4:02:57 Dog cam was priceless. I love these runs honestly, I had no idea it was on PC now and i've been binging all the First Step content with Jhobz and Keiz
I really like this method of starting with a game you are familiar with and racing them, then teaching each other, then racing with swapped sets. It's a really great way to learn some of the more in depth methods for speed running!
Started watching the first step at the start of the month due to the wonderful algorithms of our UA-cam overlords. Can’t make a live twitch stream due to work hours BUT I have deeply enjoyed watching this series thus far and have watched some older episodes. Love the content and commentary! Keep on keeping on! Side note picked up my vanilla copy of KH2 not for a speed run play but to play it again for fun because of this! Gotta find my vanilla Gen2 Pokémon for the same purpose. Thanks guys!
1:28:20 Keiz: "You could Dex where that is maybe! Wait, you don't have a--" Jhobz: "WITH WHAT DEX, KEIZ??????" LMAOOOOOOO. This is such a joy to watch. Less of a race and more of just two runners trying to make it through runs they are very not used to.
I just got to say, this month has meant so much to me. Getting to see two of my favorite games ran at such a high level, and then seeing it reversed and ran from a beginner perspective has been incredible. I was thoroughly entertained throughout and can’t wait to see it done again next week. Would love to see more content like this month in the future. Keep up the amazing work you two!
Keiz, I am never, ever, ever asking you for a randomizer seed ever. Holy shit that was BAD. And made for an amazing pair of runs. Well done both of you! What a chaotic and amazing watch.
Loved the KH2/Crystal content. Really insightful to see each of you tutor the other through the runs and the races are always really fun. I'd definitely watch more of these type of long term projects.
Wonderful show! It's sometimes assumed speedrunners can pick up new games and already be good. Thanks for showing you can learn a game gradually even without prior experience in the genre.
This is really cool! I’d love to see more of these. Speed running always seems so impossibly time consuming to get anywhere with, but breaking it down like you have here makes it seem way more accessible!
This is so amazing! I caught the stream, and it was so much fun. You guys both did so well, and you've inspired me to try my hand at rando Pokemon Crystal, and eventually KH2 Rando. Y'all are both amazing!
Love this whole month. It was so fun and so wholesome and you both sincerely seemed to be enjoying yourselves, even when the RNG was being rude. I really hope you do more of this in the future. Also, I've been inspired enough to download the stuff to try a casual Crystal randomizer run. Will probably try it myself as soon as I've finished up Shining Pearl. I might try KH2 rando, too -- I liked the whole Kingdom Hearts series casually, although the randomizer seems very daunting. Also, at the comment about, "the last break" I looked at the time remaining in the video and thought, "I hate to tell you two, but..."
You guys are awesome. I feel so much sympathy for you Jhobz; brutal seed. This whole month of TFS has been awesome and I'm sure I'm going to go back to these videos again in the future
I love The First Step, and being 31 now and recalling my early years playing both of these titles, this series has been phenomenal to watch! It convinced me to try my own hand at running KH2FM randomized, it feels like a totally new game
Did a race of crystal along side and it didnt seem far my seed was so much better than the one Hobbs got.. I finished at 3:00:32 and I ran my starter which was jolteon through the whole game.. finished at level 54 after beating red with a move set of thunderbolt surf aeroblast and ice beam lmao
You know, it’s not often that I find something that can maintain over 50% of my attention for 5 minutes, let alone 4 hours. I salute you guys. I stand by my other comment and wanna see this repeated for a “grand champion” kind of thing. Loser had to give 6 compliments 😬
This whole month has been a blast! Hobz and Keiz surely had fun with their seeds it seems and I did too 😅😂 And I’m really impressed how fast they picked up each other’s games ❤️
Just a recommendation for future promotion of the new UA-cam channel, clarify that it is "Sum" instead of "Some" just to ease any confusion. Otherwise love Keiz and Jhobz synergy and this race/swap/teach/race concept it'd be great if y'all can get other runners to join in. (Probably pretty tough to get others to be able to commit to a 4 week cycle)
SPOILER Jhobz gave Keizaron a MCP seed, while Keizaron gave Jhobz a seed curated by Satan himself. What a way to finish off the series. Edit: NVM, THE GRAND FINALE IS UPON IS!
Hope for next week you have someone check the seeds ahead of time so you know they're not as bad as this xD Either way, can't wait!! Been really loving this series
Haven't finished the race, but this whole set has been one of the best first steps. Especially since both Keiz and Hobz would very much like to help the other rather than deal with their own game please.
Hobbs I commend you. I've done this exact same seed in final fantasy 4 and link to the past. It really sucks but the experience gained from just how garbage this seed was is crucial. I really feel you could half the time of this race in almost any other seed
Well Hobs, in my casual play-through of Red (or blue I forget which, since I owned them both) I ran out of moves on my last living pokemon on the fourth elite four member, only to discover that there was a fifth person to fight. And Yes, I struggled my rival to death very painfully with many resets. So at least you only had 1 pokemon on the champion to struggle though.
On the one hand, I want to say that part of the seeds being kinda wild is because of them intentionally getting a bizarro seed for each other. On the other, I don't believe Keiz would intentionally throw something like that at Hobz, haha. Great month of content, guys!
They mentioned in a previous episode that there is ticket tape that scrolls across the bottom of the screen with the hint information. Not sure if it's in the display area or not. Hope that helps!!
There are text in the lower end of the tracker, below Keiz's screen, that will tell what the report says. Additionally, the number next to the world symbol will update from "?" to whatever number of important checks there are. For example, he found that Twilight Town has 4 important checks, so the number below Twilight Town's symbol (the keyhole) will update from ? to 4. The tracker will automatically add the important check next to the designated world when Keiz picks them up.
One way is on the tracker next to his facecam. The areas are on top, and start with 0/?. When he gets a report it will change the question mark to the number of important checks. As an example, when he gets the report at 20:25 you can see simulated twilight town (the ninja star icon) change from 0/? to 0/3. After he moves the tracker, it would just be the ? next to the level icon, and the text at the bottom of the tracker. No 0/ with it.
The tracker automatically updates as soon as you get a report. There's no in-game indication; it's all in the tracker. For example, at 1:28:51, watch the text at the bottom-right corner. Once he gets the report, it changes to "TWTNW has 3 important checks", and the ? by that world's icon is replaced by 3.
A true highlight to watch this live. Such a cool concept that’s been executed wonderfully over the past few weeks 😊 Looking forward to seeing Hobz and Keizaron try to coach two others in these Randomizers next week 😂
This whole series was a ton of fun to watch!
What an amazing series. I'd love to see more of it.
In the future, when JHobz gets asked about how this run went, I imagine he'll just look far off into the distance and say, "It was a struggle."
I literally can't right now. I'm dying at the joy of finding a proof, then just sounding bored at finding the ultima weapon. Hilarious. 20:32
1:38:30 The "You better end up having to fight Marluxia or something" - "WHO??!" exchange had me laughing out loud, oh my lord
4:02:57 Dog cam was priceless. I love these runs honestly, I had no idea it was on PC now and i've been binging all the First Step content with Jhobz and Keiz
I really like this method of starting with a game you are familiar with and racing them, then teaching each other, then racing with swapped sets. It's a really great way to learn some of the more in depth methods for speed running!
Started watching the first step at the start of the month due to the wonderful algorithms of our UA-cam overlords. Can’t make a live twitch stream due to work hours BUT I have deeply enjoyed watching this series thus far and have watched some older episodes. Love the content and commentary! Keep on keeping on!
Side note picked up my vanilla copy of KH2 not for a speed run play but to play it again for fun because of this! Gotta find my vanilla Gen2 Pokémon for the same purpose. Thanks guys!
The grand finale is upon us! So excited
1:28:20 Keiz: "You could Dex where that is maybe! Wait, you don't have a--"
Jhobz: "WITH WHAT DEX, KEIZ??????"
LMAOOOOOOO. This is such a joy to watch. Less of a race and more of just two runners trying to make it through runs they are very not used to.
Whoever zoomed in on Kairi in the back of Keiz's feed is now my friend
I just got to say, this month has meant so much to me. Getting to see two of my favorite games ran at such a high level, and then seeing it reversed and ran from a beginner perspective has been incredible. I was thoroughly entertained throughout and can’t wait to see it done again next week. Would love to see more content like this month in the future. Keep up the amazing work you two!
Keiz, I am never, ever, ever asking you for a randomizer seed ever. Holy shit that was BAD.
And made for an amazing pair of runs.
Well done both of you! What a chaotic and amazing watch.
2:55:40 Keiz using the strats Hobz used on his NBS appearance the other day!
Chiming in to say that I really enjoyed this month as well, would love to see it make a return down the track!
That Crystal seed man. You know it's cursed when Suicune is Suicune.
Loved the KH2/Crystal content. Really insightful to see each of you tutor the other through the runs and the races are always really fun. I'd definitely watch more of these type of long term projects.
If we don't see a donation incentive in an upcoming GDQ to name a Laprass, Jhobz, we're doing it wrong....
Wonderful show! It's sometimes assumed speedrunners can pick up new games and already be good. Thanks for showing you can learn a game gradually even without prior experience in the genre.
This is really cool! I’d love to see more of these. Speed running always seems so impossibly time consuming to get anywhere with, but breaking it down like you have here makes it seem way more accessible!
The fact that both of these seeds naturally turned into all important checks is amazing lol
This is so amazing! I caught the stream, and it was so much fun. You guys both did so well, and you've inspired me to try my hand at rando Pokemon Crystal, and eventually KH2 Rando.
Y'all are both amazing!
Love this whole month. It was so fun and so wholesome and you both sincerely seemed to be enjoying yourselves, even when the RNG was being rude. I really hope you do more of this in the future. Also, I've been inspired enough to download the stuff to try a casual Crystal randomizer run. Will probably try it myself as soon as I've finished up Shining Pearl. I might try KH2 rando, too -- I liked the whole Kingdom Hearts series casually, although the randomizer seems very daunting.
Also, at the comment about, "the last break" I looked at the time remaining in the video and thought, "I hate to tell you two, but..."
You guys are awesome. I feel so much sympathy for you Jhobz; brutal seed. This whole month of TFS has been awesome and I'm sure I'm going to go back to these videos again in the future
I love The First Step, and being 31 now and recalling my early years playing both of these titles, this series has been phenomenal to watch!
It convinced me to try my own hand at running KH2FM randomized, it feels like a totally new game
Did a race of crystal along side and it didnt seem far my seed was so much better than the one Hobbs got.. I finished at 3:00:32 and I ran my starter which was jolteon through the whole game.. finished at level 54 after beating red with a move set of thunderbolt surf aeroblast and ice beam lmao
Just checked its DVs and it had 14 Special 12 speed. This thing was busted
As a youtube watcher, I haved loved these last few set of weeks watching the KH/Pokemon races!!!! Its been super fun!!!
I loved this series so much, hope to see more of this kind of content in the future
This has been a highlight between gdqs. I only watch gdq and these hot fixes! Keep them up
You know, it’s not often that I find something that can maintain over 50% of my attention for 5 minutes, let alone 4 hours. I salute you guys. I stand by my other comment and wanna see this repeated for a “grand champion” kind of thing. Loser had to give 6 compliments 😬
I'd love to see more of this sort of thing, for sure.
The compliments at the beginning with the KH title menu music. Blessed content. :))
My favorite series by GDQ hands down
This whole month has been a blast!
Hobz and Keiz surely had fun with their seeds it seems and I did too 😅😂
And I’m really impressed how fast they picked up each other’s games ❤️
what an ending! great series this month y'all, it has been heartily enjoyed.
I’ve been looking forward to this for the last month! Here we go!
I really enjoy this series, wasn't able to catch the full stream so I'll be binging these for fun
Loved that series, thank you all so much for the great entertainment!
Just a recommendation for future promotion of the new UA-cam channel, clarify that it is "Sum" instead of "Some" just to ease any confusion. Otherwise love Keiz and Jhobz synergy and this race/swap/teach/race concept it'd be great if y'all can get other runners to join in. (Probably pretty tough to get others to be able to commit to a 4 week cycle)
1:12:09
Hobz: who are you?
Lt surge: im you, but stronger
At the 2:07:00 mark and i feel so bad for hobz seed.
Please, do more series like this, we need Jhobz playing animorphs
Relaxing Pokémon AND Kingdom Hearts sounds to fall asleep to.
you two are amazing, I really love and enjoy watching The First Step :)
Haven't gotten to watch live only been catching on UA-cam. But i think this has been great. I love kingdom hearts and Pokemon
"I'm not afraid of you!" *gets sludge bombed and sent back to menu*
What a fun series. Should continue this in October too
aw yeah, the race I was waiting for.
Keiz and I are both equally new to KH2 rando, so this'll be fun to compare
SPOILER
Jhobz gave Keizaron a MCP seed, while Keizaron gave Jhobz a seed curated by Satan himself.
What a way to finish off the series.
Edit: NVM, THE GRAND FINALE IS UPON IS!
Well done both of you for persisting despite your seeds forcing you to do things you haven't done before! Especially you JHobs ówò
I love how Keiz very much was stubborn about not doing Space Paranoids... hehe
This was great to watch - I wish this type of stuff was more common!
Great series guys!!! Would love more of these sorts of train each other things!!
Love the races! Keep up the great work!
Hope for next week you have someone check the seeds ahead of time so you know they're not as bad as this xD Either way, can't wait!! Been really loving this series
I wish this can be a mini-series. It would be really cool to see how you guys improve within say, a month's time
Was waiting for this 😊
excited!! been waiting to see this! love the concept, new show maybe??
Now it's time for Hobz to teach Keiz how to do the Sprashfecta.
Soooo... This format should be a show on its own!
Compliemnts: "Alway Check Nugget Bridge as fast as possible."
Race: *DOES NOT DO THAT*
Thanks, y'all for the endless hours of enjoyment y'all provide.
Haven't finished the race, but this whole set has been one of the best first steps. Especially since both Keiz and Hobz would very much like to help the other rather than deal with their own game please.
This has been so fun to watch!
Ya know given how much of a wall Erika was, it was VERY fitting that the last badge he got was the Rainbow badge
This was fantastic! Also, wow, these seeds.
How long until someone programs a combo rando in honor of this whole series?
The first step is definitely my favorite show. Btw Keiz and Hobs sound like a cop movie.
Really loved this series :)
Hobbs I commend you. I've done this exact same seed in final fantasy 4 and link to the past.
It really sucks but the experience gained from just how garbage this seed was is crucial. I really feel you could half the time of this race in almost any other seed
Also keizaron well played, you finished a decently difficult KH2 seed in quite a good time especially from someone not familiar with the speed strats.
I kinda want to start trying a kh2 randomizer. It seems like a lot of fun. Kh2 is one of my favorite games.
Well Hobs, in my casual play-through of Red (or blue I forget which, since I owned them both) I ran out of moves on my last living pokemon on the fourth elite four member, only to discover that there was a fifth person to fight. And Yes, I struggled my rival to death very painfully with many resets. So at least you only had 1 pokemon on the champion to struggle though.
I love how the Roamers were Zapdos, Flareon, Suicune
GG Congratz on the Win Keizaron
Now where's the belt
Those were some hilarious seeds.
On the one hand, I want to say that part of the seeds being kinda wild is because of them intentionally getting a bizarro seed for each other. On the other, I don't believe Keiz would intentionally throw something like that at Hobz, haha.
Great month of content, guys!
Is there some resources for us to learn Crystal in the same way as Jhobz? Like how to randomize the game and the tracker used an everything?
So the guy named ‘Keiz’ is playing KH2…there’s a joke in there somewhere
I'm still waiting for some kind, generous soul to make this KH2 x Crystal Multiworld option.
can we appreciated doggo zoom in towards the end of the race?
Are there links to the docs you shared with eash other to help
I watch this to go to sleep.
Me seeing Vanilla Two Becomes One: What kind of rando?!
i wanna start doing the crystal item rando but cant get it sorted could someone help me get it
That was some cursed seeds
Hobz full item rando when?
How can you tell what worlds has important checks when receiving a report? I cant figure it out xD
The reports themselves give the the hint.
They mentioned in a previous episode that there is ticket tape that scrolls across the bottom of the screen with the hint information. Not sure if it's in the display area or not. Hope that helps!!
There are text in the lower end of the tracker, below Keiz's screen, that will tell what the report says. Additionally, the number next to the world symbol will update from "?" to whatever number of important checks there are. For example, he found that Twilight Town has 4 important checks, so the number below Twilight Town's symbol (the keyhole) will update from ? to 4.
The tracker will automatically add the important check next to the designated world when Keiz picks them up.
One way is on the tracker next to his facecam. The areas are on top, and start with 0/?. When he gets a report it will change the question mark to the number of important checks. As an example, when he gets the report at 20:25 you can see simulated twilight town (the ninja star icon) change from 0/? to 0/3.
After he moves the tracker, it would just be the ? next to the level icon, and the text at the bottom of the tracker. No 0/ with it.
The tracker automatically updates as soon as you get a report. There's no in-game indication; it's all in the tracker.
For example, at 1:28:51, watch the text at the bottom-right corner. Once he gets the report, it changes to "TWTNW has 3 important checks", and the ? by that world's icon is replaced by 3.
I wanna see a best 2/3
A true highlight to watch this live. Such a cool concept that’s been executed wonderfully over the past few weeks 😊
Looking forward to seeing Hobz and Keizaron try to coach two others in these Randomizers next week 😂
Lapras vs. Cross Chop. Who wins??
W H A T K I N D O F R A N D O
The seeds are CURSED. CURSED!!!!
Poor, poor Hobz
I dont think ive ever seen worse seeds than this...
Hi mom!
Wow hobz probably had the worst possible seed and keizaron probably had the 2nd they could get on their games
First!