Pocky & Rocky by d4gr0n in

[@gamesdonequick]

Runner introduction starts at 0:43. Run starts at 2:25. Couch Commentary is provided by Sonicman2005, Cypherin, and RottDawg LLK is the host.

[@Makrillol]

[@DGR_Dave]

This game is incredibly difficult...crazy to see it beat in 20 minutes!!

[@symmetricalpattern3335]

My thoughts exactly

[@toprem4037]

Kinda funny watching Pocky and Rocky being played now, back when I was a kid I didn't know I was fighting a bunch of creatures out of Japanese folklore

[@t0ast_plus_plus]

Nice run! I TAS'd this a few years ago and haven't had much of a chance to mess with it since, so it's great to see some of the latest RTA tech and routing. Getting that many bomb sages (including stage 2!) and successfully dealing with this game's RNG, lag, and input slop is no small feat, so major props to d4gr0n for pulling it off in a marathon setting.

[@5hadax]

Nice! That's one of my favorite TASes too.

[@TigerBoxReviews]

Ah the one game where friendships grew stronger growing up- love it! Hope to see Pocky & Rocky make a comeback! 🥰

[@e11aguru]

"This boss is awful." Boss dies in about one second, lol.

[@5hadax]

It really is awful if you don't have 2 bombs

[@caprese1243]

I mean, he did die in one second, that is pretty awful by boss standards. If they were a normal enemy, I'd understand, but I expect a boss to withstand at least 10 seconds.

[@Krass.Estranged]

Pocky and Rocky is one of the cutest games ever made.

[@apezilla3108]

Very wholesome run! Congrats D4gron!

[@kristoffercoles2689]

Great runner and commentary :)

[@andersonlira1106]

I love this game, thanks for the run

[@Aladato]

One of my childhood games, never got past the octopus boss on level 2 back then lol

[@katbrat30]

omg i forgot this game even existed, used to play it all the time at my babysitter's house! we loved it so much, i never would've thought it wasn't well known

[@ickybobclay26]

Sonic man is one year off of having an unfortunate name. Good run this game looks fun.

[@narv1513]

This was my favourite game as a kid, always wondered what a speedrun would look like. Wow he really makes every boss look like a joke. :O

[@5hadax]

Yup. That's what happens when you win the frame rule for sage manip and get more bombs. Sometimes I'm not so fortunate in my runs which I'm not going to lie, I wish I wasn't so lucky here, just to show off the backup strats I had for some of the fights. Just for you though, here's what the run looks like when I'm on the other end of the luck table. kzbin.info/www/bejne/q2SnhaZmdqyAkLs

[@CTEpoch]

Great run!!!!

[@plainzero7847]

This guy sounds like Bob OdenKirk

[@DrCorndog1]

"Dagron" is the only word Strong Mad knows how to spell.

[@lolindirlink]

gorgeous sprites! how have i never heard of this game? :D

[@mightybatillo]

I used to play this with my father when I was a kid, the game was so hard tho, never could pass lvl 3.

[@5hadax]

Level 3 on co-op is rough. It's so easy to kill your partner just due to the typical reaction to slide due to the moving walls.

[@TheSquareOnes]

Very nice run, that ending was a real butt clencher. Cool to see this game getting some love too, I remember playing this back in the day but haven't heard the name dropped very much since then.

[@4lifejeph]

This game reminds me more of a 90's Sega game rather then a snes game.

[@TwistedBananaProductions]

They censored that Harpy boss in the US version, interesting...

[@kestral63]

They also changed Pocky throwing Japanese charms to playing cards, the devils in the background art of the last stage to mutants, and in some versions threw out all the cutscenes so they wouldn't have to translate them into more languages.

[@Krisipoke]

@@kestral63 I have the European version, and it has all the cutscenes, but without any text.

[@adrenalinex4]

i need to add this game to my ps3

[@DysonCats]

at 5:03 the runner sounds a lot like Bob Odenkirk

[@GrayVMhan]

Or Will Arnett

[@Krisipoke]

What did he mean he already had the max amount of bombs on stage 3? You can have 4, not 3.

[@johng.9144]

He's playing on the Japanese version, and he mentions at 1:23 that "the only major difference [between the Japanese and English versions] is that the bomb cap limit is 3 and not 4".

[@BBrecht]

I didn't know Guile was doing speedruns now

[@Dedware]

magic spell

[@GrumpyIan]

Nice

[@fishbarne]

thought the announcer was MattPat at first

[@_maj3stic239]

man i havent played this game since 1993 omg just made me feel kinda old now -_- (im 32)

[@timbobway3934]

*world war 2 flashbacks of the Japanese invasion on Manchuria while school children sing songs*

[@maximum-oversaiyan]

i could never get past level 3 as a kid. jfc

[@conkercube6509]

wtf? how do you turn into a statue? Great run

[@Graedius]

Hold the melee attack button, and it charges. Once fully charged you can release it to turn into the statue. (If you do this with Pocky, she does a spin attack.)

[@auron570]

Tanooki!~

[@besotoxicomusic]

This game isn’t obscure nor has been for awhile. Don’t know why he makes that claim. Still, great run though.

[@5hadax]

I'll be honest here. I spoke purely from the viewpoint of the game's very slow progression within the speedrunning community itself which for a more known and widespread event such as this from the casual eye, my statement there would obviously come off as very confusing. ProJared's review most certainly did alot to put the game on the map of those less inclined to dig through the massive SNES library for sure. I guess a better comparable for this game would be the game I ran at SGDQ, Rocket Knight Adventures. People know of both games, they have heard of both of them, but neither game has exactly been a popular speed game which I guess shouldn't surprise me.

[@elconocidoglitch8930]

Hey, yo jugaba ese juego

[@Venoseth]

Not a bad video, but the commentary was lacking.