[Commentary] Brain Lord any% speedrun in
If you want to watch this run without audio commentary, you can find it here: • Brain Lord any% speedr...
Shoutouts to Mecha Richter for selling me this cart like 8 years ago. I loved this game and I hope that more people will give it a shot after they see my runs/streams of it.
This category uses the Rotayo Skip to go straight to Toronto at the beginning of the game, skipping the first two dungeons in their entirety. Starting the run in the third dungeon with no fairies, no stat-ups, and only starting equipment is a substantial challenge. The speedrun would be hard enough even when appropriately prepared, but with so few resources available this becomes a tremendous hurdle.
This is what I'd consider the "entry-level" route. This category will always be incredibly difficult, but this route incorporates a lot of extra safety measures without sacrificing large chunks of time. There is only one shopping trip for the entire run, and I collect exactly enough hearts/equipment to guarantee that I will survive two hits from the final boss and usually survive two hits from the Ghost boss.
The next step is to update the route to cut out most of the equipment and hearts, and add some of the other skips that I know about (notably the Early Ocean Key skip), but that will require a pretty substantial reroute and a lot of practice.
As for the execution in this, I'm very pleased! I have no unintentional deaths, but I did have some pretty sloppy mistakes here and there and failed the full Droog RNG manipulation. Both boss fights were incredible, though. Please refer to the audio commentary for more details on mistakes and route considerations!
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"I think the play level in this is pretty approachable, pretty reasonable. I'm not doing anything super unreasonable in this run." - The man who beat Lagoon deathless and saveless and _holds the record _*_OVER THE TAS_*_ in Dragon View_
Always love the commentated run. You always manage to explain even the most complicated tricks in a run so even if I never played the game I can understand. Outstanding work as always. You are and will always be the top speedrunnner/streamer I use as an example when explaining my love of the hobby. Thank you for everything you've done for the community!
@TheSuperSNES
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much! I've been pretty down on the speedrunning community for awhile, and feeling pretty down in general lately, and comments like these really help. I'm really glad you enjoy my work. ^_^
@AnimusBehemoth
3 ай бұрын
@@TheSuperSNES Hope you're feeling better, PJ. You've been my favorite speedrunner since the SDA days, and watching (and rewatching) all your commentated runs has helped me through down periods innumerable times. Thanks for everything
PJ From someone who hasn't played many of the games you run.. your runs are so easy and a pleasure to watch. Its the commentary that makes it so good to watch. Even your live runs.. they're great and thanks for continuing the hard work!
33:34 Truer words of Droog have never been spoken
yes, finally another PJ speedrun. always love these! you make great videos with the best commentary.
@Faber0k
3 жыл бұрын
Gotta agree. Pj plays great games and commentsin such an interesting and informative way making his entire runs entertaining to watch. Believe it or not the Lagoon runs are my favorite.
@Faber0k
3 жыл бұрын
When he finally decides to speedrun ys III wanderers from ys on snes I'll be ecstatic.
@THEFRISKIESTDINGO
3 жыл бұрын
When I meet people who watch speedruns I always ask "who's the best speedrunner: PJ or PJ?"
I started watching your runs/events at such a shitty time in my life. I had to sell all my consoles and games to avoid being homeless. Watching your runs with commentary I swear kept me sane. I just wanted to say thank you for all your hard work and grinding. Love all your work PJ and I hope wherever you are, you are doing well. Keep grinding man.
@TheSuperSNES
3 жыл бұрын
I'm so sorry that you had to go through that. I've been through some really rough times recently, and it feels like an endless pit of despair sometimes. I'm so glad that my content was able to help you through it, and I hope you're doing better now!
@jl5028
3 жыл бұрын
@@TheSuperSNES Slowly but surely. Appreciate the reply and just overall giving a shit. Your content has been a godsend. I hope you are on the upswing and things start getting better for you as well! Please don't lose passion man.
Brain lord sounds like an 80's high school insult
Gotta love PJ commentary runs!
Awesome! Glad you decided to do a commentary for this one, been hoping for one ever since you uploaded the Rotayo Skip clip a while back
Really great video, always good to hear your commentary, PJ. I never could figure this game out as a teen.
Man, I'd never even HEARD of this, but the music slaps and it looks fun! Great vid as always, PJ!
I love these commentary runs, thank you so much for creating them :)
That speedrun very cool!
PJ, you are the complete package smart runs, fun runs and hilarious runs (looking at you BCR2)!
OH NO. You are a descendant of the Dragon Warriors.
This is awesome. Such an underrated game, and I was just thinking about maybe trying to speedrun it, then run across this. Thanks for the upload and commentary man. I think I will give it some practice and real shot eventually.
This run convinced me to play Brain Lord about a year ago, still have fond memories of this game, except for the randomized room in Droog Caverns, that part sucks, excellent game though.
@TheSuperSNES
Жыл бұрын
Hahaha. Agree on both counts!
oh wow I hadn't even known you were doing these commentaries. I mostly know you from marathons so. this is awesome!
If you ever run this at an event, have them announce it as "and now for the silky smooth sounds of... Brain Lord!"
When i was young this game was so difficult my best time is around 8 hours but i abused the infant fairly exp glitch with the strength and guard fairy with resets for ever powr and guard source. So cool you completed so fast
Until you upload the files to your website, new players should probably focus on getting and beating the game. :s Thanks for the upload! :)
Shit, I was trying to run this game just some days ago, I discovered the skip and you're runs, but didn't found any WR with the skip and thought the WR was free with some practice, but I guess not so easy now
How come this isnt isnt uploaded to speedrun.com? This would be a WR there.
@TheSuperSNES
3 жыл бұрын
I don't use SRC
still waiting for the sheet with info
Great run of a very underrated SNES zelda-like game. Can you do a 100% run?
@TheSuperSNES
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Unfortunately, 100% would be too hard to define in this. Inventory is too small to collect every item/piece of equipment/Jade, and there aren't really any meaningful sidequests except for the Arena. People have suggested doing an "all Jade at max level" run, but that'd frankly be really boring. Would just be a ton of grinding for cash and levels. There's not really a meaningful way to define/run 100%. I think the only other worthwhile category would be an "all dungeons" run, which would either play in the intended order, or would do the skip in this run but return to complete the others later.
@mihal--ch533
2 жыл бұрын
@@TheSuperSNES I understand. I wish you luck on your future runs.
PJ - how many world records do you currently hold?
@SocksAndPuppets
3 жыл бұрын
Most of the personal best records on PJ's "Speedruns" page are also world records. www.thesupersnes.tv/speedruns/
@THEFRISKIESTDINGO
3 жыл бұрын
IMO his best is the Dragon View WR since *according to tasvideos* they haven’t gotten the grand memory clobber to play the credits in their entirety. He’s probably the only person to hold the WR *over* the TAS. Without checking I know he’s got Dragon View and Lagoon. Probably Bionic Commando and maybe the remake, I can’t imagine anyone else grinding out 7th Saga, and I’m not sure if he’s got the Robotrek record or not. Actraiser 2 possibly. Batman and Robin is so terrible I wouldn’t be surprised if he has that. Oh Mohawk and Headphone Jack? So somewhere between 4 and 9 offhand, but I’d wager there’s more.