Since I've seen a lot of comments about it, as the runner I'd like to say something in regards to the audience (the part you might not know). In the video it might seem like a lot are uninterested or not paying attention. This is normal. The room you see is the only event-hall (since UKSG is a relatively small event) and as such it functions as both the stream room and the place were people chill. Most of the people joining these events (myself included) mostly attend for the people, y'know, meeting with friends and making new ones. Because of this the focus isn't as much on the runs. After all, watching runs can be done from home and you only get a couple hours together like that. Due to the limited space you see this more clearly at this event then with some others. As a runner I'm aware of this and as such it doesn't bother me. It might look weird, but I've seen this at almost all on-site events and most runners are aware of it. Having had the chance to run at UKSG has helped me make several new friends I wouldn't otherwise have and I can say that a lot of the people there were fantastic.
No worries man. This was a seriously entertaining run and even though the monster house at the end essentially killed it, I think it ended up being even better because we got to see some of the quick save, RNG manip strats.
"This is NOT the team we'll be using since it's a TERRIBLE team to use" Haha, hahahaha, yeah. I know all about that. It's the exact team I used in my first playthrough.
it's not a horrible team overall since pikachu gets quick attack, agility and discharge which are incredible moves (at least I think it does, it might not in Rescue Team Blue), and charmander has access to smokescreen, flamethrower and heat wave. But there are some glaring weaknesses of the team during some dungeons when it's player+partner only for a while since they both are weak to ground and rock types could be an issue, but the team does have some potential. From a speedrun perspective through, they probably are pretty bad since they don't have stuff like attract, double slap, etc.
Necro-ing this to shoot off about how good Charmander's Metal Claw/Scratch link combo is for dealing with those pesky rock types and if you get the proc on the Metal Claw scratch hits even harder :D Team eXeeBé ♂️'s in Blue lead by Charizard named Moe-Ma and a Pikachu named BeenXé :)
Great run, great runner. He's got great knowledge on the game (I like how he can name the Pokemon by the sprites alone before he even runs into them) and great commentary. I found myself a new favorite streamer to follow.
When I was young I didn't really understand the game very well, owing to the fact I could barely read English as it was. But Linked Moves were so unbelievably OP even young me figured out that the devs done goofed
I love these kinds of speedruns where you have to react to the RNG. Obviously it makes wr much harder, but I find it very entertaining and I believe it's why minecraft has become such a popular speed game. Of course, that's coming from a speedcuber, where every single "run" is 100% RNG.
Actually kinda interesting. Charmander+Pikachu tends to be a really strong pairing in PMD (Smokescreen, Flamethrower, Agility, and from Explorers onwards, Discharge), good at almost all parts of the game. It's just not fast from a speedrunning perspective.
I discovered this game back when I used to emulate a lot of Nintendo DS games. I can't remember who was my partner but I got a Bulbasaur as my main, who is my favorite gen 1 starter Pokemon. I never finished the game though.
Not sure if the woman in the red/black sweater wanted to cry at the end of the run there - but if she did, I felt that in my soul. The ending of RRT/BRT makes me cry my eyes out every single time. I don't know why, but I have an emotional attachment to all the characters in the game. Plus the music in addition...
1:40:20 Just like the Northeners (or Norse, if you don't have much time), they explore! they go north, from the North, to the northern North! And discover land!
God damn, this was a great speedrun and drew me in. I love this game even though I had Red Rescue Team instead. But now I remember all the monster houses, traps, and other good stuff with the post-game. .... I still need to get Kygore though. Also, I don't blame the speedrunner for the quicksave stuff, that monster house was a nightmare from hell. I would have shit my pants even as a kid if that happened to me. So good job on overcoming the aftermath. But now I need to watch some more of the runner's Pokemon runs, as I'm horribly interested now.
If it's worth anything, I run Explorers of Time (any%, beat darkrai and recruit 'em all) and am soon going to be picking up Gates to Infinity and Super Mystery Dungeon (as well as PMD DX) in the next couple of months. I stream them on twitch, mixed in with just about every other Pokémon game out there.
Also, the name of Squirtle is the French name for the water Pokemon starter of gen 2, which eludes me in English. His evolution is Feraligator, that much I know.
XxILikePie03 I can’t believe he didn’t mention the possibility of getting infinite golden seeds if he preset the missions with a generator when mentioning wm :/
Okay Crrool, you are a fine speedrunner, a very good one even! But you are telling me that you didn't see the utility of using multiple moves in a row during a turn when you played the game casually? What the hell, man! Loving the race so far.
I was 12 when I first played it, and I was pretty bad at strategies. I used to try and avoid using any PP so that Id have it for when I needed it. Safe to say that wasnt a great strat 🙃
So the game came out in a time when the general gamer mentality was "Better safe up any type of limited thing for the worst case scenario". I for example up to a point used moves themselves already sparingly and mostly attacked with the normal base attack. Linking moves together and thus using up several moves in a singular use, when I might not even need several attacks seemed like a bad play.
Angelofexecution the strats for the switch version are wildly different since the game plays very different mechanically. Different starters, different items we look for, different combat strats on bosses. The 2 games are hard to compare on a speedrun level
@@Crrool I'm actually surprised to hear. Granted I only saw the one hour demo so far but it did look quite similar to the Nintendo DS version. I'll have to have a better gander at it then.
Omg the people in the background are not even just not watching, they are also getting rudely loud, disturbing the run. So annoying. But I like the run very much anyways, thank you!
as a runner its not something you tend to pay attention to. As an attendee the main reason for joining is the social aspect, not the runs themselves. Most runners know that and as a result dont pay much attention to what happens behind them
It would in actual speedrun attempts, this is a marathon so it is important to keep track of the run length including resets (if the run was valid and a world record or PB was possible they would have retimed after the stream before submitting to the leaderboard)
I just thought I'd ask but, why not just start the run after putting in the partner's name? Wouldn't that get rid of that terrible quiz? Also Pika/Mander man myself, what's your alls teams in PMD?
The first save is after first dungeon so significantly after first input, if you were to start at name input then you would only be allowing emulated runs where you could use save states and disallowing every run on actual hardware.
in this game multi hit attacks hit just a little less damage wise then most other attacks but can hit up to 5 times, while a bit inaccurate the fact it can do around 5x that of a normal attack makes them super good
Fury Attack and Double Slap, along with moves like it deal 5 hits at about 80% power. They deal astronomical amounts of damage, combined with Linked skills, as you see you can one shot a lot of enemies.
Blake Underwood It was no quick saves, but due to the unfortunate death in sky tower at the end I did a quick save manipulation to ensure the run could finish. This run would be invalid as a result of this
WM stands for Wondermail (the ability to "code" in missions with set requirements and rewards). QS stands for QuickSave which would allow us to manipulate floors (basically what I do in the 2nd Sky Tower round in order to be able to finish the run)
As someone who only ever played Explorers, I'm shocked at how everything in Rescue Team has a deam/child logic about it. Like, who writes that newspaper? Why is the story so fast-paced as to feel abbreviated? Why do rescue teams even exist? What the heck is up with Gengar at the end there? It's like the writers were intentionally going for as little worldbuilding as possible.
Sorry you failed the run on the first minute, /crool. How about you switch to Pokemon Rescue Team DX? In that game the personality quiz is moot, you can choose your main character to a Skitty even if you got a Pikachu. ;)
![Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team [Any% (No WM, No QS)] by Crrool - #ESASummer22](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/wSvHYhTvKz4/mqdefault.jpg)
![Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team [Any% (No WM, No QS)] by Crrool - #ESASummer22](/img/tr.png)
Since I've seen a lot of comments about it, as the runner I'd like to say something in regards to the audience (the part you might not know). In the video it might seem like a lot are uninterested or not paying attention. This is normal. The room you see is the only event-hall (since UKSG is a relatively small event) and as such it functions as both the stream room and the place were people chill. Most of the people joining these events (myself included) mostly attend for the people, y'know, meeting with friends and making new ones. Because of this the focus isn't as much on the runs. After all, watching runs can be done from home and you only get a couple hours together like that. Due to the limited space you see this more clearly at this event then with some others. As a runner I'm aware of this and as such it doesn't bother me. It might look weird, but I've seen this at almost all on-site events and most runners are aware of it. Having had the chance to run at UKSG has helped me make several new friends I wouldn't otherwise have and I can say that a lot of the people there were fantastic.
No worries man. This was a seriously entertaining run and even though the monster house at the end essentially killed it, I think it ended up being even better because we got to see some of the quick save, RNG manip strats.
Really cool run man!
Still loved the run dood. Keep it up!
It annoys me slightly that he didn't have a proper audience, like he deserves.
I loved his comments and gameplay.
Cheers dude.
He has us~
Read the new top comment haha
This is a nice speedrun. He managed to play it good while being able to narrate the whole story for us, newbies. Great work, man.
us newbies*
Early: "You'll see Squirtle become pretty much useless later in the run"
Later: "Uuuh, we'll let Squirtle take care of that one too"
37th minute is still early game
"This is NOT the team we'll be using since it's a TERRIBLE team to use"
Haha, hahahaha, yeah. I know all about that. It's the exact team I used in my first playthrough.
it's not a horrible team overall since pikachu gets quick attack, agility and discharge which are incredible moves (at least I think it does, it might not in Rescue Team Blue), and charmander has access to smokescreen, flamethrower and heat wave. But there are some glaring weaknesses of the team during some dungeons when it's player+partner only for a while since they both are weak to ground and rock types could be an issue, but the team does have some potential. From a speedrun perspective through, they probably are pretty bad since they don't have stuff like attract, double slap, etc.
Nazim Uddin most rock types in gen 3 also had an additional ground type to them.
Necro-ing this to shoot off about how good Charmander's Metal Claw/Scratch link combo is for dealing with those pesky rock types and if you get the proc on the Metal Claw scratch hits even harder :D
Team eXeeBé ♂️'s in Blue lead by Charizard named Moe-Ma and a Pikachu named BeenXé :)
Remember :
The people in the booth with him aren't the real audience. The 40,000 of us that watching this video are.
Great run, great runner. He's got great knowledge on the game (I like how he can name the Pokemon by the sprites alone before he even runs into them) and great commentary. I found myself a new favorite streamer to follow.
Honestly his knowledge is way beyond that my guy I can't do it and I barely have like 100 hours on the game and learnt a of shit from hin
*Sees Pikachu and Charmander*
Oh wow, the team I had when I first played!
"This is a terrible team to use"
Oof
When I was young I didn't really understand the game very well, owing to the fact I could barely read English as it was.
But Linked Moves were so unbelievably OP even young me figured out that the devs done goofed
The harder dungeons in the post game made up for that XD
@@reggiemoore755 It's been a while but I remember super long dungeons, level resets and getting oneshotted a lot
@@ignacionadeo1306 lmao getting one shot bye a Pokemon you can't even see yet was the worst or insta Kos multiple times without a turn
i remember mystery dungeon explorers of sky with my level 92 shinx and not have finished the story. still getting beat by everything
I never used link moves, I hated being out of PP or stack my bag with max elixers
If i woke up being a Ralts i would praise Arceus and get on with my now significantly better life.
Up until some green haired wimp comes out of nowhere and throws some ball at you, next thing you know you're in prison
@@CastafioreOnRUclips At least you get to listen to that kick ass theme of his lol
I'm glad that these comments went in the direction that they did and not another way
@@Professor_Utonium_ I came here to go the direction you were thinking of and then decided against it
Stripe Shirt in the front is a real one, saluting. MVP Audience member. o7
anyone knows who is she ?
I love these kinds of speedruns where you have to react to the RNG. Obviously it makes wr much harder, but I find it very entertaining and I believe it's why minecraft has become such a popular speed game.
Of course, that's coming from a speedcuber, where every single "run" is 100% RNG.
Actually kinda interesting. Charmander+Pikachu tends to be a really strong pairing in PMD (Smokescreen, Flamethrower, Agility, and from Explorers onwards, Discharge), good at almost all parts of the game. It's just not fast from a speedrunning perspective.
as far as explorers goes it uses vulpix/charmander as a partner
Pikachu & Treecko are so busted with double Agility in Explorers
Hahaha loved how gengar says he's evil when he just has a mercenary mindset.
I discovered this game back when I used to emulate a lot of Nintendo DS games. I can't remember who was my partner but I got a Bulbasaur as my main, who is my favorite gen 1 starter Pokemon. I never finished the game though.
Not sure if the woman in the red/black sweater wanted to cry at the end of the run there - but if she did, I felt that in my soul. The ending of RRT/BRT makes me cry my eyes out every single time. I don't know why, but I have an emotional attachment to all the characters in the game. Plus the music in addition...
His accent interests me so much - it's like Dutch mixed with a bit of Northern Irish mixed with a bit of American :O
Good run ^^
Sounds Swedish to me
Turns out there's a big world out there with a lot of people, each filled with unique backgrounds and life experience that changes who they are.
wow that sky tower floor 21(around 3 hours in), getting spawned into a monster house was *such* a dick move by the game.
While it is unfortunate that things took a turn, at least you had back up strats to keep the marathon pace.
My god i forgot how good the music in this game is.
it is just beautiful!
1:40:20 Just like the Northeners (or Norse, if you don't have much time), they explore! they go north, from the North, to the northern North! And discover land!
This reminded me how much I hate quiz resetting lol, but amazing run man, I love seeing pmd get this many views!
God damn, this was a great speedrun and drew me in. I love this game even though I had Red Rescue Team instead. But now I remember all the monster houses, traps, and other good stuff with the post-game. .... I still need to get Kygore though.
Also, I don't blame the speedrunner for the quicksave stuff, that monster house was a nightmare from hell. I would have shit my pants even as a kid if that happened to me. So good job on overcoming the aftermath. But now I need to watch some more of the runner's Pokemon runs, as I'm horribly interested now.
First speedrun I ever bothered to watch full way through and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Now I really wanna see him do exploreres of time/darkness/sky
If it's worth anything, I run Explorers of Time (any%, beat darkrai and recruit 'em all) and am soon going to be picking up Gates to Infinity and Super Mystery Dungeon (as well as PMD DX) in the next couple of months. I stream them on twitch, mixed in with just about every other Pokémon game out there.
Also, the name of Squirtle is the French name for the water Pokemon starter of gen 2, which eludes me in English. His evolution is Feraligator, that much I know.
Wow, a no quick save run. I've only seen no wonder mail runs. Improv, top-notch
XxILikePie03 I can’t believe he didn’t mention the possibility of getting infinite golden seeds if he preset the missions with a generator when mentioning wm :/
That's why you always take something for a Monster House
I loved that run.
It is the kind of why I watch speedruns. It was like a really fast Lets Play.
Don't think it will matter much, the name of Squirtle in the run is the french name for Totodile
Very good run! The ds screen brought me so much nostalgia
Okay Crrool, you are a fine speedrunner, a very good one even!
But you are telling me that you didn't see the utility of using multiple moves in a row during a turn when you played the game casually? What the hell, man!
Loving the race so far.
I was 12 when I first played it, and I was pretty bad at strategies. I used to try and avoid using any PP so that Id have it for when I needed it. Safe to say that wasnt a great strat 🙃
@@Crrool don't worry I still do that and I'm much older 😂
So the game came out in a time when the general gamer mentality was "Better safe up any type of limited thing for the worst case scenario".
I for example up to a point used moves themselves already sparingly and mostly attacked with the normal base attack. Linking moves together and thus using up several moves in a singular use, when I might not even need several attacks seemed like a bad play.
I was about to comment negatively about the audience, but then I realized that I scrubbed through the video. haha, wonderful speedrun!
that monster house unfortunate but really awesome run!
Looking forward to speedruns of the Switch version of the game and if it's got improvements in the strat or none at all.
Angelofexecution the strats for the switch version are wildly different since the game plays very different mechanically. Different starters, different items we look for, different combat strats on bosses. The 2 games are hard to compare on a speedrun level
@@Crrool I'm actually surprised to hear. Granted I only saw the one hour demo so far but it did look quite similar to the Nintendo DS version. I'll have to have a better gander at it then.
Omg the people in the background are not even just not watching, they are also getting rudely loud, disturbing the run. So annoying. But I like the run very much anyways, thank you!
Keyowah Crrool made a statement to this, it’s not uncommon as the main room is also used as a lounge of sorts.
on my current save i've got 122 hours, this used to be one of my favorite games and i'm so happy to be picking it back up
This game has many emotional scenes.
My goodness the audience is so checked out (atleast in the first bit where I am) I feel so bad for him
as a runner its not something you tend to pay attention to. As an attendee the main reason for joining is the social aspect, not the runs themselves. Most runners know that and as a result dont pay much attention to what happens behind them
@@Crrool fair enough! Hope everyone had a good time
I can't for the remake of this game, I want a chance to relive this game on a new console
I want it to come out on a console I have when I have money. It's been one or the other every time.
Man, PMD blue rescue team has the best OST ever, and I mean it. Any game in the history of gaming, the best OST~
Please someone tell me how I found more any % runs of this game?
Almost no QS hehe still gg enjoyed the commentary
Surely rerolling the starter would restart the clock
It would in actual speedrun attempts, this is a marathon so it is important to keep track of the run length including resets (if the run was valid and a world record or PB was possible they would have retimed after the stream before submitting to the leaderboard)
Are those people actully watching you play?
How did you get them to watch it all?
I just thought I'd ask but, why not just start the run after putting in the partner's name? Wouldn't that get rid of that terrible quiz?
Also Pika/Mander man myself, what's your alls teams in PMD?
The first save is after first dungeon so significantly after first input, if you were to start at name input then you would only be allowing emulated runs where you could use save states and disallowing every run on actual hardware.
@@OscatJ ohhhh ok👍
How can skitty use attract on Zapdos?
Genders werent an actual implementation in this game, so you can just attract anything.
Looks like they're in a very big apartment room
Great run though ! You deserve a bette audience
Top kek shop
Is it just me or has hunger gotten way worse in the new game? It pisses me off having to leave cause I used up 5 apples on one floor hh.
Best game loving it
Skitty op af lol but I just put attract on my Charmander works wonders XD
Your English is really good for a Dutch person
Why does he say that multi hit attacks are op?
in this game multi hit attacks hit just a little less damage wise then most other attacks but can hit up to 5 times, while a bit inaccurate the fact it can do around 5x that of a normal attack makes them super good
Fury Attack and Double Slap, along with moves like it deal 5 hits at about 80% power. They deal astronomical amounts of damage, combined with Linked skills, as you see you can one shot a lot of enemies.
A great run, that Sky Tower death was unfortunate. I see room for refinement though... or was that just being more casual about the marathon?
Its casual and marathon safety. The moment he used a flashcard the run was casual and invalidated.
I'm always lvl 10 before I complete tiny woods😁
Grande Pikachu
no money? NO RESCUE
I thought it was a no quicksave but he quick saves. Weird
Blake Underwood It was no quick saves, but due to the unfortunate death in sky tower at the end I did a quick save manipulation to ensure the run could finish. This run would be invalid as a result of this
@@Crrool good run none the less. U really know ur Pokemon stuff.
@@Crrool Would love to see some videos on your RUclips channel. Amusing to watch
Wobbufett salut!
The Nederlands
what the hell is WM and QS?
WM stands for Wondermail (the ability to "code" in missions with set requirements and rewards). QS stands for QuickSave which would allow us to manipulate floors (basically what I do in the 2nd Sky Tower round in order to be able to finish the run)
As someone who only ever played Explorers, I'm shocked at how everything in Rescue Team has a deam/child logic about it. Like, who writes that newspaper? Why is the story so fast-paced as to feel abbreviated? Why do rescue teams even exist? What the heck is up with Gengar at the end there? It's like the writers were intentionally going for as little worldbuilding as possible.
He looks so sad
Sorry you failed the run on the first minute, /crool. How about you switch to Pokemon Rescue Team DX? In that game the personality quiz is moot, you can choose your main character to a Skitty even if you got a Pikachu. ;)
I understand why you did the quicksaving at the end but the end result just honestly looks kinda boring. Interesting speedrun overall though