How Many Beads Does It Take To Beat Kirby's Epic Yarn?

[@Ofxzh]

Kirby’s epic yarn was actually the first Kirby game that I played. I didn’t even know who any of the characters were while I was playing.

[@Laoise-m6j]

That's a great Kirby game to start on, it's so cute!

[@StarlightNkyra]

Same, actually! It's such a noalstalgic game for me. It's probably one of the reasons I love kirby so much.

[@Electrosa]

This might be against the spirit of the challenge as you laid it out, but a lot of beads can be avoided by playing in two-player mode and jumping off each other's heads! This game REALLY wasn't balanced around the fact that having two players basically gives you a double jump, especially with the fact that you can instantly put player 2 away with the angel helper to avoid them collecting beads in your wake.

[@SuperStarDeluxe-r5y]

That's what I was thinking.

[@LunaHowBoutPoona]

@@SuperStarDeluxe-r5yyou can get infinite height by mashing 1 on both controllers very fast

[@SuperStarDeluxe-r5y]

I never knew that.

[@Faniwa828]

​ @SuperStarDeluxe-r5y It's kinda hard to do but it's very OP lol

[@decayingfairy3996]

This is true, but you also need to be able to recollect and beads dropped w angel

[@meme__supreme3373]

Pretty sure Squashini is just a portmanteau of squash and Houdini

[@blue_knot]

OOOOOHHHHHH that makes sense!!

[@kennyholmes5196]

31:40 It's not that fight specifically. It's every fight. You just happened to have no beads on the ground at the end in all of the other fights because they despawned first.

[@asdq495]

31:50 It's been a while since I played this game, but I think you could avoid the beads here by doing extra damage cycles on the boss until it stops dropping beads, then landing the final hit.

[@RedButterflyOfDoom]

That is indeed the case

[@aedaniammx7559]

I think you MIGHT actually be able to shake the 500 beads from Meta Knight? I could be wrong, but I believe that bosses contain a set amount of beads, meaning that if you hit them enough times, they’ll stop ejecting beads. I don’t know if it takes from their bead total when they despawn, but if it does, then you could theoretically just hit Meta Knight until he stops making beads, THEN deal the final blow

[@Earthwyrm.]

Kirby's epic yarn is soooo nostaligic for me, me and my twin used to play this and return to dreamland on the wii for HOURSSSS ❤️

[@angzarrpsyco]

I feel like the lost beads recollecting rule is weird, I would have just had it be that if the bead count goes down in game, it does not reduce the True bead counter. I imagine it was to make it more interesting though and to make things simpler since you would only have to tally everything up by looking at the end of the level rather than going through the whole playthrough of a level

[@CamTheGalaxy]

If I had to guess it was probably less for the challenge and more for the ease of knowing the amount, since there’s a bead count at the end of the level but it’s only on hand beads so pair that with different bead sizes having different amounts it’s probably just easier to rely on the end of level counter

[@angzarrpsyco]

@@CamTheGalaxy That's fair

[@theworfer27]

True but I thought the damage boosting was a cool trick

[@GigaOtomia]

In Blub Blub Ocean, you could've dodged the beads from the blocks you destroyed while Kirby was a dolphin. As you saw, the beads were affected by gravity. You could've just destroyed more blocks, since they don't let you smash straight on through - hitting them gives you a little bit of a stun.

[@Flad077]

Bro your editing is really good, and also the challenge you did so far were very interesting. Keep it up

[@blue_knot]

Thanks a bunch! I do appreciate it!!

[@angzarrpsyco]

Kirby Epic Peak? Subscribing just for this . . . I know this is a single challenge run but you don't see anyone do videos of Epic Yarn

[@RedButterflyOfDoom]

Ditto

[@sirsquidpotato3027]

for the meta knight boss (just like every boss), if you deal extra damage throughout the fight without actually moving on to the next phase, the boss eventually stops dropping beads, so you can do the final blow with no beads on the ground for the game to automatically pick up

[@antdueler]

Just commenting to show my support - great video! I love weird challenges like this, "low percent" and adjacent challanges in particular are so interesting bc you have to try to avoid things that the developers fully intended you to collect, which can result in some very interesting pathing lol

[@SCoreReMake]

I would love a video about Epic Yarn's development :p (I've read the Iwata Asks interview, but there are probably more interesting factoids about the game) I appreciate title-ing this a "minimum beads" challenge instead of "can you beat the game without beads" since let's honest, if it was the latter the challenge would technically have to end at the first level and the video would just proceed as a minimum bead challenge anyways :[] Anyways, I like the video! The challenge is interesting to watch and the commentary is entertaining :)

[@vincentsissom4180]

...I cannot believe this is only your second video on this channel. Awesome challenge.

[@xxlliex]

Epic Yarn defined my childhood 😭 this was my favourite

[@thebananaspeedruns9275]

You should try this again with Extra epic yarn as well as Jumpless for both versions of epic yarn

[@phictionofgrandeur2387]

If you get enough beads in a boss level, usually around 2k or more, you unlock a bonus level... those are completely ignored by this challenge naturally.

[@Karma-vo7bq]

Underrated challenge KZbinr discovered

[@blue_knot]

I’ve got more brewin’ too! 😁

[@sapphireaurora9634]

This game has been one of my top 10 favorite games of all times. I grew up playing it, watching playthroughs and it was the only Kirby game I played until return to Dreamland deluxe. I'm tempted to do my own low bead run now

[@rainsparks29]

Great video! Epic Yarn is one of my favourite games ever. Both for childhood nostalgia but also because I think it's SO well designed, and still holds up today - way too slept on by the Kirby community. Thanks for bringing it some spotlight :)

[@justindijk7726]

LOVE that someone did a challenge for this gem of a game

[@TheOtherOTHERERER]

Glad to see this channel upload again. Watched the previous one and lost it cause I fell asleep before I could sub. Btw, might wanna make a small stock pile of videos to upload to make the algorithm give a little more love to ya. Makes people more likely to stay and sub too.

[@YungMecha]

Solid vid, knew this challenge would be a wild one Now the word "bead" sounds alien to me LMAO

[@nuclearwaffle3606]

This game was part of my childhood!! I even attempted to get into speedrunning it a while back. To have this show up in my feed just gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling.

[@Rwarasaurus-2001Kitten]

Epic yarn is literally my most cherised game i grew up on it and its what made me play games in general i tryely love all epic yarn conntent ahhhhhhg

[@syweb2]

Just gotta say that your voice and commentary/editing style are really suited to this game!

[@hal6568]

I think it would be cool to see you try all the bonus levels too after a bit bc i can imagine going back in May cause some burnout

[@Xaaaach]

Challenge video aside, Epic Yarn is absolutely part of the canon. The game after this one was Return to Dreamland. WHERE DO YOU THINK THEY’RE RETURNING FROM??? COINCIDENCE?!?!?! I 👏 THINK 👏 NOT 👏👏👏👏

[@HavocWulf]

Beautifully composed video! Was very entertaining to watch

[@RedButterflyOfDoom]

19:58 you might be able to break all the orange blocks and let the beads sink to avoid collecting them. Although I don't remember how big Dolphin's hitbox is

[@lasercraft32]

This game is so nostalgic to me.

[@XenoChron2]

Second video and you are already killing it.

[@Beepboop12402]

Your voice and personality reminds me so much of scruffy and its so relaxing (including the musical background too i guess)

[@blue_knot]

Thanks dude! I’ve always HATED my voice, so to know other people find it enjoyable makes me a little less self-conscious about it! 😁

[@Hat_Wearing_Snatcher]

@@blue_knotVoice is nice, really, and I’m coming out of what, 1h 30m of hearing it? I know that hearing your own voice is always strange (and I’m in the same boat, I don’t like mine), but it’s definitely far from bad (in whichever way you may not like it)

[@redthree6592]

Dammit, I thought of this challenge too, and was thinking about uploading a video on it for the longest time, but you beat me to the punch. I feel compelled to list my best beadless scores for each level. I tried to find a Reddit for this, so I could share it with other people who know what they are doing. (Note 1: The first number is the AMOUNT of beads I collect, as in the number shown on the streak. The second number is the WORTH of the beads, which is what blueknot kept track of.) (Note 2: I have played the other two levels in each world just to see what the minimum bead count is, even though I know you can't actually play them in a run like this.) (Note 3: I haven't kept track of boss scores) Patch Castle: 13, 48 Fountain Gardens: 10, 190 Flower Fields: 0, 0 Rainbow Falls: 0, 0 Big-Bean Vine: 0, 0 Mole Hole: 0, 0 Weird Woods: 0, 0 Pyramid Sands: 2, 6 Lava Landing: 34, 34 Cool Cave: 11, 15 Dino Jungle: 0, 0 Dusk Dunes: 9, 55 Toy Tracks: 9, 33 Mushroom Run: 2, 10 Sweets Park: 1, 5 Melody Town: 8, 12 Cocoa Station: 6, 60 Dark Manor: 9, 17 Splash Beach: 2, 10 Blub-Blub Ocean: 0, 0 Secret Island: 21, 38 Deep-Dive Deep: 4, 20 Boom Boatyard: 0, 0 Fossil Reef: 0, 0 Snowy Fields: 7, 7 Cozy Cabin: 12, 32 Mt. Slide: 0, 0 Frosty Wheel: 72, 295 Frigid Fjords: 15, 110 Evergreen Lift: 0, 0 Future City: 58, 186 Tube Town: 33, 193 Mysterious UFO: 10, 60 Stellar Way: 0, 0 Moon Base: 29, 160 Outer Rings: 0, 0 Tempest Towers: 29, 145 Cloud Palace: 1, 5 Battleship Halberd: 0, 0 I haven't tried Whispy's Forest, Castle Dedede, or Meta Melon Isle yet, but I'm working on it. Sorry for the long comment, but I wanted to let everyone know what I know.

[@sealbf55]

10:30 WRONG. those are stalactites cus they fall from the ceiling :) also i jest i jest. its so nice to see a challenge video on kirbys epic yarn, its one of my all time favourite games. supremely underrated channel

[@blue_knot]

oh you silly jester, you!

[@silvics8668]

A KIRBYS EPIC YARN CHALLENGE!! IM SO HAPPY I LOVE THIS GAME

[@naomilastname]

I love challenges like this because it reminds me of when I would tell Dora to go the wrong way as a child.

[@jacketofdiamonds]

Nice video! I'd be interested to see a follow-up eventually that shows what beads can be skipped with two-player...

[@blue_knot]

@@jacketofdiamonds I am but one man with only 2 hands😔

[@jacketofdiamonds]

@@blue_knot ah that makes sense. still, if you could get someone else to suffer along with you..

[@phictionofgrandeur2387]

Squashini's name is based on Harry Houdini.

[@BenjaminBroom-n4r]

I am highly impressed by your work great job seriously

[@KirbyMasterArchives]

Squashini is supposed to be a play on words with Houdini and cuz he’s a squash/pumpkin. Hes not italian lol

[@xx_g4m3rsw4g_xx]

Awesome challenge video! Hope to see more in the future!

[@michaelnelson2976]

This is a wicked good game :))

[@favgameisundertale1912]

When we got our Wii, my uncle (who yes, works at Nintendo, not joking) got us this big bundle thingy. I remember it having the Wii, controllers, nunchucks and of course Wii Sports. But it also had this Wii + Internet thing, which had Kirby's Epic Yarn in it. That was my first ever Kirby game and I loved it. Sadly, the disc got scratched, so now any cutscene will crash the game.

[@buriedpet]

Interesting challenge. Reminds me of the “least A presses” Mario 64 runs. (Unfortunately, due to the randomness of bead spreads, I doubt this will ever catch on as a speedrun category) I’m definitely early to this channel. Your vids are good quality, and I think the algorithm will pick them up soon. You got my sub, so keep at it! P.S. I would definitely watch a Low Bead % TAS showcase if you were to create one as a follow up. (Or maybe collab with an established TASer for that juicy cross promotion.)

[@dynosgarcia7645]

Can't you avoid the Meta Knight beads by triggering them letting them disappear and then doing it again? I shorta remember that after 3 times the bosses stop spawning beads

[@freshpick5828]

a challenge video of my hyperfixation???????? the heavens are smiling upon me

[@chairrypick]

Doing a great job pal! Love finding aspiring small channels like this. Will be sharing these vids out to ppl I know

[@Void_Apyr]

awesome video, outside of but waiting for the canon beads to despawn and the meta knight beads, this was excellently done. glad to have watched both videos so soon after they came out

[@Michrisk]

Great video! This game is my childhood and truly brings back memories. Very great editing and it was very entertaining. Keep at it :D

[@batdogduke]

I thought, with as great as this video is, you would've had more than 2 videos. Watched both, this one first - both real good, gotta say. Looking forward to more, keep it up!

[@mrinfinity5557]

This is a pretty interesting and cool channel, i look forward to what you might do in the future

[@ThePixelPear]

This was yhe 1st ever Kirby i played and my btother and i 100% completely 3 times we loved it so much

[@relt1554]

Nice video again! I've never played this game before, so I'd be hard pressed to find any more spots where you can avoid beads. At 14:40, I see there's another swinging mushroom that's higher up than the one you jumped from. I don't know if you can reach it (since I'm not familiar with the level), but if you can, you could parachute over the swing and completely avoid those beads. At 33:58, if you go through the canon diagonally, will you hug the wall and avoid the beads? At 35:17, when you go through the canon, you hit a (!), which triggers the blue beads to appear that you have to collect. I think, those (!)s are on a timer. If the red and orange beads after the next 2 canons are on the same timer, then they might de-spawn if you wait. Point 1 depends on the level layout and points 2/3 probably won't work, but I thought I'd comment for the algorithm at least.

[@cinnamon23158]

Really good video! Suprised it hasnt been done before. Commenting for the algorithm and to tell you to keep making videos!

[@astralbirthvoid2551]

9:07 firetruck kirby timestamp

[@Ender_Onryo]

At 19:55 could you go near the blocks with the beads, and charge swim up to break all the blocks causing the beads to fall all the way to the ground? So you can swim over.

[@kaulis6524]

someone remembers this game this was my childhood

[@blackfrostfilms-dl8wo]

I used to play this game a lot when I was younger

[@nottavros]

Holy shit epic yarn content ?? Like a puddle in a desert .. thank you

[@theopoldthegamer4284]

I still have no idea what "plow some cotton" is supposed to sound like I think Squashini is a mix of squash (related to pumpkin) and Houdini 21:20 I feel like that's actually the most realistic part of the level (it's a hydrothermal vent) Aughhhh, Frosty Wheel is one of the few levels I actually struggled on in my playthrough I think some of the beads at 35:21 are timed, so if you wait, they might go away

[@ado-]

You can skip two of the first 8 beads by jumping from the lip of the pool. My best was 48 in that level, but I thought you had to get two at the end hehehe. While I didn't have the patience to do any more than the first level, I'm glad you're doing this challenge! Loved your last vid and you've got the voice and good ideas for this format of video. Good luck!

[@blue_knot]

@@ado- Damn you guys are good at finding efficiency!! I’m glad you enjoyed, and I’ll start a pinned comment with bead deductions!

[@Kiroto50]

Time to explode this channel. Here at 2.1k

[@Shippibipi]

Really enjoyed the nightmare in dreamland video. 🥺 And Kirby epic yarn has always been my favorite. You and the editing are very funny!!! (Haven't finished but Is. Is that an xbox logo in the bead counter lol...)

[@Maker0824]

I took a while to finish watching this. You should see how many you can skip in two player

[@Zolerian]

Most probably that someone has said this already but I am pretty sure that by playing with two player and using the feature of one of them to jump on top of the other and then using Angie a lot of beads can be skipped. But I understand if this is a "least amount with one player" run. And, keeping it at one player, I think that at the start of Moon Base the first two beads could probably be skipped by abusing the Waddle Doo in some way. I know that the anti gravity in this game works in such a way where you can pull some weird stuff. I tried jumping while running(car) from the top of him, or by rolling him up. As shown, rolling up in this game gives you a height boost, and in anti gravity that can be abused. Even then, playing in the 3DS port I tried doing that while parachuting at the top of the jump but wasn't able to evade collecting them. However, I think that with some more strict timing something could be possible there. Also idk if damage boosting through the electric wires is possible. About Meta Knight, I think that those 500 beads can be evaded. If you hit a boss enough times without pulling the red button that degrades their health, I think that they stop dropping beads. So you could exhaust his bead drop, and finish the fight when no more beads are dropped from him. I was able to replicate this in the 3DS port; the first two hits in the red sword phase dropped beads, while the third hit dropped none though without the skill nor save states I wasn't able to do a full beadless run of the whole boss. Still he could be finished after hitting him two times before and waiting for the beads to despawn. _Probably_ the first once from Whispy's Forest could be evaded by doing something with the Waddle Dees that spawn and/or then rolling up the Bronto Burt carrying the rocket, as that may hold Kirby in the air for a while, and then parachute.

[@Donyas5]

based on the name of the video i thought this would be how many beads you would need to buy every item and apartment upgrade

[@qurturt8872]

Hell yeah epic yarn content

[@leafcatgx]

This is so good! I wonder if there any challenge run for Rtdl

[@Gamester5001]

Whats Up. Finna subscribe. I am here to see more content from you. Keep up the goodwork.

[@blue_knot]

Hell yeah brother!!! 😁

[@Speireata4]

I would love a revisited version where you try the suggestions in this comment section.

[@Crowdraws_]

I had the 3DS version of this and it was my favorite game before i sold my ds lmao

[@CelticVampireQueen]

this makes my brain hurt because I always collected as many beads as I could.

[@angzarrpsyco]

Seeing Epic Yarn makes me wish that Yarn Kirby had the same success as Paper Mario cause it would be so cool to have Yarn Kirby get the same level of love from Nintendo/HAL

[@evanrosman9226]

Have you tried co-op mode? Perhaps you can skip more than 2 beads at 1:49 by having one player launch the other player.

[@jackieboy8460]

People in the comments have been saying this, but yeah, that 500 Beads on Meta Knight is totally avoidable. I tested it myself - on Meta Knight's final hit, throw a yarn ball at him to make him drop the beads, but let him get back up so he can continue the fight. From here, continually waiting out his attacks and throwing yarn balls at him will result in him not dropping any more beads. You can then finish the fight bead-free.

[@blue_knot]

@@jackieboy8460 yeah… hindsight is 20/20. I’m mad I didn’t find that on my own.

[@link_team3855]

personally. id say literally just "2635 + YinYarn" ... simply due to it being such a big diviation, and already knowing its changable. constant + x funny enough, constant can change should better route be found through the game

[@nodrance]

Great video. If I could suggest an improvement, your scriptwriting could be more energetic. For example, 3 beadless levels in a row is a perfect time to say "I sure hope this keeps up" and then follow it with the boss level

[@pastawater2969]

Completely useless comment: I'd like to add that some levels in Snow Land's overworld map look like winter clothes! Cozy Cabin is a mitten, Mt. Slide is a bobble hat and the aurora above Dedede's snowman is a giant scarf! Very cute

[@PonikoRoblox]

Prob the only kirby game i played

[@Mushie_lol]

I FUCKING LOVE KIRBY'S EPIC YARN!!!! YEAH!!!!!!

[@Boon_4444]

I looove this game! TwT

[@janko39kic]

lets go another video

[@OPP03]

Have you tried to wait until the beads disappeared before you finished off Meta Knight?

[@RedButterflyOfDoom]

Meta Knight won't sit still. The better strategy is to hit him enough times for beads to eventually stop dropping

[@foxxr3mk5]

11:54 beans 👍

[@blue_knot]

Black, red, green, kidney, garbanzo, navy, lima…. Well they all make me very gassy… 😳

[@thedarter]

The correct answer is "all of them". I have to collect all of them or else I have to restart the level. It's the rules.

[@Roverd26]

thank you for not explaining what a video game/kirby is at the start of the video

[@Kiroto50]

3:18 - and immediately forgets to add it

[@oinkymomo]

i think a reasonable alternative rule on lost beads is: the goal is just to minimize beads picked up, not to minimize final bead count, so losing beads doesn’t matter in the slightest, but picking them up again after is not allowed

[@AnAverageGoblin]

holy shit its called epic yarn in the story sense, not because they want you to think yarn is awesome

[@Shippibipi]

Sheesh....the way it was going I didn't even expect it to reach 1k....

[@centurosproductions8827]

That blue Kirby is so... American.

[@Zanedotmidi]

Noooooooo!!!! I was working on this video 💔 but I'm doing mine in 2 player, so maybe they can both exist

[@TrevorJuve]

Any good challenge ideas for Kirby Canvas Curse?

[@thomasturner1065]

A review of Kirby's Epic Yarn would be fantastic. Imo it's underappreciated.

[@XenoChron2]

Santa reference. I noticed it. 13:57-ish

[@blue_knot]

Wow I can't believe someone actually got the reference!

[@bentowers5375]

2 player would help in several locations

[@swbracere]

At 19:57 if I'm not mistaken, those two beads would have despawned if you waited to go past the boxes?

[@RedButterflyOfDoom]

YARN CHALLENGE YARN CHALLENGE YARN CHALLENGE❤