F for the man who got exodia'd 13 hours into his run

@PrivilegeYT

Жыл бұрын

more F's to the viewers who watched the entire 13 hour stream

@candykent

Жыл бұрын

F

@exorevbivoevturque

Жыл бұрын

@@PrivilegeYT L

@heardofrvb

Жыл бұрын

Ah yes. That one was on Bad Luck in Speedrunning

@PrinceBowMLBB

Жыл бұрын

F

Seto Kaiba being the hardest boss but not the last seems really fitting.

@mushroomkaat2667

Жыл бұрын

It's great

@GatorOne-in7hk

Жыл бұрын

Well it’s technically not Kaiba, it’s his ancestor or previous life.

@CaptainB1994

11 ай бұрын

​@@GatorOne-in7hkPriest Seto to be precise, Priest Seto is the ancestor of the Seto Kaiba we all know and love.

@GatorOne-in7hk

11 ай бұрын

@@CaptainB1994 Ancestor, not descendent. Ancestor is who came first.

@CaptainB1994

11 ай бұрын

@@GatorOne-in7hk Crap my bad, but you know what I meant, right?

Me: “you can’t do that, that’s illegal” Seto 2nd: *proceeds to play his 4th 8+ star card with 0 tributes* “I can cuz I said so”

@mailcs06

4 ай бұрын

“Screw the rules I have money”

@flamefromHalo

4 ай бұрын

That is what gets me: no tribute or req special summons for those monsters, just hope your rng is equal or greater than the bot with x4 your hand size :']

@savk0n1

4 ай бұрын

Players: "YOU CAN'T" Seto: "I just did."

@KawaiiKing64

3 ай бұрын

I SUMMON POT OF GREED TO DRAW THREE ADDITIONAL CARDS FROM MY DECK

@KBroDraws

3 ай бұрын

ROLL MY DICE

I like how the higher the mages are on the hierarchy, the bigger and more ridiculous their shoulder armor gets. The absolute ultimate final giga mage will probably be nothing but the shoulder plate.

@dimman3607

Жыл бұрын

Google Nightmare and your guess would be fulfilled

@JeanMarceaux

Жыл бұрын

@@dimman3607 good God, actual pangolin. He has shoulder plates on his EARS, what the hell, my gooood, no waaaiay

@Niapt

Жыл бұрын

Meadow mage had no pauldrons, homie was just fat. 😂

@xan1242

Жыл бұрын

@@JeanMarceaux FYI DarkNite and Nitemare (aka Card Game Majin) were made by Kazuki Takahashi himself.

@andreasottohansen7338

Жыл бұрын

Big hats means more important, unless pauldrons are involved. This is well established.

This game has the grind of a very hard JRPG, the RNG of a gacha game and the unforgiveness of a NES era game.

@Ramsey276one

Жыл бұрын

And I played it when it was still new… WOW

@Ramsey276one

Жыл бұрын

5:00

@c8h8e8c8k8m8e8o8u8t

Жыл бұрын

NES I felt that..

@ambrosiaplatypus

11 ай бұрын

Not really hard lol just google search the most powerful fusions, its just dumb as hell and not really fun

@RayzeCruxis

10 ай бұрын

​@ambrosiaplatypus yeah when the game launched, none of that was available. Now there is a shit ton of info about it but the game nonetheless is still fun if you're willing to deal with bullshit difficulty spikes.

*Gate Guardian in other games:* "Please dont play spell cards im weak to them also i am too slow to get on the field :(" *Gate Guardian in FM:* "Pick an RNG god and pray"

@jonsnow9541

Жыл бұрын

the only RNG god is RNGesus

@johnathanrichardson

Жыл бұрын

@@jonsnow9541 i mean sheogorath isnt specifically a diety of RNG but he is pretty darn random

@M3rtyville

Жыл бұрын

I can't believe Gate Guardian didn't get any legacy support.

@r3zaful

Жыл бұрын

Go needlefiibreeeeeeee

@cesar382

Жыл бұрын

Fire emblem awakening reference

I think people are overthinking Onion's luck. He just believed in the heart of the cards, c'mon.

“And to end it all, you get the sweetest victory sound imaginable” *cuts to ad* WHOPPER WHOPPER WHOPPER WHOPPER

@BadNewsNate

Жыл бұрын

JUNIOR DOUBLE TRIPLE WHOPPER

@SuperDestroyerFox

7 ай бұрын

@@BadNewsNateFlame grill taste with perfect toppers

@ari._.rose370

7 ай бұрын

I RULE THIS DAY

@unknownamus

6 ай бұрын

Imagine not having adblock in 2023

@ari._.rose370

6 ай бұрын

@@unknownamus LETTUCE MAYO PICKLE KETCHUP

A world where fucking Gate Guardian is good feels like a dream. He's like the Regigigas of Yugioh

@kiryukazuma8089

Жыл бұрын

Whatcha trying to say about the jackest legendary huh?

@mithmoonwalker

Жыл бұрын

gate guardian takes so long to get out that regigigas would have taken out the components before the guardian can assemble

@TheMcK777

Жыл бұрын

It's similar in the game itself. You need to A) win all three components of the Guardian from Heishin 2nd - the only opponent who drops them in the first place - which is ridiculously stupid difficult, B) get them both on the field without being fragged, and C) fuse two equip cards - Magical Labyrinth [for 10⭐️] and Metalmorph [A or S-Tech Bandit Keith] - to make Gate Guardian Ritual. *BECAUSE YOU CAN'T WIN THE RITUAL SPELL ON ITS OWN FROM ANYONE* I love this game but I hate it just as much sometimes.

@azelfie1041

Жыл бұрын

@@mithmoonwalker Me when I must get 3 basically unsearchable monsters and a fusion spell to get a beatstick with no effects

@mcmugget

Жыл бұрын

@@azelfie1041 nothing in the game has effects so not super relevant

Just like Yugi says: "You must trust your deck and the heart of the cards if you want to become the king of speed in this game"

@AkumaADemoncus

Жыл бұрын

Yugi, why do you have 20 cards in your hand?

@federicovalle2245

Жыл бұрын

I must have faith in the cards! I have faith! I have cards.

@Larken42

Жыл бұрын

The fact that this is not the top comment is a tragedy

@khhv1900

Жыл бұрын

@@federicovalle2245 This is an excellent duel

@wadespencer3623

Жыл бұрын

Heart of the Cards=Complete luck and massive bullshit

5+ hours if you’re lucky That’s not a speedrun, that’s an indeterminate sentence

@lpfan4491

Жыл бұрын

Imagine someone trying to beat the game in jail and getting released before they can finish.

@Scatmanseth

10 ай бұрын

@@lpfan4491 saw on one of Ross’ Gaming Dungeon’s videos that he would have playing bad games be a criminal punishment. I recommend getting a sub 8 hour speed run of this game being the penalty for gangrape.

@JeanMarceaux

10 ай бұрын

It won't be a long time, but it will be a HARD TIME

@markwalden2433

8 ай бұрын

​@@JeanMarceauxmat dickie game enjoyers 😮

@kable6693

8 ай бұрын

Yeah but that's what makes a great speedrun. That's why people enjoy Minecraft runs so much, just the RNG element makes it different each time.

I cannot imagine a 15 hour run ending with an Exodia from the enemy.

when the memories are forbidden

@dare2333

Жыл бұрын

Real

@Pyromancer_

Жыл бұрын

Fake

@thedozer820

Жыл бұрын

😳

@Toby-Wan_Kenobi

Жыл бұрын

Perhaps a solid apendage Joseph reference?

@acidgolem2132

Жыл бұрын

When the decree is royal

After playing this game for 100 hours as a kid I cna't believe how little I knew about it, that Cocoon of evolution fusion is hilarious though

@wanlong9490

Жыл бұрын

Holy its patterrz

@Bossfightmedia

8 ай бұрын

For real that is so incredibly bizarre. Someone had to actively code that in. XD

@ericblackburn3131

7 ай бұрын

Ain't no way we were beating this game at 12.

@andrewkelley6039

5 ай бұрын

Seriously.@@ericblackburn3131

@chucklestorm

3 ай бұрын

@@ericblackburn3131 I did lol. game was fun af

The reason the game and especially the final gauntlet is so hard, is because only Japan got to play the game as intended. In Japan, the game came bundled with the Pocketstation that allowed you to farm cards like Gate Guardian, Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth and Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon - cards that are unobtainable without the Pocketstation.

@cybercheese3

4 ай бұрын

Well damn 😮

@pretty-white-lamb

2 күн бұрын

Thanks for the info. I played the game as a kid - looking back, it's bizarre how difficult it was. It does feel like the game is incomplete / something's missing, so your info makes perfect sense 👍

Nobody seems to ever talk about the actual origin of the game and WHY it's so RNG heavy, and the game's wiki doesn't seem to mention much. I remember reading a thread on 8chan back in 2014-2016ish, where the OP was very knowledgeable about the game and it's mechanics. He said that originally, the game was supposed to be a scannable card game, which is a whole genre of arcade games in Japan, alongside Pachinko machines and the like. This means the game would have been made to make you keep putting in money to get better cards. It was also likely, that you were supposed to buy scannable cards from a separate machine altogether, which is also normal with those types of games, but since the game was repurposed as a PS1 game, that obviously never happened. This info is obviously "DUDE TRUST ME LMAO" but it makes perfect sense and explains why a random PS1 game is so obtuse and RNG heavy.

@LendriMujina

Жыл бұрын

That explains why it feels right at home on my phone's PS1 emulator: because it's designed as a Gacha.

@neonfatum

Жыл бұрын

I could be wrong, but I remember that you could actually input the ID numbers from the real cards in the password system. I remember doing that and some cards were actually recognised. You still have to buy them using the stars so it sure didn't help, but it was interesting.

@shankquentin292

Жыл бұрын

I used to play it in 03' 04'. No wonder I could never progress in this game... 😅 this explanation makes sense, the games uses the code from actual Yugioh cards to get the digital version

@dreadknight0

Жыл бұрын

@@neonfatum Yeah you could put codes from the real cards and worked, or even use codes from fake cards and sometimes work but showing different cards, but mostly all of the iconic cards were at the imposible price of 999999 stars. Could be that all those famous cards that were suposed to be part of the gacha game, were changed to that price. Since some lame cards but iconics like harpie lady are imposible to get by normal means.

@1TheVelociraptor

Жыл бұрын

it's konami, i can believe it

One thing worth noting is that Japan had downloadable expansions to the game that not only made it easier, but gave players access to cards that were unobtainable in the original and western release, like blue eyes ultimate. Onion seems to have been playing the original, but a lot of japanese speed runners have the updated version and play that category

@thatdankguy5140

4 ай бұрын

Source for this? Couldn't find anything on it from an (admittedly surface level) search.

@lucithedemonminer

4 ай бұрын

His source is stating factually that BEWD gave the Japanese runners a huge edge, considering that Blue Eyes is ultrs garbage in the actual TCG. 😅​@@thatdankguy5140

@Cardboxx

4 ай бұрын

​@@thatdankguy5140you should find more info by googling "forbidden memories pocket station" It was a memory card with a little lcd screen and some controls (very similar to the dreamcast's vmu if you remember that) It would have a few mini games and extra function and for yugiho, you could "fuse" cards from your save files to unlock otherwise "impossibles" cards (fusing three blue eyes would get you the ultimate blue eyes white dragon) There was a little infrared sensor that could be used to send/receive data so it's possible they had stations in stores where you could download stuff on it? Idk but I know japan's had that kind of things for other consoles Anyways, the cards are technically in the US version of the game, but someone did the math and I think you needed to grind 10h a day for two years and a half, winning a match every two minutes, to buy a single one of them so, in a few lifetimes you could conceivably buy all of them

@ghosty918

Күн бұрын

They arent downloadable expansions, its a special memory card that came bundled with the original. It lets you use IR signals to get random cards including big beaters

I never knew the nitty gritty of this game beyond seeing those 10, 15, 20+ hour timers on various streams, but you clearly conveyed how brutal this game is!

@Booskop.

Жыл бұрын

That's an unexpected encounter.

@biggs2560

Жыл бұрын

"nitty gritty"

@DrMoonAtNight

Жыл бұрын

@@biggs2560 that’s the phrase

@mcmugget

Жыл бұрын

its not brutal anymore. they figured out RNG manip a year or 2 back. now the game is pretty repeatable and short. but it was fun while it lasted

@voidgamer7122

Жыл бұрын

griddy!,?.!.?,!….,,,,,!.!,,?,!

one thing that wasn't really said in the video but should be mentioned: Forbidden memories' soundtrack absolutely SLAPS. Kaiba's theme, the world tournament semi-finals theme, even the free duel theme, all of them are amazingly good. If it wasn't for the music in this game, I don't think people would be able to endure the grind for this.

@requiem6465

Жыл бұрын

Shame you didn't mention the mage and high mage themes.

@TemplarTate

11 ай бұрын

Library theme. It's fantastic.

@DefgirRZawa

10 ай бұрын

I don't think it's necessary for the speedrun... But yes, I agree with you 100%, I still use the music for my Pen'n'Paper-Rounds^^

@Spoonsire

10 ай бұрын

Same composer went on to do the Duelists of the Roses soundtrack, which also slaps

@deadplock

9 ай бұрын

@@requiem6465 Yu Gi Oh! Forbidden Memories OST - Build Deck Menu, this theme is fking insane good

R. I. P. Kazuki Takahashi, you died a hero and a legend.

@zenmastakilla

Жыл бұрын

Indeed. He worked closely on this game and its story would even be adapted into later seasons of the anime.

Special shoutout to specifically Trent who has the exact same drop rate as Meteor Black Dragon on Meadow Mage.

@ThaRixer

Жыл бұрын

Meteor T. Dragon

@zersky495

11 ай бұрын

Me with 3 Trents and no MBD

@autobotstarscream765

8 ай бұрын

​@@zersky495Ultimate Trent

Brilliant video man! I knew that forbidden memories RNG was absolutely brutal, but I had no idea how low the odds of success actually were.

@boofles323

Жыл бұрын

woah maximum in a comment section no way, i miss ur uploads hope your doing good!!

@clearlyazul1469

Жыл бұрын

ily maximum

@ChoogyYT

Жыл бұрын

Oh hey it’s RB guy

@TallPaulVolcker

Жыл бұрын

Hey, it’s Maximum

@thtb

Жыл бұрын

In a average poker card game, you got more ways to mix up the cards order then stars exist in the universe. In a average magic the gathering game, you got more options then atoms exist everywhere.

I love how some of the cards are translated well with names that are basically full sentences, and then there're cards that just have their names in Japanese no matter the version. 😂 Case in point: the fact that the field cards have both "mountain" and "umi", which is just "sea" but in Japanese, cracks me up.

@RammusTheArmordillo

Жыл бұрын

Same for yami and sōgen, literally they just mean darkness and grasslands. I'm so curious about why the translation was so random and I can't find anything about it!!

@kellamyoshikage286

Жыл бұрын

Yami is objectively cool-sounding but yeah, it's otherwise weird how much random romaji there is.

@brunoslybruno

Жыл бұрын

@@RammusTheArmordillo my guess would be that it was translated based on what sounded cool, causing seemingly random things to be untranslated for the sake of coolness

@zenmastakilla

Жыл бұрын

@@brunoslybruno Then there's REALLY weird cases like Raigeki, which is called Thunder Bolt in the OCG.

@manjackson2772

11 ай бұрын

@@zenmastakilla Early TCG loved doing that kind of thing. Giant Trunade's Japanese name is "Hurricane", in English, so the TCG localised it by transliterating "Tornado" into Japanese, then back into English but deliberately badly.

It feels like when it comes to Forbidden Memories, you don't play the game, the game plays you. And at any moment, especially at the end, it will fuck you raw.

It's called forbidden memories because you don't want to remember the pain it caused you.

I remember as a kid being absolutely hooked on this game. I used to have sleepovers with a friend and we'd play this all night, finding ways to get Twinheaded. Obviously we didn't understand who to farm and what for, or much of anything explained in this video, but it's extremely validating to know that Twinheaded was such a big play.

@StraightEdgeZap

Жыл бұрын

yeah i also played this game a ton as a kid and i knew damn well that twin headed thunder dragon was the best strategy, but i still never managed to beat the game

@qaywsxedcrfvful

Жыл бұрын

i had this game as a kid but i didnt understand english back then so i didnt get very far lol

@obnoxiousthegod

Жыл бұрын

so glad other people did this

@deathm00n2

Жыл бұрын

I had a whole notebook of what the fusions were, I played this game so much as a kid. It really is great seeing that twin headed is the go to strategy to this day

@someguyonyt2831

Жыл бұрын

I beat the game with a strategy guide. Took me months to beat the game. I couldn't get pass Isis and so i brought a strategy guide which had all the information i need, like how to fusion, every duelist deck and their behaviors, who to farm and what card i need to farm and route to take. The only thing it didn't tell me was how to get an A TEC. Back then, there was only Dial-Up internet and my child brain didn't know how to connect the thing, so a strategy guide was pretty damn useful. Beaten the game with MBD + Dragon Treasure because i didn't know how to get an A-TEC on Pegasus to get a Megamorph, lol.

Just want to point out that the Heishin 1 duel is in no way scripted at all. In fact, while he is ludicrously hard to defeat for that point in the game, exceptional luck or some extreme grinding (in casual runs, since casual runners will have had several duels before that, they just get skipped in speedruns) beforehand can give one a good enough opening hand to make something that can win that duel. The game requires you to lose, yes, but it will let him duel you over and over again until you do. This isn't relevant in speedrunning, but it is exceptionally, massively, absurdly relevant in the TAS - because Heishin 1 has some legitimately nutty drops, including most notably Meteor Black Dragon. This means the current TAS is built around having a god hand against him turn 1, winning, getting an MBD, and then literally cruising over the entire rest of the game by always having it turn 1 (and after the Meadow Mage fight, always having a second on turn 2)

@lpfan4491

Жыл бұрын

Heishin:"What, you beat me? You must have cheated somehow, I demand a rematch!"

The guy got EXODIAD is more like an achievement than losing That moment is more rare than any drops or cards

@AhuizotlXiuh

2 ай бұрын

How rare is it in this version where your opponent apparently has 20 cards in their hand?

@wallyhackenslacker

Ай бұрын

@@AhuizotlXiuh IIRC from another video is not that they actually have 20 cards in their hand but that they can swap any amount of their five cards-in-hand with the next 15 in the deck at their convenience at the start of the turn, and the opponents are not coded to just swap their whole hand for Exodia. So in practice they actually have to pull him legally.

@Ploeppsel

Ай бұрын

@@AhuizotlXiuhwhat makes it harder is the fact that the decks are not consistant. The AI has a % chance for a card in their deck pool to end up in the deck. It's rare because the full exodia has to be in the deck and than the AI has to draw/switch them. Getting Exodia'd happened only a handfull off times in the entire time the game has been speedrunned. It's super rare

The sfx killed me man. Hardcore nostalgia. I loved playing this game as a kid, and I remember getting so close to the end but getting stuck on that final stretch. This game was hard as fuck as a kid and I remember it being just really rough. I remember that I had a little notebook full of fusion combinations, but I thought the combinations were contingent on the specific monsters and not just their types. I realized I was wrong way later when I got the same fusion from different monster combo's.

@ThaRixer

Жыл бұрын

The notebook strats are so nostalgic :D

@findout2655

Жыл бұрын

I had a notebook with stuff like: dragon+plant = b dragon jungle king so nostalgic

@7thRoseHalo

10 ай бұрын

Same here. I remember i was at a big sleepover, and this was the only game we played. I instantly loved it, but my buddy Levi said it was weird game and too hard to beat. So I stayed up all night, scribbling down notes on a notebook which monsters worked to make the good the ones. A year later my buddy Levi sold me his PS1 along with Forbidden memories. So then throughout all my high school years i played it. Took me 3 years to beat. I beat the game by accident at a friend's house. I was showing him the game and laughing about how hard the game is when i jumped into a few duels and got the "easy mode" and extreme luck. Now im 31 and right next to the PS5 i have a separate setup, tv and all, just for Forbidden memories.

I could never beat this game as a kid, the ending was just way too hard! But I’ll never forget watching my dad land the final blow with his favored MBD and watching those credits roll!

@Felipemelazzi

Жыл бұрын

You've got a good dad =)

@leow.2162

7 ай бұрын

Me, my brother and his friend played it every day after school for weeks, we eventually beat it but we also had spent so much time farming, we had a pretty decent deck for fusing twinheaded thunder dragon

(Loads game) "My grandfather's deck has no pathetic cards!" (Checks deck) "This is garbage"

I remember this game as a kid, being a yu-gi-oh fan. The moment that got me fed up was when I was super proud that I beat Seto's Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon...then he just put down another one like it was nothing. I stopped playing literally after that moment.

Despite how punishing this game is(and never beating it), it was one of my favorite games as a kid. I especially loved how you could press Square while attacking to pull up the 3D arena and see your monster attack the opponents, as a YGO kid that blew my mind in the early 00's

My brother, cousins and I were absolutely hooked on this game as kids. We played it so much we eventually had a Blue eyes drop from Seto.

@TheMcK777

Жыл бұрын

Even in emulation it took me *WEEKS* to get all 3

Holy shit, i was 25 mins into the video after randomly stumbling upon it and then realised who this guy is. I used to watch ThaRixer speedrun my favorite childhood games like 8yrs ago. Never knew he transitioned into video essays. Stellar work!

Now that I've had the rules explained to me, my respect for the runners increased thousands fold

Really appreciated the added touch of showing us the credits. It's almost like you know how few of your audience, even the diehard nostalgic fans of this game (like me) have seen them with their own two eyes. Man, the MEMORIES...

@ThaRixer

Жыл бұрын

Those credits are magical if you actually manage to PB as well. You just get to bask in the glory with that music

@serraramayfield9230

11 ай бұрын

@@ThaRixer It's even worse now that Takahashi is dead :(

@manjackson2772

11 ай бұрын

Hey! HEY! Those memories are forbidden!

I loved this game as a kid, but this was the first time I ever saw the credits

@davidtowers1863

Жыл бұрын

Man trying to beat it was a nightmare. I made it to the final boss once, but usually left to Seto after Heishin

@ahairylobster8524

Жыл бұрын

cool to see you here :^)

@ahairylobster8524

Жыл бұрын

LMAO I guess I shouldn't be surprised honestly, with ratchet and all

@NGPlusVideos

Жыл бұрын

@@ahairylobster8524 Thanks! Yeah, Rix helped me out on that for sure 👍

@amberhernandez

Жыл бұрын

Yooooo it's the MGS crawling guy!

Can confirm: discord calls for Yugioh FM races are usually four people in the room cursing at one person's farm 2 luck.

"The Final 7 is one of the hardest gauntlets in gaming" Not gonna lie as someone who spent literally 3 days straight trying to beat this on my stream a few months ago and finally suceeded I got a massive gamer ego boost hearing that just now! Beating this game felt like finally defeating a demon that has haunted me since childhood and it really took everything I had to beat this game!

I remember screaming out loud and running off the room after getting MBD as a kid. And that was just playing regularly, I can't imagine how amazing it must feel in a speedrun.

I still remember the clips of people getting Exodia’d and it was such a fun time.

For what it's worth - that opening title screen of forbidden memories was amazing

@DefgirRZawa

10 ай бұрын

The worst part of Forbidden Memories really is the Gameplay, and that only because of this f***ing RNG^^ The Graphics are good for the time being, the story was actually very interesting and the music rocks^^ The gameplay just can be very frustrating to enjoy it fully, I gave it up at the mages. Although looking at the strats and everything, I think I try it again...

I had a friend who owned this game and I remember spending countless turns just randomly trying to fuse cards to see which ones worked together! Also had no idea this game predated the classic anime we all watched and loved, may explain why the atmosphere was so dark, like the first anime which had much more of a focus in magic and not only the card game!

@lucithedemonminer

4 ай бұрын

Yup. The season zero of the anime we never got in the US was less a TCG and more like a game of poker where the losers get literally dragged to hell.

Damn, excellent video Ricky. It's amazing to see how much history there is with such a cult classic game in the community, and how much knowledge it really takes to run it

@dafire9634

Жыл бұрын

Look who it is, love your videos too!

@Tootbook

Жыл бұрын

hey I know you, you're that guy who likes video games.

The fact you even had the YGO anime sound effects for atk/def points was a very nice touch!

every speedrunner cries when they hear another person attempted to run a yu-gi-oh game because every speedrunner has "forbidden memories" each time the game is mentioned 😉😉😉😉😉😉

when you beat the game and hear the credit roll music. you are just allowed to cry even if you just beat your old PB even if you were just on last place and gained like 5 places. the game is just so hard. even in 15-card mod where you draw 15 cards after a victory instead of 1. even there you need to really be lucky AF to get megamorph or a dragon treasure or something like this

LOVED THE VID! Crazy to have the history of this game finally immortalized in a video. I remember spending many days in 2014 procrastinating homework and watching people like Saboom race FM all day. Truly the best stream vibes of the era were in FM speedruns.

@ThaRixer

Жыл бұрын

Thanks ❤️, yea same. I remember watching saboom and urnator all the time back in the day. I was willing to risk this video not doing so well compared to other topics, simply to have the FM story out there for the people. It's an important part of PlayStation speedrunning lore and needs to be heard.

Damn all these late game fights with gate guardian, makes you wonder why that gate needs so many people guarding it.

I cannot imagine how much time I spent grinding in that game as a kid. I remember me and my friend farming Low Meadow Mage for MBD for hours and days

I'll never forget when Me and my cousins traded everything to a fresh file. Beat Heishen and he handed over a Mystical Sand only to tell us, "If you think I'm finished yet" and then mopped the floor with us. So much for saving the world

This game is absurdly frustrating, and yet, it has a very strange kind of charm that always makes me want to go back to it. It's really weird.

Even with how much the anime bends the rules, this genuinely makes it all look fair. Jesus.

31:11: I have no idea who this man is, but this clip of him now plays in my head every time I see bags of salad at the grocery store.

Wow, you really dug deep to the bottom of SRL and got the story completely right 😯 I've been out of the speedrunning and online scene for many years now but have always continued to watch your videos. They give me a ton of nostalgia and are done very well. Keep up the great work!

@ThaRixer

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Yooo BJ, glad you're still somewhat around and was able to watch the video! Yea I messaged saboom over email of all things, asking him how it all started. Without your casual stream it's possible this entire butterfly effect wouldn't have happened :)

This is one of the few games where Id like to hear a developer interview. Even if you ignore the fact the AI literally cheats, the final stretch is still way to difficult even for an adult

Definitely one of my favorite PS1 games. One thing that a lot of players don’t know is that Spell Cards can also be fused together. 2 Yami make Dark Energy. I once saw an opponent do it and it blew my mind.

Some of these names really take me back, Saboom & Xer_91 were the first ones I watched, and I still follow both to this day. They did full speed runs way before RNG manip was found, and at one point I remember Xer having a 100% race with someone else and it spanning over 6 days. Feels so long ago

"Good job getting through one of my moths... what's your plan for the other 2?" "N-Nani?!"

This was a fantastic video to watch from a regular FM runner's POV. The video is very well explained in terms of how the game works and how relentless it can be too. Either way, FM always has and always will have it's fan-base and that's what reels people back in to watch these runs. Well done Rixer!

Your videos are incredible, you have a knack for getting people to listen and pay attention to things they would never really care about. I have never played a Yu-Gi-Oh game in my life, but I watched this whole video and now have a sudden urge to play Forbidden Memories

It took me 20 years to beat this game and this was one of the first games I ever owned as a kid when I was 6. I even streamed it on twitch, The final 7 took me over 10+ hours to beat and it took everything I had as a gamer to finally beat it. Definetly one of the biggest accomplishments in my entire gaming career it feels like finally taking down an oppressor that has terrorized you since childhood.

I LOVE the sound and visual effects you used for this video. Especially the atk/dfs pt going up and down noises from the show. Really brought back some memories from watching the show.

1:15: Beejay & Saboom 1:58: One Step Further 3:13: The Basics of Dueling 5:22: Why Forbidden Memories is a Nightmare 12:20: How Forbidden Memories Turns Into Even More Of A Nightmare 17:31: The Nightmarish Final Gauntlet 21:21: The Runners That Have Succeeded Getting The World Record

I used to have a friend whose main strategy for this game was fusing Empryonic Beast and Time Wizard to get Summoned Skull and equipping the heck out of it. I don't know how far he got or if he ever beat the game, but he was proud of his combo.

This video unlocked forbidden memories unironically for me. I remember vividly getting fucking destroyed at the start in a flashback thing, and then not winning a single battle afterwards and giving up.

This game is like the Old Testament to Speedrunning, instead of RNGesus you pray for help from RandoMoses.

I watched you do a gdq run a while back and that's the main reason I recognized your channel. That jak and daxter speedrun was goofy af and made me giggle like an idiot for something so chill. You and your buds on the couch kept the chatting going so long you even forgot to read donos lol, thanks for making me laugh years ago

As someone who plays the modern game at a tournament level with a few tops, watching the wacky rules of this game and the simplicity of old Yu-Gi-Oh is fun, just imagining drawing till 5 cards today scares me, the sheer difficulty of winning going second scares me

@jironamos7650

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Thing is, this rules only apply to this videogame only, the only rule that carried over was the "No Tribute Summon Exists" from the Original Japan Booster 1 ruleset.

As someone who played this game religously as a kid...I dont ever remember having so trouble playing it, infact I remember me and my friend being obsessed with beating the first guy( Who you're supposed to lose too ) and beating him. Which by the way he immediately challenges you after and you cant proceed unless you let him win. Also, huge confirmation. Seto 3 was 100% the hardest duel in the entire game. I have so many great memories playing this as a kid..

Thanks for making this video! I never watched a run of this all the way through, or learned any of the mechanics at all, but watching IAteYourPie undergo severe sleep deprivation thanks to the final gauntlet, it's one of my favorite memories of when I used to watch speedrunning

GREAT VIDEO. I BEAT THIS GAME BACK IN THE EARLY 2000'S. First deck had all the required criteria, absolutely love this game. Cheers!

Watching you stream this game lately has been so insanely fun so I cannot express the hype seeing this video. Massive W as always Ricky

7:12-7:18 that sound effect put an ear to ear grin on my face! Thanks for going that extra mile to add it in.

you can really tell you had so much fun editing this! sorry I'm a bit late to the party, but this is a great one man

I played this as a kid and never got past the mages. Although I feel a little vindicated in knowing my 2003 strategy of THTD or bust is actually near-optimal. I'd always believed I was doing something incredibly wrong given the massive spike in difficulty.

I almost have a love-hate relationship with the game solely due to fact that it IS so popular of a speedrun game, that speedruns of other Yu-Gi-Oh are harder to come by. Yu-Gi-Oh Capsule Monster Coliseum is one of my favorite YGO games, but it has next to no speedruns. I think the strategy involved in it would make for a lot of interesting plays, as well as categories such as mono-type runs as well. But, for what Forbidden Memories is, I can't blame it too much. It's crazy that a YGO game is so popular with the speedrun community at all.

@ThaRixer

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Yea I grew up with Capsule Monster Colosseum as well, great game

Thank you so much for doing these videos, they are so enjoyable that whenever I can I always watch them again, your narration is so amazing and flows so well, keep it up man!

In order to complete a Yu-Gi-Oh Forbidden Memories speed run, you must believe in the heart of the cards

About halfway through but this has already jumped into my top 5 videos from you.

Seeing runs of this game got me into the YGO franchise as a whole. I was never allowed to watch the show or play the card game as a kid (my folks weren't comfortable with the whole "Pegasus stealing people's souls" thing), but the roller coaster that this game is made me had to look into it in my adulthood.

Great video! I played it a lot as a kid, and now with RetroAchievements support, I got to play it again and learn more of its inner works.

This is just a straight up great video. The pacing, information, entertainment, all of it perfect

Yu-gi-yo duelist of the roses was basically this game’s mechanics mixed with fucking chess. I loved that game Pretty much solely due to have the monster battles played out. When a monster moved over to an opponents they would battle into a arena Based on the location the monsters were. There was a huge variety of monster attacks, sound effects, and death animations. You even had a Captain monster would be your life points. You didn’t lose life if one of your monster was beaten. Only the monster would be gone. A monsters attack points also acted as their own life points. If you attacked a monster with a 1000 more attack then yours, your monster would be killed but the opponents would permanently be reduced by yours attack. Instead of getting a random card once you beat someone you would get a slot machine mini game with cards. You had to get three of a single card I order to get it, otherwise you weren’t getting anything. I had no idea how the fusioning worked until I saw this video. I spent so long when I was kid trying to figure out how this worked. Even when I got a few there would always be random Shit like that guys cocoon of evolution. I’d say it’s pretty fun to watch so maybe there is a speed run of the game. If you see this comment I’d hope you would check the game out it’s worth your time if you like for bidden memories.

This game was so brutal when I was a kid. I didn’t know you could actually farm for good cards so once I hit Pegasus it was pretty much GG.

@Ploeppsel

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pegasus was brutal as kid ngl xDD

Your video editing capacities are outstanding, you can explain any technical videogame concept without making it boring, my respects, greetings from Colombia.

I’m honestly so happy this game came back into the scene. I owned this as a kid and absolutely loved the challenge of it. I thought this game would fade out but I remember the speed running craze and I started playing it again. I’m not even a huge gamer don’t even try speed running but this game and crash bandicoot were my childhood. I might try a speed run myself sometime after watching this 😅

This was a really cool video. Immensely enjoyed how you put it together along with all the explanations. Keep it up!

Goodness, this game's gameplay makes Ishizu Tear look sensible!

Congrats. Outstanding job, it was really fun to watch this video. I though it was hard to make interesting a speedrunning history about card games.

Such an AMAZING video! Seriously - this had me gripped the entire time. Fascinating stuff. Please make more!!

@wendigo2442

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Gorilla grip

Cannot stress enough how grueling yet fun running this game can be. Highly recommend people at least give it a try at some point

As a kid I always felt bad not being able to make it far in this game. Now I understand that I just wasn't strong enough in the casino lmao Great video as usual, I love the dedication to using YGO SFX for every card display. Fantastic editing.

I'd rather go for the world record of hammering my balls flat with a cast iron skillet. The RNG of drops and those final battles is absolutely insane.

Thank god the soundtrack for this game is so damn good. The free duel theme has unironically played in my dreams before. It truly lives in my head rent free.

Gonna save this to watch with a nice meal

If there is one thing I really appreciate about your video, its that you put the numbers on screen when you talk about stats. Super easy to vomit a bunch of numbers but having the numbers on screen really makes it a lot easier to digest the information. Thank you.

congrats on the edit on this brother... amazing sprite quality, sfx from the anime and all... subbed

My favorite part was when Yugi said "It's Yugiying time" and yugied kaiba outta town. Truly a work of our time.