GOD GAMERS - How A Child Prodigy Almost Rewrote Hollow Knight's Most Popular Speedrun
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GOD GAMERS is a series celebrating the incredible accomplishments speedrunners have achieved. In this episode, we tell the story of how the youngest speedrunner in the Hollow Knight community almost flipped the Any% No Major Glitches category on its head. Magolor9000, or Moglar5k might just be one of the most impressive players in the scene today, and is undoubtedly a God Gamer.
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Hey everyone! Thanks so much for all your kind words about the video. It makes me really happy to see that everyone enjoyed it.
If you're interested in checking out Moglar5k's content, his channel is here: ua-cam.com/users/Magolor9000
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Amazing vid as always, Fire. God gamers unite!
Please make a video about CrankyTemplar especially his kind of crazy videos cause he is so underrated in terms of subcribers number .
Agreed
I love these kinds of videos! If you have any desire to keep making breakdowns like this I'd love to see more!
The music in this video is pretty good! Nice pacing too I think
This child clearly has ascended with Gorb
ASCEND ASCEND ASCEND WITH GOOORB~
ASCEND ASCEND ASCEND WITH GOOORB~
ASCEND ASCEND ASCEND WITH GOOORB~
ASCEND ASCEND ASCEND WITH GOOORB~
ASCEND
He is gorb
@@agadorisabel he is gorbs apprentice.
ASCEND, ASCEND WITH GORB
"no major glitches-"
_elderbug proceeds to shoot a laser at the knight_
That's in the base game tho.... totally.... Trust me.
elderbug got mad
@@joecross8954 he was tired of speedrunners ignoring him all the time
"Let's see what hes doing now"
Holy fucking bullet hell
In my case
"Let's see what he's doing now"
*got a makeup ad at this exact moment*
Okay then
I almost had a stoke trying to understand WTF was going on
yeah sounds about right
Not just that, he currently has the 2nd highest score in the world in that game, and is just 9m away from the world record (WR is 583m, his PB is 574m)
@@ZPS_STG What's the name of that game?
“Are ya winnin’ son?”
“Yeah dad! I’m revolutionizing a speedrun!”
"not yet, dad. THey keep saying that my way is impossible!"
God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him won’t perish but will have eternal life.
@@Yuki-qs5mt sir this is a wendys
@@CardboardPersonGuy it makes sense in this context though lol
@@Noodles410 how
This child must have read and truly understood the 57 presepts of Zote.
I still can't wrap my head around the not breathing water one. They must be a legend!
@@sirfedrick It has to be the key for being like him
We have to figure out what this precept truly means
He discovered that if you go through all the precepts 57 times, you unlock the 58th secret precept.
@@gelatin.skeletin Precept 58 is
[This statement has been permanently removed by the UN]
Rather the opposite!
Feel free to hit me up for the next one of these God Gamers. I beat the Watcher Knights on my second try during my latest play through, so you could say I am kind of a big deal.
Fo-for real? 😳
Yeah im getting called on the show next month, I beat radiant massive moss charger after 15 hours of practice and 30 hours of attempts
I beat Zote at trials of fools on first try
@@Drewdignity No way man
Lier, watcher knights are unbeatable
Imagine being so good at a game, the community designates an entire group of impossible skips named after you
Right, adding a category to avoid the impossible skips the dude invented. Some people just built different.
At the age of young
@@borisvanderhof8952 engrish go brr lol
Not really impossible then, are they?
@@jishaharidas695 he's not wrong, the dude was born at a young age
I love how accessible this is to people that haven’t played HK.
@@qwerty2485 QWERTY MUP! What’re you doing here?
drip sans
@@serious5109 NOOOO-
Same. One of my favourite pastimes is watching UA-cam videos about speedruns, even though most of them are about games I've never played in my life. And I owe that to these amazing UA-camrs who explain things so well that I can understand despite a total lack of experience.
@@serious5109 I'll never be able to unsee that
mog is the living definition of "so you're saying there is a chance"
Y E S
We must try!
impossible is just another type of possible
Did anyone have a TAS do the Route? _thonk_
@@bertvanbeterbed9702 the possimpible :)
I wanna see a TAS for this route now, it’d be cool to see just how fast it could actually be when done perfectly
I believe cuber knight is making one 🤫
This kid holds the hollow knight any% route in the palm of his hand.
Good god, it's true.
The damn gor skips.
Another ganyu fan. Niiiicceee
this is like walking into the wrong class, but staying bc its interesting
@@drognotfrog2648 the exact sentiment I had after a minute of randomly finding this lol
child must have wayward compass equipped
no... NO... thats cheating!
Lol
Truee
They are such a god that wayward compass cannot even match their power
Lol
Man I really thought towards the end you were going to say "this alternate run has never been used and nobody knows if it's faster, ... until now!" Would love to see this route go somewhere someday
Your recent vids have continued to impress me lately. The editing in this is next-level.
Hi Rusty!
Hey it’s the man who successfully moved off of overbotch
Next-level indeed!
Exactly
@@cot1579 careful, your bias is showing.
Knight: Bye Elderbug, im gonna speedrun the game
Elderbug: no u
So glad to hear Magolor from Kirby's Return to Dream Land getting the love he deserves XD
this is an underrated comment
@@bubble_espeon agreed
Fucking *finally*
Every smooth Brian who only plays Kirby including me
yes
I lost my mind when he pogo'd Electricity
I was actually blown away when I heard this kid had the Celeste World Record. Nothing short of a legend right here.
*had
Mog hasn't had the Celeste WR in 3 years I believe
@@zephyrsaurus8822 I had to look up the WR history of Celeste to confirm this, since his PB is currently in 381st place and over 10 minutes slower than WR. Didn't realize Celeste had been optimized that much in the last three years!
Celeste, now that's a ridiculous game D:
@@Pakkens_Backyard How that?
5:33 That's why you should always speak with Elderbug
@@heroikon9022 was this real? Do u get lasered if you don't talk to him the first time? :D
@@jamanletsgo Nope it was most definitely a mod
Holy heck, another documentary type video, these ones are my favorites! i’m excited!
The story of how BlueonTTV conquered dreamplats KEKW
lmao
@@fireb0rn Will be there more of them?
@@lukaszdluzak3905 in the description it says that God gamer is a new series he's started. And this is only the first episode I believe. So I think it's safe to say there will be more.
@@Sean_B123 I am happy about that
Hearing stories like this make me want a speedrunning anime... One part being the real people interacting, strategising and general plot; and the other part being the animators going absolutely nuts visually interpreting the crazy speedrun movements and skips that happens in the game world.
Also Magolor pretty much sounds like an anime protagonist already.
"Doable"
Doable, for the gods.
hello, god himself
Mag
YAY we got the ismas route we asked for! thank you for all your hard work and dedications in all your videos!
Moglar: Yeah, this route is perfectly doable
Me: "Doable"? _"Perfectly"?_
Me: so you're saying there's a chance?
You have to be perfect to do it. That's all.
@@TatharNuar Yeah of course, I was just pointing out how he basically says: "Yeah it's slightly hard but you can do it no sweat"
Do it do it do it
Never seen this channel before but it gives off karl jobst vibes in the absolute best way possible. I've never seen a channel go so In depth on nearly forgotten or dying information outside of his and maybe internet historian. Instant sub
5:36 single best bit of the video. You never skip elderbug.
Ohgod
wtf is going on there ???
Please explain in what circumstances does the elderbug produce a mighty laser of doom death.
@@bennemann if you skip him in your 69th attempt at speedruning his wrath is unleashed and there is a permanent death laser in dirtmouth
Felt like I was watching a historical documentary about Hollow Knight speed running. Good show.
Have you heard of whitecat? He started playing osu at 12 and got banned because he was so good people thought he was cheating. Right now he is the current best or near best osu player
Edit: a bit late but he actually was banned for multi accounting but because the reason wasnt actually disclosed everyone thought it was cheating
No I haven't. That's really crazy impressive though.
imagine being a child, and there's this game you like and that you are really good at, and then people accuse you of cheating.
And after his unban he did a 24 hour Twitch stream playing some really difficult song "maps". Within a week he went from the millions in player rank to #1. Prodigal.
@@fireb0rn yeah he got unbanned after *three years* and immediately flipped the leader board on it's head. Sniped several top players, and took the #1 global spot in *8. Days.* after it was undisputed for like a year or so
isnt he the longest standing #1 player already? i think cookiezi held the title before but im not quite sure
Imagine being this kid on a deadly speedrun here every seconds counts and some fucking primal aspid puts your whole game plan off.
This kid is actually another level. Good on him like that’s some insane stuff for his age
not even for his age. it's just insane stuff for anyone.
what's his age?
@@noxccty6200 14
I love this video. So comprehensive and informative. Although I'm not a great player myself, I love learning about how other people are playing and studying the game!
man kids out here making speedruns while i am struggling with remembering whats the route in deepnest
i cant even beat the game over 3 days
And here I am doing the pantheon of hallownest, failing at Nosk, then proceeding to not play hollow knight for a week
@@Daubeny_the_dubious lol i still haven’t beaten last pantheon, I only got to radiance one time and lost
Feel myself weird when I beat Pure Vessel without damage but waste terribly much time or even ruin double vengefly kings (or whatever their name)
@@Daubeny_the_dubious that’s straight up me rn 😂😂😂
his parents: why can't you be a prodigy kid?
him:
The trailer is really neat, for a moment I thought it glitched and I was watching it early!
Same
What trailer?
“silksong on its release”
So, when he reaches his retirement, then
i'd come back to this video over and over again for the sheer amount of insane skips it showcases... even being part of the rando community for a while i've never seen some of these before! that ooma explosion chain reaction in archives is absolutely nuts. hk and its runners never fail to impress me every time
Everybody gangsta till he starts with speedrunning path of pain....
Oh shit-
@@vim6459 nah, not just path of pain, path of pain%. You not only need to beat path of pain, but you need to get to it as fast as possible.
Awesome video, and thanks for the text additions that explain in-game terminology for the unfamiliar. That was a good idea.
Fire , ultimate hollow knight challenge that almost no one can do “walk instead of dashing”
I crystal dash everywhere, even places where walking is faster cause I'm so close to the wall
Wait how are you 12 hours ago?
@@vldmt2720 pretty sure people who are members get vids early
You don't get the dash in low percent
@@Okuufan no, it's because you were able to comment on the video before the premiere started, he probably commented during then
Oh my god I can't wait to watch him speed run silk song, just imagine the buck wild tricks he'll pull on his first published run before a route is really established. Just holy cow.
Wait how do you even do a trailer for a premiere, is that a new feature?
Yeah, that is so cool
I believe it is, yeah.
Wow that’s so sick!
After GOD GAMER you work toward becoming an EPIC GAMER
god gamers arising
Watching this only knowing his involvement in shmup community feels weird. Never had an idea he put that much effort in route discovery, so this video gave me some new appreciation for his skill. He's shown to be an extremely hard worker on a shmup side as well and is one of the best Ketsui players ever and is the best western Ketsui player period.
Absolute Legend, imagine being so young and comfortably sit amongst the best HK Speedrunners in the community. Super Impressive!
The quality of your video's is S-tier. Really enjoyed this vid.
These documentary style videos are some of my favourite on UA-cam. I'm so glad you're doing more of these lately since I love your content and I love these videos, so it's the perfect blend.
With the recent influx of hollow knight TAS’s I would love to see someone TAS this route just as a proof of concept
This has me excited for two things:
1. If anyone truly attempts the skip, even if it proves to be fruitless in its entirety, and
2. For when speed running Silksong begins
I just want somebody to do a TAS run of this.
@@Fedico7000 tas run?
@@ZMW266 Tool assited speedrun, it's basically a showcase of a technically perfect run just to see the shortest POSSIBLE amount of time to do something in a game. It's not really much of a category though.
I just beat Hollow Knight the other day. So, I have a rough understanding how the game works. What I love about your video is that you took the time to explain things (Super Dash, Double Jump, etc.). That way I could follow way better. Entertaining and informative video. I feel the passion.
Incredible vid fire. Clean editing, script, soundtrack. Reminds me of skurry's hungry knight vid cant wait to see more in the series!
Thanks Owen!
You know what this means. You will have to do at least a segmented run at some point. ; )
Might the child be even stronger than The allmighty zote?!?!?!
Bah! Impossible!
...unless...
Fools, he IS Zote!
Zote is he master!! Zote is the one who make the kid so good
The next fun boss in Silksong is actually Mog
Crystal Heart: exists*
Mog & other speedrunners: I took it personal
I love the format of the video, i love learning about this side of speed running
that we don’t really see often.
Excellent video fire!! These types of videos that go into depth about speedrunning history are very informative and entertaining. As a newer runner, I never really got to experience or appreciate how the route of Any% NMG developed, so I am really glad you made this video! moglar5k is truly a legend!
This new trailer feature is pretty neat
I started watching your channel after discovering the speedrun community. But holy shit you've gone more entertaining the more i watched your vids.
Also thanks for making this, i'm casual tho, but i love everything about this
Hearing this makes me feel like I gotta step up my game
And yet here I am feeling super proud about myself when I succesfully kill one primal aspid without getting hit 😂
This video was fantastic. Really was a treat to see behind the scenes and find out about how all the routing and stuff happens. Truly a treat
I didn’t know you could have a trailer for a premier. Cool
25:10 what kind of maniac psycho designs a boss fight like that? Holy....
Excited to see another documentary like video, your last one was really good.
Oh hey it's me at 22:16
I remember when this was discovered, the serious discussions around whether this could be faster. It was so exciting, then I watched the skips and my jaw dropped and I said "yeahhh no" LOL. Glad your content's doing well fire, keep it up
These videos are my favorites!
Very cool video! You were the first speed runner I ever saw, and I was totally blown away by all the cool skips. And you just kept amazing me with all the cool tricks you used during your VS matches. It is SUPER neat to be able to see how some of these were developed, and by whom. Thank you for the fantastic lesson, Fire!
as a bullet hell shmup player/fan, i can appreciate that last ketsui clip of a no-miss evaccanneer doom
5:37 That caught me so off guard lmao
i really like this type of videos, they're so interesting and you did this one so well!! i had a blast watching, can't wait for the next one :D
Dude you guys and Relyea are the best. Been a huge fan of your videos. Only been playing hollow knight for about 2 years now. My main save is 98% complete and I'm on Nightmare Grimm. Just started a new one on Switch. I could never speedrun. Mad respect!
I didnt know that these skips were all mag skips. Incredible!
I have really enjoyed this series! picked it up a couple days ago and really went through it FAST, considering the length of the videos, nice job! Some clear inspiration from Summoning Salt, but also a clear style and good research, top content me fireb0rn!
"Wanting to skip the Grub was a subconscious motive as well" Of course it was hehe
Amazing video! Thanks for sharing this story with all of us, keep up the good work!
Woah, the trailer thing is so cool! This looks and sounds like it will be awesome! I can’t wait for it to premiere!
Freaking killer video. Moglar5k is quite the mad lad. Really looking forward to any future videos in this series!
the trailer alone deserves an Oscar Award
Moglar: When is Silksong coming out?
random dude on discord: never.
I would love to see a TAS perform this run
I feel like everybody does.
Also I'm a BIT late to the party
@@shrapnel8360 no worries im even MORE late
A TAS can do QGA without even requiring crystal dash, so while it would be cool, it still wouldn't be optimal lol
Man this is incredible. Very well made video. Really shows how much work goes in to speedrunning
Wow your channel growth is insane!
I'm not gonna watch this since I haven't played the game yet and don't want spoilers, but I'm glad this video is popping off. Your Melee content was always amazing and people commenting on your editing doesn't surprise me at all since you've only refined it, I imagine.
Keep it up and best wishes! 🥳
I'm French and i rly like how you speak, it make your video very understandable :)
This is one of the coolest ideas for a UA-cam series I've seen in a while. From ESports pros to obscure speedruners like mog and Sh1ft, I can't wait to see more.
5:20 me when I don't want to wake up but I want to do stuff before my family wakes up.
Ok so i need to maybe see this new speedrunning route
I've been watching a lot of Hollow Knight speenruns (and rando races) lately and have been really curious about how the route developed. I'm excited to watch more of this series and learn about the awesome speedrunning community!
Hey fire, you've pretty much become the Karl Jobst of the HK community.
yea i thought that too
An *Absolute Legend* and a *God Gamer*
Perfect
Simply considering Spell Twister and Dash Master for a utility outside of general movement and boss fights is incredible. That kind of thing is something 99% of people would overlook in any game.
Wait, a route that gets you ismas AND mw? Tell us more!
"he started when he was 14"
me a 13 year old: *Thank lord hes older*
For a second I thought a glitch gave me the video early
Also maybe this could become a new speedrunning category?
Nice well put together video. I haven't played this game but heard it was good from friends. Was talking about it with my irl friend today and Google must have been listening from my phone to recommend this video to me.
As for Moglar when I saw the Ketsui clip at the end, I realised why the name sounded familiar. I'm a long time fan of Cave's shoot em ups, though I never really got much into Ketsui. A few months ago when I found out about the PS4 port and was interested in picking it up, I was watching a playthrough in which he added his commentary during the video, which is how I heard his name. Didn't realise he was so young. Good taste to be into old shooters at his age.
I wish there was a segmented run of this route to see the final time now ^^
Man, the beginning just feels like I’m watching a summoning salt video, like I’m about to go on a trip with an insane story about speedrunning, and really that’s what we got
I love the voiceover in this. Really soothing but also captivating to listen to! I love these deep dives; keep up the good work
i am not even a speedrunner but i am so invested in this, this is fucking AWESOME I CANNOT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH
now with the discovery of stallball is doable without nail upgrade, am I right?