Uploaded April 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This is a piano transcription of a Touhou-style composition called "Stardust Shambler", composed by Mana Kazami. It is the Stage 2 boss theme of Glory of Deep Skies.
I don't think I've done a transcription this fast, considering I was pressed to make it on time. As such, a lot of the finer details have been lost in transcription, so I apologize if there are any *glaring inaccuracies*. One day I'll take some more time to fill in all of the holes and fix the possible mistakes.
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Yeah, this is obviously a joke, haha. The other themes you hear mixed into this song are "Pass Through the Front Line's Wind ~ Flow Scale" and "Sword of the Fallen Hero ~ Legend of Sanada", both composed by Misora. This was fun to quickly put together, but I wish some of it had come out better.
Also, there's a quick message at the end of the video in response to a very specific type of comment I get occasionally.
The portraits of Azuma and Sengo that you see in this video were drawn by Kirbio for his own gag on Twitter. Thank you for letting me use them!
Hope you had a safe April Fool's Day!
Thank you for listening.
This is a piano transcription of a Touhou-style composition called "Stardust Shambler", composed by Mana Kazami. It is the Stage 2 boss theme of Glory of Deep Skies.
I don't think I've done a transcription this fast, considering I was pressed to make it on time. As such, a lot of the finer details have been lost in transcription, so I apologize if there are any *glaring inaccuracies*. One day I'll take some more time to fill in all of the holes and fix the possible mistakes.
...
Yeah, this is obviously a joke, haha. The other themes you hear mixed into this song are "Pass Through the Front Line's Wind ~ Flow Scale" and "Sword of the Fallen Hero ~ Legend of Sanada", both composed by Misora. This was fun to quickly put together, but I wish some of it had come out better.
Also, there's a quick message at the end of the video in response to a very specific type of comment I get occasionally.
The portraits of Azuma and Sengo that you see in this video were drawn by Kirbio for his own gag on Twitter. Thank you for letting me use them!
Hope you had a safe April Fool's Day!
Thank you for listening.
![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")
![Chompy Garden Single Lap [OLD - 0:53.15] (Superchargers)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/otjhoZ76fKk/mqdefault.jpg "Chompy Garden Single Lap [OLD - 0:53.15] (Superchargers)
This is a single lap World Record of the Chompy Garden track in Skylanders: SuperChargerss racing mode. For this record, I drove a Supercharged Burn-Cycle.
This track is quite easy to chain drift boosts on, since the turns occur often enough to the point where I dont have to worry about turning too little or too much while drifting. The only real difficult parts are the section after falling off the leaves, and the boosters just before the end of the lap.")
