.
I'm watching the Hollow Knight.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Just a village.
That's where the weepers are from.
Where the hang out.
Yeah.
out me in all of us.
Pretty cool, I guess.
I do like that the face is so blurry because it's just a distant memory for Hornet.
You can't really remember how it is.
Maybe Hornet is so cute, it's unbelievable.
Magic of children just like evolved one day into adults.
They're like growth.
It's like Pikachu in the right, you know, they're just suddenly like a dude with a job.
That's kind of a butterflies for a little bit.
That's fair, yeah.
You're right.
It's a bug.
It's bug, like lizard.
No.
Not like lizard.
That was an emergency.
Listen, I'm an etymology and an etymology nerd.
Okay, I understand this stuff.
Well, you can still be capable of spreading this information.
So, I have this information, I'm just advising it out.
Anyways, that movie was sick.
Yes, it's a totally weird one, let's pay attention to the game.
Yeah, number one, the hive.
That's the queen.
Oh, and she was smaller.
Yeah.
I guess she was really large in the background of the poll tonight.
Yeah, she grows pretty much.
I've only, I only remember, like, the, uh,
the ghost is like being like your size she was more normal but like there's definitely
like something to do with um size and proportions and such and there's a
gigantic identification of certain insects or certain bugs in this game once
they go through like certain like levels of power and such I don't know if
they're fully explained but you see that with like the Hollow Knight gets a lot
bigger. Yeah. Thanks like that. Oh, that's so that's so nice. All right. You got this. That's
Also, I think this is too low. Yeah, all right
Just showing us again. See the full movement. I don't think anyone is actually like fully practice this section. Yeah, I don't blame them
I think sense it must be difficult
Nice, so it doesn't like fully work in debug lot either. You have to like do the whole thing from the start
It's just probably part of the reason
If you like low this low to save state in the middle of red memories, it's just like a black
It's like the area you're in is it loaded yet interesting
I wonder how the maps work for that in particular then yeah, I think it's all just like one big room and like when you get to the area
And it just loads that area I'm not
Gotcha
I'm there certain rooms like that worked like that in a Hollow Knight as well that we kind of like work around to for any person routing
I don't know exactly how they work though, I just know they function differently than the normal room to room stuff.
Now we have the Everglutum and we can actually enter the final boss.
Taking a deep from the Hornets memory.
I wish I could just dream hard enough and suddenly I have a flower.
Yeah, that would be convenient.
Yeah, it would.
What's up, lots of fosters, I don't imagine I could.
Oh, I'm old, I know, shut up.
No, it's just like you're right.
Also, we're coming up on another new year's for Central Times Zone, so do we we'll call that on that in 10 minutes.
That's so nice, then.
Get excited, CST.
Alright, you go back to the diving bill.
Just bench there because it's free, that door takes so long, it doesn't matter.
Okay, that's really clear.
If you have to talk to Balo otherwise he doesn't know what's going on because we, he probably
thought we were dead because we didn't actually talk to him after we escaped get this.
It's just been sitting there morning you in last half hour.
Yeah, he's just been like, I don't know, he's just been sitting there. He's like, I can't leave my post.
And then you talk to them and let's you go back down and now you can enter and exit the
Abyss with the bell.
And you can do that as soon as you escape the Abyss, but we don't have to come back
here until we're done.
Let me sense.
There's not a whole lot down here.
like a relic, and a couple of like war things, internal entries, there's an arcane
egg down here, which is really cool.
Yeah, that was a fun little Easter egg to find that down there.
and
now we can actually just swim in the blade normally before the other blue that was just heard as but now it
it doesn't matter
You
Oh, the cut scenes are just so beautiful.
Yeah, it's one's brain.
Thankfully, this one is not skippable, so we do have to watch it.
We do get it required when yay!
that's what they're on the side
I
Nice nice
good nice those still tripled damage also love that thanks to Terry thank you
very cool.
I think even if you didn't know anything about this game story, this would come across as
just as climactic as it is.
and
after you know play low music
that I was a grandma was she's
and
she loves you power so you can shoot the silks beer far enough to get out of the wood
so cool
And...
It's...
It's...
It's...
GG!
Oh, that was so cool.
Watch for the watch.
This runs so fun.
Such a cool run.
You did such a good job with it, too.
Oh, yeah.
Thank you.
for your first marathon appearance.
Oh, awesome.
Incredible stuff. Great job, Wayne.
Thank you.
I'm bringing in the news.
This is my favorite cutscene, I think.
Yeah, let's enjoy.
It's all right.
Oh, my gosh.
It's all right.
I mean, okay, let's be real.
That's not the whole thing.
That's the best.
That's the best.
I love that he recognizes you though and chooses not to assimilate you to the void that's really cool
It's oh yeah, I know that bug yeah
Because it's specifically done night too because each of the different shadows has its own shape that corresponded to the body that they originally were born with and that one was the unique one for the night
This shows the shadeboard from the government.
Yeah, the flash of that too, to show that the night has ascended into this void form via the power of the shade.
Which is what I'm hoping that the one of the DOC expands on.
I shape them.
Who doesn't?
It's the only possible interpretation of this.
Thank you.
There's no other way to read it.
Truly.
Oh, totally.
Totally.
Probably.
I don't take this for a month.
Well, that was a lot of fun.
Lane, if you have any shoutouts for either where the folks can find you at home or just anyone or anything you'd like to shout out.
Now, is the wartime.
I join the speedrunning discord that is where everything happens and you find a bunch of resources lots of friendly people
And that's how you get debug mods set up if you want to practice anything
Yeah, mm-hmm
Yeah, absolutely definitely go play this game as we've mentioned reports 20% off on Steam right now and free on Xbox Game Pass
definitely go play. It seems really really fun and cool. I say seems because it's too hard for me.
I love to watch it. So thank you very much for showcasing it here. Marcee, if you have any
shoutouts, now is your time. Yeah. I just like to say thanks for y'all have me on for
commenting. This was an amazing run. I knew you did a fantastic job. It was super fun. Get in the hangout
and watch you just absolutely crush this run. As for me, I stream on Twitch and I will be on
and GDQ, commentating for Satan during their run of the race for Jasper, as well as being in the
Eastern 64-realized.
So please make sure to check both of those things out.
They're both going to be absolutely fantastic.
Yeah.
I can't wait.
We've been having a lot of fun in preparation for all of that stuff, and yeah, on that note chat,
we are going to be live for AGDQ.
So please do check back in on Sunday for now.
That was actually our last dream, until then.
And I also do want to say a quick little happy new year to those of you in these central
times though. We did make it across that mark. So if you're celebrating the new year right now,
I'm happy to hear. And if you're still waiting, well, I have a happy new year later. And of course,
if you missed out on out of the box or creature corner, you can stay tuned as we replay both
shows after this. And tune in on Sunday, January 4th at 11 a.m. Eastern for awesome game
sun, quick 2026 a week full of speedruns in support of the prevent cancer foundation. Go to gdq.gg.
If you'd like to attend, type the Exclamation mark A, GDQ in the chat, if you'd like to see the schedule or find out more, and we will be back!