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07-17-2024 · 13h 10m
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runners, and the communities behind them.
I'm Sky Bills your host
and this is episode
oh my goodness we've broken the 100 barrier
again 101 Pokemon
Crystal full item randomizer
with the one,
the only
Kuzeron
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With that being said though,
Keys, how are you doing?
Welcome back to the show. What up oh you know i'm here i'm alive i'm still
on my pokemon bs you know the the usual. Oh yeah absolutely! I asked
Keyes and I'm like alright so what kind of pokemon
do you want to do this time? He's like
full item rando seems good
And i'm like alright alright a lot of people
like their pokemon, for instance.
So before we get started here, Keys,
what is it with you and Pokemon Crystal
in particular? There's so many Pokemon
games out there.
Yeah, so it's really just nostalgia. Like this was the game that I played
The second most as a kid.
The one I played the most is Diamond
The Pokemon Diamond of all things
But uh...I just have a bunch of really good memories i remember being
being a military brat on base and going in a camping tent in our backyards with my friends
and we would all be playing a Pokemon game and just be there like fall
Afternoon or whatnot, because it's a lot of fun vibes
Well yeah
And the cool thing I always liked about crystal is
And I believe this is the same for Golden Southern. You can go back
and forth between Kano and Jodo
or me as someone who grew up on Red Blue
Yellow. It was always like oh my gosh
this is a huge game. Well now we fast forward
to 2024 and that's so tiny compared to what we do have now with current Pokémon generations.
Yeah I definitely love that both regions are in.
I remember I didn't know that for a while though.
Really?
I beat the Elite Four and I was like oh okay, that's it.
And then I came back a week later and my friend was like hey did you know there are more gyms?
And I was like, hey did you know that there's more gyms? And I was like what?!
So yeah as we get going...I do have a few more questions but i want to make sure we can get this started because sometimes this brando can end up being a little cursed so just a tiny bit
uh without further ado keys go ahead on your couch all right we'll start up in 3, 2, 1.
Go!
Good luck and have fun.
So, Keyes, if you can remember now, this is a big ask because this was probably a while ago
and I probably couldn't remember my first team.
What did your first team in Pokemon Crystal look like?
Oh, I can tell you for sure.
I picked Totodile.
Um...I traded my friend for a Mareep because I very very very upset that marip was not available in
crystal um so i had totodile i had marie i had um what's the app i had a Growlithe,
I had a Gastly
and then the last two slots were just kind of shuffled around a lot. At one point in time I ran the shiny Gyarados
because this is so cool he's red.
Yeah! Well I just love Gyarados period I is so cool he's red. Yeah, yeah well I just love
gyarados period the pidgeot
time explosion or whatever
oh all right I'm picking this
because it won't die. Well yes
I would feel like that is the pick but
honestly I don't think there was a terrible
pick in any of those
Yeah like Kizgat would technically guess technically be the worst but I mean normal type and flying
type have really strong moves anyway so it's not like it was going to be bad. But there's also a
chance that because it's an item rando and i can potentially go anywhere and everywhere that uh
i might be able to find something much higher level eventually
or you can learn pet buddy oh my god wait Wait, it already knows arrow blast? What?! Wow! Wow!
Well this is... This is spicy! Well Randomizer, typically when I play one, if things tend to be too good to be true at the beginning,
I usually go with the philosophy it usually is.
Oh, it definitely is.
There's going to be something that happens.
You know it! I know it!
Oh yeah, oh! A champ!
It's gonna be experience, is what it is.
So I can't remember if I ran this version
of the mod
the last time
I was on the show,
but we used something
called Speed Choice
which adds a bunch
of like quality
and lifestyle
stuff
and sped up animation so on and so forth.
You might have noticed that when I attacked
the Machamp, not only was there no animations
because they were turned off anyway, but the health bar just
vanished.
There's animation speedups for any animations that are still in the game,
so it saves a lot of time.
Ooh leftovers! So for folks who may not be familiar with the settings of when you do Pokemon Crystal Flight on Randomizer, what can someone expect watching this and possibly playing it in the future on these settings?
Chaos. You can expect chaos, you're gonna have to think a lot...
I- oh hey look, I've got you already
I have to uh...
I always have to like keep track of any funky things that might be happening.
I also have shop randomizers, so money management and resource
management is so much more important now.
Oh! Like a Pokeball could
cost, like, $1200.
Oh I didn't even think about that, yeah.
Yeah see you have to be like extra careful
and the goal of this is to get all the
items, you know badges
possibly chins you need to travel around
all of that and then defeat the elite four
in Kano Jodoota, or Gold?
So the ultimate goal
is to make it to Red.
So I will need all 16 badges
I'll need to defeat the Elite Four
however I can find a way to travel all over the place it's a combination
of uh different items which I'm going to be perfectly honest with you my brain does not want
to tell me what those items are right now.
There's a combination of items that will help me get there.
Well thanks to y'all we do have this wonderful tracker that folks in the audience can see so
those are the items that he's looking for we even got
that nice little go button there uh back when i started
randomizers that would have been a really nice feature to have
so I like this, this is a very very nice tracker.
Yeah, like I...
I'm a little biased of course but I do think
that a lot of the Pokemon trackers are really
good because they're simplistic
enough to where it's not an overwhelming amount of information,
but it's very obvious for the most part like what you're getting.
I know some of the items on the tracker might not look familiar to some people
which is completely understandable.
There's
this thing that I'm flashing right now. This is the
machine part for example.
You don't ever see that icon.
Now apologies to you two
here because we cannot get your live comments but
we are a live show right here on Twitch
and we do have some questions
here from the chat. We are an active
chat friendly show so we do our best to
respond unless Keys needs some serious
time for this of course.
But we have our first question from the chat
here and it says please ask Keys
again. Thank you for saying please. That's heckin' awesome.
If the squirrel from Monday survived, you know,
Keys does this have to do with our conversation in the pre-show?
What happened?
Okay, so as As some of you
may or may not know, the first step is
back and it's on every other
Monday at
7pm Eastern. So similar
time to before just a different day.
I was practicing for the game we were doing that day which is Minecraft Dungeons
Which if you did not see that speedrun in SGDQ
You totally should
Really really fun game. Also a really hard
game to speedrun.
I had just finished my practice stream
and the moment that I cut my stream
my internet went down and it was down for two and a half hours
and it was because for two and a half hours. And it was because a squirrel
decided that, uh...
A cable outside was delicious
and, uh...
Oh no!
I don't think that squirrel's with us anymore.
Oh no!
But, yeah...
Why does this always happen
during streams? Some of the most
ridiculous stuff. I don't know.
It's wild.
Okay, so we have another question here. Please ask what Keyes' favorite Pokemon is.
Can you pick one, Keyes?
There are so many.
There's a lot and depending on the day
and my mood,
you might get a different answer.
Okay!
A lot of times...I'll rotate between Zoroark, specifically Hisuian Zoroark from Legends Arceus
It's really
really cool i like the design um i unironically like jinx now because
it's been a meme for me for so long that i just i
now i have no choice i I'm in too deep.
I also really like Gengar and Zapdos.
And I should have known that, right?
Didn't you say you caught a Gastly the first time
you played this?
Like, Gastly was having a thing?
Yep, yep.
So then you'd have...
Hopefully Ganger!
I was the kind of person where
once I got the Game Boy Advance SP
I know this is old.
I know y'all.
But I used the link cable again old to link uh get two games up so i could
get gangers and alakazams in particular did you have anything like that i sure
did in fact you know because we're horribly aging ourselves
in this show apparently
I remember when Crystal came out
and
like 9 or 10
but Crystal came out with this bundle for the Game Boy Color like it was
the clear atomic purple Game Boy Color and it came with Pokemon Crystal and it
was like 10 bucks cheaper if you bought a bundle or something.
I remember, I told my mom, hey, I really want this
You know I like Pokemon games?
I really want Pokemon Crystal
I didn't say anything about the Game Boy itself
I guess she misunderstood the instructions and was like i don't know why this game's so
expensive but uh i got it for you and she got me the game boy that had a tube oh my gosh so
i have two gameboy colors and I'm like okay perfect.
I don't need my friends for help!
I'm just gonna trade!
Alright couple other great questions here from the chat.
What is your least favorite Pokemon? And maybe
if you can't think of a least favorite Pokemon, like maybe
even a least favorite Pokemon type.
Skiplum. A Skiplum?
Skiplum. Really? Even more
so than like, I don't know, Weedle or...
I hate Skip Bloom.
Okay!
There's a story as to why I hate Skip Bloom.
Okay, alright, I'd love to.
I hope it's justifiable story.
No please! Yeah.
So um, I was doing a randomizer bingo and i caught a pokemon that had rock smash
uh if you don't understand the relevance of that chat. RockSmash gives you
a level 15 Pokemon, and since I
got it early, I only had like
a level 6 Pokemon or something, I was like, okay.
Cool. I have
a potential chance to sweep an early game with something that's like more than double the level it should be.
Uh, unfortunately, it was a Skiplum and it was probably...
Probably the worst run i've ever had in my life.
Oh my gosh! probably the worst run I've ever had in my life. Oh,
my gosh.
So,
I am a Skiplume hater.
Sorry to any Skiplume enthusiast and chat.
I am not that.
That is... Yeah, I totally understand!
So along the things you dread the most, you know, Skiplum being one of them
what part of this run in particular just pokemon
you know item rando in general do you dread the most i think what scares me
the most with these which is preventable if you set the logic this way.
But I never do because I have one brain cell.
Anytime the logic expects you to get to a much later part of
the game early when
you're just not physically prepared for it.
There's been some seeds I had where I could go to Kanto
early and they expected me to beat Sabrina. Again,
something that is within your
power to stop from happening. I just never do it.
So, you know, I have to fight a gym
leader with level 50s and I have
a level 20.
But it also adds like a neat little element to it too, it gives me an opportunity
to like
find new ways that she fights or something
there was one seed I did where
I had to go to the Elite Four Mart, like I didn't have
to beat the Elite Four specifically but I had to go to the
Elite Four Mart to get an item. Yeah. To progress?
I think it was cut of all things. Oh!
And I was supremely
underleveled compared to my rival
but
we did this thing where
like I had X defend
and I did that to survive
and stall out PP
Then I had to land a dynamic punch
To confuse it
It was like solving a puzzle
So that was a lot of fun
But it was also dreadful
One of the worst things I've ever done in Night at Miranda.
I'm sure we'll find something ridiculous tonight,
We always do when I have you on either of my shows, and it's usually
really good content for the audience
so I don't want it to be
too much of a pain for you but at the same
time I do find it wildly entertaining
when something unexpected happens.
Except I will remind you throughout, and I have to do this
given our friendship, please be sure to save your game.
Hmm.
All right, I'll do that right now! Good call, good call, good call.
Right?
I think that was my first save of the day.
Oh man...
I don't want to be THAT person, but No. Be that person please!
The first ever show
I had here on GDQ Hotfix
a very long time ago might I add
Poor Keith had a corrupted save file
and uh... I believe it was my first
Mercy kill that we had. It sure
was! Episode 1 of Mercy
Kill, 6 minutes in,
corrupted save.
I was like, no! You didn't save.
Another question here.
Are shinies possible?
I want to say yes. It's crystal.
Yeah, absolutely.
It's the old rate so
1 in 8100 Yeah, absolutely. It's the old rate so what?
One in 8190 something, 92 I think.
Did you find any besides
the Red Gyarados keys that...
And this is my own question.
I only saw one when i was playing pokemon silver
and i found a bell spark and i had no clue what a shiny even
was i just saw it and i'm like this i thought like it glitched out right
because he's and i come from an era where some of us made bad decisions
And caught stuff that procced off of Missingno
Like level 200 Pokemon, then your file got corrupted
That is legit happening to me
So i thought it was along
those lines, right? Sure.
And I caught it!
Yeah.
I don't think I found a shiny in this game.
I think my first shiny that wasn't the Gyarados was an Emerald.
Oh, really?
Okay.
And that one...
That one I forced.
Like, that one I, uh...
I wanted the shiny Rayquaza, so I saved in front of it and I reset for like two weeks straight.
Now granted, it wasn't all at once.
I did it on the bus to and from school.
It was a 30 minute bus ride so you know I'd get an hour of resets in every day during
school.
Yeah.
Other than that...
The funniest thing about that one though and this is absolutely absurd luck yeah
i spent the two weeks to get that shiny rayquaza and then my friend had mentioned
that hey you can get a you can get a beldum in steven's house i was like oh okay
that's cool and the belldom was shiny first try without even trying wow i got a back-to-back
shining i was like this thing's sick and i didn't realize it wasn't supposed to be blue.
So,
so I was just like,
oh this is really cool
why does it turn blue?
It doesn't
you got a shiny.
So another question
from the chat
again these are wonderful y'all.
Is it possible to randomize Pokemon Diamond, Pearl, Platinum like you can with Crystal?
And if so how come you don't run that or I'll say run that as much because
y'all I'll tell you something when it comes to pokemon
keys is another pokemon professor you know what i mean like he's knows like so much about pokemon
and just crystal happens to be the favorite here. But is it due
to the length of time that you don't run Diamond
Pro Platinum? If I were to take a guess,
I would say it doesn't have as much of a nostalgia
factor but I'm going to like his answer.
I mean, nostalgia does play some into it uh it's more just the older generations
of games have a lot more accessibility to them when it comes to modifying them, and also just a bigger plethora of options in the randomizers.
I think there might be like a beta for Diamond Platinum Pearl
for Item Rando, but I'm not 100% sure.
And I do know that at least back
then there were older versions of the randomizer where like the Pokédex didn't properly work.
So if you want to do a catch-em all or something, you had to take vigorous notes.
Oh I bet! Yeah, again again back in the day this is just
in general and again I'm so sorry about dating
us both Kaze, I know you didn't
Well, you technically did sign it up cause
you know that the conversation always goes
this way. It's you, it's me, it's Richard, of course we're going to talk about this.
But it's like if we ran
into something like how I ran into the
shiny belt truck and didn't put two together
with the shiny Gyarados
you wouldn't have internet to fall back on back then,
or at least some of us didn't even know where to go
back then. So it was one of those like...you could go into your local
bookstore and maybe like buy something or even just thumb through the pages real quick because who hasn't done that?
That's a 90s kid experience.
I still remember – and just to continue to further date us i still remember going
to gamewinners.com okay oh yeah
yeah yeah it was a cheat in Hint Site
and I remember
most of the
cheats they put on for Pokemon were just
complete BS right?
Like really dumb stuff like oh you can get yoshi and mu3
and stuff like this uh just absolutely
you know ridiculously false things but i
i remember my
my proud moment as a child was submitting the game winners.
Like, I submitted a tip.
I was like hey if you don't evolve your Pokemon right away
You could possibly learn their most powerful moves way earlier
For example Squirtle will get Hydro Pump at like 40-something
whereas Blastoise doesn't get it until
50-something. Not worth
its time. No, it's not
worth it but like i was
like they accepted my submission i have
a submission on game winners let's go
and this is this is baby keys era
like i think the username I had back then
was like XGP
which is like
the name of the
original name
of the ship
from Outlaw Star.
Y'all are getting
a history lesson.
Oh yeah! Well like I'm not kidding
when I said you were a Pokemon professor, Keyes
I truly mean that. You know your stuff
with this franchise
Well, I want to talk a little bit later
because we do have a few more questions remind me to return to it i want
to talk about one of your favorite marathons i've ever seen on your channel keys the touch grass
marathon but we'll talk about that later because we still got some questions from the chat here.
So...
What Pokémon had the biggest upgrade from original version to regional variant?
Which Pokémon did you like the least in
the original to the most in the new regional variant and as an example for this person
in chat um they detested uh stun fist but adore the galarian variant we received in Gen 8?
I... hmm.
I mean, it's not like older-older.
So I'll give two answers.
My general answer would be Zoroark and Zarua, because I really like how they changed from dark to normal ghost
And I just like their artistic design
If you want to go, like, actual
old school and go back
to, like, Gen 1 Pokemon,
I really, really
like Doug Dimidome
Weezing.
Was that the Weezing that looked like there were smokestacks? Or is that something else?
So he had smoke stacks at the top of his hat, and his hat looked like an absurdly comically tall
top hat.
He also became part fairy for some reason.
He was Poison Fairy I think?
It was really funny just going
from a gaseous ball to someone who looks like that they drink tea with their pinky up and whatnot.
That's a good one! I always liked the Alolan Executorutor and the Alolan Raichu.
I thought both of those were babies.
Alolan Raichi was so good!
What a gorgeous Monk.
Okay, another fun question here from chat. if either of us lived in the pokemon world and we
were a gym leader what pokemon type would our gyms be i would be dragon 110 percent i love
dragons i would i would either be I'd either be ghost or dark.
I just happen to really like
mons that are ghosts
and mons that are dark.
Yeah,
I could see also though
if there was ever
an Eeveelution gym
I could see you having an Eeveelution gym i could see you having
any illusion jim keys yeah yeah that would be fun
i do like uh i do really like sylvan and i do like
a leafy on the lot too. Yeah!
They are adorable.
Glazeon's also a little sweetie.
Mm-hmm.
All right so let me see, I'm catching up here
And again this is great chat.
Um, Alolan Marowak's really good, yes I agree there
also too, there was a question
have you done Archipelago
with Pokemon? Let me tell y'all where
to find that content! You can go here
at twitch.tv slash kizeron for some awesome archipelago
content but i'll let you talk about that like he's because you do a lot of it so
much yeah i i do them some uh anyone who's been
a watcher of the first step.
I've had Pokemon Archipelago featured on there several times as like an emergency hey we, we need to get the show going but there's some sort of technical difficulty. Let's just do an Archipelago.
I've
been doing a lot of Emerald Archipelago.
If
I do red at all, then
I make sure it's as obnoxious as possible. So I'll do
Map Rando, Stat Rando
with that.
The Crystal Archipelago has apparently
improved a lot since I last looked
at it so that might be something I try out soon.
Like literally soon.
Maybe next week.
I'll look forward to that. So pretty much
you do stream every day, right? Because I usually wake up by time and you're
usually up and going and it has been a lot of archipelago lately. Is that about what your
schedule is? You streaming about the afternoons Eastern we'll call it. Yeah yeah like I usually
start...I'll start at 12 or 1
Eastern usually
and I usually go about 6 to 8
hours cause this
is my full time gig so I treat is my full-time gig.
So I treat it like full time.
I try to get a solid amount of time in.
That is also why y'all should follow Keith.
Again, just very quality entertainment there
and again,
it is a lot of
Pokemon but he's
also liked,
I know you do some
Ender Lilies content
as well.
What else lately
has arrived besides
Pokemon content
out of curiosity?
Um, so I'm going to be honest,
I really want to play some more Minecraft Dungeons.
Really?!
Hobbs and I were super disappointed that we couldn't have the race
that we wanted on Monday,
but we're actually planning out
playing that game further. It's one of
the few... Not to say we haven't
done bangers for the first
step obviously, but it's one of the few TFS games where Hobbs and I
have both been equally as excited to get into.
So that's something that's gonna be happening a lot soon.
Really like doing Fire Emblem stuff as well. Not necessarily speedrun stuff, I like
doing challenge stuff with that.
Really
like old-school first-person shooters too.
Like a lot of times if I do an Archipelago
I might include Doom or Doom 2
just kind of as my
BK mode games while
still doing something. Well, if you
do like Zelda 1 keys,
I'm a big fan. It's called The Legend of Doom if you
ever want to play it. It's a doom mod that
spelled a 1. It was so much fun.
I would recommend it to anyone.
I've seen that. It looks interesting.
Yeah, would very much recommend. Let me know if you ever
play it. I would love to see your
thoughts and impressions behind it.
So back to Pokemon here because I talked about this earlier
one of the things that
I'd enjoyed Te do was the Touch Grass
Marathon. It was an incentive in Keys'
stream again. A bunch of us here are full-time
streamers, so Keys, what did you
like the most about the Touch Grass
Marathon and what is it?
So, the Touch Grass Marathon and what is it? So, the Touch Grass Marathon was such a silly idea.
It's literally exactly what it sounds like.
I played every single Pokemon game up until
I touched a patch of grass that could produce an encounter
So some games were done in 30 seconds,
Some would take, like, 10 to 15 minutes.
And we had to make some exceptions too,
I included the GameCube games
as well, so XD and
Colosseum.
And... Oh god, there's no actual grass
so like we just had to find a blade of
grass and I'd touch it and be like that counts!
Next game! What did you do for stadium?
Accepted that could not add stadium.
Now see maybe in the future if you were to do it again
Maybe wait until you get to Erica's gym cause there's gotta be grass here
Yeah yeah
Technically It's definitely one of those silly things where like, oh we're gonna have a little bit more fun with this game and then we'll go back to the old days. Like, we can't mon or something. Yeah, yeah.
Technically.
It's definitely one of those silly ideas that
could probably actually
be developed into
something with the
funniest meta.
Oh, yeah!
Absolutely.
I love that.
I think my... Because I had a timer up and everything
we made a joke like oh we're turning this into
a speedrun
And uh...I think the biggest time
that I lost was transitioning from Game Boy Advance game to DS, because I found out that my DS capture died, so I had to grab Emrys.
So was this a regular DS or 3DS?
Regular.
Okay, I tried using the 3DS and again this could be an age thing very much so
Every time I try to turn on the 3D mode on my 3DS
I just could not understand the screen
If that made sense I'd just be like what am i looking at
I turned it on once blinked did not like how my eyes reacted when
i blinked said nope and turned it back off and never tried
it again.
That was my experience, I was wondering if i was the only person who had been through that but
my gosh...
I think the only other time I've turned on 3D is if you had one of the, like, catsuit kitty captures instead of a loopy capture.
The software for the capture will shift very slightly to
the left and right every time you turn 3D on and off.
So it'd be like one of those nervous ticksics I would do sometimes just to watch something.
Yeah! No, that's understandable.
And then of course there is Game Boy Camera and that's a whole different thing you all may want to talk to Pidge about.
Bless Pidge.
And void.
I love the aesthetic.
I couldn't rock it, but I love it.
It's so good.
So far, what are you thinking about this seed?
What are your initial impressions?
Obviously, Lugia good at the beginning.
Stat's pretty decent.
Yeah, Lugia good at beginning.
It's surviving. I wish
I could do more damage than I have
been. It feels like I have really bad offensive DVs,
which for
anyone that doesn't know what a DV is it's
determinant value, which is
determines what your stats
become. In Gens 1 and 2,
it's a number between 0 and 15
And then from
Gen 3 onward, it became
individual values instead of
DVs, and it was 0-31.
But yeah I feel like I have 3 or less in my offenses
It's not good. But nothing can kill me!
Yeah so you have a tank it sounds like
uh someone asked if we all ever had the game boy printer okay that was really fancy technology and
honestly back then you were lucky just to have a game boy color or a gameboy
advance i don't know if i've ever seen a printer
in person other than like you know if you go nowadays to like
your favorite retro game store maybe you'll see it in the wild but
it's kind of rare how about you keys do you ever have any uh
engagement with that i have the camera and the printer
in a box to my right oh
i saved a lot of my old toys.
I was bad, I didn't save
a lot of my old games so you know
getting old games again has been
obnoxious but uh... Yeah
I have a lot of my old hardware. Like, I even have like...
I have a Sega Genesis Model 1 and a Model 2.
I have Super Famicom and SNESes just laying around.
So you said the Genesis. Isn't that the one where like you kept upgrading it by putting more stuff in it if that makes sense?
I remember seeing like...
Yeah there's like that cartridge. There's a picture that was floating around of that, like,
super cartridge from hell where it's
just, like, five billion Sonic games
stacked on another...
Yeah, you know what I'm talking about! It's almost like
as if the Genesis evolved. Like, it wasn't like you know the uh
the expansion pack in the 64 which back then again that was big stuff right but like nowadays i hear
about the genesis and what that was like
And just every time you kept putting another part into the genesis
Oh my goodness
I have one of those, like the Sonic 3 and Knuckles attachment thing.
And it just looks so goofy!
Putting that in a Genesis is the same thing to me as like putting
in the Pokemon pinball cart in your Game Boy.
Remember it was so big because you had to put an actual battery
in it, so you could get the rumble?
Yeah I remember that all too well. in it, so you can go with the rumble.
Yeah, I remember that all too well.
That was definitely innovative for the time and I remember
when Fire Red came out
I was really, really excited
and then we got HeartGold and SoulSilver, but I was a little
disappointed that HeartGold and SoulSilver wasn't
an advanced game because
the DS wasn't exactly cheap when
it first came out. Oh no.
It was not. also like the first set of models were
like the hinges were kind of weak so like it was really easy to accidentally break
oh yeah you always get those stories when a console first comes out with something happening.
Like, you know, do you ever see the warnings, for example, for the Wiimotes, y'all?
To have it attached because apparently people were throwing the Wiimotes into their monitors or TVs or something.
I was like, oh my God.
But yeah, if a warning exists...
I made fun of a friend for losing a Wiimote
and then the next day I hacked up
and lost the Wiimote. So, uh...
There are two dents in my wall.
But I will say though that the Switch is one of
the most interface-friendly systems we've had in a very long time.
I think that's why it has been around for so long.
Yeah, I think this is Nintendo's longest console?
In terms of like lifespan.
Yeah, yeah.
So that's why folks are so enthused about the new Nintendo technology
that would possibly be coming out because it's like okay well what
are they going to do next?
And I said as long as it's not named the switch you i'm okay
but you would curse right imagine if you get a switch
youth no no i I like the idea
someone said in chat
you can share
all of your ideas
for what you would
like the new
Nintendo console
to be named
but I like the
idea of calling it
the Super Nintendo
Switch.
That would be
cute, actually. Yeah!
I'm aboard. You
sold me. I sold you on that one. That's good.
You sold me. Like, that sounds so cute.
I always liked it, and certainly too,
it is the best that Nintendo systems have been able to hook up
to the internet for instance.
If anybody tried to connect their Wii or their Wii U
if you had a Wii U to the internet.
Oh my gosh! It was an adventure, to say the least.
I-I had one of the... there's that like story going around about
Wii Us for awhile that certain ones just kinda died there's that like story going around about Wii U's for a while,
but certain ones just kind of died after a certain amount of time passed.
Really?
I have one of those. My Wii U no longer works.
Really? I had one! But it's in my closet now.
I don't know the last time I booted it up.
Maybe off-booted it up. It's been a little while.
Luckily, I had two, which is you know,
two more than I should have ever had.
There've been a couple of TFS episodes where
I did have to use a Wii U but like my first one that
I got yeah it's bricked.
Oh and speaking of TFS now
I have it in my follow the runner thing
because I want folks to know
but why don't you talk about The First Step?
Now my show has been around for a while
but your show has been on even longer
yours and Hobbs so yeah feel free to talk about the first step.
Yeah so the first step is old as dirt
that's the recurring theme of this conversation
never forget
I think our first episode was 2018?
Yeah.
Y'all were like a year before me,
I'm pretty sure because I was 2019
and it
was Hobbs' idea originally.
And he'll joke, whenever you ask him,
he'll joke and be like,
oh yeah, keys was my third choice.
But he reached out to me one day
and he was like, hey do you want to do a speedrunning show together?
Make it like a low effort show where...
We kind of had the convenience, and you understand having to go through this
but we kind of have the convenience
since it's just us as a recurring cast
and not constantly rotating runners.
It saves us time when it comes
to getting vetting and
tech checks taken care of.
We wanted to make a show that was
low overhead
when it came to setting things up,
but we also wanted a show that was actually kind of impactful so the first step
came about um and the whole purpose of the show if you've never seen it is to show how
easy it is to get into speed running uh using low effort methods. So we will
usually play a game
once
roughly like 8 hours or so
and then we'll take notes of
any prominent things, anything that we might have found.
Like oh it looks like if you slide then your
movement's faster than if you run or that kind of thing
and we'll race against each other because
doing those improv style
races is a really awesome way to get into speed running because one you don't,
you don't have the pressure of self-improvement yet.
Cause you're just getting into it, but two,
just doing it with a friend really like it kills a lot of the
potentially aggravating parts
of a run. Like there's been
many, many games that we've done on TFS
where when I was playing it solo
I wasn't having like the greatest time with
it. But then when I was racing it with Hobbs even if
I was getting my butt kicked um i'd be having a blast because I was just with a friend
and that's- that's the important thing
that everyone has to remember, speedrunning is supposed
to be fun first and foremost you're supposed
to be having fun with it so we really like
pushing that and showing everyone
anyone can pick up speedrun You don't have to be fancy you
don't have to spend 15 hours practicing a frame perfect trick you could just pick
up the game and go fast so for folks who may not be as
familiar with the first step, if you were to pick
maybe an episode or two
because again we talk
about it all the time our GDQ
Hot Facts shows are on YouTube and they're very diligently put up so if you were to recommend
someone to watch an episode of tfs what direction would you point someone in and be like yes that
is one of my favorite episodes and that'll get you into tms
there are three episodes i can think of um all for slightly different reasons
but they're all really really good.
I would recommend watching our Super
Metroid race. We didn't get to finish
and it's a bit of the
longer, a bit on the longer side.
This is back when we were able to have
four hours for the show instead of two and a half, so
we were able to do longer games
or games that were a lot more difficult to finish and uh we had both never played super
metroid before which is really shocking to hear um but uh so that was a really good episode it
was really close actually a lot of points where we were in sync with each other
which is really wild when you think about it
because it's a Metroid game, you can go anywhere.
I would also recommend Untitled goose game that was actually like our
this is one of our like first few episodes we've ever done uh very
very nail biter right at the end as close of a race
as we've ever had.
And then there was a
race...
Well, it wasn't a race.
We did a co-op run
because sometimes we
won't do races.
We'll just do a run
cooperatively.
We did a co-op run.
It was a four player Halo 4 run or Halo 3
run and that probably is my favorite episode because the vibes were really
cool we had improved a ton in our practice.
Like, we had splits up and could visibly see,
hey, like, we're understanding how to play this
a lot better.
We feel good about this.
And it might not be, like, the the most impressive statistic but we had only
gotten like three or four runs in and we we got like a top 20 top 15 times
something like that and now that was with very little effort.
Chad was picking out some of their favorite episodes
too, so we have some TFS fans in chat.
Very cool. And again, Keys,
what is the next episode? Just so we know.
The next episode is... and thank goodness I can see my calendar
It's gonna be the 29th of July
Unfortunately, I will not be there because I will be in michigan for a family reunion but um
hobbs will be there and we will have a special guest fill-in for me and it's still gonna be
just as good of an episode as it always is.
We're in the planning stages right now, trying to
nail what game we think will work best
and who we want as a guest.
I should be talking about that tomorrow morning.
I know what it's like to be a guest. I've filled in for Hobbs I should be talking about that tomorrow morning.
I know what it's like to be a guest.
I've filled in for Hobbs,
I think,
a couple times.
I've enjoyed when you filled in for Hobbs because then that meant
I could get away with playing Yu-Gi-Oh!
Because Hobbs will never play it.
Oh my, I feel like this needs to happen
for some kind of incentive. You know what? I'm going to think about that and come back to that. We need to get Hobbs to play with you!
I do remember one of the episodes you and I did together...
we put a picture of Hobbs in one of those webcams. Just to be like, look, Hobbs is playing!
Yeah that sounds about right! So yeah chat was also
reminiscing here about the first step
in talking about their favorites.
So we have, The Donkey Kong Country Show
was really good.
We had some love for Hang On and Scroll.
Because there was quite a few that folks had.
The number of times you tried to run Metroid Prime
where tech issues prevented it from working,
yeah, that sounds about right.
That sounds about in character
um uh someone else said i really like the one where they coach ecchi and spike
through pokemon and kingdom hearts 2. i remember seeing
that series it was pretty good.
We really,
really enjoyed doing that and Ecchi and Spud... I mean, we
already know that they're gamers but
if they needed to prove themselves
they definitely did that day because
they went into this completely fresh to the format and
everything. And they both did a killer job.
I do agree.
You know, if I could have a top four then I would probably include
the Ecchi and Spike episode because
I remember
every time
we ever went to Ecchi and Hobbs' feed, you'd hear Hobbs giving really detailed instructions.
Like yeah, do it this way... oh yeah if you approach it this way then
you get to skip this phase or whatever
and you immediately go to me and spike
and it's just the two stooges which is like
jolting on used thunderbolt
also I wanted I'm gonna tell you, Thunderbolt.
Also, I want to take a moment to shout out our tag,
our wonderful friend Richard who said
still proud of the intro video made
and there is a link to that if you all want to catch it for the Prime episode in particular,
The one folks look fondly upon. So be sure to check that out!
More favorite episode of TFS was the 6-point run of the newest Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video game, that sounds like fun!
Yeah, um it was... let's see who was it? My old man brain is trying to remember- oh, I could go ho instead of Yumi.
There was me,
Hobbs,
Bobby,
Covert Muffin,
Emre... Oh, I feel so bad I don't remember.
I'm forgetting one person! Who am I forgetting?
No! I didn't want to put you on the spot!
I was just trying to remember but that was a fun episode too.
There were some connectivity issues now and again,
But I think it was Saints. Oh yeah! That sounds right.
Oh gosh she's gonna be so mad at me.
How could you forget?
No one tell her,
please. Thanks.
How long ago was that?
20, 22 years. uh 20 22. okay well to be fair time has been kind of distorted lately so i think
saints will forgive you i hope so i can't remember something that happened in 2022!
Yeah, neither can I!
Another question bringing it back to the randomizer here...
What are the catch rates for each Pokemon?
Oh, so this is just for simplicity's sake
and making sure that we don't go horrendously overestimate
but I just have it set
to everything's a master ball essentially
okay so that's the good side throw ball get your catch no i like that because i mean
i don't feel like really hiking up the catch rate adds anything to
The Randomizer, right? Like we know how annoying
it was in the original and we tend
to do that when we make
the different settings that we have
right. Does this add to The Random right? Does this add to the randomizer?
Does this add to our enjoyment?
I mean sure it might be a good troll for the audience
to be like ha we're here for 10 minutes
and we're still trying to catch this view
but you know for runners we don't want to deal with any of that.
All right so I kind of catch everyone up on some of what's been going
on in the game... Ooh fire punch for my hobo.
I got the pass early so I'm in Kanto super duper early and I'm gonna be honest this was not on purpose
I usually play with 50% level boost,
both for wild Pokemon and for trainers just to like add a little bit of an
extra spicy challenge.
I turned off the trainers being 50%.
I forgot to turn off the wilds being 50%,
so that's why I have a level 48 Ho-Oh,
when you're only supposed to get like level 20s and 30s in that grass.
So, oops!
Yeah, here we are!
Some of the chat says what do you mean?
I love late bike and fly in Mt Silver.
Yeah, that's another thing
anyone who has any experience
with playing these
I made sure
Fly and Bike were available early
because those are the worst trolls ever just it's good exercise for the character i
guess but it's so slow now we get that and before folks come
on the show now it is completely up to my guests
to determine whether or not this seed's going to be
vetted and when I say vetted, I mean like
is there any major trolls that someone else can
look over and be like hey you might not want
to have this seed on the show
however if it is unvetted which you know
sometimes that makes for a fun episode i say well it's at your discretion here's when the next show
starts so we can't meet it by then, you know, we have the double over
bet on prices right and move on to the
next show, you know what I'm saying?
But at the same time
I do like a little bit of
a mix of that vetted and non-vetted.
But given, again,
and this is no fault
of our own,
I swear me and Keith
are always cursed
when we're in the same room
one way or another.
I'm glad that you
had this early.
Yeah, I... uh i'm glad that you had this early yeah i've learned i've learned after doing shows with you i've learned i'm sure i'm sure i'm gonna find something else that all fix for you know next next next time soon
oh yeah well with me and keys it's always something right
it's just like this ongoing motif.
Mm-hmm.
I was thinking about...
Me and Keys did a run of Forbidden Memories
a couple years ago.
Actually, I think it'll be three years ago, as of January
and um, I was thinking about the wild
luck, and the most wild that
I found was the dry gumo
early for me? I mean come
on! What were the odds of that?
I still can't
believe I didn't get an MBD but I got
a Toon Gator.
Yeah, you got multiples right? I think you got two
in that run. Yeah, I got two Toon Gators and no MBDs.
Yeah, this is why we gotta have a rematch.
This is why I always propose a
rematch because we need it. Not only that...
I'm hungry for the rematch.
Not only that, it would just be fun to encourage each other in person!
It'd be awesome to have a good laugh.
I think a Forbidden Memories race in person would be really hype.
The crowd would get into it.
Oh, for sure for sure
double over bids your favorite ending for the price is right no get out of here that's too sad when both people lost. No, bad.
That's cursed.
But yeah, me and Keyes have a lot of experience with random games.
I mean that's one of my favorite things about your stream in general
is whenever you turn it on there's always like an archipelago or a
randomizer or something going on TFS stuff
You never know what you're going to find and a lot of it's just
you never know what to expect right? Like none of it's like a fixed speedrun or a fixed game.
It's always something beyond that,
a challenge run, a randomizer
and I always enjoy that about your stream.
It's a good time.
Thanks.
Yeah, I have found that the longer I've streamed
The more I don't want to do exactly the same thing over and over
Which is...
I mean, I'm doing the randomizers of like
the same games over and over but at
least it's a different experience
every time. It isn't like pure speed
running where oh,
i didn't get the critical here so
I'm gonna lose five seconds and now my time isn't as good it's just oh
i didn't get the crit this sucks
i think one of the toughest things for me to always accept about speedrunning, and it's good to have these conversations.
We just had a Street EQ wrap up as of this recording. It was a couple weeks ago, congratulations to everyone involved.
Congratulations on the money raised.
It was a wonderful endeavor.
But we talk about speed running and speed running is just really exhausting.
It's a lot of time saves with a lot of the time.
Not a huge payoff, right? I mean, obviously
there are exceptions, you know.
We think of the barrier skip in Windbreaker,
the gelato skip in Sunshine.
You know, there are sizable skips but then other times
it's like I'm going to do this skip
and I'm going to lose one
minute if I fail it and save
five seconds if I get past it
and that's the exhausting part about speedrunning, right?
Oh, definitely.
And you know, that's some of the reason why
I really enjoy the fact that we have a show
like The First Step.
I'm not trying to pump my own ego up or anything like that.
It's a good show! Thank you.
It's just nice to have some sort of reminder because we all get lost in the
sauce sometimes right? Oh yeah. It's nice it's nice to have a reminder that hey
you can still have like fun ways to approach things and also
hey you can always play it safe and a of times, until you're at the point where
you're absolutely like top three,
top two and you need to save half a second
to stand a chance,
A lot of times taking those slower,
safer strats is going to be so much better not only
for your mental but you'll finish more runs that way and i think that gets kind
of lost in translation sometimes um You can practice a segment
a ton, you can
like...you know, you could practice the flagpole
glitch in Mario runs
over and over and over and over, you could spend
hours, days working on it but it's not
going to translate to a real run success
until you start getting comfortable doing
it in a real run so there's
a lot of value to knowing
safe and backup strats
and not worrying too much about,
oh, I'll lose a minute if I don't get this skip.
Like, oh, well that's a minute I can save
once I'm a lot more comfortable with the game, you know?
Yeah. Absolutely! And speaking of again first step in mind
what was your first speedrun KZ? It's no secret
KZ has been in the community for a very long time.
Again I believe Kaze and I may have started around the same time
but what was your first game?
It wasn't Crystal, surprisingly.
Crystal was the first
game that I streamed speedrunning
but my first actual
speedrun umrun was Resident Evil 5.
Really? I would have...
You tell me this after Mercy Kill concluded!
Dang it, that would've been so good to have on!
I forgot the mark of secret potion
I was trying to remember. No, jokes aside
Yeah like uh
I loved playing it
It was a game that I actually got my I loved playing it.
It was a game that I actually got my dad into, so he
actually...my dad's a speed runner!
He doesn't know it but my dad dad's a speedrunner. Sure!
Because we would try to go through the game super fast and they weren't top times
or anything, but like we actively
went in with the goal of
we want to beat this game as fast as possible, which that is
speedrunning folks.
If you ever have any doubt
if you're just trying to beat the game fast, congrats
you're a speedrunner.
It doesn't have to be some big formal thing. It doesn't have to be some big formal thing.
It doesn't have to be a confirmed time on the leaderboard, you just try to defeat a game fast...
Guess what? You're a speedrunner. Like, and some of us don't even realize that.
I love that moral for sure. Another
question here from chat, for the people who
have not heard it before could Keys explain
how you got into Pokemon
speedruns?
This is a fun story that I love telling
and it's also a story that
it sounds like total
BS man so
um
I was on YouTube
and I was looking up
Bone Thugs in Harmony
because I just really wanted to listen to some rap
that day.
And um... For some, the YouTube algorithm can sometimes be a little funky.
Oh no! Really?
My recommended video after Bone Thugs in Harmony was Pokemon Crystal Speedrun by Worcester
in 3.22
or whatever it was, and I was like wait
I loved playing Crystal as a kid so I actually
sat down and watched it to see how he beat
it so fast because I was so confused How can you beat a Pokémon game that fast?
And after watching it...
Looking back this sounds like
a really cocky comment to make but
after watching it I was like,
I could do this! I could beat this one day
so that's how I got into it and
I remember the first time that I actually
tied world record
was a big deal to me because I was like
I did it. I, I proved myself that,
hey,
I said I could do it
and I did it.
Now I'm super duper washed
because there's a lot of really
and that's not even
like a self-depreciation thing.
That's just
there are so many fantastic Pokémon speedrunners now.
I can't even name
a quarter of them now but back in my day
I'd be able to name everyone
but now there's just so many fantastic runners.
I mean like you got a bunch of new wave of runners, like you got Ecchi, you've got TTS
for life, you got all these like really,
really sick runners that I
could not possibly keep up
with at this point in time
because they're just
they're really good. They're
really smart. Well let's
not forget Shen either.
I want to give a big shout out to Shen who is also been on my show.
Shen is in forever.
He is the living calculator.
There has been so many fantastic runs with you and
Shen and Chrism, and of course I want to
mention Atchi again too. Atchi is fantastic.
And again, y'all are just
such great leaders in the community.
Even if you don't actively run
the games as much
as y'all used to,
because nowadays at least
as far as I can understand
a lot of creators have gone
to challenge-run content
to achievement based content or randomizers um some folks go so far
to call it the retirement home of speed running but we do that so we don't get rusty right like
our somebody can keep our days though ah Right? He kind of is, though.
Aw, dang.
I'll never forget...
Piggybacking off
that comment,
I'll never forget
the first speedrun Coliseum.
Like, I remember a lot of us were sitting on the couch
and Spike being Spike he's like
Welcome to the Speedrun retirement home!
That's us!
That's
us!
I mean, it's no joke, y'all!
Some of us are starting to be in our late 30s early
40s all right like this is a thing it has been a hot minute since i've
been a part of the community oh like i think officially being a part of
A speedrun community
This year is 10 years
10 years of speedrunning
Yeah, I started my stream 10 years ago
And went to my It'll be 10 years ago and went to my owl of it'll be 10 years since i went to my first gdq in january
20 25 actually oh my gosh that was painful to say um you're right it has been about a decade
hasn't it? It really
has.
Retirement Coliseum was
great, Mitch.
I sure love whenever
I see like a brand new runner
and I meet them at a GDQ
and I find out they're
like 22 or something.
I'm like, ah, damn it.
I'm so old.
All I'm going to say is
ADF is a youngin'.
Adath is a baby!
Adath is so young compared to most of us.
He's such a baaaby.
They're like wait a second what?
No no there are I'd be like, wait a second. What is... No!
Now there was somebody in chat saying
late 30s is retirement home.
I'll tell you now
late 30s early 40s
you definitely feel
especially if you have been speedrunning for over a decade
or doing speedrunning adjacent content
You really start to feel it in your arms
and your wrists and your hands
So again, note out there, please take care of y'all
because I wish I had started using compression gloves 10
years ago and I need to do that now.
And not just your hands
but also in your eyes too.
Sometimes things will start to look blurry
and things like that. We laugh, we laugh about this, but this does
happen over time.
Yeah,
like, I used to wear
compression gloves a lot. Like, I actually...
For a while, I I had a compression glove sponsor
But um, I don't wear them as much anymore
and it's not because they're not good
It's that before I stream now
which I wish I did when I first started like you said.
I do a lot of hand and wrist exercises even if
i know it's going to be a really calm and not high APM stream.
Like I will still stretch now.
I really wish I did that when I first started.
Yeah, like I could even tell
a couple of days, I had done six
hours of Smash Bros Melee Retro
achievements because the GameCube sets just came out
and after... And I
lose track of time like any other person who enjoys
games would. And about six hours in, I'm
like, oh my gosh, I need to stick both
my arms into buckets of ice.
You just feel it.
And I was just like...
I didn't say anything on stream, but the minute I turned off stream,
I was just like,
ah, it's so painful.
Literally crumbling to dust.
The bones started creaking.
Oh, yeah!
Yeah, I mean we had this conversation in the pre-stream where like
I can't get up from my computer chair or my couch or my bed without something creaking now
and I'm just like is this how it's gonna be now?
I can't wait until the hosts of Hot Fics were all just gray.
Well, isn't Spike starting to get some gray in his beard the last
time. Spice got
the salt and pepper thing going on which I
actually think is a really, really nice
look. I was just like
you know, with every game of SNES Mania
he completes, he gets another gray hair
and that is my story
and I'm sticking with it right now
Is there an actual retirement age
for speedrunning?
Approaching your 40s and you feel like that.
No, jokes aside, you're not too old for it.
You just got to take care of yourself,
which is something I wish I took more seriously 10 years ago.
No, absolutely not! My grandma
played Super Mario 64
in her late 60s
early 70s. No, you're not too old for video
games or streaming or speedrunning
like you can totally do it.
It's just more or less like the older you get,
the more you have to take more breaks, stretch,
take care of yourself.
And to be honest, we should all be doing that at a younger age.
We just don't think about it because again,
we become so invincible right we feel invincible we feel like we're goal oriented and it's just one of those things where it's just so easy
to forget these things so i tend to talk about this kind of stuff a lot on my show.
Jokes aside...
Yeah, definitely.
Really, really good advice for sure.
Yeah, Spike's not technically a Hotfix host but he does do
GDQ interview crew which
Keese I believe you are on as well
and yeah it's just
again Spike is part of the crew
and yeah just the next time you see Spike,
I'm like, take a look.
Again, every game
he completes with Nesmanian
and you see more salt
and pepper as you go on.
No!
And again,
I want to shout out Spike.
He finished the whole 602 in one sitting.
Keith, I don't know the last time you did a 24-hour plus stream.
I just looked at that and I just thought...
So, you know
Back when my bones didn't creak
I think the longest stream
I ever did in consecutive hours
Was like
30 or 31
Wow
If I tried to do like...
I feel it after 6 now!
Any time I do any sort of really long incentive and it's gonna be 10-14 hours. My body is immediately dreading
it, and
I can't imagine doing a long challenge
like 6.02. Not anymore.
Yeah, that's not
even like a randomizer. That's just a full on long speedrun challenge.
I would have to... gosh how would I approach that? I'd have to like not stream for a couple of days
and just really build up
like rest and relaxation beforehand.
Yeah.
Spend some time with the pupper
because it's good for the soul.
Keyes by the way has a super cute puffer!
Yeah we got Yuki, my little Samoyed...
We have Boxy who is a half-Main Coon cat
Really really cute and really talkative We have Boxy, who's a half-Main Coon cat.
Really, really cute.
And Emre is coming home with A new kitten tonight!
We also have
A snake, which some people aren't
About. Totally understandable. but we have a snake
We have new kitten coming in like we just...
We have fur babies!
Aww that's so cute
I'm pretty excited for the kitten she's's a little ragdoll, or he excuse me, he's a little ragdoll.
He is a stray so he is a little sick but we are going to take care of him and give him a good home
uh someone was asking about sun now it's been a few years since i sat down
and had dinner with son but it says his son to full-time speedrunner remember
seeing him do a run of aquanet time
rando while back which caught you off guard sent is doing a run at pax west
let's take a look at that schedule real quick let me love it let me see this let
me see those which by the way y'all should follow along again PAX West is gonna be amazing
uh Keyes are you going to be there?
I so I will not be working the event but i think i'm going anyway. Nice! So, I will probably
be there, so... And, you know,
I'm probably gonna hang out around the
GDQ area, so anyone going to PAX West
if you wanna say hi, like, I'm
for sure gonna be there.
Um, I found out recently that pax east is going to because i am far away from the west coast very very far away from west coast but the
east is supposed to be taking place in May next year, so I will most likely
be able to hang out at East.
So that'll be fun.
But yeah, let's take a look at this.
Sounds like a reasonable time too.
Final Fantasy Type-0 Any% Cad Sen. Yeah that's Sen! And not only is Sen speedrunning,
Sen is doing a two hour run? Wow.
Yeah so uh kind of backtracking a little bit to when we mentioned Archipelagos.
I'll do Archipelagos with Scent all the time.
Like, Scent still does a lot of speedrun adjacent content.
He's not really a streamer but he also very much keeps up
with the oops uh he very much keeps up with
the current scene and everything.
Ascent opened up RPG limit break 2019
let's see this
oh yeah, yeah, yeah Final Fantasy
tied 0-10% that is so awesome! I would love to play an Archipelago with y'all or with you and Sen at some point.
I think he's still recovering from event fatigue.
Oh my goodness, Scent? You want to talk about someone who gives 150% all the time. I don't
know how Scent has that
amount of energy, but my goodness
just
I can't fathom that
Scent's a monster!
And you've seen this,
because you're
an old-time GDQ person
too. It used to just be sent!
There didn't use to be a prize team.
Yeah! It was just sent.
That should be the next time y'all
enjoy this. It's justall introduce It's just sent.
It's just sent.
But yeah, then we got like
Game and Shout. We got Corvime now.
The workload has spread a lot
better for Sent. I felt so bad every time um before the prize team existed
i felt so bad percent because like he he would run himself ragged and you could tell he wasn't
feeling good but a lot of people at home probably didn't notice because Sense is so
good at just like
flip of a switch, just being
the prize man.
Just being really good at talking about everything
having all the information about the prizes.
Which he knows so much about everything!
Yeah, that sounds about right.
That's the power of the prize wizard, yo I bought
the Prize Wizard poster that they
sold towards the end of GDQ, I can't wait to get
that in for my setup. Wait
that was a thing? Yeah!
It said like thank you prize wizard and it's just this big poster of
Settner. I was like hey Oth, i hope you don't mind having a
big poster of Settner play. Wait that's sick? I didn't even know
there was a thing? It was a thing yeah i'll send you a picture of it after yeah please do
i did not know that that was that's so cool yeah it was like towards the end of
the event like i saw the yeti randomly at it and i'm like that looks pretty
sweet actually that That's so
cool!
Yeah, maybe they'll sell it again soon.
I can see and be like, yo you should
sell that again because some folks may
miss that.
He really sent it at the end of
the event, oh my goodness y'all.
That's so punny. Think any
popular games would allow a sub
category of beating a game while physically running
a marathon. I mean, we kind
of have something like that, right? I remember
what was it?
The game with the hula hoop
on the Switch. You know what I'm talking see this is our bad memories
yeah so i mean that would technically qualify right because
you're doing both at the same time. I would count it.
Good old boomer memory.
Our time has come.
I remember all the old stuff,
Keith! I can't remember anything new!
At this point in time if you ask me about something
that happened like 2014
to 2018, I could probably you like vivid details about it but if like hey do
you remember what you did on tfs three months ago nothing at the time because of the new season
format but like if you ask me that at any point in time i'd be like it's been three months
time is so difficult since i was asking what is an archipelago yeah and i don't
mind explaining that for folks coming in.
Also, hello y'all! You are watching G2Q Hot Fakes
I'm Skybillz and this is Random Number Generation
And I have one of the hosts of The First Step here
Keeseraan here
Who you all should very much follow again.
That is twitch.tv slash keysron and also check out the first step on GDQ Hot Picks as well.
Be sure to check out our Hot Picks site for more information on when those episodes will occur. So
again, wanted to do a reintroduction there
because a lot of folks coming in saying hi.
So Archipelago, I don't know if there's
any short and quick answer for this but it's a way
to play multiple randomizers at once and it's typically
done with a friend group. I've seen
folks sometimes do multiple games
but I feel, and my
personal opinion is Archipelago is best shared
with friends
Definitely It's Archipelago is best shared with friends.
Definitely.
It's also...
Archipelago is such a convenient thing because anyone who ever goes to any sort of event,
it doesn't even have to be like a speedrunning event.
Just any sort of con or any sort
of uh just like group gathering every time
every single time you ever like make new friends or something it's like yeah
like we'll add each other, we should totally
play games together.
And everyone plays a completely different thing.
Like I was...
I've been friends with a lot of people
in the Ori community
and a lot of people
in like the Super Metroid community.
Those are games I don't play, but
I'm able to do stuff with them now because
they can play Super Metroid
in an archipelago while I
play Pokemon or Fire Emblem or something.
So we're able to play games together with the games that we know
and still get to have like, that fun friend time together.
Didn't you once do an Archipelago where it was multiple Pokemon games?
Yep, and it's very confusing.
I bet.
There's a lot of item overlap.
So I can't tell you how many times i'd get like surf and be excited but it
was for the game that couldn't use it oh hang on richard says you gave oria 9s your safe with us
now what's that about oh yeah i'm such a luck that's such an old tweet
that's so long ago how do you remember i uh there you go, safe!
We did Ori for the first step.
We didn't Ori in Will of the Wisps when it came out and Hobbs is very much like hey play play blind forest first that way you can at least get familiar with the game
and um i
i used to do this thing where i would rate games, just give it a
1-10 thing
whenever I'd finish them before TFS.
And...I don't think I've ever given anything a 10
and that's because I'm being like a little
little bit of a snob about it like there's no such thing as a perfect game
so i'll never give anything a ten. Like you know, be super pretentious
about it I-I'm very self aware that it's a silly mindset but uh
So the highest I'll ever give a game is a nine and ori was a nine to me
i had so much fun with it um i can't think of a single time that i was like genuinely frustrated
at it like i might have played up like a frustration just for
like stream content but like i had a genuinely good time and then
playing the sequel was also a ton of fun too like i
just the series is great
would you give it
a 10 if you could
if I weren't pretentious
don't think I would
give it a 10 but
I think I'd get
one of time okay all right whatever would give it a 10, but I think I'd give the second one a 10.
Okay. All right.
I wonder how Richard feels about that.
I just like the fact that
the second one had combat in
it.
So yeah.
Yeah.
I think Or Ori is a beautiful game and
again or we've had
folks from the Ori
randomizer community
here still trying to
persuade Richard to
do a randomizer on
here one day.
Okay, to do a randomizer on here one day. Mhm.
I'm also kind of backtracking a little bit too, like I have a lot of friends in the Kingdom Hearts
community as well,
and I am a little more familiar with Kingdom Hearts because
if you're stuck with Mr.
Jeff Hobson over here then you gotta
know some of it, right?
So
is Hobbes a person of habit like just knows what he likes
in terms of gaming i would say so i would say yeah. I think he might be...
He's a lot more willing to step out of his comfort zone than some people might realize.
But otherwise you can kind of tell like oh yeah this is a Hobbs game.
Oh very much so.
I mean, I'm the same way
Like I find something that I really like
and it's sometimes hard to get me to try something new
My partner frequently makes fun of me
but I want to spend my time doing something
I know I'm really going to like.
So sometimes I resist trying new games.
But then I'm like,
I am going to play a new game tonight.
The NES championship thing is coming out, and
I don't know if that counts because I've played a lot
of the games in which
the challenges are centered around, but
it still looks like that's going to be a lot of fun.
I would count it accounts yeah why not but yeah archipelago is
always undergoing um new games too so i know soon like there's some stuff in beta
like diddy kong racing is eventually going to get added to it which is really my favorite
oh yeah yeah that's awesome because that's one of my favorite racing games.
Let me make sure...
I'm caught up on chat here, because again
I love to read y'all's questions if you
have a question for myself, please let us know.
I promise you we don't bite.
So again, we're about an hour in.
So first off, how are you feeling do you need a break
how is the pupper doing napping so uh she's good i'm
i'm good for whatever if we want to encourage a wellness break, I'm
totally down to do that right now.
Yeah, weekend if you want
to. It never hurts to get up and
stretch.
You know what? I think after...
...I go through this dialogue, like,
I could give us a countdown
and give everyone the chance
to refill their-
What's my usual hotfix feel?
Get up, stretch your legs, take a bio break, get some water. Always good to do that! We encourage Wellness Hero.
I have my water here.
But I do want to like...
I like getting up and just walking up and down the stairs once or twice.
Get the blood flowing, you know?
Oh yeah!
We are old!
Go ahead and pause in
three, two,
one, pause.
Yeah I'll make
sure I turn off
my mic before
I stand up
to you.
You don't
want to hear
out you know.
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I am joined here by Keys, who's running a Pokemon Crystal
Full Item Randomizer while we have just
the full-on chill discussion here.
So again, Chad, I want to thank you all for participating in Giza.
I want to thank you for being here.
I've been having a great time.
I've been having a great time too,
so much so that I didn't even realize over an hour had passed.
Yep, we had to take care of the pupper which
I hope makes an appearance at some point
because I love the dog.
Yuki, come here.
Oh.
Oh puppy. I have a slight delay on my end so I'm just waiting to see Yuki. We'll see her eventually.
Do you want to look at the camera?
You're going to be okay. We'll see her eventually. Do you want to learn speedrunning?
Oh, that would be...
Okay so once we get back into it like
if you can teach Yuki a
speedrun What a you can teach yuki a speed run
what a good dog i would i would like honestly oh all right i'll answer it as
soon as that count is back in. Okay, yeah go for it!
Start up again in 3...2...1...
Go!
Honestly?
I would love to find a
way to, like, teach
any dog. Like, not even necessarily Yuki, but
teach a dog to do, like,
a classic Super Mario level?
Oh, that's a really good
idea. I think the one I could think of
that might be done is maybe 4-1
because a lot of that's just running and jumping.
Mm-hmm.
That'd be so cool.
I would like that.
I'd like to see one day,
we would live in a world
where possibly if we have
multiple dogs
that could do speedruns,
I would love to see
a dog race.
Yeah,
that'd be so cool. But you have to make sure
they're not all distracted by each other
They need partitions or something like that
Yeah definitely or something like that. Yeah, definitely. I would love to see
something like that though.
So is Yugi pretty responsive?
Like can she learn tricks?
Would it be pretty okay to teach her
with enough time? She
is very smart,
but sometimes
too smart. So like I
could teach her something.
She actually knows a decent amount of advanced tricks,
but she's kind of like the cat about it.
It's like, I don't really want to do it today.
I know how to do it.
I'm not doing it today.
But then the next day
like oh yeah
I'll totally
jump for that biscuit
sure.
So it's a matter
of getting her
to be more consistent.
Yep
yep we gotta get the consistency
down and I'm gonna be perfectly honest
with everyone
I'm too much of a sucker
if
the roles were reversed
and Emre was still a full-time streamer
And I was the one that got back in the workforce
And she was like, you know, home with the dog all of time
She'd probably honestly be better behaved
Like, I'm willing to admit that You should probably honestly be better behaved.
I'm willing to admit that.
I don't let Yuki get away with a ton of really bad stuff, obviously,
but it's like I'm a lot less...
The word I'm looking for.
Arsh isn't the right word.
This is perfect, we're talking about dogs and you're letting the dogs out.
Yep, yep, yep.
Scripted.
Authoritative.
Like, I'm not as authoritative with dogs because I'm just too into the
Oh my god, they're so cute!
I want to pet them and love me.
Oh, same.
Yeah, I feel that.
So! Yeah, I feel that. So you were talking about the molt-the many, many pets
that you had earlier.
I'm interested as to the story behind
the little noodle that y'all have,
the danger noodle.
Oh yeah, so
we recently adopted
a 12-year-old albino
corn snake. His name is Monroe.
So the deal is, anyone who doesn't know, Emre
now works as a vet tech. They're very
happy with that really fulfilling job. Heets to work around animals all the time
but she just called me up one day and was like hey remember when we were
joking about getting a snake? Do you want to get one and i was like what's
the catch um there's this older lady that she's moving out of state and because of all
the equipment that you need to take care of a snake, like the tank and the lights
and everything.
She didn't want to risk breaking
anything. So she was just like
it would just be easier to give it to someone who
could keep an eye on him.
So, we just ended up
with a snake!
Because we really wanted
the lizard and here we are
And Monro's so, he's got such a personality for a snake.
Really?
Yeah, he loves exploring,
if you have him around your neck or something,
on your shoulders. He'll just slither around everywhere
and try to sneak into your shirt. Try to get through your sleeve
and stuff. Just doing as much exploring as possible.
Oh!
Anytime that Yuki sees the snake
they always boop snoots
and it's really really cute.
Oh that's adorable!
Our cat... our older cat anyway. Now we have two. Um, our older cat doesn't really acknowledge
That the snake is there. I don't think she actually knows we have a snake, to be honest.
Oh, this randomizer
is bad. Why does Morty
have a Gengar? Ooh, Rando.
I mean, that's always going to happen mean that's always going to happen there is always going to be something
the randomizer has in common with a base game it happens a lot
Someone said in chat those of you who don't watch pieces stream.
You'll never truly appreciate the collective confusion and
Chatlin keys got up then came back saying I'm ready to help with this.
Yeah, that's a, That's been an adjustment for me because I've always had...
I don't want to say like basic, like they're not good animals or anything obviously.
But I've always had like basic pets, like dogs cats you know like the pretty standard yeah set of animals um but uh i've never had a lizard before
so this is actually like kind of kind of a cool experience so far.
But I guess slight content warning,
but if you don't know what a snake's diet is,
eat these other... know what a snake's diet is, he eats
other like
rats and mice and stuff.
That's been an adjustment for me because
I'm such a softie that
I can't handle doing it myself, so everyone has to do it.
No, that's understandable!
I actually think rats and mice are quite cute.
I know I would have some difficulties with that for sure.
Yeah, definitely.
But yeah, I mean,
I actually never seen pictures of your pets.
I'm going to have to see like the cat and the snake
and stuff like that.
Like they're so cute.
I'll have to send you some
for sure.
Well, cats now, right?
You said today y'all
are getting another cat.
Yep.
Emre will be home
probably in like 30 to 45 minutes and we're just gonna have a snake there.
Why not? Have a kitten there.
Aww so it's a little one just a little tiny friend very tiny
i'm excited though i don't think i've ever actually had a kitten
every single cat I vever had has been at least, like, two or three years old.
Yeah, that's understandable.
I mean, a lot of folks like to get their pets from shelters
and sometimes it's kind of rare to find them when they're tiny.
Definitely. Where do I want
to go? I have a few options, but I'm trying to like parse
where I wanna go. The biggest things that we're missing right now
are obviously badges but um i also still don't have surf
yeah i noticed that so you have the bicycle, which is great,
and your fly also great.
So again, like you said, those were pre-vetted.
But now you're looking for surf
and again, as with most of the HMs
they're prior to complete the game.
So do you have any
leads then where you think Surf might be
or any ideas?
I don't really necessarily
have an idea so like you can have
a dynamic logic in these where it's like, oh I just got cut so my next progression is likely behind cut but I usually have more random logic. So
my goal right now is
go to
any area that has
a ton of possible checks, so like we're about
to climb Tin Tower because there's like 12 or 13 items I can pick up.
We're just going for the really item dense areas right now.
Yeah that makes
perfect sense and that's how you tend to eliminate
areas where like okay, where is it most likely
to be? Where is the next likely place to be? We do
that a lot within randomizers so...
Oh yeah, definitely.
I'm very happy with this holo! Not gonna lie.
I wish I had like Drill Peck but...
Well you pretty much have everything else
you could possibly want.
Well, listen, I'm a greedy little pig, okay?
I bought my super moves.
So it's the first thing to know
I had Aeroblast on Lugia.
Yeah, I had Aeroblast Llast lugia that wasn't good enough i upgraded well to be fair but the stats on matlug were a little janky especially oh yeah it just did not have off.
It was rough.
Speaking of jank what is the jankiest Pokemon you've ever finished this particular randomizer with and why?
I remember having to use a Mad Cargo once,
which...
Mad Cargo as is
is already not a great Pokemon.
I like the design, I like the concept
but it's-it's a very forgettable Pokemon to
the point where a lot of people when they see
Mad Cargo in one one of these are like, oh I thought
it was gen 3 not gen 2.
That's like yeah that's...
That's a pretty normal reaction but uh i had to finish with the mad cargo before
and it was just misery you never realize how many uh
moves do you a certain type of pokemon has in
a game until your quad weak to it.
Oh yeah, oh yeah! There's nothing like getting hit by
Water Gun and screaming in pain.
WATER GUN!
Bubble!
Yeah, imagine bubble killing you.
Oh that's a good TM. That's quite good.
Oh yeah. I actually don't think I put it on the Ho-Oh right now, but...
Maybe later if I get a bad fight?
The TMs for the most part have been pretty good so far! We got an earthquake tm we got a rock slide tm
we got fire punch yeah stamp fire punch is never
a bad thing to have even though you put fire punch on a bird hey it balls its wing up okay
he's trying his best you leave him alone uh question from the chat have you
thought of a name for the new kitten um no no i am not
in fact I'm taking a second to reply to Emre because they were like,
do you want me to bring the kitten on stream
when I get home?
So.
Oh!
I said yes.
Yay!
Congratulations chat.
You're gonna meet the kitten at the same time as me.
Another question from the chat is the sportirt bottle progression it can be so we had a seed where um i got the ss ticket and access
to kanto so everything that you could reach with the squirt bottle i was able to reach
before i found a squirt bottle it does give us one additional check now though but at this point
in time it's not progression but if you get it early then it is so is it like late game it's not progression, but if you get it early then it is.
So is it like late game? It sounds like
it's kind of a meme check.
Yeah, like
I mean it's not too far out of the way
and I'm probably going to do it anyway just because it isn't like
the slowest thing in the world. But it's only one check.
But you know, it's
It's You & Me on a hot pick show
so that check is probably going to be the check
So I either ignore it
or get it
It's transformative
in nature
Um It's transformative in nature.
Let me see.
Someone wanted to ask,
what are your thoughts on... I believe this is a newer Pokemon,
Wiglet?
Oh yeah, anyone
who hasn't played Pokemon Scarlet
and Violet there's a
It's not technically a regional
form but I mean it is a regional form let's be real.
It's basically
like a really elongated white
Diglett and it is
so silly looking.
My opinion is it's silly looking.
That's a good one. Wiggler
and Wug Trio are sure a thing.
Ask Keys
how he feels about
Tangela.
Oh, good old Wigglywoo. Perfect Pokemon! Nothing wrong at all! 10 out of 10 would always recommend.
I'm surprised you didn't name your snake with glee.
Well, you see... I kinda
wanted to but
he already had a name so
I was like oh well, I'll respect the name. Aw dang. So what respect the name.
Aw, dang.
So what is
the name then?
Oh, the
snake?
Yeah.
Yeah, Monroe.
Oh my, oh
that is very
different from
like the rest
of the package.
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah we got yuki we got boxy we got monroe
it's like there's always one that stands out i don't i don't know why
the previous owner named him monroe but you know he kind of responds when
i say his name so i'm not taking it away.
No no absolutely not and you said the snake was 12 in terms of like age?
Yeah yep 12 years old.
He's
in the speedrun retirement home
with the rest of us.
Ask Keys to give tips for running a Pokemon Crystal Rando.
So what do you recommend to someone who's never run
Pokemon Crystal Rando then?
If, if you've never done a randomizer in general,
what I would recommend is...I would actually like play
a non-randomized game, uh non-randomize run of it
just to get re-familiar and reacclimated with the game.
And then once you start picking
up randomizers, just do some more
simple things like
you can randomize so many
different aspects. You can make it so the move sets are random like what
i have right now or you can keep it vanilla so you don't have to like overthink and
have to worry about oh if i run into this Mewtwo it could have
Thunderbolt against my Gyarados or
something. So I would
definitely recommend considering lower
settings at first just to
kind of get used to it. When you want
to get to more advanced
randomizer stuff, like you get to your
item randomizers and whatnot, those
also have a plethora of options, to a degree
where it might feel really,
really overwhelming because there's just so much you can do.
But kind of same thing like just kind of slowly ease your way into
it. Like with full item rando there's actually
like a much easier variance than what i'm doing there's key item randa which is
just key items like it's every item on the ground will be the same. Otherwise, you can make it so badges are just shuffled within gyms
So you don't have to worry about knowing the location of every item
To find your badges
There's a lot of ways
to kind of ease yourself in,
but that is definitely what I recommend
is just kind of a slow
and steady approach to it.
That's very good advice.
Pretty much across the board
for randomizers, especially for pokemon where
just everything can feel overwhelming especially the further you get into the generations and
the more nuanced things become it's really good uh the next thing first of all T-Pat says hi. Hi T-Pat that's my
weatherman! The second question and then this is getting back to discussion on
your pets as far as the snake
is. What is the life expectancy
of the corn snake?
That is a good question!
Next question!
Let me just pull up Google real quick. I actually don't know.
Um, I don't think we've gotten to the Gyarados yet. So, sue him?
Someone was asking what was the Gyarados.
Wipes and domesticated
corns.
Here we go! Random content.
Here you go, Chad. It says six to eight years in the wild
and it's very clearly not in the wild right now.
Up to 24
years in human care. There we go.
Wow!
That's a lot longer than I thought.
Not that that's a bad thing,
but it's just a lot longer
than I thought. Someone asked what was
the Gyarados? I don't think we've gotten there yet.
We were there, but I don't know.
We can't surf. We can't surf.
Yeah, we can't surf.
We do not know yet.
We will eventually hopefully
I'm trying to like can you even beat this
you can have a surplus seed it's so unlikely but you can't have a
surface so it would be incredibly funny if my
first surfless seed ever was today.
So,
we're on the ice path right now.
Who had issues with the ice
path their first time? I know I did!
I'm really bad with puzzles.
Oh, I suck
at this because the ice
puzzle in gold and silver is different
from the ice puzzle in crystal.
So, because I had Silver version
before I had Crystal version when I got
here in Crystal, I was just like where the
heck am I?
What direction do I go? I'm terrible at Ice
Puzzles, just in general and in any game.
I don't know
what it is.
My brain just
does not like
ice puzzles.
Oh, neither do
or the strength
puzzles and this
has everything
in it.
Oh yeah, oh
yeah, they have so much in here.
So someone asked us,
do you guys have a grass type? I believe the way
these seeds work is, geese will primarily
only use one Pokemon. It's
almost like the kind of Ironmon route, if you're familiar with
Peta Ironmon where just everything revolves
around that one Pokemon and no
Kesa's main Pokemon is not a grass type
it is Ho-Oh
Yeah so the big thing about what I would suspect why that was asked is in Emerald Archipelago there is a check where you talk to a trainer and she'll give you an item if you have
a grass Pokémon. Oh! I didn't think about that.
But I-I think... I think that's the only instance in older generations of games
where that's something you can do.
Other than, like, showing Bill's
grandpa certain Pokemon to get, like,
evolution stones or something.
I think. Yeah, like in the original
game, I guess the equivalent would be of how many Pokemon did you catch have a thing?
Mm-hmm. Like the professor aids to give you stuff.
And there's so many good money items I'm finding, but my bag is full.
Oh see that would be one of my weaknesses in Pokemon Randomizers
Is I always have to organize my bag
Like it's just a thing that I do
and that would take up so much time.
Oh yeah.
I've uh...I've definitely
done that before myself. In fact like
the start of this I was spending a lot more time organizing but
now I'm kind of just at the point where it's like nah, I don't need to. I want to!
God do I want to but I mean I don't need to yeah, definitely do not like having in Pokemon games full bags of any kind.
I'm gonna lose time selling a buncha stuff right now but this shop has rare candies that I'm set for life.
Oh yeah, and that's one of the nice things about the Renderer.
I like the idea of being able to get a rare candy at any point.
Mm-hmm.
Uh, no. Not yet.
You know what? Actually...
This is just free money! I'm gonna get the Samula coin and equip it.
I DO like free money!
It's my money and I want it now.
You don't want leftovers? I guess you don't really need them until
Elite Four. Yeah,
I-I don't need them for a while. So we're good.
I think I taught strength of flash
I usually don't teach flash because
I just know these areas well but
usually for the sake of stream i'll just do it so people don't see
a black screen for like two minutes oh what am I doing? I don't even have surf! What am
I doing?! I was gonna say. Isn't there water in this?
There sure is!
You know what?
Go me!
Good job, Pease.
Good job, Me.
I've never gone this long without surf.
I'm so thrown off right now.
Oh no! Did we have a that's-never happened before?
For me? Yeah, it's never taken this long.
Ah, it's the thing.
The thing had to happen.
There it is!
Welcome to the Games Done Quick stream, folks.
It's always something,
I'm telling y'all.
You gotta put in the Leonardo DiCaprio meme where he's pointing when he's in his chair like that's a thing.
No, I was thinking of well there it is so that is the big thing we're looking for
right now, we're looking for sort of hopefully Keyes isn't
running out of places to look at and. It's a big game, right?
I would be surprised. There's still plenty
of areas left. We can definitely...
We're not in trouble yet.
Yet.
Yeah, the key word yet. We, the keyword
yet.
We're rapidly
approaching that
but we're not
there yet.
Oh don't
say that
no oh
by the way
safe check
I should
have asked
you at
the break
here we
go
hooray there you break. There we go.
Hooray!
There you go, good job.
I just get so nervous keys, I hope you don't mind.
It's more of a me thing, I swear.
I would rather be reminded than not.
Yeah, that's a regular thing I've been doing on my shows now where it's like please save.
Like even if you don't think you need to just for my sake please save.
Yeah yeah yeah i get it entirely
i mean there's no worse feeling in a randomizer where when you go to load a
save like let's say you need to reset for some reason you soft lock or
something happens that you don't like and then
it's not there. And then you don't get a resolution! It's-it's not a nice feeling so
if you're listening to this... The amount of times I've lost the run because I didn't save.
I do have a tracker up, obviously.
Kinda got lost in the sauce of talking, so I'm like backtracking and double checking a couple of spots.
Dang, I'm a bad influence.
No! This would happen on my stream anyway.
Okay good.
Good, good, good, good, good.
And again, by the way folks
for folks tuning in because it's on the other side of the bridge
please do follow keys that is at twitch.tv slash kizeron if you're watching on youtube
and you cannot see our twitch chat that is k-e-i-z a-r-o-Z-A-R-O-N
And again, Keys streams
most days. Keys is a full time streamer
so please give Keys all the support
just a fantastic streamer
and friend
I don't know why I punched the Merrill.
Why did you punch your cute buddy?
It wasn't on purpose, but...
You punched a cute guy with water mouths!
...I would also be lying if I said that it was an accident.
That was so cute! No, we don't punch-
It was on purpose then.
We don't punch cute things on the stream!
I'm sorry!
Oh poor Matt.
This is where the run goes
completely off the rails.
That's gonna be karma.
Yeah, I was going to say that's gonna be karma yeah i was gonna say that's
that's bad luck yeah surf is going to move
to somewhere and i'm going to be sad okay a dynamic game it wasn't the bunny
technically i called her oh no wait it was for sale this It wasn't the bunny. Technically, I call... Master! Thank God!
Wait, it was for sale this whole time?
I'm a genius!
You are?
I could have gotten here a lot earlier, but
I'm a genius! Yeah,
Merrill I see as a bunny and or
a mouse. Like Azubarill
is very almost like
bunny adjacent we'll call it, but yeah
Meryl's closer probably to a mouse.
I agree with all of this.
Oh yeah, you did set the mouse on fire!
That's true, chat!
This poor baby!
Oops... this poor baby
well i guess you can go back and surf now and all that we We can go check out the Red Geridos
at some point.
We can,
which I'm actually
going to do that
in like a couple of minutes
so anyone who
really,
really wants to see
what The Shiny is
Yeah!
Soon TM. yeah soon tm
i like how the randomizer does randomize that it's really sweet because you see the gyarados all the time like it's cool shiny but it's nice to mix it up.
It's also nice because sometimes that's the only way you see a shiny.
Yeah.
You get to see something that you've never seen before a lot of times.
I mean, I guess like you could always just google
an image, I guess, but that's less fun.
Also, hi Jiggy!
Hi Jiggy!
I swear it wasn't playing that he was supposed to play crystal twice for the record is
keys before gdk look i haven't played crystal on my own in a while this is my excuse to pick it up
so where I haven't played Crystal on my own in a while. This is my excuse to pick it up. So where else are you playing Crystal? Did it already happen besides RNG?
No, no so this Saturday there's a big Pokemon hotfix event.
Oh, very cool!
And I will be there doing a randomizer Cinco bingo.
All right, so y'all better go support Keyes during that then.
That sounds like a good time.
Bingo's are a ton of fun.
I'm super excited to show it off.
I've done it a few times.
This is terrible.
What?
Are you kidding me?
This is because you defeated the Merrill. I'm blaming this on the Marrow.
Okay, there we go. I punched him too like that.
Okay, you didn't have to do THAT!
Well... no but-
Was that necessary?!
No, it wasn't, but I
sure did.
Look, he probably
deserved it, okay? He just deleted that Metapod!
What a bully!
He had generations of family
That just...
Disapparated
That's so sad!
That poor thing sad! That poor thing.
Nooo!
Dang, this just keeps getting sadder
and sadder. First the Merrill
and now the Metapod.
Thanks, everyone for tuning in for the last time
that Keyserun is ever on a Skybill show.
I mean it wasn't an otter
or a rat so that's fine but you know
I'll keep that in mind i know what to avoid
it wouldn't be me if i wasn't being sad over some defenseless critter getting punched right
that poor thing.
Oh...
He's got a family.
Okay now we can go here!
Now I can not look silly.
There we go.
Look there's water.
So he's...
Look, there's surf.
Are you just looking for badges now?
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, there's a chance that something
that I need is locked behind Whirlpool.
But it's not necessarily a guarantee.
I'm still kind of just doing the shotgun approach
and going through areas with, you know, three plus
checks that don't take too long.
Yeah.
Hopefully we find the badges?
I miss the leopard sprite for surfing.
That one's really cute.
The one in what is it? Firebird
Leaf Green, it's just like
an undefined Pokemon. Maybe
there could be a case that would be a Snorlax
but it's really hard to see.
I meant to grab that item
and I totally...
Don't mind me!
What? I didn't see anything.
Yeah, didn't see anything you say say? Yeah, look, it's
so dark. Oh no, I sure hope
I can... Oh no!
Ah, heck. It sure would be a shame
if I couldn't see. Oh no, oh dear.
How excited am I for the Bloomboro set?
I'm very excited because did you know
the next Magic the Gathering set has critters?
I did not know that,
but it doesn't surprise me that you know that.
My poor wallet is going to be in pain after that set.
There's otters and wracks and possums and mice
and honey badgers and mice. And honey badges.
Oh no, it's over.
It's over for you.
My poor wallet.
Goodbye money.
Hello critters, but goodbye money
and guess what
Teferi Time Raveler
is back as like a special guest
he's not in standard it's just a special guest
like a collectible
and he's a bird because
of course, birds in games. Am I right?
A bird?
Yeah, he's a bird.
He's that card.
Hmm.
I sure am a Teferi stan!
People don't like me, I understand. That was a memory!
That feels like forever ago now.
I have a...
I made a couple of new friends recently who
used to play Magic and they were
talking about getting back into it. I told them I used to play Magic
Yeah! And uh, they're like oh what kind of
what kind of decks would you run?
I told them what I would run
Yeah?
I'd be like, yeah,
I'm an Esper and Dimir boy
And they're like
So we're not playing with you
Yeah
I have a commander
I've two commander decks
I'm never allowed to play
Unless it's competitive
Which is sad
No one wants To play against my rogue deck That literally allowed to play unless it's competitive, which is sad.
No one wants to play against my rogue deck that like literally steals all of my opponent's cards from their side of the battlefield and no one ever wants
to play toys. They're my toys.
No one ever wants to play with my sliver deck, Peter.
I have a sliver deck? Those are so fun.
Yeah they are.
But no one ever wants me to play it.
I'll become public enemy number 1 at the multiplayer table, you know?
No no see what you do is like...
You make a challenge out of it right?
Five dollar buy-in.
If you win the pot if you beat me.
Oh, no! We actually used to
do that but with booster packs like
you know, if you take somebody out, you got a booster pack.
Yeah I've seen some stories do that before.
It's kind of neat.
Oh yeah!
No one ever wants to play against my Demir deck
because the minute something hits the board
like I play a card and steal it
and I'm just like
it's mine for the remainder of the game now
those are my kinds of decks why
why uh why bother playing game when i can steal your game and play it
yeah let's talk about this the other day i was driven i was like i don't know how to make a commander deck that's like quote unquote nice.
Even if I think it's nice,
I end up playing stuff in secret
and I'm like oh that turns out
that that's not very nice is it?
Do it anyway.
No mercy!
Yeah Keyz is quite the card player from... and still would be too if he played.
But yeah I like- I still like Arena for playing. if you played. But, um...
Yeah I still like Arena for playing cards
because it's easier to get your hands on stuff
Arena just makes- I mean
you can always make proxies, I guess. But Arena, it feels better for me than using proxies
because I still feel like I can experiment a lot more
with just regular cards.
And then also...
I don't know. It might like being a little pretentious but
I don't like using proxies. I just like using what I have.
I like artwork, like this would be a pull artwork in the game
But Chet, this shouldn't
be a surprise to you that this is the kind of stuff
that me and Keyes like to use slash play
I mean we play Forbidden Memory
at least people have that
That shouldn't be any surprise whatsoever
And yes, we do get it
back, Karma Wars!
Ugh.
I still remember when
Kethys was in standard
and you could make that
four color
basically play solitaire until you win.
There is a deck like, it's about to rotate out. There was a deck like that, I mean
it's about to rotate out but there was a deck that was kind of
like that in Standard. Kind of.
Because they extended Standard
by another year so now it's a three-year
rotation instead of two.
Interesting.
Yeah, that made things kind of more comboey.
I remember I got into doing the Kethys combo like
the last couple months you were able to do it and
it was genuinely probably my easiest mythic ever.
Yeah!
Yeah, that sounds about right.
I wanna be here.
Aww! But I like looking at the Laffer's sprite.
Alright we're here now. We're fighting Blaine.
Now Chat if you haven't seen Pokemon Crystal
You might be surprised in which the context we see Blaine
Look at his little room!
That's horrible!
At least in HeartGold he has a full-fledged
dungeon cave.
Yeah, I'll never forget when i saw that
i'm like um blade are you doing okay over here
you good buddy oh i think he's actually used to play
nexus of fate yes He's actually used to play Nexus of Fate.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes, yes, yes.
And then I used to cry a lot.
Yes.
Uh... I die a lot. Yes. I know what I'm about when it comes to these games, okay?
Yeah!
Also thank you for taking care of Ditto.
Ditto has cost me, believe it or not, some Ironmon runs.
I had a really good Gengar and then the Ditto used Shadow Ball
And then I was very sad for awhile
He critted me
So ever since then I have not liked Ditto.
Wait...I don't have the car keys? Oops. Silly me! I don't wanna be here yet. This is a huge waste of time.
Hey! Look it's your Pokemon game- well it was.
It was. A worthy fire punch, I would say.
All's well that ends well for me.
And got another bomb that just got deleted.
Deserved! The most deserved deletion ever.
I can...
No, I'd have to play the dungeon.
So here, I can get some checks here.
Now again folks, I'm just at the point right now where it's like there isn't really much in terms of direction of where to go
I'm just going to areas that I can knock out several checks
at once. He's lost a run
of champion to his Steel Extr... Oh,
I remember that! That transformed into
a Snorlax. Yeah, I remember that. Yeah, that
Snorlax was so busted
and then it transformed into me
And even though I had a dire hit
I couldn't get one crit
Well, I think I remember that Iron Man run
It was such a good one,
I was excited because I think I can beat this before
1000 attempts and then I lost on the 2000
attempts later it's like oh hey I finally won
Yeah me and Keyes are both Kaiser champions.
He's had a tentacruel
And I had a melodic
Hey look!
I'm wearing the shirt with the tentacruel that I won with
Oh yeah!
I just noticed that
yeah the 10 accrual that i got for that run was absurd it had pickup and the pickup item pool was actually like tummy Oh, so you're the reason
why pickups ban in Super
Kaizo? Yeah, I genuinely
think that I contributed to
pickup getting banned because
I had... Lemonades were the most common item.
There was also, I think
I could get like a full restore and
rare candies were also something
I could pick up so I was actually
really high level when I got the champion.
Like, I think it was like a level 96 or something like that.
Oops! My bad.
No, it isn't your bad!
I mean, that was the system you had to work with.
I'll take my W and run away now thanks.
Yeah, I got through about 500 runs of Super Kaiser and I'm like
I need a break. I don't want this to turn into thousands of runs again.
I-I want to try Super Kaizo at some point
I just haven't had the time
You know what the main gimmick with it is, yeah?
Yeah!
Yeah... God bless Safari the main gimmick with it is yeah yeah yeah sure do god bless safari zone
i think i could get to safari enough time but
i don't know if i can turn it around from there.
Yeah, yeah.
Oops, let the flash not dig.
Silly me.
Those are two different things, Keith!
See look,
It's the top option on one of my Pokémon.
I just picked the wrong Pokémon.
Oh, I see.
Okay that's a strong move but terrible coverage. We're not going to worry about that. That's a good item.
Again we are looking for badges.
There! See it good commentator curse.
Finally we get a good one.
Okay if I get Whirlpool then there's
a lot of areas that are open...
Well not a lot it's just Whirirl Island but that's a lot of checks
so...
That is there I suppose
Do you know where to find Whirpool? Like
Is it in the store or...?
No clue! Okay, that's fine.
No clue at all.
We'll get there one day!
Alright so how many badges are you missing? 1...2...5...6...7...
That's a lot given how late ish in the seed this is yeah but i'm i'm guessing
that like a lot of them are going to be like pretty grouped up, yeah that makes sense.
Number five...
Aw man.
I was hoping that I would get blessed at this shop.
You thought they would just
be selling badges? Is that what's
going on here? Yeah, yeah.
Hey, welcome to my medicine shop.
Here's my badge.
Okay, you know what? Just so I can make some progression but also stew in my think tank for a little bit. I'm gonna not have this gym because I'm here.
It's a few fights, but I'll get three checks out of it so that's not like the worst thing.
Only Ash Ketchum is allowed to get badges without earning them properly.
What a cheater!
I think there's even like, a joke later in the anime
where he says like, yeah, I probably didn't earn
some of those.
Yeah...yeah, I'm pretty sure there is.
And now you look at like the current Pokemon before it flipped over to this
new one and its like wait when did Ash get all these busted Pokemon. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
Where can I go?
Aaron at the tractor right now.
Don't mind me, folks.
Bye, Alakazam! now don't don't mind me folks bye elka there's still a lot like i mean there's still a lot of stuff i can do because i have surf so
i really shouldn't be doing this as you go instead
yeah i mean it's right here.
So like, see that little
strength puzzle? I would have messed that up
if I didn't remember that.
I, uh... I would have messed that up if I didn't remember That So, I used to Do a lot of spinner hell
Randomizers, which if anyone
Doesn't know what spinner hell is, every trainer
Is a spinner and they have maximum vision so it leads to like really hilarious
hilarious things like the walk through a wall just to fight you um i did so many of those in
a row that I got used to doing this puzzle a little differently, because you can just like push the middle boulder and then pull the other guy out.
So when I tried to de-rust an actual vanilla speedrun of this before, I kept
messing up the boulder.
It felt so bad.
Yeah!
I mean sometimes the simplest things in
games is the easiest thing to mess up.
Wait, Chuck had a hit on top?
Terrible rando.
Okay...
Alright! Look at that! There you go. Um, okay. Alright, alright, alright.
There we go.
The think-think paid off.
Unbelievable.
Well...
Alright let's do the surf that I was talking about.
There is still a decent amount.
Yeah, I was gonna say the Whirl Islands would be my guess once we get the Whirlpool.
Yeah like- A place like Whirl Islands is like a really good example of just like high density checks for little time
again as a reminder folks please follow keys if you are not doing so already. I guarantee it is a good time on stream.
Oh, there it is!
I'm just going to keep talking about stuff and seem to find it.
Alright let's go.
Let's go.
That's so...
The backwards commentator curse.
I need this in my life more often.
Yeah, where's this coming from?
Yeah, this is so good.
Incredible.
Oh, okay.
Fireblast would be good if
I didn't have firepunch already And since I'm so high level,
I'd rather the accuracy over the damage and... Yeah.
We are a Level 100 after all! Sometimes
I feel like against Red,
that level 100 never seems to be enough
against six Pokemon.
Yeah, sometimes his team is just really,
really good.
The worst part is when his team isn't
good but they're tanky. All you have to do
is avoid rock Pokemon.
Oh I'm sure I won't.
There's not that many rock moves in this game though.
That's true.
Rocksword, rocks rock slide ancient power yeah rock throw rock slide ancient power
oh that might not feel
i'm a water the odd natural. And what are the eyes?
Well, I'm currently on your
show so I would guess high.
This has been going too well.
Yeah, there's got to be something.
There's got to be some sort of hiccup.
If I remember,
they were super...
No, it's not this.
It's the azalea mine. The last time I... No, it's not this. I joked!
The last time...
Well sorry the second to last time
was on Mercy Kill and was nice enough
to play Animorphs for me
Uh, I thought you nailed it I thought it was actually a really good one.
Oh, no, it's in the top.
Okay, I was about to say where are my repels at?
They're right there.
Ah! Inventory! They're right there. My inventory? Ah, inventory management!
I don't miss this.
Might as well just sell everything. Wait, did that say done button?
Yeah! It shows your stats.
Oh... I've never seen that before.
Yeah it's part of the mod.
Gotcha.
I can literally pull it up and show you real quick.
Like, it just shows all the stats and stuff.
Oh that Lugia was garbage i knew it
i knew it ah what a loser
i love lukia too but that was horrendous to look at.
What a bozo.
Now I extra don't feel bad for swapping.
4 attack 5 special special? What is that?
Weenie Hut Jr.?
Ugh...
Alright well we do have whirl access and I think whirl is like 15 or something.
Oh yeah, I can see multiple badges being there.
Also I forgot to put my Repel up.
Oops.
I see the spinners aren't super fast.
They're kind of fast, but they're not, like... Yeah, they're kind of fast but they're not like...
Yeah. They are very manageable
It's nice having that option because it does
suck just getting hit by a trainer
for no reason.
Alright, you know what? For the people, since I have the Silver Wing...
There's an item over here anyway, but let's just see what the
loot is for ponies.
I like the fact, responding to that
question in audience, that rare candies can
be in shops because
again this goes back to what we were talking about before.
What makes the randomizer more interesting?
What makes it less interesting?
I don't think the randomizer becomes more interesting if you have to grind right?
So that's why I like the rare candies being available in shops possibly.
Oh... okay.
Oh... That's um... Oh.
That's, um...
You didn't have to
do that!
No! Aww! Okay. to do that. Oh, poor dog.
That is another thing.
You have killed three innocent Pokemon.
Were they innocent?
Yes! They could have just chilled.
You could have run away and... Oh, nice.
Uh, you could have just chilled.
I could have.
But that's less funny
i'm a monster oh my goodness why
if that would have been edgert, I may have had to put down my mic for a second because...
Oh no!
That's my Pokémon.
I love the Dratini-Dragonair-Dragonite line.
They are really awesome line. Yeah, even
though Dragon Knight looks nothing like
Dratini and Dragonair!
Dragon Knight's so funny
Just the dragon... Hey I here yeah how's it going
yeah but if you've ever seen a dragon dragonite in the anime they do not take
you know what from nobody oh Oh yeah, no they are. Oh my gosh.
They
are ready.
I think one of the games Lance has a Dragon
Knight like in role play and
Dragon Knight just like you know, blows up Team Rocket.
Ha!
I believe it. Yeah, get him.
Wasn't there like an episode of the anime
where there's like a super giant Dragonite?
Yeah. He was like taller than like a lighthouse or something
yeah that was like the monster island or something like that
yeah yeah you always name your jatini noodles
oh that's a cute thing for a chichini.
Yeah! If Keith had destroyed a Zig Zagoon I may have been very upset.
Thank goodness there are none in this game.
No, they exist!
Oh man...
If you run into them with the Elite Four that's one thing but if it's just in the wild and you just go around i was you know then i get upset it's a light murderous rampage
no No. Okay, so I'm gonna check this item up here and now I can go through the radio tower. So I don't really want to, but we're starting to run out of areas and having Claire's Gym open is a nice thing because that means we can go to Dragon's Den and get
a few items. And the hard requirement for that is clearing this.
By the way... I might as well. I love the Dragon's Den music!
It goes so hard.
That and the
Victory Road music as well.
They're just both so good.
Oh, no! Okay, look, this one's not my fault it's not your fault but the poor noodle
the commentator's anti-curse strikes again. No! Poor noodle!
It was never supposed to be like this.
No, but I can forgive you
because that's like...you have to get past that
it's not a wild one. But still, poor
noodle. Oh and now we're Pikachu!
Oh my god. It would be a shame
if it got Earthquaked.
Oh combo on!
This is not fair!
This is NOT fair! This is NOT fair!
Team Rocket are the bad guys.
They're like, hey what Pokemon
would be Sky-like? That'll be our entire setup.
Poor Dragonite!
That's rough.
I'm so sad...
I'M NOT MAD, I'M JUST SAD!
See, I like Zapdos.
I'm sad about that one.
It's only happened once so far though, instead of like the 30 times for you.
Yeah... that does this cool. I like that a lot.
I really aesthetically like Articuno the most out of the three,
Yeah.
I just wish it were better.
Like, it's good in Gen 1, but then afterwards
It doesn't have proper offense so it's kinda hard of hard to use. And a doggy too!
These guys are monsters. They are! This is wild, the chances, the chances of all this...
How do they have so many cute things? Yeah. Let's see, uh let's see, it sounds like you still have quite a few tracks though here between here and Blackthorn.
Yeah there's definitely... There's definitely some stuff we can do i don't want to do claire
so i'm unlocking her but i'm gonna like put her off for a little bit.
Why did I switch to the opposite? That Goldeen looks angry.
That Goldeen's very mad
that I Earthquaked the Pikachu.
That was a very angry-looking fish!
Oh yeah, oh yeah it was not happy with us.
Awwwwwww...
Little ice piggy! Little ice piggy.
No...
These gens have too many cute onesons. They've too many cute Pokemon.
And then I look at the current gen of Pokemon and it's like, a Wind Chime?
Hey there's sentient peppers now.
Yeah I saw that! I'm just like wow wow, Holdvon sure has changed.
There's a building that looks like a dragon or something? A dragon that looks like a building?
Yeah!
Yeah, I see that one.
Raladon... You played Rogue didn't you?
I tried
it for like an hour and I didn't have enough
time to play more of it. Aww
It's fun. I enjoyed it.
I've lurked in a few streams. It does look like
a lot of fun.
I think i forgot to deck the Mart in Ekrut.
That feels like so long ago!
Yeah, yeah... So I'm gonna go there and hope that i did
and i'm just wasting a little bit of time and we hope that there isn't
something there there's something there then i'm not
feel like a dummy chat listen gen 3 still feels new to me, okay?
You don't know how many times I've played Pokemon Rogue
and I'm like, wait, who is that?
What is that?
Our bones creak, chat.
Give us a break.
Yeah, I'm still trying to figure out fairy weaknesses
and resistances, okay?
It's still taking me
a hot minute.
Yeah, honestly that one's fair.
So let's double check if I did the mark.
If I did, then whatever. If I didn't that's a lot of possible checks
that I ignored.
So, I don't even remember going over here.
Listen, if I tell myself 20 years ago... I'm an idiot!
No, you're not. If I tell
myself 20 years ago was recent,
I'd feel better. Okay?
Okay?!
I agree with this.
Every time
I hear that a game is in its
20s now or something just like oh no
yeah it's like if um you know gdq likes especially hapix likes to do all these
different specials right if there's like an anniversary of some kind it's really
cool stuff right and then you think think about when that game came out.
It takes
me to a place.
Oh yeah.
Alright so this mark gets
a second mark after you clear the...
Oh, right.
This is happening.
All right.
It's just a light violent crime going on.
No big deal.
Eh.
It's Lance.
Lance must be good, right?
Sure. Yeah! It's Lance. Lance is supposed to be good, right? Sure!
Alright maybe not
to some folks
I can see that
I'm gonna...I can come back here I guess a Water Stone lets me check some stuff.
I'm going to... I can come back here if we need more checks,
because there's still the entire Rocket hideout
that I could check.
Oh my gosh!
He did just get the Water Stone, which gives us...
Mario 64 is turning 30 in a couple years
30. 33 like three zero yeah 20 26 will be 30 years old.
No!
I gotta tell off that one later No! Oh my
god, we're dirt.
Yeah, we are.
We were born during the literal invention of video games.
And the internet.
Oh, my God. Did you ever use Ask Jeeves? And the internet. Oh my god!
Did you ever use Ask Jeeves?
Yes.
Yeah, yeah before Google it was always Yahoo and Ask Jeeves.
You ever pick up a phone and you heard...
Uh huh. Yeah. You ever pick up a phone and you heard Get off the phone! I wanna get on the internet.
My favorite is when my mom wanted to gossip with her friends while I was doing research for school
so I would just lose internet and be very
angry about it.
Okay, good find.
Good find. Now I can use waterfall.
Okay, so we only need three more badges. So that's not bad at all. I can waterfall now, so I can go back to Mortar and there are a lot of items I can get. So this is...
Everything is coming up
keys right now.
You remember those discs that used to come
in the mail?
Oh yeah.
I was a kid that would like put them on strings and hang them up on my ceiling as decoration.
I know what I'm about.
Oh, I never taught waterfall!
Were you there when I played Oregon Trail for SGDQ like almost 10 years ago. I remember watching it, yes.
That's going to be ten years ago in Summer Next Gen.
Back before Spike had salt and pepper hair, it was weird.
Back when my wrists didn't creak.
No!
Like I'm not as skinny as I used to be anymore either...
I used to be a stick.
Now it looks like I have,
like, a beer belly if
I sit in certain way.
You got a second landline
so you could be online?
That was fortunate of y'all!
Wait, that's smart.
Why didn't I think of that one?
That's so clever.
Remember when game magazines came with demo discs?
I remember when a Smash Bros CD
came with one of my Nintendo
powers that is all
just adventure-friendly.
There's like, uh...I used to get
a Playstation magazine back in the
Playstation 1 era and it had like a demo disc that had
the first couple of levels of
Tomb Raider, all this stuff uh you can play like a like a decent amount
of demos like it was really cool i remember that i think it was i think it's called
playstation underground i think is what it was called. But the disc I had
was actually genuinely
one of my first
interactions with speedrunning
because there were
a couple video guides that show, like, oh yeah
you can skip this entire area
of Tomb Raider if you do
this. Or, oh yeah
like
there's such a thing as Platinum Relics and Crash Bandicoot
and this is how you get them
it's like a really good
and clean run of one of the levels
I once
had a VHS sent to me in the mail and it was a promo for Star Fox 64.
Oh my god, I remember that!
I hate that I remember that.
You know what you want to talk about? i think like banjo too was on there too
oh no my just felt my back tweak itself a little bit.
Oh no!
This is terrible!
Hey, ocean This is terrible.
Hey, OG's Rollercoaster Tycoon is still good.
That game has actually aged really well chat
Would recommend still
I love when there are old games that you used to play that are still
worth your time.
Oh yeah, I love classic RCT.
Okay so we have a check here.
It'll unlock another check too I think.
Oh no it won't unlock another...
But we are two badges away.
I'm just kind of following the sequence
of events here and it's kind of working out, but now
my sequence is empty.
Yeah, we didn't
really have quote-unquote
direct events to find out
when new games were coming out. You kind of just
went to the store and you saw a
poster.
Yeah, I could see some sort of advertisement.
Very rarely you get like a commercial
I remember when the friggin'
Crash Bandicoot had
a crossover with Pizza Hut
Oh yeah! Yeah, I remember that
Yeah Yeah...
Oh man
A giant Crash Bandicoot costume
That was worn
It was the first game we ever played? Mine was probably Super Mario Bros. 3 followed by Castlevania III
My first game that I ever played, and I'm going to use play lightly
because I was sitting on my dad's
lap and I would use the mouse and he would use
a keyboard. And I was like not even one year old
yet but
the Wolfenstein 3D.
Oh! I had that!
I had Wolfenstein on DOS, yeah.
Yeah! Good ol' DOS!
I'll never forget if I wanted to play my game...
Command prompt CD dot-dot CD Wolfenstein I'll never forget if i wanted to play my game command prompt cd dot dot cd wolf 3d
wolf 3d and then there you go oh man
Oh did you um to say something about Did you mark the thunder badge on the tracker?
I sure did not
Thank you for pointing
Well thanks to Chad for pointing that out.
Thank you, chat.
Yep. So now we're just looking for the Earth badge?
Uh, looking for earth and mineral.
Mineral, that's it.
Unfortunately, mineral is gray so it's sometimes really hard to tell if its marked or not. Same with the Boulder Badge.
Yeah there was also Nintendo Power that was a good way to find out about new releases.
I remember back when GameStop
was actually more focused on games than merch.
It was EB Games back then, I think. I think it was eb games back then i think i eb i think it was eb games in canada
and i think it was separate in the states because i remember at least the mall that's
like five minutes from where I live right now.
Like,
I used to go there as a kid all the time and I remember
like the second floor had
a GameStop and the first floor had an EB Games
or other way.
Oh! I forgot
to...
I should have
mentioned this
in the pre-show.
So I saw a
sprite in a
video game.
I have literally
not seen it
since I was
a kid.
My friend Liz
Starr, again
you all may
know Liz,
was playing Word Munchers the other day. I'm streaming and like I have literally not seen the little froggy sprite with a mouth
in two eyes since...
Since I was a kid i'm like oh my god
that's damn
but that's all this part was.
It was just like kind of something
that resembled a frog's face with two legs on it.
Yeah, yeah.
I remember...
I remember...
It wasn't even like a soundtrack, it was just a bunch of beep boop noises. Yeah!
Aw man.
You still have EB Games in New Zealand and Austria? I haven't seen
an EB Games in a very long time because I think
GameStop bought them out. Now, it
wouldn't surprise me if I saw
EB Games for a few years because I lived close to Canadian border.
Granted, I was on the US side but I grew up very close to Canada so
that wouldn't surprise me if that was somehow related. Yeah like I'm in
Washington state and I mean like I State. If I reach up high enough
I can reach Canada so...
Yeah!
So that might be why
I also saw eb games
yeah that's where i actually got my lime game boy color from like i got that for
a birthday at uh eb games like i got to pick that out
yeah i still have that too I even still have the box.
I have...I have the grey
like old Game Boy
Oh the brick!
Yeah the brick where it's green's sickly green for this screen instead of black and white oh my
goodness i could not read that screen yo nice mineral badge all right we're missing one I... so, okay. If Shop Sanity weren't one of my options this would actually be a terrible, terrible, terrible decision.
But because I have Shop Sanity on...
That means that the souvenir shop at Mt. Moon as items, so we're gonna go there.
Oh! I didn't think about that. Yeah.
If my last badge is there then I just look like a cheater.
If it isn't there,
I won't be surprised and I gain absolutely
nothing from this because I'm level 100.
I'm not even getting experience anymore.
This is, I would say...
This is one of the mean rivals.
There's fun rivals and there's mean rivals.
This rival is not a nice person.
No, no.
So the cool thing...
And this is why he's actually my favorite rival.
The cool thing about this rival
it's very obvious that he has character development
because, you know,
he starts off like a complete jerk, right?
Like shoving you around saying
he's the best everyone else is trash blah blah blah
but he eventually gets a Crobat which you can't get a Crobat unless
you treat your Pokémon well.
And also he becomes a lot less harsh too so like
You can see his attitude change and tell that he cares about his Pokémon
Oh that's cool I didn't think of that
Like there is actual character growth
I'm such a cheater.
Dang!
Scripted!
So scripted. Look at this dirty
cheater here all right so i'm gonna click that go mode button
so now i just have to beat the elite foreign and beat red
there you go i have all the badges,
I should do this first.
I think my favorite rival was
Scarlet Violet
Oh, Nimona. I love her.
She's so much fun.
I jokingly call her Goku because she just...
She's so ready to fight all the time.
It's literally just Goku.
Okay, so that... I'm probably not saving time because
I didn't fly there first and then I flew back anyway but
if you have all 16 badges before you fight the Elite Four,
you can actually get a neat little time save here.
You can unlock Mt Silver slightly early and get the Fly Point for it
so after you beat Delete 4
you just come back.
It saves like 20 or 30 seconds.
Like, it's actually a big amount but it's so unlikely to happen.
Also lucky for us because we have all our badges and we're in go mode.
I don't have to pick up anything anymore.
We're literally just going.
We're breezing.
Easy breezy from here this song goes so hard it's a really good song i
adore all the chiptune pokemon music like it, it's so good.
Like anytime I've ever played a Pokemon game that has
a way to play like the older format of music.
I take it, like every time.
Oh by the way best Pokemon character
of all-time keys?
I'm going with larry how about you
larry
maybe it's just because we're in the retirement home now but larry speaks to
me i love like again't want to spoil anything later on that happens with Larry
I love Larry's character so much
Larry's character is so relatable.
Like,
I wouldn't be surprised if
you like polled anyone
like 16 and under
and then polled anyone like 21 and older
Yeah
How skewed Valery's popularity would be
With a lot of younger people
He'd be like, he's funny I guess
Probably like
Not even a
top 30 character for them. Whereas
people outrage is like, oh yeah, he's number one.
He's so number
one that he's triple S tier.
I just remember reading his lines in the game and i'm like i love this guy he's so great
i just never thought to myself this is the most unforgettable pokemon character i will
man they really don't want to be nice to you tonight I'm so sad.
Awwww! I like Ampharos, I'm sad now
There's somebody who can't poke them
on So many cute Pokemon!
Oh my gosh, no! Not Iridos.
Okay, Rock Slide's 90% to hit and I missed three in a row.
Well you know what that means? It's 50-50
if it's 100%. You know how this works.
Yeah yeah unless it's an enemy
in which case it's 100%
unless the sun is in their eyes.
Yes, I love the scene where Larry treats you to a meal.
That is the best.
It's so good.
It is wholesome.
I do like the latest interactions that you have with Larry.
Again, not to spoil in case someone hasn't played through the game yet
You do run into him more than once and one of the later times you run into him more than once, and one of the later times you run into him is just so funny and so relatable as a millennial. By the way, for folks watching
I mean we still have a few battles left
But again, I want to take this time
To shout out Keyes
Again, Keyes
The time always flies by The time we get to spend together
so thank you so much for being on my show
It's 630 already? What?
Yeah, yeah
I didn't even realize
Yeah We're just having a nice conversation real life.
Yeah, we're just having a nice conversation and you're
playing epically and our
time here is almost done, yeah.
Thank goodness.
I love being on your shows, by the way.
Like, I don't think I've ever...
I've always said like thanks for having me
on and whatnot. I don't think I've ever just
outright flat out said I love your shows.
Oh thank you!
I appreciate that.
I just like to chill with chat and whoever I've had.
Yes the gameplay is cool and important
but sometimes I just
like to talk to folks whether it be in the chat or with my guests. It's important to me.
Yeah like I mean obviously every single hotfix show kind of has its own vibe depending on who
is hosting and whatnot. And I think the thing that I appreciate a lot about being on your shows is it's almost
like an interactive interview.
Yeah!
Like you're basically just interviewing me the whole time but we also have gameplay in the background and a lot of silly inside jokes that we get to share with people.
Yeah!
The vibes here are immaculate.
I appreciate that.
We do our best here.
All right, so this is the final trainer in this bot.
Like he's made this all look easy.
This is our quote-unquote champion,
or as it parentheses, you know,
because obviously we'll say that more.
After this,
we just...
We enter the Hall of Fame and then, oh.
Oh! Poor... Now that
is a bunny, okay?
That is 1,000% a bunny.
That's a water bun.
Poor baby. The cutie is what it is.
No! Not for me!
This game, really?
They're so cuddly. Okay, that's not as cuddly
but you know what I mean.
This game is so anti-noodle.
Look at none of our size!
Okay, that's not very cute either.
That's like the fourth Parasect
in this Elite Four. What the heck?
Poor Bonnie.
How many paracets?
I have got to go through like 30 seconds of...
Thank goodness, by the way,
I don't know why it took me this long to point this out because it's been two hours but
I have Hold To Mash on which is another quality of life thing that's included in this mod
That's the one thing that I don't miss about speedrunning
Pokemon games
is
the amount of
mashing through text
you have to do.
Yeah, yeah.
And it's like
it's one of those things
too where
going all the way back
to when we were kind of talking about
health and stream health
and all that stuff.
I don't think people give mashing
the respect that they should
because it's a mindless
thing to do a lot of times. You're just hitting
A and B or X and
triangle or whatever.
But
mashing really strains your wrists, fingers and hand muscles.
Yes! I think fighting games still do the worst thing to my hands.
Joysticks are also a pretty big culprit in that i do much better with
the d-pad in terms of long term playing versus any kind of joystick
i noticed that when i uh because i have
a smashbox um and that was kind of inspired because
uh bobby uses fight sticks all the time but uh um i i have a smashbox and i'm not quite
comfortable with it yet when it comes to legitimate speedrunning,
instead of just challenge runs or casual things.
But I do want to get comfortable with it because
It feels a lot more ergonomic.
Someone said is the Elite Four
the best way to level your Pokemon to 100?
I mean, in randomizer, if you find a shop that
sells Rare Canyons, that would probably be my
advice for leveling them on to 100.
Oh my gosh! what a cutie.
Yeah so like if...
Usually the best way
God they really just want me to murder everything cute
The best way would probably be
Two? Would probably be... Oh my god, two?
Two bodies!
Would probably be Elite Four.
Alright last Mon and this one isn't cute so who cares.
As soon as the screen fades and we pull up the stat
screen that's time and
look at you making quick work out of that
yeah once once we were ready to go...
Actually, this hoa was not good either.
Once we got most of the badges
and we just started like
We kind of fell into some items but
it was kind of funny because I remember before
the second break
before the first break I had mentioned like
I tend
to go to areas that have more checks and the logic
that I have is more random.
Like it's not like if you get cut,
then the next thing is probably behind cut.
Yeah.
But I started doing it that way just now, and it literally led to everything.
So maybe I did set it up that way, and I am once again a dummy about it.
But that's okay. We got there eventually.
Oh yeah! We absolutely got there.
But I just... Again after looking at the stats yeah i understand what you're talking about now you made that work very well considering and even
though we ran into golems it's not like again rock moves are so scarce
right? And I can say that now because
I wasn't going to
you know.
Like I knew
we were gonna be fine with hello
and I'm double checking because i we said rock slide rock throw and ancient
power so yes double checking right now um oh roll out we forgot about rollout. We forgot about rollout.
Rollout would be scary. That could actually be super scary.
Anyone who doesn't know how rollout works...
Once you use it, you use it for five turns straight and it doubles in power each turn.
So like you have- It's 90 accurate which that's a funny thing about rock moves is most rock moves aren't 100% accurate. like in this game it's only ancient power
every single other rock move can miss um sandstorm technically counts
as a rock move but i mean yeah i was, I was gonna say, I think weather's
treated a little differently.
So there's five. There's only
five rock moves. You're so unlikely to run
into one, but it's still running anything with
a four times weakness is always terrifying. And then running anything with a four times weakness is always terrifying and then
running something like a mad cargo that is allergic to water and ground
terrible terrible terrible terrible i forgot how cute this ending is
it's adorable oh the ditto's dancing yeah
yeah
yeah um that's that's's an example of a Pokémon Crystal Full Item Randomizer.
Like we mentioned at the beginning and kind of sprinkled throughout
the whole stream.
I did slightly easier settings, but it's a really customizable experience.
Like I said earlier you could reduce it so it's only key items that get
shuffled around and not every item mixed up.
You can do things like
reduce the Pokemon's levels
or increase the Pokemon's levels, you can do
really wild stuff like change the
typing's power of move.
All that stuff.
There's so much you could do
that you can probably play a randomizer
like this for the next 10 years
and just have a different experience literally
every time.
Yeah, and again it really shows how passionate you
are about this generation of Pokemon
I mean you know it so well, you know the map so
well, I mean it's no wonder that you play this one quite a bit.
You have the love for that
that comes with just playing and having
experience with it.
Oh yeah, oh yeah. It is
definitely my favorite generation.
I know what's wrong with the game,
I know that there are some balancing issues and whatnot,
but it is definitely my favorite.
Well again,
it was wonderful to have you on.
I enjoy the conversations as always keys.
And again, if you want to talk about your stream real quick,
we have a couple seconds here.
Shout outs any of those things please by all means yeah so uh i mean just
twitch.tv slash keys run uh k-e-i-z-a-r-o-n um that's pretty much every single social media
ever too so like if you're a Twitter goer or YouTube or something
You can find me there too
I
do a bunch of Pokemon randos
Do a bunch of Archipelagos
Do a bunch of challenge runs, so on and so forth i believe emre is here with
a kitten now so you know what yeah we got a second
wait we got time for for a little kitty yeah
oh wow you're so precious!
You can see the dog.
It's so small!
They are so tiny!
Aww, they are so cute!
I love them!
I'm going to take this one. I'm going to take this one. I'm going to take this one. You can see the dog. It's so small!
They're so tiny!
Well, there you go. What a perfect way to...
Also, follow my stream because I have animals.
You'll see animals all of the time.
I don't think there's anything else I can say.
I think it was a perfect send-off.
I have cat, I have kitten,
I have dog, I have snack.
Come follow me. Enjoy the vibes.
Aw, what a cute kitty oh i'm so stoked well thank you for that that was really
sweet to see I love having pets on my show that That was really good timing, too.
Yeah, that was absolutely perfect
and now you can go spend time with the kitty.
That's the plan!
Yeah! Well, you
go enjoy that again.
Congratulations on the randomizer.
Great time and great stream in general.
We appreciate that.
Thanks for having me on.
Always appreciated it.
And follow keys again.
Good game play. Great animals as well. it. And again, follow keys again. Good gameplay, great
animals as well. So please go do
that. So again folks, this
is not the end of our GDK broadcast. If you had
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It was great.
Absolutely. Again, this is not
the end of our Hot Fix content tonight though.
Stay tuned for Time Capsule coming up after the break.
Take it away, Tippi.
Time Capsule so so Thank you. so so.. so so..
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.. so so so I'm going to go ahead and do that.
I'll just take a look at the map, see if there's anything else I can find. so so so so so so so so so so so I'm not sure if you can see it, but the game is pretty much a.. so.
. so so so so so Hello and good evening friends. Welcome to the Games Done Quick Hotfix! I'm your host, Smooth Operative,
And you are watching Time Capsule. It is a show where we travel back in time
To your favorite years of gaming and showcase awesome speedruns
Of games released
in the same year. Tonight we are diving into an overlooked title
for the PlayStation 2, released in 2005
It is the Tekken spin-off game you didn't know you needed in your life.
And honestly, we're going to get right to it here to speed run
the world premiere of Tekken's Nina Williams in Death by Degrees.
Please welcome the sleeper agent himself, St. Million
World premiere
Hey Saint
Yeah, where are my sleeper agents at?
Where are the sleeper agents at?
Hey everybody
Hi
It's nice to be back on the hot fix it's been a while for myself uh but i'm
really glad to be here this is definitely a tech in game It's a very unique Tekken game
You can tell by
the 10 trillion tons of mayhem
Here we go
This is the Nina Williams video game.
It's the first and last standalone Tekken game featuring mainly one character from the series.
Project Nina, you know?
Project Nina it was. And then it turned into
Tekken's Nina Williams in Death by Degrees
It all takes
place on this... or not all
but most of it takes place on this luxury
yacht and I'm letting this intro video go for a little bit because we're
not going to get to see pretty much any of the cut scenes because we're gonna skip through them
i think when we were talking about it the cutscenes probably total over an hour
at least. Yes, so
you might see the estimate is three and a
half hours.
This is a long game, and
it's mostly because of load screens
and skipping cut scenes. It takes up like 45 minutes of time
in that three and a half hours, but this game
is kind of special to me because i bought
this at a shop called e star land in virginia on agdq some friends and
I went to this game shop oh wow, wow. And as speedrunners do
we were looking for obscure games
that would be like, oh, this looks terrible
let's play it in the hotel room
and this was one of those games
and that was like six plus years ago or something there you go
and somewhat recently i was just going through my games and i was like oh yeah
death by the creeds this terrible game and there's were still no speedruns of it anywhere on the island.
Yeah, we couldn't find a single one so this according to our search
is going to be the world premiere of Tekken's Nina Williams in Deathly
Degrees V-Run.
Yes, hence World Premiere at the Cintra.
It's just fun to say you know what I mean?
Yeah so the plot of this game is that Nina is the ultimate
assassin by the way.
That's kind of her thing. She's an
assassin. Yeah, just in case you didn't know.
She's investigating...
Oh, here's a little sneak peek of the gameplay
we have to look forward to.
So there's a plot afoot.
A criminal organization
is experimenting in the
ocean and the Bermuda Triangle.
And a video leaks on The Net
capital N, The Net
This is 2005
Not featuring Sandra Bullock?
Just The Net
and Nina is working for the CIA
in collusion with MI6,
a couple other agents
to investigate what's going on
on this luxury yacht
criminal organization ship where they're
doing experiments. Yeah? So her underg- uh, cover is that she's entering an
underground fighting tournament which is really an over watered fighting
tournament because it's on a boat and uh that's where the game begins all right
so uh this gameplay goes on for a while well let's get to it then shall we right
to it if i get right to it i mean explain the whole game and then yeah of course
there she is there she is.
Alright, so we're gonna start on Beginner. I actually don't know how much of a difference it is between Beginner and Normal.
I think you take less damage and maybe enemies have less health.
It's not really noticeable.
I just pick it because it seems like the faster.
I mean, yeah.
This requires more testing.
So if you are finding the run interesting at any point like feel free to be around death by degrees
this game is kind of like melgear solid 2 mixed with resident evil mixed with
jet lee's rise to honor and i'll explain more about that later yeah just to get the vibe but i'm gonna go ahead and start at a time in three two one go good luck
and here's the load screen of the game, get used to this one and see a lot
of them are just going to immediately skip cut scenes.
And we're going go right into the tutorial.
And here we are.
Alright, so here we get a taste of the 360 degree combat system
The twin stick combat system that is heavily I believe inspired by Jet Li's Rise to Honor
which came out soon before this. Very similar move around and then you flick
the stick to do combos.
And depending on how you attack, you can do different combos. I'm doing a heavy combo here
it's kind of...the best way to dispatch multiple enemies and break their guard.
And you actually can't die in this tutorial, so you just kind of
kick butt for a little while.
Yeah, they interrupt Nina at the pool or something.
Yeah she's chilling at the pool. So you're on the ship of a criminal organization
And they kind of get the tip from somewhere that Nina's maybe undercover so they ruin her
little day at the pool. She's so undercover
Now we're locked in our quarters and we get in our cocktail dress
Of course. We do. Get a bottle of water
right here. This helps
refill our focus gauge for critical
attacks, it's going to be very important
and we're taking this bottle of water all
the way to the end of the game. Oh, wow.
For the final boss because it's just
that useful in the final
boss specifically. Okay.
So Nina's
locked her quarters but we're just gonna escape real quick
just you know flip off the side of the balcony no big deal yeah
the music is so good in this.
Like, when Saint showed me
this initially
I felt like I was just
watching a Bond film
or something.
Very Bond-y.
It's very cinematic.
Like it's almost a shame we have to skip the cutscenes
but you know what is what it is.
So for stairs flipping up is faster
It's cool, I don't know why
Running up any stairs in this game is like
running on butter for some reason.
If you sprint up the stairs she doesn't
go as fast as when she normally runs.
Yeah her little feet are like
woo woo woo woo woo. So doing a dodge upstairs does
a flip which is much faster. And it
looks cooler so there's that.
We're going to
see the first real
showing of the fastest movement tech in the game, which is dodging forward.
Let me get out this menu...
So sometimes sprinting is faster, the fastest way to travel if it's a short distance but
If you hold your
Hold L1 which is kind of your martial arts button and press forward in kind of a rhythm, then you do this little dodge tactic.
So like a little sweep?
Yes so she's just a sweeper agent on the ship
It's true. So it's her and two other agents
on this mission,
and she's called a sweeper,
which means that
if the other two agents fail,
then she activates
and she finishes the mission,
which I can only imagine means sleeper agent but there was maybe a localization yeah we're not entirely sure but I mean she does sweep
the feet so it's possible across across the deck with her cool movement.
It's possible.
Now do we meet the other agents involved?
Oh, oh, we will. do we? Okay, good.
Oh do we?
Trust no one. Ten million... ten trillion
tons of mayhem. We will
meet fellow
agents and we're going to meet one right now actually he's under attack
by a sniper and uh we're gonna go and help him out sounds good But in fact, if you hold sprint while going up ladders, you go faster.
So that's just what you do here.
Oh nice!
So we're gonna get a taste of the sniper gameplay.
We're going to take this guy out...
Boom! X-ray damage.
This is one of the early X-Ray Critical games.
Alright, we're gonna pick up a sniper rifle and do some sniper gameplay.
Sweet! I'm down. No. So the agent that we're protecting here, his name is Alan Smithy which is totally not an alias.
Okay, Alan?
He needs protection which is actually
total BS because he almost
never takes damage from enemies
and he has infinite
ammo. He also never shoots these guys that you're shooting.
They die in one hit to the head, which is what I'm going to try to do,
but sometimes they take two shots to the back or three shots to the whole body.
It's kind of a sniper tutorial i guess here uh this isn't a tutorial oh and this is the real thing throwing you right in there okay yeah this is
real danger on the line.
As you can tell by the Danger Meter on the bottom left that fills up if these snipers
look at us to run.
Oh there's like a little danger meter. Okay. Yes.
Dangerometer. Alright, so
Alan does take damage. I was totally lying
but he never really takes enough
damage for it to matter.
That we know of anyway
yeah
you imagine Alan just like dies right here and now
god
a real death's never happened before
I better
alright, I hope you liked the first five minutes of this I better hush. that i take cover if the danger meter gets too high because health is kind of important in this
first little segment so they can shoot nina dead yeah you can get shot hey hey alan hi what's up thanks yeah no problem let this cutscene play
sure again
what a badass you're pretty good, now we have this cool sniper.
Yeah, screw it.
She's like, It was trash.
Who cares?
I didn't like that anyways.
I can't put it in my cocktail drink.
Yeah, that is probably true.
Okay.
Now back to the action.
Now loading. Back to the stealth
action gameplay.
We're going gonna go down this ladder,
and there's a shiny item here...
It's a crank.
It's an hexagonal
crank I should say.
So things that you can interact with are always kind of sparkling like that?
Yeah, important things.
Important things, okay.
Just going to go down this ladder here.
And now we're gonna break into the boat proper
Oh my goodness!
So, let's talk about the camera for a little bit. Sure. I'm holding
R2 right now which kind of lets me control
the camera in a sort of
slightly freeform way
but the camera shifts
a lot in the same vein as
a Resident Evil type of game,
and that can mess with your movement quite a bit.
Oh, I can imagine.
Kind of holding R2 and controlling the camera is going to help us a lot
to cut corners precisely, but a lot of times you cannot use the camera
control.
It honestly feels random
where you can and can't use the camera.
Okay. Maybe on like the bigger
sections of the boat where it's kind of like yeah usually when you're
close to a wall or something they don't want you to use the camera like a long little jaunt around
the boat yes okay so if you could imagine Resident Evil 2 and the mansion
right? Iconic
You're always going back to places
Wait, in 2?
There's a mansion, right?
There's a mansion? That's like RPD.
RPD? It's... that's a mansion.
I don't know. The RPD? Straight
mansion. Straight mansion. Resident Evil 1
there's a mansion. We'll go with that.
This is pretty much the same thing, this whole boat
is like a mansion
I see you were making a comparison there
There's a lot of backtracking and there are puzzles
that are like
Go get the key to the door all right that's a puzzle it's a lot of puzzles like that
so we're breaking into the boat proper here
this is a cia communication save point uh normally in a run you wouldn't save it these
because it just takes a little bit of extra time but there are laser grids that we're
gonna have to bypass that give you an instant game over and
that would mean
we would have to do everything over
again because this is a ps2 game
if you don't save your game then you go
back to the beginning
yeah there's no
pre-loading of saves
if Saint messes up.
We're just kind of going for it here.
No, we're trying to make this pretty legit.
Alright, so... this pretty legit you know all right so this is uh mature oops i'm skipping cutscenes
so hard the menu opened now in terms of this game and its story, like is this canon? No. This is a non-canon Tekken game.
Non-Canon.
As important as the Tekken Canon is.
Standalone fun story.
Yes it's a one-off.
Nina's really not even kind of like
her normal self in this game.
She has a totally different character.
She's much nicer in this game.
Oh, she's so much nicer.
Alright, I'm actually going to do a little in this game. Oh, she's so much nicer. Alright.
I'm actually going to do a little
technique I just learned about.
You can kind of go over this
and get where you need to go faster
with the wall run.
Dude, how's she wall running in heels?
Wall running in heels. First time in games.
Wait, it might be.
I don't know. Proof check me.
I know the Prince of Persia is not wearing heels. That's for damn sure.
While running in heels, a video essay.
Alright so right now we're trying to locate
an agent that went missing one of the two agents has gone mia and we're kind
of searching for him it's not alan it's not allen it's uh the other guy, his name is John Doe.
John Doe, okay!
Also not an alias.
Also sometimes when you dodge by enemies
they just get completely baffled and look
around where did she go
I have no idea
another
benefit real quick of the dashing that we're doing throughout most
of the game is when you dash like this or i should
say when you sprint normally away from enemies they have a rubber banding mechanic where they can catch up to you pretty quickly.
And uh...they rubberband up to you and they have special attack animations that lunge them forward and knock
you down because the game is designed so you don't run away from a lot of fights but the dashing
really circumvents that mechanic because you're not technically sprinting,
so it never activates the rubber band-aid attack.
So they kind of can't catch up to you which is a pretty nice side effect
of the dashing.
Oh okay. Someone in the chat referred to it as
wave-dashing. Wave-dash
Now I'm wondering if that's like a technique
in other Tekken games
or something like that? It might be
Yeah we'll have to let yeah it's a melee technique
or yeah you'll have to let me know we just got fingerprint scanner
it was just on the conveyor belt convenient for sure
it's quite mysterious that we just got John Doe's fingerprint scanner they supposed to have on his person but we're going to use it to get access to certain doors throughout the entire game, which is a very Metal Gear
concept. Yeah, so
we can access all the doors with
this now? No.
We have to get fingerprints and oh my god, that's
a dead body. Oh no!
This is clearly the work of a professional.
Hopefully it's...
No one we know.
Who is that?
It's Richard.
It's Richard!
Oh no!
Richard I need this fingerprint i'm so sorry
richard we're sorry all right
so we have level one access now we are going to power on the cargo lift
so we can get out of this room eventually.
Or it's one way to get out of this room, I should say. This is the other way.
Here's a key for a semi-intended way of getting out
of this location. We're heading to a boss fight now
So in this game, you can use melee weapons, you can also use guns.
You can only hold one gun and one melee weapon but there are permanent upgrades throughout the game
holsters and
tactical belts. And these give you
more slots to carry items
or weapons. So we're about to get
the first of those
permanent upgrades which are very important because the bosses
in this game
are a lot faster
if you have
plentiful weapons. So now we can hold
two melee weapons.
Now we get some ventilation gameplay which is this is definitely a tekken
game as you will see oh wow okay but for real nina moves pretty fast in the vent yeah
wow she moves faster if you hold sprint oh okay, okay, so that works in the vent
too. Yeah, that's tech. Interesting.
Speed tech.
First ever world premiere.
There we go.
So we load into a level
and then we get another cutscene
and then another load screen.
Oh my god! There's blood all over the floor.
What happened? I don't know. What happened to John?
Something happen to John?
We pick up this gun right here, it's a 9mm Thurb handgun.
3RB. nine millimeter thurb handgun three rb i think it means three round burst okay the third
we're going into the cooler. This is where the blood leads
What is it? Oh my god, that's a dead body John does dead
spoilers So do we know what happened to him?
He got something shoved in his neck.
Oh my goodness.
Some object or something.
Just some object, no he's completely dead so this is where
we meet one of the executives of the criminal organization called kometa
organization his name is bryce he's he's just a jerk, and he has infinite pistols in his jacket.
So we're gonna have to fight him in this cooler.
So this is the first boss?
This is the first boss this is the first boss all right Nina get him
and he's just taunts you so much he's
so annoying we actually don't have to deplete his whole health bar here.
We're going to fight him a second time in a different location,
but we've got to get into half-health or just below half-health.
Okay.
Anything sometimes hit the meat into him does a little extra damage, so now we have critical
The purple meter in the top left is our critical meter And this gives us the x-ray attacks.
Oh, yeah!
So it takes a little bit of time to do these
but they always do
a pretty significant amount of damage
because just normal attacks is kind
of a chip damage type of situation.
Now, is it difficult to aim for the bones?
It's not too bad there There's a little bit of
delay, and it's
aiming something on like a console
game, so it's a bit funny.
A little clunky, okay.
But it's not the worst.
And time slows down down so you can really kind of dial in your attack. Now I'm curious, and I don't know if Saint will notice
but the chat may know this. Is Bryce
a character in any other Tekken game?
No, I think he's exclusive
to Death by Grease as are
many of the characters in this criminal organization.
I see. Okay, okay.
I'm not incredibly well-versed
in Tekken, so thanks.
Yeah, me neither.
I kind of want to get Tekken 8
evos this weekend, by the way.
If anyone's into watching competitive fighting games such as tekken
starring nina williams from tekan then you may be able to see her this weekend. Yeah?
The real Nina.
I want to meet the real Nina, are you kidding me?
Alright so Bryce ran away, we're just gonna leave John, we don't need him anymore
he's done for.
Okay bye John. So Alan is the only other agent from MI6 left and he's going to be kind of in our earpiece throughout the game giving us directions and sending us maps,
and stuff like that. But currently we need to get
a GPS device from Bryce that belonged
to John. So he's kind of taunting
us in running with it
chat says there are 10 000 entrance in evo
that's wild damn that's way too many people.
That's awesome though, is it still in Vegas?
I killed this guy to see if he would drop a health kit but he did not
So items...I'll talk about items for a moment.
Sure!
There are meal kits which heal you and there are water bottles that give you critical gauge. The meal kits are extremely important throughout the whole run
because you just take
damage in this game
as much as you'd like to avoid it
uh, it's
just inevitable
so I'm going to be stopping
to kill enemies, not just for
random drops which will
hopefully be health kits
but we also need some experience
points to level up In this game there you can level up nina to have
more kind of uh of her signature moves from tekken they're like combos
we actually don't get a lot of them because we just don't spend
the time playing the game enough to have
the skill points to buy all of the abilities,
unfortunately. So you have to kind of pick and
choose what you're gonna... You have to kind of pick and choose what your gonna... You have to kind of pick and choose,
And then what we are actually going to
Pick the most are abilities
That make our melee weapons
Have more durability.
Because melee weapons are very strong so yeah mainly weapons are finite you don't
get them forever they break and just as well the guns
you get have limited ammo and once they're out of ammo uh nina just tosses
she's like ah whatever yeah let's get rid of it.
So we're chasing Bryce, We have to chase him down
He's being a real jerk
But we are just going to follow the
drip drops of blood.
See what, uh...we'll find.
I'm a little low on health but I am just gonna skip these guys.
Oh my gosh they have the whole crew out for her there's always so many people
no matter what if you clear them all and then leave
and come back in there's just another like 12 dudes there that is
so funny they're like nina, Nina can we get your autograph?
Exactly, so it's kind of an early XP
farm. Okay that makes sense
if need be
alright so what we saw there is the GPS device
was left in the middle of this
Coliseum pool area. How convenient
it is. It's truly a trap
or wait, is it?
I'm going to save here
I really don't die
To Bryce 2
Very often
Bryce 2
Bryce 2
You thought you saw
The last of Bryce
Oh no
That character
Little did you know So can you save it Oh, no. That character.
Little did you know. So can you save at any point or it's at the little circles?
You have to find these save points.
Okay I see.
The CIA communication points.
Okay I see.
And we're going gonna go behind the bar
it'll check me up pick that up yield kit small
it's enough and we're going to open a armory chest these are scattered throughout the game they
are little puzzles that you can solve to get items so this is a whole chest full of weapons, but we can't take them all.
We can only take a couple because we have limited space,
But what I mostly want...
It's like a honeycomb number puzzle.
Oh okay. Oh, okay.
I just want these katanas.
They're the strongest in here.
And I don't really need the guns because I already have a gun. i really don't want to die to bryce so
I'm going to fully heal even though i don't think I'm gonna
die Bryce. That's a good call. Weird things can happen you never know
sometimes you get wombo combo it's a sad time oh i love this arena yeah this is pretty cool
place all right pinpoints the location of a cometa executive or something. I don't know this GPS does some plot thing. I forget
It's a trap Bryce is going to trap us in here and there are spikes all around us to battle to the death with Bryce.
So this fight is actually pretty tough casually,
but one tip is you can hit him into the spikes
and it does a ton of damage, and that's exactly
how we're going to beat him. Okay.
Now. Using
the arena to our advantage?
I like that. Take a bunch of bullets
to the face.
So he can kind of get stuck in the corner
Oh, we don't want to be hitting this bike still
Hit him a couple times I'm just gonna crit him and then I think he'll relocate after a crit. Yeah, brick break him.
Break his chest cavity.
Somehow he'll get back up.
There we go. So that's how that's supposed to go.
Alright, so when you readjust like that then you can kind of aim him into a spike.
You just gotta watch
where he goes. So you can see
it does a lot more damage on
the... Oh, yeah.
Otherwise, you're just kind of slowly chipping away at him.
Yeah, it's a really slow chip-away if you don't use this strat.
I feel like this arena... the way that it is designed...
This must be the way you are supposed to do it.
It's pretty much designed as such.
Yeah, okay.
Yeah, that's Bryce too.
Not too bad. Took a few shots
but we'll watch a little bit of this
cutscene. You'll never believe how he dies.
You'll never believe what happens next.
Watch it.
Ooh!
This is a mature game, by the way.
The first and only mature Tekken game.
Oh wow! I didn't realize that actually.
It has the M rating in everything.
Yeah, it has the M rating.
And Nina on the cover.
There's really not much that makes it
a mature game other than some blood.
I think it was kind of a marketing
gimmick to have the mature rating.
Oh, I see. To make it seem like
you were playing this kind of edgy Tekken game.
Yeah, it's like you see Tekkens Nina Williams
mature and be like, oh yeah
I wanna buy that. Yeah, you're like whatever
I'll buy it.
Alright so now we have level 2 access from Bryce's fingerprints. And we are going to
use that to explore more of the ship. Our current objective now is to find...
We have to spy on an executive
meeting of this criminal organization,
so that's what we're going to work on right now.
So are we
going in a disguise or just straight into this?
We're trying to spy on it.
I think our disguise is kind of the jig is up at the moment.
Anytime you see enemies, they're like,
we found the intruder!
I'm gonna kill some of these guys
in this lobby for some XP and hopefully some drops.
So if you have any announcements
that you wanted to get through, that would be a pretty good time.
Yeah, sure. Well, you know
next month is August
and we do have some things coming up.
So let's talk about them.
First of all, GDQs next All Women & Femmes speedrunning event Flame Fatales returns on
August 18th and goes through the 25th.
You can use the command
exclamation mark FF
in our Twitch chat
to check out the schedule
and let us know
what you are looking forward
to the most.
And also,
if you didn't know,
GDQ is heading
to PAX West from August 30th through September 2nd.
The schedule is out for that as well and you can use the command exclamation mark PAX in our Twitch chat for more information.
And yeah, let us know what you're excited to see at Pax. Heck yeah! Alright, so now that we have access to second level things, it means we can use the elevator.
We're going straight to the basement which is going to advance the plot as the elevator
gets disabled.
This might be the nicest elevator I've ever seen in a game.
Oh yeah.
This whole ship is like luxury.
Luxury.
I find the now loading screen kind of comforting.
I think it's just a maybe PS2 era comfiness.
Yeah, it's just like not a lot of games even have
like a little loading animation anymore.
They're just like a static image or something.
Or actually loading screens are getting pretty advanced.
Oh?
It'll be like a whole cut scene playing and I'm like, wait, this is the
loading screen?
Oh.
Oh, yeah, they hype them well.
Yeah. I am specifically
referring to Alan Wake 2.
I didn't realize that I was in the loading
screen, but...
Wait, what?
Alright, so we escaped the elevator
they kind of crashed it on us
You missed something shiny, what was it?
Those are gold coins and that's
specifically a New Game Plus related thing
Okay I see. So there are 30 gold coins in the
game and the more you collect the more extra items you'll get in new
game plus okay and uh extra weapon slots right off
the bat so not necessarily useful, but potentially 100% category.
Yeah, if someone's brave enough to take it on, yeah, 100%.
Could be fun. Okay, sweet.
And now we're
going to meet Alan
again face-to-face
this time and we're
going to go through a required combat sequence.
Sort of mini boss fight.
It's just a bunch of dudes with riot shields.
Nina, Nina! Can we get your autograph?
Yeah exactly.
And they're actually the main reason I got the katanas from that armory back then.
They help with Bryce hitting him into the spikes so you don't have to use an unarmed
combo. Okay. into the spikes so you don't have to like use an unarmed combo okay but um
here's the gun we found a couple easy kills and what were oh my god yes
oh nice okay we got a grenade i'm gonna fire off for us today Oh my god, yes. Oh nice!
Okay we got a grenade
I'm gonna fire off the rest of that
It's only hold one ranged weapon
So this is the best possible drop
for this fight You get six grenades per drop
It's totally random and kind of
rare, but it speeds up
this whole fight sequence
considerably. Okay
Because they're just one shot in an AoE.
We got a little GDQ luck on our side, let's go!
GDQ luck there.
So Alan he actually does help you a bit here.
This guy always runs away so far away, I don't know why.
That's an item that drops we're not gonna pick up there's like essential oils
that you get that are like buffs to Nina.
They buff your defense... Oh my god more grenades?
Jeez Louise! Like yeah there's these oils but they're
never quite useful enough to um
it's never quite worth it to pick up the buffs at least my theory is that they're not quite worth it
oh you dropped the gun
so we're just killing the last all right there's like one more guy coming
actually had some good drops here.
Some needle kits.
Okay, hold on.
He decided to actually pull his weight a little bit.
Oh, look at that. wait for a little bit nice we're getting a lot of health items so it's kind of good yeah this is lucky.
Alright, this fight sequence went pretty well.
We made out like a bandit. Did Alan get anything?
One bottle of water for the road.
Uh, Alan doesn't pick up items, he
doesn't really need them. He doesn't know how.
He doesn't know how.
He's not trained.
Now we get
some exposition about the super weapon that is possibly being built by this criminal organization. It's a series of satellites that do something involving sinking ships,, that's what we're learning about.
Okay the plot thickens?
Yeah! The plot thickens through these load screens. Nina she's feeling moderately interested interested she's just like oh okay i guess we gotta figure that out
here we get the stingray drone which is totally not the cypher from metal gear solid 2.
you know the little thing that flies around on the tanker...
or big shell?
I'm making no comparisons to Metal Gear Solid 2.
Good don't! There's no similarities between this game absolutely not they're solid
but the sing ray drone is a gameplay mechanic
that will we will see occasionally.
We'll have to like fly a drone around
and investigate things
Alright so right now we're breaking into the quarters of one of the executives Lana lay. She is a woman who uses whatever those oriental fans are called.
Just fans, I guess. She has like a bladed fan
that she uses and she
uses poisons and she loves to torture
people because she's real evil.
Gosh, I can't wait to meet her.'s real close sounds so fun so we're breaking into
her quarters through the aquarium it's a little swim sequence because this is exactly sequence.
Because this is exactly Metal Gear Solid 2
Swimming with the fishes We're just swimming right up here.
Oh, we're just in the fish tank!
Yeah, we are the fish.
Okay, we get a defibrillator
This is the best item in the game.
It's... when you reach 0 HP, it will automatically pop and let
you heal to full but it will also give you a full critical meter.
Now these are hard-to-find correct? Yeah, these are hard to find, correct? Yeah. These don't drop anywhere.
Right. So we have to use them wisely.
Yeah so anytime we're low health, we really want to use a med kit
because
we strategically use them
on certain boss fights.
Because you can fight
a boss for a while,
use your crits
and then
when you're low health just kind of purposely
die because that your crit gauge will get refilled right so it's sometimes a strategic death yeah
we don't really rely on it just for heals.
I know.
So that's why we want plenty of med kits is to avoid using our defibrillators.
Defibrillators.
We got to hoard them for a while.
Exactly.
So right now we're kind of scouring her quarters uh for fingerprints
and we also get a bit of lore there's a picture of a scientist that we may or may not be seeing.
There are three pieces of these fingerprints,
so we just gotta scan them as we go.
Gonna pick up a katana.
Little extra melee weapon for some fights coming up, and we got a code or I am just gonna guess...
Oh that's it. Uh-huh.
So the codes are always the same?
Yeah, okay.
Just have to remember them.
We have a secret little holster giving us a permanent upgrade for firearm slots and this is lana
lay's closet it's lana leigh's closet okay so we're gonna scan this little
wrist piece for the final fingerprint giving us us third-level access to the boat.
Now are we going to take any of
the clothes? Well...
That's kind of a good idea.
She could be like disguised in
Lana's clothes. Well, she's like
oh god what happened to my dress?
It's all ripped. Gross.
Gross. What's that?
Okay.
Lana had a suit just laid out for her yeah she just had a nina williams sized body suit and here we are my that's convenient spy suit
yes My, that's convenient. Spy suit. Yeah, this suit's really cool because it's not just purple but has kind of like the sheen
of turquoise when you hit certain lighting.
Yeah, it's like a kind of duochrome suit. I like it.
It's really cool.
Real Raiden vibes.
Yeah, you can see it.
A little bit.
Okay! So now we have third level access now we're going to try to get
to a place where we can spy on this uh meeting
i love how nina like looks behind her just to make sure nobody's watching coast is clear yeah
which is funny because you're constantly running past people in this run and going
through the door and they can't do anything to stop you. Yes.
Maybe it's just like a, oh bye, you can't follow me.
Oh,
chat says it is an iconic outfit
so I want
to know does Lana ever wear it or
it's just a nina i think it's just the nina thing but you find it in long
you'll find it in the closet there's no explanation for it
okay so now we've
Wrapped back around into the
Main yacht
Banquet hall I guess
It would be
Okay they're having a big party?
A big meeting?
Yes.
There's a piano down there.
Oh wow okay.
They hang out for parties.
Pretty cool stuff. Seems legit a lot of load screens in here too
a lot of places to just hang out and load
so we're going to a door that was locked previously by a third level access key. This game's design is extremely linear, it's a lot of get access to thing, now you can go through this thing.
And then it makes you backtrack a lot too.
It's just one of those games.
I mean yeah there are a lot of games like that so we can forgive it for sure. No big deal.
Now we have another laser grid. I will
focus here because if you die
it's a pretty big setback.
Sure, yeah. Fingers crossed you got this.
It's not difficult. I just have to not you know die oh god i'm so nervous well saint
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oh gosh i was just barely Oh gosh.
I was just barely stepping in it. Alright, we'll see what happens when you step
in that. It's okay, we gotta back up.
I would have saved but there is no save point. It's okay, we gotta back up.
I would have saved but there is just no save point between what we did and where we are. No you're fine.
That's okay.
I made a...save just for such an occasion.
I'm like, yeah this is really easy but...
Oh you did make a save!
Oh okay, I thought maybe you-
I did.
Okay, okay.
We don't have as many meal kits on this one but that's alright.
Run invalid.
We lost our meal?
That's alright.
This is now pure showcase.
Ugh I can't believe
I died there.
That's never happened before.
Chat says, Snake!
Nina?
Nina!
Yeah. Nina? Nina! Nina! Good thing it was all just a bad dream while we were in this locker room.
Anyways, let's get out of this locker room.
So there are a bunch of lockers you can open and this is more on the casual gameplay side of things but you can scan a bunch of different fingerprints that are optional throughout the whole game
and you take those fingerprints and you go to these lockers and they give you bonus items
that's so weird it's like a thumbprint activated like locker yeah they're all thumbprint everything's related to thumbprints
for convenience do people still unlock the phones with the thumb
oh well yeah whoa oh the thumb on the front?
As opposed to the finger...
Anywhere I suppose
I used to have a phone that did a frontal like
The screen could read your thumbprint okay
my phone's severely outdated i shouldn't be asking these questions Okay, let's not mess up one of the easiest parts of the game. But that is an example of just if you don't save and just barely mess up,
you will just game over. Yeah. It's a little unfortunate they're
not more lenient about it. You know one little laser and
you're gone. They're savage.
Alright.
Nina, be careful.
Seriously it's guarded by a god.
God I'm like
nervous.
Let's go further this way. There we go.
Alright nice! Yay! You did it. And we can turn it off
We actually are going to be passing back through this exact hallway numerous times
okay
It's just one of those backtracking
Oh look away some mature game
Mature game Mature game?
Mature game!
We'll be going through here a few times...
I'm gonna go back behind this counter
just for a little, dotanuki sword it's an upgraded katana basically
and i'm just gonna kill some guys get some drops.
Let's see if they dropped the cameras... Okay, we got one milk it water bottle That's fine for now.
So do we still have at least one defibrillator?
Yes, yeah
We have a defib
This is pretty much the same state that we were in before.
The only difference on this file is I have some stun grenades for some reason.
Stun grenades are not entirely useful, they don't do a lot of damage, they do stun normal
enemies but they're not as good as hand grenades. We'll probably just be getting rid
of them at some point.
But we do still have the assault rifle
that we picked up as well.
So, we're going to put the Stingray drone in a little vent.
I was about to ask if she
was going to go in there.
No, it's just too small for her to fit.
Maybe the stingray drone will fit.
Right, okay.
And then
you get this cool
drone vent gameplay.
What? This is so fun!
It doesn't seem too difficult to control... Can you break it?
Yes. Usually you don't really break it on your own that much, but enemies can shoot it down pretty quick.
I see. Okay.
There we go. I'll just go through this weird area. Get some water...
And now, this drone's gonna spy through a little kind of glass mirror
at the executives meeting
where we learn more plot.
What happens at the meeting?
Oh, nothing good. They're all dead.
So Lana Leigh
she killed everyone
in the meeting because
she wants to take all the power from
the organization except Enrique.
We'll meet him again.
He looks exactly like Benicio del Toro.
Wait for real?
I don't think they got his permission but he's exactly benicio del toro interesting okay i'm looking
forward to meeting you said the name was enrique enrique can't wait to find Enrique. So, Enrique
and Lone Allay are the last
of the Komata executives
or so we think.
I'm going to go ahead
and heal a bit.
It's been for a stun gun, third grenade.
We can't through this door until they're done using it so...
Oh my gosh that's so funny!
It's like a clown car.
He said yeah we'll wait for you to go through the doors
yeah as long as the little door itself is open nina cannot interact with it
so okay you just wait for all the enemies to finish piling out.
Oh man, that guy went ham on the door! Yeah these guys are just doing combos when you
enter this room I don't know why they're just attacking nothing i don't know like what is on
like the clothes but it looks like these men raided guy fury's closet
like i can't totally tell. Flavortown Jitsu.
Yeah,
Flavortown Jitsu.
Yeah, we'll go with it.
Alright, so right now we've learned about the meeting...
Oops. I was not going this way actually.
The soundtrack goes pretty hard in this game.
So right now, we have to relay what we learned about the Komi Taz executive meeting to the CIA because they need to know what happened so we're heading
towards a computer that can send those images and we're also gonna enable some
lifeboats so he can escape the boat. Okay, that sounds reasonable.
And we're actually nearing the end of
the
yacht.
The first
yacht part of the game, like Act
1.
We're going to go somewhere else for Act 2 and then Act 3
is we're back on the yacht.
Spoilers. We'll be back.
So just navigating some boat.
Just gonna dash away so they don't rubber band on us.
They still try to sprint to catch up to you, but they won't do the actual attack that lunges at you and tackles you.
So you have a little bit of time to get away?
Yeah especially as long as you're doing the wave dashing
that Nina does. Nice.
Come back up this room.
Go ahead and grab the executive roster. We don't need this, we just have to pick it up before
we can actually access this laptop. Send images to CIA.
Sounds important. Is the internet okay on Send images to CIA.
Sounds important.
Is the internet okay on this yacht?
Do some hacking here.
The wireless is good.
It's the best, it's luxury internet.
Luxury yacht internet.
Release the control on the lifeboats, and now we're gonna GTFO. I'mma pop a quick save because we're about to have a boss fight oh yeah the boat's on lockdown now doesn't
really matter because we're about to leave okay now are we going to meet lana oh we are going
to move along okay Are we going to meet Lana? Oh, we are going to meet Lana.
Okay.
All right, now we're gonna use the lift that we powered earlier.
Nice sound effect here.
So cool. Classic.
And we actually saved our assault rifle for this outside area
because you're gonna have to fight a bunch of people
or not you, me. You're going to have to
fight a bunch of people who unfortunately
don't drop anything. They're just scripted
that you have to kill these dudes
dudes these dudes. Dudes.
I wish they dropped stuff, because there's so many of them.
We've got to funnel them in here.
Oh, that seems smart.
Get them all lined up i'm all lined up you actually can't do this
there you go this is the part where you fall down. Right now, we can turn this handle and get out of here!
Okay, we are officially leaving the boat.
Now we're gonna get this lifeboat out of here.
For sure.
This is like so dramatic. Yep.
Dramatic crane.
Oh no, something goes wrong and nina falls back on the boat
then she runs for a helicopter which the london lay
and enrique are trying to escape on what uh but lanalee hits nina with a poison
dart that makes her hallucinate about some trauma she had
back when she was a kid,
where dad was shot in the snow.
And that's like
the whole side plot
of Nina
getting over her trauma of when her and her sister watched their father
get killed in front of them oh my gosh so that leads us to this snowy boss fight with Lana Lay and Child Nina.
Where we have to protect Child Nina from zombies or else we will take tons of damage while Lana Lay throws a fan at us.
It's... it's very stressful casually but we're gonna try to
kind of handle this so we're going to knock her down
and then we need to run back help Nina.
Every time a zombie bites Nina it takes like a quarter of our life hard away.
So she's doing the dance okay she's going her dance. Okay, she's gonna move.
Okay, good.
So we're just gonna attack
Lana anytime we can.
Once you do enough damage to her, she kind of does a dance
and then she'll run in a direction.
So you just need to do enough damage to her to make her start moving around. And we always need to run back to Nina
to protect her from zombies
It's always good to keep Lana close to Nina
because you don't want Lana close to Nina.
Because you don't want her to run too far
and protect young Nina.
Right, little Nina's
getting away from us here.
Little Nina's doing good actually
she's
nice and far away from the zombies,
And you can kind of guide her away from things too
One kick will always make the zombies fall over as well which is pretty useful
put an elbow drop on her. Ooh, that hurts. Boom!
Okay.
That's fine.
Keep kicking zombies one time. It takes them a long time to get back
up luckily so
I don't want to waste too much of the it takes him a long time to get back up luckily so
i don't want to waste too much of the katana's durability on
zombies though okay but i thought she was done.
Okay, now she's doing the thing...
Right over here.
Ooh it burns.
I'm just gonna throw all these stun grenades because i don't ever use them.
Oh wow.
They're just kind of leftovers.
That took care of the zombies for a bit.
Not too bad. Okay,
after that, Nina gets captured anyways and is taken to a penitentiary on an island, a private island.
So we're going to prison.
Okay. We have to prison break now we have to prison break which nina does by
literally just hulking out of her handcuffs she She's like being tortured by electricity, much like Snake in Mildred Sullen.
But she just eventually breaks out.
She just faints out of them and she says, Good morning.
Good morning. And then that's where we're picking up here.
Thanks. We have to retrieve our goods.
So it will be in this big room for a little while, while the retriever...
Our goats are in that doorway directly ahead.
But I'm actually going to go up here first because there's some upright sweet kids.
They're just faster if you go straight and get them
This prison has seen better days, that's for sure
Oh yeah, it's like they found a prison or something
Climb across this chasm.
Now can Nina
be shot down in the middle of the...
She can't be shot down,
but when you're dropping from
the pipe if
you get shot while you're dropping that short distance
she can like get shot
not a distance.
It doesn't always happen, but it's kind of funny if it ever does happen.
And we're just giving these guys the runaround while we pick up some extra loot.
So we got a permanent upgrade for our melee weapons
uh dota nuki which is like level two katana i'm gonna push these guys over it's a little bit of XP.
I like, it's very subtle but I like the indicator that you have hit someone how it changes from red to green
Yeah, that's kind of like an over's like a aggro. These guys are about
to attack. That's why they usually turn red
Alright, now we gotta get our stuff
which includes our fingerprint scanner
Which is how we are going to get out of this room gotta get our stuff which includes our fingerprint scanner,
which is how we are going to get out of this room.
It opens the menu for us for whatever reason
and killing these guys just gets them out of our way, but also gives us...
Now we're gonna go back up to our cell, because there is a soldier who's going to betray the company and that's why they're
here.
And that's why they still have access to the doors barry harry goldman harry goldman how could you very
if you know, you know.
Sweep on over to this door.
Nina's legs must be getting tired with all of this waved out shang.
She got strong legs! That's for sure.
She got strong legs.
Okay, so
we had to get that fingerprint
open the door and now we have
to go get a key to open a different
door in that room.
It's classic
puzzle gameplay.
Sure is muggy today we're going to the bathroom and there's a guy in here who's struggling on the toilet
and we're literally going to kick his
door in. Oh no! And kill
him. Oh wow, what a way
to go.
Hey oh wow what a way to go
shouldn't have had those burritos apparently not today was the wrong day to just eat food that's how imagine that's how you go out
just like have a hard time i don't want to nina kicks the door in and you die
so now we have the key.
Nice!
Let's see, what else to talk about during load screens?
You don't need to say anything. about during load screens. Oops.
You don't need to say anything.
I'm tempted to kill these dudes for XP,
but maybe later.
It's usually nicer when there are a bunch of people who have clumped up and then you can kind of just combo them all together. But they were a little bit spread out.
Now do the enemies have like, a pretty predictable pathing to Nina or did they get
a little out of control sometimes?
They're mostly predictable.
Okay.
But their move set that they throw
out is usually slightly random.
Okay. Yeah. usually slightly random. Random, okay.
Crossing through this room again.
Now we have a required fight with the Tekken Force. This is
Heihachi Mishima's forces. a haihachi mashima's forces so hai hachi is kind of in collusion with the komita
organization we've been dealing with now have we met him yet hi uh not nina has because she fights in the king of iron quits tournament well
sure so we haven't seen him um we'll see him on a screen at some point. He like talks to
Nisil Del Toro. Okay.
It is the gun
we picked up, very useful
If we...
There's a possibility that enemies before this
drop a shotgun. That's usually
the best thing to handle these guys with.
I'm gonna just
crit this guy, because they can block a lot of attacks.
But if we got a shotgun these dudes die in one shot-gunshot which is super super nice.
It's just not in the route to pick up...
It was just not. It random i see what drops yeah
excuse key gag
okay what is happening next in this game? There's so many load screens to think about it.
You have to really think hard
about what's happening in the story.
Yes.
Remembering all of the cutscenes.
Right.
So we're going down to a dungeon and this is where they are keeping the scientist
who kind of built their satellite super weapon project.
That's like a terrible place to keep him.
Yeah I guess he did
something bad.
So they're
keeping him down here in this dank dungeon
with literal medieval
torture devices.
This place is really gritty. Oof.
It's probably stinky. I don't
like the sound of that.
There's, like, candles and
buckets.
You say There's like candles and buckets. Excuse me.
Alright, now it's coming up my favorite line
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Yeah, I can definitely say that this game is maybe not the best game ever
but it definitely is charming in its sort of
age and just what it was going for i really like the respect to for
i respected for the vibe they went for the gameplay and design
just kind of didn't work out load screens are not great bad camera angles but it's like spy action
it has like they have potential you know... You can see the ideas.
I didn't see every cutscene but the ones that I did see were pretty damn cool so...
Yeah and the cutscenes are pretty funny too.
So it's worth a playthrough just to experience the story once you know
or just watch your play through if you don't want to play
because it is a pretty long game and it can be difficult.
I imagine it's difficult to get a hold of as well.
Uh, maybe.
I got this for like $4 six years ago.
I don't know how much that would have
changed because Tekken 8 came out.
Multiple Tekkens have come out since then, but Tekken 8 is really popular now.
How many of you are playing Tekken 8 right now? Who's your fighter?
Yeah, who's your fighter. I want to know what everyone plays.
Coming up is a pretty dangerous part of the run. The Tekken force is coming at us in full force now in the sewers and
they're dangerous because they can throw knives so even though we're dashing away
they can really do a lot of damage to us and stall us if they land those knives.
Just gonna try to go as fast as possible but kind of serpentine,
serpentine? Serpentine so we don't get hit with those knives, and there's a lot of them. They
can also hit us on the ladder but they were very nice there. Oh wow yeah! Yeah there's
a lot of them.
Just gonna keep running and dodging... This is another defibrillator, we definitely want this.
It's one of like five or six we're gonna get in the whole run, and they're all worth it.
So from the honeycomb puzzle box I got this grenade launcher
And i'm going to use it on these dudes
okay i want them to clump up a little bit but they're being a little difficult
all right well they didn't really drop a ton of good things. I'm just gonna peace out and see a little bit.
Don't want to burn the defib just yet. We got 11 meal kits, okay that's decent.
Just full heal. Oh come on! I dodged that! That would be a great time to hit them with grenades.
Well, now might also be a good time for me
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I swear I saw a grenade but I think it disappeared or something.
All right, I'm killing these guys because items and
let's be so having double crit before the boss is coming up
Oh nice!
It just makes you able to target two bones
at the same time when doing a crit
so you do double damage.
Now do you have to
target those bones
separately? Yep. Okay, I see.
One after another.
But we want to keep our XP
up and keep leveling
our crit gauge because we want triple crit by the final boss right
so at that point when you use a defibrillator to get a full deal and full crit you get three
crits each defibrillator out of up to six defibrillators so it kind of burns through the
final boss really fast oh i see you save everything so that's why we saved them for
the front yes okay and that in the reason the final boss we want crits so bad
is because you don't get to use any other
weapons. You don't get guns, and you don't get melee
weapons for the final boss. It's a straight duel
like it doesn't even let you
if you bring them
Okay, I see what they were going for They wanted to make doesn't even let you if you bring them.
Okay, I see what they were going for. They wanted to make it like
really dramatic. You need to use your martial arts at this point
Use what you got, ya know? Your own two fists
Alright we're gonna make a heroic leap across this
so we don't fall into the water.
Nice jump! And then we're gonna take a ladder
right into the water.
It's actually
so funny. You actually cannot fall into the water there you have to
jump across and then take the ladder okay okay i don't know why that's this really funny but uh
it is what it is.
It's a Tekken
game, if you
couldn't tell by
the gameplay.
Pick up another
sword.
Every chance we can get a sword will take it because it does more damage Pick up another sword.
Every chance we can get a sword,
we'll take it because it does more damage than just melee
even though they do break.
So how many katanas do we have?
Just one now? Right now let's take inventory
we have two two okay so what's nice about katanas as well is if you pick up two of
the same type of katana nina will just dual wield it and then
that takes up only one slot for melee weapons
that's so awesome all right we got a water elevation puzzle.
We just pick 15 feet and then that puzzle is solved
And the Tekken Force is after us once again
Run Mina run!
We're just gonna pick this ladder.
Now do you know if the enemies can also fast travel down the ladder
or that's not a thing?
No, they can't use ladders.
They can't use elevators.
Wait,
they can't even
use the ladder?
They're baffled
by such technology.
That is so funny.
This is spy technology
that Nina uses.
Takes a trained professional.
Okay
I'm tempted to make a save before this next part, just because of how that laser grid went before.
Yeah, just make it...
When it did not expect to die.
Just make a save.
Yeah but now that this run is you know, not entirely valid.
I'll go ahead and save. you know, not entirely valid. We're coming up to a point where we'll have to cross some ledges
try to not get hit by some electric cables which will instantly game over us.
Now are they like swinging around trying to hit her?
Yeah, they're kind of swinging it's a little. We'll see.
So they're trying to flush Nina out of this area, because
it just can't stop her. So they're flooding
this stairway
shaft thing.
So we have to
use our dexterity
to escape acrobatics
or climbing
or whatever.
There's two minutes.
Oh no, you gotta go. there's two minutes oh no you gotta go there's pressure now there's pressure death by degrees
oh yeah in terms of the name Death by Degrees while we do this...
Sure.
I think the name is a reference to the combat system with the twin stick fighting
like it's 360 degrees of combat, even though it's really just like eight directional
combat. Still that's kind of clever. Death by degrees and then there's also Nina's flashbacks to when her father died in snow, so it's like cold death by degrees.
And the super weapon that we're trying to stop...
spoilers! it's related
to global warming and making the oceans rise
So heat death by degrees there's like
multiple themes in word play
So what you are saying is's the perfect title for this game
that's exactly what i'm saying there's no better title perfect
um actually let this one come back down so I don't know if i made it in time
yeah, so they like kind of wiggle then they fly away
It's unnatural. It's not natural.
Boom, we did it.
So we're out of there?
Good that place place was yuck, yuck.
So how are you feeling?
Uh, I'm feeling pretty good.
I'm bummed that we had to load a backup save on something
that really should have been...
I was literally practicing before this
because i really didn't want to die there and then i died there sometimes it's just like
that but that's just how it goes you know that's life in
that's life death by degrees and now i'm going to save before every single laser
grid which is there's another one coming up now the panic saves yeah now the panic
stays like i'm questioning everything i think we've Got the yips.
So we're just gonna run around this...
We're in this outside area now of the penitentiary
We'll be back here a couple times
as well.
Trying to dispatch all of these guys because there's a laser grid coming up, but they will chase you through it and make, make it quite a bit more dangerous.
In a really fast world record attempt scenario or something,
you probably wouldn't kill these guys you just kind of chance it and
cross the lasers we're just like hoping fast yeah they didn't drop anything really oh yeah Oh yeah, yeah. That's okay though.
Gobbles equipped... Yeah it could have gone there
but I'm just gonna let
it breathe because
sometimes you think you can go right
away but it's actually actually about to change.
It's completely random. And what we get for succeeding
is a railgun! Oh, the fabulous prize!
It's very strong and it has three shots only
Like just total?
You can't reload
it? Three shots
make them count
And we're actually going to bring it
to a boss specifically later on so we're gonna hold on to it for a little while
okay very useful in bosses though
buses tend to block or avoid bullets in general, in this game.
Like more so than just your basic enemy?
Yeah, yeah some bosses they just like hold their sword up and then suddenly they're blocking every bullet.
It's one of those types of deals.
Alright, so we're gonna go in this
room. This is a bit of an optional room
but there's a permanent upgrade
I think it's tactical belt so we can hold more melee weapons and there's also
a medium health kit oh so not exactly required to go in here but
they might as well pick up yeah it's honestly nice having both of these things.
Even though you have to go through... Oh, it's a holster, sorry.
Even though we have to go through two load screens to get these.
It's still kind of
worth it.
These guys are a bit annoying,
so here they are.
They're trapped in here. They don't know how to use the
door yeah i think so yeah that happens a lot in this game they just are helpless
they have the claw arms or if they have the claw hands so they can't use the door hand.
Oh okay.
Just stuck in there.
This is where we were supposed to go.
Little Tekken poster there.
Oh that's fun!
Also full of just dudes hanging out. teching poster there. Oh, that's fun. This is also full
just dudes hanging out
just like
drinks on the table
It's like a break room.
Oh
this doesn't look
like a break room.
It is like a break room.
This looks like
a very important room. It looks like a very important room. It's just it's like a security guard
room they're just chilling okay so we opened some security doors
We're basically making our way through, like, the most secure part of this compound.
And now we have to deposit some items so we can get through the metal detector.
Oh!
And then we'll get these items back later?
Yeah, we'll have to come back for these items so you're kind of missing some things...
So what's happening now?
Nina is depositing her items.
Okay.
All of them? All of them?
All of them.
So we have to...
This is naked Nina.
She's not naked, she's wearing a swimsuit.
It's like Naked Snake, you know?
Alright, I'll give you that
one, Saint.
Half-Naked Snake.
We love
Nina, we swear. Yeah but this is temporary... oh I accidentally did a flip.
Okay, we'll just not go that way.
The ladder.
These guys are kind of not as dangerous usually um as the other attacking force people
of course i say that they just co this cobblestone down there.
So we're heading out, and we have to activate an elevator so we can get back to this point
with our gear. That's the whole point
of this little side...
We just had to take a small det detour we have to take a detour
too it's like a dark souls shortcut you know okay we're going unlocking the fire link
so we're going to turn on the elevator.
And then...
We are going to fall off, and bring it down this way because we'll be coming back this way with our stuff
right oh i forgot to unlock this i I forgot to unlock it from the other side.
Oh do you have to go back?
A little bit of a goof but...
It doesn't take too long.
Okay so you have to go back and open it now?
Yeah I just have to go back around this fence.
That was a little bit...
All right well while C is
backtracking a little bit
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Unlock the door, this is what I forgot to do. Perfect!
Hey, I needed to use that door. Get out of the way!
They can Get out of the way.
They can use that door, but they can't use this one.
Okay, this one's too...the door is too heavy. This one's built out of plot armor
so it just can't. built out of plot armor.
So they just can't.
High security.
High security plot door.
I think if there's a load screen they just can't manage to do it. They probably didn't want to program them in the section after the fact.
Yeah.
Alright, so now we're gonna go get our stuff
back. Okay.
Take one last look.
We're actually going to get one of the best
uh... not one of the best guns not one of the best guns but one of
the better guns in the game that is critical for a certain boss skip
later on it's in this crate on the bottom left there you said a boss
skit a boss skip? A boss skip.
Ooh, okay.
Like the only
boss skip and one
of the only skips
in the whole game
because the game
is very linear
and built
in a very
PlayStation 2
kind of way
where it's hard to skip stuff
all right we gotta run this back let's open this honeycomb puzzle armory thingy And we got... Magnum.
We'll be also saving that gun until we need it.
Nina's gonna show us magnum by the end of the run.
Magnum? It's magnificent!
One look...
Alright, so now we gotta go backtrack to that elevator. We left behind for ourselves.
Sorry, go ahead. And we're gonna meet Benicio del Toro boss fight one.
AKA Enrique.
Enriquing yeah I just call him Benicio Del Toro because he just is that's just who
he is and i'm surprised they didn't get sued for this
game oh okay that was my next question like what did benicio del toro think of this i don't know
if he knows anything about it maybe he doesn't know yeah no clue
and i think uh the careers of game were just fans
and these guys can't stop me now they're just going to watch her go up this elevator.
They'll just help us.
I was going to say, what happened to Nina's outfit?
They messed it up real bad.
Yeah, it gets tattered over the course of... The game.
Yeah. Each outfit gets tattered pretty much except for the final one.
Going for realism.
So we got a little bit of a skip here coming up.
Wait for this guy to say for your status flip and then
they weren't done coming out of the door apparently right
gandalf's like,
fly you fools! And Nina does the backflip.
Fly you fools!
Backflips stylishly. Yes.
Down with the Balrog. It's actually
Nina's birthday soon, right?
What? I think.
Like in the lore?
Damn, for real? I'm gonna double check.
What does that make her
zodiac wise? gosh um chat you'll have to help me out with that
um i can't find it now but i thought oh wait yeah date of birth july 25th yo that's like when the evo is
that's uh in like about a week or so so hey happy, happy birthday Nina. Happy early
birthday Nina. Early birthday. Seems like now is a good time to maybe pick
up the speedrun if anyone's having fun with us. Exactly.
Give Nina a birthday gift and learn to speedrun by degrees,
and sit through all the load screens. Yes. I will say that's probably
the hardest part of this whole run is the patience
you need. Oh yeah, well...
To just sit through a lot of these screens
Oh here we can see
Enrique talking to Haihachi
I'm gonna let this play for just a second.
So there he is. Oh wow!
Now do we know if benicio del toro ever
had this hairstyle
that'd be the real question Should be more concerned about that woman behind you.
Nina Williams.
Very casual.
Yeah.
Chat answered the question,ina is a leo so same oh yo let's go maybe that's why i'm
so into this game that's why you feel a connection to this game. Maybe, I'm sure.
So we have Enrique boss fight.
Alright, let's go.
Ooh, what's this?
I'm going to scan his scabbard for part of his fingerprint.
He just leaves it here and you can can just scan in the middle of the boss fight.
That's so funny!
Hey good iframes!
I didn't time very well...
I'm gonna go ahead and heal because we don't want to use any Defibrillators on this
guy.
So just gonna do some due diligence there, and start off with a crit. Two crits to adjust.
So we have a lot of weapons that can damage Enrique pretty handily but again I'm gonna save the railgun, save
the magnum and we just kind of kind of combo him
carefully while not taking too much damage.
I'm pretty much just watching his attacks, you always get a free combo after he does some kind of attack and they can do the katana combo Oh, I missed my crit somehow.
If you whiff your crit Nina just kind of does a single attack but you still lose all of
your crit meter which is pretty rough.
I'm gonna chip away at him here.
Thank you, camera!
Yeah the directional fighting system is like kind of interesting until the camera starts rotating in a really crazy way.
And suddenly you mess up your combo.
I imagine this would be ten times harder
if you were doing this on a PS2 controller there's a little adapter that we are using for this run correct
so saints on the ps4 controller adapter and while it's still pretty tough
I think these two controller users might
have more of a challenge here.
OK. Oh yeah, the guitar is good. You can have it your way.
Yep there's another camera kinda just messing up my combo. That happens quite a bit.
So I wouldn't say this boss fight is one of the harder ones but does
take a bit more patience because it's just a lot of chip damage.
But once you get him in the corner and into the rhythm,
it's kind of a simple boss fight.
I don't want to use that con.
Don't call her honey honey yeah he does
that a lot
bone crack that didn't sound very good
mamacita Mamacita.
Mamacita?
Mamacita? Don't call her Mamacita!
Mamacita?
Not bad at all. Yeah! Oh, he landed on the railing. I've never seen that before.
That was really weird.
Oh yeah!
He like fell behind it.
Usually you hit him over it.
Basically...
Get that grind. Skateboarding.
Okay, we're getting close to a finish here.
Those bones aren't breaking yet. That was a good kick though.
Usually when the boss is low, that's where you start seeing the bone break animations.
Yet somehow they always manage to stand back up.
Yeah, you can like break both his legs and he's still jumping around
Video game stuff. Yeah
Okay again a bit of a longer boss fight but I routed it this way specifically because
the later boss fight where you fight him he does way more damage
he's way more unpredictable oh i see and um
we're gonna use a rail gun on the second bite for him which is
coming up later right well on, well done Thank you
So we knocked him out
He starts pleading
bargaining for us
I could be a witness for the CIA
and Nina's like hmm
And then out of nowhere Anna Williams,
Nina's sister
barges in she is working for
this organization and
she kicks Nina
and the guy gets away and so does anna oh wow okay a sibling rivalry
she's currently lurking yes Yes, she's been watching.
We see you waiting for time to critically strike.
All right, so we're going to scan the second fingerprint of Enrique on his sword, giving us more access to
this facility.
Which will let us free
the scientist. That was the whole point of all
this. The scientist who's locked up. Oh gosh, I forgot
about that guy. Yeah, exactly exactly there's a lot of like googling
when i was playing this game like where do i go now in this game oh you got a little bit
lost and i got really lost i see it wasn't until after i beat the game
that i realized that nina has a little like quest journal in the menus that just like never saw
oh so she has like her supposed to help you she has like her own accounts of what's happening
that's interesting kind of like shenmue it's like her little diary with what's going on
that's kind of cool see if i saw that would probably have been a little bit easier.
All right so now we're going to use the key
to turn off the metal detector
so we can actually leave the faster way.
We don't have to go all around this facility just to leave.
And now we're gonna restock on some stuff, and then go into this kind of break room where there's an armory chest full
of weapons. Oh, good.
Stock up for
a couple fights
coming up.
Boss fights.
Who's the next
boss we're headed to? The next boss
we're heading to is
Anna, I believe.
Anna Williams.
Okay.
... Williams. Okay. I'm really smart.
You totally don't have a cheat sheet right in front of me.
It memorizes
it all.
If you have like a printed paper of solutions, is that tool-assisted?
Uh no.
It's just paper assist…
Paper assisted!
A pass. Yes. it's just paper assist paper assisted a pass yes a past paper-assisted speed run pass runs we'll give you a pass this time thank you you're welcome
all right let's head down this hallway...free Lucas and then see what happens.
We're back at this area,
the camera's doing whatever it wants,
but we'll just flip up the stairs
and get out of here.
See? So you said the scientist is Lucas?
Yeah, his name is Lucas.
Okay.
You were asking me something?
Have you played any Tekken games tippy I
Know, I have because I used to play Eddie but I can't remember
I can't remember which tech and it was it was even all of them
It was ages ago.
My sister and I used to go to the arcade sometimes together
and play Tekken
and Soul Calibur and stuff.
Yeah, so
it was a good time
love the Soul Calibur cabinets too
oh yeah, Soul Calibur
played Valdo a lot
and then I get
the best mashinghing yeah character yeah
babe i don't know what i'm doing you can't count on it i don't know valdo's a little weird and
hey so am i so maybe valdo is your astrological sign.
Valdo is my astrological sign, yes.
Just Valdo?
Yes, just Valdo.
You don't share a sign he IS the sign.
But yes Eddie is fantastic in Tekken and I think probably played as Eddie the most
in the past.
Yeah he's sick.
He's like who you always picked right?
It's like I'm going to be Eddie Gordo it was just the coolest.
He's dancing.
He's got the moves, you know?
Exactly.
Alright, we freed Lucas.
Yay! And now we need
to follow him
To investigate his super weapon he was developing
I'm gonna take his mule kit, cause he got the camera
He left it here?
He left your meal kit! Lucas, you gotta eat! It's important! You gotta eat!
Well skin and bones, Lucas.
We're not gonna fight these guys. Alright, Lucas can handle himself
We're gonna leave
The load times are quite a lot
But also I wonder
If someone were to play this on on a modded PS3 or something.
Right.
Maybe it would speed these little loading screens up just a bit.
But we're running this on what?
A slim PS2?
Yeah, just the PS2 Slim.
Slim PS2. I forget the model number.
There's a 9 in there somewhere.
But the fastest way
would probably be to have your own
hard drive installed in
a classic PS2
with the game
installed on it.
I think that's the fastest way to have
load screens.
Emulator is not necessarily that much faster either,
they're still pretty long but
probably faster than disk.
Oh sure yeah.
But yeah, the load screens are probably
the worst part about the game I would say.
Everything else is like this run
would be pretty fine otherwise it's just
load screen sort of constant. i think that that's something that typically will
deter a runner from you know approaching a game like this you know it's just
there are good and bad speed games.
Can you hold your breath for a long time?
I don't know, but...
Anyone who thinks they can hold their breath
for a long time, I challenge you.
I'm going to hold my breath. Chat, don't do it.
I'll go through this as fast as I can.
Okay, here we go. the chat don't do it i don't recommend this as fast as i can okay i'm gonna try
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let's get it going what hashtag mornino hashtag let's just get it going Hashtag let's just get it going.
Hashtag let's just get it going.
No context, let's just get it going.
It's a Nina reference from Time Capsule.
There we go.
Alright, we're just kind of going to the next plot point we're gonna pick up a dotanuki okay and you're going to the rooftop segment, which features another sniping scene from
the beginning if you remember.
With a different sniper rifle
presumably. A different sniper
rifle. Because the other one's damaged
and missing. The other one Nina just threw
away. She just didn't need any more.
She was like screw this.
There's actually a climbing sequence with spotlights that we're gonna have to do in it but if we're fast enough right here
you can kind of get a one cycle but you really have to have the perfect movement so i'm gonna
try oh camera movement okay i'm not not gonna make it.
All right, we just gotta run now. So there's only one opportunity in this cycle of spotlights where you can actually get past them and if you're very quick you can actually get past them.
And if you're very quick, you can make it
without waiting but since
we got spotted...
These kind of
snap around as quickly
as the little electric rope things.
The spotlights?
Yeah, they were like on you really quick.
Yeah when they spot you
they just fly over and have a quick meal while hanging out. Oh yeah.
And uh, just wait for this right sequence so these both spotlights have to go up
and then one has to come down and then that's when you can go i spent a lot of time here casually yelling at my tv like
i like that you are playing this on the CRT. Oh, yeah. Well,
the reaction time is
really important, especially when you're lining
up the criticals.
Just a little bit of delay on that
is infuriating. Oh, I i bet because you have to aim for like thin bones
on like lana lay or something yeah all right so in terms of the plot, I grab this medium mule kit.
Every mule kit counts because every mule
kit means we will be more secure and saving our defibrillators much later.
We're editing Lucas's passcode, his fingerprint security so he can meet us. So that's what that was all about.
We had to give him access to a certain area?
Yeah, upgrade his stuff because Nina can just sweep around the place and she's an agent.
She can get access to places.
But Lucas, he's just a scientist.
He doesn't do flips and swim underwater and stuff.
That we know of.
That we know.
We don't know for sure
and now we're heading to a sniper sequence
and right up this ladder is a really unfair part where you get shot
almost no matter what, no matter
if your spamming dodge is
Oh okay. I just knock it hit
What the heck? That's not happening.
I've never done that without being hit.
Yo, let's go!
It's kind of awesome.
So here is a sniper...
He didn't do his job so now he's got the price sorry guy sorry you're fired
oh my gosh she just disappears deleted from existence. Delete.
Super.
Delete.
Alright, now we have a lovely
lengthy
sniper sequence.
Yeah, so this might be
a good time...
Sure, yeah.
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Ooh, nice shot.
Thank you.
Oh, we got him.
That headshot's a little finicky to hit.
Alright, next. So this is like the last sniper sequence but you keep panning
over to different parts of the rooftop area and there's another sniper
sequence in the game. there's a total of three
the third one will also be at this exact same location
oh okay it's like not very much different at all
so they kind of like reuse this one spot i don't really want to get hit uh taking damage
from snipers is not like the end of the world but it's not preferable
i am trying to save literally as many medkits as i can because uh some of the later boss fights are just savage how much damage they can output in a short amount of time. Reload.
I love aiming on consoles.
Not as easy as it is on a mouse keyboard i guess
not for me maybe some other people though i was never really a console shooter gamer. That's fair.
I love that they put load screens
in between the sniper segments.
Oh yeah, like the music is still going yeah it's like wait we're gonna
load one more time while you're the game is reloading the weapon Okay.
Just going to reduce the dangerometer over there.
So what happens if it gets maxed? They start hitting you.
I have a lot, well a little chunk of damage but
It will keep hitting you and also mess up your aim
So you pretty much have to take cover at that point these guys
i gotta say the aiming is a little bizarre
in this game because you'll be making shots
and it won't even look like you're aimed at the enemy.
Yeah. It's so strange.
There's like a strange kind of bullet travel
comp... It makes you think there's bullet travel by just kind of bullet travel.
It makes you think there's bullet travel by just delaying
your shot hitting.
So sometimes I'll aim quick, shoot as I go across them
and it doesn't look like they get shot for another second. Yeah, that's wild. It's a little awkward.
I feel like sometimes when you're not very zoomed in the bullet hit box
you're shooting is kind of wider, like it has a little bit more forgiveness
easier when you're not zoomed in yeah when you're kind of zoomed
a little far out it seems like it kind of gives you a little bit of leeway
like some headshots just will go away
like some headshots just seem easier
it's actually really hard to like see them i think i saw him he was like off a bit yeah right
there's a bazooka guy here that definitely have to shoot
um you cannot kind of hide from him he will still be guy here that I definitely have to shoot.
You cannot kind of hide from him,
he will still do damage even if you take cover from him.
So I might keep an eye out for him.
Oh, I didn't crash that one.
Oh, there's a good guy here. Got the other one.
Hmm, huh?
Guess not yet.
I think it's once this guy dies.
Ooh!
The other guy arrives.
A red flash across the screen.
There he is, this guy.
He's a critical target?
Now can you get the bazooka no unfortunately
which i don't know okay look i feel like i'm'm confusing the third sniper segment with this one,
so I'm looking at the wrong place.
It's okay.
Is the third sniper segment also here? oh okay yeah i can see that getting confusing
all right done now we need to go meet with lucas and we're going to descend into the depths
of this prison island. It's
more than just a prison island.
It's a full-on research facility.
Okay then.
Just like Resident Evil, this isn't just a mansion there's a clandestine laboratory
or something. Climb on this rope.
You actually...
I think the whole point
of that sniper sequence
is that you can't
climb across this
because the snipers
will just shoot you off.
Oh, okay.
Have you tried it
or it requires more testing?
I've actually not
tried it.
I just kind of assumed... Oh okay.
Because you're constantly getting shot while trying to get
on it and off the ground. Sure.
So it's just like
maybe there is a way to skip
it? I don't think I was able Maybe there is a way to skip it.
I don't think I was able to.
Away we go. What else can we talk about during this load screen?
Now, are you mashing through a bunch of cutscenes here or what's happening in the story now?
So right now we're in the outside area
where we were before, so we're kind of backtracking
and we're meeting Lucas at
an elevator that requires two people
Of course it does
It's been in our face this whole time.
It's like the elevator requires two people and now we can finally do it because Lucas is waiting there.
Okay so we're gonna go meet back with Lucas.
We're going to be go meet back with Lucas.
We're gonna be him right after this load screen.
And then we'll go do another load screen and then another load screen,
there's like a door that leads to a hallway to a load screen coming up.
It's really comical.
There he is.
Hey Lucas, what's
up?
Hurry! So he's like trying to get some evidence I think against this organization
He knows of where something important is so So he wants to get us
to it first.
Now, how does he know that
he can trust Nina in this scenario?
He doesn't. She's CIA
and she broke him out. Okay he's just you know based on her
it was like yeah i don't know what i he was locked up for some reason i guess
he was thinking about betraying them okay So she's kind of helping him
because he's a witness.
He made this super,
satellite super weapon.
Right.
And he needs protection
because...
He needs protection.
...he probably is the only one
who knows how to manage it exactly so now we get a new soundtrack
here in this facility that's kind of cool oh yeah this is kind of comfy
all right so now we need to open this door that's locked the controls are busted
it's a real puzzle.
We're going to go up the sniper tower
and get a key to a forklift
that I promise this is all
going to make sense.
Okay.
Spy vibes out here. The spy music.
High frames.
He has the forklift key!
Okay, cool.
If he shoots us off it's a little bit faster but
It's okay if he doesn't. Okay, nice timing guy.
Wow.
What a jerk.
We're out of here.
We've lost the enemy!
We've lost the enemy!
She's sweeping that way.
You don't mess with the sweeper, okay? We activated the forklift...
Can you guess where this is going?
A small vent.
Going up or...
Going down.
Stingray.
That's a great question, I don't know if Nina is forklift certified, do you?
Probably not.
Do they train assassins in forklift driving?
Well hey, that might be an important part of training! You never know like that might be a very important part of training
you never know like what you'll find it's like one of those things where
it's like you probably have to know how to like fly a chopper yeah and they
teach you multiple things so it's like you better
know how to figure out a
forklift. Oh yeah, if Nina can fly
a chopper, she can manage the forklift
I assume she can fly a chopper
No certifications necessary
You know? Yeah
So we're flying this drone around necessary, you know? Yeah.
So we're flying this drone around to open
some doors for ourselves.
The drone seems
pretty forgiving when you kind of brush the wall
Is it tough to control?
It's not.
It drifts a little bit.
It's kind of touchy
but if it bumps a wall
it doesn't really do damage.
This is one of the unskippable cutscenes
of the game.
I don't know why you can't skip that, because it's an important stingray action.
Alright so we turn that elevator on now we can go up here
and we're gonna open the door for ourselves
And I gotta be kind of careful here
Uh, cause if these guys
pull out their guns and start
shooting at us it's kinda
immediate game over.
Oh wow, so you still have to be kind of sneaky.
Woohoo that was close!
Yeah once it turns red they'll start shooting and they combo the stingray really fast.
And you lose.
Good job,
but luckily on stingray segments like that,
when you get mission failed and you retry it just restarts you in that drone segment. It doesn't like
game over or load a save, it lets you just retry. Oh okay but you still have to start
that sequence from the beginning? Yeah I'll have
to start the Stingray sequence from the start. Yeah, so we'll have to start
the Stingray sequence from the start.
Yeah, that's not too bad.
All right, so now we broke in
and then we can go here.
So at this point
we're hearing from Alan
who's also on this island
Alan, our MI6 partner that the Komita criminal organization has just unleashed some sort of mechanical monster
on
just themselves, I guess.
There's like a scramble for some
evidence on this super weapon.
So now there's a big monster down here, so we have to look out for that.
Just get these guys through the stuff.
And here's the point that i was telling
you about where we go through a door
and then we're going to walk down the
hallway and just open another door
and there's literally no point to this
hallway except they were trying to like And there's literally no point to this hallway, except...
They were trying to flesh out the architecture of the place, you know?
Yeah, but this is just like door-to-a-door.
It's classic PS2 gameplay.
Alright, in this area
there are electric fences
that we really have to be careful not to
touch while we dash through it, because they
do a considerable amount of damage.
So this fence is pretty deadly.
We're still gonna go through like this.
Just try to avoid people
in the fence. But we're about to turn it off anyway
that's just it's a puzzle
looks like we can turn it off do you want to turn it off
i guess if that's our only option yeah if that's the plot critical thing to do then
yeah i think i'll do
uh i don't think they need to kill those guys.
Lucas, follow us!
Wait he's not following us. He's gonna tank those guys for a second.
Okay.
He's not going to get hurt...
Oh they chased me anyways.
See Lucas scared these guys off.
Yeah they were like I'm not fighting them. they're like we're not gonna touch lucas
he's a pro fighter yeah get nina
all right so when we got that magnum it was for this boss fight with anna coming up
so we are on this bridge and the bridge is falling apart uh like as you fight anna
and if you fall through one of the holes on the bridge,
you die instantly.
The Fibrillators don't help you.
However, Anna, she flips away
if she falls in one of the holes.
So it's like, oh, that's unfair, but okay, whatever.
But with the Magnum specifically on the last shot of the magnum if you combo her she won't
flip out of the hole and I have no clue why it's like this.
But i'm gonna try to nail it first tried she flips out but on
the last bullet she should go in and that's a ball skip nice so that's's Anna one done.
Anna one, her done.
So that's a skip I found completely on accident.
I guess I got really lucky when I was just like fighting her and I pulled out my magnum
And I was like, whoa she just died
And then I figured out that setup
So what happens during this cutscene is the monster that was running amok in this facility
Falls onto the bridge where Nina and Anna
are fighting,
and Anna and Lucas fall. So Anna kind of
disappears,
and Lucas needs help because he's
getting chased by this giant golem.
Oh no! And I am going to save here
again, because
the escort mission coming
up is kind of
random and Lucas can die
pretty easily.
We're going to be escorting Lucas and Lucas can die pretty easily.
We're going to be escorting Lucas out of the building? That's right, we are gonna be
escorting Lucas out of a scary situation with a scary monster.
Nice guys.
Peckinforce. Most elite units.
Pretty annoying guys.
I mean no match for Nino
but still have one.
Going back in here... we don't have to fight these guys,
We're just running right here.
Okay so we have a maze situation here.
We have security cameras,
we see the overlay of the kind of tunnel system that Lucas is in
and it's our job to guide him out.
All right.
It's like an escort mission, basically.
Okay, so I gotta pay attention
for a sec.
This is random.
His starting position is usually left of the glowy f i'm at a four-way intersection which way do I go four-way intersection left I think so the goal here is to go to
the glowy l on the top right there's a crowbar
there that sounds right you should be heading
to g right now uh the glowy letters are where there
are cameras so you see L, there's a crowbar
okay this is good he's at G so now he's going to
get the...
If I go left, he'll automatically turn right and end up at L.
So the goal here is not to get him killed. We want to get him to Crowbar and then
get into the exit without running into the monster, which is always automatically
tracking them and following them so we can't go back the way we came here's lucas
i'm gonna make him go straight we're going to basically do a loopy loop
um from l we're going to go down to H and then
go all the way along the bottom from K to J to I.
You might see the Golem on these cameras at some point.
He's usually not far behind, just waiting
for him to get to H.
I can go straight or do you want me to go straight?
I'm going to go straight so I might be able to turn right.
I don't see that going.
So Lucas is at the bottom-right.
He's heading towards K.
He's at the four way intersection., it just turned right at the bottom right
corner. Exciting stuff.
This is like... this is intense!
It kind of is.
Watch my voice, Trey!
Uh, it IS intense. Oh, there's a car coming in.
I'm gonna go back to the front and then turn around.
Oh, there's another one. There's another one. It kind of is. It is intense...
Oh, he should be hanging the case down there.
Hey Lucas!
Run Lucas run!
Yeah, he's not very urgent at all windy walk
but what lurks in the darkness
okay keep going straight please as fast as you can.
Oh my gosh, there it is!
These are called J statues. I don't know what the J stands for, really.
But we'll be seeing a lot more of them throughout the rest of the room.
Alright.
Lucas is coming up
near the exit. He'll be showing up there. Okay, left somewhere out
okay this went actually really well.
This can be a stressful part because his starting position is random and if you can't pinpoint
exactly where he is and if you make the wrong turn or you don't move fast enough,
Lucas takes a lot of damage from the golem.
And depending on their position,
Lucas can get permanently comboed
and you just immediately game over when game over. Oh, so if he
dies it's just game over? I mean yeah that makes
sense. Okay well good job
we got out of there. Yeah that was lucky RNG actually
in that case
So now Lucas got the crowbar and he broke himself out,
and the statue tried to chase him out but
the tunnel collapsed on
the statue. Of course it did!
Of course.
Now it's just us and Lucas chilling, and we're gonna
keep trying to make our way to this research facility
that he keeps talking about
in the cutscenes that you're not seeing.
Imagine he's just making it all up.
He very well could have been he's
making it up just to get nina's autograph
but um oh that's a good point uh but alan the other agent guy he did send
nina a map of the complex okay suspiciously he just always Nina a map of the complex.
Okay.
Suspiciously, he just always has a map ready to go.
Alright we got that crowbar, we'll be using it too and I'm gonna grab this extra...
holster.
Holding more firearms.
And then we are going to...
The whole point of
all of this in this area was to get the crowbar to open a hatch that
was always sitting there.
Wow.
But, of course you need to fight Anna and then guide Lucas through through the maze it just blends in with everything right here
use crowbar that's actually so funny there's even a cut scene for it and we go down Deeper into the depths of degrees
Deeper into the degrees
Deeper in degrees of death
And other than that one backup save I had to do, this is a pretty decent run so far.
Nice! Yeah.
Things are going swimmingly.
Doesn't seem like there's been too many complications aside from that so
you're doing great this is great i'm having a good time everyone's oh great i love this for us
just happy to show off Nina.
I just think it's cool that she has her own game out of nowhere like, I bet
just betting that so many Tekken fans probably don't even know this game exists.
I think the hardcore Tekken fans probably don't even know this game exists.
I think the hardcore Tekken fans know it exists,
but if you've just kind of played
Tekken and even the PS2
like, you probably
have never heard of this. It didn't sell very well even though it did
have a considerable team behind it.
I'm curious how many copies is sold now?
Not sure...
But this game was also made by namco when it was still just namco this was released the same year
that namco merged with uh bandai and yeah okay so this is one of the last pure namco with Bandai. Bandai? Yeah, okay.
So this is one of the last pure Namco games.
A Tekken side game
featuring Nina Williams.
Alright, so
we let Lucas in through a lock because we swam
for the thing and now we're going to head to a cut scene and nope not a cutscene seven cutscenes
which we will be skipping all of them which means we have eight load screens to go
through sure I'll do my best to explain uh the plot unless you want to say an announcement
there's plenty of time yeah I mean uh i mentioned this once before but
i do want to mention it again that um gdqs next all women and fem speed running event flame fatales
is coming up august 18th through the 25th so you can use the command exclamation mark ff in our twitch
chat to check out the schedule and let us know what you're looking forward to the most and then
yeah see if you want to indulge us with some of the plot. I would love to.
Okay, so at the bottom of the ocean
there's this thing called methane hydrate.
It's like bacteria on the ocean floor
and this is all fictional.
So when activated by electromagnets,
which are shot
from satellites,
that bacteria bubbles up
and gets really hot. It's super
fuel efficient.
And it also causes ships to sink and lose track of their radar devices.
Like, it's something on the ocean floor that activates from the satellites in space. And it can sink
ships from space. Okay, but what is
like the range on this thing?
Lucas was smashing a cookie mat.
The range from space.
I just meant like in terms of underwater like how big is that area where
ships can sink and things all over the world oh my gosh it's a satellite system
all over the world and not only can it sink ships, if
all of it is activated at the same time
it raises the ocean's
levels and
all of civilization will be
flooded. Who would do that?
We're in a scuba suit. Who would do that? We're in a scuba suit.
Who would do that, honestly?
Only
a crazy person.
Only somebody who hated...
This camera change always messes me up.
Okay. Oh wow Nina even has the scuba suit on. Yeah we're gonna do
some diving. Okay. So yeah
methane hydrate it's activated by a satellite system
that we've been talking about
the super weapon system
it's called Salacia
Like Salacious Crumb from Star Wars
but just Salacia.
A very obscure
Star Wars reference. Thank you, Shane.
That's what happened at the
beginning of the game when a leaked
video
of a ship exploding and going underwater,
it was the satellite system being tested.
And that's... we're trying to stop global warming.
It's Nina versus Global Warming Death Probe that's we're trying to stop global warming it's nina versus global warning death by degrees wow
i wow yeah uh so now we're in the research lab. It's been filled with poison gas or toxic
gas and all those scientists have been killed to cover up this project, so that's why
we have this mask and scuba suit so we can kind of traverse
this area. And our goal now is to neutralize the gas which means
we gotta pick up two key items. This is one of them.
It's a chlorine-based detergent,
and the other
one is like bleach or something?
And we're gonna put both in the sprinkler system
and turn it on.
And that will solve the poison gas situation.
Just bleach it, you know?
Yeah with detergent though so it smells good.
So it also smells good.
Listen we're gonna save the world
and make sure it smells good in the process
exactly the other item isn't bleach but i forget what it's called some chemical
um we're also gonna stop at this armory puzzle we're gonna get some more weapons.
Okay... the main thing we want here are the guns.
Submachine gun and a shot-a
Shot-A
And there's also defibrillator in this room that is a little hidden but
i've played the game so I know it's here
again, I don't trust the camera's angles.
So I'm always holding R2 like this to control the camera.
Right.
It's something that you probably...
Oh, calcium hydroxide, I guess is what it's called.
It's not bleach.
Calcium hydroxy clean sure yeah
we're gonna go put that in the sprinkler system okay sounds like a party i guess it's uh yeah it's pretty fun
don't try this at home no no don't put chemicals in your sprinklers system don't do it at home turn it on
unless you have like a toxic research facility um situation going on special circumstances yeah
what's really weird is this fog effect over the game it really does not work in the emulator oh really like i originally uh
emulated this game and i legally ripped it from my copy of the game
and i played on an emulator and uh
yeah when you're in this area there's just like squares that are floating everywhere
oh it looks really bad it looks fine here fine enough but then later
really struggles i'd be kind of curious to see, like the visual comparison.
It sounds really funny.
Yeah.
HD remake when?
Ooh!
Could you imagine?
The people want Nina.
Make the load screens non-existent please i don't know this is
like a pretty interesting story i feel like if they did re make it like i'd play
it they should just like yeah i mean i played this version exclusive please come on
with the console that would be epic it's's a fire alarm activated sure is
Says break glass, you know just presses it like a button
Before he broke it off camera. Yeah, she wanted to be discreet.
There we go, we solved it.
So we had to do that because the doors leaving this area would not open otherwise.
We get a good question come in from chat, is there a limit to the air you can breathe? Or Nina's wearing the suit and she's completely immune?
It's infinite in the suit.
Okay, so yeah. If Nina's wearing the suit she doesn't have to worry about suffocating.
Suffocating or swimming underwater
I think you have infinite air
at that point. Oh okay. Well
that's
nice for the gamers. You don't
have to stress about that kind of thing. It's a big dub
for the gamers. I mean, yeah.
Can focus more on your fighting
technique. Yeah, in swimming form.
Okay so at this point now that we've unlocked some doors and
cleared the gas from this area, Lucas has actually gone ahead on without us.
And he is looking for the evidence by himself.
Oh no!
So a bit silly on his part, but he seems to be doing something on his own lucas what are you doing
but we are just going to continue our search investigating this
facility looking for lucas and evidence. And, uh...
we're going to stumble upon
a bit of a brutal- Oh gosh!
A bit of a brutal scene coming up.
Got a bunch of dead bodies left by the J statue beast,
and I think I'm actually gonna kill these guys for some exp
now i haven't really seen you like or maybe i'm just like not reading the game well but how do you level up
your skills is there a menu i've not leveled up anything at all actually okay i will admit
i've been saving my skill points though.
The main things you get from leveling up
are more crit meter
and skill points to spend
but I haven't had enough necessarily
to make any
worthwhile upgrades. Yeah, exactly.
I may just...
Nice! They're just dropping the candy. Candy meal kits. Nice.
They're just dropping the candy!
That was nice of the game.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Maybe I will check how many skill points
I have
Well don't let me pressure you
Now I'm worried
I was just like
Yeah, I heard you talk about the skill points
Let's talk about it skill points and I'm like... Yeah yeah yeah. No let's-let's
Let's get in the menu here.
Cause this is a good point. Um, I'm gonna
Get melee proficiency
Okay actually needed
Yeah I have enough for two of melee proficiency.
This makes my weapons not break as fast.
Ooh that's nice!
Actually did mean to say it better.
We have a double boss fight coming up
like three phases of two different bosses.
So I'm going to go ahead and just
plant a save here.
I think the timer's wrong because of the backup save, but it's no biggie.
We'll rely on the real game time or the real timer in the...
Yeah there's a timer at the end of the run right?
Yeah but mine is skewed because of the backup save.
Oh I see.
So we'll rely on RTA.
Right
So we're going to fight that J statue
That we saw chasing Lucas
That was a jade statue?
A J, the letter J
dash statue is what it's
called. I thought you said jade statue.
No no no that would be cool
That would be cool
That would be cool that would be cool yeah that'd be cool actually all right we're gonna start
with a double crit on its little robot brain take that Yeah, bust your
system.
Gonna go ahead and heal because I suspect
I'll be taking a little damage.
Alright so this guy he launches these
little drones that you gotta
dodge periodically
and then once they attack Fly by two times or sorry three times
they uh aim at you and they launch some missiles but if you run around the boss
they'll hit him instead so it does a little extra damage to him.
My strat for this guy is
to do the first attack of the katana
combo over and over,
and that seems to
kind of do the most damage,
the first attack.
If you do the full combo, it doesn't necessarily...
It's not very DPS efficient, I guess?
Right, you don't want to waste the moves.
Oh, he got me.
I thought it was part of the way enough.
Way in the smackdown on Nina.
He literally did a wrestling move.
It was a smackdown.
Okay. as well as a smackdown. Tia!
Alright, so that's phase one.
The only thing different in phase two for this
statue is he uses flamethrowers more and oh i actually didn't
even know he could jump off the wall wrestling style in phase one i thought that was a phase two joint, but
um, I guess
you can just do it anytime
for me, honestly
again
we're just going to keep trying to dodge those drones they're coming again
all right one hit let's not do that
we're gonna come one more time or no they're shooting lasers now
just make sure they hit the statue
all right just watching to get stunned
oh yeah alan's over there now He's charging up the super laser.
Okay. Get it, Alan!
He's gonna finish it off for us once we get this thing low enough.
There we go. Get one last crit on him.
Alright, he's pretty low.
I think...
If we get him in front of the cannon it should just end the fight, but sometimes it's easier to
just kill him. Okay, now he's gonna
do his flamethrower attack.
This is fine.
You know what? I'm gonna get out my gap
oh forgot about those guys come on saint
okay nice Come on, Saint. Nice! Ended.
And then Alan finishes him off with a laser beam.
That's actually the weapon that satellite uses. It's like an electromagnet laser, so that was just sitting around as a test version of it.
But that's technically what's in the satellites that makes the global warming happen.
The testing facility. this all makes sense in
the context of the story I promise I believe you yeah so make another cheeky save real quick
just because The Boss fight coming up was is with Enrique again. It's the final fight
with him, Benicio del Toro legally distinct Benicio Del Toro but we have a special strategy for him.
Because he does a lot of damage, he's unpredictable
and he has a lot of health.
So what is our strategy?
Our strategy... Is to use the jay statue which is running
rampant during this fight it will charge both nina and enrique
so it does damage to him until he has half health,
and then the J statue kind of runs off and breaks down.
And then we are going to double crit him
and then use the rail gun,
and that will finish off the rest of his health.
All right, let's do it. So instead
of engaging him in direct combat
which is really how you lose a lot
of health and burn through a lot of meal kits
he's very aggressive. And he's good
at blocking too. Huh? He's good at blocking
as well. Yeah, and he blocks everything.
So we're just gonna
try to avoid him.
Well, try not to get charged ourself.
So we just keep baiting him over here, just to hang out with the J statue.
The J statue's like a little puppy!
Or...a big puppy in this case.
His statue is supposed to target the boss, actually
but sometimes he just goes in a direction
There we go
He's a good boy
He's a floppy little puppy
Yeah, he's just like
a sloppy puppy.
So I want to distract him
kind of
because he actually
dodges the staff
of this church
so you want to kind of get him in a block animation or
You want him to start...
No! not me.
Okay.
Now does the J statue do like a significant amount of damage when it doesn't yeah so you see the health phase lost so far yeah that is a
significant amount of damage okay so that was from one hit come on he's going kind of badly but
it'll be all right go ahead and burn a medium milk get into my big stuff Come back over here.
Oh come on!
Yeah, sometimes he has like a ranged weapon that comes out super fast.
This statue's not really helping out, right?
Yeah. The statue is just chilling.
Uncharacteristically terrible
right now.
Usually he targets him
and goes, there we go.
There you go. Who's a good boy yeah like kind of
kind of line them up in a weird way
yeah just actually like you won't
Hey there Oh No oh come on what's wrong he's not the best you can do no
charge how did that not hit him
it's like going right around because He just clipped around them.
Oh my gosh.
This can go really fast, but
it's not. i mean the statue is just not really cooperating with he's not cooperating and even though
he ran right into him that last time he like doesn't do damage because
just hit i don't know, weird programming of something.
He's close though! He's close to half health. That's all we need. We just need him to be
half health
He's just running in walls
Okay, he should be up there. Let's go.
A little too much damage...
But it's honestly still faster than chip damaging him constantly.
Okay, perfect.
He is below half health and J statue is going to go get incapacitated on the wall
but we are gonna finish him off now.
We're gonna finish him off now okay we're gonna double crit
get out our rail gun target him one two oh come on! What the heck?
Okay. I just don't want to die
I don't wanna use a
D-Pid on this guy
Yeah, just have your meal kits
This is how overly aggressive he is.
Come on, give us a move.
That shotgun does nothing.
That's weird, you should be dead by now this is stressing me out
okay okay good job he is the hardest fight in
the game he's harder than the final boss, any of the
final few bosses. Ooh, okay, okay
Enrique is
super dead now?
He's super dead. Super dead
He's not coming back I. Dead, dead, dead.
He's not coming back.
I should have let the cutscene play out but he watches Nino walk away as he dies and
is like what a nice view!
And then he just dies.
Well, he got to see the beautiful nina before he died yeah all of her glory
all right now we are going to get out of here we We gotta find Lucas.
Oh yeah, shit, where's Lucas?
So Enrique was
holding onto Lucas and he got the evidence
Lucas got the
evidence that Enrique took it from him and then in the midst of the fight
that we were just in lucas took the evidence and ran away okay so now we're tracking them down
and seeing what happened with him well he must be like relatively nearby, he must be relatively nearby then. He must
be relatively nearby then. Surely.
I'm going to take a little bit of a detour.
This is an optional ladder.
It's a tall ladder but
it's very much worth it because we're going to get
the second strongest
melee weapon in the game.
And what is that? It's called a Ripper Blade.
The Ripper Blade.
It's a huge sword. Okay okay and we'll be taking this to the end of
the game uh yeah well we'll be using in the final
few sections really okay cool it's in this These sections, really. Okay, cool.
It's in this...
It's hard for me to tell sometimes what the pictures are when you do these puzzles some kind of mythological stuff okay so the ripper blade is something that we're going to see a lot of upcoming
enemies using they're like cyborg soldiers oh And it's going to introduce this whole
subplot within the game
that Komita is also
working on cyborg soldiers,
which Nina was planned
to be used as an experiment oh no but um she's not gonna
fall for that she can't but they were using like cia agents as
signers. So were they trying
to clone her first?
No,
they're just going to make her a cyborg.
Okay, they were just going to mod her a bit. they were just gonna mod her a bit.
They were gonna mod her.
Get a new graphics card or something.
Something, yeah.
And oh no! Lucas is dead.
No!
And Alan is here.
What did Alan do?
Alan apparently found him here.
Uh-uh. I don't trust
Alan. Mysterious. I don't trust Alan.
He says he's gonna tell us
that Lana Lay did it
and we're gonna take
Lucas' pocket watch.
Sure, blame it on Lana.
That's messed up.
So we just took
Lucas' pocket watch
Lucas liked
that pocket watch a lot
and he checks it in
the cut scenes sometimes, and I think
you're supposed to go, hmm, why is he checking that
pocket watch all the time?
Oh, I bet there's a secret thing in it. Maybe
so we got it. Alan didn't know about it but we did
Okay. And that's like plot thickens
Yeah, the plot thickens for sure.
Right now we're just escaping the island
with Alan and
we're doing one last backtrack
through the whole facility it's like a
best of... Twitch tours.
Run, exactly.
Get your camera!
On you left, you'll see the dingy prison that we broke out in.
And on your right another dingy prison even more garbage
see ya we're out of here the sound effect effect for Nina's like wave dash is so funny to me,
like it's crunchy and it's crunchy.
It's like a crunchy sweep.
I find that entertaining,
like an auto-generated gamertag crunch crunch
crunch it's nina eating on the girl surely gordita crunch oh gosh oops camera shenanigans.
You get to hear this music intro a lot.
I'm okay with it.
The bailing guitar.
And remember this place, good times.
Going back to the outside area. So we're heading back up to the rooftops where we did that last sniper sequence but this
time Alan is involved and we gotta protect him in the sniper sequence.
That is the last thing we're doing on this island before we head out.
Excuse me.
All right, we're going to take this elevator and they are just once again helpless.
Stop Nina.
I'll just watch her go up the elevator.
A funny thing about this part coming up is there was like the wire we had to cross To get to this one tower. It's electrified now because we powered on the elevator so
it's like if you try to climb the wire while it's turned on you'll get knocked off and you're
supposed to turn it off so alan can take the wire, but you really don't even have
to do it. You just leave it on and he'll cross it anyway. Okay, so Alan is... So you're supposed
to turn this off and then go up this ladder and take out a sniper but you don't have to turn that the power
off i mean i guess they expect you to turn it off for they expected courtesy courtesy.
I actually should have grabbed him for an instant kill, but
I'm gonna grab these grenades
and as this guy dies we'll start the sniper sequence.
Same deal as last time except we're just protecting Alan.
See he's on the power line anyways so We didn't have to turn it off.
So he's going to go jack the
helicopter while we protect him
and we're relying on him to come and pick
us up so we can escape.
Hopefully. Hopefully. He will pick us up that's the plan right
right right he's a good guy right right? Maybe There he goes
I'm not controlling this
But I will be soon
Uh-oh
Trouble
Could have seen this coming
Oh no Are the cyborgs here now
no not yet not yet okay i couldn't hit anyone up there
yeah the sniper has a bit of a sway on it. What are you doing?
Alan will just be judgy with you no matter how you perform during this fight.
You can literally get
headshots instantly every time and he'll
just be complaining. It's madness
I say. Hurry up and take him
out! What are you doing?
He'll also say that he's running out of ammo, but he has infinite ammo.
So he's just a liar.
He has to make it seem urgent, y'know?
Yeah, he's just yeah he's just a what do we call it
like wire or something that's about degrees. I'm trying to shoot them.
That's what I think I am doing.
OK. what I think I'm doing. Okay
Now we should start spawning back here
Oh, there's more Right, there is one more wave on the ground.
So this is the final sniper sequence?
Yeah, this is the last sniper sequence we're going to be seeing.
We have these really far away guys.
Got some nice shots there.
Nice, those guys are kind of tough.
They are so far away.
Two rooftop rows at the same time.
This guy... And then, next place they spawn is here. Uh, this guy.
And the next place they spawn is here.
Okay...
Oops! Thought that guy was dead.
Now we're gonna be down here... See this sniper section is a lot better because it doesn't load three different times while you're doing the sniper section
it just continues spawning people i find that weird that it was giving you loading screens at
all in in the last mission There's some questionable load screen
related decisions in this game.
Yeah, I mean
maybe just limitations at the time.
I don't know.
It was definitely a point of criticism when this game did come out.
They got kind of 50s along the board, and load screens were definitely up there with one of the reasons for it not being so well received
which is understandable you don't want to sit there
go through a door oh i gotta load again i mean at least not during a
mission maybe you know between missions sure for I mean, at least not during a mission.
Maybe between missions? Sure, forgivable but...
A bit weird.
But it was a different time.
It was a different time. It was 2005 okay?
Yeah.
Time capsule. I, time canceled. I do want to say too if y'all are enjoying the run make sure you follow Saint on his
YouTube channel that's youtube.com slash saint million and uh if you're enjoying the run subscribe while you're there
i'm sure he would appreciate it
true be true oh yeah you can shoot alan too pick up Be true.
Oh yeah, you can shoot Alan too.
Oh snap! He doesn't have a comment on that?
That is so funny.
He waves at you he's like thanks oh nice shot nina
you're doing great up there
okay so alan got the helicopter.
Okay.
He has secured the chopper.
Damn!
This is a straight up movie whoa
i can skip this i'm just laying in place it looks kind of cool there's anna
there she is geez ah She's so furious.
Sibling rivalry, etc.
Etcetera.
Alright now we were escaping and we were uh we got back to the boat we got shot down near
the boat and we had to land here then nina she's got a new outfit she's got final outfit there are cyborgs now
a lot's happened okay so these are the cyborgs in question these are the cyborgs
okay we made it we made it y'all. We got this one. Defibrillator...
And Nina lands through the window of the captain's room but we are back on the boat from the
beginning of the game.
Okay.
So we will be doing some backtracking but there are we now have access to um inaccessible stuff from earlier rooms sorry
let's stop so we're gonna make our way through the boat and our current quest is uh
our current quest is uh to stop the super weapon i think at this point lucas is dead
oh we have a puzzle r.i.p come on it goes a b
and then cd
can't guess the last part?
I don't know, is it F-E?
No, we're done.
It was A-B-C.
That's all you need. Good job.
We did it. Now we got a blank card for our efforts,
which were immediately going to turn into a level one pass key.
A blue card.
So there are
blue doors, there's yellow
doors and there are red doors now.
So it's just three new levels of access that we need in the mod.
Oh my gosh, that sound scared me!
I'm so sorry.
It's okay.
We have kind of a unique puzzle here it was like the flag um
is this like a boat system with flags yeah it's like a nautical
flag i don't exactly remember what each flag means
but yes, it is in the system. So two are Romeo and Juliet
putting those in opens a painting of Romeo and Juliet
we pick up a secret medallion behind the painting.
This is the executive boardroom from earlier.
Ooh it's a nice board room!
So now we can open these doors that we couldn't go into before.
So it's real masterful backtracking
design going on here.
So you, like, pretty much remember
the layout from before? Like, it's easier
to go through the boat since you've already done it.
Yeah. Yeah, so you
go out that door and you're like, oh, I'm here!
Oh yeah! Oh yeah, this place.
It's not fun.
And then
things are a little different on the boat now. There's That's not fun. And then, uh...
Well things are a little different on the boat now
There're cyborgs everywhere
There's J statue sitting there
They don't actually activate unless you run close enough to them
Oh! That's convenient?
You just pass by them.
These guys are here.
Can't wait for them
to close the door
so I can enter.
That's the weirdest thing
about this.
Yeah.
The door is wide open, but you still got to wait, you know?
Until you put in your own fingerprint code.
It's like you're not allowed to go through the locked gate at the private community and your fingerprint exactly what you stole yes
so right now with that medallion that we got it's part of a puzzle that's
reminiscent, or
direct reference to Metal Gear
2 I think
so you have
to take it to a cold place the medallion changes to a certain type of
medallion and they take it to a warm place.
So it changes to a different one now.
It's like a hot-cold puzzle.
Oh yeah!
There's that there's that puzzle like that
death bite agrees so we're heading to the cooler that we fought bryson
oh so long ago is he just in there no bryce is dead oh okay but i mean like is his just in there? No, Bryce is dead.
Oh okay but I mean like
is his body in there?
We'll see
no Bryce's body
is somewhere else
But we will see Bryce's body again okay that's weird i didn't
just a little spoiler there for that i apologize all right back into the cooler
still blood here they didn't clean anything up there's been no time
but they did empty this cooler out of all of the meat that was hanging around
oh good but instead but they didn't move our dead agent friend.
He's still here.
But there are new cyborgs here.
Alright so our crest turned into a cold Nadath Chimera Crest
and there is also a large meal kit here,
the biggest heal of the game. We're going to grab
that
and just try to take...
Oh!
How did he use that large meal kit
that was a big hit geez i don't think i've ever been hit by
that that's why they give you the big can that's why they pay them
the big books all right bro yeah get out of there oh my god that was terrible i basically just
picked up an item to use enough that's probably why it's there yeah it's like hey you're gonna
need this they know you're going to get hit by the cyborgs.
It's good game design, really.
And the cool thing about being on the boat again is that all of the items
you picked up before, they respawned this time around.
Oh! That's convenient. earlier i kind of ran and picked up another large meal kit
that was in the room we're going into right now because it respawned so it's kind of useful if
you have like knowledge of where certain items are. Like this water bottle is here again, so I'm gonna grab that as well.
Oh yeah! If you know where it is and it's kinda on the way.
Exactly. It's like copy paste all the items are back
like someone just like went in and reset an escape room or something
this is a big elaborate escape yeah so now our goal is to use this cold medallion, um,
To get a Chimera Key and then we're gonna go to a hot room.
And I get the medallion changes into a hot thing, and you get a second.
That's hot.
It's a good puzzle.
So we're going to go this way.
The place we need to turn in this ice medallion is actually
in Lana Leigh's room.
Where are we putting it?
In the fridge, or...?
There is a... Her fridge sure there's a slot
so it's hard to describe all the puzzles in this game like as you're
going through them.
Sure.
There is a display with a ship,
Like a little model ship
And you put
The key in where that is and then the glass comes down and then there's a key
in the ship okay
all right let's trust the process i'll believe it when i see it what guns do i
have oh i didn't use all of my shots just gun clear what did you
use on enrique the railgun yes do you have any more of that? No it was used all pretty yeah
Just check but the assault rifle is useful. I definitely want that more than the submachine gun
What comes in handy for a of boss fights coming up okay
so we're going to a familiar lana lay's
apartment here i'm just gonna go back to her closet and like steal more clothes yes
exactly i'm going to go on poshmark and get revolver
clothes all right so here's here's the ship.
So we're going to put in
the medallion
and
the glass is going to come down
and then there's a key
in the ship
chimera key and do not forget to take the medallion back
which i did my casual playthrough before running through the rest of the ship you can actually
leave it there even though you need it so you can't leave it there oh well you
can leave it there but you're not supposed to
the game if you leave it just leave it there
it stays there it doesn't go back in your inventory yet
right which i didn't do.
So because we're back on the ship and everything has respawned
We can go back up into this aquarium attic
And get the extra defibrillator
because it has respawn so this is also optional
but might as well
I'd say that the three crits
it gives you for having it kind of makes it worth it yeah
i would agree with you and it's a full heal for a boss fight the last couple
boss fights can kind of like burn your health down and you might use extra defibrillators, especially for a no reset type setting.
Now did you level up for that third crit slot? No, we're gonna
get more levels as we finish
the game here. Right on.
So we're gonna skip Lana Lay's room actually
We're just gonna go out this way
We didn't actually go out this way
we didn't actually go out this way before because we didn't have to
but there is a water bottle in here and again i haven't used any water bottles this whole run because i'm saving them for the final boss.
So we're going to chug water right near the end.
So remind me again, what does the water bottle do?
It gives you critical gauge. OK, so it's kind of like mana but it's critical gauge
manna yeah nina's mana nina's mana her magic
magic slow motion time magic yes Yes. That makes sense.
Check some out. I don't know, I see
a little blue bar... My brain goes
for the mana. Yeah. So we
have laggy area here
so we're gonna position our camera down, and that's
because there are so many cyborgs
up on this platform. Oh!
But they're all standing around this ripper blade
that we want, and it...
once you pick it up, they activate.
Um... so even though there's tons of them
They only activate like
four at a time
but I am going to try to kill a few of them.
Like that?
You do want these meal kits extra
and I'm also going
for the extra XP
that they provide
Roll grenades, action
there.
They also drop
medium hits which is
pretty good. Alright so they gave us some
extra points.
Six skill points. I forgot that you actually don't get a lot of skill points if you use ranged weapons but that's okay we got more meal kits.
We were a bit short after the Enrique fight.
We're going to get a ton of skill points when we fight more J statues, which are coming
up.
There's actually three that we have to fight on this ship
that are just as big as the previous one just as big and even badder than before bigger and
better you thought we were done with J statues. We're just getting started.
Oh, J one two and three are coming. That was just the prototype.
A proto.
What the hell is a proto
y'all won't get it forget
if you know
all right gonna sweep
on back through here but again angling
my camera down because there's so many enemies up
there that just lags your game
So we went to the boiler room there I kind of skimmed over it or didn't
mention it, but went to the boiler room.
The medallion changed
into a different type of medallion
and now we're gonna go deposit
that medallion and get the second key
that we need to proceed
to the final layer of the ship,
which is a submarine...
A secret submarine depot.
Are we going diving?
Are we about to get a thunderball in here?
A thunderball? Yeah, maybe.
No, there's no more swimming.
Well, that's a lie. There is swimming
but not in the deep diving sense.
It's like a submarine bay
it's not a harpoon fight or anything no no it's it's a submarine bay
nina is going to be submarine bay
that was bad joke.
Alright, we're gonna take the elevator straight up to the fourth floor which is where
we need to put in this medallion so we're back in a very
familiar area here basically the beginning of the game.
This game makes plentiful use
of all its areas
and backtracking, but
it's nighttime on the ship now which is a bit different okay go
ahead this big aquarium put in the unicorn medallion.
And we will get the unicorn key
and we can leave
the medallion.
We don't need it anymore.
We're out of here.
We're not fighting
these cyborgs.
They're way too powerful.
But we got the medallion we got we've got the key that we need we left the medallion because we don't need it anymore
so with these two keys we're gonna go down to the first floor to that piano
that we saw a long time ago.
Where's Rebecca? Will she play
it for us? Who's Rebecca?
Never mind. Is Becca Black?
No. I think it's Resident Evil evil one if you play as chris like he doesn't know how to
play the piano he just doesn't get it so we're back in class yeah rebecca goes in and plays
it for him oh yeah then this must be like a Resident Evil type
reference. Sure, like
this isn't the 50th time we've referenced
Resident Evil, surely not? No.
So you can't just
do the piano puzzle. You have to rotate it twice first because these letters have to line up on the keyboard.
There's a keyword that you find out somewhere else through like lore text um
a key word of orpheus is what we need to put in so you can't play this keyboard
until you put two keys in the unicorn key
you're unlocking the piano yeah you have to unlock the piano
so does nina know how to play oh she does
yeah she's playing wait what why is it the last three letters s-u-x
this piano sucks okay and this is an unskippable cutscene
it's actually the main theme of
the game in a piano arrangement.
We've activated
the ship's trap card.
Yes.
Huh, nice. let's go the secret checkered elevator
we descend
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We're in the submarine now?
Oh, are we going into the submarine now?
We're in the submarine
now.
Okay.
And guess what
we're doing?
Can you guess? Not Okay. And guess what we're doing? Uh...
Can you guess?
Not a harpoon fight?
Not a harpoon fight,
We're exiting the submarine.
Okay sure well we're going swimming! The submarine has put a mirror room in this game and you just go through it.
It's just another loading screen.
It's just another place to put loading screens actually.
But it adds to the experience. another place to put loading screens, actually.
But it adds to the experience. You've got to see
Nina go through the little hatch and
It's Nina Williams in a submarine.
Go down there. That's what fans wanted.
Yeah.
So we dive into some water but
we're just gonna leave it's not a long underwater sequence it's
just like a pool
now Now... The sequence of quests in this game
is really hard to remember sometimes. We're heading through the engine room,
I believe.
To activate... Oh! We're going to the engine room so we can go through
a ventilation system to a control
room to upgrade our card to a yellow
card. Okay So so what do we
do? Just like put our current card into
like a magical box and it just turns
it to the correct color? Yes!
That's exactly...
Alright, let's go! All right.
Let's go.
It's exactly that.
There's a ladder to get down
to the bottom floor, but it's faster
just climb up like we drop.
So Nina never takes any kind of fall damage right
no she doesn't okay that's cool
so to get through this room we gotta turn off the steam vent.
The steam pipes...
Because you have to climb across the steam pipes.
And of course turning off the steam pipes, it activates these enemies for some reason.
It's like they know- They know it's time to fight, but we're just gonna leave.
They can't use ladders?
They're strong cyborgs, but they're not very nimble.
Back up here.
If we get knocked down
they will be
ready to punch us so we'll just be very careful. So you have to watch out for this steam? Yep All right, we're free in place.
Nice! Was it difficult learning the sequence for that?
Just because I'm not sure what the hitbox is like on this scene.
It's even weirder,
because sometimes you press forward one time
and Nina will move her arm one time right but sometimes you press forward and nina
will move twice and there's just no rhyme or reason to it at least i can't couldn't tell
it's like a weird double input yeah it's just just does it sometimes or at some points along the pipe
that will give you a double movement so you gotta be careful
that you don't stop right at the game because she might
just automatically move into it pretty soon. Watch her fingers or you'll get
burned, I see. Just odd
quirks about a game that
you learn when you route it
Alright
so put in the blue card. we have iframes while that loads
so that's why that happened wait who was singing the guy this guy was singing oh
we're gonna kill him because he's a little annoying. He was right in the middle of his song!
Da da da da...
I actually did not mean to...
You can scan a lot of different finger points in the game,
we skipped that because it's just extras.
So what are you using to scan the fingerprints?
A fingerprint scanner we got at very near the beginning.
Oh right! It was like one of the first items you picked up? Exactly.
Okay, okay.
So here we are going to get
some stuff.
This is the final armory we're going to access, and it also has a ripper blade.
So we have three ripper blades. We're gonna take these grenades...
And if I can fit it
more grenades. Or sorry, grenade
launcher and more grenades.
I think that's all I can take.
That's plenty.
Loaded.
We are ready
to fight a series
of bosses that leads us to the final
bosses. Okay, this is
like the Tekken bracket has arrived. Oh yeah, this is like the tekken bracket has a oh yeah this yeah this is the king of iron fist
turn okay all right for nina but it's like a super serious mission it's a fight to the death
for everybody involved.
The way these
cyborgs activate, it's so funny.
So now we have the yellow
card, we can get through here.
It's a key to a key to a key.
That's the linear gameplay of this game.
That's why it takes so long. and there's really no way to bypass
doors that I could tell
because the doors aren't
a type of situation where it's like
if you clip through the door, the load zone is
there. It doesn't work like that.
You have to activate the door
and have the
security clearance to do that. Oh, there's
cyborg stuff happening in here by the way.
Yeah, let's not forget about that. This is where you learn that the cyborgs are like oh
my god they're real people pick up a final holster i'm still not sure if you even really need this holster
I just feel like grabbing it because it's right there
and we have a little code puzzle that you would figure out the solution to if
you pick up, like, documents along the way.
But the code's always the same.
So just go ahead and do that.
This leads to… even more cyborg clandestine stuff.
Just more cyborgs, huh?
Just more cyborgs.
Listen it's cool okay.
Just so you know just how evil they are.
Fall away...
Cyborgs.
So many.
It's the facility where they keep them.
Okay, so we're going into a room that
has access to
unlock the final area
of the game, but we can't go into the
final area of the game until we have
the red card
so we have to send this pod off it has a cyborg in it but we need
to empty it so we can get into later we're gonna get into the cyborg Yeah, we're gonna be a cyborg pod. Wow.
Personally. Then we get
this object called the icy key
like icy
but not like icy
Sounds like is it like blinged out like nina's gonna wear it
it's the ice okay okay um this key can be inserted into the j statues that are stationary
along all around the boat and then you fight them.
So there's three J statues,
insert the icy key
and then kill the J statues
because they're holding Chinese
chess pieces inside of them that
you need to put into a Chinese
chessboard in the captain's room
which unlocks Lana Leigh's bedroom.
That is a very obscure puzzle, but
we'll go with it. Yeah, so our goal is to get to lana lee's bedroom and
i'm not kidding and steal more clothes probably well we're gonna steal something
that is true take it all nina just grab it and run there's a little klepto she's like looking around
like don't watch me okay that's what she's checking for when she opens the doors she's
like is anything else i can take in here i could fit in my pocket? Yeah, what else can I fit in my pockets?
Okay.
So the first jay statue we're gonna fight
is actually
the hardest and it's back down here in the engine room we were just in.
I think it's intended that you fight this one last?
It seems like the most difficult because it has a giant laser beam attack
um but it's it's the fastest to get while we're still here so we're going
to go fight him anyways
so the ripper blades we've been getting
the giant swords they are the best thing to use against J statues because they can stunlock them to some degree each J statue is kind of different amount of hits before it gets stunlocked.
This one
doesn't stunlock very easily, but the Ripper
Blade does so much damage.
So much more than anything else you have.
That's why we're hoarding them.
And... than anything else you have that's why we're hoarding them that's why we're hoarding these and
uh hopefully i can get melee proficiency three let me see how many skill points we got
uh okay i think we're...
Oh, we're quite short. That's fine.
J statue. This is like camouflage j-statue
They're each a different color. One's red statue. Oh yeah, that's kind of cool.
One's red, one's camo and one is just like iron
looking. They kind of
low-key look like mini Iron
Giants to me. Yeah, they do.
When did Iron Giant come out? That's a great question,
Zane. That very may well be
what it was inspired by. It looks
like it came out in
1999, So...
Whoa, this guy's immediately laser beaming!
Very possible.
Holy shmoly!
Okay now he's driving.
Usually he just starts driving around but uh it's the first time I've ever seen him
just open with the laser beam.
So this is the attack that we have to dodge
to get to him. Dark Souls has trained me,
but not well enough!
We're going to do the little single attacks, hit him with two crits.
And then as soon as he's recoiling from this, get more
ripper attacks and just melt
his bar. Wow yeah
no wonder we're hoarding these
oh yeah the r Blades are so good
which is why I want Melee
Proficiency 3
to see how many skill points it has
So you can use it more for sure
On the other J statues, we're going to get tons of skill points because we can stun lock them and then keep doing melee attacks and kind of build a huge combo. and that's going to give us thousands
of skill points. So that's what's
going to get up to the final level
or not final level, but
the third level of weapon durability
because we want these melee weapons
to last as long as possible.
They're so good against all the bosses
going forward.
Being that
bosses are just giant HP pools the ripper blades they rip
rip and tear until it's done yeah rip and turn in a ribbon
i hope everyone's having a good time yeah i'm having fun thank you so much for being on the
show by the way i know it kind of was um a big effort tackling this game so yeah i was talking about at the beginning of
the run but yeah i got this game well at gdq so many years ago which one Do you remember? I think it was AGDQ 2018.
It might be off like a year, but it was definitely in Virginia because we went to East Star Land that's the store I picked this up at.
Shoutouts to East Starlington if you're still
around.
Selling me
those for
$4 and
it was the
sweeper special
the sweep
supermarket
sweeper
I was could Could you imagine
Nina in Supermarket Sweep? She would
slay... Oh my god, she'd be grabbing all the hands
Dashing through the aisles
Stealing all the turkeys
Yeah, kicking it into her cart.
Yeah. Juice all over
the floor.
Making a mess.
Alright, so now we're going to head back
into the boat because the last two J statues are back up in the.
Okay, but they aren't too far away.
The first one we're going to go fight is
in the fighting arena, in which Nina is fighting in, in the opening cutscene.
It's kind of where the fighting tournament was taking place.
Oh yeah it's like the ruins looking place. It's not the ruins looking place it's like not
the ruins it's just like boxing arena
you'll see in just a second we've been through this room like twice now.
But this is the final time.
And every time you go through here, this red J statue is
here. So I think it's a point of
like, oh what is that? You never really know.
And then the final it's like the final bosses
it's like oh you gotta go fight those things
it's kind of like a subtle foreshadowing yes
it's very foreshadowing so this one's red cage fight also it seems like uh the game store is a local
game store for someone in the chat so i guess it's still around that's
pretty awesome yeah it's a really cool story they have so many retro games obscure games
old consoles like video game statues like just relics of the past and a lot
new stuff too.
There's a really great statue
of Nina
for death by degrees in
her kind of opening outfit cocktail dress yeah that's it she has
like a katana yeah that would be a fun one to acquire for sure yeah the death by degrees
statue they came out with the same year as this game.
It's like $70 or something.
I want that!
But I don't want to spend $70 on it.
Well, you know collectors
out there?
So two hits from the Ripper Blade stuns this guy and I'm doing my light attack combo so i can just stack up uh skill points against this guy.
This statue just can't.
No, he's
dead. So we've just got
tons of points from him. i think it kind of went off the screen
like a bunch of points but then my small combo went off but okay Okay, we didn't get necessarily all of that.
I guess we got some but not enough.
But on the next jade statue we should get enough.
So we just have one more jade statue yeah a jay statue sorry i keep saying
jades statues okay listen i blame too many hours into murder two or two jade collectibles yeah
all right Two or two jade collectibles. Yeah. Alright, we're out.
So we got another Chinese chess piece
I can't remember what it's called
but it's in English
known as Chinese chess i suppose
each statue has a piece and you need three to unlock the rest of the game
so we're gonna go find that last guy Last statue
Yeah, you gotta beat him up and take the piece
Beat him up and take his stuff
He is in the reception room
I don't think there's anyone here reception room.
I don't know if anyone in the chat knows what that means or is.
Is the receptionist gone?
Everyone's gone when you get there, yeah.
Okay, everyone's gone.
It's just going to be us and the J-State here showing up. Everyone's gone when you get there. Okay, everyone's gone.
It's just going to be us and the J statue.
All along the way are these cyborgs chasing us around.
Can they climb ladders? No. Okay, that's good. They're too chunky.
They probably weigh like a ton each of them
So these are
just humans that all
kind of got turned into the same
looking cyborg? Yeah.
That's wild.
It was kind of like eventually it's revealed that Nina was going to be an experiment of this type too.
So what is it that prevented her from?
She's just too good. She's just too good she's just too yeah i guess that's the answer she's
too good she can't be like captured you know can't it can't uh it's a force of nature
oh and every time you walk up to these J statues, their little thing comes out. And they put the key in.
A little slot.
I see your key!
Exactly. So this is the last J statue we're fighting, but it's also the easiest.
This one gets stunned in 1 Ripper Blade hit.
Just 1?
Yeah just one.
And every J statue has kind of their own
unique ability. This one has Gatling
guns. The red one had
electricity was like the big theme
and the one on the boat had laser beams
but he's never really going to get to use his uh
those uh gatling guns because we're just gonna
keep them still mocked the entire time.
The
bone crack sound every
time is so good.
Yeah, it's really
satisfying when an actual bone crunches.
Again just trying to build up this combo as much as we can.
It's a ton of skill points.
You can see
his Gatling Guns all try to come out, but
he's never going to be able to
use it.
I'm not going to use my crit again, i'm actually just gonna save it for a boss fight. Just finish him off this way. It's a chunk.
Spin it back, Nina!
We've got 3000 skill points we are going to use that
to finally get the level 3 melee proficiency so there's a lot of skill points in here
that we just never get to a lot of skills
we can never use
because in speedrun
it doesn't make as much sense
to farm skill points
and unlock those
special combos,
unfortunately.
You just kind of
make do with what you have
acquired.
Yeah, it makes weapons a lot more valuable
and using strats with those weapons right on
but there are a lot of cool combos in the game yeah i think so to unlock as you see a lot of them in that intro cutscene we
watched that's what i'm saying like nina's got the like the double kicks going. Oh my!
Da-na, da-na, da-na, da-na...
So good.
Yeah.
Even with like the guns and swords there are special combos you can do with guns and melee weapons.
Nice. Pretty cool.
Pretty cool.
Alright, so we got the final
piece, Chinese
chess piece that we're gonna go to the captain's room that's back down in the submarine
bay a few more load screens. We're getting there.
How are you feeling about the run overall now that
you've been at it for almost
three hours? Feels good!
Feels good!
That is great to hear. I'm still kicking myself for game overing
on like a really easy like oh don't worry about it that really easy part you know
with speed games you know things happen and you just try again yeah do you think
that you will be trying to
you know improve the time for this after
this run yeah I think so.
Because there's a lot of strats that I would
not make a save game
like right here I'm going to make a save game because
we could game over in just
a moment but
there's also some strats like not
getting extra defibrillators and just kind of doing better
um just like more risky strats i would
like to get nailed down on it is a long run though
well and you know there's not a lot of um
there's no uh like speedrun.com page for this game so yeah there's no runs on the internet that i
could find unless there's some secret death by degrees leaderboard website maybe you know it's um
kind of like making the blueprint
for what the speedrun could look
like, you know, somewhere
to start from. This is the hardest
laser part.
Very precise., okay good.
Then we get another railgun
And we are going to use that railgun
not on any bosses, actually.
There's a big escape
that we have to do
after we do some bosses.
The railgun is really good
at taking out these cyborgs
which we're going
to be forced
into some fights with them.
The railgun makes handy work of them all right
finally we're in the captain's room there's the chinese chess board
we're going to put all the pieces we got from the jay statues in here
which unlocks lana lay's bedroom which i don't know how she gets into her
bedroom when all those pieces are in the jay
statuettes i mean she might use like a separate entrance bedroom when all those pieces are in the J statues?
I mean, she might use like a separate entrance.
Government plant for the CIA checkpoint.
And we are going to save again.
Wait, the government plant was a save point? That's right.
That is too good.
That's too good.
That's too good I say.
Damn she's good.
Sweeper agent, damn she's good.
Damn she's good damn she's good
alright so
I want to let this cutscene play actually
this is Lana Leigh's room. It's so creepy.
She's just a doll enthusiast.
Wait, what? It's Bryce.
She has Bryce... His corpse.
Dead in her bed?
There's the evidence, Duffin.
What the hell?
Dead in bed.
Aw is he gonna spring to life?
No. No! oh is he gonna spring to life no no nina just take it
oh oh my gosh oh we've been poisoned by lana lee
where the hell did she come from? I don't know
if she must have been standing there the whole time.
Was she hiding under her own bed? She was just like
hiding in the curtains of the
bed.
Waiting for Nina.
Lana got us again, we we're gonna go into a ptsd dream sequence
about anna when she was young and her dad died in front of her inner sister
only this time nina will need to protect both Anna and little Nina.
There's young Anna and young Nina who can both get bit by zombies. We're now naked zombies strangely.
So I'm gonna crit her and kind of hit her in this direction get a few extra
hits and then we need to promptly go and start defending the twins or i don't know if they're twins but they're
their sisters yeah this is i think anna's the younger sister probably anna's like
the becks so the story behind these two is they're both trained by
their parents, their dad is like an assassin professionally and their mom
is an Aikido champion
And they're both trained, but Nina was always like better.
And Anna's always seeking approval from their dad
But their dad liked Nina more
So it's always been this this bitter sibling rivalry, and then their dad dies,
and they kind of bond over that or something?
Yeah how did their dad die?
Right but this game is not canon and their dad died when they were kids i see so it's a bit
obscure okay
but we will see the final conclusion of this whole thing in the final cutscene
we'll kind of see the full story of what oh nice okay this fateful day don't cry girls it's gonna be okay
there was a lot of crying.
So the Ripper Blades do some decent damage to Lana.
I'm actually saving my crit for Phase 2 of this fight
which is quite a bit more difficult.
I still have like an...
Might as well just use this.
Okay, this one's about to be broken.
Get these zombies out of here.
Also, Alana Leigh's fan attacks are a lot more powerful this time around.
She is Nina's greatest fan.
Okay so she is's gonna disappear again...
checking on the kids. Where's Nina? Little Nina is right there.
Oh god I lost her. No no, she's right there by-
Wait am I crazy? She's right by Anna.
Oh my god you're right. That would be a terrible babysitter.
This is why Saint wouldn't make up for her good parent.
Where are the girls?
Okay, Lana's almost done for...
One last hit! Alright, Lana phase one complete.
So you have to get her entire health bar down
to get to phase two?
Yeah, but there's another fight.
Okay.
Good job, good job.
Have you ever heard of Yoshimitsu? yoshi mits who yes she met's who well
he's one of the coolest fighters just around town just around town i mean yoshimitsu would be just around
town you know and uh i may or may not have a video about on such yoshi mutsu
my youtube channel youtube.com slash SaintMillion if you want to watch it.
Hold down this elevator and walk over here,
and hello! It's the Manji sword.
The best sword in the game.
It's Yoshimitsu's sword.
What?
Yoshimitsu just left it there or she paralleled sharpness lana stole
it here it is it's even green oh thanks richard so cool there's the link for the video if anyone's curious.
Oh, Richard, thanks!
Yeah Yoshimitsu is one of my favorite characters that's who I play usually in Tekken or Soul Calibur.
I'm like Yoshimitsu, easiest choice.
All right so we've chased Lana into the headquarters
of the super weapon Salacia,
the satellite system which can cause global warming and she's lost it at this point
and she's going to activate every satellite and try to end the world because she's lost her love
the love of her life that nina killed and she's just like screw it i'm gonna end the world the whole world has to pay for what
nina has gone and nina is once again poisoned but this time it's the most horrific hallucination
dream ever oh wow as you can see by the surroundings luckily yoshimitsu's manji sword makes very easy work of her we just have to oh
whoa she spawned right here that's really weird and all these like baby dolls like fly towards you this whole time uh if she hits
you after you get hurt so you gotta like hit lana out of zombie b Bryces and zombie Enriques.
Wait, what?
These are zombie Bryces and zombie
Enriques? Yeah, you're in this like hallucination
dream with zombie
versions of the bosses you've killed...
It's a pretty good asset reuse if you ask me.
Well, y'know it's Lana's fever dream we're just living in it.
Exactly. So, you really gotta not get hit by her because if you do...
Dang it, I thought she was ready to get critical but she's in her invulnerability phase
You can see where she runs into first if you like are able to look at her.
Sometimes it's a bit hard.
If you get hit, you have to redo that first part.
Tough to see in this dream sequence in general.
And it's even worse because the camera is kind of hard to control
and this is one of the main reasons we want the durability leveled up, because the Manji Sword also has limited durability.
But it does the most damage and makes quick work for this fight for the most part
all right i'm getting fed up with her, I'm gonna burn a
water bottle so I can crit her because
once she gets to half health
this phase ends
and she will stop
like scampering off in a bunch of annoying directions so you'll be able to
get a good crit on her yeah i thought the one she was in but i guess not
no now the one she was in but i guess not
no no no oh my gosh so she's doing a dance we gotta follow her again
and these dolls just throw tackles on you.
There she is, I'm actually gonna wait until she did she immediately just run away oh my god
this is terrible so six defibrillators we're using one
all right first of fibular here we go
i'm gonna save my manji sword a little bit
she's really giving me the business all right i'm quitting you
right now don't you dare do anything dial this in really carefully oh god it's so horrific looking
that is horrifying. Break her legs.
This puts her into
phase two of the fight. She won't disappear
anymore it's just an all out
fight with so many zombies
and her. And what's really nice about this phase,
if I can manage it, is she will not dodge bullets at all. She won't go
invulnerable anymore. so if I can get this
Assault rifle on her long enough
I'm getting shot by Bryce
It's it's so easy to get wombo combos in this phase of the fight. Alright, we're just gonna land a crit there. Knock her down so we can hit her with the Magi Sword a few times.
There we go.
She's dead.
Done with Lana.
Very nice.
And now you have five more defibrillators left in case yeah five more for the final fight okay which is pretty good I'm going to go ahead and activate the super weapon.
I'll just wait for it to
come back up.
So she activated this superweapon, we have to stop and there's only one way to do that it's with one final puzzle involving lucas's pocket watch
it turns out the pocket watch was the key to stopping this in an emergency code.
We're stopping the underworld right now.
Was the key all along?
It is the key, so it's just kind of like a puzzle. There's a glitch sometimes that you put in the right things...
Oh, I had backwards. It's not glitchable.
I just forgot.
Ah, you saved the world!
And now the satellites are done boom satellites you're done. You're done salacia
You're gonna work in this town again okay so we've done that actually where does
this take place like self-destruct sequence is activated it takes place
on the bermuda triangle, okay you mentioned it.
Sorry I might not have ever said that.
No you did, I just...it slipped my mind.
It takes place on a boat called the Amphatrite
Okay
But I never brought that name up because its's so forgettable and hard to remember.
But it is the Amphitrite, A-M-P-H-I-T-R-I-T-E.
Like amphitheater?
Exactly.
Okay.
Well yeah there is like a whole little theater we have the red card now nice
the final car final card
loading all right it's not over though Loading.
Alright, it's not over though. We have plenty of enemies to take care of these are a mandatory fight right here.
Oh I don't wanna die!
Okay I died. Yeah you can't pause and heal in the middle of just getting stuff locked. Right.
Cool. Using guns is great until you're locked in an animation that gets you comboed forever and then grab these medkits
shotgun now we can triple prick. Oh yeah they're aggressive!
Yeah they are super aggressive. You have to fight them in the tightest corridor in video games
On the mash against
So you had to fight those four i see because that last guy just blocks that door forever are you gonna have the meal kits now or yeah i need
to keep a meal kidding up okay because i have to save my defibrillators and
these dudes will just sleep those two attacks would have killed me oh my god
you entered the room and it was like immediate yeah i was spamming dodge
i still kind of got hit by that
i have four grenade launcher shots.
There's another required fight with these guys right here, outside this elevator.
So what are you going to be using for these enemies?
I'm gonna use a grenade launcher.
Okay.
Because I was saving it for just...
I want to clump them up quickly.
There we go.
That was nice.
I'm going to pick up this meal kit.
Are you not there?
Okay.
Thanks!
They all activate, but...
Just gonna leave.
We are a I'll activate, but just gonna leave. And we are officially done
with all non-boss
combat. We're going to skip things
and head to the final
boss in that escape pod that we primed earlier
wait we primed in a skateboard yeah remember the cyborg Pod
so now that we have the red card we can go into that room and get in the
pot it's all sounds like a plan it's the plan let's do it you'll never guess who the final boss is even though you know
who could it be do you have any ideas on who the final boss could be well keep it to yourself and don't spoil
it just keep it to your stuff all right okay we're kidding we love you thanks for hanging
around yeah we appreciate you guys hanging out so much.
Thank you so much. Just sharing some Death by Degrees
with y'all.
And uh
maybe I'll let this cutscene play a little bit.
Oh snap. Oh, snow.
The boat's on fire.
Rocked.
Screw this boat. Let's get out.
Get out of the sound.
Shoot. come
despite agrees house there oh snap
whoa wow those are not very secure no not at all just opened
nina Nina! Don't, don't fall.
Ah. Oh my god. Ah, Savior.
Ah, Rescue Chopper. Let's go.
Chopper.
Oh!
Okay.
Diss Anna Williams.
Anna has re-entered the chat.
No words.
Alright, this is the final fight,
The Showdown with Anna.
It's a three-phase boss fight
and I'll let Richard know on time
when it comes up.
Yeah, it's a sister showdown.
Let's go.
It will not be short. It's a sister showdown. Let's go! It will not be short.
It's a longer fight.
So I'm gonna crit Ana just three times right off the bat
There are barrels that fall all over this arena randomly
all the time and it's really good if anna gets in them explosive barrels right okay
that was great yeah yeah so i credit her three times and a barrel hit her for kind of a lot of damage,
And she's still got kind of a lot health so that's just final boss health pool stuff
So i'm actually going to pop water bottles wait i went to the wrong menu
i wanted to like level things up i actually don't have as many
water balls as i usually do but that's okay oh we gotta make do with what
we have here yes just hydrate y'all okay so anna is very quick and has quite the reflexes
And blocks a lot of our attacks
She also does a decent amount of damage
So we want to crit as much as we can
It's all we got,
We can't use melee weapons or guns against her
This is just hand-to-hand honor duel
You know?
Yes and they make that a point so this final boss is more dramatic.
Exactly.
The sibling rivalry will come to the head here.
So you can actually get knocked off this arena and it'll be an instant game over, even if you have the Fibrillators.
So
I'm kind of fighting her in a really safe
spot far away from the edge.
A safe spot
near the fire.
Get a little cutscene here as we go into phase two
oh Ooh! Double slap. Evenly matched. They're like, alright whatever
let's do this.
Let's get serious now.
You cracked my rib cage open but
you slapped me and now it's on so going back to my safe spot because i do
not want a game over trying to do the critical heavy combo gonna chug some more water pretty combo.
Gonna chug some more water. Good idea, hydrate everybody.
Hydrate.
I'm gonna keep a couple of them in the wings.
Okay, so at this point it's kind of...
Oh, I missed my crit.
It's okay if she kills me, please.
Of course when I'm standing around trying to get hit
She starts dodging everywhere and not doing anything
Hit me!
Come over here
Okay of course one the other guy got hit by that
That's fine we're gonna difficulty over here. Okay, of course only I got hit by that.
That's fine. We're going to difficulty get full crit.
So
I'm gonna try to knock her down before
I crit her here
because it's actually really easy to start a crit against ana and then her character model like
moves out of your field of vision okay that works too.
So she'll start kind of like jumping all over the place like that.
Oh right. We hit all three so that was great and she's probably going to get hit with this barrel
so it's even better.
Yeah, it's hard to hit her in like the appropriate bone spots when she's moving all over
place yeah she can just leave your field of vision and the crit thing if you climb in an awkward way
okay dang that's mean so at this point honestly this is the first time i've
gotten thrown in this game.
Amazing.
Usually when you get thrown by a random enemy,
like you'll get that tutorial dialogue
that's like to evade a throw...
Wait did you get that? So I just got
that against Anna.
That's the end of the game but we want
to make sure you understand how to play.
Yeah, that's pretty funny
actually. Oh, fun fact If you're running the game and doing no saves
And then you die against Ana
You literally go to the first room in the game
No way!
It just starts the game over from after the tutorial.
That's wild, that's brutal.
I'm kinda just trying to get further to the side.
This is a blunt...
Come on.
Get hit by the barrel.
This fight's kind of long...
I mean, it's supposed to be! It's a final boss! Final showdown here!
They're really likely to hit me.
That's counterintuitive, but I have all these defibrillators.
I can do better.
I can do better, sis on sis sorry sweaty sorry sweating literally letting you hit me
all right come on say hit her with the brick breaker yeah
oh crack yes all right phase three oh okay time is gonna come up if her health hits zero or if i can knock her off the building er yeah so in phase three she can now be hit off the ship i'm gonna be really careful about
this because i can easily die so when i kick this so this barrier next to me actually doesn't break
um but the one next to it does.
I think it just broke.
Okay.
So I'm going to try and hit her in.
Oh, I'm nervous.
Not get hit in myself because that will be a game over.
So I'm taking a bit of a risky strat here.
Some water bottles...
If i can crit her in the right place,
and get her on the ground I can line up one final kick to get her off.
That's a little too far away.
I'll still try to kick her out though we may end up killing her on hp but i will
do my best It kind of took too long, but I know that.
But I think she was way too far anyway.
Get off the ship!
Okay, no time yet.
Hmm? Okay... Okay. Study all your moves! Let's not lock on.
I can get rotated around really easily if you're locked on.
Then you're the one going off the edge.
Okay, that's fine.
Defibrillator.
So we can crit her
to eventually finish it, but
if I can get her in the right spot
Right here. Okay
See if she'll...
I'm just gonna burn the last one, because I just need to knock her down.
Line up the field goal. And time!
Nice! Off
the ship.
326? Just under
326. Okay. What do you think, Saint?
That wasn't a totally legit run because of the backup save, but hey, we're underestimating it.
But the concept is there.
The concept of runs here.
We're underestimate.
Great job.
That's exactly what the run will look like.
Let's watch this ending play out.
Oh yeah, we get the full flashback now of what has been happening in the past.
So I think they were kidnapped by these people
that's nina's father not this guy he's getting gun pointed at Oh my gosh, this is terrifying for such a young girl
i don't know what's gonna happen That woman's dead.
She didn't take it.
Wow. Death by degrees, but early death by you know
bullets
but it's cold
outside
it's cold
maybe it's
cold
outside
there's a little
little Anna
she was there too yeah you can't forget about it she was
there Aw. oh
don't let go
whoa oh this thing is coming down.
Helicopter.
Nice. Boom! The fleet has arrived.
Now we're even.
Oop, see ya!
Just skip her across the ocean like a rock?
Absolutely don't.
Skip, dunk.
And there she goes.
Hmm.
Oh, that Anna. That's death by degrees.
Sweeper. we'll be counting on you sweeper
oh she's so badass
tekken's nina william by Degrees, ladies and gentlemen.
GG!
GG? Wow. That was really something. I enjoyed that a lot. Thank you so much for running this game for us, Saint.
Do you have anything
left you'd like to say to our viewers?
I just want to thank everyone for tuning in
and hanging out and watching some
Nina and sticking with us it wasn't a all the way legit run because of
the backup save unfortunate but the concepts there i'm probably going to try to get a recorded run
and maybe an SR comp page.
So if you're interested in this run, which if you're not,
I totally understand the load screens.
You know, it's not too bad.
It's got N got no gear solid vibes
resident evil vibes this time is all wrong by the way because of the backup save oh for sure but um
yeah it's it's just a weird old PS2 game.
Thanks for watching!
Thanks to my YouTube viewers as well supporting me and
my different weird ventures
And thanks for having me once again oh of course gdq to all
yes thank you so much um and i do want to say that if you enjoyed the run here tonight make
sure to keep an eye on saint's youtube channel that's youtube.com saint million for a more in-depth
look at death by degrees uh coming pretty soon it's in the works in the works yeah but um
making a video all about it. Yeah, making
really good progress on that so looking forward to
a whole video dedicated to Nina
subscribe to St.
Millian's channel because you do not want to miss
it but that is a wrap on tonight's episode of
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I'm Sky Bills your host and this is episode oh my goodness we've broken the 100 barrier again 101 pokemon crystal full item randomizer with the one are on before we get started here.
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With that being said though, Keith, how are you
doing? Welcome back to the
show! What's up? Oh, you know
I'm here.
I'm alive.
I'm still on my Pokemon BS.
You know, the usual.
Oh yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, I asked Keyes,
I'm like, all right,
so what kind of Pokemon
do you want to do this time he's like
full item rando seems good and i'm like all right a lot of people like their pokemon crystal for
instance so before we get started here keys what is it with you and Pokemon Crystal in particular?
There's so many Pokemon games out there.
Yeah, so... It's really just nostalgia.
Like this was the game that I played The second most as a kid
The one I played the most is Diamond
I've played on Diamond of all things
But uh
I just have a bunch of really good memories
I remember being
Being a military brat on base and going in a camping tent
in our backyards with my friends,
and we would all be playing a Pokémon game
and just be there like all afternoon and whatnot.
Like it was just a lot of fun vibes.
Aw, well yeah,
and the cool thing I always liked about Crystal is,
and I believe this is the same for Golden Silver,
you can go back and forth between Kano and JoJo
and for me as someone who grew up on
Red, Blue, Yellow, I was always like, oh my gosh
this is a huge game. Well now we fast
forward to 2024 and that's so tiny
now compared to what we do have
in our current Pokemon generation.
Yeah, I definitely love that both regions are in.
I remember I didn't know that for a while though.
Really?
Like, I beat the Elite Four and was was like, oh okay that's it.
And then I came back a week later my friend was like hey did you know there are more gyms
and I was like what?
So yeah as we get going I do have a few more questions but I want to make sure we can get this started because sometimes the spread though can end up being a little cursed.
Just a tiny bit.
Without further ado, Keys, go ahead on your count.
All right, we'll start up in
three, two, one,
go! Good luck and have fun.
So, Keys, if you can remember though this is a big if because
this was probably awhile ago and I probably couldn't remember my first team
What did your first team in Pokemon Crystal look like?
Oh I could tell you for sure
I picked Totodile Alright Oh, I can tell you for sure. Okay!
Um...
I picked Totodile.
Alright.
Um...
I traded my friend for a Mareep because I was very, very, VERY upset that Mareep was
not available in Crystal.
So I had Totodile, I had Mareep was not available in Crystal.
So I had Totodile,
I had Mareep,
I had... What else did I have?
I had a Growlithe,
I had a Gastly,
and then the last two slots were just kind of shuffled around
a lot. At one point in time i ran the shiny Gyarados because they're like
this is so cool he's red! Yeah yeah well I just love Gyarados
period and that's what we got that. The Pidgeot, the
Titan Fluxion...
Oh!
Alright, I'm picking this because it won't die.
Well yes, I would feel like that is the pick but
honestly i don't think there was a terrible pick in any of those.
Yeah like Pigshot would technically be the worst but I mean Normal type and
Flying type have really strong moves anyway so It it's not like it was gonna be bad.
But there's also a chance that because it's an item rando and I can potentially go anywhere and everywhere
that uh...I might be able to find something much higher level eventually.
Or you can learn Peppa, buddy.
Oh my god!
Wait, it already knows Aeroblast? What?!
Alright well... Wow! Wow! It already knows arrow blast? What? All right, well.
Wow!
Wow!
Well, this is spicy.
Well, in Randomizer, typically when I play one,
if things tend to be too good to be true at the beginning
i usually go with the philosophy it usually is and uh oh it definitely
is there's gonna be something that happens you know it i know it, I know it. Oh yeah! Yeah- ooh! My champ!
It's gonna be experience is what it is.
So I can't remember if I ran
this version of the mod
the last time I was on the show.
We used something called Speed Choice,
which adds a bunch of quality-of-life stuff
and sped up animations
so on and so forth. You might have noticed
that when I attacked the Machamp, not only was there no animations
because they're turned off anyway but the health bar just vanished. There's animation
speedups for any animations that are still in the game, so it saves a lot of time.
Ooh, leftovers! That's good.
So for folks who may not be familiar with the settings
when you do Pokemon Crystal Flight on Randomizer,
what can someone expect watching this and possibly playing it in the future
on these settings? Chaos. You can expect chaos.
You're going to have to think a lot um
i oh hey look i've got it already i have
to uh i always have to like keep track of
like any funky things that might be happening. I also have like a...
I have shop randomizers, so
Like money management and resource management is so much more important now
Oh! Like, a Pokeball
could cost like $1,200.
Oh, I didn't even think about that.
Yeah. So you have to be extra
careful. And the goal of this
is to get all the items, you know badges
Possibly gems you need to travel around
All of that and then defeat the Elite
Four in Kanojo-do
Go!
So the ultimate goal is to make it to red.
Oh!
I need all 16 badges,
I'll need to defeat the Elite Four...
However I can find a way
to travel all over the place.
It's a combination
of different items
which, I'm going to be perfectly honest with you, my brain
does not want to tell me what those items are right now
but there's a combination of items that will help
me get there.
Well, thanks to y'all we do have this wonderful tracker that folks in the audience can see so those are
the items that he is looking for
We even got that nice little go button
Back when I started randomizers,
that would have been a really nice feature to have
so I like this. This is a very, very
nice tracker.
Yeah, like I
am a little biased of course but I do think that biased, of course.
But I do think that a lot of the Pokemon trackers are really good
because they're simplistic enough to where it's not an overwhelming amount
of information but it's very obvious for the most part, like what you're getting.
I know some of the items on the tracker might not look familiar to
some people which is completely understandable,
there's this thing that I'm flashing right now.
This is the machine part, for example.
You don't ever see that icon.
Now
apologies to you two here because we cannot get
your live comments but we are a live show right here on
Twitch and we do have
some questions here from the chat. We are
an active chat-friendly show so
we do our best to respond unless
kids need some serious time for this of course.
But we have our first question from the chat here it says
please ask keys again thank you for saying please that's heckin awesome
if the squirrel from monday survived you know keys does this have to do with our conversation in The Pretty Show?
What happened?
Okay.
So as some of you may or may not know, the first step is back and it's on every other Monday at 7pm Eastern.
So similar time to before just a different day.
I was practicing for the game we were doing that day which is minecraft dungeons which if you did
not see that speed run in sgdq you totally should uh really really fun game also a really hard
game to speedrun but uh i had just finished my practice stream, and the moment that I
cut my stream, my internet went down, and it was down for two-and-a-half hours...
And it was because a squirrel decided that uh, a cable outside was delicious and uh...
Oh no.
I don't think that squirrel is with us anymore?
Oh, no!
But yeah.
Why does this always happen during stream? But, uh... yeah.
Why does this always happen during streams? Some of the most ridiculous stuff!
I don't know it's wild.
Okay so we have another question here.
Please ask what Keyes' favorite Pokemon is. is can you pick one case there's so many there's a lot and depending on the day in my mood you might get a different
answer okay um a lot of times the answer, like I'll rotate
between Zoroark
specifically Hisuian
Zoroark from Legends Arceus
it's really really cool, I like the design
I unironically like Jinx now, because it's been a meme for me
for so long that now I have no choice.
I'm in too deep.
I also really like Gengar and Zapdos.
And, and I should have known that right?
Didn't you say you caught a Gastly the first time
you played this, like Gastly was on your team?
Yep, yep.
So then you'd have hopefully Gengar!
I was the kind of person where once I got the Game Boy
Advance SP, I know this is old.
I know y'all.
But I used the link cable again
old to link
two games up so I could get Gengars's and Alakazam's in particular.
Did you have anything like that?
I sure did, in fact...
because we're horribly aging ourselves this show apparently
I remember when Crystal came out
and...
like 9 or 10, I think? Yeah!
But uh, Crystal came
with this bundle for
the Game Boy Color. Like it was clear atomic purple Game Boy Color. It was the clear atomic purple
Game Boy Color, and it came
with Pokemon Crystal,
and it was like $10 cheaper
if you bought a bundle or something.
I remember I told my mom,
hey, I really want this like you know
i like pokemon games i really want pokemon crystal i didn't say anything
about the game boy itself uh i guess she misunderstood the
instructions and was like i don't know why this
game's so expensive
but I got it for you
and she got me the Game Boy that had a 2.
Oh my gosh!
So I had two Game Boy colors
and I'm like, okay perfect
I don't need my friends for help
I'm just gonna trade.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha I don't need my friends for help. I'm just gonna trade.
All right, couple other great questions here from the chat.
What is your least favorite Pokemon?
And maybe if you can think of a least favorite Pokemon
like maybe even the least favorite Pokemon type.
Skiploom?
Skiploom?
Skiploom.
Really?
Even more so than like, I don't know, Weedle or...
I hate Skiploom.
Okay.
There's a story as to why
I hate Skip Bloom.
Okay, all right.
I'd love to.
It's justifiable story.
No, please.
Yeah?
So I was doing
a randomizer bingo
and I caught a pokemon that had rock smash uh if you don't understand the
relevance of that chat um rock smash gives you a level 15 pokemon and since i got it
you know early i only had like a level six pokemon or and since I got it early, I only had
like a level 6 Pokemon or something.
Okay, cool.
I have a potential chance to
sweep the early game with something
that's more than double the level it should be.
Unfortunately, it was a skip and it was probably probably the worst run i've ever had in my life oh my gosh
i'm aplume hater, sorry to any
Skiplume enthusiasts in chat
I'm not that
That is
Yeah, I totally understand.
So along the things you dread the most,
you know Scythlin being one of them,
what part of this run in particular just Pokemon
you know Ida Miranda in general. Do you dread
the most?
I think what scares me the most with these
which is preventable
if you set the logic this way but I never
do because I have one brain cell.
But anytime
the logic expects you
to get to a much later part of the game
early when you're just not
physically prepared for it.
Like there's been some seeds I had where
I could go to Kanto early and they expected me
to beat Sabrina, again something that is
within your power to stop from happening.
I just never do it.
So, you know, I have to fight a gym leader with level 50s and I have a level 20.
But it also adds like a neat little element to it too.
It gives me an opportunity to find new ways that she fights or something.
There was one seed I did where I had to go to the Elite Four Mart,
Like I didn't have to beat the Elite Four specifically but I had to go to the Elite Four Mart. Like, I didn't have to beat the Elite Four
specifically,
but I had to go
to the Elite Four Mart
to get an item
to progress.
I think it was cut
of all things.
Oh!
And I was supremely
underleveled
compared to my rival
but we did this thing where like I had X defend and I did that to survive and stall out PP. Then I had the land a dynamic punch to confuse it. It was like
solving a puzzle, so that was a lot of fun.
But it was also
dreadful and
one of the worst things I've ever done in
random.
I'm sure we'll find something
ridiculous tonight. We always do
when I have you on either of our shows
and it's usually really good content
for the audience, so
I don't want it
to be too much of a pain for you. But at
the same time, I do find it wildly
entertaining when something unexpected happens.
Except, I will remind you throughout
and I have to do this given our friendship.
Please be sure to save your game.
Alright, I'll do that right now! Good call, good call
I think that was my first save of the day
i don't want to be that person but i just want to make sure
the first ever show i had here on GDQ
Hotfix a very long time ago,
might I add. Poor Keith had a corrupted save
file and
I believe it was my first Mercy kill that we had.
It sure was. Yes, it was. yes episode one of mercy killed six minutes in corrupted save
i was like no you didn't say so another question, are shinies possible?
I want to say yes, it's
crystal.
It's the old rate so
1 in 8190
something, 92 I think?
Did you find any besides the Red Gyarados keys that-
This is my own question!
I only saw one when I was playing Pokemon Silver
and I found a Bellsprout
And I had no clue what a Shiny even was i just saw it and i'm like
this i thought like it glitched out right because keys and i come from an era where some of us made
bad decisions and caught stuff that procced off of MissingNo
and like, you know level 200
Pokemon and then your file got corrupted
Like that is legit happening to me
So I thought it was along those lines
Right? Sure. And I caught it.
Yeah.
I don't think
I found a shiny in this game.
I think my first shiny
that wasn't the Gyarados
was an Emerald.
Oh really?
Okay.
And that one
that one I forced And that one I forced, like that one
I wanted the shiny Rayquaza so I
saved in front of it and I reset for two weeks straight
Now granted it wasn't like all at once, I did
it on the bus to and from school. Oh yeah!
It was a 30 minute bus ride so you know I'd get an hour of resets in
every day during school.
Yeah!
Other than that, I never...
The funniest thing about that one though
and this is absolutely absurd luck
Um, I spent the two weeks to get
that shiny Rayquaza,
and then my friend had mentioned that
hey, you can get a Beldum in Stephen's
house. I was like oh okay, that's cool.
And the Beldum was shiny. First try without even trying wow i got a back-to-back
shiny i was like this thing's sick and i didn't realize it wasn't supposed to be blue
so i just like oh this is really cool. Why does it turn blue?
It doesn't! You got a shiny!
So another question from the chat and again these are wonderful y'all
Is it possible to randomize Pokemon Diamond, Pearl, Platinum like you can with Crystal?
And if so how come you don't run that or I'll say run that as much because y'all
I'll tell you something when it comes to Pokemon.
Keyes is another Pokemon professor.
You know what I mean like Like he's knows like so much about Pokemon It just crystal happens to be the favorite here
But um, is it due to the length of time that you don't run diamond pro platinum if i were to take a guess
i would say it doesn't have as much of a nostalgia factor but i'm not like he's answered
um i mean nostalgia does really sunk into it.
It's more just the older generations of games have a lot more accessibility to them when it comes to modifying them, and also just a bigger plethora of options in the randomizers. Like I think there might be like a beta for Diamond Platinum Pearl for Item Rando but i'm not 100 sure um and i do know that at least back then like
there were older versions of the randomizer where like the pokedex didn't properly work
so if you wanted to be like a catch-em-all or something,
you had to take vigorous notes.
Oh, I bet!
Yeah, I mean, again,
back in the day... This is just in general.
Again, I'm so sorry about dating Rose both Ks. I know you didn't.
You technically did sign it up
because you know that the conversation always
goes this way. It's you. It's me. It's Richard. Of course
we're going to talk about this. But it's
like if we ran into something like how I ran into
the shiny Bellsprout didn't put two
together with the shiny Gyarados
you didn't have internet to
fall back on back then, you know?
Maybe, or at least some of us didn't even know where to go back then, you know? Maybe or at least some of us didn't even
know where to go back then.
So it was one of those like,
you could go into your local bookstore
and maybe buy something
or even just thumb through the pages real quick
because who hasn't done that. That's a 90s
kid experience.
I still remember
and just to continue
to further date us,
I still remember going to
GameWinners.com
Oh yeah!
Yeah, it was a cheat
and hint site
And I remember
most of the cheats they put on for Pokemon were just complete BS, right?
Like it'd be really dumb stuff.
Like, oh, you can get Yoshi and Mewthree and stuff like this.
Just absolutely...
You know,
ridiculously false things but I remember my proud moment
as a child was submitting
the game winners
Like I submitted a tip
I was like hey if you don't evolve your pokemon
right away you could possibly learn their most powerful moves way earlier for example squirtle
will get hydro pump at like 40 something whereasastoise doesn't get it until 50-something.
Not worth its time.
No, it's not worth it.
I was like, they accepted my submission.
I have a submission on Game Winners.
Let's go!
And this is
Baby Keys era
like I think the username I had back
then was like XGP
which is like the name of
the original name of the ship from
Outlaw Star.
Y'all are getting a history lesson.
Oh yeah, I'm not
kidding when I said you're a Pokemon professor,
I truly mean that. You know your
stuff with this franchise.
Well, I want to talk a little bit later
because we do have a few more questions. Remind me
to return to it. I wanted to talk about one
of your favorite marathons I've ever seen on your channel, Keys.
The Touch Grass Marathon.
But we'll talk
about that later because
we still got some questions from the chat here.
So
what postcard from the chat here. So...
What Pokemon had
the biggest upgrade from original version
to regional variant? Which Pokemon did you
like the least in the original
to most in new regional variant. And as an example
for this person in chat,
they detested Stunfist but adore
the Galarian variant we received
in Gen 8.
I...
Hmm. I mean... I...hmm.
I mean, it's not like older-older
So I'll give two answers
My general answer would be Zoroa and Zorark
Because I really liked how they changed from
Dark to normal Ghost. And
I just like their
artistic design.
If you want to go actual old school
then go back to like gen one pokemon i really really like doug dimidome wheezing
was that the wheezing that looked like there were smokestacks or is that something else
so he had smoke stacks at the top of his hat and his hat looked like an absurdly comically tall
top hat he also became part fairy for some reason. He was Poison Fairy, I think?
It was really funny just going from a gaseous ball to someone who looks like they drink tea with their pinky up and whatnot.
That's a good one!
I always liked the Alolan Exeggcutor,
And the Alolan Raichu
I thought both of those were babies
Alolan Raichu. I thought both of those were babies. Alolan Raichu is
so good. What a
gorgeous mon.
Okay, another fun question here from Chad.
If either of us lived in the Pokemon
world and we were gym leader, what Pokemon type would our gyms be?
I would be dragon 110%.
I love dragons.
I'd either
be ghost or dark.
I just happen to really like mons that are ghost and Mons that are dark
Yeah, I could see also
though if there was ever an
Eeveelution gym I could see you having
an Eeveelution gym
Yeah, yeah that would fun. I do like
uh... I do really
like Sylveon and I do like
Leafeon a lot too. Yeah!
They are adorable. Glaceon's also
a little sweetie.
Mm-hmm. Alright, so let me see if I'm catching up here
and again this is great chat
AlohaMerox really good
yes I agree there. Also too
There was a question. Have you done
Archipelago with
Pokemon?
Let me tell y'all
where to find that
content.
You can go here at
twitch.tv slash
Kizeron for some
awesome Archipelago
content but I'll let you talk about that
because you do a lot of it.
I do Archipelago so much.
Anyone who's been a watcher
of The First Step, I've had
Pokemon Archipelago featured on there several times
as like an emergency, hey we
need to get the show going but there's
some sort of technical difficulty let's just do
an archipelago
um I've been doing a lot of Emerald Archipelago.
If I do red at all, then
make sure it's as obnoxious as possible so I'll do like Map Rando
Stat Rando with that.
The crystal archipelago has apparently
improved a lot since I last
looked at it so that might be something I try out
soon, like
literally soon, like maybe next week?
Ooh.
I'll look forward to that! So pretty much you do stream
every day right? Cause I usually wake up by time and you're usually
up and going. And it has been a lot of archipelago lately.
Is that about what your schedule is?
You stream in about the afternoons,
Eastern we'll call it?
Yeah, I usually start
12 or 1 Eastern, usually. And I usually start, I'll start like 12 or 1 Eastern usually.
And then I usually go about 6 to 8 hours because this is my full-time gig so
I treat it like full time and try try to get, you know, solid amount of timing.
That is also why y'all should follow keys again,
just very quality entertainment there.
And again,
it's,
it is a lot of Pokemon,
but he's also likes, I know you some underlilies content as well.
What else lately has your eye besides Pokemon content out of curiosity?
Um so i'm gonna be uh... I really want to play
some more Minecraft Dungeons.
Really?
Uh, I had a lot of fun with it.
Uh, Hobbs and I
were super disappointed
that we couldn't have
the race that we wanted
on Monday
but we're actually
like planning out
playing that game further. it's one of the few not to say
that we haven't done bangers for the first step obviously but it's one of the few tfs games where
hobbs and i have both been equally as excited to get into.
So that's something that's going to be happening a lot
soon. Really like
doing Fire Emblem stuff as well, not
necessarily speedrun stuff, I like doing challenge
stuff with that.
Really like Old School run stuff i like doing challenge stuff with that um really like old school first person shooters too like a lot of times if i do an archipelago i might include
like doom or doom 2 just kind of as my BK mode game
while I'm still doing something.
Well if you do like Zelda 1 keys
I'm a big fan. It's called The Legend
of Doom if you ever want to play it.
It's a Doom mod that Zelda won.
Oh, yeah!
It was so much fun.
I would recommend it to anyone.
I've seen that.
Yeah.
It looks interesting.
Yeah, would very much recommend.
Let me know if you ever played.
I would love to see your thoughts and impressions behind it so so back to pokemon
here because i talked about this earlier one of the things that i'd enjoyed keys do was the touch
grass marathon it was an incentive in keys to stream again.
A bunch of us here are full time streamers, so he's what did you like the most about the touch grass marathon and what is it?
So the touch grass marathon was such a silly idea.
It's literally exactly what it sounds like, I played every single Pokemon game up until
I touched a patch of grass that could produce an encounter.
So some games were done in like 30 seconds,
some games would take like 10 to 15 minutes
and we had to make some exceptions too
like the... I included like the GameCube games as well.
So XD and Colosseum
And oh god there's no actual grass
so like we just have to find a blade of grass
and I'd touch
it and be like, that counts!
Next game!
What did you do for stadium?
Um, accepted that I could not
add stadium.
Now see, maybe in the future if you were to do it again,
maybe wait until you get to Erica's gym because there's got to be grass there.
Hit a Grassmon or something.
Yeah!
Technically.
It's definitely one of those silly ideas that could probably actually be developed into something with the funniest meta.
Oh yeah, absolutely! I love that.
I think my- cause I had a timer up and everything. Like we made, we made a joke like,
Oh,
we're turning this into a speed run.
And,
uh,
I think the biggest time that I lost was transitioning from Game Boy
Advance game to DS.
Because I found out that my DS capture died, so I had to grab Emrys.
So was this a regular DS or
3DS? Regular.
Okay, I tried using the
3DS and again, this could be an age thing
very much so. Every time I try to turn on the 3d mode
on my 3ds i just could not understand the screen if that made sense i'd just
feel like what am i looking at i i turned it on once,
blinked, did not like how my eyes
reacted when I blinked, said nope and
turned it back off and never tried it again.
That was my experience. I was wondering
if I was the only person who had been through that, but my gosh.
I think the only other time I've turned on 3D is
If you have one of the, Katsukiri captures instead
of a Luffy capture,
the software for the capture will shift very slightly to
the left and right every time you turn 3D on and off.
So it'd be like one of those nervous tics I would do sometimes just to watch something.
Yeah! No's that's understandable
and then of course there's game boy camera and
that's a whole different thing that you may all may want to talk to pitch about
bless pidge Bless Pidge.
And Void.
I love the aesthetic.
I couldn't rock it,
but I love it. It's so good.
So, so far what are you thinking about the seed?
What are your initial impressions?
Obviously Lugia good at the beginning stats seem pretty deep.
Yeah, Lugia good at beginning.
It's surviving.
I wish I could do more damage than
I have been.
It feels like I have really bad
offensive DVs which for anyone
that doesn't know what a DV is,
it's a determinant value
which determines what your stats become.
In Gens 1 and 2
It's a number between 0 and 15
And then
from Gen 3 onward, it became
individual values, IVs instead
of DVs, and it was 0 to 31.
But yeah,
I feel like I have three or less in my offense
It's not good
Nothing can kill me!
Yeah, so you have a tank
it sounds like
Someone asked if we all ever have the Game Boy printer?
Okay, that was really fancy technology
and honestly back
then you were lucky just to have a
Game Boy Color or a Game Boy Advance.
I don't know if I've ever seen a printer in person
other than like, you know,
if you go nowadays to like
your favorite retro game store
maybe you'll see it
in the wild
but it's kind of rare.
How about you Keith?
You ever have any
engagement with the program?
I have the camera and the printer in a box to my right.
Ooh!
I saved a lot of my old toys.
That was bad.
I didn't save a lot of my old games so you know getting
getting old games again has been obnoxious but uh yeah i have a lot of my old hardware
like i even have like i have a sega genesis model 1 and a Model 2.
I have Super Famicom and SNESes just laying around.
So you said the Genesis, isn't that the one where like
you kept upgrading it by putting more stuff in it, if that makes sense.
I remember seeing...
There's like that cartridge
there's that picture
floating around about Super Cartridge
from Hell where it's
5 billion Sonic
games stacked on another...
Yeah, you know what I'm talking about. It's almost
as if the Genesis evolved.
Like, it wasn't like, you know,
the expansion pack in
the 64, which back then again that was
big stuff right? But like nowadays
I hear about the Genesis and what that was like
and just every time you just kept putting another
part into the Genesis.
Oh my goodness! I have
one of those, like the Sonic 3 and Knuckles
attachment thing.
Mm-hmm.
And it just,
it looks so goofy.
It's putting that in a Genesis is the same thing to me as like
putting in the Pokemon pinball cart
in your Game Boy
because it was, remember it was so big putting in the Pokemon pinball cart in your Game Boy.
Remember, it was so big because you had to put an actual battery in it so you could get
the rumble?
Yeah, I remember that all too well. That was
definitely innovative for the time and i remember when uh fire red came out
i was really really excited and then we got heart gold in soul silver but i was a little
disappointed that her cold school server wasn't an advanced game because
again, the DS wasn't exactly
cheap when it first came out.
Oh no. It was not.
Also like
the first set of models were like...
The hinges were kind of weak.
So it was really easy to accidentally break.
Oh yeah! You always get those stories when a console first comes out with something happening.
Like you know, do you ever see the warnings, for example,
for the Wiimotes y'all
to have it attached because apparently people
were throwing the Wiimotes into their monitors
or TVs or something? I was like oh my god.
But yeah if a warning exists...
I made fun of a friend for losing a Wiimote and then the next day I hacked up
and lost a Wiimote. Yeah. There are two
dents in my wall.
But I will say
though that the
Switch is one of
the most like
interface friendly
systems we've had
in a very long
time.
I think that's
why it's been around for so long.
Yeah, I think this is like Nintendo's longest console in terms of lifespan?
Yeah! So that's why folks are, like, so enthused about the new, you know, Nintendo technology
that would possibly be coming out because it's like, okay, well what are they going
to do next?
And I said as long as it's not named The Switch U, I'm okay with that.
The U is cursed, right?
Imagine if you get a Switch U.
No, no.
I like the idea someone said in chat
you can share all of your ideas for what you would like
the new Nintendo console to be named. But I
like the idea of calling it the Super Nintendo
Switch.
That would be cute actually.
Yeah! I'm aboard.
You sold me. I'm aboard.
You sold me. I sold you on that one. That's good.
You sold me. Like, that sounds so cute.
I always liked it and certainly too
It is the best that Nintendo systems have been able to hook up to the internet for instance
If anybody tried to connect their Wii or their Wii U if you had a Wii U to the Internet
Oh my gosh
It was an adventure to say the least i
i had one of the there's that like story going around about we use for a while
but like certain ones just kind of like died
after a certain amount of time. Really?
I have one of those, my Wii U
no longer works.
Really? I have one but it's in my closet
now! I don't know the last time I booted
it up, maybe Oth booted it up. Maybe Oz booted it up,
It's been a little while.
Luckily I had two which is you know
two more than I should have ever had but
Is that there've been a couple of TFS episodes
where I did have to use a Wii U
but like my first one that I got
yeah it's bricked.
Oh and speaking of TFS
now I have it in my
follow the runner thing
because I want folks to know.
But why don't you talk about The First Step?
Now, my show's been around for a while, but your show's been on even longer, yours and Hobbs'. So yeah, feel free to talk about The First Step.
Yeah, so The First Step is old as dirt. That's the recurring step. Yeah, so the first step is
old as
dirt.
That's
the recurring
theme of
this
conversation
never
forget.
I think
our
first
episode
was
2018?
Yeah
y'all were like a year before me I'm pretty sure because i was 2019.
And it was Hobbs's idea originally and he'll joke whenever you ask him. He'll joke and be like,
oh yeah, Keyes was my third choice.
But he reached out to me
one day and he was like, hey, do you
want to do a
speedrunning show together?
Make it a low effort show where...
You know we kind of have the convenience and
you understand having to go through this
but we kinda have the convenience of
since its just us as a recurring cast and not
constantly rotating runners like it saves us time when it comes to getting like
vetting and tech checks taken care oh sure like We wanted to make a show that was low overhead
when it came to setting things up.
But we also wanted a show
that was actually kind of impactful.
So the first step came about.
And the whole purpose of the show, if you've never seen it,
is to show how easy it is to get into speedrunning
using low-effort methods.
So we will usually play a game once,
like roughly eight hours or so.
And then we'll take notes of any prominent things
anything that we might have found
Like oh it looks like if you slide
your movement is faster than if you run or that kind of thing.
And we'll race against each other because
doing those improv-style
races is a really, really awesome way
to get into speedrunning because one,
you don't have the pressure of self-improvement yet
cause you're just getting into it. But two, doing it with a friend really like
It kills a lot of the potentially aggravating parts
of a run.
Like there were,
there's been many,
many games that we've done on TFS where when I was playing it solo,
I wasn't having like the greatest time with it.
But then when I was racing it with Hobbs, even if I was getting my butt kicked I'd be having a blast because I was just with a friend.
And that's the important thing everyone has to remember
speedrunning is supposed to be fun first and foremost
you're supposed to be fun, first and foremost.
You're supposed to be having fun with it so we just really like pushing that
and showing everyone that anyone can pick up speedrun.
You don't have to be fancy, you don't have to spend 15 hours practicing a frame perfect
trick. You can just pick up the game and go fast. So for folks who may not be as
familiar with The First Step, if you were to pick maybe an episode or
two. Because again, we
talk about it all the time. Our
GDQ Hot Pics shows are on YouTube and they're
very diligently put up.
So if you were to recommend someone to watch an episode of TFS, what direction would
you point someone in and be like yes that is one of my favorite episodes and that'll get
you into TFS? There are three episodes i can think of um
all for slightly different reasons but they're all really really good
um i would recommend watching our super metroid race we didn't get to finish, and it's a bit on the longer side. This was back when we were able to have four hours for the show instead of two and a half.
So we were able to do longer games or games that were a lot more difficult
to finish, and we had both never played Super Metroid before, which is really shocking to hear.
But that was a good episode, it was close and there were actually a lot of points where we were in sync with each other
Which is wild when you think about it because it's
a Metroid game. You can go anywhere.
I would
also recommend Untitled Goose Game.
That was actually
one of our first few episodes we've ever done.
Very, very nail-biter
right at the end
as close of a race as we've
ever had and then
there was a race. Well it wasn't a race racing we did a co-op run because sometimes
we won't do races we'll just do a run cooperatively um we did a co-op run it was
a four player halo 4 run or Halo 3 run and that was
probably is my favorite episode because the vibes
were really cool.
We had improved a ton in our
practice like we had splits up
and could visibly see hey like we're understanding how to play this a lot better.
We feel good about this.
And it might not be, like, the most impressive statistic,
but we had only gotten, like, three or four runs in
and we got a top 20,
top 15 time, something like that.
And that was with very little effort.
Chad was picking out some of their favorite episodes too, so we have some TFS fans in chat. Very cool!
And again Keyes what is the next episode just so we know?
The next episode is... and thank goodness I can see my calendar.
It's going to be the 29th of July.
Unfortunately, I will not be there because
I will be in Michigan for a family reunion
but Hobbs will be there,
and we will have
a special guest
fill in for me,
and it's still going to be
just as good of an episode
as it always is.
We're in the planning stages
right now
trying to nail
what game we think will work best and who we want as a guest.
I should be talking about that tomorrow morning.
I know what it's like to be a guest.
I filled in for Hobbs, I think a couple times.
I've
enjoyed when you filled in for Hobbs because
then that meant I could get away with playing Yu-Gi-Oh!
Because Hobbs will never
play it again. Hobbs just not... Oh my, I feel like this needs to happen for some kind of incentive.
You know what? I'm gonna think about that and come back to that.
We need to get Hobbs to play with you!
I do remember one of the episodes
you and I did together.
We put a picture
of Hobbs in one of those webcams
just to be like, look,
Hobbs is playing!
Yeah, that sounds about right.
So yeah, chat was also reminiscing here
about the first step in talking
about their favorites.
So we have the Donkeyong country show was really good
um we had some love for hang on i'm scrolling because there's quite a few that folks had
uh the number of times you tried to run Metroid Prime
where tech issues prevented it from working,
yeah,
that sounds about right.
That sounds about in character.
Oh no!
Someone else said
I really like the one
where they coach
Ecchi and Spike
through Pokemon
and Kingdom Hearts 2
I remember seeing
that series
it was pretty good
we
we really
really enjoyed
doing that
and Ecchi and Spike I mean we already know that
they're gamers but like they if they needed to prove themselves they
definitely did that day because they went into this
completely fresh to the format
and everything, and they both did a killer job.
I do agree. You know, if
I could have a top four,
then I would probably include the Ecchi and Spike
episode because I remember
every time
we ever went to
Ecchi and Hobbs'
feed, you'd hear Hobbs giving really detailed instructions like
yeah, do it this way. Oh yeah if you approach it
this way then you get to skip this phase or whatever
And then you immediately go to me
in spike and it's just the two stooges which is like jolting on use thunderbolt
also i want to take a moment to shout out our tag. Our wonderful friend Richard said
still proud of the intro video made and there is a link to that if you all wanna catch it
for the Prime episode in particular, the one that folks look fondly upon. So be sure to check that out.
More favorite episode
of TFS was the six-player run of the
newest Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
video game. That sounds like fun!
Yeah, um, it was...
Wait, who was it?
My old man brain is trying to remember.
Oh hey, I have to go ho instead of loogie at me.
There
was me, Hobbs, Bobby, Covert Muffin, Emre...
Oh I feel so bad.
I don't remember everyone.
I'm forgetting one person!
Who am I forgetting? I feel horrible. No! bad i don't remember i'm forgetting one person who am i
forgetting i feel horrible no i didn't want to put you on the spot
i was just trying to remember but that was a fun episode too there were
some like connectivity issues now and again, but I mean...
I think it was Saints.
Oh! Yeah, that sounds right.
Oh gosh, she's gonna be so
mad at me.
How could you forget?
No one tell her, please.
Thanks.
How long ago was that?
Uh...
20?
22 years?
Okay well to be fair time has been kind of distorted lately so i think saints will forgive
you i hope so i can't remember something that happened in 2022. Yeah, neither can I!
Another question
bringing it back
to the randomizer here
what are the catch rates
for each Pokemon?
Oh so
this is just for simplicity's
sake and making sure that we don't
go horrendously overestimate but
I just have it set to everything
is a Master Ball essentially.
That's a good sign. Throw a ball, get your catch
No I like that because
I mean I don't feel like
really hiking up the catch rate
adds anything to the randomizer right
we know how annoying it was in the original.
And we tend to do that when we make up
uh...the different settings that we have, right?
Does this add to the randomizer? Does this add to our enjoyment?
I mean sure! It might be a good troll for the audience
to feel like we're here for 10 minutes
and we're still trying to catch this view.
But you know,
for runners,
we don't want to deal with any of that.
All right. So to kind of catch
everyone up on some
what's been going in the game... Ooh! Fire Punch
for my hobo.
I got the pass early,
so I'm in Kanto super-per early and uh i'm gonna be honest this
was not on purpose uh i
i usually play
with
50 level boost
both for wild pokemon and for trainers just to like add a little bit of an extra spicy challenge.
I turned off the trainers being 50%, I forgot to turn off the wilds being 50%. That's why I have a level 48 Ho-Oh.
When you're only supposed to get like, level 20s and 30s in that grass so uh oops.
Yeah! Here we are.
Some of the chat says what do you mean? I love late bike and fly in Mt Silver.
That's another thing anyone who has any experience with playing these,
I made sure that Fly and Bike were available early
because those are the worst trolls ever.
It's good exercise for the character, I guess. But it's so
slow. Now we get that.
And before folks come on the show, now
it is completely up
to my guests to determine whether or
not the seed's going to be vetted. And when I say vetted, I mean like
is there any major trolls that someone else
can look over and be like hey you might not want
to have this seed on the show
However, if it is
unvetted which sometimes makes for a fun episode.
I say, well, it's at your discretion. Here's
when the next show starts. If we can't meet
by then, you know, we have
the double overbid on Price is Right
and we move on to the next show, you know what I'm saying?
But at the same time
I do like a little bit
of a mix of that. Vetted and non-vetted
but given again
this is no fault of our own. I swear me and Keyes
are always cursed when we're in the same room
one way or another. I'm glad that
you had this early.
Yeah,
I've learned.
I've learned after doing shows with you.
I'm sure I'll find something else that
I'll fix for next time soon.
Oh yeah. Well with me
and Keyes it's always something right? It's just
like this ongoing motif.
Mm-hmm.
I was thinking about
me and keys did a run of forbidden memories
um couple years ago
i actually think it'll be three years ago as
of january and um
i was thinking about the wild luck, and the most wild that I found
Was the Dry Gumo early for me?
I mean come on! What were the odds of that?
I still can't believe I didn't get an MBD
but I got
a Toon Gator
yeah
you got multiples right
I think you got two
in that room
I got
I got two Toon Gators
and no MBDs
this is why we gotta
have a rematch
this is this is why I always have a rematch. This is why I always propose
a rematch because we need it.
I'm hungry for the rematch.
Not only that, it would just be fun to
encourage each other in person.
It'd be awesome to have a good laugh.
I think a Forbidden Memories race in person
would be really, really hype.
I think the crowd would really get into it.
Oh, for sure, for sure.
Mm-hmm.
Double Overbid's your favorite ending for The Price sure, for sure. Double over bids
your favorite ending
for The Price is Right?
No!
Get out of here!
It was too sad
when both people lost.
No!
Bad!
That's cursed.
But yeah, me and Keys have a lot of experience with random games.
I mean that's one of my favorite things about your stream in general,
whenever you turn it on there's always like an archipelago
or a randomizer or something of the sort
going on TFS stuff. You never know
what you're going to find and a lot of it's just
you never know what to expect, right? Like none of it's
like a fixed speedrunner or a fixed game
It's always something beyond that, a challenge run,
a randomizer and I always enjoy that about your stream
it's a good time
Thanks! Yeah, I have found
that
the longer I've streamed
the more I don't want to do exactly
the same thing over and over
which is,
I mean,
I'm doing the randomizers of like
the same games over and over but at least
it's a different experience every time.
It isn't pure speedrunning where oh, I didn't get the critical here so I'm gonna lose 5
seconds and now my time isn't as good,'s just oh i didn't get the crit this sucks
i think one of the toughest things for me to always accept about speed running
and angela it's good to have these conversations, right? We just
had SGDQ wrap up as of this recording.
It was a couple weeks ago.
Again, congratulations to everyone involved.
Congratulations on the money raised. It was
a wonderful endeavor. But you, but we talk about speed running
and speed running is just
really exhausting. It's a lot of time
saves with a lot of the
time, not a huge payoff,
right? I mean obviously obviously there are exceptions.
You know, we think of the barrier skip in Wind Waker,
the gelato skip in Sunshine.
There are sizable skips,
but then other times it's like
I'm going to do this skip
and I'm going to lose one minute if i fail it
and say five seconds if i get past it and that's like the exhausting part about speed running right
oh definitely and you know that's some of the reason why I really enjoy
the fact we have a show like The First Step
Like...I'm not trying to pump my own ego up or anything like that
You should! It's a good show
Thank you It's just good show! Thank you.
It's just nice to have some sort of reminder,
because we all get lost in the sauce sometimes right?
Oh yeah.
It's nice to have a reminder that hey
You can still Have like fun ways to approach things and also
Hey! You can always play it safe. And a lot of times until you're at the point
where your absolutely top 3 or top 2 and you need to save half until you're at the point where you're absolutely like,
top three, top two and you need to save half a second
to stand a chance.
A lot of times taking those slower safer strats
is gonna be so much better not only for your mental but you'll finish more runs that way and i
think that gets kind of lost in translation sometimes um you could you can practice a segment
a ton um you can like you know you could practice like the flagpole glitch in Mario runs over and over and over.
You could spend hours, days working on it but it's not going to translate
into a real run success until you start getting comfortable doing it in a real run.
So there is a lot of value to knowing safe and backup strats,
And not worrying too much about oh I'll lose a minute if I don't get this
skip. Like
oh well that's a minute I can save once
I'm a lot more comfortable with the game you know
Yeah
Absolutely and speaking of again first step in mind, what was your first speedrun, KZ?
It's no secret.
KZ has been in the community for a very long time.
You know, again, I believe KZ anduna may have started around the same time
but what was
your first game?
It wasn't
Crystal surprisingly
Crystal was the first game that i streamed speed running
but my my first actual speed run um was resident evil 5. Really? I would have...
You tell me this after
Mercy Kill concluded.
Dang it, that would have been so good to have on!
I forgot the Mark of the secret potion.
I was trying to remember.
No, Joseph said...
Yeah, like, uh...
I loved playing it.
It was a game that
I actually got my dad into.
So he, he actually, my dad's a
speedrunner. He doesn't know it
but my dad's a speedrunner because
we would try to go through the game
super fast and
they weren't top times or anything but
like we actively went in with the goal of we want to beat this game as fast as possible which that
is speed running folks if you ever have any doubt
if you're just trying to beat the game fast
congrats! You are a speedrunner
Yeah it doesn't have to be some big formal thing
It doesn't have to be
a confirmed time on a leaderboard You just try to defeat a game fast, guess what?
You're a speedrunner.
And some of us don't even realize that.
I love that moral for sure.
Another question here from chat.
For the people who have not heard it before,
could Keyes explain how you got into Pokemon speedruns?
This is a fun story that I love telling
and it's also a story that, it sounds like total BS man.
So I was on YouTube and I was looking up bone thugs
in harmony because I just really wanted to listen
to some rap that day.
And for some reason,
the YouTube algorithm
can sometimes be a little funky. Oh, no!
My recommended video after Bone Thugs
and Harmony was
Pokemon Crystal Speedrun
by Worster in
322 or whatever it was. And I was like, wait
I loved playing Crystal as a kid so I actually
sat down and watched it to see how he beat
it so fast because I was so confused. I was like
how can you beat a Pokemon game that fast?
And after watching
it, looking back
this sounds like a really cocky comment to make
but after watching I was like, I could do this!
I could beat this one day! So that's how I got into
it and I remember the first time
that I actually like
tied world record
was a big deal to me
because I was like,
I did it.
Like I proved myself
that hey,
I said I could do it
and I did it.
Now I'm super-duper washed
because there's a lot of really
that's not even like a self
depreciation thing, that's just
so many fantastic Pokémon speedrunners
now I can't even, like, name
a quarter of them now.
Back in my day,
I was able to name everyone but now
there's so many fantastic runners
um... You got a bunch of new wave fantastic runners. I mean, like you got
a bunch of new wave
of runners
like you got Ecchi
you got TTS
for life
you got all these
really sick runners
that I could not possibly keep up with at this point in time
because they're really good, they're really smart.
Well let's not forget Shen either
I want to give a big shout out to Shen
who's also been on my show for a long time
Shen is in forever
he is the living calculator there has been so many fantastic runs with you and shun
and chrism and of course i want to mention Achi again too.
Achi's fantastic.
And again y'all are just such great leaders
in the community.
Even if you don't actively run the games
as much as y'all used to because nowadays at least as far as i can understand
a lot of creators have gone to challenge run content to achieve man-based content
to randomizers um some folks go so far to call it the retirement home of speedrunning,
but we do that so we don't get rusty.
Right?
Like, or so we can keep our days though.
Oh dang.
I'll never forget...
Piggybacking off of that comment,
I'll never forget
I think it was the first speedrun
Colosseum. Like, I remember a lot of us were sitting on
the couch yeah and you know spike being spiked he's
like welcome to the speed run retirement home
that's us!
That's us.
I mean, it's no joke y'all some of us are starting to be in our late 30s early 40s alright like this is a thing.
It has been a hot minute since I've
been apart of the community.
Like I think officially
being part of a speedrun community
This year is ten years.
Ten years of speedrunning.
Yeah! I started my stream ten years ago
and went to my
It'll be ten years since
I went to my first GDQ in January
2025, actually. Oh my gosh,
that was painful to say.
You're right,
it has been about a decade, hasn't it?
It really has.
Retirement Coliseum was great, Svendt!
I sure love whenever I see like a
brand new runner and meet them at a GD Keep
and I find out they're like 22 or something
I'm like, ah damn it.
All I'm going to say is Adaph is
a youngin'.
Adaph is so young compared to most of us
He's such a baaaby
I'd be like, wait a second
What?
There was somebody in chat saying late 30s is retirement home.
I'll tell you that late 30s early 40s.
You definitely feel especially if you have been speed running for over a decade or doing
speedrunning adjacent content, you really start to feel it in your
arms and your wrists and your hands.
So again, note out there, please take care of y'all
because I wish I had started using
compression gloves 10 years ago and I need
to do that now.
And not just your hands
but also in your eyes too
sometimes things will start to look blurry
and things like that
We laugh about this, but this does happen over time
Yeah, like I does happen over time.
Yeah, like I uh...I used to wear compression gloves a lot,
Like actually for a while I had a compression glove sponsor
but um, I don't wear them as much anymore. And it's not
because they're not good. It's that
before I stream now, which
I wish I did when I first started
like you said
I do a lot of hand and wrist exercises.
Even if I know it's gonna be a really,
really calm and not high APM stream,
like I will still stretch now.
I realize that APM stream. Like, I will still stretch now.
I really wish I did that when I first started.
Yeah, like, I could even tell a couple days ago
I had done six hours of Smash Bros.
Melee Retro Achievements because the GameCube sets just came
out. And after...
I lose track of time like any other person
who enjoys games would.
About six hours in, I'm like, oh my gosh,
I need to stick both my arms into buckets of ice.
You just feel it.
And I was just like...
I didn't say anything on stream
but the minute I turned off stream
I was just like, ah!
It's so painful.
Literally crumbling teeth was like, ah, it's so painful. Yeah.
Literally crumbling to dust.
Mm-hmm.
The bones started creaking.
Oh yeah, I mean we had this conversation
in the pre-stream where like
I can't get up from my computer chair or my couch or my bed without something creaking now
and i'm just like is this how it's gonna be now?
I can't wait until
The hosts of hotfix were all just like, gray.
Well isn't Spike starting to get some gray in his beard?
Spike's got the salt and pepper thing going on, which I actually think is a really nice
look.
I was just like, you know with every game of Snassmania he completes, he gets another
gray hair and that is my story
And I'm sticking with it right now
Is there an actual
retirement age for speedrunning?
Approaching your 40s and you feel like that
Jokes aside, you're not too old for it.
You just got to take care of yourself
which is something I wish
I took more seriously 10 years ago.
No, absolutely not.
My grandma played Super Mario 64
in her late 60s, early 70s.
No you're not too old for video games or streaming
or speed running like you can totally do it
It's just more or less like the older
you get the more you have to take more breaks
stretch, take care of yourself and And to be honest we should all like the older you get, the more you have to take more breaks.
Stretch.
Take care of yourself and to be honest
we should all be doing that
at a younger age.
We just don't think about it
because again
we become so
invincible.
Right.
We feel invincible.
We feel like
we're goal oriented
and it's just one of those things where it's just so easy to feel invincible we feel like we're goal-oriented and
it's just one of
those things where
it's just so easy
to forget these
things.
So I tend to
talk about this
kind of stuff a
lot on my show
jokes aside.
Yeah definitely really good advice for sure.
Yeah, Spike's not technically a Hotfix host
but he does do GDQ interview crew
which Keese I believe you are on as well.
And yeah, it's
just again Spike is part of the crew and
yeah, just the next time you see Spike
I'm like take a look. Again every
game he completes with Nesmania.
You see more salt and pepper as you go on.
No!
And again, I want to shout out Spike.
He finished the whole 6-0-2 in one sitting.
Keith, I don't know the last time
you did a 24 hour plus stream
I just looked at that and I just thought...
So back when my bones didn't
creak, I think the longest stream
I ever did in consecutive hours
was like 30 or 31.
Wow.
If I tried to do like...
I feel it after six now.
Any time I do any sort of really long incentive and it's gonna be like 10 to 14 hours, my body is immediately dreading it...
...I can't imagine doing a long
challenge like 602. Not anymore.
Yeah, that's
not even like a randomizer. That's just
a full-on, long speedrun
challenge.
I would have to like...
Gosh,
how would I even approach that?
I'd have to not stream for a couple of days
and just really build up like rest
and relaxation beforehand. Yeah, spend
some time with the pupper because it's good for the soul. Keyes by the way has like a super cute
pupper. Yeah we got yuki my little samoyed um we have boxy who's
a half maine coon cat really really cute really talkative and emy's coming home with a new kitten tonight.
We also have a snake, which
some people aren't about. Totally
understandable, but we have a snake.
We have a new kitten coming in. We have new kitten coming in.
We have fur babies!
Aw, that's so cute.
I'm pretty excited for the kitten.
She's a little ragdoll.
Or he, excuse me. He's a little rag doll. Uh,
he's astray so he is a little sick but we are
gonna take care of him and give him a good home.
Someone was asking about Sun.
Now, it's been a few years since I sat down and had dinner with Sun.
But it says this.
Sun to full-time speaker.
And I remember seeing him do a run of Ocarina of Time Rando a while back, which caught you off guard.
Sun is doing a run at PAX West.
Let's take a look at that schedule real quick.
Let me see this.
Which by the way, y'all should follow along
again. PAX West is going to be amazing.
Keys, are you good at the bar?
I will not be working the event
but I think I'm
going anyway. Nice!
So I will probably be there
and I'm probably going to hang out around the gdq area so anyone
going to pax west if you want to say hi like i'm for sure gonna be there um
i found out recently that packsX East is going to,
because I am far away from the West Coast.
Very, very far away from West Coast.
But the East is supposed to be taking place in May next year.
So I will most likely be able to hang out at East.
So that'll be fun.
But yeah, let's take a look
at this.
Final Fantasy Type-0
Any% Cadet? Yeah, that's
Sent! And not only a said speed running spence
set is doing a two hour run wow
yeah so uh kind of backtracking a little bit to when
we mentioned archipelagos i'll do
archipelago's with sense all the time like sent still does a lot of likes speed run adjacent
content he's not really a streamer.
But he also very, very much keeps up with the current scene and everything.
Ascent opened-up RPG limit break 2019 let's see this oh yeah yeah final fantasy type 0.8 that is so awesome i i would love to play an archipelago with you and Senek
sometimes. That sounds like fun.
I think he's
still recovering
from, you know, event
fatigue.
Oh my goodness, Sent?
You want to talk about someone who gives like 150%
all the time
I don't know how Sent
has that amount of energy,
but my goodness.
Like just...
I can't fathom that.
Scent's a monster!
Like...
And like you've seen this because you're an old time GDQ person too.
It used to just be sent. There didn't use to be a prize team.
Yeah! Sent was- It was just Sen.
That should be the next time
we all introduce it's just Sen!
It's just Sen.
Then we got got Game and Shout, we got CorvMA now
like the workload is spread
a lot better for Sent. I felt
so bad every time before
the prize team existed. I felt so bad for Scent
because he would run himself ragged
and you can tell he wasn't feeling good,
but a lot of people at home probably didn't notice
because Scent is so good
at just like flip of a switch,
just being the prize man.
Just being really good
at talking about everything,
having all the information
about the prizes which...
He knows SO much about everything!
Yeah, yeah that sounds about right.
That's the power of The Prize Wizard Guild- I bought the prize wizard poster they sold towards the end of the GDQ.
I can't wait to get that in for my setup.
Wait, that was a thing?
Yeah!
It said like thank you Prize Wizard and it's just this big poster of Sett
And I was like hey Oth,
I hope you don't mind having a big
poster of center wait that's sick i didn't even know it
was a thing it was a thing yeah i'll send you a
picture of it after yeah please do i did not know that that
was that's so cool!
Yeah it was like towards the end of the event. Like I saw the Yeti randomly at it and I'm like
That looks pretty sweet actually
That's so cool
Yeah maybe they'll sell it again soon. I can see if you're like yo, you should
sell that again because some folks may have missed that.
He really sent it at the end of the event. Oh my goodness y'all.
That's so punny. move on. Oh my goodness, y'all. So funny.
Think any popular games would allow
a subcategory of beating a game
while physically running a marathon?
I mean we kind of have something like that, right? I remember
like... What was
it? The game with the hula hoop
on the Switch.
You know what I'm talking about. See, this is
our bad memories here at work. Like ring fit?
Ring fit, yeah.
So, I mean, that would technically qualify, right?
Because you're doing both at the same time.
I would count it.
I would count it.
Oh, good old, good old boomer memory.
Our time has come.
I remember all the old stuff, Keith!
I can't remember anything.
At this point in time, if you ask me about something that happened like 2014 to 2018 I could probably give you vivid details about it but hey do you remember what you did on TFS three months ago?
I mean, nothing
at the time because of the new season format. But
if you ask me that at any point in time, I'd be like
It's been three months
Time is so difficult.
So someone's asking,
what is an archipelago?
Yeah, I don't mind
explaining that
for folks coming in.
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So again wanted to do a reintroduction there because a lot of folks coming in saying hi.
So Archipelago! I don't know if there's any short and quick answer for this but it is
a way to play multiple randomizers at once and it's typically done with
a friend group. I've seen folks sometimes do multiple games, but
I feel and my personal opinion is Archipelago is best shared with friends.
Definitely it's also...Archipellago is such a convenient thing because anyone who ever goes to any
sort of event, it doesn't even have to be like a speedrunning event, just at any sort
of con or any sort of group gathering group gathering every time
every single time you ever like make new friends or something it's like yeah
we'll add each other, we should totally play games together
and everyone plays a completely different thing. I was
i've been friends with a lot of people in the Ori community,
and a lot of people in like the Super Metroid community.
Those are games that don't play.
But I'm able to do stuff with them now because they can they can play super metroid in
an archipelago while I play pokemon or fire emblem or something so like we're
able to play games together with the games that we know
and still get to have like that fun friend time together.
Didn't you once do an archipelago where it was multiple Pokemon games?
Yep, and it's very confusing.
I bet!
There is a lot of item
overlap so...I can't tell you how
many times I'd get like Surf
and be excited but it was for the game that couldn't use it.
Oh hang on Richard says you gave Ori a nine
so your safe with us.
Now what's that about?
Oh yeah.
That's such an old tweet!
That was so long ago, how do you remember?
I uh...
There he goes, see?
So um...
I uh...
We did Ori for
the first step.
We did Ori and Will of the Wisps when it came out
And Hobbs was very much like
Hey play Blind Forest
so you can at least get familiar with the game.
And I used to do this thing where I would rate games, just give it a 1-10 thing whenever i'd finish them before tfs
and i don't think i've ever given anything
attend and that's just because i'm being like a little
little bit of a snob about it like there's no such thing as a perfect game
so i'll never give anything intent like you know be super pretentious about it like there's no such thing as a perfect game so i'll never give anything intent like you
know being super pretentious about it i'm very self-aware that it's a silly mindset but uh so
like the highest i'll ever give a game is a nine and ori was a 9 to. I had so much fun with it
um, I can't think of a single time
that I was like genuinely frustrated at it
Like I might have played up like a frustration
just for like stream content but like
I had a genuinely good time
and then playing the sequel
was also a ton of fun too.
The series is great.
Would you give it a 10 if you could?
If I weren't pretentious,
I don't think I would give it a 10.
But I think I'd give the second one a 10.
Okay! Alright.
Wonder how Richard feels about alright. I wonder how Richard feels about that?
I just like the fact
that the second one had combat in it so...
Yeah, yeah.
I think Ori is a beautiful game and again
we've had folks from the Ori randomizer community here still trying to persuade Richard to do a randomizer on here one day.
Also like kind of backtracking a little bit too.
I have a lot of friends in the Kingdom Hearts community as well.
Like, I mean...
I'm a little more familiar with Kingdom Hearts because if you're stuck
with Mr. Jeff Hobson over here, then you gotta know some of it, right?
So is Hobbes a person of habit that just knows what he likes in terms of gaming?
I would say so.
Yeah, yeah.
I think he might be...
He's a lot more willing to step out
of his comfort zone than some people might realize
but otherwise yeah you can kind of tell like oh yeah this is a hobbs game oh very much so i
mean i'm the same way like i find something that I really like and it's sometimes hard to get me to try something new.
My partner frequently makes fun of me but I'm like...
I want to spend my time doing something I know I'm gonna really like so sometimes i resist trying new games sure but then
i'm like i am going to play a new game tonight the the nest championship thing is coming out and
i don't know if that counts because I've played a lot of the games
in which the challenges are centered
around, but it still looks like that's going to be
a lot of fun.
I would count it.
Why not?
But yeah, Archipelago is always undergoing new games too so I know soon there's some stuff in beta like Diddy Kong Racing's eventually gonna get added to it.
Really?
Oh yeah!
That's awesome.
Because that's one of my favorite racing games.
Let me make sure.
I'm caught up on chat here, because again, I love to read y'all's
questions if you have a question for myself
please let us know. I promise you we don't bite.
So again,
we're about an hour in so first off
how are you feeling?
Do you need a break? How is the pupper doing?
Puppers napping so uh she's good i'm all right i'm good for whatever
if we want to encourage a wellness break i'm totally down to do that right now.
Yeah, we can if you want to! It never hurts to get up and stretch.
You know what?
After I go through this dialogue
I could give us a countdown and
give everyone a chance to refill their well let's what's my usual hot fix spiel uh get
up stretch your legs take a bio break, get some water.
Always good to do that. We encourage wellness here.
I have my
water here but I do want to like
getting up and just walking
up and down the stairs once or twice
to just get the blood flowing.
We are old!
Go ahead and
pause in 3, 2,
1, pause.
Yeah, make sure I turn off my mic before I stand up to you. You don't want to hear
out, you know?
Anyways folks if
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Random Number Generation so so ¶¶ so so so so so so so so so so so so so so ¶¶ so so so so so so Thank you.. so so so so Random Never Generation, I am joined here by Cheese, who's running a Pokemon Crystal Full Item Randomizer.
Well we have just the full on chill discussion here so again chat
I want to thank y'all for participating and Cheese
I wanna thank you for being here So again, Chad, I want to thank y'all for participating.
I want to thank you for being here.
I've been having a great time.
I've been having a great time too.
So much so that I didn't even realize over an hour had passed.
Yep.
Glad to take care of the pupper,
which I hope makes an appearance at some point because
I love the dog.
Yuki!
Come here!
Oh puppy.
Oh.
I have a slight delay on my end as well. Oh, puppy. Oh.
I have a slight delay on my end so I'm just waiting
to see you pee.
We'll see her eventually.
Do you wanna learn speedrunning like? Oh, that would be...
Okay so once we get back into it
like if you could teach Yuki
a speedrun
What a good dog.
I would like, honestly... I'll answer it as soon as that count is back in.
Okay! Yeah go for it!
Start up again in 3
2 1 Go! Honestly? Start up again in 3, 2, 1...
Go!
Honestly?
I would love to find a way
To like teach any dog
Like not even necessarily Yuki
But teach a dog
To do like
A classic Super Mario level. Oh that's
really good idea! I think the one I can think of that might be done is maybe
401? Because a lot of that's just running and jumping.
That'd be so cool.
I would like that.
I'd like to see one day...
We would live in a world where possibly if we have
multiple dogs that could do speedruns
I would love to see a dog race.
Yeah, that'd be so cool.
But you have to make sure
that they're not all distracted by each other.
Oh yeah, that would probably be the hardest part.
They need like partitions or something like that!
Yeah definitely.
I would love to see something like that, though.
So is Yuki pretty responsive?
Like can she learn tricks?
Would it be pretty okay
to teach her with enough time?
She is very
smart, but sometimes
too smart. So like
I could teach her
something. Like she actually knows a decent
amount of advanced tricks,
but she's kind of like a cat about it. It's like... She actually knows a decent amount of advanced tricks,
but she's kind of like a cat about it.
It's like I don't really want to do it today.
I know how to do it.
I'm not doing it today.
But then the next day, it's like oh yeah,
I'll totally jump for that biscuit, sure.
So it's
a matter of getting her to be more consistent.
Yep, yep.
We gotta get the consistency down and I'm gonna
be perfectly honest with everyone I'm gonna be perfectly honest with everyone, I uh...
I-I'm too much of a sucker.
If the roles were reversed
And Emre was still a full time streamer
And I was the one that got back in
the workforce, and she was the one like you know home with
the dog all the time. She'd probably honestly be better behaved
Like I'm willing to admit that
I don't let Yuki get away with like a ton
of really bad stuff, obviously, but it's like
I'm a lot less
harsh isn't the right word.
This is perfect. We're talking about dogs and you're letting
the dogs out yep yep yep scripted authoritative like i'm not i'm not as authoritative with
dogs because i'm just i'm too into authoritative with dogs because i'm just
i'm too into the oh my god they're so cute i want to pet them love me
oh same yeah i feel that
so you were talking about the molt,
the many pets that you had earlier. I'm interested as to
story behind the little noodle y'all have, the danger noodle
Oh yeah so um...
So we recently adopted a 12 year old albino corn snake
His name is Monroe
So the deal is anyone who doesn't know, Emre now works as a vet tech.
Very happy with that really fulfilling job, gets to work around animals all the time.
But... to work around animals all the time. But
she just calls me up
one day and is like, hey, remember when we were joking about
getting a snake? Do you want to get one?
And I was like...
What's the catch?
There's this older lady that she's moving out of state.
And because of all the equipment
that you need to take care of a snake
like the tank and like the lights and everything
she didn't want to
risk
breaking anything
yeah
so she was just
like it would
just be easier
to give it
to someone
who
could keep
an eye on him
so
we just
ended up
with a snake because we just ended up with a snake.
Because we really wanted a lizard, and here we are!
And Monro's so cool, he's got such a personality for a snake.
Really?
Yeah,
he loves exploring.
He loves...
Like if you have him like around your neck or something
like on your shoulders
like he'll just slither around everywhere
and try to sneak into your shirt
trying to get through your sleeve
and stuff, doing as much exploring as possible.
Any time that
Yuki sees the snake, they always boop snoots and it's really cute.
Oh, that's adorable!
Our cat... our older cat anyway, now we have two...
Our older cat doesn, now that we have two. Our older cat doesn't really acknowledge
That the snake's there
I don't think she actually knows
We have a snake to be honest
Oh this randomizer's bad.
Why does Morty have a Gengar?
Boo, Rando.
I mean, that... That's always going to happen.
There's always going
to be something
that the randomizer has in common
with the biggest game, it happens a lot
Someone said in chat, those of you who don't watch
Keyes' stream, you'll never truly appreciate
the collective confusion in chat when Key's got up
and came back saying, I'm going to need your help with
the snit.
Yeah, that's been an adjustment
for me because I've always had...
I don't want to say basic, like they're not
good animals or anything, obviously.
But I've always had basic pets, like dogs and cats.
You know, the pretty standard
set of animals.
But like the pretty standard set of animals. But I've never had a lizard before,
so this is actually
kind of a cool experience so far.
But I guess slight
content warning,
I guess.
But like,
I mean,
if you don't know
what a snake's
diet is,
it eats other
fats and mice and stuff. So that's been an adjustment for me because I'm such a softie that
i can't handle doing it myself, so everybody has to do it. No that's understandable
I actually think rats and mice
are quite cute, I know I would have
some difficulties with that for sure
Yeah definitely
But yeah! I mean I've actually never seen pictures of your pets
I'm gonna have to see like the cat
and the snake and stuff like that
They're all so cute. Oh yeah, I'll have to send you some
for sure.
Well, cats now, right?
You said today y'all are getting another cat?
Yep.
Emory will be home probably in like 30 to 45 minutes and we're just gonna have a snake there. We're not saying that how to have a kitten there.
Aww, so it's a little one? Just a little tiny friend?
Oh very tiny.
I'm excited
though, I don't think I've ever actually
had a kitten. Every single cat I've
ever had has been at least like two or three years old.
Yeah that's understandable.
I mean a lot of folks like to get
their pets from shelters and sometimes
it's kind of rare to find them
when they're tiny.
Definitely.
Where do I want to go?
I have a few options that I'm trying to like
parse where I wanna go
The biggest things we're missing right now
are obviously badges,
but I also still don't have surf.
Yeah, I noticed that.
So you have the bicycle, which is great
and your fly also great.
Like you said, those were pre pretty vetted but now you're
looking for surf and again
as with most of the HMs they're required
to complete the game
so do you have any leads then where you
think surf might be or any ideas?
I don't really necessarily
have an idea. So like, you can
have a dynamic logic
in these where it's like
oh, I just got cut. So
my next progression is likely
behind cut but I usually have
a more random logic.
So my
goal right now is
go to
any area that has
a ton of possible checks. So, like, we're
about to climb Tin Tower because there's, like,
12 or 13 items
I can pick up.
We're just going for the really
item-dense areas right now.
Yeah, that makes perfect sense and that's how you
tend to eliminate areas. You're like, okay, where is it most likely
to be? Where is the next likely place to be? We do
that a lot within randomizers, so...
Oh yeah, definitely.
Also, I'm very
happy with this holo. Not gonna lie.
I wish I had like Drill Peck but...
Oh!
I mean you pretty much have everything else you could possibly want on that holo.
Well listen, I'm a greedy little pig okay?
I want my super moves.
So it's the person who had Aeroblast on Lugia.
Yeah, I had Aeroblast Lugia.
That wasn't good enough.
I upgraded. Well, to be fair, but the stats on that Lugia. That wasn't good enough. I upgraded.
Well, to be fair, the stats on that Lugia were a little
janky, especially for the game.
Oh yeah! It did not have off.
It was
rough. Speaking of jank, what is the
jankiest Pokemon
you've ever finished this particular
randomizer with and why?
Um
I remember having to use a Mad Cargo once.
Which...
Oh!
...Mad Cargo as is
is already not a great Pokémon.
I like the design,
I like the concept
but it's a very forgettable Pokemon
to the point where
a lot of people when they see
Mad Cargo in one of these
are like oh I thought it was Gen 3, not
Gen 2. That's like, yeah, that's
a pretty normal
reaction but I had to finish
with the mad cargo before and it was just
misery.
You never realize how many moves a certain type of Pokémon has in the game
until you're quad weak to it.
Oh yeah, oh yeah! There's nothing like getting hit by a water gun and screaming in pain.
Water gun!
Bubble!
Yeah, imagine bubble killing you.
Oh, that's a good TM! That's quite good.
I actually don't think I'd put it on the Ho-Oh right now but...
Maybe later if I
get a bad fight.
The TMs for the most part have been pretty good
so far. We got an Earthquake TM, we got
a Rock Slide TM.
We got Fire Punch.
Yeah, Stab Fire Punch.
Yeah, Stabbed Fire Punch is never a bad thing to have even though you put fire punch on a bird!
Hey it balls its wing up, okay?
He's trying his best.
You leave him alone.
Question from the chat.
Have you thought of a name for the new kitten?
No. No No I have not
In fact I'm taking a
Second to reply
To Emre because they were like
Do you want me to bring the kitten on stream when I get home?
Oh!
I said yes.
Yay!
Congratulations, chat.
You're going to meet the kitten at the same time as me.
Another same time as me.
Another question from the chat is, Is this a sport bottle progression?
It can be so we had a seed where I got the SS ticket and access to Kanto, so everything that you could reach with the Squirt Bottle
I was able to reach before I found the Squirt Bottle.
It does give us one additional check now though,
but at this point in time it's not progression
But if you get it early then it is.
So is it like late game?
It sounds like it's kind of a meme check.
Yeah, I mean, it's not too far out of the way
and I'm probably going to do it anyway just because
it isn't like the slowest thing in the world
but it's only one check.
But you know,
it's you and me on a hot pick show so that check is probably going to be THE check
so I either ignore it and feel bad or
get it and it's useless.
It's transformative in nature.
Let me see... Someone wanted to ask, what are your thoughts on...
I believe this is a newer Pokemon, Wiglet?
Oh yeah! Anyone who hasn't played
Pokemon Scarlett and Violet, there's a...
It's not technically a regional
form, but it's a regional form. Let's be real.
Yes.
It's basically like a really
elongated white Diglett.
And it is so silly looking. My opinion is its silly looking. That's a good one! Wigglet and wugt trio are sure a thing.
Ask Keese how he feels about Tangela.
Oh, good old Wigglywoo.
Perfect Pokemon! Nothing wrong at all.
10 out of 10 would always recommend it.
I'm surprised you didn't name him Snake Wigglywug.
Well
you see
I kind kinda wanted to but we already had a name so I was like, I'll respect the name.
So what is the name then?
The snake? Yeah, Munro.
That's very different from like
the rest of the patties!
We got Yuki, we got Boxy, and we got Yuki. We got Boxy.
We got Munro.
It's like there is always one that stands out.
I don't know why the previous owner named him Munro but you know he kind of responds
when I say his name so
I'm not taking it away
no no absolutely not and
you said the snake was
12 in terms of like age
yeah yep 12 years old
he's a he's in the speedrun retirement
home with the rest of us.
Ask Keys to give
tips for running a Pokemon
Crystal Randall. So what do you recommend to someone who's never
run pokemon crystal randos then um if
if you've never done a randomizer in general
what i would recommend is i would actually actually play a non-randomized game
Non-randomize run of it
Just to get re-familiar and be acclimated with the game
And then once you start picking up randomizers, just do some more simple things.
Like...
You can randomize so many different aspects
you could make it so the movesets are random like what I have right now
or you keep it vanilla so
you don't have to overthink and have to worry about, oh
if I run into this Mewtwo it could have Thunderbolt
against my Gyarados or something. So I would definitely recommend considering
the lower settings at first, just to kind of get used to it when you want to get some more
like advanced randomizer stuff,
like you get to like your item
randomizers and whatnot.
Those also have a plethora of options
to a degree to where it might feel
really,
really overwhelming because there's
just,
there's so much you can do,
but kind of same thing,
like just kind of slowly ease your way into it.
Like with full item rando,
there's actually a much easier variance to what I'm doing.
There's key item rando, which is just key items. Like it's every item on the ground will be the same otherwise you can make it so badges are just shuffled within gyms,
So you don't have to worry about knowing the location of every item
To find your badges. There's a lot of ways to ease yourself in.
But that is definitely what I'd recommend
It's kind of a slow and steady
approach to it very good advice pretty much across the board for randomizers especially for pokemon
where just everything can feel overwhelming especially the further you get into the generations
and the more nuanced things become.
It's really good!
The next thing out...
First of all T-Pat says hi.
Hi T-Pat!
That's my weatherman!
The second question, and then
this is getting back to discussion on your pets as
far as the snake is, what is the life
expectancy of the Quince?
That is a good question! Next
question. Let me just
pull up Google real quick.
I actually don't know.
Um...
I don't think we've gotten to the Gyarados yet.
So...
Soon, TM?
Someone was asking what was the Gyarados.
Wipes the domesticated
corn
here we go random
content. Here you go chat. It says six
to eight years in the wild and it's very clearly
not in a while
up to 24 years in in the wild and it's very clearly not in a wild one.
Up to 24 years in human care, there we go! Wow
That's impressive. That's a lot longer than I thought. Not that that's a bad thing
It's just a lot longer than I thought.
Someone asked what was the Gyarados? I don't think we've gotten there yet,
i mean we were there but i don't know if yeah
We can't surf. Yeah we can't surf.
That's right we do not know yet.
We will eventually... hopefully.
I'm trying to- Can you even beat the sur-
You CAN have a Surfless Seed!
It's so unlikely but you can have a Surless seat. It's so unlikely, but you can
have a surfless seat.
So it would be incredibly funny if
my first surfless seat ever was
today.
So we're on the ice path right now who had issues with the ice path their first time i
know i did i'm really bad with puzzles oh i suck at this because the ice puzzle in Gold and Silver is different from the ice puzzle in Crystal.
So... Because I had Silver version before I had Crystal version when I got here in Crystal,
I was just like where the heck am I?
What direction do I go?
I'm terrible at ice puzzles
just in general and any game
I don't know what it is my brain just does not like ice puzzles oh neither do or the strength
puzzles and this has everything in it oh yeah oh yeah they have so much in here
so someone asked us can youes have a grass type?
I believe the way these seeds work is
Keyes will primarily only use one Pokemon.
It's almost like
the kind of Ironmon route
if you're familiar with
types of Ironmon
where just everything revolves
around that one Pokemon. And no,
Kese's main Pokemon is not a grass
type, it is ho-
Yeah so the big thing about
what I would suspect
why that was asked
is in
Emerald Archipelago
there is a check
where you talk
to a trainer
and she'll give
you an item
if you have
a grass Pokemon.
Oh,
I didn't think about that!
But I-I-I think...
I think that's the only instance
in older generations of games
where that's something you can do.
Other than like showing
Bill's grandpa certain Pokemon to get like evolution stones or something
I think yeah like in the original game i guess the equivalent would that be of
how many pokemon did you catch? Have a thing.
Mm-hmm.
Like the professor aids that give you stuff.
Yeah.
And there's so many good, like,
money items I'm finding but my bag is full.
Oh, see, that
would be one of my weaknesses in
Pokemon Randomizer, is I always have
to organize my bag. Like it's just a thing
that I do and that would take up so much
time. Oh yeah.
I have a and that would take up so much time. Oh, yeah. I've definitely done that before myself.
In fact, at the start of this
I was spending a lot more time organizing
but now I'm kind of just at the point
where it's like, nah
I don't need to...
I want to!
God do I want to but I don't need
to. Yeah, definitely
do not like having in
Pokemon games full bags of any
kind.
I'm going to lose time selling
a bunch of stuff right now, but this shop
has rare candies that I'm set for life.
Oh yeah. And that's one of the nice things about The Rinder
I like the idea of being able to get over a candy at any point
Uh no... not yet
You know what? Actually,
this is just free money. Come on,
get the amulet coins and equip it!
I do like free money!
It's my money and I
want it now.
You don't
want leftovers?
I guess you
don't really
need them
until Elite
4.
Yeah,
I don't
need them
for a while
so we're
good.
I don't
think I taught strength of flash I usually don't think
I taught strength of flash
I usually don't teach flash because
I just know these areas well but
Usually for the sake of stream
I'll just do it so people
Don't see a black screen for like two minutes.
What am I doing?
I was gonna say, wait,
isn't there water in this?
There sure is! You know what?
Go me! Good is you know what go me good job peace good job i've never gone this long without surf i'm so thrown off right now oh no Did we have a that's never happened before?
For me?
Yeah.
It's never taken this long.
Ah, it's the thing.
The thing had to happen.
There it is! Welcome to the Games Done Quick stream The thing had to happen.
There it is! Welcome to the Games Done Quick stream, folks.
It's always something I'm telling y'all.
You gotta put in the Leonardo DiCaprio meme where he's pointing like when he's in his chair,
like that's a thing.
Now I was thinking of well there it is.
So that is the big thing we're looking for right now.
We're looking for sort of,
hopefully Keyes isn't running out of places to like,
I mean it's a big game,
right?
Like I would be surprised.
There's still plenty of areas left. Like we can definitely...
We're not in trouble yet.
Yet?
Key word, yet.
We're rapidly approaching that but we're not there yet.
Oh don't say that! don't say that no oh by the way uh safe check i should have asked you at the break there we go hey hooray
there you go good job i, Steve. I just...
You did it.
...I get so nervous, Keyes.
I hope you don't mind.
It's more of a me thing,
No, it is fine.
I swear.
I would rather be reminded than not.
Yeah.
That's a regular thing
I've been doing on my shows that
where it's like, please save.
Like even if you don't think you need to just for my sake
please save.
Yeah yeah yeah.
I get it entirely.
I mean there's no worse feeling in a randomizer where when you go to load the save
like let's say you need a reset for some reason you soft lock or something happens that you don't
like and then it's not there mm-hmm and then you don't get a resolution it's it's not there. And then you don't get a resolution!
It's,
it's not a nice feeling
so if you're listening to this
The amount of times
I've lost the run
because I didn't save
I do have a tracker up, obviously.
I kind of got lost in the sauce
of talking so I'm backtracking
and double checking
a couple of spots
to make sure that I... No! backtracking and double checking a couple of spots.
Dang, I'm a bad influence.
No! This would happen on my stream anyway.
Good good good good good and again by the way folks uh for folks turning tuning in because it's on
the other side of the bridge please do follow keys that is at twitch.tv slash keys around if you're watching on youtube and
you cannot see our twitch chat that is k-e-i-z-a-r-o-n and again keys streams most
days keys is a full-time streamer, so please give keys all the support.
Just a fantastic streamer and friend.
I don't know why I punched them, Errol.
Why did you punch the cute bunny?
It wasn't on purpose.
You punched it,
you didn't put water in it.
I said that it was an accident.
That was so cute!
No, we don't punch...
We don't punch... It was on purpose, Din.
We-we don't punch cute things
on the stream! I'm sorry!
Poor Merrill!
This is where the run goes completely off the rails.
That's gonna be karma.
Yeah, I was going to say! That's bad luck!
Surf is gonna move somewhere and i'm gonna be sad okay a dynamic game it wasn't
the bunny technically i called oh no wait it was for sale this whole time? I'm a genius.
You are!
I could have gotten here a lot earlier
but I'm a genius.
Yeah, Meryl I see as a bunny
and or a mouse
like Azubarill
is very almost like
bunny adjacent we'll call it but
yeah Merrill's closer probably to a mouse
I agree with all of this
Oh yeah you did set the mouse on fire! That's true chat!
This poor baby!
Oos?
Clumsy me!
Well, I guess you can go back and surf now.
We could go check out the Red Darius
at some point. We can!
Which I'm actually gonna do that in like a couple of minutes,
so anyone who really, really wants
to see what the shiny is...
Yeah!
Soon, TM.
I like how the randomizer does randomize that.
It's really sweet because you see the Gyarados all the time,
it's cool shiny but it's nice to mix it up.
It's also nice cause sometimes
it's the only way you see a shiny.
Yeah.
You get to see something like,
you've never seen before a lot of times.
I mean, I guess like,
you can always just Google an image I guess but that's less fun.
Also hi Jiggy.
Hi Jiggy.
I swear it wasn't playing
that Keys was supposed to play Crystal twice
for the record IS Keys before GDKey.
Look,
I haven't played Crystal on my own in a while.
This is my excuse to pick it up.
So
where else are you playing, Crystal?
Did it already happen besides RNG?
No, no.
So this Saturday there's a big Pokemon hotfix event.
Oh, very cool.
And I will be there doing um a randomizer cinco bingo
all right so y'all better go support keys during that then that sounds like a
good time bingos are a ton of fun i'm super excited to show it off
i've done it a few times this is terrible why are you kidding me this is because
you defeated the marrow i'm blaming this on the mirror. Okay, there you go.
I punched him to pick that up.
Okay, you didn't have to do THAT!
Was that necessary?
No, no it wasn't. But I sure did.
Look he probably deserved it okay?
You just deleted that Metapod! What a bully!
He had generations of family
that just
disapparated. That's so sad!
That poor thing.
No!
Dang, this just keeps getting sadder and sadder. First the Merrill and now the Metapod.
Thanks everyone for tuning in for the last time that Keyserun is ever
on a Skybill show.
I mean,
it wasn't an otter
or a rat
so that's fine
but you know...
Hmm.
I'll keep that in mind.
I know what to avoid.
It wouldn't be me if I wasn't being sad over some defenseless critter getting punched, right?
That poor thing.
And a family.
Okay, now we can go here.
Now I can not look silly.
There we go.
Look, there's water!
Look, there's surf!
Are you just looking for badges now yeah yeah um i mean there's uh there's a chance
that something that i need is locked behind whirl, but it's not necessarily a guarantee.
Um...
I'm still kind of just doing the shotgun approach
of going through areas with
you know, three plus checks
that don't take too long.
Yeah.
Oh, I think plus checks that don't take too long. Yeah. Hopefully we find the badges?
I miss the Leper's Sprite
for surfing, that one's really cute.
The one in
Firebird Leaf Green it's just like an undefined Pokémon.
Maybe there could be a case that would be a Snorlax but it's really hard to see.
I meant to grab that item and I totally...
Don't mind me!
What? I didn't see anything.
Yeah, didn't see anything you say.
Yeah look it's so dark oh no
I sure hope I can...
Oh no!
Ah heck.
It sure would be a shame if I couldn't see.
Oh no oh dear.
How excited am I for the Bloomboro set?
I'm very excited because did you know
the next magic the gathering stat has critters
i did not know that but it doesn't surprise me that you know that my poor
wallet is going to be in pain after that set.
There's otters and rats,
And possums and mice
And honey badges
Oh no! It's over.
Yeah... my poor wallet Oh no. It's over for you.
My poor wallet.
Goodbye money.
Hello critters, but goodbye money.
And guess what?
To theory, Time Raveler is back.
He's like a special guest.
He's not in Standard.
It's just a special guest,
like a collectible.
And he's a bird because of course,
birds and games.
Am I right?
A bird? Yeah, he's a bird Because of course, birds in games. Am I right?
A bird? Yeah he's a bird!
Keeves wants that card.
I sure am a Teferi Stan.
People don't like me i understand that was a memory oh man
that feels like forever i have uh i made made a couple new friends recently who
used to play Magic and they
were talking about getting back into it.
And I told them that I used to play Magic
They're like, what kind of decks would you run.
I told them what I would run!
Yeah?
I'd be like yeah, I'm an Esper and Dimir boy, so they're like so we're not playing with you.
Yeah, I have a commander... I have two
commander decks I'm never allowed to play unless
it's competitive, which is sad! No one
wants to play against my rogue deck that literally
steals all of my opponent's cards from their side of the battlefield
and no one ever wants to play toys they're my toys no one ever wants to play with my sliver back
are you in a slipper? Those are so fun.
Yeah, they are. But no one ever wants me to play it! I'll become public enemy
number 1 at the multiplayer table, you know?
No, see what you do is like
You make a challenge out of it
It's like
Five dollar buy-in
If you win the pot if you beat me
We actually used to do that, but with booster packs. Like you know if you take somebody out
you got a booster pack.
Yeah I've seen some stories about it before
It's kinda neat.
Oh yeah, no one ever wants to play against my Dimir deck because the minute something hits the board I play a card and steal it.
It's mine for the remainder of the game now.
Those are MY kinds of decks.
Why bother playing
game when I can steal your game and play it?
Yeah, let was talking about this the other day
on my stream and I was like
I don't know how to make a commander deck
that's quote-unquote nice
Even if I think it's nice
I end up playing stuff in secret.
So I'm like,
oh that turns out
but that's not very nice
is it?
Do it anyway.
No mercy.
Yeah,
Keyes is quite the
card player from... and still would be too if he played. But yeah I like- I still like Arena for playing cards because it's easier to get your hands on stuff
arena just mean you could always make proxies i guess but like arena like it feels better
for me than using proxies because like i i still feel like i can experiment a lot more
yeah with just like regular cards and then also i i don't know it might be like being
a little pretentious but i don't like using proxies. I just like using
what I have. I like the artwork
Like it's the beautiful artwork in
the game
But this shouldn't be a surprise to you
that this is the kind of stuff that me and he's like
to use slash play i mean we played forbidden memory when they speak
that shouldn't be any surprise whatsoever and yes we do get it back. I still remember
when Kethys
was in Standard, and you can make that
four-color
basically play solitaire until
you win. There is a
deck like... I mean it's about to rotate out, but there
was a deck that was kind of like that in Standard.
Kind of.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
Because they extended Standard by another year,
so now it's a three-year rotation instead of two.
Interesting.
Yeah, that made things kind of more combo-y.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, I remember
I got into doing the Kepis
combo like the last
couple of months that you were able to
do it and it was
genuinely probably my easy couple of months that you were able to do it. And it was genuinely
probably my easiest mythic
ever. Yeah.
Yeah, that sounds about right.
I want to be here.
Aww, but I like looking at the lapras sprite.
Alright we're here now. We're fighting pain.
Now chat if you haven't seen
Pokemon Crystal, you might be
surprised in which the context we
see Blaine.
Look at his little room!
That's horrible!
At least in HeartGold, he has a full-fledged dungeon cave.
Yeah, I'll never forget when I saw that.
I'm like, um...
Blaine, are you doing okay over here?
You good buddy?
Oh I think he's actually used to play Nexus of Fate.
Yes.
Yes. Yes, yes, yes.
Then I used to cry a lot.
Yes.
I know what I'm about when it comes to these games, okay?
Yeah!
Also, thank you for taking care of Ditto.
Ditto has cost me, believe it or not
some Ironman runs. I had a really good ganger and then the
ditto used shadow ball and then i was very sad for a while he critted me so ever since then
ever since then i have not liked Ditto.
Wait, I don't have the card keys?
Silly
me! I don't want to be here yet.
This is a huge waste of time.
Hey! Look, it's your Pokemon game! Well, it
was a Pokemon game. It was.
A worthy
fire punch I would say.
All's well that ends well for me.
Again another mom just got deleted that ends well for me. Again, another bomb
that just got deleted.
Deserved!
The most deserved deletion ever.
I can't...
No, I'd have to fight a bunch of them.
So here, I can get some checks here.
Now again folks,
I'm just at the point right now where it's like there isn't really much
in terms of direction of where to go.
I'm just going to areas that I can knock out
several checks at once.
He's lost a run of champion to a steel extra oh I remember that, that
transformed into a Snorlax yeah I remember that. Yeah that Snorlax was so busted and
then it transformed into me and even though I had a dire hit i couldn't get one crit
but i think i remember that better your mom run it was it was such a good one i
was excited because like i think i can beat this before 1,000 attempts
and then I lost them in 2,000 attempts later.
It's like oh hey, I finally won.
Yeah me and Keyes are both Kaiser champions.
He has had a tentacle rule
And I have melodic. Hey look,
I'm wearing the shirt with the
tentacruel that I won with! Oh yeah,
I just noticed that. Yeah,
but the tentacruel that I got for
that run was absurd.
It had Pickup and the Pickup item pool
was actually like tummy thick.
Oh so you're the reason why
Pickups ban in Super Kaizo!
I genuinely
think that I contributed
to pickup getting banned because
I had... Lemonades were
the most common item. There was
also, I think, I could get like a full restore
and rare candies were also something
I could pick up. So I was actually
really high level
when I got the champion. Like I think I was like level
96 or something like that.
So, uh... oops! My bad.
No it isn't your bad!
That was the system you had to work with.
I'll take my W and run away now thanks.
Yeah I got through about 500
runs of Super Kaizo, and I'm like,
I need a break. I don't want this to turn into
thousands of runs again.
I want to try Super Kaizo at some point,
I just haven't had the time.
You know what the main gimmick with it is, yeah?
Yeah! Yeah! Sure do.
God bless Safari Zone.
I think I could get to Safari with enough time, but I don't know if I can turn it around from there. Yeah.
Oops, my flash not good.
Silly me.
Those are two different things, Keyes.
See, look, it's the top option on one of my Pokemon.
I just picked the wrong Pokémon.
Oh, I see it, I see it.
Okay that's a strong move but terrible coverage
we're not going to worry about that.
That's a good item.
Again we are looking for badges
A badge! Let's go
Alright, good commentator curse Finally we get a good one.
Okay, if I get Whirlpool
then there's a lot of areas that are open.
Well, not a lot.
It's just Whirl Island
but that's a lot of checks so...
That is there, I suppose. do you know where to find whirlpool like is it in a store
no clue okay that's fun.
We'll get there one day!
Alright, so how many badges are missing? I'm looking at two classes.
One, two, five, six, seven.
That's a lot given how late-ish in the seed this is.
Yeah, but
I'm guessing that a lot of them
are going to be pretty grouped up.
Yeah! Yeah, that makes sense.
Number five.
Oh, man.
I was hoping that
I would get blessed
at this shop.
You thought
they would just be
selling badges?
Is that what's
going on here?
Yeah, yeah. I was like hey welcome to my medicine shop! Here is my badge.
Okay you know, just so I can make some progression but also stew in my think tank for a little bit.
I'm gonna knock out this gym because i'm here. It's a few fights but
I'll get three checks out of it so it's not like the
worst thing only ash ketchum is allowed to get badges without earning them properly
what a cheater
i think there's even like a joke later in the anime where he says,
yeah, I probably didn't earn some of those.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure there is.
And now you look at the current Pokemon before it flipped over to this new one and its like wait when did Ash get all these busted Pokemon?
Mmhmm.
Mmhmm.
Where can I go?
They're at the Tracker right now, don't mind me folks!
Bye Alakazam!
There's still a lot of stuff I can do because I have Surf, so...
I really shouldn't be doing this. I should go up instead.
Eh! I mean it's right here.
Mhm.
So like, see that little strength puzzle? I would have messed that up if I didn't remember that.
I uh... so I used to do a lot of Spinner Hell randomizers, which if anyone doesn't know what Spinner Hell is, every trainer is a spinner and they have maximum vision. So it leads to really hilarious things'll walk through a wall just to fight you.
I did so many of those in a row that I got used to doing this puzzle a little differently, because you like push the middle boulder and then pull
the other guy out. So when I tried to de-rust an actual vanilla speedrun of this before
i kept messing up the boulder.
It felt so bad. Yeah! I mean, sometimes
the simplest things in games is
the easiest thing to mess up.
Wait, Chuck had a hitmontop?
Terrible rando.
Okay.
Okay.
All right.
There we go.
The think tank paid off.
Okay. There you go, the think tank paid off.
Unbelievable.
Wow... all right let's go do the surf stuff that i was talking about
i bet you there is some decent amount yeah i'm just gonna say the world islands would be my guess once we get the
whirlpool. Mhm.
Yeah, a place like Whirl Islands is
really good example of high density
checks for little time.
... for a little time. Again, as a reminder
folks, please follow Keys if you are
not doing so already. I guarantee
it is a good time on stream.
Oh! There it is!
I'm just going to keep talking
about stuff you seem to find out.
Let's go.
That's so...
The backwards commentator curse. I need this in my life more often.
Yeah, where is this coming from? You know, usually people blame me.
Yeah, this is so good incredible oh fire blast would be good if i didn't have
fire punch already and since i'm so high level i rather the accuracy over the damage. Yeah.
We are a level 100
after all.
Sometimes I feel like against Red
that level 100 never seems
to be enough against you know six pokemon
yeah like some sometimes like his team is just really really good
or like the worst part is when his team isn't good but they're
tanky all you have to do is avoid rock pokemon
oh i'm sure i won't oh don't think there's not that many rock moves in this game, though.
That's true.
There's what?
Rock throw, rock slide, ancient power?
Yeah,
rock throw, rock slide, ancient power...
Oh...
That might match up.
Eh!
I'm a warrior of the odds.
Well, I'm currently on your show so I would guess high.
This has been going too well. Yeah there's gotta be
something! There's got to be some sort of hiccup.
If I remember,
they were super...
No, it's not this.
It's Azalea Bar.
The last time...
Well, sorry,
the second-to-last time Jesus on Mercy Hill and was nice The last time, um... Well sorry. The second to the last time
and was nice enough
to play Animorphs for me
I thought you nailed it!
I thought it was actually a really good run
Where in the w-, no. Literally on the top. Okay I was about to say where are my repels at?
They're right there!
Am i inventory full? Oops.
Ah, inventory management! I don't miss this.
Might as well just sell everything.
Wait did that say done button?
Yeah! It shows your stats.
Oh... I'd never seen that before.
Yeah it's part of the mod.
Gotcha.
I can literally pull it up and show you real quick.
Like, it just shows all the stats and stuff.
Oh nice!
All that Lugia was garbage, I knew it!
I KNEW IT!
Ah what a loser.
Terrible.
I don't appreciate that.
I love Lugia, come on.
I love Lugia too but that was horrendous to look at.
What a bozo!
Now I extra don't feel bad for swapping.
4 attack 5 special? What is that?
Weenie hut junior
all right well we do have world access and i think whirlirl is like 15 or something. Oh yeah, I can see multiple badges being there.
Also I forgot to put my rappel up. I see the spinners aren't super fast, they're kind of fast but they're not like...
Yeah. They're very manageable.
It's nice having that option,
because it does suck just getting hit by a trainer for no reason.
You know what? for the people since I have a silver wing there's an item over here anyway but let's just see what the loot is.
Just for funsies.
I like the fact, responding
to that question in an audience, that rare candy
can be in shops because
again this goes back to
what we were talking about before. What makes the randomizer
more interesting? What makes it less interesting? I don't think the randomizer more interesting, what makes it less interesting.
I don't think the randomizer becomes
more interesting if you have to grind, right?
So that's why I like
the rare candies being available in shops,
possibly. Mm-hmm.
Oh.
Okay.
Oh.
That's um...
Take that. You didn't have to
keys
you didn't have
to do that
Oh
poor dog
That is a Oh, poor dog.
That is another thing you have killed three innocent Pokemon.
Were they innocent?
Were they really?
They could have just chilled.
You could have run away and they oh nice uh you're gonna just chill you know i could have i couldn't but that's less funny he's a monster. These poor critters!
Oh my goodness, why?
Why?
If that would have been Edratini
I may have had to put down my mic for a second because...
That's my Pokemon!
I love the Dratini, Dragonair, and Dragonite line.
They are really awesome lines.
Even though Dragon Knight looks nothing like Dratini and Dragoneer.
Oh, Dragon Knight's so funny! Just a dragon...
Hey! I'm here! How's it going?
Yeah but if you've ever seen a dragon, Yes! How's it going?
Yeah, but if you've ever seen a dragon... Dragonite in the anime, they do not take you know what from nobody.
Oh yeah no, they are- oh my gosh.
They are ready.
I think one of the games, Lance has a Dragonite in roleplay and
Dragonite just blows up Team Rocket.
Like yeah! Get him! Wasn't there like an episode of the anime where there's a super giant Dragonite?
Yeah!
He was taller than, like, a lighthouse or something ridiculous.
Yeah that was like The Monster Island or something like that.
Yeah, yeah.
You always name your Jatini noodles?
That's a cute name for Jatini.
Yeah, if Keith had
destroyed a Zig Zagoon i may have been very upset
thank goodness there are none in this game no they exist!
If you run into them with the Elite Four that's one thing. But if it's just in the wild and you
go around on its...
Then I get upset.
Just a light murderous rampage you know no big deal
no
okay so I'm gonna check this item up here and now i can go through the radio tower. So
I don't really want to but we're starting to run out of areas, and having Claire's Gym open is a nice thing because that means we can go to Dragon's Den and get a few items.
And the hard requirement for that is clearing this by the way i might as well
i love the dragon's den music it goes so hard that in the Victory Road music as well.
They're just both so good.
Mm-hmm.
Oh, no!
Okay look, this one's not my fault.
This is not your fault but the poor Noodle!
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. This one's not my fault. It's not your fault, but the poor
noodle!
The commentator's anti-curse
strikes again.
Poor noodle.
It was never supposed to be like this.
No, but I can forgive you because that's like you have to get past that it's not like a wild one but still poor noodle. Oh and now we're Pikachu!
There would be a shame if it got Earthquaked.
No!
This is not fair!
This is not fair!
That hurts!
Team Rocket are the bad guys.
That hurts!
They're like, hey, what Pokemon
do Sky like?
That'll be our entire setup.
Poor Dragonite! That's rough.
I'm so sad. I'M NOT MAD, I'M JUST SAD!
Aww, that was a stupid... I'm just sad.
See, I like Zapdos. I'm sad about that one.
It's only happened once so far though instead of
the 30 times for you.
Yeah...Zapdos is, I like Zapdos a lot.
I really
aesthetically like Articuno
the most out of the three
I just wish it were better
It's good in Gen 1 out of the three, I just wish it were better.
Like, it's good in Gen 1, but then
afterwards, it doesn't really have
proper offense, so it's kind of hard to use.
And a donkey too!
These guys are monsters they are
this is wild the chances the chance of all this
how do they have so many cute things? Yeah.
Let's see, it sounds like you still have quite a few tracks though here between here and Blackthorn.
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Yeah there's definitely...
There's definitely some stuff we can do.
I don't want to do claire
so I'm unlocking her but I'm gonna like put her off for a little bit
i don't know why did i I switch to the opposite? That Goldeen looked angry.
That Goldeen's very mad that I Earthquaked the Pikachu.
That was a VERY angry looking fish! Oh yeah.
It was not happy with us.
Awwwwwww
Little ice piggy
Little pig. No.
These drones have too many cubons, they've too many cubon-mons.
... too many cute Pokemon. And then I look at the current
gen of Pokemon and it's like
a Wind Chime?
Hey, there's sentient peppers now. Yeah I saw that! I'm just like wow, Polvon sure has changed.
There's a building over here. changed.
There's like a building that looks like a dragon or something, a dragon that looks like a building
Yeah I've seen that one
Rhaladon
You played Rogue didn't you?
I tried it for like an hour and I didn't have enough time to play more of it.
Aww, it's fun! I enjoyed it.
I've lurked in a few streams.
It does look like a lot of fun.
I think I forgot to deck the Mart in Ekri's.
That feels, like so long ago.
Yeah, yeah... So I'm gonna go there and hope that I did
And I'm just wasting a little bit of time
And hope that there isn't something
there. If there's something there, then I'm going to
feel like a dummy. Chat, listen, Gen 3
still feels new to me, okay?
You don't know how many times I've played Pokemon
Verge and I'm like, wait who is that? What is that? Our bones creek
chat. Give us a break! Yeah, I'm still trying to figure out
fairy weaknesses and resistances, okay?
It's still taking me a hot minute.
Yeah honestly that one's fair.
So let's...
double check if I did the mark.
Because if I did, then whatever.
If I didn't, then that's a lot of possible checks that I ignored.
Listen, if I tell myself
20 years ago... no you're not
if i tell myself 20 years ago was recent i feel better okay
okay i agree with this Okay?
I agree with this.
Every time I hear that a game is in its 20s now or something, it's like, oh no!
Yeah, it's like if...
GDQ likes to do all these different specials
Right? If there's like an anniversary or something. It's really cool stuff right and then you think about like when that game came out
Like
It takes me to a place oh yeah all right so this this mart gets a second mark after you
clear the alright this is happening all right there's just
just a light violent crime going on no big deal
it's lance lynn's supposed to be good right sure
all right maybe maybe not to some folks.
I can see that.
Waterstone wants me to check some stuff.
I'm going to come back here if we need more checks because there's still the entire rocket hideout I could check.
Oh my gosh!
We did just get the Water Stone which gives us...
Mario 64 is turning 30 in a couple years.
Thirty?! Like three zero? turning 30 in a couple years. 30?
Like 3-0?
Yeah, 2026 will be
30 years old.
No!
No!
I can tell off that one later.
No!
Oh my god.
We're dirt.
Yeah, we are.
You were born during the literal invention of video games.
And the internet!
Oh my god...
Did you ever use Ask Jeeves?
Yes.
Yeah, yeah before Google it was always Yahoo and Ask Jeeves.
You ever pick up a phone and you heard err-rrr-rrr-rrr?
Get off the phone! I want to get on the internet.
My favorite is when my mom wanted to gossip with her friends while I was doing research for school,
so I would just lose Internet and be very angry about it.
Okay good find, now I can use Waterfall.
Okay so we only need 3 more badges, so that's not bad. It's not bad at all.
I can waterfall now
So I can go back to
Mortar and there is a lot of items
I could get
Everything is coming up keys right now.
You remember those discs that used to come
in the back?
The AOL discs? Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah. I was
a kid that would put them on strings and hang them up on my ceiling as decoration.
I know what I'm about!
Oh,
I never taught waterfall.
Were you there
when I played
Oregon Trail
for SGDQ
like almost 10 years ago?
I remember watching it.
Yeah, yes.
That's going to be
10 years ago
in summer next year.
Back before Spiker Back when my wrists didn't creak. No!
Like I'm not a skink anymore? No.
Like I'm not as skinny as I used to be anymore either...
I used to be a stick, now it looks like I have like a beer belly if
sit in certain way.
You got a second landline so you could be online? That was fortunate of y'all! Wait, that's smart!
Why didn't I think of that one?
That's so clever
remember when game magazines came with demo discs i remember when a smash brothers um cd came with one of my Nintendo powers. That is
all just a bunch of...
I used to get, like,
a PlayStation magazine
back in the PlayStation 1 era and
it had, like, a demo disc that had the first couple of levels
of Tomb Raider. All this stuff. You could play like
a decent amount of demos.
It was really cool, and I remember that... Oh yeah!
I think it was called PlayStation Underground
I think is what it was called
But the disc I had
Was actually genuinely one of my first
interactions with speedrunning.
Because there were a couple video guides that showed
you can skip this entire area
of Tomb Raider if you do this or oh yeah
there's such a thing as platinum relics and crash bandicoot and
this is how you get them. And it's like a really good and clean run of one of the levels.
I once had a VHS sent to me in the mail, and it was a promo for Star Fox 64. Oh my god, I remember that!
I hate that i remembered that. You know what's wrong with that?
I think like Banjo Tooie was on there too. Mm-hmm.
I just felt my back tweak itself a little bit.
Oh, no! Oh this is
This is terrible
Hey
OG's Rollercoaster Tycoon Is still good. That game has actually aged really well chat. Would recommend still.
I love when there are old games that you used to play that are still worth your time.
Oh yeah, I love classic
RCTs.
Okay so we have
a check here it'll unlock another check too
I think
oh no it won't unlock a It'll unlock another check too, I think.
Oh no, it won't unlock another... But we are two badges away!
Like, I'm just kind of following the sequence
Of events here and it's kind of working out.
But now my sequence is in.
So let's...
Yeah, we didn't really have like quote-unquote
direct events to find out when new games were coming out.
You kind of just went to the store and you saw
a poster. Sometimes- Yeah, like you see some sort of advertisement
Very rarely do you get like a commercial. I remember when
friggin' Crash Bandicoot
Had like a crossover
With Pizza Hut
Oh yeah
Yeah
I remember that
Yeah
Yeah
Aw man
The giant Crash Bandicoot Oh man.
A giant Crash Bandicoot costume that was worn.
What's the first game we ever played? Mine was probably Super Mario Bros 3 followed by Castlevania
3.
My first game
that I ever played, and I'm gonna use
play lightly because
I was sitting on my dad's lap and I would use the mouse
and he'd use a keyboard,
And I was like not even one year old yet.
The Wolfenstein 3D
Oh! I had that!
I had Wolfenstein on DOS, yeah.
Yeah!
Good old DOS.
I'll never forget if I wanted to play my game command prompt cd dot dot cd wolf3D
wolf3D and then there you go. CD, Wolf 3D, Wolf 3D.
And then there you go.
Oh man.
Did you mark the Thunder Bad badge on the tracker i sure
did not thank you for pointing me okay well thanks to chat for pulling that out too
yep so now we're just looking for the Earth badge?
Uh, looking for earth and mineral.
Mineral, that's right.
Unfortunately, mineral is gray so it's sometimes really hard to tell if its marked or Thrun. Same with the Boulder Badge.
Yeah, there was
also Nintendo Power. That was a good way
to find out about new releases.
Mm-hmm.
I remember back when GameStop was actually more focused on games than merch.
Wasn't it like, it was EB Games back then, I think?
I think it was EB Games in Canada and I think it was separate in the States.
Because I remember at least the mall that's like five minutes from where I live right now
Like I used to go there as a kid all the time
And I remember like the second floor had
a GameStop and the first floor had an
EB Games or other way
Oh
I forgot to, I should have mentioned this
in the pre-show. So I saw a sprite
in a video game that I've literally not seen
since I was a kid. My friend Liz
Star again you all may know Liz
was playing Word Munchers
the other day on stream and I like, I have literally not seen
The Little Froggy Sprite with the mouth
and the two eyes since
Since I was a kid
I'm like, oh my gosh!
That's Damn
But that's all this part was
It was just like kind of something
That resembled a frog's face with two legs.
Yeah... yeah.
I remember when we did it.
It wasn't even like a soundtrack, it was just a bunch of beep boop noises.
Yeah yeah!
Aw man...
You still have EB games in New Zealand and Austria? I haven't seen any of the games
in a very long time because
I think GameStop bought them out
now it wouldn't surprise me if
I saw EB Gamesworthies
cause I lived close to
Canadian border, granted
I was on the US side
but I grew up very
close to Canada so that wouldn't surprise me
if that was somehow related yeah like i'm in i'm in washington state i mean like i could
if i if i reach up high enough i I can, I can reach Canada. So yeah.
So that might be why
I also saw EB games.
Yeah,
that's where I actually got
my lime Game Boy Color from.
Like, I got that for a birthday at EB Games.
Oh nice.
Like, I got to pick that out, yeah.
I still have that too!
I even still have the box!
I have...
I have the gray, like old Game Boy.
Oh, the brick!
Yeah, the brick where it's green. That sickly green for the screen instead of black and white.
Oh my goodness. i could not read that
screen yo nice mineral badge all right we're missing one I, so okay if shop sanity weren't one of my options this would actually be a terrible
terrible terrible decision.
But because I have
shop sanity on
that means
that the
souvenir shop
at Mount Moon
has items
so we're gonna go there.
Oh! I didn't think about that. Yeah.
If my last badge is there then I just look like a cheater.
If it isn't there, I won't be surprised and I gain absolutely nothing from this because I'm level 100,
I'm not even getting experience anymore.
This is one of the mean rivals right?
Like there's fun rivals and there are mean rivals.
This rival is not a nice person.
No, no he isn't. I mean
so the cool thing
this is why he's actually my favorite rival
The cool thing about this rival is
it's very obvious
that he has character development, because
you know, he starts off like a complete jerk.
Right? Like, he's shoving you around
saying he's the best,
everyone else is trash, blah blah blah.
But...he eventually gets a Crobat!
Which you can't get a Crobat unless you treat your Pokemon well.
And also he becomes a lot less harsh too.
So you can see his attitude change
And you can tell that he cares about his Pokémon
Oh that's cool I didn't think of that
I'm such a cheater
DANG! Scripted!
So scripted. Look at this
dirty cheater here.
Alright, so... I'm gonna click that go mode button.
So now I just have to beat the Elite Four and then beat Red.
There you go!
Thanks, I have all the badges.
I should do this first.
I think my favorite rival was the one from uh
the most recent game scarlet violet oh nimona yeah i love her she's so much
fun i i jokingly call her Goku because she's just,
so ready to fight all the time.
It's literally just Goku.
Okay, so
I'm probably not saving time because I didn't fly there first and then I flew back anyway.
But if you have all 16 badges before you fight the Elite Four,
You can actually get like a neat little unneat little time save here.
Like you can unlock Mount Silver slightly early and get the fly –
Oh, nice!
You could get the Fly Point for it.
So after you deep delete four, you just come back.
It saves like
20-30
seconds. Like it's actually like a
big amount but it's so unlikely
to happen.
Also lucky for us because we have all our badges and we're in go mode.
I don't have to pick up anything anymore, we're literally just going.
We're breezing.
Easy breezy from here.
This song goes so hard.
It's a really good song.
I adore all the
chiptune Pokemon
music, like it's
so good.
Like anytime I've ever played a Pokémon game that has a way to play the older format of music.
I take it, like every time.
Oh, by the way,
best Pokemon character of all time keys?
I'm going with Larry.
How about you?
Larry.
I love it! Maybe it's just because
we're in a retirement home now, but Larry
speaks to me.
Like, again, I don't want to spoil anything
later on that happens with larry
i love larry's character so much
larry's character is so relatable
like i wouldn't be surprised if you like polled anyone 16 and under
And then polled anyone 21 and older
Yeah
How skewed Larry's popularity would like with a lot of younger people
it'd be like oh he's funny I guess or whatever probably like not even a top 30 character
for them whereas like people our age is like oh Outrage is like, oh yeah, he's number
one. He's so
number one that he's like triple S tier.
I just remember reading his
lines in the game and I'm like, I love this guy.
He's so great!
I just never thought to myself
This is the most unforgettable Pokemon
character I will- NO!!
Come on.
Man, they really don't want to be nice to you tonight.
I'm so sad. Oh. I like Ampharos. Oh!
I like Ampharos. I'm sad now There's so many cute Pokemon
Oh my gosh, no!
Not Gyarados.
Oh my go-
Okay, Rock Slide's 90% to hit
and I missed three in a row. Well you know what that means
it's 50-50 if it's 100%.
You know how this works.
Yeah, yeah.
Unless it's an enemy in which case
it's 100% unless the sun is in their eyes.
Yes, I love the scene where Larry
treats you to a meal.
That is the best. It's so good.
It is wholesome.
I do like
the latest interactions that you have
with Larry. Yes! Again, not to spoil
in case someone hasn't played through the game yet
but like, you do run
into him more than once and
like one of the later times you
run into him is just
so funny and like like one of the later times you run into him is just so
so funny and like so relatable as a millennium
by the way for folks watching
I mean we still have a few battles left
But again
I want to take this time
To shout out Keys
Again
The time always flies by
The time we get to spend together
So thank you so much
For being on the show
It's 6 630 already?
What?
Yeah, time flies.
Yeah, we're just having a nice conversation
and you're playing epically,
our time here is almost done.
I love being
on your shows, by the way.
I don't think I've ever...
I've always said thanks for having me on and whatnot. I don't think I've ever... I've always said
thanks for having me on
and whatnot,
but I don't think
I've ever just
outright flat out
said I love your shows.
Oh thank you!
I appreciate that.
I just like to
chill with chat
and whoever I'm at. yes, the gameplay is cool
and important and all but sometimes
I just like to talk to folks
whether it be in the chat or with my guests
It's important to me
Obviously every single hot fic show kind of has its own vibe.
Just depending on who's hosting and whatnot.
And I think the thing that I appreciate a lot about being on your shows is it's almost like an interactive interview.
Yeah!
Like, you're basically just interviewing me the whole time but we also have gameplay in
the background and also just a lot of really silly inside jokes that we get to share with people
yeah
the vibes here are immaculate i appreciate
that we do our best here all right so this is the the final trainer in
this guy like he's made this all look uh easy this is our quote unquote champion or
is it parentheses you know because obviously yeah but after this we just
we enter the hall of fame and then oh oh poor now that is a bunny.
Okay?
That is 1000%
of bunny.
That's a water bun.
Poor baby.
The cutie
is what it is.
No!
Not for me.
It came really. They're so cuddly. Okay, that sucks. No! Not perfect. This game, really?
They're so cuddly- okay that's not as cuddly but you know what I mean.
This game is so anti noodle.
Look in front of us eyes.
Okay that sounded very cute. it's not of all size okay that sounds like a fourth parasect
in this only before what the heck poor
bonnie so
how many pairs oh yeah we gotta wait we gotta go through like 30 seconds of...
Thank goodness by the way. I don't know why it took me this long to point this out because it's been two hours but
I have Hold To Mash on which is another quality of life
thing that's included in this mod that's the one thing that i don't miss about speed
running pokemon games is the amount of mashing through text you have to do yeah yeah and it's like
it's one of those things too where i i like going all the way back to when we
were kind of talking about like health and
like stream health and all that stuff.
I don't think people give mashing the respect
that they should because it's a mindless thing
to do a lot of times, right?
Like you're just hitting A and B or X and triangle
or whatever um but like mashing really strains your wrist fingers and hand muscles.
Yes!
I think fighting games still do the worst thing to my hands
joysticks are also a pretty big culprit in that
I'd be much better with a D-pad
in terms of long term playing versus any kind of joystick
i noticed that when i uh because i have a smashbox um and now it's
kind of inspired because uh bobby uses fight sticks all the time.
But I have a Smashbox, and I'm not quite comfortable with it yet
when it comes to legitimate speedrunning
instead of just challenge runs or casual things.
I do want to get
comfortable with it
because it feels a
lot more ergonomic.
Someone said, is
the Elite Four the
best way to level
your Pokemon 200?
I mean in
randomizer if you find a shop that sells
rare candies that would probably be my advice for leveling them on oh my gosh what a cutie
yeah so like if... Usually the best way
God they really just
want me to murder everything cute.
The best way would probably be
Oh my god two? Two bunnies!
Would probably be Elite Four Alright Two bunnies!
Alright, last Mon. And this one isn't cute so who cares?
As soon as the screen fades and we pull up a stat screen. That's time, and...
Time!
Look at you making quick work out of that!
Yeah, once we were ready
to go- Actually, this Hoa was not good either.
Wait, no.
Once we got most of the badges
and we just started...
We kind of fell into some items
but it was kind of funny
because I remember before the second break
before the first break, I had mentioned
like
I tend to go to areas that have
checks and the logic
that I have is more random.
Like, it's not like if you get cut then the next thing
is probably behind cut.
Yeah.
But I started doing it that way
just now
and it literally led to everything
so maybe I did set it up that way,
and I am once again a dummy about it,
but that's okay.
We got there eventually.
Oh yeah, we absolutely got there.
But I just, again, after looking at the stats,
yeah, I understand what you're talking about
now. You made that work very
well considering and even though we
ran into golems it's not like again
rock moves are so scarce right? And I can say
that now because I knew I wasn't going to jinx any of your gameplay.
Like, I knew we were gonna be fine with Hello.
Alright, I'm double checking, cause we said Rock slide rock throw and ancient power so
i'm yes double checking right now um oh roll out we forgot about rollout
super scary yeah anyone who doesn't know how to That could be scary. Rollout actually would be... Super scary. Yeah, yeah.
Anyone who doesn't know how rollout works
once you use it
you use it for five turns straight and
doubles in power each turn
so like you have it's 90 accurate, which that's a funny thing about rock moves
is most rock moves aren't 100% accurate. Like in this game, it's only ancient power. Every single other rock move
can miss.
Standstorm technically counts as a
rock move, but I mean...
Yeah, I was gonna say, I think weather's treated
a little differently. So there so there's five. There's
only five rock moves. You're so unlikely
to run into one but it's still running anything
with a four times weakness is always
terrifying and then running something
like a Mac Cargo that is allergic to water and ground.
Terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible.
I forgot how cute this ending straight-up was. It's adorable.
Oh the dittos dancing? Yeah. Yeah... I forgot how cute this ending straight is. It's adorable.
Oh, the dittos dancing? Yeah.
Yeah! That's an example of a Pokémon Crystal Full Item Randomizer, like we mentioned at the beginning and kind of sprinkled throughout
the whole stream. I did slightly easier settings but it's a really customizable experience.
Like I said earlier, you can reduce it so
it's only key items that get shuffled around
and not every item mixed up.
You can do things
like reduce the Pokemon's
levels or increase the Pokemon's levels.
You can do really wild stuff,
change the typing's power of
all that stuff. There's so
much you could do
that you can probably stuff like that there's so much you could do that
you can probably play
a randomizer like this for
the next 10 years and just have
a different experience literally every time
yeah and again it really shows how passionate
you are about this generation of Pokemon
I mean you know it so well, you know the map
so well, I mean it's no wonder that
you play this one quite a bit
You have the love for that
that comes with just playing and having
the experience with it oh yeah oh yeah it is it is definitely definitely my favorite generation i
i know what's wrong with the game i know that there's some balancing issues and whatnot
but it is definitely my favorite well again it was wonderful to have you on i enjoy the
conversations as always keys.
And again,
if you want to talk about your stream real quick,
we have a couple seconds here.
It's a shout outs.
Any of those things please by all means.
Yeah.
So,
uh, I mean just which on TV slash keys run,
uh, K E I Z A R O N. Um, that's, Yeah, so I mean just twitch.tv slash keysrun K-E-I-Z-A-R-O-N That's pretty much every single social media ever too
So like if you're a Twitter goer or YouTube or something
You can find me there too
I do a bunch of posts something. You can find me there too.
I do a bunch of Pokemon randos,
do a bunch of archipelagos,
do a bunch of challenge runs, so on and so forth.
I believe Emre is here with a kitten now, so you know what?
Yeah! We got a second.
We-we got time for-for a little kitty.
Yeah.
Oh wow! You're SO small!
Yes he's only 10... Oh, you're so small! Yes he's only 10-
Oh, you are a kitty.
Aw we own a reptile kitty.
Well you're so precious!
A mukey kong now.
You can see the dog.
It's so small!
So tiny!
Awwwwwww There ya go, what a perfect way to... Oh, tiny. Aww.
Well there you go.
What a perfect way to... Also there you go
follow my stream
because I have animals
You'll see animals
all the time
Yeah
I don't think
there's anything else
I can say
I think that's
the perfect send-off.
I have cat,
I have kitten,
I have dog,
I have snack.
Come follow me.
Enjoy the vibes.
Aw, what a cute kitty!
Oh, I'm so stoked stoked well thank you for that
that was really sweet to see I love having pets on my show
That was really good timing too yeah that was absolutely perfect and now you can go spend time with the kitty.
That's the plan!
Yeah! Well, you go enjoy that again. Congratulations on the randomizer great time and again just great stream in general. We appreciate
that. Well thanks for having
me on. Always appreciate it
And again, follow keys again. Good gameplay
great animals as well
so please go do that
So again folks, this is not the end of our Judicate great animals as well. So please go do that.
So again, folks,
this is not the end of our GDQ broadcast.
If you had fun here,
I promise you
you will certainly have fun
on the next show
that we have tonight
on Hot Picks.
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much. It was great.
Absolutely. Again, this is
not the end of our Hotfix content
tonight though. Stay tuned
for Time Capsule coming up after the break take it away tippy so so so so so so so so so so I'm not sure if that's the right word, but it is.
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I'm your host, Smooth Operativeative and you are watching time capsule it is the show where
we travel back in time to your favorite years in gaming and showcase awesome speed runs of games
released in the same year tonight we are diving into an overlooked title for the PlayStation 2
released in the year 2005 it is the Tekken spin-off game you didn't know you needed in your
life and honestly we're going to get right to it. Here to speedrun the world premiere
of Tekken's Nina Williams in
Death by Degrees, please welcome
the sleeper agent himself,
Saint Millian!
World premiere?
Hey Saint! Yeah, where am I sleeping world premiere hey yeah where my sleeper agents at
where the sleeper agents at
hey everybody
it's nice to be back on The Hot Fix
it's been a while for myself,
but I'm really glad to be here.
This is definitely
a Tekken game.
It's a very unique
Tekken game.
You can tell by
the ten trillion tons of mayhem oh my god here we go this is
the nina williams video game it's the first and last standalone Tekken game featuring mainly one character from the series.
Project Nina, you know?
Project Nina it was.
And then it turned into Tekken's Nina Williams in Death by Degrees.
It all takes place on this, or not all,
but most of it takes place on this luxury yacht
and I'm letting this intro video go for a little bit
because we're not going to get to see
pretty much any of the cut scenes
that are gonna skip through them i think when we were talking about it the cutscenes probably total
over an hour at least yes so yeah you might see the estimate is three and a half hours.
This is a long game
And it's mostly because of load screens
And skipping cutscenes
It takes up like 45 minutes of time in that three and a half hours
but this game is kind of special to me because i bought this at a shop called e star land in virginia one agdq some friends
and i went to this game shop oh wow and as speed runners do we were looking for obscure games
you know be like oh this looks terrible. Let's play it in the hotel room
and this was one of those games
and that was like six
plus years ago or something
There you go. And somewhat recently, I was just going
through my games and I was like, oh yeah
Death by Degrees is a
terrible game. And there were
still no speedruns of it anywhere.
Yeah, we couldn't find a single one so this according to our search is going
to be the world premiere of Tekken's Nina Williams in Death by Degrees of Begrown.
World premier at the set though. It's just fun to say, you know what I mean?
Yeah. So the
plot of this game is that
Nina is the ultimate assassin by
the way. That's kind of her thing.
She's a silent assassin.
Yeah, just in case you didn't know.
Yeah. Uh, she's investigating... Oh, here's a little sneak peek of the gameplay
if we have to look for it here.
So there's
uh
plot afoot.
A criminal organization is experimenting in the ocean
in the Bermuda Triangle,
and a video leaks on The Net, capital N, m the net this is 2005. not featuring sarah just
and nina is working for the cia in collusion with MI6, a couple other agents to investigate what's going on
this luxury yacht criminal organization ship where they're doing experiments.
So her cover is that she's entering an underground fighting tournament,
which is really an over-watered fighting tournament on a boat
and that's where the game begins.
Alright.
So this gameplay goes on for a while.
Well let's get to it then shall we?
Let's just get right to it.
I mean explain the whole game and then yeah of course there she
is all right so we're gonna start on beginner i actually don't know how much of a difference it is between beginner
and normal uh if i think you take less damage and maybe enemies have less health
it's not really noticeable i just pick it because it seems like the faster i mean yeah this requires
more testing so if you are finding the run interesting at any point like feel free to
around death by degrees pick it up this game is kind of like Metal Gear Solid 2
mixed with Resident Evil
mixed with Jet Li's Rise to Honor
and I'll explain more about that later.
Sure, yeah.
Just to give the vibe
but I'm gonna go ahead and start the time in 3-2-1-go!
Good luck!
And here's a load screen of the game.
Yeah, get used to this one.
You're going to see a lot of them.
We are just going to immediately skip cut
and scenes go right into the tutorial And here we are. All right, so here we get a taste of the 360 degree combat system. The twin stick combat system that is heavily I believe inspired by Jet Li's Rise to Honor which came out soon before this.
Very similar, you move around and then
flick the stick to do combos
And depending on how you attack, you do different combos. I'm doing a heavy combo here. It's kind of the best way to dispatch when multiple enemies break their guard.
You actually can't die in this
tutorial, so you're just kind of
kicking butt for a little while.
Yeah, and they interrupt Nina
at the pool or something.
Yeah, she's chilling at the pool.
So you're on the ship of a criminal organization and they
kind of get the tip
from somewhere that Nina is maybe undercover
so they ruin her
little day at the pool. she's so undercover yeah now we're
locked in our quarters and we get our cocktail dress of course do you get a bottle of water
right here this helps refill our focus gauge for critical attacks,
it's gonna be very important
and we're taking this bottle
of water all the way to the end
of the game-
Oh wow!
For the final boss
because it's just that useful in the final boss specifically.
Okay.
So Nina is locked in her quarters but we're just gonna escape real quick.
Just you know flip off the side of the balcony no big deal yeah
the music is so good in this like when saint showed me
this initially i felt like i was just watching a Bond film or something.
Very... very bondy?
It's very cinematic! Like it's almost a shame we have to skip the cutscenes but you know
it is what it is.
So for stairs flipping up as faster
It's cool but I don't know why
Running up the stairs
running up any stairs in this game
Is like running on butter For some reason if you sprint up the stairs she like doesn't go as fast as when
she normally runs yeah her little feet are like yeah so doing a dodge upstairs does
a flip which is much faster and it looks cooler so there's that and we're going to uh see the first
real showing of the fastest movement tech in the game which is dodging forward.
Let me get out of this menu...
So, sometimes sprinting is faster, the fastest way
to travel if it's a short distance but
If you hold your
Hold L1 which is kind of
Your martial arts button and
Press forward in kind of a rhythm
Then you do this little
Dodge tactic It's like a little sweep yes so she's a sweeper agent on the
ship two other agents on this mission and she's called a sweeper which means that if the other two agents
fail then she activates and she finishes the mission which I can only imagine
means sleeper agent but there was maybe a localization yeah we're not entirely
sure but I mean she does sweep the feet so it's possible across the deck exactly
cool movement it's possible
now do we meet the other agents involved oh
oh well you will so do we we? Trust no one.
Ten million
ten trillion tons of mayhem
we will meet
fellow agents
and
we're gonna meet
one right now actually
he's under attack
by a sniper
and uh we're gonna go help him out.
Sounds good!
In fact if you hold sprint while going up ladders. You go faster, so that's just what you do here
Oh nice, so we're gonna get a taste of the sniper gameplay
We're gonna take this guy out boom x-ray oh my goodness damage
this is one of the early x-ray critical games
all right we're going to pick up a sniper rifle and do some sniper gameplay.
Sweet! I'm down.
So the agent that we're protecting here his name is alan allen smithy which is totally not an alias
okay he needs protection uh which is actually total bs because he almost never takes damage from enemies
and he has infinite ammo he also never shoots these guys that you're shooting
they die in one hits of the head which is what I'm gonna try
to do but sometimes they take two shots to the back or three shots to the whole body.
It's kind of a sniper tutorial i guess here? Uh this isn't a tutorial oh
this is the real thing throwing you right in there okay yeah
this is real danger on the line
as you can tell by the danger meter on the bottom left that fills up if these snipers look at us too long.
Oh, there's like a little danger meter? Okay.
Yes. Dangerometer.
Alright so Alan does take damage, I was totally lying
but he never really takes enough
damage for it to matter.
That we know of anyway.
Yeah.
Can you imagine Alan just dies right here and now
god real that's never happened all right i hope you liked the first five minutes of this
i better see it again but no these guys they're pretty much chumps uh
but it is really important that i take cover if the danger meter gets too high
because health is kind of important in this
first little segment so they can they can shoot nina dead yeah
you can get shot hey hey alan hi what's up thanks yeah no problem let this cutscene play sure yeah
what a badass you're pretty good nice now we have this cool sniper
man screw it she's like it was trash sniper. Screw it.
She's like, it was trash.
Who cares? I didn't like that anyways.
I can't put it in my cocktail drink.
Yeah, that is probably true.
Okay. Now back to the action now loading back to the stealth action gameplay
we're gonna go down this ladder and there's a shiny item here.
It's a crank, it's a hexagonal crank I should say.
So things that you can interact with are always kind of sparkling like that?
Yeah important things. interact with are always kind of sparkling like that?
Yeah, important things. Important things. Okay.
I'm just going to go down this ladder here...
And now we're gonna break into the boat proper.
Oh my goodness!
So, let's talk about the camera for a little bit.
I'm holding R2 right now which kind of lets me control the
camera in a sort of a slightly free form way um but the camera shifts
a lot in the same vein as a Resident Evil type of game.
And that can mess with your movement quite a bit.
Oh, I can imagine.
Kind of holding R2 and controlling
the camera is
going to help us a lot to cut corners kind of precisely but a lot of times you cannot
use the cost of the camera control it It honestly feels random
where you can and can't use the camera.
Hmm, okay. Maybe on like the bigger
sections of the boat where it's kind
of like a long... Yeah, usually when you're close to
a wall or something they don't want you to use the camera.
Like a long little jaunt around the boat?
Yes.
Okay, so if you could imagine Resident Evil 2 in The Mansion, right?
Iconic.
You're always going back to places in two no there's a mansion right
there's a mansion that's like rpd the rpd it... that's a mansion.
The RPD? Straight mansion!
Straight mansion. Resident Evil 1 there is a mansion.
We'll go with that.
This is pretty much the same thing.
This whole boat is like a mansion.
I see you were making a comparison there
There's a lot of backtracking and there's puzzles
that are like
go get the key to the door
Alright, that's a puzzle
It's a lot of puzzles like that
So we're breaking into the boat prop It's a lot of puzzles like that.
So we're breaking into the boat proper here.
This is a CIA communication save point.
Normally, in a run, you wouldn't save at these because it just takes a little bit of extra time but there are laser grids that we're gonna have to bypass that give you an instant game over
and that would mean we would have to do everything over again, because this is a PS2 game.
If you don't save your game then you go back to the beginning.
Yeah there's no preloading of saves if Saint messes up we're just kind of going for it here no
we're trying to make this pretty legit you know
all right so this is a mature... oops.
Skipping cutscenes.
So hard the menu opened.
Now in terms of this game and its story like
Is this canon?
No, this is a non-canon Tekken game.
Non-canon.
As important as the Tekken canon is.
Stand alone fun story.
Yes.
It's a one off.
Nina's really not even kind of like her normal self in this game.
She has a totally different character.
She is much nicer in this game.
Oh, she's so much nicer!
Alright, I'm actually going to do a little technique i just learned about is you can
kind of go over this and get where you need to go faster with the wall run dude how's
she while running in heels that's while running in heels first time
games.
Wait,
it might be
I don't know
proof check me
I know the
Prince of
Britain is
out here
in heels
as for
damn sure
while
running
in heels
a video
essay all right While running in heels of the USA.
Alright, so right now we're trying to locate an agent that went missing. One of the two agents has gone M and uh we're kind of searching for him it's not alan
it's not allen it's uh the other guy his name is john john John, okay. John Doe.
John Doe, okay.
Also not an alias.
Also sometimes when you dodge by enemies
they just get completely baffled and look around where did she go I have no idea another
benefit real quick of the dashing that we're doing throughout most of the game
is when you dash like this or i should say
when you sprint normally away from enemies they have a rubber banding
mechanic where they can catch up to you pretty quickly.
And, uh...they rubberband up to you and they have special attack animations that lunge them forward
and knock you down because the game is designed so you don't run away
from a lot of fights. But the dashing
really circumvents
that mechanic, because you're not technically
sprinting, so it never
activates their rubber banding attack.
So they kind of can't catch up to you,
which is a pretty nice side effect
of the dashing.
Oh, okay.
Someone in the chat referred to it as wave dashing.
Wave dashing.
Now I'm wondering if that's like a technique in other
tech in games or something like that it might be yeah it's a melee technique oh yeah you'll
have to let me know we We just got a fingerprint scanner.
It was just on a conveyor belt.
Convenient for sure.
It's quite mysterious that we
just got John Doe's
fingerprint scanner that he's supposed to have on his person, but we're going to use it to get access
To certain doors throughout the entire game which is a very Metal Gear concept
Yeah so... We can access all all the doors with this now?
No. We have to get fingerprints and oh my god that's a dead body. Oh no!
This is clearly the work of a professional. Hopefully it's no one we know who is that it's richard it's richard oh
no i need this fingerprint you're so sorry richard we're sorry.
So we have level one access now
We are going to power on the cargo lift so we can get out of this room eventually
Or it's one way to get out of this room, I should say. This is the other way.
Here's a key
for a semi-intended
way of getting out of this location.
We're heading to a boss fight now. getting out of this location.
We're heading to a boss fight now.
So in this game, you can use melee weapons.
You can also use guns.
You can only hold one gun and one melee weapon, but there are permanent upgrades throughout the game Holsters and tactical belts
These give you more slots to carry
weapons.
We're about to get the first of those
permanent upgrades, which are very important
because the bosses in this game
are
a lot
faster if you have
plentiful weapons. So now
we can hold two melee weapons.
Now we get some ventilation
gameplay,
which is this is definitely a tekken game as you'll see oh wow
okay but for real
Nina moves pretty fast in the
vent. Yeah
She moves faster if you hold sprint
Oh, okay so that works
in the vent too
Interesting
First ever too. Yeah, that's tech. Interesting.
Speed Tech.
First ever world premiere.
Oh yeah!
So we load into a level and then we get another cutscene
And then another load screen. Oh my god! There's blood all over the floor
What happened? I don't know. What happened to John?
Something happen to John? We pick up this gun right here. It's a 9mm...
Millimetal?
9mm Thurb handgun
3RB, I think it means three round burst. Okay.
The
Thurb.
We're going into the cooler. This is where
the blood leads.
What is it? Oh my god. It's a dead body. John Doe's dead. Spoilers.
So do we know what happened to him?
He got something shoved in his neck.
Just some object or something.
Just some object, no he's completely dead.
This is where we meet one of the executives of the criminal
organization called Kometa
Organization. His name
is Bryce, he's
just a jerk and he has infinite
pistols in his jacket.
So we're gonna have to
fight him in this cooler.
So this is the first boss? This is the first boss.
Alright, Nina.
You get him.
He taunts you so much he's so annoying
uh we actually don't have to deplete his whole health bar here
we're gonna fight him a second time in a different location,
but we gotta get into like half health or
just below half health. Okay.
Anything sometimes hit the meat
into him? It does a little x-ray damage
So now we have critical
The purple meter in the top left is
our critical meter, and this gives us
the uh...x-ray attacks
Oh yeah! So it takes a little bit of time to do these, but they always do
a pretty significant amount of damage because just normal attacks is kind of chip damaged
type of situation.
Now,
is it difficult to aim
for the bones? It's not too
bad. There's a little bit of delay
and you know, it's aiming something on like a console game
right it's a bit fun a little clunky okay but uh
it's not the worst and time slows down so you can really
kind of dial in your attack
now i'm curious and i don't know if saint will notice but the chat may know
this is bryce a character in any other
Tekken game? No, I think he's exclusive
to Death by Degrees as are
many of the characters in this criminal organization
I see, okay
I'm not incredibly well versversed in Tekken, so thanks.
Yeah, me neither.
I kind of want to get Tekken 8 Evos this weekend, by the way.
If anyone's into watching competitive fighting games such as Tekken and nina williams from tecum then you may be able to see
her this weekend yeah the real i want to meet the real nina you kidding me all right so bryce ran away
we're just going to leave john we don't need him anymore he's done he's done for
okay bye john so alan is the only other agent from mi6 left, and he's going to be kind of in our earpiece throughout the game giving us directions
And sending us maps and stuff like that. But currently we need to get a gps device from Bryce that belonged
to John so he's kind of taunting us and running with it
chat says there are 10,000 entrants in Evo. That's wild.
Damn that has way too many people.
That's awesome though. Is it still in Vegas?
I killed this guy to see if he would drop a health kit, but he did not
So items
I'll talk about items for a moment
There are meal kits which heal you, and there are water bottles that give you critical gauge.
The meal kits are extremely important throughout the whole run because
you just take damage in this game it's as much as you'd like to avoid it
it's just inevitable so i'm gonna be stopping
to kill enemies not just for random drops which will hopefully
be health kits.
But we also need some experience points to level up in this game there you can level
up Nina to have more of her signature moves from Tekken.
They're like combos. We actually don't get a lot of them because we just
don't spend the time playing the game enough
to have the skill points to buy all of the abilities
unfortunately. So you have to kind of
pick and choose what you're going to... You have to kind of pick and choose
and then what we are
actually going to pick the most
Are abilities that make our melee weapons have more durability
Because melee weapons are very strong
So yeah, melee weapons are finite. You don't get them forever. They break just as well the guns you get have limited ammo and once they're out of ammo
Nina just tosses the gun.
She's like, eh, whatever.
Get rid of it.
So we're chasing Bryce.
We have to chase him down.
He's being a real jerk, but we're just gonna follow the drip drops of blood
You what? Uh...we'll find
I'm a little low on health but i am just gonna skip these guys
oh my gosh they have the whole crew out for her there's always so many people in that lobby no matter what. If you clear
them all and then leave and come back in
there's just another like 12 dudes there
That is so funny. They're like Nina, Nina
can we get your autograph? Exactly
So it's kind of an early XP farm
Okay, that makes sense Yeah Exactly. So it's kind of an early XP farm.
Okay, that makes sense.
If need be.
Alright, so what we saw there is the GPS device was left in the middle of this
Coliseum pool area.
How convenient.
It's truly a trap or wait is it
i'm gonna save here that i really don't die to Bryce 2 very often.
Bryce 2?
Bryce 2.
You thought you saw
the last of Bryce.
Yeah, you thought
you saw the last
of that character.
Little did you know.
So can you save
at any point
or it's at the little circles?
You have to find these save points.
Okay, I see.
The CIA communication points.
Okay, I see.
And we're going to go behind the bar.
Whoa, great.
Still checking up.
Pick that up.
You'll hit small.
It's enough.
And we're going to
open an armory chest.
These are scattered throughout the game. they're little puzzles that you can solve to get items.
So this is a whole chest full of weapons but we can't take them all, we can only take a couple because we have limited space but what i mostly want
it's like a honeycomb number puzzle oh okay uh i just want these katanas. They're the strongest in here.
And I don't really need the guns, because I already have a gun.
And I really don't wanna die to Bryce so I'm gonna fully heal even though I don't think I'm to die to Bryce, so I'm going to fully heal.
Even though I don't think I'm gonna die to Bryce.
That's a good call.
Weird things can happen you never know sometimes you get wombo comboed
It's it's sad time
Oh i love this arena! Yeah, this is a pretty
cool place.
Ten points...
Location of a Comita
executive or something? I don't know. This GPS
does some plot thing, I forget.
It's a trap! Bryce is
gonna trap us in here and there are
spikes all around us
to battle to the death with Bryce
So this fight is actually pretty tough
casually, but
one tip is you can
hit him into the spikes and it does a ton
of damage and that's exactly how we're going to beat him
now. Using the arena to exactly how we're going to beat him. Okay. Now.
Using the arena to our advantage?
I like that.
Take a bunch of bullets to the face.
So you can kind of get stuck in the corner.
Oh, we don't want to get into this fight still.
Come on.
Get them a couple times. Move. Come on, Bryce. get one multiple times move come on brace move it
all right i'm just gonna crit him and then i think he'll relocate after a frit
yeah brick break him.
Break his chest cavity.
Somehow he'll get back up.
There we go.
That's how that's supposed to go.
Alright now so when you readjust to go. Alright,
so when you readjust like that, then
he can kind of aim him
into a spike.
You just gotta watch where he goes.
So you can see it does a lot more damage on
the left. Oh, yeah.
Otherwise, you're just kind of
slowly chipping away at him. Yeah,
it's a really slow chip away if you
don't use this strat. I feel like
this arena, the way it's
designed... This must be the way you
are supposed to do it, right? Yeah, it's pretty
much designed as such.
But um...
yeah that's Bryce too
Not too bad. Took a few shots but
we'll watch a little bit of this cutscene
you'll never believe how he dies
You'll never believe what happens
next.
This is a mature game by the way.
The first and only mature
Tekken game. Oh wow! I didn't realize that actually!
It has the M rating in everything.
Yeah it has the M rating.
And Nina on the cover...
There's really not much that makes it a mature game
other than some blood.
I think it was kind of a marketing gimmick to have the Mature rating.
Oh, I see. To make it seem like
you were playing this kind of edgy
Tekken game.
Tekkens Nina Williams mature and be like,
yeah, I want to buy that. Yeah, you're like, whatever,
I'll buy it.
Alright, so
now we have level 2 access
from Bryce's fingerprints
and we are going to use that level 2 access from Bryce's fingerprints, and
we are going to use that to explore
more of the ship. Our current
objective now is to
find... We have to spy
on an executive meeting of this criminal organization.
So that's what we're going to work out right now.
So are we going in a disguise or just straight like this?
We're trying to spy on it, I think our disguise is kind of the jig itself at
the moment okay yeah anytime you see enemies they're like but we found the intruder me a tutor
i'm gonna kill some of these guys in this lobby for some xp and hopefully some drops so if you have any announcements that
you wanted to get through now i'll be a pretty good
time yeah sure well you know um next month is august and we do have some things coming up
so let's talk about them first of all uh gdqs next All Women and Femmes speedrunning event, Flame Fatales, returns on August 18th and goes through the 25th.
You can use the command exclamation mark FF in our Twitch chat to check out the schedule
and let us know what you
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gdq is heading to pax west from august 30th through September 2nd.
The schedule is out for that as well,
and you can use the command
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for more information
and yeah,
let us know what you're excited
to see at PAX.
Heck yeah. Heck yeah. let us know what you're excited to see at parks heck yeah heck yeah
all right so now that we have access to second level things means we can use the elevator. We're going to go straight to the basement which is going to advance the plot as the elevator gets disabled.
This might be the nicest elevator I've ever seen in a game.
Oh, yeah.
This whole ship is like luxury.
Luxury.
... is like luxury luxury
i find the now loading screen kind of comforting i think it's just a maybe ps2 era comfiness. Yeah, it's just like
not a lot of games even have a little loading
animation anymore. They're just like a static
image or something. Or like
actually loading screens are getting pretty advanced
It'll be like a whole cut scene playing and I'm
like wait this is the loading screen oh yeah they hide them well yeah I am specifically
referring to Alan Wake 2. I didn't realize that
I was in the loading screen, but...
Wait, I am IN the loading screen?
Alright so we escaped the elevator
They kinda crashed it on us You You missed something shiny, what was it?
Those are gold coins and that's
specifically a New Game Plus related thing.
Okay. So there are 30 gold
coins in the game and the more you
collect, the more extra items you'll get in New Game Plus.
Okay. And extra
weapon slots right off the bat.
So not necessarily
useful but potentially
100% category.
Yeah, if someone's brave enough to take it on.
Yeah, 100%.
Could be fun.
Another honeycomb puzzle.
This is going to give us another permanent upgrade
To our arsenal
It's a, another tactical belt
Which means more melee weapons can be wielded
Okay sweet
And now we're going to meet Alan again face-to-face this time and
We're going to go through a required combat sequence sort of mini boss fight.
Okay, mini boss.
It's just a bunch of dudes with riot shields.
Nina, Nina, can we get your autograph?
And they're actually...
Yeah, exactly.
And they're actually the main reason
I got the katanas from that armory back then.
They help with Bryce hitting him into the spikes so you don't have to use an unarmed combo.
Okay.
But here's the gun we found
do a couple easy kills
and what were- oh my god yes
Oh nice! Okay
We got a grenade, I'm gonna fire off to us
since it only holds one ranged weapon.
So this is
the best possible drop for this
fight, as a grenade. You get
six grenades per drop.
It's totally random and kind- rare but uh it speeds up this whole fight sequence considerably
okay because they're just one shot in an aoe we got a little gdq luck on our side let's go there so alan he actually does help you a bit here this
guy always runs away so far away uh That's an item that drops
we're not gonna pick up, there's
like essential oils
that you get that are buffs to Nina
they buff your defense
oh my god more grenades?
At least at least
Like yeah, it's these oils but they're never quite useful
enough to um
It's never quite worth it That was my name.
It's never quite worth it to pick up the buffs, at least
my theory is that they're not quite worth it. We dropped a gun.
So we're just killing the last...
Alright there's like one more guy coming. I actually had some good drops here
Some meal kits.
He decided to actually pull his weight a little bit. Uh, no kit. Oh, that's a no-kit!
Nice, we're getting a lot of health items
so it's kinda good. Yeah, this is lucky!
Alright, this fight sequence went pretty well
He made out like a bandit.
Did Alan get anything?
And one bottle of water for the road.
Uh, Alan doesn't pick up items.
He doesn't really need them.
He doesn't know how.
That's right, he's not trained. he doesn't really need them. He doesn't know how He doesn't know how
That's right, he's not trained
Now we get
some exposition about
the super weapon that
is possibly being built by this criminal organization.
It's a series of satellites
that do something
involving sinking ships,
so that's what we're learning about.
Okay, the plot thickens?
The plot thickens through these load screens. Nina, she's feeling moderately
interested
She's just like oh okay I guess we gotta figure that out. Here we get the stingray drone which is totally not the cipher from Metal Gear Solid 2.
You know the little thing that flies around on the tanker.
I'm making no comparisons to Metal Gear Solid 2, none at all.
There's no similarities between this game
and Metal Gear Solid.
But the Sing Ray drone is a gameplay mechanic that we will see occasionally.
We'll have to fly a drone around and investigate things
all right so right now we're breaking into the quarters of one of the executives lana lei she is a woman who uses uh whatever those oriental fans are called just has like a bladed fan that she uses
and she uses poisons
and she loves to torture people.
Okay.
She's really evil.
Gosh, I can't wait to meet her.
Yeah, she's real pleasant.
She sounds so fun.
So we're breaking into her quarters through the aquarium, it's a little swim sequence
because this is exactly millgear's hold at 2.
Swimming with the fishes, we're just swimming right up here.
Oh, we are in the fish tank. Yeah, we are the fish.
Okay, we get a
defibrillator. This is the best item
in the game. It's... when you
reach 0 HP it will automatically pop and let
You heal to full but it will also give you a full critical meter. Now these
Are hard to find correct? Yeah these are like limited
These don't drop anywhere.
So we have to use them wisely.
Yeah, so anytime we're low health,
you really want to use a med kit because
We strategically use them
on certain boss fights.
Because you can fight a boss for a while,
user crits, and then
when you're low health just kind of purposely die
because your crit gauge will get refilled.
Right, so it's sometimes a strategic
death in that regard. Yeah, we don't really
rely on it just for heals.
So that's why we want plenty of medkits
is to avoid using our defibrillators the
fripper we got a hoard them for a while exactly so right now we're kind of
scouring her quarters for fingerprints.
And we also get a bit of lore,
there's a picture of a scientist
that you may or may not be seeing during the run.
There are three pieces of these fingerprints so We just gotta scan them as we go.
Gonna pick up a katana, little extra melee weapon for some fights coming up.
And we got a code, or I am just gonna guess...
Oh that's it.
So the codes are always the same?
The codes are always the same. Yeah, okay.
Into the wardrobe.
Just have to remember them.
We have a secret little holster giving us a permanent upgrade for firearm slots.
And this is Lana Lay's closet? This is Lana Lay's closet?
This is Lana Lay's closet.
Okay.
So we're gonna scan this little wrist piece
for the final fingerprint,
giving us third-level access to the boat.
Now are we going to take any of the clothes well that's kind of a good idea she could be like
disguised in lana's clothes and she's oh god, what happened to my dress?
It's all ripped.
Gross.
What's that?
Lana had a suit
just laid out for her.
Yeah she just had a Nina Williams
sized bodysuit
and here we are. My, that's convenient
spy suit
yeah this suit is really cool because it's not just purple but has kind of like the sheen
of turquoise when you hit certain lighting.
Yay!
It's a kind of duochrome suit.
I like it.
It's really cool. Real Raiden vibes.
Yeah, you can see it.
A little bit.
Okay!
So now we have third-level access.
Now we're gonna try to get…
…to a place where we can spy on this meeting.
I love how Nina looks behind her just to make sure nobody's watching.
Coast is clear!
Which is funny because you're constantly running past people in this run and going through the door they can't do anything to stop you yes maybe it's just like a
bye you can't follow me oh chat says it is an iconic outfit so
i want to know does lana ever wear it or it's just a nina i think it's
just the nina thing but you find it in Lana's closet.
You find it in the closet. There's no explanation for it.
Forget it.
Okay.
So now we've wrapped back around into the main yacht banquet hall i guess
it would be okay they're having a big party a a big meeting?
Yes.
It's... There's a piano
down there.
Oh wow.
Hang out for parties.
Pretty cool stuff.
Seems legit.
A lot of load screens
in here too. A lot of load screens in here too
a lot of places to just hang out and load
so we're
going to a door that was locked
previously by a third level access key this game's design is extremely linear
it's it's a lot of get access to thing now you can go through this thing and
then it makes you backtrack a lot, too.
It's just one of those games.
I mean, yeah, there's a lot of games like that, so
we can forgive it for sure. No big deal.
Now we have another laser grid.
I will focus here because if you die it's uh it's a pretty big step
sure yeah fingers crossed do you got this it's not difficult i just have to not
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Oh gosh.
I was just barely stepping in.
Alright, we'll get to see what happens when you step in that.
It's okay.
We got it back up.
I would have saved, but there's just no save point between what we did and and where we are yeah you're fine that's okay
i made a save just for such an occasion
i'm like yeah this is really easy.
Oh, you did make a save.
Okay, I thought maybe...
We don't have as many meal kits
on this one but that's alright.
Run invalid.
That's alright. but that's all right run invalid we lost our meal that's all right
this is now pure showcase oh i can't believe i died there
that's never happened before.
Chat says, Snake! Snake!
Nina?
Nina!
Good thing it was all just a bad dream while we were in this locker room.
Anyways, let's get out of the soccer room
so that there's a bunch of lockers you can open, and this is kind of like more on the casual gameplay side of things.
But you can scan a bunch of different fingerprints that are optional throughout the whole game
And you take those fingerprints and go to these lockers and they give you bonus items
that's so weird it's like a thumbprint activated like locker yeah they're all
thumb print everything's related to thumbprints for convenience.
Do people still unlock the phones with a thumb?
Oh well... yeah.
Well oh, the thumb on the front?
As opposed to the finger on the back as opposed to the finger
anywhere I suppose.
I used to have a phone that did a frontal,
like the screen could read your thumbprint or whatever.
Oh OK, my phone is severely outdated. could read your thumbprint. Oh, okay, okay.
My phone is severely outdated.
I shouldn't be asking these questions.
Okay, let's not mess up one of the easiest parts of the game okay but that is an example of just if
you don't save and just barely mess up you will just
game over it takes a lot of time.
It's a little unfortunate they're not more lenient
about it. You know, one little laser
and you're gone.
They're savage.
Alright.
Be careful. Seriously Seriously it's guarded by a gun. God I'm like nervous for you.
Let's go further this way. There we go.
Alright, nice! Yay!
We did it.
And we can turn it off.
We actually are going to be passing back through this exact hallway numerous times.
Okay. It's just one of those
backtracking... Oh, look away.
Mature game.
Mature game?
We'll be going through here a few times.
I'm gonna go back behind this counter, just for a little
Jotunnuki sword. It's an upgraded katana, basically
and I'm just gonna kill some guys get some drops
Let's see if they dropped. The cameras...
Okay, we got one milk hit
water bottle
That's fine for now
So do we still have at least one defibrillator yes okay yeah this is pretty much the same state
that we were in before um the only difference on this file is that I have some stun grenades for
some reason. Stun grenades are pretty not entirely useful, they don't do a lot of
damage. They do stun normal enemies but they don't uh
they're not as good as hand grenades i see we'll probably just be getting rid
of them at some point but we do still have the assault rifle that
we picked up as well so we're going to put the stingray drone
in a little vent i wasn't about to ask if she was gonna go in there like can you know it's
just too small for her to fit maybe the stingray drone will fit right okay and then you get this cool
what this is so fun
it doesn't seem too difficult to control, can you break it?
Yes.
Usually you don't really break it on your own that much
but enemies can shoot it down i see pretty quick okay And now this drone's going to spy through a little kind of glass mirror at the executives meeting, Where we learn more plot
What happens at the meeting oh
Nothing good. They're all dead
So Lana lay she killed everyone in the meeting because
she wants to take all power from the organization except Enrique
who is... we'll meet him again. He looks
exactly like Benicio Del Toro.
Wait, for real? I don't think they got his
permission but he's
exactly Benicio Del Toro.
Interesting. Okay, I'm looking forward to meeting...
You said the name was Enrique?
Enrique
Okay
Can't wait to find Enrique
So Enrique and Lanaleigh are the last of the Komata executives, or so we think.
I'm gonna go ahead and heal a bit.
Going for a stun gun. Bird grenade.
You can't go through this door until they're done using it, so... Oh my gosh, that's so funny.
It's like a clown car.
It's like, yeah, we'll wait for you to go through the doors.
Yeah, as long as the little door itself is open nina cannot interact with it
so okay you just wait for all the enemies to finish piling out
oh man that guy went ham on the door.
These guys are just doing combos when you enter this room I don't know why they're just
attacking nothing.
I don't know like what is on like the, but it looks like
these men raided Guy Fieri's closet.
I can't
totally tell.
Flavortown Jitsu.
Yeah.
Flavortown Jitsu to yeah. Flavor town jitsu, yeah we'll go with it.
Alright so right now we've learned about the meeting.
I'm going this way actually. we've learned about the meeting... The soundtrack
goes pretty hard in this game.
So right now, we have to relay what we learned about the Comitas executive meeting
To the CIA because they need to know what happened.
So, we're heading towards a computer that can send those images.
And we are also going to enable some lifeboats so we can escape the boat.
Okay, sounds reasonable.
We are actually nearing the end of the yacht.
The first yacht part of the game, like Act 1.
We're going to go somewhere else for Act 2
And then Act 3 is we're back on the yacht spoilers we'll be back
so just navigating some boat
it's gonna dash away so they don't rubber band on us they still try to sprint to catch
up to you but they won't do the actual attack
that like lunges at you and tackles you so you have a little bit of time to get
away yes especially as long as you're doing
the wave dashing that Nina does. Nice.
We're back in this room. Go ahead and grab the executive roster, we don't need this we just have to pick it up
before we can actually access this laptop send images to cia sounds important is the
internet okay on this yacht? Do some hacking here.
Yeah, it's the best!
Luxury yacht internet.
We're gonna release the control
on the lifeboats and and now we're gonna GTFO.
I'mma pop a quick save because we're about to have a boss fight.
Oh yeah, the boat's on lockdown now it doesn't really matter because we're
about to leave okay now are we going to meet lana oh we are going to use the lift that we powered earlier.
Nice sound effect here.
So cool. Classic.
It's a classic sound.
And we actually saved our assault rifle for this
outside area because you're going to have to fight a bunch
of people, or not you, me
are going to have to fight a bunch of people
who unfortunately don't drop anything
they're just scripted
you have to kill these dudes
I wish they dropped stuff because there's so many of them.
We've got to funnel him in here.
Oh, that seems smart.
Yeah.
Get them all lined up.
Get them all lined up.
You actually can't do this.
There you go, this is the part where you fall down.
Now we could turn the sandal
and get out of here.
Okay, we are officially leaving the boat.
Yeah, we're going to get this lifeboat out of here for sure.
This is like so dramatic Dramatic crane
Oh no something goes wrong
And then Nina falls back on the boat
Then she runs for a helicopter
Which the Londolet and
Enrique are trying to escape on.
What? But Londolet hits
Nina with a poison dart that makes her
hallucinate about some trauma she had
back when she was a kid, where her dad was shot in
the snow. And
that's like the whole
side plot of Nina
getting over her trauma
of when her and her sister watched their father get killed in
front of them.
Oh my gosh!
So that leads us to this snowy boss fight with Lana Lay and Child Nina, where we have to protect Child
Nina from zombies
or else we will take tons of damage
while Lanalee throws a fan at us.
It's
very stressful casually but we're're gonna try to kinda handle this.
We're going to knock her down and then run back help Nina.
Every time a zombie bites Nina it takes like a quarter of our life hard away.
So she's doing her dance. Okay, she's gonna move.
Good good. So we're just going attack lana anytime we can once you do enough
damage to her she kind of does a dance and then she'll run in a direction
so you just need to do enough damage to her To kind of make her start moving around
And then we always need to run back to Nina
To protect her from zombies
It's always good to keep Lana close to
Nina, Lana close to Nina
because you don't want to have to run too far to protect young nina
right little neena's getting away from us is doing good actually she's um
nice and far away in his mom bows
and you can kind of guide her away from things too. And one kick will always make the zombies fall over as well, which is pretty useful
put an elbow drop on her Okay. That's fine.
Keep kicking zombies one time, it takes them a long time to get back up luckily so...
Don't wanna waste too much of the katana's durability on zombies though
but i thought she was done
okay now she's doing her thing.
Over here.
I'm just going to throw all these stun grenades because I don't ever use them.
Oh wow.
They're just kind of leftovers. don't ever use them. Oh, wow.
That took care of the zombies for a bit.
Always about done.
Not too bad. Always about done.
Not too bad. Ooh, GG on that one!
Okay. After that, Nina gets captured anyways and is taken to a penitentiary on an island,
a private island.
So we're going to prison.
Okay.
We have to prison break now?
We have to prison break now. We have to prison break, which Nina does by literally just hulking out of her handcuffs.
She's like being tortured by electricity much like Snake and Melgar
Swellen. But she
just eventually breaks out. She just fakes out of them
and she says, good morning.
Good morning! And then that's
where we're picking up here.
Nice.
We have to retrieve our goods, so we'll be in this big room for a little while
while we retrieve it.
Our goods are in that doorway directly ahead
but i'm actually going to go up here first because there's some upright sweet kids
they're just faster if we go straight and get them. This prison has seen better days that's for sure. Oh yeah,
it's like they found the prison or something like that. We're gonna climb across this chasm.
Now can Nina be shot down in the middle of the... She can't be shot down, but when you're dropping from the pipe if you get shot while you're dropping that the pipe, if you get shot while
you're dropping that short distance,
she can get shot
not a distance.
It doesn't always happen but
it's kind of funny if it ever does happen
and we're just giving these guys a run around while we got some extra loot
so we've got a permanent upgrade for our melee weapons, Dota Nuki which is like level 2 katana. I'm gonna crush these
guys a little bit. It's a little bit of XP.
I like- it's very subtle but i like the indicator that you have hit someone how
it changes from red to green.
I feel like that's kind of yeah that's like a
Like you've got aggro, these guys are about to attack that's why they usually turn red
all right now we gotta get our stuff which includes our fingerprint scanner
which is how we are going to get out of this room.
He opens the menu for us, for whatever reason
and killing these guys just gets them out of our way but also gives
us what we actually want to help.
Now, we're going to go back up to our cell
because they are in the fingerprint that we need
okay here we have a soldier who is going to betray the company and that's why they're
here and that's where they still have access doors barry goldman harry goldman how could you barry
if you know you know
sweep on over to this door.
Nina's legs must be getting tired with all
this wave dashing. She got strong
legs. That's for sure.
She got strong legs.
Okay. That's for sure. You got strong legs.
Okay, so we had to get that fingerprint open the door and now we have to go get a key to open a different door in that room it's classic puzzle gameplay
sure is muggy today. What was that noise?
Sure is muggy today.
We're going to the bathroom
and there's a guy in here who's struggling on
the toilet, and we're literally gonna
kick his door in. Oh no!
And kill him. Oh wow, what a way
to go.
Shouldn't have had those burritos apparently not today was the wrong day to just eat food that's how imagine that's how you go out I don't want having a hard time here.
Nina kicks the door in and you die.
So now we have the key.
Nice. Let's see, what else to talk about during load screens? Oops.
I don't need to say anything.
I'm tempted to kill these dudes for xp but maybe later
it's usually nicer when there are a bunch of people who have clumped up
and then you can kind of just combo them all together.
But they were a little bit spread out. Now, do the
enemies have like a pretty predictable
pathing to Nina or
did they get a little out of control sometimes?
They're mostly predictable,
but their move set that they
throw out is usually
slightly random.
Random, okay.
Crossing through this room again
now we have a required fight
with the Tekken force
this is Haihachi Mishima's
forces
so Haihachi
is kind of in collusion with the komita organization we've been dealing
with now have we met him yet hi uh not nina has because she fights in the King of Iron Quest
tournament. Well sure so
we haven't seen him
um we'll see him on a screen at some
point he like talks to Nisil
Del Toro
okay
here's the gun we picked up very to Nisil Del Toro. Okay.
Use the gun we picked up, very useful
Um if we there is a possibility that enemies before
this drop a shotgun and that's usually the best
thing to handle these guys with. I'm gonna just crit this guy because they can block
a lot of attacks but if we got a shotgun these dudes die in one shot.
Which is super, super...
It's just not in the route?
It was just random.
I see, random.
What drops.
Excuse me. random drops yeah
okay what is happening next on this game there's so many load screens to think about it yeah you have
to really think hard about what's happening in the story yes remembering all the cutscenes right
so we're going down to a dungeon and this is where they're keeping
the scientists who kind of built their
satellite superweapon project
That's like a terrible place to keep him
Yeah, I guess
he did something bad
So they're keeping him down here in this Did something bad.
So they're keeping him down here in this dank dungeon with literal, like medieval torture devices.
This place is really gritty.
Oof.
It's probably stinky. I don't like the sound of that there's like candles and buckets
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yeah i can definitely say that you know this game's maybe not the best
game ever but it definitely is charming in its
sort of age and just what it was going for
i really like them i respect to for i respect it for the vibe they went for
the gameplay and design just kind of didn't work out
load screens are not great bad camera angles but it's like spy action.
It has like...
It had potential, you know?
Yeah, I...
You can see the ideas.
I didn't see every cutscene
but the ones that I did see were pretty
damn cool. Yeah, and the cutscenes are
pretty funny too. So it's worth
a playthrough just to experience the story
once, you know?
Or just watch a playthrough
if you don't want to play it.
Because it is a pretty long game
and it can be difficult as well.
I imagine it's difficult
to get a hold of as well.
Uh, maybe. I got this for like four dollars I imagine it's difficult to get a hold of as well. Maybe.
I got this for like $4, six years ago.
I don't know how much that would have changed
because Tekken 8 came out
and multiple Tekkens have come out. Oh yeah, since then.
But Tekken 8's really popular now.
How many of you are
playing Tekken 8 right
now? Who's your fighter?
Yeah, who's your fighter? I want to know what everyone plays coming up
is a pretty dangerous part of the run uh the tekken force is coming at us in full force
now in the sewers and And they're dangerous because
they can throw knives, so
even though we're dashing away,
they can really do a lot of damage
to us and stall us if they land those
knives, so I'm going to try to
go as fast
as possible, but kind of serpentine
Serpentine? Serpentine?
So we don't get hit
with those knives
and there's a lot of them
They can also hit us on the ladder, but they And there's a lot of them.
They can also hit us on the ladder, but they were very nice
there. Oh wow yeah! Yeah there's a lot of them.
Just gonna keep running and dodging.
This is another defibrillator, we definitely want this.
It's one of like five or six we're going to get in the whole run
They are all worth it
So from the honeycomb puzzle box i got this grenade launcher and I'm gonna use it on these dudes okay i want them to clump up a little bit but they're being a little difficult.
Ugh!
Alright well, they didn't really drop a ton of good things.
Let's see if this guy sticks out. really drop a ton of good things. I'm just gonna fix that up.
Let's heal a little bit.
Don't want to burn the defib
just yet.
We got 11 meal kits, okay.
That's decent.
Just full heal. Oh come on! I dodged that!
Now would be a
great time to hit them with the grenade
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I swear I saw a grenade but
I think it disappeared or something.
Alright, I'm killing these guys because items and XP.
So having double crit before the boss is coming up really useful.
Oh nice!
It just makes you able to target two bones at the same time when doing a crit, so you do double damage.
Now do you have to like um...target those bones separately?
Yeah.
Okay I see. One after another.
But we
want to keep our XP up and
keep leveling our crit gauge because we want
triple crit by the final boss.
Right. Because at that point when you use a defibrillator so we get a full deal
and full crit you get three crits each defibrillator out of up to six defibrillators
so it kind of burns through the final boss really fast. Oh, I see. If you save everything.
So that's why we saved them for the final boss? Yeah.
Okay.
And the reason the final boss
we want crits so bad is because
you don't get to use any other weapons. You don't get guns and you
don't get melee weapons for the final boss, it's a straight duel like it doesn't even let
you if you bring them. Okay I see what they were going for
They wanted to make it really dramatic.
Use what you got,
your own two fists.
Alright, we're gonna make a heroic
leap across this so we don't fall into the water.
Nice jump. And then we're gonna take a ladder fall into the water. Nice job. And then we're going to take a ladder
right into the water.
It's actually
so funny. You actually cannot
fall into the water there, you have
to jump across and then take the ladder
into it okay okay i don't know why that's this really funny
it is what it is it's a tekken game
if you couldn't tell by the gameplay
pick up another sword every chance we can get a sword will take it because it
does more damage than just melee.
Even though they do break.
So how many katanas do we have? Just one now?
Right now, let's take inventory... We have two.
What is nice about katanas as well is if you pick up two of the same type of katana, Nina will just dual wield it and then that takes up only one slot for melee weapons.
That's awesome!
We got a water elevation puzzle
you just pick 15 feet and then that puzzle is solved.
And the Tekken Force is after us once again.
Run, Nino run!
We're just gonna take this ladder.
Hmm... gonna take this ladder.
Now, do you know if the enemies can also fast travel down the ladder?
No. They can't use ladders.
They can't use elevators. Wait, they can't even use the. They can't use elevators.
Wait, they can't even use the ladder?
They're baffled by such technology.
That is so funny.
This is spy technology that Nina uses.
Takes a trained professional.
Okay...
I'm tempted to make a save before this next part, just because of how that laser grid went before
where it did not expect to die. Just make a save.
But now that this run is
not entirely valid
I'm going to go ahead and save
We're coming up to a point where Go ahead and save.
We're coming up to a point where we'll have to cross some ledges, try to not get hit
by some electric cables which will instantly game over us.
Now are they they swinging around
trying to hit her?
Yeah, they're kind of swinging.
It's a little weird.
So they're trying to flush Nina out of this area because they just can't stop her.
They are flooding the stairway shaft thing, so we have to use our dexterity to escape acrobatics or climbing, whatever.
There's two minutes!
Oh no.
We gotta go.
There's pressure now.
There is pressure. Death by degrees.
Oh yeah, in terms of the name death by degrees while we do this...
Sure.
I think the name is a reference to
the combat system with the twin stick fighting.
Like, it's 360 degrees of combat,
even though it's really just like
eight directional combat.
Still, that's kind of clever.
It's death by degrees.
And then there's also Nina's flashbacks to when her father died in the snow,
so it's like cold death by degrees
and the super weapon that we're trying to stop
spoilers, it's related to global warming
and making oceans rise
so heat Death by degrees there's like multiple themes
and wordplay
So what you're saying is it's the perfect title for this game?
That's exactly what I'm saying.
There's no better title. Perfect.
I'm going to actually
let this one come back down because I don't know if I made
it in time or am I getting
knocked out?
Yeah, so they like kind of wiggle then they fly away
Oh my gosh!
It's unnatural!
It's not natural
Boom we did it nice all right so we're out of there good that
place was yuck
so how are you feeling saint Zane? I'm feeling pretty good.
I'm bummed that we had to load a backup save
on something that really should have been...
I was literally practicing before this
because I didn't want to die there
and then I died there.
Sometimes it's just like that.
That's just how it goes,
you know?
Past life
in Death by Degrees.
And now I'm going
to save before
every single laser grid
which is there's another one coming up.
Now the panic saves.
Yeah, now the panic saves. I'm questioning
everything.
Got the yips.
We're just going to run around this.
We are in the outside area now of the penitentiary
we'll be back here a couple times as well
I'm trying to dispatch all of these guys because there's a laser grid coming up but they
will chase you through it and make it quite a bit more dangerous.
In a really fast world record attempt scenario or something
you probably wouldn't kill these guys
You'd just kind of chance it and cross the lasers
They didn't drop anything...
really. Oh yeah yeah.
That's okay though.
Could've gone there, but
I'm just going to let it breathe.
Because sometimes you think
it can go right away, but it's actually
about to change because it's completely random.
And what we get for succeeding
is a rail gun.
Oh, fabulous
prize! It's very strong.
It has three shots only.
Like just total?
You can't reload it? It's just three shots, make them count. And we're actually going to bring it to a boss specifically later on so we going to hold onto it for a little while.
Okay.
Very useful on bosses, though.
Bosses tend to
block or avoid bullets
in general in this game. Like more so than
just your basic enemy? Yeah
some bosses they just like hold their sword
up and then suddenly they're blocking every bullet
it's one of those types of deals
Alright So we're going gonna go in this room
this is a bit of an optional room but there's a permanent upgrade um i think it's tactical belt
so it can hold more melee weapons and And there's also a medium health kit.
So not exactly required to go in here, but...
We might as well pick one.
Yeah, it's honestly nice having both of these things.
Even though you have to go through...
Oh, it's a holster. Sorry. Fire round.
Even though we have to go through two load screens
to get these
It's still kind of worth
these guys are a bit
annoying
but they're trapped in here
they don't know how to use the door
yeah I think so
that happens a lot in this game they just are helpless
they have the claw arms or if they have the claw hands so they can't use the door hand
oh okay it's stuck in there.
This is where we were supposed to go.
A little Tekken poster there.
Oh, that's fun.
And this is also full of
just dudes hanging out
with drinks on the table it's
like the break room oh this doesn't look like a great it is
like a breakthrough this looks like a very important room
it's just it's like a security guard room. There was big chilling.
OK, so we opened some security doors.
We're basically making our way through the most secure part
of this compound.
And now we have to deposit some items so we can get through the metal detector
oh and then we'll get these items back later yeah we'll have to come
back for these items so you're kind of missing some things.
So what's happening now?
Nina's depositing her items.
Okay.
All of them.
All of them.
So we have to...
This is naked Nina.
She's not naked, she's wearing a swimsuit.
It's like Naked Snake you know?
Ah I see what you're saying.
Alright I'll give you that one Saint
Half naked snake
We love Nina
we swear
This is temporary
Oh, accidentally did a flip
Okay, we'll just not go that way this is temporary oh i accidentally did a flip
okay we'll just not go that way
like the ladder these guys are kind of not as dangerous
usually um as the other attacking force people
of course i say that they just cobbled me down there
so we're heading out and we have to activate an elevator so we can get back to this point with our
gear that's the whole point of this little side so we just had to take like a small detour we have
to take a detour too it's like a dark Souls shortcut, you know? Okay.
We're going to unlock the Firelink truck.
So we're going
to turn on the elevator
and then
we are going to fall off and then bring it down this way because we'll be coming back this way with our stuff right yes oh i forgot to unlock
this i got through a market from the other side.
Oh, do you have to go back? A little bit of a goof but
it doesn't take too long.
Okay, you have to go back and open it now?
Yeah I just have to get back around this fence
I was a little bit distracted there.
All right well while C is backtracking
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I'll unlock the door
this is what I forgot to do. Perfect.
Hey, I needed to use that door. Get out of the way!
They can use THAT door... but they can't use this one.
Okay, the door is too heavy.
This one's built out of plot armor so they just can't.
High security.
High-security plot door.
I think if there's a load screen
they just can't manage to do it.
They probably just didn't want to, like, program them in the section after the fact.
Yeah.
Alright so now we're gonna go get our stuff back.
Okay.
Take one last look.
We're actually gonna get one of the best...
Not one of the best guns but
one of the better guns in the game
that is critical for a certain
boss skip later on. It's in this crate
on the bottom left there. You said a
boss skip? A boss skip.
Ooh, okay. Like the only boss
skip and one of the only skips in the whole game
because the game is very linear
and built in a very
PlayStation 2 kind of way where it's hard
to skip stuff.
Alright, we're back. Let's open this honeycomb puzzle armory thingy.
And we got...
The Magnum.
We'll be also saving that gun until we need it. Nina's gonna show us Magnum by the end of the run.
It's magnificent!
What, Look!
All right, so now we gotta go backtrack to that elevator
That we left behind for ourselves
And we're gonna meet Benicio del Toro
Boss fight one aka enrique yeah
i just called benicio del toro because he just is that's just who he is and
i'm surprised they didn't get sued for this game. Oh, okay!
That was my next question like what did Benicio del Toro think of this?
I don't think he knows anything about it.
Maybe he doesn't know yet.
He has no clue, I don't think.
The careers of the game were just fans
and these guys can't stop Nina
but they're just going to watch her go up the elevator
because she's helpless.
Yeah, I was going to say what happened to Nina's outfit?
They messed it up real bad.
Yeah, it gets tattered over the course of
The game.
Each outfit gets tattered pretty much
except for the final one going for realism yeah so we got a little bit
of a skip here coming up wait for this guy to say report your status. Flip!
And then... They weren't done coming out of the door, apparently.
Gandalf's like, fly you fools!
And Nina does the backflip.
Fly you fools! Backina does the back foot why are you fools backflip stylishly yes down with
the balrog it's actually nina's birthday soon right i Like, in the lower...
Damn, for real?
I'm gonna double check.
What does that make her, like, Zodiac-wise?
Oh gosh, um...
Chat, you'll have to help me out with that um i can't find it now but i thought oh wait yeah date of birth july 25th yo i think that's like when evo is that's uh in like about a week or so so hey happy birthday
nina happy early birthday nina seems like now is a good time to maybe
pick up the speedrun if anyone's
having fun with us.
Give Nina a birthday gift and learn to
speedrun just by degrees and sit
through all of the load screens. Yes.
I will say that's probably the hardest part of this
whole run is the patience
that you need to
just sit through a lot of these screens.
Oh, here we could see um enrique talking to haihachi
i'm gonna let this play for just a second there is oh wow now do we know if benicio del Toro ever had this hairstyle?
That'd be the real question.
Should be more concerned about that woman behind you nino williams very casual yeah
chat answered the question nina is a leo so same oh yo let's go maybe that's why i'm so into this game that's why you feel a connection
to this game so we have enrique boss fight. Alright, let's go.
He has a sword. Ooh, what's this?
I'm gonna scan his scabbard for part of his fingerprint.
He just leaves it here
and you can just scan it in the middle
of the boss fight. That's so funny.
You need good iframes.
I didn't time you very well, but...
I'm gonna go ahead and heal because we don't
want to use any defibrillators on this guy.
So just gonna do some due diligence there and start off with a crit, two crits to adjust. Okay, yeah.
So we have a lot of weapons that can damage Enrique pretty handily but again I'm going to save the rail the railgun save the magnum and we just kind of
kind of combo him carefully while not taking too much damage wait he went over the whole console
okay so i'm pretty much just watching his attacks
you always get a free combo after he does some kind of attack and they can
get a combo Oh, I missed my crit somehow.
If you whiff your crit and it just kind of does
a single attack but you still lose all of your crit meter which is pretty rough Pretty rough.
Thank you, camera. The directional fighting system is
kind of interesting until the
camera starts rotating in a really crazy
way and
suddenly you mess up your combo.
I imagine this would be 10 times harder if you were doing this on a PS2 controller
There's a little adapter that we are using for this run correct saint yeah
yes so saints on the ps4 controller adapter and while it's still pretty
tough i think ps2 controller users might have more of a challenge here.
Okay.
Oh yeah, the guitar is good.
You can have it your way!
Yep there's another camera kinda just messing up my combo that happens quite a bit.
So I wouldn't say this boss fight is one of the harder ones, but it does take
a bit more patience because it's just a lot chip damage. But once you get him in a corner and kind of into the rhythm, it's pretty...
It's kind of a simple boss fight. uh lot bone crack
that didn't sound very good
mamacita don't call her Mamacita!
Mamacita.
Oh, he landed on the railing. I've never seen that before. That was really weird. Oh yeah! He like fell behind it. Usually you hit him over it.
Basically... kind of funny.
Get that grind...
skateboarding
Okay, we're getting close to
Close to a finish here close to close to
a finish here
Those bones aren't breaking yet
Usually when the boss is low that's when you start seeing
the bone break animations yes somehow they always manage to stand yeah you can like break both his
legs and he's still just jumping around video game stuff yeah this is video game stuff
okay again a bit of a longer boss fight but i routed it this way specifically because the later boss
fight where you fight him he does way more damage he's way more unpredictable. Oh, I see.
We're going to use the railgun on the second fight for him which is coming up later.
Right on. Well done.
Thank you. So we knocked him out
he starts pleading
bargaining for us. He starts pleading,
bargaining for us.
He presents himself. I could be a witness for the CIA and Nina's like hmm
and then out of nowhere
Anna Williams, Nina's
sister barges in, she's working for
this organization
and she kicks Nina
and the guy gets away
And so does Anna
A sibling rivalry.
Anna Williams has entered the chat.
She's currently lurking.
We see you in it.
So we're gonna scan We see you. Waiting for time to critically strike.
Alright, so we're gonna scan the second fingerprint of Enrique on his sword
giving us more access to this facility
which will let us free the scientist. That was the whole point
of all this. The scientist who's locked up.
Gosh, I forgot about that guy. Yeah, exactly.
There's a lot of
Googling when I was playing this game. Like where do I go now in this game?
Oh you got a little bit lost in the game.
I really lost and it wasn't until after I beat the game that I realized that Ninaina has a little like quest journal in the menus
that just like never saw oh so she has like her she has like her own accounts of what's
happening that's interesting kind of like shenmue it's like her little diary with what's happening. That's interesting. Kind of like Shenmue, it's her little diary
with what's going on.
It's kind of cool.
If I saw that,
it would probably have been a little bit easier.
All right so now we're gonna use
the key to turn off the metal detector So it can actually leave the faster way
We don't have to go all around this facility just to leave.
And now we're gonna restock on some stuff. We're going to go into
this kind of break room where there's an
armory chest full of weapons. Oh good!
Stock up
for a couple fights
coming up.
Boss fights.
Who's the next boss we're heading to?
The next boss we're heading to the next boss we're heading to is anna i believe oh anna williams okay
i'm really smart.
I totally don't have a cheat sheet right in front of me.
It memorizes it all.
If you have like, a printed of solutions, is that tool assisted?
No.
It's just paper assist.
Paper-assisted.
A pass.
Yes. Pass runs. a pass yes a past paper assisted speed round pass runs we'll give you a pass this time thank
you you're welcome all right let's head down this hallway free lucas and then see what happens
we're back at this area the The camera's doing whatever it wants,
but we'll just flip up the stairs
and get out of here.
So you said
the scientist is Lucas?
Yeah, his name's Lucas.
You were asking me something?
Have you played any Tekken games, Tippi?
I know I have because I used to play eddie but i can't remember
i can't remember which second it was it was even all of them it was ages ago um my sister
and i used to go to the arcade sometimes together and play Tekken
and Soul Calibur and stuff.
Classic. Yeah, so
it was a good time.
Love the Soul Calibur cabinets
too. Oh yeah. Soul Calibur played... caliber cabinets too oh yeah uh soul caliper played valdo a lot the best matching character
hey if i don't know what i'm doing, you can't count on it.
I don't know.
Valdo is a little weird and so am I.
Maybe Valdo is your astrological sign.
Valdo is my astrological sign.
Just Valdo, yeah.
You don't share a sign, he IS the sign.
But yes, Eddie is fantastic in Tekken and I think probably played as Eddie the most in the past.
Yeah, he's sick. He's like who you
always picked, right? It's like,
I'm with the Eddie Cordo. He's the coolest.
He's dancing. He's got the moves, you know?
That boy era or something. Exactly.
Alright, we freed lucas yay and now we need to follow him to investigate his super weapon
he was developing.
I'm going to take
his meal kit because
he's got the camera.
He left it here?
He left your meal kit.
Lucas, you gotta eat. It's important.
You gotta eat or else it's gonna bone for this.
We're not gonna fight this guys.
Alright, Lucas can handle himself.
Uh, we're gonna leave.
Yeah, the load times are quite a lot, but also I wonder
if someone were to play this on like a modded PS3 or something
maybe it would speed these little loading
screens up just a bit, but
we're running this on what? A slim PS2?
Yeah, just the PS2 Slim.
Forget the model number.
There's a 9 in there somewhere.
But, um...
The fastest way would probably be
to have your own hard drive
installed in
Classic PS2
with the game installed.
Oh, I see.
On it's...
I think that's the fastest way to have load screens.
Emulator is not necessarily that much faster either.
They're still pretty long, but
they're probably faster than the disc.
Oh sure, yeah.
But yeah, the load
screens are probably the worst part about the game
I would say.
Everything else is like... this run
would be pretty fine otherwise it's just
load screens are constant.
I think that that's something that
typically will deter a runner from approaching a game like this.
You know, it's just one of those things.
There are good and bad speed games.
Can you hold your breath for a long time?
I don't know.
All right.
Anyone who thinks they can hold their breath for a long time? I don't know. All right. Anyone who thinks they can hold their breath for a long time, I challenge you.
I'm going to hold my breath. Chat, don't do it.
I don't recommend it. I'll go through this as fast as I can.
Okay. I want to try.
Here we go.
Okay. okay here we go Did I do it? Did I win?
Oh no, I totally failed.
We're still swimming chad just breathe
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So it's definitely something to look forward to if you want to see Mournino.
Mournino?
Who doesn't want to see more Nina?
Let's get it going.
What?
Hashtag more Nina.
Hashtag let's just get it going.
Hashtag let's just get it going.
No context, let's just get it going. No context, let's just get it going!
It's a new reference from Time Capsule.
There we go.
Alright, we're uh...just kinda
going to the next plot point.
We're gonna pick up a Dotonuki.
Okay.
And we are going to the rooftop segment which features another sniping scene from
the beginning if you remember with a different sniper rifle presumably
a different sniper rifle because the other one's damaged
and missing. The other one Nina just threw
away. She just didn't even want it.
She was like screw this.
There's actually a
climbing sequence with spotlights that we're gonna have to do
in it but if we're fast enough right here you can kind of get a one cycle but
you really have to have the perfect movement. So I'm gonna try and...
Oh, camera movement!
I'm not going to make it.
Alright we just gotta run now.
So there's only one opportunity in this cycle of spotlights where you can actually get past
them and if you're very quick you you can make it without waiting.
But since we got spotted...
These kind of snap around
as quickly
as the little electric rope things.
The spotlights?lights yeah they were like on you really quick oh yeah when they spot you they just fly over we have a quick meal while hanging out
oh yeah and uh just wait for this right sequence so these both spotlights have to go up, and then one has to come down.
Then that's when you can go.
I spent a lot of time here casually yelling at my TV like
what the hell
how did I get spotted
I like that you are playing this on a CRT
oh yeah well
reaction time is really important especially when you're lining up the criticals.
Just a little bit of delay on that is infuriating.
Oh I bet.
Because you have to aim for thin bones on on like Launalei or something.
Yeah.
Alright, so in terms of the plot...
I'm gonna grab this medium mule kit. Every mule kit counts because every mule kit means we will be more secure in saving our defibrillators much later.
We're editing Lucas's passcode, his fingerprint security so he can meet us somewhere.
So that was what it was all about.
We had to give him access to the other area
okay his stuff uh because nina can just you know sweep around the place and she's an agent
she can get access to places but lucas he says Lucas is just a scientist.
He doesn't do flips and swim
underwater and stuff. That we know of.
That we know of!
We don't know for sure.
And now we're
heading to a sniper
sequence.
And right up this
ladder is a really unfair part
where you get shot almost no matter what no matter if your
spamming dodge is oh okay i just knock it hit what the
heck that's not how i've never done that
without getting yo let's go it's kind of awesome okay uh so here's a sniper
he uh he didn't do his job so now he's got paid price sorry guy sorry you're fired
oh my gosh he just disappears deleted from existence delete super delete all right now we have a lovely
lengthy sniper
sequence
yeah so this might be
a good time
sure yeah um this might be a good time. Any announcements?
Sure, yeah.
This might be a good time to take a little stretch break if y'all are needing it.
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oh nice shot thank you
oh got him nice shot thank you oh god that headshot's a little finicky to hit all right next so this is like the last sniper sequence but you keep panning over to like different parts
of the rooftop area and there's another sniper sequence in the game there's a total of three
the third one will also be at this exact same location. Oh, okay.
It's like not very much different
at all so they kind of like
reuse this one spot
which I don't really want to get hit
Taking damage from snipers is not like I don't really want to get hit.
Taking damage from snipers is not, like, the end of the world,
but it's not profitable.
I am trying to save literally as many medkits as I can, because some of the later boss fights are just savage how much damage they can output in a short amount of time oh yeah Reload. I love aiming on consoles. Not as easy as it is on a mouse keyboard i guess
not for me maybe some other people though
i was never really a console shooter gamer
myself that's fair.
I love that they put load screens in between the sniper segments.
Oh yeah, like the music's still going.
Yeah, it's like, wait we're gonna
load one more time while you're the game is reloading the weapon
it's going to reduce the dangerometer over there.
So what happens if it gets maxed?
They start hitting you for like...
kind of a lot, well
a little chunk of damage but it will
keep hitting you and it will also mess up your
aim so
you pretty much have to take cover at that point.
These guys are a bit annoying.
There we go.
I gotta say, the aiming
is a little bizarre in this game because you'll
be making shots and it won't even look like you're aimed
at the enemy yeah it's so strange there's like a strange kind of bullet travel it like makes you
think there's bullet travel by just kind of delaying your shot hitting. So sometimes I'll
like aim quick, shoot as I go across them it doesn't look like they get shot for like
another second. Yeah it's wild. It's a little awkward.
I feel like sometimes when you're not very zoomed in, the bullet hitbox
your shooting is kind of wider
it has a bit more forgiveness
Is that when you are not zoomed Yeah, when you're not zoomed in?
Yeah, when you're kind of zoomed a little far out
it seems like it gives you a little bit of leeway.
Some headshots just seem easier
than this guy's. like some headshots just seem easier uh let's see it's actually really hard to
like see them i think i saw him he was like up a bit yeah right classic there's a bazooka guy here that
i definitely have to shoot um you cannot kind of hide from him he will still do damaged even if you take cover from him so i might keep an eye out
oh there's a good guys here the red flash across the screen there
is this guy he's a critical target
now can you get the bazooka? No. Yeah. Fortunately.
Which?
I don't know, okay.
I feel like
I'm confusing the third
sniper segment with
this one so I'm confusing the third sniper segment with this one, so I'm like looking in the wrong place.
Is it a third sniper segment also here?
Yes. Oh okay. Yeah, I can see that getting confusing.
Alright! Done. Now we need to go meet with Lucas and we're going to descend into the depths of this prison island. It's more than just a prison island.
It's a full-on research facility. Okay then.
Just like Resident Evil.
This isn't just mansion there's a clandestine laboratory or something.
Climb on this rope... you actually I think the whole point of that sniper sequence is
that you can't climb across this because
those snipers will just shoot you off.
Oh, okay.
Have you tried it or it requires more testing?
No, actually not tried it.
I just kind of assumed...
Oh, okay.
Because you're constantly getting shot while trying to get on it and sure so it's just like
maybe there is a way to uh skip it i don't think I was able to.
Away we go.
What else can we talk about during this load screen?
Now, are you mashing through a bunch of cut scenes here or like what's happening in the story now so right now we're in a we're in the outside area we were
in before so we're kind of backtracking. We are meeting Lucas at an elevator that requires two people.
Of course it does.
Yes! It's been on our face this whole time.
It's like the elevator requires two people.
And now we can finally do it, because Lucas is waiting there.
Okay so we're gonna go meet back with Lucas.
Yes. We're going to meet him right after this load screen.
Nice! Then we'll go to another load screen. Nice! And then we'll go to another
load screen, and then another
load screen. There's like a door that
leads to a hallway to a load screen
coming up. It's
really comical.
There he is!
Hey Lucas, what's up?
Hurry!
So he's like trying to get some evidence
I think against this
organization
He knows of where something important is
So he wants
to get us to it first
Now how does he know that he can trust get us to it first.
Now how does he know that he can trust Nina in this
scenario? He doesn't. Because she's CIA
and she broke him out.
Okay, so he's just based on her
helping him. He was locked up for some reason
i guess he was thinking about betraying them okay so she's kind of helping him because
he's a witness he made the super satellite super weapon right and he needs protection because
he probably is the only one who knows how to manage it exactly so now we get a new soundtrack Exactly.
So now we get a new soundtrack
here in this facility, it's kind of cool.
Oh yeah, this is kinda comfy.
Alright so... Now we need to open this door that's
locked. The controls are busted.
It's a real puzzle.
We're gonna go up the sniper tower and get a key to a forklift.
I promise this is all gonna make sense.
Okay.
Spy vibes out here.
The spy music, doo-doo-doo-doo-doo.
Hi friends.
He has a forklift key.
Okay, cool.
If he shoots us off it's a little bit faster but...
It's okay if he doesn't.
Okay nice timing guy!
Wow!
What a jerk!
We're out of here.
We've lost the enemy!
She's sweeping that way.
You don't mess with the sweeper, OK?
We activated the forklift.
Can you guess where this is going?
A small vent.
Going up or going down
stingray
that's a great question
I don't know if Nina
is forklift certified
do you
probably not do they train assassins forklift certified. Do you?
Probably not.
Do they train assassins in forklift driving? Well, I mean, hey, you never know
like that might be a very important part
of training. You never know what
you'll find. It's one of those things where it's like,
you probably have to know how to fly a chopper
and they teach you multiple
things so it's like you better know how
to figure out a forklift.
If Nina can fly a chopper she can manage the forklift oh yeah if nina can fly a chopper she
can manage the fork right i assume she can fly a chopper no
certifications necessary you know yeah so we're flying this drone around
to open some doors for ourselves.
The drone seems pretty forgiving when you kind of brush the wall, is it tough to control?
It's not- it drifts a little bit.
But if it bumps the wall,
it's not the end of the world.
This is one of the unskippable cutscenes
of the game.
I don't know why you can't skip that
because of an important stingray action.
All right, so we turn the elevator on now we can go up here
and then we're gonna go open the door for ourselves and I gotta be kind of
careful here because if these guys pull up their guns and start shooting at us, it's kind of immediate game over.
Oh wow.
So you still have to be kind of sneaky.
Ooh, that was close.
Yeah, once it turns red they'll start shooting
and they combo the stingray really fast
and you lose.
Good job. But luckily on stingray segments like that when you get mission failed
and you retry it just restarts you in that drone segment it doesn't like
game over low to save save, it lets you just retry.
Oh okay but you still have to start that sequence from the beginning?
Yeah, we'll have to start the Stingray sequence from the start.
Yeah that's not too bad.
Nice now we broke in and Now we can go here.
So at this point, we're hearing from Alan who is also on this island, our MI6 partner that the komita criminal organization has just unleashed some sort of mechanical
monster on it just, I guess.
There's like a scramble for some
evidence on this super weapon.
So now there's a big monster down here.
Uh...
So we're gonna have to look out for that.
Just get these guys.
And here's the point I was telling you about,
where we go through a door and then we're going to walk down a hallway and just open another door.
And there is literally no point to this hallway except...
They were trying to like flesh out the architecture of the place you know
yeah but this is just like door to a door
it's classic ps2 gameplay
all right in this area
there are electric fences
that we really have to be careful not
to touch while we dash through it because they
do a considerable
amount of damage so these this fence is pretty deadly.
We're still gonna go through like this...
Let's try to avoid people and defense
But we're about to turn it off anyway
It's just- It's a puzzle.
Looks like we can
turn it off.
Do you want to
turn it off?
I guess if that's
our only option,
yeah.
If that's the plot critical thing to do, then yeah, I think I'll do it. i think my excuse
lucas can take care of those guys lucas follow us because you got it wait he's not following us he's gonna tank uh those guys okay he's not going to get hurt oh they chased me anyways weird
oh yeah see lucas scared these guys off yeah they were like come on fighting
they're like we're not going to touch lucas yes he's a pro fighter. Yeah, get Nina.
Alright so when we got that magnum it was for this boss fight with Anna coming up
So we are on this bridge, and the bridge is
falling apart.
Like as you fight Anna.
And if you fall through one of the holes
in the bridge, you die instantly.
Defibrillators don't help you oh however anna she flips away if
she falls in one of the holes so it's like oh that's unfair but okay whatever
but with the magnum specifically on the last shot
of the magnum if you combo her she won't like flip out
of the hole and i have no clue why it's like this but I'm gonna try to nail it first
trying. See, she flips out but on the last bullet she should go in.
And that's a boss skip.
Nice!
So that's Ana one done.
Ana one
her done.
So that's a skip I found completely on accident.
I guess I got really lucky when it was just like fighting her and I pulled out my magnum and I was like whoa she just died.
And then I figured out that setup.
So what happens during this cutscene
is the monster that was running amok
in this facility falls onto
the bridge where Nina and Anna are fighting
and Anna and Lucas fall And Anna and Lucas fall.
So, Anna kind of disappears
and Lucas needs help
because he's getting chased
by this giant golem.
Oh no!
I am going to save here again
because the escort mission coming up is kind of random and Lucas can die pretty easily
we're going to be escorting Lucas out of the building that's right we're gonna be escorting Lucas out of the building? That's right.
We're gonna be escorting Lucas out
of a scary situation with that scary monster.
Peckinforce, most elite units.
Pretty annoying guys.
I mean, no match for Nina but still kind of annoying.
Going back in here... We don't have to fight these guys, we're just running right here.
Okay so we have a maze situation here.
We have security cameras, we see the overlay of the kind of tunnel system that Lucas is in
and it's our job to guide him out.
Alright.
It's like an escort mission, basically.
Okay so I gotta pay attention for a sec.
This is random.
His starting position is usually left of the glowy F?
I'm at a four-way intersection, going left I think.
So the goal here is to go to
the glowy L on the top right. There's a crowbar there. Left or straight, that sounds
right! You should be heading to G right now. Uh,
The glowy letters are where there are cameras so you see L,
there's a crowbar.
Okay so this is good.
He's at G.
So now he's going to get the straight or left. He's going to automatically turn right and end up at L.
So the goal here is to not get him killed.
We want to get him to crowbar and then get him to the exit without running into the monster which is always
automatically tracking them and following him so we can't go back the way we came here's lucas it's a crowbar
we're gonna make them go straight we're going to basically do a loopy loop um from l we're going to go down to h and then go all the way along the bottom from K to J to I.
Uh, we might see the Golem on these cameras at some point.
He's usually not far behind.
Just waiting for him to get the H.
I can go straight,
so I'm actually going to turn right.
Don't see that going.
So Lucas is at the bottom right, he's heading towards K.
He's at the four-way intersection.
Yeah, just turn right at the bottom-right corner.
Exciting stuff. This is intense! It kind of is.
Uh... it IS intense—oh, I think I saw something.
Oh, he should be heading to K soon.
There he is.
Hey Lucas.
Run Lucas, run!
Yeah, he's not very urgent at all.
Windy walk
What lurks in the darkness
Okay, keep going straight please as fast as you can. Oh my gosh
there he is. This is the these are called j statues i don't know what
the j stands for really but we'll be seeing a lot more of them throughout the rest of the room.
Alright, Lucas is coming up near the exit. He'll be showing up there.
Okay.
We're left and we're out.
Okay this went actually really well
This can be a stressful part because his starting position is random oh
and if you can't pinpoint exactly where he is and if you make the wrong turn
or you don't move fast enough lucas takes a lot of damage from the golem
and depending on their position
Lucas can get permanently
comboed and you just immediately game over
Oh so if he dies it's just game over
I mean yeah that makes sense Okay well good job we got out of
there yeah this is lucky rng actually in that in that case so now lucas got the crowbar and
he broke himself out and the statue tried to chase him out but the tunnel collapsed down in the
statute of course it did of course so now it's just us lucas chilling and we're gonna
keep trying to make our way to this research facility that he keeps talking about
in the cutscenes
that you're not seeing.
Can you imagine
he's just making it all up?
He very well could have been.
He's making it up
just to get Nina's autograph.
But,
oh, that's a good point.
But Alan the other agent guy he did
send Nina a map of the complex.
Okay. Suspiciously he just always
has a map ready to go.
Alright we got that crowbar, we'll be using it too and I'm gonna grab this extra
holster holding more firearms
And then holding more firearms.
And then we are going to... The whole point of all this
in this area
was to get the crowbar to open a hatch.
It was always sitting there.
Wow.
But of course,
you need to fight Anna and then guide Lucas
through the maze.
It just blends in
with everything.
Right here.
Use crowbar. It's right here, used for a bar.
That's actually so funny.
There's even a cutscene for it.
And we go down.
Deeper
into the depths of degrees.
Deeper into the degrees.
Deeper in degrees of death.
And other than that one backup save I had to do, this is a pretty decent run so far.
Nice! Yeah.
Things are going swimmingly.
Doesn't seem like there's been too many complications aside from that,
So you're doing great.
This is great. I'm having a good time
this is everyone's oh great i love this for us
just happy to show off nina i just think it's cool that she has her
own game like there has her own game.
She has her own game?
Out of nowhere, like...
I'm just betting that so many Tekken fans
probably don't even know this game exists.
I think the hardcore Tekken fans
know it exists.
The hardcore fans, for sure. But if you've just kind of played Tekken fans know it exists. Hardcore fans, for sure. But if you've just
kind of played Tekken and even
the PS2, like
you probably have never heard of this. It didn't sell
very well, even though it did have a
considerable team behind it. I'm curious how many copies is sold now
but this game was also made by namco when it was still just Namco.
This was released the same year that Namco
merged with
Bandai.
So this is one of the last pure
Namco games.
A Tekken side game featuring Nina Williams.
Alright, so we let Lucas in through a lock as we swam him through a thing and now we're going to head into a cutscene
and, nope.
Not a cutscene. Seven cutscenes
which we will be skipping
all of them, which means we have eight load
screens to go through.
So I'll do my best to explain uh the plot unless you want to say an announcement there's plenty of time yeah i mean i mentioned this once before
but i do want to mention it again that GDQ's next
all-women and femme speedrunning event
Flame Fatales is coming up
August 18th through the 25th.
So you can use the command exclamation mark
FF in our Twitch chat to check out the schedule and let us know what you're
looking forward to the most and then yeah see if you want to indulge us with some plot I would love
to okay so at the bottom of The Ocean there's this thing called methane hydrate it's like
bacteria on the ocean floor and this is all fictional fiction got it so when
activated by electromagnets which are shot from satellites.
That bacteria bubbles up
and gets really hot. It's super
fuel efficient.
And it also causes ships to sink
and lose track of their uh radar devices like it's it's something on
the ocean floor that activates from the satellites in space and you can think
ships from space okay but what is like the range on this thing uh lucas was smashing a man
the range from space i just meant like in terms of underwater
like how big is that area where ships can sink and things go?
All over the world. Oh my gosh! The world... It's a satellite system all
over the world. And not only can it sink ships, if all of it is activated
at the same time It raises the ocean's
levels and
all of civilization will be
flooded. Who would do that?
We're in a scuba suit
Who would do that, honestly?
Only only a crazy person
only somebody who hated oh my god this
this camera change always messes with
me
okay oh wow nina even has the scuba suit on.
Yeah.
We're going to do some diving.
Okay.
So yeah, methane hydrate.
It's activated by a satellite system that we've been talking about the super
weapon system it's called celacia okay like salacious crumb from star wars but
just celasia
a very obscure star wars reference. Thank you, Saint.
So that's what happened at the beginning of the game when a leaked video
of a ship exploding and going underwater,
it was the satellite system being tested.
Ooh!
That's... We're trying to stop global warming.
It's NENA versus Global Warming Death by Degrees.
Wow.
I...
wow.
Yeah.
So now we're in the research lab.
It's been filled with poison gas or toxic gas and all the scientists have
been killed to cover up this project.
So that's why we have this mask in scuba suits so we can kind of traverse
this area.
And our goal now is to neutralize the gas, which means
you got pick up two key items.
This is one of them.
It's a chlorine based detergent And the other one is like bleach or something, and we're going to put them both in the sprinkler system and turn it on,
and that will solve the poison gas situation.
Just bleach it, you know? Yeah, with detergent
though so it smells good.
So it also smells good.
Listen, we're going to save the world and make sure it smells good in
the process. Yes, exactly.
The other item isn't bleach but I forget what it's called. It's some
chemical. We're also going to stop at
this armory puzzle and we're
going to get some more weapons.
... Okay. The main thing we want here are the guns.
Submachine gun and a shot-a.
Shot-A?
And there's also a defibrillator in this room that is a little hidden, but...
I've played the game so I know it's here.
Again, I don't trust the camera's angle,
So I'm always holding R2 like this to control the camera.
Right because... It's something that
you probably- Oh calcium hydroxide I guess is what it's called? It's not bleach?
Calcium hydroxy clean sure yeah
we're gonna go put that in the sprinkler system okay
sounds like a party i guess
it's uh yeah it's pretty fun don't try this at home no
no don't put chemicals in your sprinkler system don't do it at all right on
unless you have like a toxic research facility situation going on special circumstances.
Yeah, what's really weird is this fog effect over the game it really does not work in the emulator
oh really like i originally uh emulated this game game and legally ripped it from my copy of the
game.
And I played on an emulator.
Yeah when you're in this area there's just like squares that are floating everywhere.
Oh! It looks really bad. It looks fine here. just like squares that are floating everywhere.
Oh!
It looks really bad.
It looks fine here,
fine enough,
but then it really struggles.
I'd be kind of curious to see the visual comparison.
It sounds really funny.
Yeah. HD remake when oh could you imagine
the people want nina make the load screens like non-existent please
i don't know this is is a pretty interesting story.
I feel like if they did remake it
I'd play it.
They should just...
PlayStation 6 exclusive!
PlayStation 6. Come on! Let's do this. exclusive please come on with the console that would be epic it's a fire alarm activate it
sure is it says break glass n Nina just presses it like a button.
She broke it off camera.
Yeah she wanted to be discreet
there we go we solved it so we had to do that because the doors
leaving this area would not open otherwise made a good question come in from chat is there a limit to
the air that you can breathe or nina's wearing the suit and she's completely it's infinite in
the soup okay so yeah if nina's wearing the suit she doesn't have to worry about um suffocating
suffocating or swimming underwater i think you have infinite uh air oh okay well that's uh
that's nice for the gamers you don't have to stress about that kind of thing big dub for the gamers. You don't have to stress about that kind of thing.
It's a big dub for the gamers.
I mean, yeah it can focus more on your fighting technique.
Yeah in swimming form. Okay, so at this point
Now that we've unlocked some doors
And cleared the gas from this area
Lucas has actually gone ahead on without us
And he is looking for The evidence by himself Lucas has actually gone ahead on without us.
And he is looking for the evidence by himself.
Oh, no!
So a bit silly on his part,
but he seems to be doing something on his own.
Lucas, what are you doin'?
But we're just going to continue our search
investigating this facility looking for Lucas and evidence
And uh, we're going to stumble upon
a bit of a brutal oh gosh they got me
a bit of a brutal left by the G.A. statue beast.
And I think I'm actually going to kill these guys for some extra cash.
They're doing me a little more trouble than they are. kill these guys for some exp. Now I haven't really seen you, like...
Or maybe I'm just not reading
the game well? But
how do you level up your skills? Is there a menu?
I've not leveled up anything at all.
I see. Okay.
I will admit that I have been saving my skill points though.
The main things to get from leveling up are more crit meter
um and skill points to spend but i haven't
had enough necessarily to um finally got it
to make any worthwhile upgrades yeah Yeah, exactly. I see.
I may just...
Nice! They're just dropping the candy.
That was nice of them game thank you thank you thank you
uh maybe i will check how many skill points i have
well don't let me pressure you. Now I'm worried.
I was just like...I heard you talk about
the skill points and I'm like... Yeah yeah, let's talk about it. Let's get in
the menu here. Because this is a good point
um i'm gonna give melee proficiency okay i actually needed
yeah i have enough for two of my other proficiency this makes my
weapons not break as fast.
Ooh, that's nice!
Actually did mean to save there.
We have a double boss fight coming up. Like three phases of two different bosses.
So I'm gonna go ahead and just plan a save here.
I think the timer's wrong because of the backup save, but it's no biggie.
We'll rely on the real timer in the...
Yeah, there is a timer at the end of the run right?
Yeah but mine is skewed because of the backup save
Oh I see
So we will rely on rta right so we're gonna fight that jay
statue that we saw chasing lucas that was a jade statue a j the letter j dash statue oh it's called I thought you said James no no that would be cool
all right we're gonna start with a double crit on its little robot brain take that yeah
bust your system
gonna go ahead and heal because i suspect that will be taking a little damage
all right so this guy he launches these little drones they gotta dodge periodically
and then once they attack fly by two times or sorry three times
they uh aim at you and they launch some missiles but if you run around the boss they'll hit him instead
so it does a little extra damage to him so my strat for this guy is to do the first attack of the katana combo
over and over that seems to kind of do the most damage the first
attack if you do a full combo it doesn't necessarily
it's not like very dps efficient i guess right you don't want to waste the moves
oh he got me i thought was part of the way enough. Laying the smack down on Nina.
He literally did a wrestling move.
It was a smackdown.
Kia! Alright, so that's phase one
the only thing different in phase two
for this statue is
he uses flamethrowers
more and...
Oh!
I actually didn't even know he could jump off the wall wrestling style in Phase 1.
I thought that was a Phase 2 joint, but um,
I guess you can just do it anytime
for me honestly again we're just gonna keep trying to dodge those
drones they're coming again again. One hit, let's not see that one.
Can't come one more time.
Or no, they're shooting lasers now.
Just make sure they hit the statue.
Just walking to get stunned
oh yeah Alan's over there now
he's charging up the super laser
okay
he's gonna finish it off for us once we get this thing rolling So, one last crit on him.
Alright he's pretty low... I think...
If we get him in front of the cannon, it should just end the fight but sometimes it's easier to just kill him. Okay he's gonna do his flamethrower attack
this is fine
you know what i'm going to get out my gap
oh forgot about those guys come on saint
okay nice ended and then alan finishes them off with a laser beam.
That's actually the weapon that satellite uses, it's like an electromagnet laser
so that was just sitting around as a test
version of it, but that's technically
what's in the satellites that makes
the global warming happen. The testing
facility. This all makes sense in the context
of the story, I promise. I believe you.
So, make another cheeky save
real quick.
Just because the boss fight coming up
is with Enrique again.
It's the final fight with him. Benicio del Toro.
Legally distinct Benicio
Del Toro.
But we have a special
strategy for him
because he does a lot of damage,
he's unpredictable
and he has a lot of health.
So what is our strategy?
Our strategy
is to use
the J statue
which is running rampant during this fight
charge both nina and enrique so it does damage to him until he has half health
and then the j statute kind of runs off and breaks down. And then
we are going to double crit him,
and then use the rail gun, and that will finish
off the rest of his health.
Alright, let's do it. So instead of engaging
him in direct combat, which is really how you lose
a lot of health and burn through a lot of meal kits.
He's very aggressive.
And he's good at blocking too.
He's good at blocking as well.
Yeah, and he blocks everything.
So we're just gonna try to avoid him...
Well, try not to get charged ourselves.
We keep baiting him over here to hang out with the J statue.
The J statue.
The J statue's like a little puppy.
Or a big puppy in this case.
This statue's supposed to target the boss actually but sometimes it just goes
in that direction.
Okay. but sometimes he just goes in a direction. There we go!
He's a good boy.
He is a floppy little puppy!
Yeah, he looks like a sloppier puppy.
So I want to distract him kind of because he actually dodges the step
with this charge so you want to get him in a block
animation or...
You want him to start?
No! Not me.
Just hanging out with them Now does the J statue do like a significant amount of damage when it doesn't? Yeah, so you see the health that he's lost so far yeah that is a significant amount of damage okay so that was from one hit
come on he's going kind of badly but we'll be all right
go ahead and burn a medium milk cat get into my big stuff Come on. oh come on
yeah sometimes he has like a ranged weapon that comes out super fast This statue's not really helping out right now.
Yeah, the statue is just killing!
Uncharacteristically terrible right now.
Usually he targets him and goes...
There we go.
Who's a good boy?
You gotta kinda, kinda...
Kinda line him up in a weird way.
Yeah, just actually like he won't- Yucky! Stay there. Ugh, come on!
No!
Charge!
Oh, I'm gonna die! I'm gonna die! no
charge how did that not hit him he's like going right around just like clipped around them oh my gosh.
This can go really fast,
but it's not. I mean the statue is just
not really cooperating with he's not cooperating
and even though he ran right into him that last time he like doesn't do damage because
just hit i don't know weird programming of something.
He's close though, he's close to half health
that's all we need is for him to be half health This is really bad You're pathetic.
He's just running in the walls.
Okay, he should be right there.
That's go.
Taking a little too much damage
but it's honestly still faster than chip damaging him constantly
He is below half health. The J statue is going to go
get incapacitated on the wall
but we're going to finish him off now.
We're going to double crit
Get out our reaper Ooh.
Get out our railgun, target him...
One, two...
Oh come on! What the heck?
Okay I just don't wanna die. I don't want to die i don't use the d-bit on this guy
yeah just have your meal kits this is how overly aggressive he is.
Ugh, come on. He has like no health.
Alright shotgun does nothing.
That's weird you should be dead by now.
This is stressing me out.
Okay.
Good job. He is the hardest fight in the game.
He's harder than the final boss,
any of the final few bosses.
Ooh, okay, okay okay enrique is uh super dead now he's super dead
super bad that dead he's not coming back i should let the cutscene play out but
he watches nina watch
walk away as he dies and he's like what a nice view
and then he just dies well he got to see
the beautiful nino before he died yeah all of her glory
all right now before he died. All of her glory. Alright, now
we are going to get out
of here. We gotta find
Lucas. Oh yeah, shit, where's
Lucas?
So Enrique was holding onto Lucas Oh yeah, shit. Where's Lucas?
So Enrique was holding on to Lucas and he got the
evidence. Lucas
got the evidence then Enrique took it from him
and then in the midst of the fight
that we were just in, Lucas took the evidence and ran away.
Okay. So now we're tracking him down
and seeing what happened with him.
Well he must be like relatively nearby
then. He must be relatively nearby.
Surely. I'm going to take a little bit of a detour.
This is an optional ladder.
It's a tall ladder, but it's very much worth it
because we're going to get the second strongest melee weapon in the game.
Ooh, and what is that? It's called a Ripper
Blade. The Ripper Blade.
It's a huge sword.
Okay. And we'll be taking
this to the end of the game?
Uh yeah, we'll be taking this to the end of the game? Yeah, well, we'll be using it in the final few sections really.
Okay cool.
It's in this... it's hard for me to tell sometimes what the pictures are when you do these puzzles
some kind of mythological stuff okay so the ripper blade is something that we're
going to see a lot of upcoming enemies using they're like cyborg soldiers oh okay and it's
gonna introduce this whole subplot within the game
that Komita is also working on cyborg soldiers.
Of course they are.
Which Nina was planned to be used as an experiment.
Oh, no.
But she's not going to fall for that. She can't. Oh no.
She can't.
So, like were they trying to clone her first no we're just gonna make her a cyborg okay they're just going to mod her they're going to mod her Get a new graphics card
or something.
And oh no, Lucas is dead.
No!
Alan is here. What did Alan do?
Alan apparently found him here.
Uh-uh, I don't trust Alan.
Mysterious.
I don't trust Alan.
He says he's going to tell us that Lana Leigh did it and we're gonna take lucas's sure blame
it on lana yeah that's messed up so we just took
lucas's pocket watch um lucas liked that pocket watch a lot
and he checks it in the cut scene sometimes
and i think you're supposed to go hmm why is he checking that pocket watch
all the time oh i bet there's a secret thing in it
maybe so we got it uh alan didn't know about it, but
we did. Okay. And that's like
plot thickens,
right? Yeah, the plot thickens
for sure. Right now, we're just
escaping the island with Alan and we're just escaping the island with Alan and
we're just doing one last backtrack
through the whole facility. It's like a
best of
run. Exactly
Get your camera
On your left you'll see Exactly. Get your camera!
On your left, you'll see the dingy prison that we broke out in.
And on your right another dingy prison.
Even more garbage.
See ya.
We're outta here.
The sound effect for Nina's
like, wave dash is so
funny to me. It's crunchy?
Yeah, it's crunchy! It's like a crunchy
sweep. I find that
entertaining. It's like an auto-generated
gamer tag.
Crunch, crunch, crunch.
It's Nina eating on the go, surely.
Gordita crunch.
Oh gosh.
Oops, camera shenanigans.
You get to hear this music intro a lot. I'm okay with it.
The bailing guitar.
Yeah, remember this place. Good times.
Alright, heading back to the outside area.
So we're heading back up to the rooftops where
we did that last sniper sequence, but this time Alan is involved and we gotta protect
him in the sniper sequence. That is the last thing we're doing on this island before we head out. Excuse me.
Alright, we're gonna take this elevator
and they are just once again
helpless to stop Nina.
We'll just watch her go up the
elevator.
A funny thing about this part
coming up is there's like the wire
we had to cross
to get to this one tower.
It's electrified
now because we powered on
the elevator, so it's like if you try to climb the wire now because we powered on the elevator.
So it's like if you try to climb the wire while it's turned on,
You'll get knocked off and you're supposed to turn it off so Alan can take
The wire but you really don't even have to do it.
You just leave it on and he'll cross it anyway.
Okay, so Alan is...
So you're supposed to turn this off and then go up
this ladder and take out a sniper
but you don't have to turn that
power off. That's really funny. I i mean i guess they expect you to turn it off for courtesy So we're just gonna take this sniper out. Actually should have grabbed him for an instant kill, but...
Gonna grab these grenades and as this guy dies
We'll start the sniper sequence
Same deal as the last time,
except we're just protecting Alan.
See? He's on our line anyways.
We didn't have to turn it off. So he's gonna go
jack the helicopter while we protect him, and we're relying on him to come and pick us up so we can escape.
Hopefully.
Hopefully.
He will pick us up.
That's the plan.
Right? he will pick us up that's the plan right
right right he's a good guy right maybe there it goes i'm not controlling
this but i will be soon.
Uh oh! Trouble!
Could have seen this coming.
Oh no... Are the cyborgs here now?
No, not yet.
The sniper has a bit of a sway on it.
What are you doing?
Alan will just be judging of you no matter how you perform during this fight.
You can literally get headshots instantly every time and he'll just be complaining it's madness i say hurry up
what are you doing
they'll also say that he's running out of ammo, but he has infinite ammo.
So he's just a liar.
He has to make it seem urgent you know?
Yeah, he's just a... whatever do we call him?
Like, liar-liar-liar just a whatever you call it like lighter light of fence on by degrees I'm trying to shoot them. That's what I think I am doing.
Okay, now she start spawning back here...
Oh, there's more.
Right, there is one more wave on the ground.
So this is the final sniper sequence?
Yeah, this is the last sniper sequence we're gonna be seeing.
Okay.
We've got these really far away guys. Got some nice shots there.
Nice, those guys are kind of tough
because they are so far away
Two rooftop rows at the same time
Come on rose at the same time
then the next place they spawn is here. Alright.
Oops, thought that guy was dead.
We're gonna be down here.
See, this sniper section is a lot better because it doesn't
load three different times
while you're doing the sniper section.
It just continues spawning people. I find
that weird that it was giving you loading
screens at all in the last
mission. There's some questionable
load screen related
decisions in this game.
Yeah, I mean maybe just limitations at the time.
I don't know.
It was definitely a point of
criticism when this game did come out.
It got kind of 50s along the board and load screens were definitely up
there with a lot of reasons for it not being so well received, which is understandable.
You don't want to sit there and go through a door,
oh I gotta load again.
I mean at least not during a mission
maybe you know between missions sure forgivable
but it's a bit weird it was a different time it was 2005 okay
i do want to say uh too if y'all are enjoying the run make sure you follow Saint on his
YouTube channel that's youtube.com slash saint million and uh if you're enjoying the
run subscribe while you're there!
I'm sure he would appreciate it.
True, true.
Oh yeah, you can shoot Alan too.
Oh snap! He doesn't have a comment
on that? No. That is so funny.
You won't complain but when you're doing everything
perfectly... He waves at you!
He's like, thanks! Nice shot, Nina.
You're doing great up there.
Okay so Alan got the helicopter.
Okay.
He has secured the chopper.
Damn!
This is a straight up movie. Whoa!
I can skip this I'm just laying it away because it looks kind of cool
There's Anna
She's so furious
Sibling, rivalry, etc.
Etc.
Alright.
Now
we were escaping
and we got back to the boat.
We got shot down near the boat
and we had to land near the boat.
And Nina, she's got a new outfit.
She's got a final outfit.
There are cyborgs now. A lot's happened.
So these are the cyborgs in question?
These are the cyborgs.
We got this one.
Defibrillator, and Nino lands
through the window of the captain's room
but we are back on the boat from the beginning of the game.
Okay.
So we will be doing some backtracking, but there are...
We now have access to inaccessible stuff from earlier.
Rooms, sorry.
So we're going to make our way
through the boat
and our current quest is
our current quest is uh
our current quest is uh to stop the super weapon i think at this point lucas is dead oh we have a puzzle r.i.p
goes ab goes a b
and then cd
can you guess the last part i don't't know, is it F-E? No we're done. It was a B C D
That's all you need
Good job
Now we got blank card for our efforts
which were immediately going to turn into a level one pass key
a blue card.
So there are, there's blue doors
There's yellow doors and there are red doors now
Three new levels of access that we need gosh that sound scared me i'm so sorry it's okay
kind of a unique puzzle here there's like the flag um there's like a boat system with flags yeah it's
like a nautical flag I don't exactly remember what each flag means but yes
in this system two are Romeo and Juliet putting those
in opens a painting of Romeo and Juliet
And we pick up a secret medallion behind
the painting.
This is the executive boardroom from earlier
Oh it's a nice boardroom
So now we can open these
doors that we couldn't go into before
so it's real masterful
backtracking design going on here.
So you like pretty much remember the layout from before,
like it's easier to go through the boat since you've already done it?
Yeah yeah so you go out that door and you're like, oh I'm here!
Oh yeah!
Oh yeah this place.
So fun.
And then uh...
Well things are a little different on the boat now
There's cyborgs everywhere, there's Jay statues sitting there...
They don't actually activate unless you run close enough to them so...
Oh! That's convenient?
You just pass by them without a problem.
These guys are here,
can't wait for them to close the door so I can enter. That's the weirdest
thing about this.
Yeah. The door is wide open, but you still
gotta wait, you know?
Until you put in your own fingerprint yeah it's like you're not allowed to go through the locked gate at the private community and your fingerprints
what you stole!
So right now, with that medallion we got...
It's part of a puzzle that is reminiscent or direct reference to Metal Gear 2, I think.
So you have to take it to a cold place so the medallion changes
to a certain type of medallion and they take it
to a warm place so it changes to a certain type of medallion and they take it to a warm place, so it
changes to a different medallion.
It's like a hot-cold puzzle.
Oh yeah, there's that puzzle
like that in the movie.
Death by degrees. So we're heading to the cooler that we fought Bryson oh so long ago.
Is he just in there?
No, Bryce is dead.
Oh okay but I mean like...
Is his body in there?
We'll see no bryce's body is somewhere else and uh but we will see brian's body okay that's weird i didn't Just a little spoiler there
That makes no sense
Alright back into the cooler
Still blood here
There has been no time
But they did empty this cooler out of all
of the meat that was hanging around.
Oh, good!
But instead...
They didn't move our dead agent friend.
He's still here.
But there are new
cyborgs here all right so our crest turned into a
cold medan chimera crust and there's also a large meal kit here
the biggest deal in the game we're gonna grab that i'm just trying to take oh
they use that large meal kit that was a big hit geez
i don't think i've ever been hit by that. That's why they
give you the big can.
That's where they pay them the big bucks.
Yeah, get out of there. Oh my gosh.
Yeah, that was terrible. I basically just picked up an item to use
that's probably why it's there yeah they know you're gonna get hit by the cyborgs
it's good game design really
and the cool thing about being on the boat again is that
all of the items that you picked up before that have fixed placements,
they respawned this time around.
So...
Oh, that's convenient.
Earlier I kind of ran
and picked up another large mule kit that was in the room we're
going into right now because it respawned. So it's kind of useful if you have like knowledge
of where certain items are. Like this water bottle is here again so we're gonna grab that as well. Oh yeah,
I mean if you know where it is and it's kind of on the
way. Exactly. It's like copy-paste
all the items are back.
Like someone just went in
and reset an escape room or something
this yacht is just a big elaborate escape yeah
so now our goal is to use this cold medallion um,
to get a chimera key
and then we're gonna go to
a hot room
and I get
the medallion changes into a hot thing and you get a second that's hard and it's it's a good puzzle
so we're gonna go this way so the place we need to turn in this ice medallion is actually in Lana Leigh's room, so...
Where are we putting it?
In the fridge or...?
There is a good question.
Her mini-fridge?
Sure!
There is a slot. Her mini-prinj? Sure.
There's a slot...
It's hard to describe all the puzzles in this game as you're going through them, but
there's like a display with a ship, like a little
model ship and
you put the key in
where that is and then the glass comes
down and then there's a key in the ship.
Okay. let's trust the process i'll believe it when i see it what guns do i have oh i didn't use all of my
shots
just gonna do it What did you use on Enrique, the railgun?
Yes.
Do you have any more of that?
No.
We used all three shots on Enrique.
Yeah okay.
The assault rifle is useful,
I definitely want that more than the submachine gun
which comes in handy for
a couple boss fights coming up.
Okay.
So we're going to a familiar
Lana Leigh's apartment
here for quarters. We're just gonna, like,
go back to her closet and, like, steal
more clothes? Yes!
Exactly. I'm gonna go on Poshmark her closet and steal more clothes. Yes, exactly.
I'm going to go on Poshmark and get revolver clothes.
Alright, so here's the ship.
So we're going to put in
the medallion
and So we're going to put in the medallion. And the glass is going to come down, and then there's a key in the ship.
Chimera Key.
And do not forget to take the medallion back, which I did in my casual playthrough before running through the rest of the ship.
You can actually leave it there even though you need it.
So you can't leave it there?
Oh well you can leave it there but you're not supposed to. You're not going to beat the game if you leave it there. can leave it there. You're not supposed to.
Just leave it there.
It stays there, doesn't go back in your inventory yet
Right.
So because we are back on the ship and everything has respawned
we can go back up into this aquarium attic and get the extra defibrillator
because it has respond so this is also optional,
but... Might as well.
I'd say that the three
crits it gives you for
having it
kind of makes it worth all the time. Yeah, I would agree with you and it's a full heal for a boss fight the last couple boss fights can kind of like burn your health down and you might use extra defibrillators. Right. Especially for a
no reset type setting.
Now, did you level up
for that third crit slot?
No, we're going to get more levels
as we finish the game here.
So, we're going to skip Lana Leigh's room actually.
We're just going out this way...
We didn't go out this way before because we didn't have to.
But there is a water
bottle in here, and again
I haven't used any water bottles
this whole run because I'm saving them
for the final boss. So we're gonna
chug water right near the end
so remind me again what does a water bottle do it gives you critical gauge scenario okay
so it's kind of like mana but it's critical gauge. Mana? Yeah.
Nina's mana. Her magic.
Magic.
Slow motion time magic. Yes.
Makes sense. Checks out.
I don't know. I see a little blue bar. My brain
goes for the manna.
We have laggy area here,
so we're going to position our camera
down. That's because there are
so many cyborgs up on this platform.
But they're all standing around this
ripper blade that we want, and
once we pick it up, they activate.
Um...
So... Even though there's tons of them, they only activate like four at a time.
But I am going to try and kill a few of them.
I do want these wheel kits extra and i'm also going for the extra XP that they provide.
Go grenades
action there.
They also dropped
medium kicks, which is
pretty good. Alright, so they gave us
some extra points.
Six skill points. I forgot that
you actually don't get a lot of skill points with the
ranged weapons but that's okay we got one more kits we were a bit short after uh the enrique fight
we're gonna get a ton of skill points when we fight more J statues, which are coming up.
There's actually three that we have to fight on this ship.
That are just as big as the previous one? They're just as big and
even badder than before. Bigger
and badder. You thought we
were done with J statues, we're
just getting started.
One two and three
coming.
That was just the prototype.
The pro2
What the hell is a protoo?
Y'all won't get it forget it
If you know you know
all right gonna sweep on back through here but again angling my camera down because there are so many enemies up there that just lags your game.
So we went into the boiler room there, I kind of skimmed over it
or didn't mention it but
went to the boiler room, medallion changed
to a different type of medallion.
And now we're going to go deposit
that medallion and get the second key
that we need
to proceed to the final lair
of the ship,
which is a submarine a secret submarine are we going diving depot
are we about to get uh thunderball in here or sector ball yeah maybe no there's no more swimming well okay
that's a lie there is swimming but not in the deep diving sense it's like a
submarine bay it's not a harpoon fight or anything
no no it's it's a submarine bay nina is going to be
submarine bay that was bad joke
all right we're going to take the elevator straight up to the fourth floor which is where we need to put a very familiar area here. Basically the beginning of the game.
This game makes plentiful use of all of its uh areas and backtracking but the ship it's
nighttime on the ship now which is a bit different okay as well go ahead in this big aquarium put in the
unicorn medallion
and we will get the unicorn key and we can leave the Medallion.
We don't need it anymore.
We're out of here.
We're not fighting these Cyborgs.
They're way too powerful.
But we got the Medallion.
We got...
We've got the key that we need.
We left a medallion because we don't need it anymore.
So with these two keys,
we're going to go down to the first floor
to that piano that we saw a long time ago.
Where's Rebecca?
Will she play it for us?
Who's Rebecca?
Never mind.
Rebecca Black?
No, and I think
it's Resident Evil 1.
If you play as Chris
like he doesn't know how to play the piano.
He just doesn't get it.
So Rebecca goes in and plays
it for him. Oh yeah, then this must be
a Resident Evil type reference.
Sure, like this isn't the 50th time we've referenced
Resident Evil, it's really not
So you can't just
do the piano puzzle, you have to rotate
it twice first because these
letters have to line up
on the keyboard.
There's a keyword
that you find out somewhere else through
lore text
A keyword of Orpheus
is what we need to put in
so you can't play this keyboard until
you put two keys in, the Unicorn key
You're unlocking the piano
Yeah, you have to unlock the piano so does nina know how
to play oh she does yeah she's playing wait what why is it the last three letters sx
this piano sucks, okay?
And this is an unskippable cutscene
It's actually the main
theme of the game in a piano arrangement
We've activated the ship's trap guard.
Yes.
Nice! Let's go.
The secret checkered elevator
we descend
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we're getting a submarine.
Oh, are we going into the submarine now?
We're in the submarine now.
Okay.
And guess what we're doing.
Uh...
Can you guess?
Not a harpoon fight? Not a harpoon fight?
Not a harpoon fight
We're exiting the submarine
Okay, sure
Well we're going swimming
The submarine is but a mere room
and you just go through it it's just another uh
loading screen it's just another place to put loading screens actually yeah but it's
it adds to the experience you know you got go to see Nina go through the little hatch
and... It's Nina Williams in a
submarine. Go down there. That's what fans wanted.
Yeah.
So we dive into some water
but we're just gonna leave. It's not a long underwater sequence this is just like a pool
now
the sequence of quests in this game
is really hard to remember sometimes.
We're heading to the engine room,
I believe.
To activate...
Oh, we're going into the engine room
so we can go
through a ventilation
system
to a control room
and then
upgrade our card
to a yellow card.
Okay,
so what do we do?
Just like put
our current card
into like
a magical box and it just turns
it to the correct color yes
that's exactly
all right
let's go
so
it's exactly that.
There is a ladder to get down
to the bottom floor but it's faster just climb up like this and drop
So Nina never takes any kind of fall damage right?
No she doesn't.
Okay, that's cool.
So to get through this room we've got to turn off the steam vent
which is out of the steam vent, uh, the steam pipes.
Because you have to climb across the steam pipes.
And of course turning off the steam pipes
it activates these enemies for some
reason
like it's like they know they know it's time to fight
but we're just gonna leave. They can't use ladders
There's strong cyborgs, but they're not very nimble
We get knocked down, they will be ready to punch us. So you have to watch out for this steam I'm gonna get undone.
All right, we're three and clear.
Nice.
Was it difficult learning the sequence for that?
Just because like,
I'm not sure what the hitbox is like on this scene.
It's even weirder,
because sometimes you press forward one time and Nina will move her arm one time.
Right.
But sometimes you press forward
and Nina will move twice.
And there's just no rhyme or reason to it.
At least I couldn't tell.
It's like a weird double input of some kind, I guess.
Yeah, it's just like does it sometimes
or at some points along the pipe
that will give you a double movement movement so you got to be careful that
you don't stop right in this game because she might just automatically move into
Watch her fingers or you'll get burned I see. Just odd quirks about a game that you learn you route it
all right so we put in the blue card we have iframes while that loads
so that's why that happened wait who was singing the guy this guy was singing oh all right
we're gonna kill him because he's a little annoying he was right in the middle of his song
i actually did not mean to...
You can scan a lot of different fingerprints in the game,
we skipped that because it's just extras.
So what are you using to scan the fingerprints?
A fingerprint scanner we got at the very near beginning.
Right, it was like one of the first items
you picked up.
Exactly.
OK, OK. So here we are going to get
some stuff
This is the final
armory we're going to access
and it also has a Ripper Blade.
So we have three Ripper Blades. Nice!
I'm gonna take these grenades...
And if I can fit it...
More grenades. Or sorry, grenade launcher and more grenades. i think that's all i can take yeah okay
that's plenty loaded
we are ready to fight a series of bosses that leads us to the final bosses.
Okay, this is like...the Tekken bracket has arrived.
Oh yeah! This is the King of Iron Fist turn.
Okay, alright.
For Nuna. But it's like a super serious mission. It's a fight to the death for everybody involved.
The way these cyborgs activate, so funny.
So now we have the yellow card
you can get through here.
It's a key to a key to a key. That's the linear gameplay of this
game. That's why it takes so long,
and there's really no way to bypass doors
that I could tell because the doors
aren't a type of situation where
it's like if you clip through the door,
the load zone is there. It doesn't work
like that. You have to activate
the door and have the like security clearance to like do that oh
there's cyborg stuff happening in here by the way oh yeah let's not forget about this
is where you learn that the cyborgs are like oh my god they're real people. Oh!
Okay I'll pick up a final holster
I'm still not sure if you even
really need this holster.
I just feel like grabbing it because it's right there.
We have a little code puzzle that you would figure out the solution to
if you pick up documents along the way, but the code's always the same so just go ahead and do
that this leads to even more cyborg clandestine stuff there's more cyborgs, yeah?
Just more cyborgs.
Listen, it's cool, okay?
Just so you know
just how evil they are.
The hallway.
Cyborgs.
So many. It's the facility where they keep them
okay so we're going into a room that has access to unlock the final area of the game,
but we can't go into the final area of the game until we have
the red card.
So...
We have to send this pod off. It has a cyborg in it, but we need to empty it so we can get
into it later.
We're going to get into the cyborg pod?
Yeah, we're gonna be a cyborg pod person. Then we get this object called the icy
key, like I-C
not like icy
Sounds like it blinged out
like Nina's gonna hear it? It's the
ice. Okay, okay
This key can be inserted in gonna wear it? It's the I.C. Okay, okay.
This key can be inserted into the J statues that are stationary
all around the boat and then you
fight them. So there's three
J statues. You gotta got insert the icy key,
and then kill the J statues
because they're holding Chinese
chess pieces inside of them
that you need to put into
a Chinese chess board in the captain's room which unlocks lana leigh's
bedroom that is a very obscure puzzle but we'll go with it yeah so our goal is to get to lanalee's
bedroom and i'm not kidding and And steal more clothes, probably.
We're going to steal something.
Take it all, Nina.
Just grab it and run.
She's like looking
around like don't watch me.
That's what she's checking for when she opens the doors. She's like looking around that's what she's checking for when she opens the doors she's like is there anything else I can take in here
that could fit in my pocket
yeah what else can I put in my pockets
okay so the first J-Stat Okay.
So the first J statue we're gonna fight
is actually the hardest, and it's back down here in
the engine room you were just in. I think it's
intended that you fight this one last
It just seems like the most difficult because
it has a giant laser beam attack
But
it's the fastest to get while we're still here, so we're going to go fight him anyways.
So the Ripper Blades that we've been getting, the giant swords, they are the best thing to use against j statues because they can stun lock them
to some degree each ga statue is kind of different amount of hits before it gets
stone marked this one is doesn't still mock very easily but the river blade does so much damage
so much more than anything else you have that's why we're hoarding
that's why we're recording these and uh hopefully i can get melee proficiency free.
Let me see how many skill points we got.
Okay, I think we're...
Oh, we're quite a bit short.
That's fine.
J statue is like camouflage j statue.
Oh yeah that looks kinda cool.
One's red one's camo and one is just like
iron
they kind of low-key look like mini
Iron Giants to me
yeah they do
when did Iron Giant come out?
that may well be what it was inspired by When did Iron Giant come out? That's a great question, Zane.
Very may well be what it was inspired by.
It looks like it came out in 1999 so...
Whoa! This guy is immediately laser beamin' me.
Impossible.
Holy shmoly!
Okay, now he's driving. Usually he just starts
driving around but uh
let's put something better
I've never seen him
open with the laser beam
So this is the attack
that we have to dodge
to get to him.
Dark Souls has trained me, but not
well enough.
So we just want to do a little single
attacks, hit him with two crits.
And then as soon as he's recoiling from this, get more ripper attacks and just melt
his bar. Wow yeah
no wonder we're hoarding these
Oh yeah the ripper blades are
so good which is why
I want melee proficiency 3 so I can
see all my skill points.
Oh yeah, so you can use it more for sure.
On
the other J statues
we're going to get tons of skill points because we can
stunlock them and then keep doing melee attacks
and kind of build a huge combo
And that's gonna give us thousands of skill points
So that's what's gonna to give us the final level, or not final level but
the third level of weapon durability because we want these melee weapons
to last as long as possible. We're so good against all the bosses going forward.
Being that bosses are just giant HP pools,
the Ripper Blades... they rip. Rip and tear until it's done yeah rip and tear nina rip and tear
i hope everyone's having a good time. Yeah, I'm having fun!
Thank you so much for being on the show by the way
Thanks for having me
It was a big effort tackling this game
Yeah, I was talking about it at the beginning of the run.
But yeah, I got this game at GDQ so many years ago.
Which one?
Do you remember?
I think it was AGDQ 2018.
2018, okay.
It might be off like a year.
But it was definitely in Virginia.
We went to East Starland that is the store I picked this up at.
The shout outs to East Starland if you're still around.
Just East Starland selling me this for $4 and um... it was the sweeper special the sweet super market sweeper i was could
you imagine nina in supermarket sweeps she would slay oh my god she'd be grabbing all the hands
through the aisles stealing all the turkeys you know yeah kicking it into her cart
yeah juice all over the floor.
You're making a mess.
Alright, so now we're going to head back into the boat because the last two J statues
are back up in
the boat.
Okay.
But they aren't too far away.
The first one we're going to go fight
is
in the fighting arena
in which Nina is fighting in
and opening cut scene.
It's kind of where the
Oh yeah it's like
fighting tournament
was taking place
The ruins looking place
It's not the ruins
it's like boxing arena.
You'll see in just a second, we've been through this room
twice now
but this is the final time
and every time you go through here, this red J statue
is here. So I think it's a point
of like oh what is that? You never really
know and then the final
part of the final
boss is like oh you gotta go fight those things
It's kind of like a
subtle foreshadowing
Yes
It's very
foreshadowing
So this one's red
Cage fight
Also it seems like the game store is a local game store for someone in the chat.
So I guess that's pretty awesome.
Yeah, it's a really cool store.
They have so many retro games, obscure games, old consoles like video game statues,
just relics of the past and a lot of new stuff too.
This place was awesome.
There's a really great statue
of Nina for Death by Degrees
in her kind of opening outfit
cocktail dress.
Yeah, she has like a katana.
Yeah, that would be a fun one to acquire for sure. yeah that's it she has like a katana yeah
that would be a fun one to acquire for sure
yeah the death by degrees statue that came out
the same year as this game it's like 70 or something i that, but I don't want to spend $70 on it.
Well, you know collectors out there?
So two hits from the Ripper Blade stuns this guy
and I'm doing put two hits from the Ripperblade stun this guy, and
I'm doing my light attack combo so I can just stack up
skill points against this guy.
This statue just can't.
Now he's dead.
So we've got tons of points from him, I think it kind of went off the screen.
Like, we got a bunch of points but then my small combo went off...
Okay, we didn't get enough so...
Guess we got some but not enough.
But on the next Jade Statue
we should get enough.
So we just have one more Jade Statue?
Yeah, a Jade Statue.
Sorry, I keep saying Jade Statue.
Not Jade Statue okay?
This is Tomb Raider 2.
Listen, I blame too many hours in Tomb Raider 2.
Too many hours in Tomb Raider 2 jade collectibles.
Yeah.
Alright we're out.
So we got another chinese chess piece i can't remember what it's
called but it's in english known as chinese chest i suppose
each statue has a piece and you need three to unlock the rest of the game.
So we're gonna go find that last guy, last statue.
Yeah, gotta beat him up and take the piece.
Beat him up and take his stuff
he is in the uh reception room
i hope that anyone here knows what that means or is.
Is the receptionist, like gone?
Everyone's gone when you get there, yeah.
Okay everyone's gone.
It's just going to be us and a J statue showing up. Now all along the way are these I'm gonna show you.
All along the way are these cyborgs chasing us around.
Can they climb ladders? No. Okay, that's good. They're too chunky.
They probably weigh like a ton each of them.
So these are just humans that all kind of got turned into the same looking cyborg yeah that's wild
it was kind of eventually revealed that nina was going to be an experiment of this type too.
So what is it that prevented her from...
She's just too good.
Yeah, I guess that's the answer.
She can't be like captured you know
can't it can't uh it's a force of nature can't be tamed oh and every time
you walk up to these j statues their little thing comes out and they put the key in.
The little slot.
I see your key!
Exactly.
So this is the last J statue we're fighting, but it's also the easiest.
This one gets stunned in 1 Ripper Blade hit.
Just 1?
Yeah just 1. And every J statue has kind of their own unique ability. This one has Gatling
guns, the red one had
electricity was like the big theme
and the one on the boat had laser beams
but
he's never really going to get to use his uh says uh gatling guns because we're just gonna
keep them stone locked the entire time
the bone crack sound every time. So good.
Yeah, it's really satisfying when an actual bone crunches.
Again, just trying to build up this combo as much as we can
gets us a ton of skill points
You can see his Gatling Gun's like trying to come out,
but he's never gonna be able
to use it.
I'm not going to use my crit again
I'm actually just save it for a boss fight.
Just finish him off this way.
Chunk It's a chunk.
Spin it back, Nina! We've got 3000 skill points
we are going to use that
to finally get the level three melee proficiency so there's a lot of skill points in
here that we just never get uh or lost skills we can never use because
in speed run it doesn't make as much sense to farm
skill points and unlock those special combos
unfortunately
you just kind of make do with what
you have acquired
yeah, it makes weapons a lot more valuable
using strats with those
weapons. Right on.
But there are a lot of cool combos in the game.
Yeah, I think
so. To unlock.
You see a lot of them in that intro cutscene we watched that's what i'm saying like
nina's got the like the double kicks going and it's so good.
Yeah.
Even with the guns and swords, there's special
combos you can do with
guns and melee weapons.
Nice. Pretty cool.
Alright, so we got... Nice. Pretty cool. Pretty cool.
All right, so we got the final piece, Chinese chess piece.
We're going to go to the captain's room that's back down in the submarine bay a few more load screens we're getting there how are you feeling about the run overall now that you've been at it for almost like three hours
feels good feels good that is great to hear i'm still kicking myself for game overing on
like a really easy like
Oh, don't worry about it.
That really easy part.
You know
with speed games
you know
things happen
and you just try again.
Yeah.
Do you think that
you will be trying to
you know improve the time for this after this run yeah i think so because there's a lot of
strats that i would you know not make a save game like right here
i'm gonna make the same game because we could game over in just a moment but
there's also some strats like not getting extra defibrillators and just
kind of doing better.
Just, like, more risky
strats I would like to get nailed down in a run.
It is a long run though.
Well, and you know there's
not a lot of
I think there's no
like speedrun.com page for this game
so... Yeah, there's no runs on the internet
that we could find unless there's some secret
death by degrees leaderboard website maybe you know it's um kind of like making the blueprint
for what the speedrun could look like.
You know, somewhere to start from so...
This is the hardest laser part.
Very precise. Okay good.
Let me get another railgun!
And we are going to use that railgun...
Not on any bosses actually.
There's a big escape that we have to do after we do some bosses.
The Railgun is really good at taking out these cyborgs,
which we're going to be forced
into some fights with them.
The Railgun makes handy work of them.
Alright, finally, we're in the captain's room
with the Chinese chess board
and we're going to put all
the pieces we got from the jade statues in here
which unlocks Lana Leigh's bedroom.
I don't know how she gets into her bedroom when all those pieces are in the Joe statues?
I mean, she might use a separate entrance.
Government plant.
That will see a checkpoint. a separate entrance government plan and we are going to save again wait the government
plant was a safe point that's right that is too good that's too good it is too good. That's too good.
That's too good, I say.
Damn she's good.
Sweeper agent?
Damn she's good.
Damn she's good.
All right so...
I want to let you know that this is a very interesting story and it's going to be Alright, so...
I want to let this cutscene play actually.
This is Lana Leigh's room that's so creepy.
She was just a doll enthusiast.
Wait, what? It's Bryce.
She just has Bryce dead in her bed?
There's the evidence!
What the hell?
Dead in bed.
Oh, weird.
Aw, is he going to spring to life?
No.
No!
Nina just take it.
Oh my god!
We've been poisoned by Lana Lake.
Where the hell did she come from?
I don't know, she must have been standing there the whole time.
What was she hiding under her own bed?
Come on.
Come on.
I'm waiting for Nina.
Lana got us again. We're going to go into a
PTSD dream sequence
about Anna when she was young and her dad died in front of her and her sister.
Only this time, Nina will need to protect both Anna and little Nina.
There is young Anna and young Nina
who can both get bit by zombies
who are now naked zombies,
strangely.
So I'm going to crit her
then kind of hit her in this direction get a few extra hits, and then we need to promptly go
and start defending the twins. I don't know if they're twins but they're sisters. Yeah,
I think Anna's the younger sister.
Probably.
The story behind these two is that
they are both trained by their parents
Their dad is an assassin professionally and
their mom is in Aikido champion, and they're both trained but
Nina was always better
and Anna's always seeking approval from their dad but
their dad liked Nina more. I see. So it's always been like this bitter sibling
rivalry and then their dad dies.
They kind of bomb over that or something.
Now, how did their dad die?
Right. But this game is not canon and their dad died when they were kids.
I see.
So it's a bit... okay but we will see the final conclusion of
this whole thing in the final cut scene we'll kind of see
the full story of what oh nice okay Don't cry girls, it's gonna be okay.
Yeah there was a lot of crying.
So the Ripper Blades do some decent damage to lana i'm actually saving my
crit for phase two of this fight which is quite a bit more difficult okay
i still have like a
let's just use this Okay, this baton's about to be broken. Get these zombies out of here.
Also Alana Leigh's fan attacks are a lot more powerful when stunned around.
She's Nina's greatest fan.
Okay so she's gonna disappear again... checking on the kids. Where nina little nina is right there
you know oh god i lost her no no she's right
there but wait am i crazy she's robin oh my god you're right.
You'd be a terrible babysitter.
This is why Saint wouldn't make up for her good parent.
Where are the girls?
Okay... Lana's almost done for.
One last hit.
Alright, Lana phase one complete.
So you have to get her entire health bar down
to get to phase two?
Yeah, but there's another fight.
Okay.
Good job, good job.
Have you ever heard of Yoshimitsu?
Yoshimitsu who?
Yoshimitsu who?
Well, he's one of the coolest fighters just around town just around town i mean yoshimitsu would be just around town you know and uh i may or may not have a video about one such
yoshi mutsu on my youtube channel youtube.com slash say million if you want to hold down
this elevator and walk over here and, it's the Manji sword,
the best sword in the game. It's Yoshimitsu's sword.
What?
Yoshimitsu just left it there or should you get... Unpar lana stole it here it is it's even green
oh thanks richard so cool there's the link for the video if anyone's going oh
richard thanks yeah yoshimitsu he's one of my favorite characters. That's who I play
usually in Tekken or Soul Calibur
I'm like
Yoshimitsu, easiest choice
Alright
So we've chased Lana into the
headquarters of the super weapon, Salacia
The satellite system which can cause global warming
She's lost it at this point, and she's going to activate every satellite
and try to end the world because she's lost her love Bryce.
The love of her life that Nina killed,
and she's just like, screw it.
I'm going to end the world.
The whole world has to pay for what Nina has done.
And Nina is once again poisoned,
but this time it's the most horrific
hallucination dream ever oh wow as you can see by the surroundings
luckily yoshimitsu's manji sword makes very easy work of her. We just have to... oh, she's gone right here?
That's really weird and all these like baby dolls
fly towards you this whole time. If she hits you after you get hurt so you gotta like hit lana out of zombie
braces and zombie enrique's wait what these are zombie braces and
zombies yeah you're in this like hallucination dream
zombie versions of the bosses you've killed
it's a pretty good asset reuse if you ask me.
Well, you know it's Lana's fever dream we're just living in it.
Exactly so you really gotta not get hit by her because if you do...
Oh dangit I thought she was ready to get crit'd because if you do...
She was ready to get critical pushes in her invulnerability phase.
You can see where she runs into first
if you are able to look at
her, sometimes it's a bit
hard.
You have to redo that first part.
Tough to see in this dream sequence
in general. And it's even worse because
the camera is kind of hard to control.
She was in that one, wasn't she?
This is one of the main reasons we want the durability leveled up
Because the Manji sword also has limited durability but it does the
most damage and makes quick work of this fight for the most part stupid girl so she's gonna run this way come on
so she's gonna run this way where are you going this one all right i'm getting fed up with her
imma burn a water bottle so I can crit her
because once she gets to half health,
this phase ends
and she will stop
scampering off
in a bunch of annoying directions.
So you'll be able to get a good crit on her yeah
i thought it hit the one she was in but i guess not
no no no Oh my gosh.
So she's doing a dance. We gotta follow her again
And these dolls just throw tackles on you
... on you.
Okay, there she is.
I'm actually going to wait until she... did she immediately just run away oh my god
this is terrible so six defibrillators we're using one all right first of fibula here we go
okay i'm going to save monty's soul a little bit she's really giving me the business all right i'm quitting you right now don't you dare do anything
like dial this in really
carefully? Oh god, it's so
horrific looking. That is horrifying.
Break her legs.
Alright.
This puts her into phase two of the fight. She won't disappear anymore. It's just an all-out fight with so many zombies and her.
And what's really nice about this phase, if I can manage it, is she will not dodge bullets at all.
She won't go invulnerable anymore so if i can get this Rifle on her long enough.
I'm getting shot by Bryce.
It's so easy to get wombo combos in this phase of the fight.
Alright, we're just gonna...
...nade a crit there.
Knock her down so we can hit her with the manji sword a few times.
There we go She's dead
Done with Lana
Very nice
And now you have five more defibrillators left
Yeah, we have five more for the final fight.
Okay. Which is pretty good.
Nighty night.
So she activated this super weapon, we have to stop it and there's only one way to do that.
It's with one final puzzle involving lucas's pocket watch
it turns out the pocket watch was the key to stopping
this in an emergency code right now was the key all along so it's just kind of like a
puzzle there's a glitch sometimes you put in the right things oh i had that one
i just forgot
ah save the world And now the satellites are done.
Boom.
Satellites, you're done!
You're done, Salacia.
You're never gonna work in this town again.
Mm-mm.
So we've done that... Actually where does this take place like self-destruct sequence is
activated it takes place in the bermuda triangle right okay you mentioned sorry i might not have
ever said that no you did i just it slipped my mind
it takes place on a boat called the amphitrite okay but i never brought
that name up because it's so forgettable and hard to remember
but it is the amphitrite A-M-P-H
I-T-R-I-T-E
like amphitheater?
exactly
well yeah there's a whole little theater
we have the red card now
nice, the red card now nice
the final car final card
loading all right it's not over though we have plenty of enemies to take care of, these are a mandatory fight right here.
Oh I don't wanna die! Okay I died.
Yeah you can't pause and heal in the middle of just getting your stuff rocked right all right cool using guns is great until you're locked
in an animation that gets you combo forever and then grab these medkits
shotgun now we can triple crit oh yeah they're aggressive
yeah they're super aggressive you have to fight them in the tightest corridor in video games.
Come on bro! I'm mashing this.
So you had to fight those four because that last guy just blocks that door forever.
Are you going to have the meal kits now?
Yeah, I need to keep a meal kitting up because I have to save my defibrillators and these dudes will just sleep. Those two
attacks would've killed me.
Oh, my God!
You entered the room and it was like
immediate flips.
I still kind of got hit by that.
Okay.
I have four grenade launcher shots.
There's another required fight with these guys right here outside this elevator so what are you
going to be using for these grenade launcher okay i was saving it for just i want to clump them up hopefully
there we go that's nice when do we move and pick up this meal kit
are you not there?
Thanks.
Okay, I'll activate but just gonna leave
and we are
officially done with all non-boss combat.
We're gonna skip things and head to the final boss.
Okay, wow!
In that escape pod that we primed earlier.
Wait, we primed an escape pod? Yeah primed earlier.
Wait, we primed an escape pod? Yeah, remember the cyborg pod?
Oh! I was like, I gotta empty this
pod. Oh, right, right. So
now that we have the red card, we can go
into that room and get in the pod.
Sounds like a plan.
It's THE plan.
The plan. Let's do it.
You'll never guess who the final boss is.
Even though you know it.
Who could it be?
I will never guess who the final boss is.
Do you have any ideas on
who the final boss could be?
Keep it to yourself and don't spoil it. Just keep it to yourself and don't spoil it just keep it to your stuff all right
jk we're kidding we love you thanks for hanging around yeah we appreciate
you guys hanging out so much thank you so much sharing some death by degrees with y'all
and uh maybe i'll let this cut scene play a little bit
oh snap hello but oh the boat is getting rocked.
Screw this boat. Let's get out.
Get outta town.
Whoa!
Death by degrees.
Oh, snap.
Whoa!
Wow, those are not very secure.
No, not at all. Just opened.
Nina!
Don't fall.
Ah, savior. Ah, save your...
Ah, rescue chopper. Let's go.
Chopper.
Oh!
Okay?
Diss Anna Williams.
Anna has re-entered the chat.
No words.
Alright, this is the final fight
The showdown with Anna
It's a three phase boss fight and i'll uh let i'll let richard know on time when
it comes up yeah it's a sister showdown it will not be a short it's a longer fight.
So I'm going to crit Anna just three times right off the bat.
There are barrels that fall all over this arena randomly all the time,
and it's really good if Annana gets in them explosive barrels right
okay that was great yeah yeah so i credit her three times
and a barrel hitter for kind of a lot of damage and she still got kind of a lot of damage, and she's still got
kinda a lot health so that's just final boss health pool stuff.
So I'm actually going to pop water bottles
Wait, I went to the wrong menu
cut i wanted to like level things up actually don't have as many water balls
as i usually do but it's okay well we gotta make do with what
we have here i guess just hydrate y'all okay so anna's very quick and has
quite quite the reflexes and blocks a lot of our attacks.
She also does a decent amount of damage
So we want to crit as much as we can
It's all we got, we can't use melee weapons or guns against her
This is just hand-to-hand honor duel, you know?
Yes, and they make that a point
so that this final boss is more dramatic.
Exactly.
The sibling rivalry will come to a head here.
Yes.
So you can actually get knocked off this arena,
and it'll be an instant game over
even if you have defibrillators.
So I'm kind of fighting her in a really safe spot far away from the edge,
a safe spot near the fire.
Yeah well cuts in here as we go into phase two.
Oh!
Double slap.
Evenly matched.
They're like, alright, whatever. Let's do this.
It's getting serious now.
It gets serious.
You cracked my ribcage open but you slapped me.
And now it's on.
So going back to my safe spot because I do not want a game over.
Trying to do the critical heavy combo
Gonna chug some more water
Good idea, hydrate everybody. Hydrate.
I'll keep a couple of them on the wings. Okay so at this point it's kind of... Oh, I missed my crit. It's okay if she kills me because
Of course when I'm standing around trying to get hit she starts dodging
everywhere and not doing anything hit me come over here okay of course
when the other guy gets up that's fine for good difficulty
culprit so I'm gonna try to knock her down before I crit
her here because it's actually really easy to start the crit against Ana and
then her character model
moves out of your field of vision.
Okay, that works too.
So she'll start
jumping all over the place like that. Oh, great.
We hit all three, so that was great. And she's probably
going to get hit with this barrel, so it's even better.
Yeah, it's hard to
hit her in like the
appropriate bone spots when he's moving all over the place.
Yeah, she can just leave your
field of vision in the print thing if you
time it in an awkward way.
Dang, that's mean so at this point honestly this is the first time i've gotten thrown in this game amazing
usually when you get thrown by a random enemy
You'll get that tutorial dialogue
That's like, to evade a throw
Wait did you get that?
So I just got that against Ana
It is the end of the game But we want to make sure you understand So I just got that against Ana.
It's the end of the game, but you know we want to make sure You understand how to play
Yeah, that's pretty funny actually
Oh fun fact if you're running the game
And doing no saves,
and then you die against Ana,
you literally go to the first room of the game.
No way.
Yeah.
It's just complete game over.
Just starts the game over from after the tutorial.
That's wild.
That's brutal. I'm kind of just trying to get other people
on this leg.
Yeah, this fight's kind of long
i mean it's supposed to be it's a final boss final showdown here
really likely to hit me like that's like counterintuitive but I have all these defibrillators.
You can do better.
You can do better sis.
Come on sis!
Sorry sweaty. Sorry, sweetie.
I'm literally letting you hit me.
Alright, come on, C. Hit her with the Brick Breaker.
Yeah. Oh, cracked.
Nice!
Alright, phase three.
Ooh okay.
Time is gonna come up if her health hits zero or if i can knock her off the building or the side of the ship yeah so in
phase three she can now be hit off the ship and i'll be really careful about this because
i can easily die.
So when I kick this...
This barrier next to me actually doesn't break
but the one next it does
so I think it just broke, okay? Okay.
So I'm gonna try to hit her in.
Oh, I'm nervous.
Not get hit in myself because that will be a game over.
So I'm taking a bit of risky stride here.
I'm going to use some water bottles.
If i can crit her in the right place and get her on the ground,
I can line up one final kick to get her off.
Come over here, come over here... final kick to get her off. That's a little too far away.
I'll still try to kick her out, though.
We may end up killing her on
HP, but I will try my best to...
It kind of took too long to line that up.
But I think she was way too far anyway.
Get off the ship okay no time yet
save all your moves!
Let's not lock on. You can get rotated around really easily if you're
locked on, then you're the one going off
the edge.
Okay, that's fine.
Defibrillate her so we can crit
her
and eventually finish it but if I can get her in the right spot
Right here. Okay
Let's see if she'll... I'm just gonna burn Blast one because I just need to knock her down
... one because I just need to knock her down.
Line up the field goal, and... time!
Nice! Off the ship 326 just under 326 okay what do you think saint that wasn't a totally legit
run because of the backup save but hey we're underestimating what
the concept is there or under estimate great job that's exactly what the runs will look like
let's watch this uh oh yeah ending play out the full flashback now
what's been happening in the past
so i think they were kidnapped by these people
that's nina's father not this guy the guy who's getting gun pointed at No! You bastard!
Me not! You bastard!
Nina! Oh my gosh, this is terrifying for such a young girl.
Oh no... What's gonna happen?
Everyone's dead.
She didn't take it. She didn't
take it.
Wow. Death by degrees,
but really death
by bullets.
But it's cold outside. It's cold out there.. But it's cold outside.
Baby, it's cold outside.
There is a little Anna.
She was there too. Yeah, you can't forget about him and she was there Aw. No, no, no, no, no. Don't let go. Whoa!
Oh, this thing is coming down.
Whoa!
Helicopter.
Nice.
Uh-oh. Ooh! Boom.
Boom. The fleet has arrived now we're even oh see ya
just skip her across the ocean like a rock absolutely don't it There she goes.
Hmm.
Oh, that Anna.
That's death by degrees.
Oh, she's so badass.
Tekken's Nina Williams in Death by Degrees, ladies and gentlemen.
Yeah? GG?
GG! Wow. That was... degrees ladies and gentlemen GG GG that was really something I enjoyed that a lot thank you so much for running this game for us Saint
um do you have anything left you'd like to say to our viewers?
I just want to thank everyone for tuning in and hanging out
And washing some Nina
And sticking with us
It wasn't an all the way legit run because of the backup save unfortunate but
the concepts there i'm probably going to try to get a recorded run and maybe sr
comp page so if you're interested in this run which
through not i totally understand the load screens
you know it's it's not too bad it's got melgear solid vibes
resident evil vibes this time is all wrong
by the way because of the backup save
oh for sure but um
yeah it's
just a weird old ps2
game thanks for watching, thanks to
my YouTube viewers as well
supporting me in my different weird
ventures and thanks for having me
once again. Oh of course! Happy new year TVQ
to all. Yes thank you so much um and i do want to say that if
you enjoyed the run here tonight make sure
to keep an eye on saints youtube channel that's youtube.com
saint million for a more in-depth look at death by degrees uh coming pretty soon
it's in the works in the works yeah but um you're making a video all about it
yeah making really good progress on that so looking forward to a whole video dedicated to Nina uh
subscribe to Saint Millian's channel because you do not want to miss it but uh that is a wrap on
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