The Binding Of Isaac Afterbirth+ by StoneAgeMarcus in 1:12:41 - AGDQ2020

thank you very much, we also received $10 from SSBB hacks which thanks the volunteers who review the donation messages, we give you all a round of applause, you do a very hard job. We have $10 from a soulless player who says: "I'm playing The Binding of Isaac after birth right now while watching gdq. I need to donate during the Binding of Isaac run. Keep up the good work and happy 10th anniversary." GDQ will be next In fact it's not just Isaac Bert pegging issac pegging after birth next he's coming right now give him a round of applause welcome ladies and gentlemen to issac placenta pegging plus I'm Mike Casper hello I'm Samuel and we are his commentators for this incredible seven The speedrun character of the game Stone Age Marcus, of course, represents the entire Isaac community and he went on record and said that he is not going to die even once, so we'll see, we have many crazy stuff. that's about to happen again, this is a very difficult game that you will try to beat at least seven times in a row or you will die trying, so without further ado, Marcus, are you ready?

I'm ready, you are doing well. I'm fine. I mean, we. Are you ready, GDQ, are you ready? Okay, so Marcus, do you want to do a countdown for us? Yeah, go ahead and do this three, two, one and let's go, we'll continue with that, well, if you don't know about The Binding. of Isaac is a top-down 2D shooter created by famous indie developer Edmund McMillen and if you're familiar with Twitch, you'll know that when something bad usually happens on a stream, people spam the bible emo and a curious fact is that emo does. In fact, the protagonist of this game, Isaac, can I get the Bible thumbs in the chat?

I heard that Sam is actually going to donate for every bottle hit in the chat, which may or may not be accurate and may be less than a penny, but most importantly. What you guys need to know about The Binding of Isaac is that it's a roguelike game, what that means is that everything in the game is randomly generated, all the bosses, all the items, all the power-ups, the exact combination of things in this game. race has never existed. seen before by any human being in the world, which means that running fast in a roguelike is different than running fast in a normal game like Mario or Zelda.

Each race is a completely new challenge and it's up to the player to figure out the best way to solve it. fly so you can see that Marcus is playing the new forgotten character and this was introduced in the latest booster pack 5 version of the game and here's this first double deal, a pivotal moment in the career, oh okay so Mark will pick up the knife. the knife is one of the strongest items in the game, it turns your tears into a real literal knife, as you can see now in Forgotten, it is not the strongest item, it will still deal damage to him when he is in his bone form, but When he becomes his ghost, he will be able to throw that knife and cause a lot of damage to all his enemies.

The knife is considered one of the best items in the game and like I said all items are random so you can't really choose which items you just have to make do with what you have so we're off to a great start here now There are ten floors. Oh, so Marcus, one death counts as one death. I'm not entirely sure it was I wasn't thinking about a half-hearted forgetfulness oh well unfortunately it was a bit risky but luckily for him we have this death timer in place where normally you would have to completely reset it. Back to basement one but for marathon strategies you now have to stay in purgatory for about 45 seconds before returning and this was done for seeding races so when two players go head to head playing with Steve himself, he's nice.

It's anticlimactic if a player dies in the middle, so this was done so that things would still hurt but not lose the race completely. I had to show the mechanics. It would have been unfair to our great mod developer Samuel, why not show? Yes, this shiny cloak that you put on them, thank you, thank you, very nice, will collect the pajamas that give you back some soul hearts, allowing you to return to this ghost for Marcus to make his way through the caves. Here we can talk a little about the history of the game. The original version of The Binding of Isaac was done in flash, but today Marcus was playing the remade version.

The Binding of Isaac Rebirth was released three years later, in 2014, and has had two. expansion packs that have made the game better and more complicated called

afterbirth

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afterbirth

Plus and Marcus is currently playing on the latest version of afterbirth Plus and even besides that Marcus is also playing with the mod called Racing Plus so If you guys are watching closely, you may have noticed that things are slightly different than the normal game, for example, we think that the death seed mechanic that happened turned into some kind of ghost form when he died and is playing a special custom challenge. where it automatically puts you on the next character when you complete a run where you can complete seven characters in a row without problems without having to go back to the menu, so if you're watching this and you see something that's a little off or something unusual like that, it's probably an artifact of something the Racing class was doing in addition to the base game, you might notice that he changed his ghost farm again to cast that night if it's going to be a lot faster to kill them all, that's a unique mechanic for the Forgotten, since that you have two different ways there, Marcus did this in basement two and he just did it again.

Something you may not know at home is that The Forgotten has some kind of hidden mechanic where you can switch to the soul and take a demon. The deal shifts backwards and you may end up, quote, feeling like a diabolical bargain item that way, but now Marcus has blocked the Forgotten, he doesn't have soul hearts, he can't go back to the soul and that's an interesting mechanic that actually it wasn't. intentional on the part of the developers, but once they found out, they decided that it was interesting enough to leave it in the game and intentionally left it in the hands of Kilburn, who is the main coder of who created the Forgotten, so this It's one of the first main bosses you face in the game, it's on the sixth floor, it's called Mom's Foot, where it's basically your mom trying to step on you pretty directly, there Markus makes quick work of her and goes to pass your polaroid and you will decide to grab an object instead. something that's unique to season six where, instead of needing the polaroid or the negative to access the final levels of the game, we decided to remove that to make it a little easier and we'll talk about that a little bit as well. further away, yes, in his eyes, Marcus was going to be able to jump to the chest at the end of the cathedral and go to the top floor without needing those photos, so let's talk a little about today's category, the objective, the speed. is to beat the game seven times in a row with seven different characters and each character is assigned a powerful random starting item at the start of the race in order to start the race and in this race it started with what is Jacob's Ladder, yes the Ladder of Jacob. was one of the initial elements, you can see the electricity on the screen and that is what is caused by the initial element.

It is very useful to synergize with the knight here, so how quickly Marcus will be able to finish the seven randomly generated races. With a combination of luck and skill you could randomly get some good items or some bad items but other than that there are adjustments and strategies you will make so this is really good but for example if you had a bad build , I could go. out of your way to try to get more items from shops and treasure rooms now that is also a unique mechanic for Fergana. You may have seen that he has something called bone hearts.

It's a new mechanic that appeared, I think, after it was over. Basically, you would have a temporary heart container and if you lose all your hearts, if you lose the red hearts inside that container, if you take one more hit, you will actually lose that container completely, so if you think about Legend of Zelda, where the containers of your heart always remain Forgotten, it has these temporary mechanics in there that make them a little more difficult, but there are a lot of really cool things you can do with it, like take extra damage, get your shields damaged if you have to polaroid, stuff like That's what it means to be enough, the game is called mom's heart again, mom's game, you are trying to defeat her as quickly as possible.

Markus makes very good use of his ghost war in his soul form to be able to make the best use of his knife, so In this category, a good run is that you want to get about 10 minutes per character and we can see that this is the penultimate floor. Now Markus has 7 minutes and 47 driving, you guys can see that on the screen that part of the mod, so he's looking to have a good time for this first character here for sure and a shout out to Samuel for setting that timer because he's a fuck masterful, okay, it wasn't that difficult, but it's very good, choose the name Márquez, yes.

Emperor, the best part of the game definitely to run fast, the Emperor automatically teleports you to the boss plate of that floor now, when Marcus faces Isaac as the ninth boss of the game, you will be able to beat this boss, enter the chat and then He will be able to teleport to the end, oh yes, so you can see that the Forgotten One is a very interesting character. Marcus here shows the change between full and Forgotten, sort of based on the attacks the enemy is doing. a very school 50 character here, that's also the reason why he does it first.

The Forgotten is actually one of the most difficult characters in this custom season, but he can tap into the soul form, used his body to block tears and now. he can go to the emperor card from the chest while keeping the hardest floor in the game, that will save him probably one to two minutes. I'd say let's beat that it was very close, one more hit and I would have had to wait 45 seconds for the ghost timer and I think Marcus might have forgotten that he didn't take the polaroid, because I panicked, if I had the Polaroid I would have 5 seconds to take that item or to kill the final boss, but he didn't.

I don't have it, but he sketched it out early. Oh, interesting, you're actually going to check to see if there's a curse room here. Yes, there are numerous safety strategies we have devised to make this marathon safe. Looks like Marcus is. looking for the curse room, which was that room where he was alone to try to have his whole heart, yes that's very clever, yes, that way he can protect himself, so for Eve, who is the second character in This race, in terms of her choice, Eve has a special one. ability called Babylon that gives you a speed damage multiplier and this way she now has all her heart protecting her red hearts.

This is really important when you enter the basement, because when you enter the basement, there is something called a demon. deal, but the only way to access that devil's deal is if you don't take any red heart damage, so now that Marcus has that half-soul heart left, you can take a hit before the end of this floor to guarantee its TT also what it really is. The important thing for me is to be able to take any WIC and this guarantees it, yes, for sure, so when you make a deal with the devil, you actually have to exchange your red heart containers on most of the Forgotten characters, it was not necessary , but here. in particular you did when he gets to the boss fight, if you defeat him with his same heart that means you have half a soul heart left and two heart containers that you can sacrifice, the devil deals no matter what, so another thing What I want to point out is that Marcus starts with the item called the school backpack, which was another item added after birth and also allows him to have two active items, so you saw there that he had the pill bottle item and normally in a speedrun.

I would just completely avoid that item and you know don't worry because your d6 is better, but in this run he can take whatever active item is there and now he takes it, now he has two active items and you can end up using the pills in the bottle. As the race goes on, he actually probably won't use it because the pills are very useful, but I don't know, Marcus, will you end up using it? You think not? I just want to be able to change it if I see a double deal, so here we go, here's the basement: a double deal, the most important part of the race and there we go, it will change it, but it won't help you because you didn't have your package rolled up, oh , maybe not, so he tried to use the demon judge to sacrifice some red hearts to try to get another item in that deal with the devil.

He also picked up the nail. That nail will be a temporary damage to the room where he uses it. in it, but mainly you will use it for theA soul heart that spawns every time you use it is a six room recharge, so every time you clear all six of the normal sized rooms you'll be able to use them again to gain more health. There's not a lot going on right now, so we should probably make a couple of donations. We have fifty dollars from Canon, who says she congratulates Marcus. It's great to see some when you're familiar with the representation of a game I've enjoyed.

Watching my friends destroy with speed daily takes away my energy to do good mapping and we got $15 from Buttercup who said she had to donate during the game to introduce me to my husband, we met on Twitch chat, he bought me this game to get it. my attention and it worked, we got married in July, we decided to name our daughter who was doing March Eve in honor of this game. Black is the Isaac back in a GDQ rotation, good luck Stone Age Marcus, that's the sweetest story I've ever heard in my entire life. life, so Marcus will come to his.

I think he's collapsing into a box right now. Again, there's something called devil's deal math involved. You may notice that just above the stopwatch in the bottom left corner there is a thirty percent chance of 3.75, that's what it tells you. What's your chance of the double deal opening at the end of this boss fight? Unfortunately, it didn't happen, so he has to take his fastball, which is the one that accelerates, and go to the next floor, yes, but most of the time. you don't get the double deal in the caves, one you're really making it on most runs, you'll make it from the basement to the cave to depth two, and so on, every second floor, yeah sure, as you can see now .

The math is up to sixty-seven point five percent, which means that's very likely to happen. There are a couple of items you can choose that can increase that chance or even guarantee it and those are items that you definitely want to find in a horse thief or marathon run like that, but if you want to go fast you don't necessarily need them, you'd rather get a higher damage and go fast, fast, fast. I just want to highlight something that Stone Age Marcus is doing, you can see that he is killing many enemies with his bandage ball there he got hit, it is very dangerous to do that in the case because there are many enemies, but you can see that in most the rooms are using it and this is something that casual players do not do. do it and actually one of the most skill based components of this game is using your orbitals effectively so just watch the run while Marcus uses the ball advantages, that's really hard to do and very very good for speedrunning purposes because you can kill. everything very fast the hitbox on birdies really strange yes, gerdes a little difficult this is also the champion version so Gertie responds to many enemies now gerdes is not going to shoot, which is good, but again it is very helpful to get through and from the map itself doesn't allow Markus to use his ball advantages all the time, he will have to play a bit of a favorite, there is the double deal, he will draw the goat head from these six options he saw, that goat head now goes to guarantee your double deal, look, it's almost like commentator's luck, obviously blood, where now you can see a double deal on each floor until after the eighth floor, beautiful bandage ball, here what a commentator's curse looks like, so The thing is with The Nail, the active item you have, you'll be able to use it and get a free soul heart every six rooms, so Mark, are you feeling really healthy right now?

He definitely probably won't die in this race, other than having all the extra help. from the nail and you can even afford to take a few hits in a room, it doesn't really matter much because remember that a speedrun is all about going fast, it doesn't really matter if you get hit, well now it looks a bit scary to your red heart commentator oh im not saying anything these enemies are pretty annoying alternating between being invisible and visible they are cold and the bulls know their names i just have to see the only reason i know their names are to modify because it shows all the names of the enemies, unlike the editor, that's fair, have there been any names that really surprised you out of nowhere?

Oh that's a good question, I don't know in the original and the credits that would show the name is every enemy rain free, another difficult boss here, yes one of the hardest bosses in the game, probably especially for this project law, since Marcus doesn't have a lot of shooting speed, he really depends on that ball, Ben, just to clear a lot of things, so yeah, sit back and take it easy, yeah, but this is a great example of how to show the disparity in Isaac's races and it's really a double deal, now, this is Krampus. Krampus may occasionally appear in your deal with the devil.

Krampus is going to drop one of the two elements, it will be his head or a piece of coal. Marcus decides to roll it and ends up picking up the mark, which speeds up the soul's heart and damages, so it's a good item, but he doesn't do it. He'll eat more so he'll lose his Babylon, that's important to note here when you're on two or more red hearts he loses a bit of damage but that's okay because he can take another double deal at some point later in the game. career. oh yeah, so he'll be able to get a double deal on the next floor now that he knows Krampus isn't there anymore, he knows he'll at least get us back to Babylon after this foot fight, yeah if you can Note Marcus these tears are pretty weak at the moment.

I just want to highlight the disparity and Isaac runs in the above. We saw both of them very powerful with the moms tonight and in this race he has some weak tears and it really shows that you have to be good with the good bills and you have to be good with the bad bills. It is very similar to Texas Hold'em or poker. You know you have to do the best with the cards. you are spread out and there is skill even more than having a bad bill look at the excellent useless Vantage ball you are causing so much damage to the boss the shovel is probably not the best time right now the shovel would allow him to dig on the next floor it will take dark ass Oh, roll your Polaroid and your negative in the magic mushroom, that's a great pickup, it'll be a more stacked card, I'm kind of a cricket head, oh wow, good point, well, never mind, oh, that's a fun fact about the game is that the cricket pet is a damage multiplier magic mushroom, also a damage multiplier, but they are not exact, so at this point having a magic mushroom is a little bit of speed, but not much more.

In the market this is built, there are a lot of little technical things. So in this game you really have to memorize all the elements and the interactions between elements. We should mention that there are over 500 items in the game and as a speed racer you need to know what all of them do and not just you. you have to know what all of them are, you have to know all the interactions between them, so it's like 500 times 500 elements, energy, that's some quick math, right there, talking, equip math, we can probably throw in a couple of donations I absolutely love mathematics. got a $10 donation from Kinney 64 who says I finally got to watch Isaac's speedrun live with my wife, she loves this game and finally got 1 million on 1%, keep up the good work and let's get into cancer, congratulations for that and we have a Donation of $500.

I am error 54 which says that I have been addicted and affected by Isaac's bonding for a few years, so there is no better time to donate. Thank you to all the runners and the gdq team for these inspiring open events. I'll be watching all week. Good luck. Thank you so much. $500 is huge and what's even more huge is that sacrificial dagger. Now that we're talking about orbitals earlier, that sacrificial dagger does a lot of damage and will give you a lot more. security around you and will allow you to deal damage no matter which side your bandaged ball or daggers are on.

Yes, the sacrificial dagger is considered the fifth best item in the game, so it's a big advantage for Marquez here and as you can see in casual. In the races you don't really bomb many rooms, but in the quick races you want to use all your bombs essentially to clear the easy rooms and bomb the heart rooms and you can see that generally the big rooms you want to bomb are the L rooms and the L rooms. 2v2, so Marcus uses his bombs well in this race. He has ten left so he can bomb a bunch when he gets to the next floor again.

Mom's heart is going to be really important here if you have the sacrificial dagger, so you can just stick it in there, block the tears for him, so he can leave. I have no problem and accept the horrible treatment from him and he will be a savior, it will be his mother's. night, another beautiful one, so it's very lucky to be able to go to mom's back-to-back nights, yeah, you know, not that Marcus was good or anything else. Marcus is actually one of the best running backs in this game, especially in North America. I would say he's probably in the top 3. which is a great representation of that, as a community, we are very happy to have you here.

Yes, the interesting thing about this game is that we have actually held regular tournaments practically since its launch. I think there have been over 100 tournaments in total and you know people love it. competing live against each other and Marcus is actually the host of one of the new speech servers called Racing of Isaac's twitch.tv. Splash the racing of Isaac and has an Associated Dysport server and that's where most of Isaac's tournaments take place nowadays. hosted on that Twitch channel, so definitely thanks to Marcus for doing that, that's kind of nice, yeah, as someone who's been in the eyes of the community for seven and a half years, the evolution of the racing tomini has been huge and We've been able to see some great talent again, there are a lot of amazing riders in Europe, that's why I'm here and it's not them because I was the guy that said, hey Casper, you can do the trip well.

Sure, why not, key des key is great in a speedrun for obvious reasons, it allows you to skip the gap and Marcus will probably do it once he gets to a difficult room. Now, one thing you may notice is that instead of going up to the chest, Marcus went down. to the lamb, so what is this? In this season, the characters alternate up and down, up and down, so you guys will get a variety of both paths in this game, which is very unique because normally we just go to the chest, it's a little bit easier, this will look very easy, but the lamb is actually a really difficult boss, but because of all his different types of attacks, but again, with that sacrificial dagger mark, the second character will look easy, he is the easiest character, come on .

Wow, something that was mentioned in the interview about season six was that instead of wasting time doing recess trying to find the first item, exit to find a starting item, season six actually starts you off with an instant item, now that the draw is the draw. of a particular set of items and in some cases we combine some items to make it more viable as a speedran start, so for example for this character, who is baby blue, we start them with mutant spiders, so quad shots and triples. giving it seven tears, yes, that's why you guys might think it was a little weird starting with all these items, but the reason is that quad shot alone isn't viable for speedrunning, it's just not good enough .

In order to beat the game consistently, we thought it would be fun to add triple shooting on top of that and it obviously makes it a lot better now, speaking of mechanics, Blue Baby is actually one of the most unique characters. Well, it's probably the most unique solution from the original solution for the original seven that came out. The blue baby can only have soul parts and black cards, so you can't have heart containers. You can't sacrifice them for double deals, which is going to be really important here because just Marcus. He has three full wounds, he won't be able to accept a double deal unless he replenishes some of his life.

Yes, baby blue is obviously considered one of the most difficult characters, but this starting element is one of the best, so Marcus probably feels pretty good depending on. What's here was very big, so he was able to find a squeeze game, full hearts. He takes one of them to get to three and a half, allowing him to take his double-deal item, which is that sacrificial dagger we saw earlier. and then he went out and got the other very beautiful skull, so we have a little bit of time here, we can probably make about two donations. I have those nations here, we have $75 from Ken Lee, who says Marcus and Daniel.

Keep up the great work. I am very proud of you two. Thank you very much, Ken, and we have $30 from Takara, who thanks you for showcasing this fantastic game and the dedicated communities that have been inspired by it to this day. We hope Krampus doesn't ruin any more double deals. We waitwhich, although Krampus at this time wouldn't be so bad again, when Marcus that heart and half full would find it difficult to accept a double deal, so see Krampus from the beginning. right now, in addition to collecting that pentagram, although he found the pact, the pact will cause damage and two wounds to his soul to keep him alive, he does not die because he reached zero, he obtained those two hearts at the end of the effect and now we we're moving towards the caves - beautiful, it's going to bomb both rooms l, that's another 100 thanks or just use the flying look that makes this dress thank Marcus for being awesome, that's right, yeah.

The reason the sacrificial dagger is so good is that it just melts the fossils, as you can see here, they're not going to take that really wouldn't have made me do it, oh I see it that way, if I took a staff now or something well, I would be able to take that, yes, very fair, yes, there are a lot of little complexities with the strategy surrounding double dealing, sometimes you want to leave health out and other times you want to take it, it all depends on your current health situation. This is a truly unique situation.

Here now Marcus won, he picked up Lazarus' rags, which are actually a transformation item that will allow him to transform into a different character when he dies, so even though Marcus said he won't die and allow him to become Lazarus. Lazarus has I'm not thinking a little more damage, unfortunately, yes, you can't touch the bed. The bed, if you are in single hearts, will actually give you three soul hearts. replenish it otherwise it will just heal you to full health Now that it transformed into Lazarus it only has one heart container which means it can't heal so that dorm is extremely good at speedrunning for obvious reasons that They often let you skip the lobby entirely.

I continued to bomb the carpet there and Marcus used that because he has a lot of bombs, he did that and now he's back to zero, but it's definitely worth using the last bomb there for that purpose. Very well done, I just want to hold my breath. Give him an oportunity. He finds the dead cat, he will pick it up now the dead cat will allow him to live, now he has nine lives and now he can use those lives to make deals with the devil, so that is a very good use that he is going to make. check out the boss rush now the boss rush is very unique if you take one of these items then you have to fight a bunch of waves of bosses it's not really worth it but if you saw a good item there you could have taken it, died and begotten. out of the room and that's the nice thing about having a dead cat, you can always, quote, steal a boss race, and that's done in both cash flow races and speed races, look, okay, no he gets the 45 second penalty because he has all the dead cat's extra lives, this is a pretty tough room, he will try to use his little brimstone to clear all the heads in the room.

Oh yeah, you can clap for that, sure, Deden, so what an interesting thing. About the season, the specific category that Marcus is playing is that in each character you start with the compass and that means that he will have a rough idea of ​​where he is going. You obviously want to go to the boss and each floor directly to the Boss, there's no real reason to waste time for the most part, but sometimes it seems like the boss is one way and it really isn't, could we call that just having trolls? of compass and I think that was probably the first compass troll that ran, yeah, right?

Too bad I'm on the third character to take control. Yes, it doesn't happen very often, but you know it definitely happens from time to time. Now Marcus may seem like he's in a little bit of trouble and he would admit it, probably a little bit, but he. he has a lot of damage, he still has that sacrifice dagger and he has five lives left oh this is the hardest boss in the game right here and that would be a total curse from the commentators. I apologize, the matriarch is very annoying, very tanky, she shoots a lot of random things that you have to dodge and since Marcus has a low fire rate it will take a second here, very well done and breaks pretty well, the tears will definitely They will help, but won't damage the floor, so to speak. so this way he will feel much safer now this is character number three which means he will go to the Cathedral in the chest which means the sacrificial dagger will be much more useful if this was the lamb which was the boss we saw. in the last character he could be in a little more.

One thing that just occurred to me is that the terminology may be confusing for you if you're not familiar with the game, so the protagonist Isaac is actually shedding tears, he's crying on people. and the game is about us yes every night but we can talk about that later so to increase damage and attack you get items that make you cry faster so that's a cool little thing about this game, if all. The concept of the game is a little strange, but at the end of the day it's a dungeon crawler, it's a lot of fun and a lot of money, plus if you want to pick it up yourselves at some point, what's this war?

Yeah, so Marcus gets trolled by the compass again. You can see that yes, he tried to sneak into the secret room with a guy, he did it and he got over it, which is usually an indicator that we're on the right track, but unfortunately we can't build all the way to clarify a little more. rooms, but luckily he hasn't yet, yeah, normally Marcus will probably go in there with a stack, but he's trying to be a little careful and conserve the lights from his dead cat that looks like where the little cave is, he lines up his dagger and it is beautiful.

Well done now as the shell was going to be useless at this point unfortunately, so he'll just take the Book of the Dead. I think he is called and will move on. Yes, shoveling does nothing in the cathedral. Unfortunately, he doesn't take you to the chest. so you really want to see the shovel at the beginning of the races, that we can skip the normal floor in quotes, you mean you can't dig up, there's no hope that you can, dad, dad, it's so weird, I don't understand that, Yes, logical man. logic in a game Isaac, you're funny, yeah, fire that guy Marcus, be very careful here, one hit and he'll die, he won't hold on to dig like rune, that rune will let him build his entire heart in a moment He'll probably spit out about it for a while when you need it or when you have accumulated more health than that weight and just make the most of your lives.

Where do you plan to use that Marcus? Only that way will he win one. More hits on some of Isaac's levels can be tough on the boss on spells, though that way will ensure you get to his chest, his chest contains four items for him to recast that way, hopefully he'll build something a bit. a little better yeah another thing that just occurred to me is we don't really explain what the main item Marcus called d6 is a die so what that does is it allows you to reroll an item that drops to the ground, so Marcus has been doing this constantly for the last 30 minutes.

Actually, most of the strategy in this game comes from effectively using your East. You want to know which elements are good and which elements are bad, but it's not that simple. like that, because some items are good with your particular build and some items are bad with other builds, then you want to get four items that would be synergistic with your current builds, so you really have to use a lot of knowledge in this game. to determine what items you want to keep, what items you want to roll of course, and a quick note on the Book of the Dead you picked up, you may notice that there are some bones flying around you, those are temporary orbitals that you can use to deal damage. in addition to protection, yes, shut up, delicious.

I'm a ding dong for figuring out the strategy where you can stand in the center to avoid the shot, as you can see Marcus did it there, oh ho, Polly, that Polly could be a good best friend because I mean. we are in gdq, we could accept this, then Polyphemus. Oh, massive damage, interesting, he also decides to take the technology. The technology turns your tears into laser beams that will basically give you piercings, who will be able to hit more enemies billed as a time, friend. this built is very well I'm very happy Pity gdq I think it's doing it for 4 gdq so give me some hyper this yeah Oh what happened was a spike, it was an over the top death, it was totally worth it bike chef oh yeah, but not a big deal Marcus, the remaining three lives from all the extra dead spots, although he'll try to figure it out, it leaves a total pain between the team and the boss fight or at least one health, oh yeah, one of the things that makes Is Isaac really interesting? one race is the same and there are so many different elements and all the spinners relate to each other in different ways so there really is a lot of variety in this game the list is crazy like seven super high powered lasers that do a lot of damage . as this is not something you will come across very often the depth boss one of everyone's favorite blue green bloat also shoots those tears of ipecac is sometimes very difficult to navigate but Marcus handles it very well he is lucky and get a mini birdie room now this is going to drop a soul heart on him so that will give him some security decide to take it now a room away and that will make me feel a lot more comfortable going into this boss fight Yes, you can go straight to using your snack dagger.

On them, this is a little dangerous because they can generate some flies, things like that, but it doesn't matter because he had the extra beautiful shot, so that's the commentator's wholehearted reward. You are welcome. You are welcome. You are welcome. We are the fourth character whose name is Judas and the random item he has been assigned is called a magic mushroom, which is a damage multiplier and you can see that it makes the character a little bit bigger. It is also something subtle but it is also a health issue. and that increase in health is going to be very important since it is Judas.

Judas normally only starts with one card container, this gives him two and that way even if he doesn't get a health boost in this box or the next one, which is actually quite common as the damage increases, this will allow you to potentially do multiple double deals in your basement as well, so luckily it's really setting up, Marcus, why were you resetting at the beginning to get a good floor layout? Okay, yeah, that's something some runners do. Speed ​​up the burners, especially I'm too lazy so I just keep going, but this allows you to get a much more favorable floor layout because it's the basement, you can reset everything you want and find maybe a boss fight, that's two . three rooms away instead of two by two, yes you can look at the map and count how many squares the boss is and what you're looking for is one that's only two or four away and there's actually another strategy that some players What they do is just reset them for a normal basement instead of a burning basement and what that does is guarantee you an easier boss, so I've seen both strategies employed by people who run this category.

Very kind, Marcus ends up finding a pair of portal hearts. which will help them protect this double deal that comes here accidentally takes health no big deal they won't matter plus taking both cambium items conception is not really what you are looking for in a near useless speedrun but there is always a chance to shore it up early and get some sulfur, but that's extremely unlikely, so for all intents and purposes, that won't really help Marcus now that you got the transformation, do you want to talk about that a little? Yeah. So, certain items in this game, if you get a set of them, you get a transformation, which is a nice little bonus, and if you get three quote-unquote dark items, you turn into this Leviathan creature that doesn't actually do anything. what it gives you. two black parts in flight, but other than that, it's nothing too important, it will help Marcus get out marginally.

The plate is always useful as an auxiliary, but overall I would rate this as a pretty mediocre average run, but it has a lot of potential in the future, so as we move towards the later floors you will be able to get another diabolical deal, hopefully two before the end of the fight on foot with four sticks and by then, hopefully, you will find another knife ship, yes, yes, yes, the tears look a little weak, that's okay and this bus. will give Isaac enough another orbital for Marcus, so you will always be happy to see the boss riders in this game as speed racers because you know that the orbitals are very powerful and one thing to keep in mind about the items themselves that you may notice again that we mentioned. that this was done by Edmund Mcmillen he does shade some of his previous games as those are the games he has worked on or has permission to Cuba Meat of course thank Super Meat Boy and eachMarcus, I love Maddy and Kayla.

PS, go green, go. We also have $100 from Adam We hope to see more of Isaac in Future gdq's, yes. I mean, if you guys are enjoying this run, we'd love to bring Isaac back since we have Sam here, he's willing to code anything. We have regrets, hopefully, this year, fingers crossed, knock on wood, everyone, please. We have a lot more content with Isaac and we can come up with a lot of different ways to run this game, maybe we'll do a race, not that I'm suggesting anything for the future, but to see a race like this. two people participating maybe it's Marcus than me maybe we can get a T oh here shades to who was supposed to be here but couldn't make it unfortunately it would be absolutely amazing to see races yeah this team's races are very excited. we do it we do tournaments 1v1 tournaments all the time it's super competitive usually the races can be really close and that's it Marcus has completed the boss race he's going to trade and that was the boss race Hey yeah I think It's time to read it all, I think.

Marcus is a little scared, so I wonder if he can make it across the entire pool. Oh yes, the range is really big. His range is very long and I think it's like a reflex. I could have my reflection in this one. Yes, my reflection gives you a lot. ranged, it's a super powerful synergy with Azazel, which is interesting because normally my reflection is pretty useless. Yes, I also want to thank the Lion of the North, he is not a runner in this game, but he was actually one of the first people to use it. the D 100 in an interesting official race yeah this is him against a rockleesmile back in the day and he took the D 100 anyone used it everyone says what the hell are you doing and it was worth it he won oh yeah I wouldn't do it .

Expect nothing less, but nothing less from them. I don't know anything less. I guess the construction is pretty decent. I guess it's okay, he's 50 years old, I even want to say he has guppy, the strongest transformation in the game, yeah, yeah, so one cool thing about the D 100 is that you can actually keep your transformations through the reps, so now Marcus has almost every transformation in the game at this point and also maintains your health through transformations, which is why Marcus has 12 red hearts and is still staggering oh we. I have some green Oh, in the Wiz, so the item that makes the thing split is called Wiz and it's pretty good, pretty good on a sulfur bill, yeah, it's pretty annoying otherwise, but it's very well since speedrunners almost never take this item unless you're in oh oh it's going to hug why not why not then this is a boss that's not in this official run in fact it could break the mod, but we won't talk about it after you kill, silence both paths, you can chain letters.

B goes the other direction, but again we won't encourage it, so there are four items here similar to the chest or dark room. There are also two treasure rooms with two items each. You can only carry one. There is also a shop. There is a box, do you want to talk about it? Yeah so this is just the baby blue fight and then whatever Zeke kills will go to the real boss of this area called silence there it is now silence is a gigantic pimple as far as I know yeah I think that's supposed to be Like I don't know, I don't know, I never fought against silence like five times just for my eight thousand one percent, yeah. but now he has a lot of hell.

Marcus' build is incredibly strong, but he's still struggling here and that's because of a bunch of different mechanics that were introduced in these super ultra in-game bosses that were created. Look at it, I think it's not a damage scale. eliminated I don't remember, I feel like he's been eliminated and he just has a lot of health, but either way, this will take a second so we can probably read two more donations before we finish this round, we have $100 for sure. by Jake the Wolski 42 who says this is a killer Ryman congratulates EQ keep it up know the wonderful work thanks and we have 200 ounces of tough guys the $200 of route 1 woo lose says Casper, have you found our brilliant brother yet?

Thanks, regards To whoever it was, I've been searching brilliantly on route 1 for a brilliant Lulu for 50 hours, oh my god, it's the job and I know I'm a Wu Liu trainer now, so that's my case, we can include one more. donation I already received it I received $200 from crisscross who says thank you for everything gdq has done to help fight cancer wishing the best of luck to all the runners and looking forward to seeing this year's lineup yes it's an absolutely crazy lineup for this sign of beauty. 10th anniversary they had to go big they had to bring Isaac back after five years let's be honest that's the biggest race and that's the silence okay funny boy what's he doing funny boy anyway three mushrooms yes we must you're vitami Avenue a table mushroom yeah When do you get his type D hardness because he has all these weird trance 400?

You're Bob, oh, good guy, and he can't imagine this, so it's an epic act with the crazed Laura, but it's an empty grip, oh, that's how it is. hold the charge and then release it to fly oh how come that doesn't have the sulfur component? That's really stupid. Azazel Brim doesn't work with his head. I'm probably afraid it's a mistake, but that's okay. Yes, I will tell the developer that there is a bug. Here, yeah, I mean, let's go to the top floor. I'm sure we'll have some things to say after the race, but again, it's been an absolute dream to have Isaac back.

They are asking him to repeat himself. now we're at the tech act Oh tonight, XP tech, one of the best items in the game, Judy has tech so look at both of you, oh he's got all the people he loses, his friends have the double lasers, now this is a good builder here and the sprinkler will be very interesting with a race, you will probably use it in the final boss, yes there will be a lot of lasers on the screen in the final boss game, what better way to finish a race really well Yes, this build is wild.

Annie is a kitten with all these blue eyes. Killick Marcus is now completely clean just because he can. I'm not entirely sure he could be intentional. Stoke the moment you know this is your championship moment, it could be the lack of maths. this is our whole number and there's another dead end oh, very nice, yes, it shows the real skill that Isaac acquires, especially when you don't have a map, he just walks everywhere, he has a magnet attached to him. I saw it, but we are. almost there Oh, strange hiker as part of the skill oh yeah, interesting Oh, Mark is getting rid of all his flies and it actually looks like it, so that disparate player can do his job, so he'll go into one more room, Hopefully, there will be enemies who waste them. there we go, all right, he's still alive a little bit, let's just stick that knife in there, oh how nice to kill him with the knife from behind, that was very classy Marcus, and we're getting there on time, that's what the sprinkler does. as soon as the sprinkler does its job and the time is good, very well done, so killed a few extra bosses there, had a little fun, bills pretty quickly, not a bad race, not a bad race, It wasn't a bad race at all.

Marcus, whatever you want to say, man, I'd like to thank everyone for having me here and I appreciate the crowd getting high, all my friends, family watching me at home. I really appreciate it, you all are the reason I do this, but yeah, all of that, yeah. I hope you had a good time and thank you very much to the Isaac community also for encouraging us to support Marcus and I to get here. Many thanks to them, thanks to all my family who brought me here. well and my girlfriend at home, hello, I know you feel bad and I hope you feel better soon, so everyone else stay tuned, we have these Super Mario Bros with a 300 percent increase coming up on the 10th anniversary and we'll see.

So do you and I hope you enjoyed, let's give one more round of applause to Stone Age Marcus for that amazingly strange The Binding of Isaac after the birth. Ryan don't go like they just said Super Mario Brothers 3 100% career is next it's going to be amazing but in the meantime we have some donations we have $100 from once again GFS n who says cheers to the cartridge blowers oh , that's me and all the announcers and runners at this event keep up the great work and we have $1,000 from PM 148 no comments but thanks for that incredible amount of money we have $50 of shuffles that says I can't wait for the smb3 race.

I can't get a hundred dollars worth of equipment either. who says watching the stream with my nephew and he's having fun ten dollars of fire Specter who says donating for the first time I've been watching this for so many years and it makes me happy to see how far this has come, shout out to my friend rage will donate ten dollars each day of the event for the 10th anniversary of the event. Okay, I'll send you straight to a Twitch ad. I'll be right back. Okay, and we come back here at 80 years old. Huge 20 20 read. Another donation here, we have $20 from Shannon Sang, who says if everyone watching donated five dollars, it would really be a nice $700,000.

Wouldn't it be great to surpass the first million tomorrow. Well, we're getting pretty close. Now let's see that the total is around seventy three thousand six hundred and forty dollars, okay, no, 79,000, we can donate a little more, we can reach at least that one hundred thousand during Super Mario Brothers 3. The huge agent 2020 will tell you offers the meat team. meat we are great at creating terrible games when it comes to estimating time Super Meat Boy forever will arrive on the epic games store switch Xbox one and ps4 in 2020 we are 99% sure that it will be 2020 you can visit www.techyv.com 50 dollars a anonymous donor saying keep up the great work and thank you very much one hundred dollars from cheeky Bob saying friendly reminder to everyone who is donating to check if your employer makes charitable donations that match mine and will double all my donations along the way of the week, well that's like $200, thanks cheesy Bob, one hundred dollars from the bad neck 33 that says hello agdq 2020, this is Nick Mallory 3 from France.

I've been watching gdq events since 2013 and I'm still amazed by the fantastic job all the staff and all the riders do to create great entertainment for a whole week. Happy 10th birthday and I hope ten more soon and also good luck killing a lot of backs in this amazing race, okay let's move on. to the interview station for an interview with a gymnast 86 in Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword Hello, the super cup is back here. I'm with the 86th gymnast who is about to run his sword into the sky and his upward race, so Jim, today I learned from him that The Race to Skyward Sword is as complicated as our creative time, which is something which you don't normally hear about as it's a little less popular you could say of the Zelda 3D game, yes that's right.

The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword is definitely not the most popular 3D. Zelda game, but it's one that has a lot of thought and a lot of complexity that applies to almost any run of the game these days, yeah, sure, and I've heard that it seems like the run has had a ton of growth not only since 2014, but also lately it seems like there have been some really big things, yes, around 2014 this game was first shown at sgdq, the run time at that event was about 5 hours and 35 minutes. Wow. and then four years later he had another performance at sgdq 2018 and the run time was reduced by about 30 minutes or so because that run was 504.

Since then, since sgdq 2018, the time for the record of any percentage has been reduced by about 2 hours and 45 minutes Wow, which is absolutely huge for a Zelda game that for most of its history was considered practically unbreakable, so what has changed about this since then and now are the most omitted things important like the one you have discovered? uh one of the biggest glitches in Skyward Sword is known as going back in time, it's when you finish the game, restart the game and continue at the same time and suddenly you're playing on the title screen, we'll see a lot of that.

In today's race, basically, going back in time, there are a lot of different things you can do back in time and last May we discovered that there is actually a very complicated way to take state flags back in time. and push them to a different map than where they were at the time and that allows us to set a wide range of game flags that we normally shouldn't be able to set as soon as we do, that's crazy and that really helps with that, like a big time. save, yeah, absolutely, which is amazing, well, I've heard that, I mean, you know there's more than just you involved that's really built this career toOver the years, yes, that's true, there are a lot of people in the community who once discovered that we could do this in the game.

There was a lot of effort to help document every single thing that we came up with in the game, as you know, of course, we went through the game with a memory viewer and we would look, you know what actions would set what flags in memory, but not only that, We would actually like to go out and search online and download save files that other people have and read those save files to see what flags those files would have. In fact, there have been some flags where we see that there is a flag set in some file that we download online, but we don't actually know what corresponds to it because we can't figure out how to set that flag. making that instance and in that instance we just write as if something should work here, but we don't know what it is.

I mean all the important things that we've documented, just like you write if something we know exists, like you should be somewhere where we. It's just like yeah, that's a really obscure thing that's probably not very important, that's cool and I was able to see this whole spreadsheet as document after document of some of the ways that these flags correspond and relate, which is very fascinating, it was really cool, etc. If anyone else was interested in this sort of thing, like helping to discover more or wanting to get involved, maybe try the race, what would you recommend to them?

They searched well. I definitely recommend joining these Skyward Sword speedrunning discord if you're going to speedrun calms slash. they're s and then go to the discord link, you can find a link to the Skyward Sword slider called discord, where there are usually discussions and resources or lists of resources for different things that you might want to get more involved in, awesome, awesome, okay guys. I could definitely enter because this race is super cool. Would you maybe like to do something social? I'm not sure. Let's do it right. Let's ask some questions. Okay, so @bj mashed potatoes asks you what your favorite part of the race is. part of the run would probably have to be the ancient cistern dungeon.

Well, the ancient cisterns actually went through like the rest of the game. Many different changes that make it quite interesting. We actually started the Ancient Cistern dungeon by spawning in the wrong place. the dungeon as you know you would normally enter a dungeon and you're at the entrance when we start the engine cistern, we actually start it like in front of the boss's key chest. Oh, interesting, like below, yeah, I don't know. that's easy yeah and then you like to do the dungeon in reverse order to complete everything and in my opinion it works really well together yeah yeah that's really cool okay let's take one more so this es from in the pact 10:17 says that although a switch port for Skyward Sword is unlikely, if it ever came out with fewer motion controls, would you still run the game for the Wii or would you try to run it well for the switch?

I would definitely try speed runner you know, I would probably do at least one run to see if I like it or not, you know, I assume or hope that there are more quality of life changes that would make the game faster in a racing sense fast, almost like you know, fast protection, maybe be able to skip a few more scenes here and there and know that yeah, you have this Ruby, you have this green rupee for the tenth time, there's more technology here, but yeah, I would definitely try to speed it up, no I know. if I would like it because I would have to try it first, I would definitely try it, yeah, definitely awesome, well I'm definitely looking forward to the race, it's going to be awesome and you know what I would say for the file name.

I love the vibe of the horn. I love the vibe of the horn. So guys, keep it up. I found it. Yes, his favorite so far. Donate for pork. Wait, this is doing something else. What is this doing? I'm clearly not holding that goose. Hello everyone, as you know, I'm exhausted and I'm here to tell you about some of the amazing prizes you can get. Guys, you can now win our next Super Mario Brothers 3 race. Actually, it will be your last chance to participate in a lot of great prizes. Here's the summary: A $25 donation will allow you to participate in everything we have. limited to the block for one free show: Super Mario Brothers 3, so take those donations, guys.

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