This YouTuber challenged me to a blindfolded speedrun race

​@jaidenanimations triple dog dared me to race her in Rhythm Heaven. This will be her last mistake.
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[@aussiejo5764]

Pretty funny to watch Jaiden’s chat have a civil war over “grr she swore” and “grr she can swear if she wants” when they’re watching a goddamn blindfolded rhythm game

[@dahomie253]

You got a time stamp? Cause that sounds pretty funny ngl

[@LoudWaffle]

The standards women creators are held to sometimes is just wild. Too many people wanting a waifu instead of simply a human entertainer.

[@pippapup7644]

@@LoudWaffle I think it's moreso Jaiden has never sworn in a video for such a long time and only recently she has started to swear. Personally I don't mind it but I would see why it would be jarring for some people.

[@kingseawolf1013]

@@pippapup7644 She still doesn’t swear in videos, she just said that for live steams she not going to hold back swear words

[@tigerelly6778]

Hehe

[@thespeedyyoshi]

My favorite part of the video is chat Constantly hyping CJ up about being ahead knowing full well he’s blindfolded

[@ItsChiliP]

Yeah

[@rjgentry4737]

Chat only nice when no one can see. If a chat is nice when no one is around, are they really nice? 😂

[@malcolmali915]

Mine is when cj said "its speedrunning time" and speedrunned all over the place

[@midnightblast8401]

@@malcolmali915 real

[@Calmtimer]

Rhythm Heaven: *Implements visual distractions in the games* Blindfolded players: "Imma pretend I didn't see that"

[@m4rcyonstation93]

pretend?

[@michaelamazingtrickshots8201]

@@m4rcyonstation93 "Imma not see that"

[@Shizuzuka]

"I didn't see that"

[@errorshift.chara.]

See what?

[@EverTheFractal]

Rip that one person in Jaidens chat who was asking her to answer their question saying she "ignored" the last one. Bless their dumbass soul

[@Grace.24647]

And that poor person who said, "JAIDEN WHY ARENT YOU ANSWERING CHAT". Gee, I wonder.

[@-BubblyArt-]

Jaiden can have a pretty strange chat lmao. They keep telling her to not curse even tho it’s her stream. And some don’t even care about what’s going on and just spam in chat hoping that she notices.

[@EverTheFractal]

@@-BubblyArt- for real, I wish people like that wouldn't infantalise female streamers.

[@jacksonsmith2955]

@@EverTheFractal i don't know how much of it is infantilizing female streamers and how much of it is a large portion of her viewers being infants themselves who are only used to her very family friendly main channel

[@livinghuman2085]

@@jacksonsmith2955 some female/male streamers,be too much family friendly in their channel,and cuz of that audience thinks that they re like this everywhere. And when they be rude/swear,their brain explozin like,WHAT SHE SWEARED??? IMPOSSBIEL!!!!!!!!!!

[@patrickwerner4723]

The contrast of CJs timer being the run time and Jaidens being how long she has to be live for is funny

[@milkncookiesmoon]

Misread this as “Jaiden being as long as she has to live” and was concerned

[@dreamacus5338]

Thank God I'm not the only one who misread this 😅

[@PumpFansMain]

​@@milkncookiesmoon same

[@zacharynguyen7286]

hope everyone doing good and staying safe. If you need to talk to someone or need help, there are people who care. Sending support and hearts. ❤❤❤

[@pengil3]

Can’t believe I also misread it. That makes 4.

[@ElleTGC]

14:09 "I hope you're cheering for me" Everyone in chat: BA BUM BUM BUM

[@Kaal_do_Olaak]

But it's so catchy BA BUM BUM BUM

[@ScoopedKiwis]

BA BUM BUM BUM

[@ElleTGC]

BA BUM BUM BUM

[@blazcol_5046]

BA BUM BUM BUM

[@linorder22]

BA BUM BUM BUM

[@evangraham55]

Watching jaiden fail at working dough 2 in real time was brutal

[@evangraham55]

Also cyja love watching your streams man such good content

[@dakaramotto.]

WD II was never hard for me but it is for like the whole community lol😂

[@SmolGhost13]

I joined the stream right as Jaiden was starting Working Dough, It definitely was brutal!

[@duane6386]

She could’ve skipped it but she didn’t

[@louisfronda]

@@duane6386 what do you mean she could've skipped it, the challenge is to literally beat everything in at least Okay

[@MapleV2]

I died at the game saying "You seemed lost in the quiet bits"

[@silverthecatastrophic5270]

You miss literally one and it's like "You seemed completely fucking lost when it got quiet"

[@RadikAlice]

The fact this is so possible (familiarity aside) is a testament to Rhythm Haven's outstanding sound design

[@funnyyoshi]

It's kinda funny that Jaiden at the beginning thought they were going for all Superbs and the first race was wasted.

[@Rikrobat]

Working Dough 2 having a fail condition based on one note is so brutal.

[@Der-Roni]

this is the same as build to scale 2 on the ds version, when it got dark for a second, when you missed that note then its game over, restart.

[@CinnaSwirls]

At first I thought *only* Okay was allowed, and that sounds like it would be hilarious, to have to restart because you did too well. Idea for the future maybe?

[@Agnes.Nutter]

I also thought this, and when Jaiden got a Superb on the first game and was wondering if she got it perfect, I was like “oh no does she not remember the terms?? if you get better than okay do you have to reset your whole run???”

[@HelloKitty-iq8tt]

That’s what I thought too

[@Gecksity]

I mean it’s actually faster to get only okays

[@CinnaSwirls]

@@Gecksity How? If you accidentally get a Superb you'd have to start from the beginning. Doing well doesn't make it take longer, it's a rhythm game. Each challenge is always the same length each and every time.

[@sponsoredbywalmart]

@@CinnaSwirlsgetting only okays removes the "go for a perfect" notifications in between minigames

[@narwhallord4267]

After watching RT Game play this, it's nice seeing people who are actually GOOD play.

[@amentrison2794]

lmaooo poor RT

[@the1andonlyb3ta88]

You didn't have to do him like that 😭😭

[@Razsac]

They used to call him the rythm king back in college, you don't even know

[@meganmaaooo]

haha yea man watching him was youtube

[@wholeftmybagels]

don't do rt like that bro😔😭

[@novabren7260]

I love the fact that the subathon timer hit like 120 hours and hasn't gotten any lower in the last like 20 days

[@vixprior9733]

Jaiden's been going for like a month now

[@flippinfloppin]

I'm so glad to see both of them struggling on working dough 2. Makes me feel like all the time I spent struggling through that level was valid lmao

[@Mystic_Sky381]

Props to the editor for those seamless time skips

[@spritethedragon5227]

Indeed, but also a lot of the skips were jarring, because they happened just I was jamming out to the songs, so I would be expecting the next notes sequentially in a given song to happen, and then it would just end. It was kind of funny, too

[@Mimi-fp3sl]

Considering Jaiden was so stressed speedrunning this game the first time, I'm glad she could still have fun playing.

[@draconiskittensweetie9765]

Not on Working Dough 2 she couldn't LOL that one was ROUGH for both of thrm

[@MushKinPuff]

Crazy that this is a highlight video for a Jaiden Animations stream that, at the time of uploading, is still going on.

[@bunnyboo9097]

Aww, I wish you included the part where Jaiden didn't realize you were going for Okays and thought you were doing Superbs.

[@CSmyth-]

I feel like this is probably one of the easiest video games on the planet to play blindfolded. There's a number of minigames in the Rhythm Heaven series which I personally find EASIER when I'm not distracted by the visuals. Samurai Slice and Air Rally in particular try to confuse you with chaotic visual changes and obscuring the screen, but are incredibly straightforward if you just listen to the audio cues.

[@rsking6120]

Yeah, rhythm games as a whole are well-designed for blindfolded gameplay due to the ability to simply rely on your sense of rhythm.

[@CSmyth-]

@@rsking6120 A lot of them I would disagree, classic rhythm games like Guitar Hero, Stepmania, ADOFAI... All require a LOT of memorization. Whereas Rhythm Heaven, it's a BEAUTIFULLY designed game which requires little to no memorization at all. It's all just picking up on cues and properly reacting to things. Not trying to disagree, I do think you're right that rhythm game blindfolded play is WHOLLY different from almost any other genre, but what I meant to highlight was specifically the fact that there's actually a handful of minigames which are actually made easier while blindfolded!

[@Queen_Of_Discord]

The only one that's genuinely more difficult blindfolded is built to scale. Everything else, the difficulty stays the same, if not becomes easier without visuals.

[@givrally7634]

@@Queen_Of_Discord Even built to scale isn't very difficult, the cues always start from the same side. Now built to scale in Remix 3, that one's a challenge.

[@Rikrobat]

@@rsking6120 - Depends on the game. Rhythm Heaven appears to only use a single button or clearly defined buttons for audio cues. Rhythm games that I've encountered (DDR, Melody of Memory, etc.) require you to know which button out of several to push at the right time. The pressing of the buttons is on beat, but unless you have memorized which ones to push, a visual element is needed.

[@Chmmr]

ive heard that blind people play the rhythm heaven games (obviously with some help from a seeing friend for instructions/menuing) so this was pretty cool to see aside from built to scale and working dough, these games actually seem pretty well made with blind people in mind, very cool

[@anomaliecosmos]

I raise you that WD is a Simon Says-type game, so as long as you know what the two input types are you should be able to mimic them blind, they both just struggled with it. BtS is on thin ice (tangent but I hate that it's called that and does not involve scales, DS did it better) but if you think of it as one long sound cue per two widgets, I'm pretty sure it never stops alternating between the long and short. In the remixes it's definitely not guessable blind, though (again, an issue DS BtS does not have, so I'm doubly salty)...

[@McBehrer]

34:58 if you count, it still follows the rhythm. So it's still on the one-AND count of the measure; just keep the tempo of the song, and hit A on the upbeat of the second measure (so count: one and two and three and four and one >AND< and that's when you hit it)

[@CuteCuteJames]

fuckin off-beat-ass eighth notes

[@RyalnS.-ks2ln]

Do you play any instruments? :)

[@McBehrer]

@@RyalnS.-ks2ln yes

[@crandria2001]

A great thing about the rhythm heaven series is that they can even be played blindfolded, many rhythm games you can't.

[@Panroles]

It would be hilarious to watch RT play.

[@hyperhero2]

He has... kzbin.info/www/bejne/mKezfX5tpM1lldE

[@colincrawford5055]

He already did.

[@sonofpears4691]

He couldn’t get any worse with the blindfold in fact it might make him better

[@AlexPies1]

​@@colincrawford5055 they meant specifically blindfolded

[@alandtic4616]

Nah the drift king would be to good

[@Treeko13]

24:05 lol the reference to Jacob being a full 90 degrees from his mic

[@thatzenoguy2577]

It was a triple dog dare, this is serious business.

[@AlexPies1]

CJ said Working Dough is a pretty visual game, and I agree. Working Dough 2 has always been my least favorite game. and it's not because i'm a visual rhythm game player; it's specifically because i'm not. i'm visually impaired, so relying solely on audio cues is tough when they're so wonky already. it was my last perfect by far

[@omlett6482]

29:54 That's like ProZD remembering how Mr. Smee was loading up the boat lmao

[@mooncake8059]

Everyone, get your popcorn and watch some of your favorite KZbinrs suffer from a rhythm game.

[@dakaramotto.]

the best rhythm game 🤩

[@imaginaryboy2000]

"I fear no man, but that thing..." *pink monkies saying "u-ki u-ki-ki* "...it scares me"

[@thelumitesystem3004]

Its hilarious to me that you guys both find bossa nova hard lol, Ive played drums for nearly 10 years now (lessons weekly) and because of this bossa nova is almost second nature to me (I love playing bossa nova)

[@Ringularity]

Love that genre

[@flippinfloppin]

Bossa nova was tricky for me to get the hang of the first few times, but once I got the feel for it I fell so in love with it that I kept going back and replaying it lmao

[@pineappleboi1719]

Jaiden: "Thank *you* for, suggesting we do some rhythm heaven. I'm having a lot of fun!" Me: (looks at title and thumbnail) "NANI?!" 50:54

[@actpianocover6329]

As someone who at least understand music, working dough 2 is the worst to do blindfolded. Barely any cues, off beat notes. So annoying.

[@metalapplesus]

"I wish there was a middle we could be going for" *as he gets "...But still just OK", the middle rating*

[@pacack824]

There's Try Again, OK, Superb, and Perfect. So there's kinda a middle, but only if you remove Perfects from the equation.

[@metalapplesus]

The idea is CJ wasn't counting Try Again or Perfect. "...But Still Just OK" happens if you hit the special inputs that would normally cost the run (like the one Jaiden was stuck on in Working Dough 2) but you still didn't hit enough unimportant inputs. Therefore that is the middle rating.

[@RuneTacticss]

What about a Rhythm Heaven speedrun race but you can't hear instead

[@sunsetskye483]

That would be horrific, they should do it

[@krisiverse]

Rhythm Heaven but with the wrong music

[@flippinfloppin]

@@krisiverse rhythm heaven but every song is a mashup version of the original song

[@luigifan4585]

Would be pretty easy, ngl

[@devinpierce2784]

The original rhythm heaven (possibly this one too I’ve never played it) actually encourages you to do it blind because it’s easier to just keep a beat lol

[@Sawcybui]

Was there for the whole stream. Good job man!

[@MetronaJ]

Monkey watch being easier blind folded will never not be funny to me lol Same with build to scale being hard blindfolded

[@cmyk8964]

Working Dough 2 is ridiculous with visuals and absolutely impossible without.

[@mooncake8059]

Triple dog dare?! Now this, is very very intense.

[@monotonedevelopment]

It warms my heart to hear that Jaiden swears like a normal human being.

[@lauried.bunnykins9063]

i remember making a comment on Jaiden's original video about blindfolded gaming, very happy to see it happen. Working Dough 2 went exactly as expected

[@alexs.7956]

"It makes me wanna... *Fight in a war* " Lmao loved that

[@frenzygaming2963]

This title/thumbnail now means we can call Jaiden a tryhard speedrunner

[@hubhikarilives]

Put Jaiden’s name in the video title, you’re missing out on a few hundred thousand views

[@Miju001]

I got concerned about Working Dough 2 very quickly in this, good to see my concerns were founded lol

[@happydodat1234]

I was There for the whole stream. It was so good keep it up

[@vampire_catgirl]

If you can't tell when you're supposed to go if your eyes are closed, then it isn't a good rhythm game. Music and sound cues should always come before visuals

[@nedcurfman3486]

Editor just skipped both playing Flockstep. The fuck, my guy. And Tap Troupe

[@thefireofthefox1]

Why is Flock Step like the only minigame that didn't get shown? It's my favorite. Does it get copyright claimed or smth?

[@RaffyTaffy14]

The OK only goal ends at 1:18 and goes on to be completely forgotten about

[@TheMultiTasker3]

It'd be interesting to see an actual "OK only" run. Having to redo things because you did TOO good.

[@Wrightword246]

KZbin decided to make the screen blackout after an ad and it was very immersive.

[@ShadowDancer1000]

I’m sad that the Tambourine one is so forgettable it has one of my most favorite themes from the whole game

[@Saiko__TM]

This is fun to listen to. No overreacting and no yelling like when you tried to get 100%

[@corundumkrabble5035]

Bruh

[@diegomastro5681]

The concepts of the vids are nice but holy shit he screams a lot

[@ayelad3096]

cj using a mask as a blindfold will always be funny to me 😭😭😭

[@Do_Re_Midi]

When I first read the title, I thought this was a challenge to only get OKs on each level. Now I get that that means OKs and Superbs and no Try Agains. Was so confused for a sec

[@squidsarecool77]

Omg I was looking for this comment I was wondering what was happening

[@YouriKruijf]

OMG OMG OMG THIS VIDEO IS FINALY OUT I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO IT THX CJ FOR POSTING IT SO FAST

[@galixypawerpack]

Yes

[@isaiahwolff4319]

You forgot to mention that you did a run in which jadian thought you had to get superbs and was crushing you

[@CuteCuteJames]

13:37 My autistic brain really appreciates that smooth edit. I don't care how any other part of the video goes, that edit gets an A+.

[@krystaloftheshores]

Same. I actually like the way this video was edited better than Jaiden’s first speedrun on this, which felt more chaotic and I couldn’t follow what was happening very well as someone who had never heard of or played the game.

[@DerDrBach]

"I heard he is an OK samurai... He hasn't been killed yet"

[@shakinsplays8516]

Jaidens posture is so good and I’m kinda jealous

[@Hiswf_]

A funny bug that happened to me when I played microrow and microrow 2 was that the screen froze and I needed to do the blindly.

[@dakaramotto.]

Did you win?!

[@Hiswf_]

@@dakaramotto. I first tried both superb

[@Eowyn126]

I love rhythm heaven sm, great to see you playing it!

[@Sarah04527]

Almost feels like you guys could have gone for superb instead of okay for the goal!

[@TableSalt_]

See-Saw? More like Can't See-Saw!

[@Thecooldudenoob]

i think this is the only rhythm game i know of that works with a blind fold

[@GM360]

Literally just saw a video uploaded 10 years ago of a guy doing a long thing in this game blindfolded and it was amazing

[@givrally7634]

I'm so glad Rhythm Heaven is getting the resurgence it deserves !

[@shreksballs3070]

Came here bc I love j-anime and her production value, watched bc cj dunked hard. Let's get a rematch! You're both so genuine this video only works because it's you two having fun

[@hoodiesticks]

Actually, J-anime is her vtuber model. On webcam, she's just Jaiden. (I know that was an autocorrect goof, I'm just riffing on it)

[@Gaaraloverr1]

CJ giving Jaiden chances to catch up is so sweet! 💕

[@kieratemp]

I love how they always get surprised when they get a superb 😂

[@bobalinx8762]

2:04 If you listen close enough, you can hear a distinct difference between the two bots.

[@tomodaphne]

Out of all the things CJ did in this video, the most impressive thing was identifying the exact moment where Karate Joe scratches his butt.

[@conman_yt7999]

"This KZbinr" THIS KZbinR DON'T YOU HAVE ANY RESPECT FOR YOUR GODS!?

[@realgoose4246]

Damn i dont think i have ever heard Jaiden swear before

[@Unmustache1]

Monkey watch deserves it

[@byrontheusurper6505]

I didn't know you played this game, hells yeah!

[@Lidia__]

U gotta have a rematch in the future, if it's boring to do the same challenge visuals only might be an idea

[@C_R105]

I loved your last rhythm heaven video. This one was next level

[@AMan-xz7tx]

watching this because jaiden subathon VODs arent saved yet, still going to subscribe tho, great video :)

[@sebiforis8924]

I have spit my drink when Jaden said i couldn't get any of the balls

[@DaniSiegel700]

YAAAY!! Once he said he was borrowing her copy i knew the collab had to happen!!!!

[@Saiko__TM]

You sound very excited about that

[@snifferrr]

@@Saiko__TM ?

[@Saiko__TM]

@@snifferrr My name means "I am a frog" but I wanted to dumb it down

[@colinstanley5261]

Amazing video as always

[@Alg0rhythym]

Unexpected but still great collab

[@silenthydra1913]

I don’t know why, but Jaiden constantly failing on Working Dough 2 was hilarious!

[@acee_lacee]

i feel robbed, we didn't get to hear any wabadubabdub is that true's in ringside.

[@jaymer123]

You do though, during Jaiden’s part

[@The-Determined-Ninja]

Me: Jamming out to _Built to Scale 2_ cjya @36:04: *Such a **_forgettable_** song* ・・・ಥ‿ಥ

[@JayDoesGaming69]

"It becomes hard just because i have to imagine it" CJ 2022

[@flerpybird9175]

Watching this made me realize that Working Dough is literally Rhythm Hell.

[@jammyIsLost]

you should do a rematch but you have to get all superbs this time

[@sledgen.]

The stream was actually so fun to watch, switching between both of them

[@Altamos0023]

Well now I want to see them play the gameboy rhythm heaven game blindfolded That one is my childhood and I love its remix songs especially remix 5, forever a bop in Japanese

[@jackdog06]

Having done blindfolded runs of this game myself, I can say Screwbots 1 and 2 are absolutely the hardest to superb.

[@epikpey]

I can’t get over how many times they get shocked on how they get superb

[@calyx8808]

"I was expecting the 7 one, but it was the 1 one." Little does he know, they're one and the same...

[@shadow_teamvolt3653]

I've seen this video somany times it's just that good of a video

[@ls190v2]

Rhythm Tengoku/Heaven/Paradise is a beautifully aggrivating game.

[@cleffee]

the cut at 48:25 is so fucking funny

[@literallyjustapanda1068]

hey CJ, watching this made me replay an old ps2 game from my childhood called "space channel 5" and i want u suffer like i did, please and thank you

[@legoz2194]

This game is extremely lenient

[@quixxen]

22:42 fun fact, all of the rockets (minus the red one) all take 3 beats to launch! theyre just trying to trick you with silly noises

[@SuperSandwich713]

First frame of the vid you look like you’re about to tell us to stay out your swamp