Uploaded September 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This is a piano transcription of all of the soundtrack of a Touhou fangame called "Infinite Blade Pavilion", from Stage 4 to the Staff Roll.
I've actually had this batch of transcriptions on hold since the end of last year, because I got caught up in college work and other hobbies that demanded my time. I'm happy I finally got around to properly finishing it!
However, college has taken me yet again, and this time it demands my full attention. So this may be the last big piano video you'll see from me for a while. Thank you for your patience.
This game is really, really difficult. Seems like the stage enemies will use every opportunity to come out from underneath you, and the bosses love throwing things at the bottom of the screen to attack you from behind! Thankfully, the enhanced Stage Practice allowed me to get gameplay footage for this video very reliably. I'd appreciate it if the devs for this game toned down the "bullets from the bottom of the screen" gimmicks next time around. Aside from that, it's a wonderfully crafted game!
Thank you for watching.
Original compositions are by NED, Wanwan, 夜狐夜叉 (Yoko Yasha), めいす (Mace), 壱太 (Ichita), and 緋子望 (Hishimottie).
Gameplay and piano transcriptions are by me.
This video was developed using Zenith. You can learn more about it here: arduano.github.io/Zenith-MIDI/start
The Synthesia X Resource Pack for Zenith was made by MBMS Productions and Arduano.
List of transcriptions in this video in order of appearance:
00:00 A Mausoleum as Vast as a Garan Temple ~ Hollow Mansion
03:20 Starve Calamity
05:36 Tatara the Furnace
08:28 Legend of Kikyouzuka ~ Black Ventus
11:27 Steel is Born from Flame, and Returns to the Earth
13:52 Rebel of the War God's Five Weapons ~ REBELLION God Force
17:55 Ley Lines of the Underworld
20:54 Meridian-Splitting Reverse Scale ~ Dragon's Dream
25:30 Fortune Arrives With an "Oni In, Too!"
26:53 Oktoberfest in Naraka
This is a piano transcription of all of the soundtrack of a Touhou fangame called "Infinite Blade Pavilion", from Stage 4 to the Staff Roll.
I've actually had this batch of transcriptions on hold since the end of last year, because I got caught up in college work and other hobbies that demanded my time. I'm happy I finally got around to properly finishing it!
However, college has taken me yet again, and this time it demands my full attention. So this may be the last big piano video you'll see from me for a while. Thank you for your patience.
This game is really, really difficult. Seems like the stage enemies will use every opportunity to come out from underneath you, and the bosses love throwing things at the bottom of the screen to attack you from behind! Thankfully, the enhanced Stage Practice allowed me to get gameplay footage for this video very reliably. I'd appreciate it if the devs for this game toned down the "bullets from the bottom of the screen" gimmicks next time around. Aside from that, it's a wonderfully crafted game!
Thank you for watching.
Original compositions are by NED, Wanwan, 夜狐夜叉 (Yoko Yasha), めいす (Mace), 壱太 (Ichita), and 緋子望 (Hishimottie).
Gameplay and piano transcriptions are by me.
This video was developed using Zenith. You can learn more about it here: arduano.github.io/Zenith-MIDI/start
The Synthesia X Resource Pack for Zenith was made by MBMS Productions and Arduano.
List of transcriptions in this video in order of appearance:
00:00 A Mausoleum as Vast as a Garan Temple ~ Hollow Mansion
03:20 Starve Calamity
05:36 Tatara the Furnace
08:28 Legend of Kikyouzuka ~ Black Ventus
11:27 Steel is Born from Flame, and Returns to the Earth
13:52 Rebel of the War God's Five Weapons ~ REBELLION God Force
17:55 Ley Lines of the Underworld
20:54 Meridian-Splitting Reverse Scale ~ Dragon's Dream
25:30 Fortune Arrives With an "Oni In, Too!"
26:53 Oktoberfest in Naraka
![Wilikin Village Any% Speedrun 2 [IGT - 3:35 | RTA - 6:10] (Skylanders: Giants)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lUetwfqSzCU/mqdefault.jpg "Wilikin Village Any% Speedrun 2 [IGT - 3:35 | RTA - 6:10] (Skylanders: Giants)
This is an Any% IL speedrun of the seventh Chapter of Skylanders Giants for the Wii (played on the WiiU) on Easy mode. The final in-game time is 3 minutes and 35 seconds. As of this recording, it is the new world record.
Several new innovations have been implemented into this run:
- The introduction of a Lightcore to avoid the battle at the beginning of the Chapter, saving the seconds that would have been used to defeat the enemies.
- The greatest improvement yet, and for the first time on video: the Shroomboom Wilikin gate skip, originally found by staid. Because this is a key door, we dont need to look for all of the keys now. And because all keys work with all gates, this means we can bring a key with us and use it on the final gate immediately, skipping the entire last enemy battle.
- An improved Shroomboom launch skip to avoid the troll battle and prevent the spawning of the boxes simultaneously.
We are approaching levels of broken that should not be possible, and its all through the refined potential of our lord and savior, Shroomboom.")
![Molekin Mountain Any% Speedrun [RTA - 7:19 | IGT - 5:56] (Skylanders: Giants)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/m1DcT3p_K_Q/mqdefault.jpg "Molekin Mountain Any% Speedrun [RTA - 7:19 | IGT - 5:56] (Skylanders: Giants)
This is an Any% IL speedrun of the twelfth Chapter of Skylanders Giants for the Wii (played on the WiiU) on Easy mode. The final time is 5 minutes and 56 seconds. As of this recording, it is the new world record. (EDIT 2019: Due to the introduction of IL timing subcategories for IGT and RTA, this run is no longer the IGT World Record run, but it is still the World Record run in terms of Real Time (RTA).)
The Arena Battle Chapters are always big in time. Theres no quick way to get them over with, so any big skips have to be before the battle happens. A new skip has recently been found in Molekin Mountain, starring a new possible addition to the All Levels meta: Pop Fizz with the beast upgrade route.
Pop Fizzs beast attacks have slight anti-gravity properties. By themselves individually, the effects arent much, but spamming the attacks causes him to hover forward, rivaling the effectiveness of Stealth Elfs combo lunge. The real kicker is that one of Pop Fizzs beast upgrades gives him a lunge move of his own if you drink the purple potion. The lunge retains vertical height very well. A couple runners have theorized that this could be used to skip the last major block puzzle in MM, and I confirmed this to be true, but I took this skip a step further and hovered some more to skip the block-pushing portion below - no blocks required. This saves quite a bit of block-pushing, and this skip will most likely make it into the All Levels meta. This run is probably a perfect demonstration of this new skip.
By the way, the time in Livesplit appears red because of a run before this one. In this run, I introduced Lightcores and placed Flameslinger in certain sections to decrease in-game time, but this greatly increases real time.")
![[VOLUME WARNING] Who Can Clear Iron Jaw Gulch the Fastest? [Skylanders: Swap Force]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mYi5lfdNQ04/mqdefault.jpg "[VOLUME WARNING] Who Can Clear Iron Jaw Gulch the Fastest? [Skylanders: Swap Force]
Please note that the timers are not exactly accurate due to human error.
Also, please mind the volume in this video. It seems like the video project got corrupted or something during rendering, and I cant change the volume on some of these individual tracks anymore. I would try again from scratch if I hadnt already rendered this video for ten hours.
In this test, I use specific bottom halves of Swap Force Skylanders paired with Blast- to see which one is the fastest to complete Iron Jaw Gulch, Chapter 6 of Skylanders: Swap Force. As in my previous comparison videos, I ran each one twice (except for Blast Ranger, which I only ran once because my WiiU GamePad ran out of battery) and I chose the best time from each to compare.
Despite the possible variations due to me not having run this game before now, it seems like the speedrunning communitys consensus that -Shift is the fastest bottom half is correct. While -Zone still tops most other bottom halves in terms of speed, the time gap between -Shift and -Zone is huge.
The music in this video is Youkai Mountain ~ Mysterious Mountain, composed by ZUN.")
![[OLD] Time of the Giants 100% AND Any% Speedrun World Records!! (Skylanders: Giants)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nRw7eT3kGd0/mqdefault.jpg "[OLD] Time of the Giants 100% AND Any% Speedrun World Records!! (Skylanders: Giants)
Edit: The Any% World Record in this video has been beaten by another speedrunner. I expect that the holder of the record will change hands several times from now on, so a link to the leaderboard of this run will be at the bottom of this description.
This is a World Record run of the first Chapter of Skylanders: Giants on the Wii (played on the WiiU) on Hard mode, completed to 100% (all three stars) at a time of 11 minutes and 11 seconds; however, while completing the time limit condition, I also beat my own Any% World Record by a second - 2 minutes and 6 seconds! As of publishing this video, both of these runs are World Records!
Man, it really makes my head spin, wondering if theres any way to get a faster Any% time in this Chapter... I have a couple ideas, but Ill try them out later.
Run leaderboards: https://www.speedrun.com/Skylanders_Giants/Chapter_1_Time_of_the_Giants#Any")
