I remember it taking every fiber of my being to claw through Hard mode at 15%... These Metroid runners always bring such technique and mastery to their playthroughs, and it's always a joy to watch. Keep up the fine work.
I remember trying to low percent this game ages ago - also exactly how long it took before I gave up. Without a route I just made it to Ridley - after countless deaths - and gave up on him. So watching this is really awesome. Always amazing to watch a master going at it.
During the Ridley battle, I noticed some of the people in the crowd and especially the guy sitting on the left in the front couch looked COMPLETELY frozen.
Doing this Hard run years ago on my GBA, raging and going to GameFAQS constantly...I watch this run and totally dig it so much more. What he pulled off took me so many hours: the wall jumps, the bosses with limited missiles, the bomb jumps, avoiding so many pick ups right in your way, and ultimately doing the entire last segment without your suit and the final part where you gotta pull off two boss fights while avoiding getting OHKO. Much respect!
wow this has a uuge ammount of nostalgia for me... this was my first ever video game that I ever owned back when I was... idk 6? Brings back good times....
Holy shit, PB *AND* an RTA world record on his first try at a live marathon? That's just amazing. Especially when just completing this challenge at all would be extremely difficult no matter how slow you took it--doing it in less than 70 minutes is just insane.
SaltyWaffles It's a 2D game AND you can freeze your enemies. Nice run but it can't be that hard to complete from what ive seen. The only challenge is knowing where to go
steven Claessen Being 2D doesn't mean anything, neither does being able to freeze enemies in the end parts of the game. Till you've played it you don't know how hard it is. He's doing low% on hard mode which means he's taking 40 damage from most enemies with only a max health by the end of 200 HP. Freezing enemies only happens on the latter quarter/half of the game and it isn't that useful except for the Metroids which require it for which he has to calculate every move he makes due to how low his ammo is. He's still taking tons of damage from anything with a hitbox so just a few shots could finish him off even when he's fully powered up. Knowing where to go is the least of his problems. Some people shouldn't speak without knowing what they're talking about. Then again, some people simply shouldn't speak.
@@jjc4924 My favorite 2-D metroid only for me. No moon jump, no computer talking, best wall jump, best shinespark and a lot of freedom. Too bad the soundtrack and ambience sucks, or it might have been my favorite Metroid game.
I remember someone saying that Dragondarch sounds very irritated and angry during this run and no wonder! It's fucking brutal. Loved the Ridley fight, hitboxes OP.
1:01:08 Call him 'Hunch': 'a feeling or guess based on intuition rather than fact.' :p You were gone before he realises, he probably thinks you're a brain fart of his.
"Are you gonna do that for AGDQ next year?" "No." *Unknown Item music plays with an "Or will he?" message* See? You really CAN use that for any cliffhanger! XD
is the guy on the left just messing with me? He looks like he's in a perma-state of confusion OR he's perpetually refining an interesting comment that he never actually makes
I thought the commentary was interesting and Kirb did a great job explaining everything and making it interesing. And I don't know where the fuck are people getting this constant "cut-in front of everyone" from. He very clearly stops when someone is talking. Great job to you as well.
57:40 Looks like the loss of the Power Suit not only stripped her of her weapons, but also of all glute muscle... just saying. If you don't understand what I'm talking about: that's a surprisingly fat ass for someone like Samus.
I love metroid, my favorite game series... but I'd never be able to do any of these speed running tricks consistently in my lifetime. This is really impressive.
This run was pretty much amazing. I was at the edge of the couch the entire run, especially during the chozodia escape; my heart could not beat any faster, and I know dragondarch was much more nervous than i was spectating :P
I think if the donation in tourain and kirbymastah wasn't talking the whole time through that area, he wouldn't of died. Its good commentary, but there are times where it doesn't need to. Donations are important, but needs to read after the run if its a big one. The reader should know where the hardpoints are even if serious time isn't called.
I think it's just the intensity generated from concentration. Whenever he talks it takes his mind away from whatever he is doing in the game so he has to be very short and to the point.
Just to put into perspective the sheer insanity of this run, this video was the only Low% Hard run on the leaderboards until just 3-4 weeks ago. One of those is a two hour run and the other, which beat this time by 40 seconds, has three deaths. Technically speaking, there's a lot of room for optimization, but the pure lethality of this run makes those optimizations an ordeal.
at this point i thought he said he had been playing the game for 10yrs. i bet even today he hasnt done better than this. only 1 death is godlevel... and it was just a careless mistake at that
Just wondering, what allows him to play a gameboy advance sp game using a controller on a TV? Could someone let me know how to do this and exactly what I would need? Cheers!
There's an accessory called the Game Boy Player that attaches to the bottom of the Gamecube. (Make sure you get the corresponding Game Boy Player disc too - that's needed for the GCN to read the GBA cart!)
My new favorite term. They deal "You Die" damage.
Run starts at 7:53
snomaN Gaming thank you very much
Good -man- snowman.
Run hits 1 hour at 1:07:55
Quite possibly the most underrated run in the entire marathon. Dragondarch is a beast.
Yes, he definitely is a master of this game, I'm not even close to being as good as him and I've played Zero Mission since it came out.
I agree, I never forgot this run. One of the ALL TIME greatest....
I remember it taking every fiber of my being to claw through Hard mode at 15%... These Metroid runners always bring such technique and mastery to their playthroughs, and it's always a joy to watch. Keep up the fine work.
That was one hell of a run
Also, great commentary from everyone! Lots of skill, knowledge, fun tricks, good strats, nice info on damage points. Thanks again!
Dragondarch: a god among gamers.
The Dragondarch + Kirbymastah combo made this run awesome, Darch was a beast and Kirbymastah had the dank commentary.
A fantastic and stunning run. Massive props to Dragondarch for an incredible performance live. I'm sad I wasn't able to catch it. Great work!
i died when darch synced the noise of the controller with the background music against ridley!
Awesome run guys
My favorite part of the run lol
Dang, I had to go back to look for that when you mentioned. It was priceless!
The runs this year have been incredible, between this and f zero its hard to decide what im more impressed by. Congrats on the Pb Dragondarch
Wow, this has been the best run I've seen since zoast did the baby metroid glitch near the end of super metroid. This guy is bad ass.
Tourian used to terrify me as a kid. I sat in the elevator room for about 10 minutes I was so terrified.
+hankster112 lol me too
When I played this games I was like 5 years old so I couldn't get farther than the very first area you go to lol
Just beat it for the first time. Took me almost 10 TIRING tries -.-'
Rubem Evangelista i beat it in my first try
The part in fusion where it drops you in with the SA-X is scary too
This is the best speed run I have ever seen. Incredible skills!
I remember trying to low percent this game ages ago - also exactly how long it took before I gave up. Without a route I just made it to Ridley - after countless deaths - and gave up on him. So watching this is really awesome. Always amazing to watch a master going at it.
I was watching in complete an utter awe over his skills. This is a fantastic run. I've tried many a time to defeat Ridley to no avail.
Awesome run, was glued to my screen while watching this. Huge respect to Dragondarch.
During the Ridley battle, I noticed some of the people in the crowd and especially the guy sitting on the left in the front couch looked COMPLETELY frozen.
I was almost frozen too lol
Like, just look at him/them. LITERALLY frozen.
This is art, the spirit of vikings flows through Dragondarch
Doing this Hard run years ago on my GBA, raging and going to GameFAQS constantly...I watch this run and totally dig it so much more. What he pulled off took me so many hours: the wall jumps, the bosses with limited missiles, the bomb jumps, avoiding so many pick ups right in your way, and ultimately doing the entire last segment without your suit and the final part where you gotta pull off two boss fights while avoiding getting OHKO. Much respect!
That was an extremely entertaining run! Well done DragonDarch.
Hooked from start to finish. Just legendary playing! Well done, that man!
Dragondarch is now officially my favourite speedrunner. Holy shit that was tense.
Thanks guys for making this run so intense and fun to watch. I admire your passion to the game! Keep on doing this stuff!
wow this has a uuge ammount of nostalgia for me... this was my first ever video game that I ever owned back when I was... idk 6? Brings back good times....
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR dfdsfmnsdfmn...."
I lost it.. I just lost it.
This and the 4 person Super Metroid race are the most intense speedruns I've watched so far.
Awesome run. And those donations were amazing to hear too. Keep up the good work dudes.
Finally this is uploaded. Forget to watch this live :P
Holy shit, PB *AND* an RTA world record on his first try at a live marathon? That's just amazing. Especially when just completing this challenge at all would be extremely difficult no matter how slow you took it--doing it in less than 70 minutes is just insane.
i know i look at the eta and then the length of the video and knew i was going to be in for something special
Spoiler Alert dude...
SaltyWaffles It's a 2D game AND you can freeze your enemies. Nice run but it can't be that hard to complete from what ive seen. The only challenge is knowing where to go
steven Claessen Being 2D doesn't mean anything, neither does being able to freeze enemies in the end parts of the game.
Till you've played it you don't know how hard it is.
He's doing low% on hard mode which means he's taking 40 damage from most enemies with only a max health by the end of 200 HP.
Freezing enemies only happens on the latter quarter/half of the game and it isn't that useful except for the Metroids which require it for which he has to calculate every move he makes due to how low his ammo is.
He's still taking tons of damage from anything with a hitbox so just a few shots could finish him off even when he's fully powered up.
Knowing where to go is the least of his problems.
Some people shouldn't speak without knowing what they're talking about.
Then again, some people simply shouldn't speak.
Terumi Yūki Yes, and some people are easy to troll. Thanks for the elaborate explanation!
Zero mission Dark souls%. Good lord i those metroid rooms were gonna make me have a heart attack.
I was sweating bullets from Tourian and forward...
That was pretty intense. Grats on a great run! I can't wait to start contributing myself.
I did not recognize Kirbymastah until he started talking. It's the shades.
Zero mission is such a good game
Amen brother...
Indeed it is. It's my personal favorite Metroid game.
@@jjc4924 My favorite 2-D metroid only for me. No moon jump, no computer talking, best wall jump, best shinespark and a lot of freedom. Too bad the soundtrack and ambience sucks, or it might have been my favorite Metroid game.
This was absolutely amazing. Great job Dragondarch!
INSANE. What an incredible run! Mind blown.
Jesus, that Ridley fight was wonderful.
That pirate who sees you but doesn't do anything, he is Johnny Sasaski.
Top tier gameplay, commentary, atmosphere. This is how any GDQ should be. Just the crowd could have popped off a bit more.
I remember someone saying that Dragondarch sounds very irritated and angry during this run and no wonder! It's fucking brutal. Loved the Ridley fight, hitboxes OP.
Damn...
By far the greatest run this year!
1:01:08 Call him 'Hunch': 'a feeling or guess based on intuition rather than fact.' :p You were gone before he realises, he probably thinks you're a brain fart of his.
"Are you gonna do that for AGDQ next year?"
"No."
*Unknown Item music plays with an "Or will he?" message*
See? You really CAN use that for any cliffhanger! XD
is the guy on the left just messing with me? He looks like he's in a perma-state of confusion OR he's perpetually refining an interesting comment that he never actually makes
I thought the commentary was interesting and Kirb did a great job explaining everything and making it interesing. And I don't know where the fuck are people getting this constant "cut-in front of everyone" from. He very clearly stops when someone is talking. Great job to you as well.
Say Ridley drops a super missile from his fire attack, and since Dragondarch didn't pick them up in this run, what would happen?
PablosLPs supers only drop of you have the item
I remember this run, that troll metroid after killing so many. :(
OMG! that Ridley fight had me stressing the heck out.
57:40 Looks like the loss of the Power Suit not only stripped her of her weapons, but also of all glute muscle... just saying.
If you don't understand what I'm talking about: that's a surprisingly fat ass for someone like Samus.
Sara Kollin They screwed up on Samus' ass design this game.
zomgdrhax She's athletically built but that doesn't mean she can't have these features. I don't think you guys are up to scratch on your anatomy.
I kind of agree. She's definitely athletic, but her rump is so...non athletic, LOL. XD
Y'all never met a girl who squats?
Samus's butt is not big because of squats
That Derrick deserves a medal.
I may be good at speedrunning this game, but my God this is impressive even with the mistakes
making a safety save of the safety save here.
Still 1 of my favorite speedruns ever.
This is hands down my favorite dragondarch run in any GDQ
OMG! Such an awesome run! so intense!
I love these screen comments, they're hilarious
Crazy run, still good with only 1 death imo
Its amazing how much the hard mode affects how long it takes to run this game.
1:19:45
"Super Metroid Prime Zero Mission" *facepalm*.
Anyway, fantastic run, just like the 4 runners of Super Metroid!
Super Metroid Prime Zero Mission 3 CD Returns Deluxe Directors Cut featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series & Knuckles
Thank you blueglass for not being there.
Blueglass was there. He comes up at the end and shakes Dragondarchs hand. Sorry for the necro.
Can't wait for Prime to be uploaded!
legendary run
watchin these speed runs makes ur mouth drop like watchin amazing athletes. incredible
at 24:00 when hes fighting ridely do you notice that the controller taps are to ridleys battle music ;D
No shit ,Sherlock, that's why everybody laughed.
Oh man I remember how hard it was tourian in a 15% run I did,I had to save every single time I cleared a room.
run starts at 7:55
I love metroid, my favorite game series... but I'd never be able to do any of these speed running tricks consistently in my lifetime. This is really impressive.
Kirbymasta has approximate knowledge of many things.
I normally don't watch entire runs, but that was great!
Still one of my favourite runs ever
Let's be honest, 24:35 is the highlight of this run
"How... the fuck... do you get up??" -PanAnning
This run was pretty much amazing. I was at the edge of the couch the entire run, especially during the chozodia escape; my heart could not beat any faster, and I know dragondarch was much more nervous than i was spectating :P
incredible!!! kirbymastah doesn't wear sunglasses XD
I was scared when I saw Ridley as a kid
I think if the donation in tourain and kirbymastah wasn't talking the whole time through that area, he wouldn't of died. Its good commentary, but there are times where it doesn't need to. Donations are important, but needs to read after the run if its a big one. The reader should know where the hardpoints are even if serious time isn't called.
No-one was talking when he died
Hot take wall jumping in this game is the easiest excluding new games
The runner sounds so angry for some reason xD
I think it's just the intensity generated from concentration. Whenever he talks it takes his mind away from whatever he is doing in the game so he has to be very short and to the point.
HOLY CRAP, that was incredible.
They have a distinct look these speed runner crowds. But respect anyway, I think I'd have fun at one of these
amazing run
7:54 Start
What an insane speedrun!
if this was the year with that epic chrono trigger wondershot rng as the last game than this was my favourite gdq
Amazing run! So intense.
Dragondarch is the MAN! Insane run!
awesome... just awesome.
A speed run and a song too .... Double like
GOAT AGDQ run
Why's the dude with long hair on the couch look like he's holding an invisible cigarette?
I think that's a microphone.
Daaaaaang. What a great run!
Please upload Tony Hawk Pro-Skater 3. It was the best run. :-)
"Something is wrong with my controller!!!!" BibleThump
Werent you just saying Speedrunners are waste of life ?
OX1994AU ...and that's a contradiction how?
what an amazing run
Just to put into perspective the sheer insanity of this run, this video was the only Low% Hard run on the leaderboards until just 3-4 weeks ago. One of those is a two hour run and the other, which beat this time by 40 seconds, has three deaths.
Technically speaking, there's a lot of room for optimization, but the pure lethality of this run makes those optimizations an ordeal.
at this point i thought he said he had been playing the game for 10yrs. i bet even today he hasnt done better than this. only 1 death is godlevel... and it was just a careless mistake at that
Absolutely amazing.
Godlike speedrun!!
Spoiler: Metroid is a Girl.
*Grill
How does Metroid crawl?
oh, you mean SAMUS, which is the main characted from the METROID GAMES? Metroids are the alien squid parasite thing-thongs.
***** I'm pretty sure he knew that to begin with. XD
metroid is a genderless
This was pretty awesome.
Just wondering, what allows him to play a gameboy advance sp game using a controller on a TV? Could someone let me know how to do this and exactly what I would need? Cheers!
There's an accessory called the Game Boy Player that attaches to the bottom of the Gamecube. (Make sure you get the corresponding Game Boy Player disc too - that's needed for the GCN to read the GBA cart!)
Gamecube + Gameboy player
What kind of spezies was Mother Brain once taken from? According to the size it may be the size of Kraid.
The official manga states that Mother Brain was created by the Chozo, so she was not taken from any species.
Awesome run!