[AGDQ 2020] Skyward Sword Any% Speedrun in
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- This is an Any% run of Skyward Sword that I performed at AGDQ 2020. There may have been some bumps in the showcase, but I'm happy with how it turned out. In retrospect, the honking from the audience did go overboard, but in the moment it was genuinely making me smile, and didn't feel distracting to me. Hope you guys enjoy it anyway though.
Live speedruns at: / gymnast86
Twitter: / mrgymnast86
#agdq2020 #awesomegamesdonequick #agdqskywardsword
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Link: “And for my next trick, I’m going to freaking kill myself!”
Then he sings rocketman
rocketman!!!
x
My man link does a magic trick in the sky and fucking dies
It’s amazing that he never says kill myself once
Legend has it that this is the first speedrun to require a masters degree...
SM64 ABC
@@MetaKnight68 the ABC stuff is more of a LOTAD (low optimization tool assisted demonstration)
@@MetaKnight68 That one requires a PhD.
I dont get it
OoT Any% is just as busted as this, the game just doesn't survive the glitches for long enough to showcase everything.
Link: walks past giraham
Giraham: understandable, have a great day
girahim: im a joke to you?
ham...
ghirahim
@@tonicampi_7pc844 Link: *"YES"*
i guess Im asking randomly but does any of you know of a way to get back into an instagram account..?
I was stupid forgot my account password. I would love any help you can give me.
Eight months ago: "Song of the Hero skip is not possible"
3 years ago: skipping anything is imposible
I can remember the speedrunscene back then. When the maincategories were straight to demise-% and get the harp.
Gymnast and the couch did a solid job explaining what was happening. My god there is so much going on
Yeah honestly they were super descriptive and good at explaining! Even though I forgot most of it I appreciate how much they tried to explain it while keeping it simple.
I was so excited to show my girlfriend this amazing run and then she said she couldn't stand it because of all the honking.
Citation needed.
Yeah, the ADGQ culture is mad cringe.
Understandable.
@@idreppy I think it can be fine sometimes, but here it just feels forced
Oh well, her loss.
wow this is amazing, last time I saw this speedrun it was about 5 hours but due to lots of hard work it was pushed down this far. Well done for this amazing speedrun. Hopefully its shorter length will inspire more people to start speedrunning it.
Yep. BiT is very useful.
reminder gymnast was the one who discovered reverse BiTwarp
I had a similar experience about a year ago or so. I remember watching Tlozsr back in like 2012 and then run was nearly 6 hours and eventually just sort of shifted interests and didn't watch any SS for many years and recently came back and it's crazy it's so close to sub 2 at this point. This game has evolved so much since then
👌
I saw in my search that there is a new run this year that’s only one and a half hours, I’m excited to see the change
It’s not a speedrun of Skyward Sword unless Gymnast fights Demise while blindfolded. You really are a true Jedi!
1:22 Start 3:36 Back in time 9:23 Every vault set to 0
14:21 Forest 39:15 Skip Boss 1
44:47 Volcano 1:00:10 Boss 2
3 minutes can skip entite Area 3,4
1:02:54 Early Thunder Head 1:09:12 F.Trial 1:57:11 Boss 5
1:15:06 Desert x:xx 8 minutes skip entite Area 6
1:22:45 V.Trial 2:02:44 Boss 7
(Edit: He has Longsword.)
2:08:02 M.Sword 2:10:16 Boss 8
9 minutes can skip entite Song of the Hero
2:19:33 Unlock Zelda 2:20:15 Hero can skip 2:22:48 Boss 10
2:23:26 Blindfold incoming 2:24:20 BF active 2:24:54 2:26:26 Demise
-I must admit "Blindfold vs Demise" must be my favorite. Unexpected. Outstanding :)
2:27:04 GG
-"Back in time" spent 20 minutes to skip 7 areas.
The goddess white sword doesn't deal more damage than the goddess longsword, so the "Without Long Sword, you require more hits" part is actually wrong
@@azer67 Oh, I forgot "Back in time" will automatically upgrade the Goddess Sword without any notice.
he got the goddess longsword normally at 1:59:17
Spike333s hey thanks and keep up the good work
@@azer67 I make a terrible mistake. How can I miss it :'(
seeing these uploads on the runners’ channels to get you guys the views makes me really happy
It's because GDQ was having issues, so the runners are uploading them so people don't have to wait/miss them
@@VoidEternal Really? What issues? Will they still be uploaded on YT eventually?
@@MisteMiner Yeah, they updated it on their twitter.
So sad I wasn't able to catch this live. You, Linkus, and ZFG are the holy trinity (triforce if you will) of Zelda speedrunners for me. Keep up the awesome work.
Don't forget about my boy MajinPhil
din, nayru, farore and hylia
Ok, this is for charity, i understand that, but this run is incredible and very complicated to explain. Do they really need to say HONK so much???
yes yes they do
jesus this is a lot of honks even for gdq
@@-nomi.- its cringe after the first 30 times
Yes saying Honk is a vital Part that saves several Minutes every time you do it thats why 3 hours are saved since the Last Time
Yes
I love how Skyward Sword, one of the best Zelda games out there, is still relevant. Touches my heart
15:42-16:02 I always attributed the fact that Link can ride vents without the sailcloth is so he can use them in the Silent Realms (Specifically Eldin's Silent Realm). I don't know how the developers programmed the section, but it would appear that it takes all your items, including the sailcloth (I think?). Therefore, it would be impossible to go to the top of the mountain without it. Of course, it could also just be lazy programming, but I digress.
Supperman88 it’s not really lazy if you’re not supposed to be there without it in the first place
Just a standard dev sanity thing. If getting to an area requires the usage and/or ownership of a specific item, and it's intended to be impossible to get to that area _without_ using that item, then it's usually safe to assume that any player in that area has that item. Since none of the vents are intended to be accessible before you get the sailcloth, there's no reason to have the game specifically check for an item you're "guaranteed" to have by the time you encounter a vent.
@@MrOmegatronic It has been awhile since I posted that, but nothing wrong with that. I agree with you on most/all fronts. I do think that there is slightly more at play here, however, because the game does not draw the sailcloth when you go up a vent without having it in your inventory. That is why I brought up the Sacred Realms; since they take away your items, and vents exist in them, they needed to have Link be able to climb them without the sailcloth I.e. the “hold my hands above my head like I have the sailcloth propelling me up, sans sailcloth” animation. But this animation is not locked to Sacred Realms; it does the same thing when you climb the vent without a sailcloth in your inventory. That being said, yes, the vents are usable regardless, and your reasons are sufficient.
I see what you're getting at, @@Supperman88. That sounds like a good point, and probably explains why the game doesn't crash looking for an animation that isn't there, or something. (As compared to landing in an area, which is basically an interactive cutscene, and thus probably already has a specific pre-assigned animation, regardless of whether you have the sailcloth or not.)
The announcer's voice break in every "honk" makes it
Pretty sure that's intentional/part of the meme
"Meme" *
"MeMe" *
He's risking losing his voice for the rest of the event, even if he knows what he's doing. He'll be fine in a couple of days if he messes it up even just once, but that's still a great risk to take just for the fun of the people. Gotta love him for that. This guy's a keeper!
@@stylis666 "He"? Isn't that a woman??
Skyward Sword Speed Run? Or beating a joke to death live? HoOoO0oO0oOnk!!!!!11!111
I was honestly fine with hype and orb but all this damn honking got old real quick. It also seems to me that the audience gets roudier each year with more injections and one dude yelling across the whole room.
The honking makes me cringe every time.
It’s not even funny, really.
Just obnoxious and try hard.
What is the background of that honking anyway? (My guess is that "untitled goose game"?)
@@Tatokat yup
That's what happens when you don't have a decent filter. They'll ban everything and you'll have to pay to talk in the event, but they don't care about the audience AT ALL, but (unsurprisingly) about activism and inclusion.
This has some of my favorite commentary I've ever seen for a run.
7 months late, but yeah. Gym's commentary is always incredibly good. He wastes very little time with jokes and memes, and always clearly and concisely explains the tricks and glitches he uses as they become relevant, often just in time for you to see them. He's gotta be my favorite speedrunner to watch for his expertise.
It was great seeing you showcase the crazy rbm strats to the general public. No one knew what was even happening.
Can’t believe I missed this, I was so excited to see this run on the schedule and then I completely forgot to tune in for it. Glad to at least watch it afterwards like this.
Bro this audience is unbearable
Having really only played Breath of the Wild it is really interesting to see the early stages of some of the ideas they were wanting to have in the 3d zeldas. Lots of fun to go back in time, so to speak.... I will take my leave now
Im honestly so mesmerized how they know exactly what things manipulate the game to their favor, what order they use them and how they even know of these glitches and manipulation shit. I get that they’ve been speedrunning a specific game for a long time but still its amazing
Welcome in the age of retro engineering
WOW that run time has improved drastically
God GDQ is even more terrible...I am officially never watching them again :) too bad it was a good cause.
26:01
"Que quuuuue."
"Que-"
"QUUUUUUUUE."
Like a beast rising from the depths.
Kyu kyuu
The most I like about Gym is his manly voice and the way he is talking and explaining.
Love this doood 👌❤️
Dunno why everyone's so riled up by the Honks. Yea, they don't add much, but crowd engagement creates a more positive attitude and it helps with extra donations, and not just for the incentive itself.
Look at Keizaron's Pokémon Gold run from last SGDQ, the Raikou nickname DIO?!?! got a couple of special donations and the crowd yelled it every single time it was sent out, nobody really complained back then.
Gym's the only reason I got into Skyward Sword, love his positive attitude and the way he can explain stuff as complicated as everything BiT so everyone watching at least gets the basics of it, so this was another amazing treat for myself.
PS: HONK!
Edit: just noticed the title is wrong, you finished at 2:25:36, not 2:26 :)
Some people are just really sensitive about running gag, and other just loves to complain. I'm sure there's a lot of people among those who complain who themselve abuse their own private jokes without a consideration for others x).
I don't get the honk meme at all, but yeah, like normal people should, I don't find it cringy or annoying to the point I blame them for it. Especially when it wasn't that often compared to some other recurring memes in event like this. The crowd was actually mostly respectfull on that matter to be honest, just honking as it shows up and trying to not make it too long. Gymnast and his couch were still able to perfecetly explain everything so.
Are you stupid?
@@SarkenHS Several months late, but I'm pretty sure the Honk meme was because of Untitled Goose Game. It had come out only a few months before this event, and was *huge*
Super hyped to see this run at AGDQ! It's cool hearing all the tricks be properly commentated. The honking didn't bother me too much, but maybe I'm just used to GDQ runs and their constant injokes, lol.
Damn, I missed AGDQ again. Lol nice work, Gym.
It's still going! :D
Edit: Now it's over! D:
DoomKitty3000
How long does it go til?
@@PittsburghSonido The 12th, I think. You can google AGDQ Schedule and you should be able to find out
I miss at least the majority every. single. time.
But this year I realized in time for Untitled Goose Game. All is well.
Finally. The boy's SSSOUL is now mine
10 minutes in and the honking is already intolerable
Zfg did a honkles percent speedrun and he was the only good speedrun at the event.,
@@seikanekasin Actually that was the only run I was looking forward to at AGDQ, it was great.
honk is literally the most annoying thing
It wasn't as bad as orb or uwu
I'll take honk over uwu any day though
Why is "honk" a thing with this run? Is it a SS thing I don't know about?
@@syndere6755 They named the file "Honk!"
@@rileymoore7025 so, you're saying that honk is just a meme phrase they chose?
Thanks for not disabling the comments for no reason!
Poor tomatoangus, getting his name changed and comments disabled :(
@@Aiterior He has it uploaded to his own channel as well, in case you care.
👏👏👏 the whole run and especially that very last fight was so good! and i love how whenever i don't have time to watch a run in a good few months, the run will be so different. and i thought i knew all the (casual) details about this game, like the red rupee in the owl's eye, but even i didn't know about the hidden rupee in the beginning of lanayru and the skyward stab!
I'm so used to how the current run works it's so weird to see this version from just a year ago. It's insane how much time has been saved since then.
Is the honk meme they keep beating to death really just from Untitled Goose Game or is there something else that I’m missing? It is honestly and objectively TOO MANY honks.
It is from Goose Game
Great run, caught it live. A real blast from beginning to end, seeing the culmination of everyone’s hard work in destroying this game
Gymnast: "So for this speedrun we're not picking up a shield as it's about 4s faster."
Arin 'Never-Shield' Hansen from GameGrumps: "See, I told you I was good at games!"
Excited to watch, glad you were able to run this at AGDQ with all the recent improvements!
3:52 I love how he explained the punchline, which makes jokes unfunny, and it was still fucking hilarious. Never change, Gymnast.
Sometimes even though he explains everything perfectly, he still loses me lol.
Is there a reason that the official GDQ page only has 17 runs uploaded as of right now? And why comments are disabled on those?
Usually the official GDQ channel takes a little while to upload all of its runs
comments are disabled because they're all snowflakes and don't like mean comments.
Because of the understandable backlash from GDQ banning some speedrunners for wrongthink. Speedrunners also pathetically displaying "he/him" next to their names also.
Good luck! Skyward sword is one of my favorite legend of Zelda game. Been considering doing a speedrun of this game too lol
J. C. I still want a switch port along with wind waker and twilight princess I love skyward sword but I hate motion controls
Exactly!i really enjoyed skyward sword and I don’t know why it gets so much hate
i applaud your technical prowess on this run - also i applaud Nintendo's attention to detail, the stalfos' ribs break as they lose health.
I’m so happy to see both gym and skyward sword at gdq! Sad I missed this run tho
Dope run, just a shame GDQ is very cringe. Good job tho.
I think the ppl just read the text and shout honk cuz they cant grasp anything else that's going on in this run
That did I lock the door joke, at the ancient cistern boss, really got me
This is I believe the only speedrun I’ve ever gone back to rewatch in its entirety. Gymnast, you are fantastic to watch and listen to. I am astounded by how much info you can impart while playing, that seems like it should be incredibly difficult!
Thank you so much! I sadly missed since it was in the middle of the night in my timezone, so happy to see it uploaded so fast :)
Very nicely explained run! Makes me curious about more of the finer details of the glitches! If anything's yet to be explained, I'd love a video from you about it!
What are some holy grails for Skyward Sword Any%?
Y'all complaining about all the HONKS must've not seen Bayleef's run of Mario Odyssey with it's 300 odd something MOONS and claps lmao I'm so excited to see Gymnast rip this game apart
Run starts at 1:29
fucking annoying
Great run though!
All of the honking has made the runs from 2020 age so poorly. They're just annoying to watch the VoDs of. Great commentary and run by gymnast, though!
"The honking in the audience did go overboard, but in the moment it was... making me smile..." I'm glad you got some enjoyment out of it but from my part I don't want to hear any human being doing that stupid sound ever again.
I will also never rewatch any of this videos, just once was enough torture
What a badass
couldn't have said it better myself.
screw donations that make the couch/runners do stuff
How do people honestly find these glitches... it's amazing
audience: *applauds
stream audio: it's time to get funky
9 minutes in... The honk is already getting annoying
The crowd is so annoying
Crowd ruined the run for me. Couldn’t finish it.
HONK!!!!!
I'll be honest, it's a cool run but the rba sorta makes it dull. It's a technically cool trick but makes the run less fun to watch.
there is a category called No-BiT of skyward sword
Hi, I was wondering if there is a place where I can check all the technical details of the run.
Amazing run at AGDQ for sure.
I love how at the start you can legit hear SpikeVegeta yelling lmao
Same it made me happy to hear him 😁
This is probably a dumb question but is he playing in hero mode?
MessApathy I actually watched the rest of the run and apparently they do actually run in hero mode so they can get the extra damage on the skyward strike
@@Colin-yz6tc hero mode also allows runners to skip cutscenes
Couch commentary is provided by baileyp75, zayloox and testrunner
Kungfufruitcup is host
oops at the time being a bit wrong-time ended at 2:25:36 rather than 2:26:35. A very impressive run and finish
Does anyone else watch speed runs and be like "lol i would barely even be 1/4 of the way through even though this guy just finished the game"
You cant get through a quarter of this game in 2 hours
@@jage6344 thats why i said barely
fell asleep during the live run, when i heard that he blindfolded demise i thought my donation was read (where i incentivized it), but it wasnt feelsbadman
still an amazing run, i loved it!
I like how gymnast always gets the cute announcer
Who was teh announcer for this run?
I definitely couldn't get to seeing gdq at this time. Thanks for putting the video up so quickly!
Always doing a good job gym. Thank you for your hard work and awesome content
naww I love how they congratulated them at the end :')
For some reason, I'm reminded of a certain Huey Lewis song.
_Gotta get back in time!~_ ua-cam.com/video/ur57IunS9To/v-deo.html
Ther is so much interaction and stuff what make my brain blow. More then the Pokemon blue? full Pokedex run, that was like Hacking the game.
1:39:02 sorry i can't understand italian
What just happened? It was awesome but what even man
I have never seen Gym this animated
Wohh just like two months ago i watched your other SS GDQ run. Cool
I like to occasionally come back to this so I can watch it while eating snacks.
This run is pretty cool to watch, Just wish the Honking wasn't there it's really annoying especially when they scream with the runner talking. Out of every dumb shit GDQ prohibits runners from doing, they should prohibit the audience to talk over the runner
Get over ittt
@@scantyer Could say that about all of your problems lmao
Anyone know what's going on with the GDQ channel? Almost all the times are wrong in the titles, and the comments are turned off. Talking about casual players having trouble with the Loftwing controls. I had literally no idea that you could shake the Wiimote to flap the first time I flew, so I thought that the tutorial was impossible to beat due to the fact that the Loftwing would start fluttering after a short period of time. After I figured that out, I found the controls a lot simpler
I'm not sure about the incorrect times, but my best guess for having comments turned off is because of the two controversial bans this year, and them not wanting to have anyone complaining about it in their comments
@@DeadlyPlauge11 It might be, but it's also weird because they released the finale video, but only about 7-8 runs. Meanwhile, everyone seems to be posting their runs on their channel, and I found a run on a channel with very few videos that seemed to be from the runner. Almost like they are having the runners post their content this year. It's just strange
Why does Gymnast look like a blushing anime boy?
This run looks like it'd be fun to learn. That BIT at 1:29:20 just looks like it'd be satisfying to pull off a time or two (or three).
why.
Your runs are actually amazing my guy, I just beat the game for the first time recently, it took me like 31 hours haha, so I’m catching up to you soon
I can’t help but focus my eye on the bottom right corner occasionally, it was a main console release in 2011, and somehow, we haven’t gotten any ports of it.
Hate to say it, but I miss those motion controls. For the good and the bad.
imagine SS with modern actually usable motion controls though
NuclearFarts Now that would be a dream come true.
Well, id like to think thag we have a chance with the switch, but...
these aged so well lmfao
In most runs, save file naming is included as part of the run (i.e. naming is timed).
Why is it not timed here?
Also, why is the Wii's date set to 2017?
It depends on the game where the timer starts. It's up to the runners running the game. It might start before or after name entry depending on whether or not the name matters in the run, or whether or not there's RNG manipulation taking place before getting into the game.
He's the videogame boy !! He's the one who wins !
15:40 link is a heli
This speed run is absolutely insane, BLINDFOLDED IS ACTUALLY INSANE
"skipping the softlock" is now my new favourite english sentence
Can someone reupload this but without the fucking unbearable socially maladjusted screech of “honk” every 5 seconds?
best moment is at 2:02:58
was a very good and informative run for a noob like me lmao. nice work!
I'm recovering from that skyward stab reveal.
38:12 THEY SAID MY NAME
This Run pleases my Save Phobia.