Cheese reacts to Blindfolded SM64 16 Star speedrun by Bubzia at AGDQ2021

[@Bubzia]

Thanks for reacting to my run, I am so glad many people enjoyed the showcase as much as I did!

[@Fuchie]

I wish it was in front of a live crowd. The final Bowser throw would have been massive.

[@cactusman4993]

You have great muscle memory :)

[@Amac_22]

Your insane dude

[@kamehamehaDdragon]

You tha man!

[@brandonmerrithew317]

You are a true inspiration to the community.

[@AzakielRuns]

This is impressive but not as impressive as that guy who did all this without setups and only using his muscle memories!

[@JohnDoe-lp7ge]

his second time even!

[@domlee5902]

yeah it was even crazier how he kept audio notifications on and didn’t use any audio cues just raw talent

[@ngwoo]

@@domlee5902 Hearing anime noises followed by some text to speech messages serves only to improve my perception of sound cues.

[@ki11m3please325]

Did anyone ever see if he tried doing a follow up video? Or did he fall off the face of the earth immediately after ? Lol

[@Nickkkk838]

@@ki11m3please325 I thought he admitted it was faked? I mean, we all know it was faked, but still.

[@calebos268]

man, this guy must have great muscle memory

[@forestschoenrock3040]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@brandonmerrithew317]

Nice

[@Luna_B_8]

He sure does

[@mag_vii]

unrelated to the video, but your pfp looks VERY familiar

[@calebos268]

@@mag_vii stick ranger

[@SrIgort]

Cheese, now you can put in your title "120 stars world record holder reacts to..." xD

[@cheesespeedrunningyt]

u need to be my manager!!

[@red40lvr]

@@cheesespeedrunningyt have you seen dwhatevers KZbin? The videos are really funny

[@Txrje]

@@cheesespeedrunningyt hey woah

[@VegetaLaunchedFinalFlash]

This guy is completly insane at this game.

[@1ProAssassin]

Would be a pain to hav to change all the vids to another title if some1 ever beats the record again.

[@Danielle-yc3mr]

I've been playing this game for 24 years and I'm still trying to get a sub 40 on just catching the fucking rabbit

[@sloosh2188]

...?

[@foNy_]

@@sloosh2188 its a joke

[@LostInTheClouds]

Sub 40 years?

[@robertphelan5885]

he recently got a new pb of 30:30 using a new route and strats, its honestly insane, he also did 31 star in 58:27

[@Luna_B_8]

I love your time codes (I know you're saying times)

[@jazzabighits4473]

Sorry to sound ignorant, but what is 31 star? I thought categories were 0/1/16/70/120?

[@robertphelan5885]

@@jazzabighits4473 in blindfolded there is also 31 and 50 star categories, if u click on extended categories and then blindfolded u can find them

[@Luna_B_8]

@@robertphelan5885 I never heard about both of thes but 31 is probably no mips clip so the 30 star for the door and 1 star for the sub and 50 is probably you open every door as intended but you blj to Bowser in the sky, I might be wrong be I think what I said is correct

[@jazzabighits4473]

@@robertphelan5885 Why do they do that? Do you have a quick explanation? Is it just that those stars are the ones with good setups for blindfolded?

[@cynicalmoose19]

Lol the people in chat complaining about him only using 1 blind fold seem to not realize he's also turned away from the screen lol (you can see it behind him)

[@warpedwhimsical]

It’s possible to display the same video feed on more than one monitor.

[@yte123bbd63]

@@warpedwhimsical the odds of him cheating is very low

[@benedict3974]

@@warpedwhimsical this guy is literally one of the most respected blindfolded speedrunners ever, and if you still don’t believe him he did a 70 star run with 2 blindfolds at SGDQ and all the things he does are all blindfolded strats anyone can do with enough practice

[@warpedwhimsical]

@@benedict3974 I know, I’m saying as a general statement for people who didn’t know that, the fact alone that someone turns away from a screen is not proof they haven’t cheated. Obviously Bubzia is not cheating

[@benedict3974]

@@warpedwhimsical ah that makes sence, sorry for my stupidity!

[@Alex64AS]

It’s nice to see a legit time by a well respected and amazing player after the whole scandal.

[@woohoo7632]

Ooo

[@woohoo7632]

Ooo

[@KevdogsGymProgress]

he plays better blindfolded than i do regulary

[@xPandora__]

i like putting my mouse pointer where cheese has his on screen so it is like we are holding hands

[@MyoneArkz]

Wtf

[@DrBlueHigh]

*Mmm yes, holding mouse cursors, the most romantic of activities*

[@PixalonGC]

holy shit I wheezed at this

[@bellystraw]

I can't imagine the stress of getting a world record where you have a hard time even seeing when you messed up. These dudes who run the blindfold category are next level as fuuuck

[@Fusiondude]

Seeing a man who has held the WR in this game(not blindfolded) being amazed at what this guy is doing blindfolded, just shows you how hard Blindfolded speedrunning really is.

[@siffumetsu271]

I think he said at one point that cheese said he can't even get 1 star blindfolded

[@DrGandW]

@@siffumetsu271 He said he tried and it took him hours to get 3 pf the easiest stars

[@chuckwellington3307]

I thought he did those head movements to count reliably. It's easy to lose track of how fast you're counting but it's very easy to keep a rhythm when you bop your head to it like "1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5"

[@austinhall3937]

6:47 Cheese takes any chance he can to be on bottom.

[@matheusnucci]

One of the most unbelievable speedruns i've ever seem. just CRAZY

[@TomtomTM1]

The only thing I have to add, besides the fact that the run was insanely amazing - I am not sure if this does in fact play a role in all of this, but it is known that the hearing sense is much more precise compared to the visual, so I COULD IMAGINE that the last throw was so insanely good specifically because of him training to listening to when to throw. Which, if you think about, is absolutely bonkers, he just turned Mario into a rythm game. Nice.

[@WillisPStyles1]

“YEP CLOCK” from chat got a literal lol from me.

[@JustADerpfisk]

The commentator says that you cannot rely on purely muscle memory in this run... Pfffft, not a real blindfolded runner, clearly.

[@julianarnott5184]

You are correct.

[@leons.kennedy1571]

I watched this when it first happened, but I’ll watch again to see the world record holder in the most well-respected category in the game react to it! This run is insaaaaannnneeeeeee

[@bradwurst8141]

This dude would have been such a HUGE hit if gdq was irl

[@benedict3974]

I don’t think he could do it IRL because of all the sound

[@Highskill3r]

@@benedict3974 he probably can do it now.. at least 16 stars.. he improved so much ever since then. i watched his whole 120 star it was amazing

[@benedict3974]

yeah think he also did it once, but with noice cancelling headphones which I just didnt think about@@Highskill3r

[@Andoxico]

I think the head bobbing is because he isn't necessarily using the music for audio *cues* but more as for a rhythm - as if he were playing an instrument. For moments where timing is critical you can't react to an audio cue because there will always be a delay. You have to anticipate it by knowing what beat of the song it comes at and head bobbing is a great way of keeping time with the music.

[@brians.2259]

I have not subscribed to a Channel so quickly in a really long time, love you bud

[@coolnoah8183]

My guy beats a game blindfolded in 40 minutes that it would take me days to compleye sighted

[@calvinbowman3289]

The end of this made me feel like we just landed on the moon! Holy damn that was insane

[@normanderi]

someone may say he kinda fail some stars, by missing the star by a little, man for me is crazy enough he doesnt fail 2 second into anything, being close to take a star or having a fast back up is simply incredible

[@Schoko4craft]

I actually love the donation announcement

[@jameztrainwreck2681]

Omfg that was amazing to watch. I couldn't have done it without the guy explaining the strategy in the background though, I needed that. Otherwise I'm just watching someone play Mario Eventhougj I know there's so much more to it than I realize, it's not something my brain can appreciate. However with the explanations I can see how much effort but also how clever these ideas were, ontop of the dedication it must take to learn this so well, with no reward in it other than your own goal achieved. It's pure. I loved this run. That guy is unreal.

[@Luna_B_8]

Around 20:00 there's a bit of delay between his game and the stream so sometimes you see him jamming but he's further on his game

[@PeytonBirbal]

Cheese "new subscriber" sound at 4:46 lol

[@miserablebrian]

I'm 33 years old and to this day I've still never even beat this game even normally.

[@itsmarshallll2600]

You've missed something! ;)

[@TheRedRaven_]

I did when sm64 first dropped, collected every star just because I wanted to unlock Yoshi on the castle. The hardest levels were the tick tock clock ones, I think it's called rainbow road? I nearly broke my controller.

[@OEDODRAGON]

13:32 There's a secret tunnel?!!

[@josecastilleo8425]

He's syncing his movements with the music to know exactly when he should perform them.

[@Railbird_]

As if it wasn't painfully obvious just yet this only further shows just how insanely fake that other "blind" run was.

[@JohnDoe-vx9bo]

What's crazy is he revamped his entire strategy for each star in his 120 star video....which is insane.....

[@GiordanoBruno42]

I think there should be a category for blindfolded speedruns with a Co-runner who can see the screen, with them providing vocal feedback. Kind of like a co-driver in rally

[@adamspeiser6449]

This was such a good recording to show us. Amazing!

[@XxdrummerdudexXx]

I just noticed his TV is behind him. Thats just insane

[@MedRaajya]

Not only he's blindfolded, he's not even facing the tv, this guy is insane

[@StickFiguresMaster]

Mario 64 is the only Nintendo game that I’ve ever seen get so many changes, recreations, fixes, restorations, functions added, tweaks, custom music added…. So many KZbinrs accumulated way over 100 rom hacks big and small, there is so many videos on this game both for the game itself and the rom hacks, we have it given all these fixits where we’ve given it 3D glasses functionalities, we’ve given it a emulator and pc port, we found the disk version of it for the N64DD, we recovered it’s test maps that were from the Gigaleak’s fixed source codes, we found Luigi and beta items, enemies that were erased from the games memory, the debug menu would normally direct you with the glitch area names to certain places in the game but we fixed the font, we can edit the messages that pop up, sign messages, we recreated the enemies or we recolored them, gave them different functionalities, we have so many speed runs, we have the beta of super Mario 64 actually found with its sprites on the Mario wiki, we have made so many changes, so many tweaks, covers, revisions for Mario 64 and something like Mario kart 64 only ever got to be found out to have have a beta but very small bits of it have been documented, we have gameshark codes known that it could work with, but that’s about it for that game and that’s a;so the same for 90+ percent of Nintendo’s games for all the other consoles they made. Miamoto wants Mario 64 to be remembered as much as it can ever be, the iQue, it’s 4 language release roms, it’s own fixed blj rom, Nintendo switch… Mario 64 is quite the invention of Nintendo’s, that will be remembered even in the 22nd century and further on because look at this, look at all of this continuous activity being shown and provided for this 20 year old game.

[@andrewut7ya511]

Pretty cool, id like to see cheeze do a blinfolded reaction to this.

[@andrewut7ya511]

I watched the whole thing blindfolded, didnt seem too hard from what i could see.

[@LordGopu]

And to think the actual WR for this is 15 minutes faster: 24:03. That's only 10 minutes faster than the actual 16 star WR.

[@browdy4025]

Now imagine this guy without the blindfold. His very presence gets him every star.

[@edwintorres2530]

“What do you call those people that do things?” I love you, cheese!

[@Cronoistight]

I'm not a fan of SM64 but I stay following Cheese; Cheese is so humble and talented in that I appreciate there can be an actual breakdown and also this man is just upper echelon and can help me filter through the jokes and chokes and let me know what actual runs I should pay attention to. If you are reading this much love, brother. Keep doing you!

[@OEDODRAGON]

19:32 I think he nodded because of the music, but also he knew he got the star. If you look behind him at his screen, you can see it is a little ahead of time than the main view of the game we are watching (so basically, our view is slightly delayed).

[@OEDODRAGON]

Forgot to mention, probably timing how long it should take to hit the star. If he misses it he'd know.

[@Jaime_Protein_Cannister]

Majority of games are basically rythym exercises in 3d space. Fighting games in particular are the closest to musical performance.

[@brandonmerrithew317]

NGL. I have so much PTSD from SimpleFlips' green demon series, when he collected the one up on Whomp's star I thought the run was over.

[@MDSF90]

Dude has the clutch gene! Incredible job!!

[@cesarv7685]

30:30 I was about to ask how tf can he see where he's going, and then I'm like "Oh yeah... He's blind."

[@TheZeldaHeart]

So happy I finally found your KZbin Channel, love your content Cheese!!

[@NoNHacks]

cant believe this is even possible, thats crazy talent

[@Theuser506]

We were the first 4 legends to see this video

[@mikeydflyingtoaster]

Can't believe this was technically his third attempt!

[@francoisrobidoux7003]

for the head bobbing it is a bit like a drummer counting the beat to keep in time like 19:40 he kick the wall then fall and start bobin to count when to switch the camera, like the drummer doing a fill and getting back on the beat

[@breakerboy365]

last bowser world reminds me of TAS runs where the runners dont care about the camera and play perfectly anyway

[@samanthachurch5988]

This is absolutely insane! He is a legend!

[@LeoKoyote64]

18:05 im not sure if the commentator was TRYING to sound like Kermit the Frog, but he did

[@supersaiyankingvegeta8544]

at 17:00 I ACTUALLY USED THAT STRAT AS A KID WHEN I PLAYED N64 Mario, well not blindfolded but i played vs bowser using that bowser tail strat cause it looked cheeky

[@WillSimoni]

Why did he make a face before he fell off the slide at 13:01? There was so sound cue

[@CommissarTails]

I like how in the face cam you see the TV in the background so you know he's not looking.

[@kimitzuni-speedruns]

Alternative Title : Cheese gets anxiety from SM64 16 Star Blindfolded

[@JohnDoe-vx9bo]

Yo, Cheese. I love your speedruns first of all. Paying my due respects. Also you probably have already seen it, but he also did a 120 star run blindfolded as well. It's a super long video, but it's a must see.

[@tamashi2006]

dude cheese looked so offended when he backflipped into bits lmao

[@crimsonsakura2184]

6:16 - I haven't played the game once but i watch some speedrun videos. This trick looks INSANE when done by a blindfolded person.

[@vortexoku5570]

It’s justcrqzy howbig the difference is in this run and the fake run! So much respect for bubzia💪🏼❤️

[@stonedgoku9k966]

Honestly Bowser throws are the craziest shit

[@PasteGames]

Literally never beat Super Mario 64 and he does it blindfolded faster than I can get 1 star. I’m not crying you are :(. CONGRATS BUBZIA!!

[@jerielc709]

Bro fr i picked up mario 64 because i thought it seemed fun and relatively easy to pick up as a side thing but nah it's so hard. I always respected speedrunners and their skill but now that I've actually played the game (for the first time in 10+ years) my respect has multiplied like 10x

[@jms214az]

CHICKEN IN THE CORN SAY THE CORN CANT GROW MAMA HEY..... 🤣🤣🤣

[@tombell000]

Great way of explaining the audio queues is if anyone (I’m going to assume EVERYONE) has ever played geometry dash, you know you can do that first level by listening to the beats in the music

[@somethinghippos]

honestly just the fact he can get any stars at all is mind boggling let alone 16 XD

[@SaithMasu12]

Blindfolded is absolutly nuts

[@daviemerim25]

There should be some kind of vibration and bumping sounds on the control whenever Mario walks in certain terrains. It's easy to know when he's in water for example.

[@jboero7854]

This shows me that some people have superpowers

[@ej0117]

Another awesome speedrun to check out is Nobori56's Blindfolded 16 Star run in 24m and 03s. It's a really cool run to watch.

[@RoseQuartz692]

I Heard by Bubzia that he beat that

[@ej0117]

@@RoseQuartz692 really? I'll have to check it out then!

[@RoseQuartz692]

@@ej0117 he said it too me on Discord

[@Jopa353]

thats basicly me playing but not blindfolded lol

[@obinator3486]

I choose to belive Cheese reacts the way he does to 39:22 because he takes great offense to diagonal backflips

[@LashNSmash]

okay, that penguin dive grab kinda sick.

[@Gamerlife234]

That's impressive and all but my eyes when he pulled up light themed youtube when it was pitch black my eyes were scorched.

[@RobbinvdBor]

Saw his new PB 31 star run the day before! So awesome!

[@Mister_Clean]

The end was absolutely insane What

[@akgamer1825]

I know a guy who should start doing blindfolded speedruns of this. I'm not sure if you've heard of him. His name is TAS

[@jeffreyzilla]

I'm genuinely curious if using sound queues for Bowser throws is easier than visual queues in a normal run given how bad I am at visual based timing.

[@colegaming1411]

Whoever put sponsored by cheese is a legend

[@Llnstead]

They mentioned he uses a gamecube controller in this run, during the CCM slide star. Which got me thinking, how would Mario speedrunners feel about people creating their own notches into their controllers like Melee players do?

[@VegetaLaunchedFinalFlash]

Take a shot each time Cheese says "bump his head"

[@RussyPopDnD]

This run was so fucking hype

[@TaIathar]

"vvvvvv whatever that is" -Cheese 2021

[@davidjsaul]

I'd love to see Cheese react to Bubzia's 120 star blindfolded run.

[@kayscritic]

congrats on the WR

[@filipisotter5114]

That dude reading donations sounds like an off brand voiceover pete

[@garakain3126]

don’t care if you’re a god teach me the diving-little-pinguin tech

[@chanceneck8072]

Plot twist: YOU DIDN'T START YOUR TIMER!!! 😅😂

[@라마현명한]

No Darkmode is already not legally allowed. But me watching this at 3am makes it even worse

[@Luna_B_8]

He's better than me with a blindfold when I'm (not) wearing one xD

[@cafe9926]

mario was a rhythm game all this time

[@mr.gallegos2238]

Let's be honest, all of us though that the next title of a Cheese video, would start in "World Record holder reacts to..."

[@turtlemanman8276]

my mans recorded this video at 4 am

[@sebastianvargasfernandez6424]

even seeing normally I can't do the rabbid glitch :,(

[@GabrimoonPlay]

trying to watch cheese on my mother's side is constantly trying to avoid OH GOWD

[@ZeronXenixal]

The announcer sort of sounds like Kermit the Frog when he is reading donations.