Blue Dragon Any% Speedrun in 5:28:18 @Otonyshi

Otonyshi Run starts at 6:23
Couldn't edit the first 6 minutes out without youtube lowering the resolution, for whatever dumb reason.
If you want to catch my annual BD streams, I do my streaming here: @Otones

This was my test run of the Mural Belt Plus route, a big refinement of the original MB route from last year. This route's already out of date though, noticed some stuff shortly after this run that resulted in different strats being feasible, which led to removing the Ancient Forest visit, so expect another run soon. This might be the only Any% run that'll ever fight Land Shark C.

Good stuff:
- Gold drops were amazing the whole run, could've skipped the final selling and would've had plenty to spare
- Sai, Kesu, and Szabo went perfectly, Szabo in particular (that accidental Chest Laser skip...)
- Another trademark Eat-Yeet funny moment
- Perfect Rockwind Wolf Ghost fight
- Insanely good OHKO on Mechataclysm
- Perfect Destroy fight

Bad stuff:
- 2nd try Dinoram due to a crit
- Encounter with a ghost in Ancient Hospital, fast flee
- 2nd try King Ghost due to being too fast and me not playing accordingly
- Slow end of Dullahan fight, didn't skip Last Resort
- Ku and Mai were a bit slow
- An unfortunate Flying Mecha Robo spawn in the Ancient Factory, forced me to flee (I think Field Barrier might prevent this going forward?)
- Very slow War Mecha Robo fights
- Very slow Kelolon Grind, had to fight multiple smaller groups, mainly due to not noticing Stink had been healed
- Encounter with Horned-Viper Trident, fast flee
- Slow Grand Szabo
- Encounter with a Skimmer in Devour Forest, fast flee
- A very slow encounter with a Soyo-Soyo
- One of the worst Land Shark shooting segments I've had
- Really sloppy Laser Defenders with no 2-hits
- Kinda slow Sentry and Dynamo fights
- Got 1 Crimson Blood Rain from Pyro Dragon
- Sneezing Cyclops was a bit slow
- Missed MAU on Zola in Ultimate Szabo
- Kinda slow Nene
- Really slow end to Ultimate Nene after not getting MAU on Marumaro

updated 3 years ago

Blue Dragon Any% Speedrun in 5:28:18

Otonyshi 2023-02-24 | Run starts at 6:23
Couldn't edit the first 6 minutes out without youtube lowering the resolution, for whatever dumb reason.
If you want to catch my annual BD streams, I do my streaming here: @Otones

This was my test run of the Mural Belt Plus route, a big refinement of the original MB route from last year. This route's already out of date though, noticed some stuff shortly after this run that resulted in different strats being feasible, which led to removing the Ancient Forest visit, so expect another run soon. This might be the only Any% run that'll ever fight Land Shark C.

Good stuff:
- Gold drops were amazing the whole run, could've skipped the final selling and would've had plenty to spare
- Sai, Kesu, and Szabo went perfectly, Szabo in particular (that accidental Chest Laser skip...)
- Another trademark Eat-Yeet funny moment
- Perfect Rockwind Wolf Ghost fight
- Insanely good OHKO on Mechataclysm
- Perfect Destroy fight

Bad stuff:
- 2nd try Dinoram due to a crit
- Encounter with a ghost in Ancient Hospital, fast flee
- 2nd try King Ghost due to being too fast and me not playing accordingly
- Slow end of Dullahan fight, didn't skip Last Resort
- Ku and Mai were a bit slow
- An unfortunate Flying Mecha Robo spawn in the Ancient Factory, forced me to flee (I think Field Barrier might prevent this going forward?)
- Very slow War Mecha Robo fights
- Very slow Kelolon Grind, had to fight multiple smaller groups, mainly due to not noticing Stink had been healed
- Encounter with Horned-Viper Trident, fast flee
- Slow Grand Szabo
- Encounter with a Skimmer in Devour Forest, fast flee
- A very slow encounter with a Soyo-Soyo
- One of the worst Land Shark shooting segments I've had
- Really sloppy Laser Defenders with no 2-hits
- Kinda slow Sentry and Dynamo fights
- Got 1 Crimson Blood Rain from Pyro Dragon
- Sneezing Cyclops was a bit slow
- Missed MAU on Zola in Ultimate Szabo
- Kinda slow Nene
- Really slow end to Ultimate Nene after not getting MAU on Marumaro

Blue Dragon Any% Speedrun in 5:43:39

Otonyshi 2022-03-09 | New PB here: youtu.be/zNz1No04FrY
Run starts at 1:36
First PB with the new Mural Belt route, really solid first half, terrible second half. Got a nice Disc 1 PB, but it all started crumbling after that Surprise Attack before Nene's Fortress, and then Jumbo happened...
Ended up bleeding 5m in the final bosses, will need to figure out how to avoid that when possible. Also need to make my menus a lot better, they were pretty bad this whole run.
Could have very easily been 15m or more faster, so I'll be aiming for sub 5:30 at the very least, ideally something close to 5:20. Any further than that I can't say, but a godly RTA run can definitely sub 5:10 now, which is insane.

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Viva Piñata: TiP - Level 10 Speedrun in 9:31

Otonyshi 2021-02-03 | Well uhhh yep sub 10 is feasible alright, holy moly. Realized a higher level starter Pinata (Fudgehog or Raisant) would be worth the extra exp over getting a cutscene skip, and utilized a second controller to instantly max candiosity the Reddhott. The amount of cutscenes you skip by reaching level 10 so early more than makes up for it.
Got a 10:43 just before this, glad I kept going... Not sure how to improve this route further, taking any more time off will probably be all about crazy optimization. The Taffly did fly around for a while after geting torched though, scared me for a second. Really happy with this one!

Viva Piñata: TiP - Level 10 Speedrun in 11:16

Otonyshi 2021-01-28 | Got curious about TiP again recently, thought I'd look into things and do some offline attempts while my mic is still out of action. Was fun figuring this route out again, having to purposefully wait before triggering the Taffly cutscene in particular, to get it to stay around with the berries being present.
Not a bad run, but I did mess up at the end when I realized I couldn't get a Bluebell for the Reddhott variant, so I just planted some extra seeds and hoped for the best. Sub 11 is definitely doable, I'm more curious as to whether sub 10 is even remotely feasible.

Blue Dragon Any% Speedrun in 5:55:21

Otonyshi 2020-09-10 | New PB here: youtu.be/zNz1No04FrY
Run starts at 1:20
After a huge amount of rerouting thanks to the realization that someone getting Double-Cast was actually viable, and eventually 3 party members reaching it, I managed to pull off another PB/WR exactly like the last one. I wanted to practice and derust and somehow ended up going all the way to sub 6 and then some, and with a very sub-par Disc 1 at that. The new Triple Double-Cast route is without a doubt faster and much safer than the older routes, and my final goal will now at the very least be getting sub 5:50, maybe even sub 5:40 or close to it.

As an aside, I think some frame drops happened in this recording due to the encoder overloading, but it's not that noticable.

Noteworthy time loss in Disc 1:
- Second try Dinoram due to me not paying attention...
- Winking Patroller was slow due to very unlucky turn order
- A very slow flee in the Undersea Caverns
- Fast second try King Ghost but horrible gold drop, loads of safety pickups
- Compost Poo Snake shenanigans during Lazy Bear skips
- Second try Heat-Wave Sai

Noteworthy time loss in Disc 2:
- Sub-par (17 attempts) Black Belt grind, considering we only need 3 now
- Having to fight a Kelolon separately and forgetting a menu again
- Kinda slow Jumbo Mecha Robo

Noteworthy time loss in Disc 3:
- Sloppy Mechat navigation
- Sloppy Mechat shooting segment
- Route flaw causing me to be a single medal short for final Toripo, Zola didn't get Double-Cast when intended and it slowed down the start of Primitive Cube a bit

Sonic 06: Radical Train (Silver) - Speedrun in 019816

Otonyshi 2020-07-30 | One of my favorite tracks from Sonic Riders.
Really broken with the Shovel gear.

Toneworks - Part 3 (Finale)

Otonyshi 2020-04-17 | I became king of the son clan, the VR VIP. I reached the top (of the ladder) and had to stop, though that certainly hasn't been bothering me.

MUSIC:

Rainbow Road - Mario Kart Wii
Blast Town - Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity
Win or Lose - Final Fantasy XIII-2
Super Sonic Racing - Sonic R
Work it Out (Red Raw Mix) - Sonic R
Free - Sonic Free Riders
Judgement - Yakuza 0
Palmtree Panic Past - Sonic CD
Shibuya Downtown - Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
Digital Dimension - Sonic Riders
State of Emergency - Blue Dragon
Fly Octo Fly - Splatoon 2
Full Throttle Tentacle (Octo) - Splatoon 2
The Goings On of an Undergrounder - Chulip
Deeper - Sonic Adventure 2
Coconut Mall - Mario Kart Wii
Inside the Castle Walls - Super Mario 64
Pledge of Demon - Yakuza 0
Cotton-Eye Joe - Rednex
AIN'T NOTHING LIKE A FUNKY BEAT - Lethal League Blaze
Rainbow Road - Mario Kart Wii
Sea-Bottom Segue - Sonic Lost World
E Rank - Sonic Unleashed
MythOS - Boneworks
Chitama Middle School Alma Mater - Chulip
Without a Dop Doubt - Splatoon 2
Silver - Team Sonic Racing
Force Addiciton - Yakuza 0
Parry Addiction - Yakuza 0
Crash Addiction - Yakuza 0
Customer Creed - Yakuza 0
One-Eyed Dancer - Yakuza 0
Fanfare - Final Fantasy XIV
Friday Night - Yakuza 0

Toneworks - Part 2

Otonyshi 2020-04-12 | Ain't nothin like a Tony in the sewers.

MUSIC:

The Dreamy Stage - Sonic Adventure
Bomber Barbara - Sonic Rush
A Daytime Stroll in Scarecrow Field - Chulip
Title Theme Remix - Croc: Legend of the Gobbos
Cotton-Eye Joe - Rednex
End Fanfare - Sonic R
A Daytime Stroll in Tsurukame Town - Chulip
Kiss from a Rose (Panpipes Version)
Rouge - Team Sonic Racing
Get Edgy - Sonic Rush
Survival Step - Sonic Riders
[BOSS] Mephiles - Sonic 06
Supporting Me - Sonic Adventure 2
The Show - Castle Crashers
Haunted - Rayman 3
Free - Sonic Free Riders
Dive into the Mellow - Sonic Adventure 2
Tidal Tempest Past - Sonic CD
Dilapidated Way - Sonic Adventure
Wacky Workbench Past - Sonic CD
Collision Chaos Past - Sonic CD
Targets! - Super Smash Bros. Melee
Green Greens - Super Smash Bros. Melee
New City - Sonic 06
MythOS - Boneworks
Receive you the Madtype - Yakuza Kiwami
Win or Lose - Final Fantasy XIII-2
Rainbow Road - Mario Kart Wii
Collision Chaos Bad Future - Sonic CD
Pick it Up - Boneworks
Werehog Battle - Sonic Unleashed

Toneworks - Part 1

Otonyshi 2020-04-07 | A boy and his monkey dive into the virtual to defeat legions of corrupted Sonic 06 NPCs and funny crabs. Presented to you by CryptOS, a Crypt Entertainment subsidiary.

MUSIC:

MythOS - Boneworks
Options Screen - Sonic R
Empire City (Day) - Sonic Unleashed
Peach's Castle - Mario Odyssey
Cool Edge (Night) - Sonic Unleashed
Curse of the Bell Person - Chulip
Werehog Battle Theme - Sonic Unleashed
Banana Tengoku - Japanese DKC ending theme
Midnight Owl - Sonic Lost World
Owl Lights - Sonic Lost World
In the Middle of Straight Heave-Ho Smooching - Chulip
Guardian Battle - Breath of the Wild
A Gentleman's Teabreak - Chulip
Arid Sands (Night) - Sonic Unleashed
Skyscraper Scamper (Day) - Sonic Unleashed
Strictness of the Chitama Middle School Teachers - Chulip
Clash on the Big Bridge (Oriental MIX) - Final Fantasy XIII-2
Windmill Isle (Night) - Sonic Unleashed
Win or Lose - Final Fantasy XIII-2
Flirt with Bomb - Yakuza Kiwami
Metallic Madness Bad Future - Sonic CD

Crypt Crossing 3

Otonyshi 2020-03-20 | Crypt Town, now featuring intensely upscaled resolution and a fishing rod. Happy release of New Horizons everyone!

Chulip Any% (Emu) in 1:18:00

Otonyshi 2020-03-05 | Run starts at 0:51
My first offline Any% Emu attempt, and an unbelievably good run. This is easily one of the most optimal runs I've done of Chulip and of any game for that matter, and is better than my console Any% PB in multiple ways. Outstanding luck all around, solid execution, couldn't have gone much better. Only bad part is the court sequence, but it's pretty minor.
Definitely done with Any% until new skips or JP version competition comes around.

Here's the raw recording of the run without any restream commentary: youtu.be/nrBDM3oy3cM

Crypt Crossing 2

Otonyshi 2020-02-17 | Still need a fishing rod, still need foreign fruit, still have problems looking after snowmen.

End song is "I'm gonna make her mine" from Yakuza 0

Chulip: Skipping Mika and the one thing preventing it

Otonyshi 2020-01-05 | Could be some big time saves for All Kisses, assuming a way to make this jank work is found.

Crypt Crossing 1

Otonyshi 2020-01-01 | ey, you gotta keep it real man

Sonic 06: Last Story in 9:39

Otonyshi 2019-12-27 | From the 06 Boxing Day special. Nice run, Shadow's EotW and Solaris 1 could have been better though. Gonna implement a box telelaunch in Silver's EotW if I take it any further.

It's all you Shadow! :^)

Sonic 06: Flame Core (Silver) - Speedrun in 147508

Otonyshi 2019-12-23 | I've somehow managed to find a, not completely, but somewhat consistent method of telelaunching off of the first box in Flame Core. While the method combined with some missed ETDs resulted in a 54s first section, it's definitely possible to get a time over 10s faster than that with an optimal launch that allows you to have the launched box be closer to the destination.
In the second section, the box that originally was used for the kerfuffle launch seems to be very receptive to the same launch setup as the one in the first section. As a result, the second section is much faster than with the previous no-ETD kerfuffle method.
Sub 1'30 is definitely possible, though extremely close to human perfection with the current strats.

Sonic 06: Amy asserts complete Box Dominance

Otonyshi 2019-12-21 | In this magnificent example of symbiosis in nature, an lone Amy manages to catch a ride on a Metal Box migrating for the winter.

Sonic 06: Silvers Story (Any% Emu) in 9:16

Otonyshi 2019-12-14 | My first emulator run (excluding the 10 minute PB before this one). Really want to do more Xenia runs in the future, but it's a bit too prone to crashing at the moment.
Was an okay run overall, biggest mistake is about 10 seconds lost at MSG. Sub 9 is easily doable with AFCs in Crisis City and Wave Ocean.

Burning Banana - Official Otosound Tracknyshi [Track 5]

Otonyshi 2019-09-22 | The perfect snack for any fire-aspected primate.
Burning Depths Medley: youtu.be/EUHrucJ5WRU
Banana Tengoku: youtu.be/mVAWR2-tVI0

Year of the Monkey Showdown - Part 7 (Finale)

Otonyshi 2019-09-21 | ...

Year of the Monkey Showdown - Part 6

Otonyshi 2019-09-19 | ...

Year of the Monkey Showdown - Part 5

Otonyshi 2019-09-17 | ...

Year of the Monkey Showdown - Part 4

Otonyshi 2019-09-15 | ...

Year of the Monkey Showdown - Part 3

Otonyshi 2019-09-13 | ...

Year of the Monkey Showdown - Part 2

Otonyshi 2019-09-11 | ...

Year of the Monkey Showdown - Part 1

Otonyshi 2019-09-09 | ...

their time has come

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Smones III-2: Life is Penguiful

Otonyshi 2019-09-01 | Ay yo where my kirbys at, I know I gotem down in green greens give em love and they give it back

Masked Dedede cover: youtu.be/3Njtf2YX0t8
Life is Beautiful feat. K.K. Slider: youtu.be/2cICKPQzh0c
Life is Beautiful Jazz cover: youtu.be/3R5cFNJv7iE

Sonic 06: All Stories in 3:09:39 (Race w/ scuffed game audio)

Otonyshi 2019-07-20 | My first All Stories run, and a race between Focus, Turborun223, Ghastslayer, and myself. The game audio is low quality due to problems with audio-visual sync with my capture card requiring that I globally delay audio if I'm in a call, and I think this was the best compromise of the options available. Sadly, an electrical problem caused my computer audio to die just before Last Story, which is luckily very close to the end of the run. It made my capture card freak out and caused the game to become more delayed than the audio unfortunately.

As a measurement of how well I feel each story went, here's each ranked out of 10:
Sonic: 4/10
Silver: 7/10
Shadow: 5/10
Last: 6/10
I can definitely improve on this, and plan to in the future. It was a really fun race, though me doing Silver before Shadow did make it hard to follow exactly how well I was doing versus the others.

Smones III-1: 4th Dimensional Recoveries

Otonyshi 2019-06-26 | My man just ended that penguin's whole career.

Super Magnetic Neo Any% in 42:25

Otonyshi 2019-06-20 | My first console run, and a very solid improvement over my previous times. While I made some stupid mistakes in Ancient 4 and the Ancient Boss, the only major mistakes in this run are in Future's 3 and 4, which both went terribly. I'm still really pleased with this time for now though. Here's hoping I get a "no unintentional deaths" run at some point.

Ancient Boss in 013336 - Super Magnetic Neo

Otonyshi 2019-06-19 | Recorded June 19th 2019

Jungle 4 in 004649 - Super Magnetic Neo

Otonyshi 2019-06-19 | From my 42:25 Any% run.
Luckily the bonk near the beginning doesn't matter since I have to wait for the blue swing anyway. Unfortunately it doesn't seem possible to get across the gap without it.

Recorded June 19th 2019

Jungle 2 in 005906 - Super Magnetic Neo

Otonyshi 2019-06-19 | Recorded June 19th 2019

Pinko Boss in 020851 - Super Magnetic Neo

Otonyshi 2019-06-19 | From my 42:25 Any% run.
Missed the first hit only for it to give me an IL PB thanks to seeing the faster laser attack again, replacing one of the slightly longer attacks at the end. アリエンテ!
Time is from the last frame before the timer disappears.

Recorded June 19th 2019

Future Boss in 012470 - Super Magnetic Neo

Otonyshi 2019-06-19 | Recorded April 18th 2019

Future 4 in 010867 - Super Magnetic Neo

Otonyshi 2019-06-19 | I don't dislike this level as much as Future 3, but the grind to get this time was even longer. Was worth it though, very pleased with this.

Recorded June 18th 2019

Future 3 in 015803 - Super Magnetic Neo

Otonyshi 2019-06-19 | This level. Never again.

Recorded June 18th 2019

Future 2 in 011051 - Super Magnetic Neo

Otonyshi 2019-06-19 | Recorded April 18th 2019

Future 1 in 010589 - Super Magnetic Neo

Otonyshi 2019-06-19 | Recorded April 18th 2019

Cowboy Boss in 004192 - Super Magnetic Neo

Otonyshi 2019-06-18 | Managed to figure out how to make this potato boy fairly consistent and much faster. This attempt went pretty much perfectly: 3 hits from first batch to avoid longer attacks that start from the 4th hit, get all 4 hits from the second batch and die off of him to freeze the timer as fast as possible. The hard part is having the positioning and movement to pull it off consistently.

Recorded April 18th 2019

Cowboy 4 in 011141 - Super Magnetic Neo

Otonyshi 2019-06-18 | Found and implemented 2 new risky IL strats in this one: Jumping across the lava using a very precise dash jump to a blue pad, and avoiding having to wait for the meteors to explode on the pillars.

I bonked at 0:44, but I don't think it mattered based on the red swing's cycle afterwards.

Recorded June 18th 2019

Cowboy 3 in 012730 - Super Magnetic Neo

Otonyshi 2019-06-18 | I love riding carts with mag nits

It's the most fun you can possibly have

on your dreamycasta

Recorded April 18th 2019

Cowboy 2 in 013456 - Super Magnetic Neo

Otonyshi 2019-06-18 | Recorded April 18th 2019

Cowboy 1 in 005556 - Super Magnetic Neo

Otonyshi 2019-06-18 | Recorded April 18th 2019

Ancient 1 in 005486 - Super Magnetic Neo

Otonyshi 2019-06-17 | Got an accidental new PB right after uploading the 56"56 earlier today, so I grinded this a bit and somehow managed to get sub 55!

Recorded June 17th 2019

Ancient 4 in 011067 - Super Magnetic Neo

Otonyshi 2019-06-17 | Would've been perfect if I jumped properly at the end, but still really nice.

Recorded June 16th 2019

Ancient 3 in 010065 - Super Magnetic Neo

Otonyshi 2019-06-17 | This level is the only altered level between the Japanese and international releases. There's a very precise momentum-based jump you need to do off of a mummy enemy's head towards the end of the JP version, whereas you just go straight to the next platform in the other releases, saving around 2 or more seconds. Here's a comparison of the change: twitter.com/Otonyshi/status/1117214575340998661

Sub 1 minute is doable on JP, and super doable on other versions assuming the load and retry cycles are the same.

Recorded April 18th 2019

Ancient 2 in 010688 - Super Magnetic Neo

Otonyshi 2019-06-17 | Managed to beat my super lucky 1'07 that I got in an Any% PB. I wanted to see if the slot machine goes by some sort of global timer in the level, and in both the 1'07 and this run, I went for the blue lever between 21"50 - 22"00, and the red lever between 22"25 - 22"50. Not sure if it's actually predictable, will need to test it further.

Recorded June 16th 2019