I Tried Speedrunning Your Worst Ideas

[@riverdog_deyna]

Super Mario Odyssey but everyone is dead. Every NPC and enemy is gone. If a story moon would require a boss fight, the moon is already there. There’s no music, it’e JUST you and Cappy. Eery…

[@Pooky1991]

That sounds like a creepypasta

[@CalaHestoomi]

How would Moon kingdom work? Bowser would be dead too

[@benhanin6247]

@@CalaHestoomimaybe bowser killed them

[@einargs]

What a good idea

[@TransFemmeTemme]

Post genocide route undertale

[@TMD-2147official]

Chess% is a great video/stream content idea for creators in general. It should be done more often.

[@Reaktron88]

Yeah cj needs to make a video of it

[@theominouspigeon]

the one where every jump/cap throw costs coins could be much better used in something like a race

[@AewingGRG]

Mixed with Odyssey multiplayer could be also fun!

[@emmettnewmanreal]

for like any game too! dk64 chess %?!?!!?!

[@amythystmiriel]

I definitely wanna see him race Smant with that now

[@ThePipofDespair]

CJ: I'm changing to Chinese right now, I'm getting serious Fir: Oh my gosh, I should too also Fir: *changes to Japanese*

[@heiss9971]

Don't VlonePredator

[@iob321]

lel

[@Ninjasneekman]

Optimal

[@chloetocalife5485]

Timesramps?

[@ThePipofDespair]

@@chloetocalife5485 10:46

[@Brokenfirealarm]

The chess part was really cool. The only change I think would be good is not resetting Odyssey for every new chess game so you don't just do the first few kingdoms every time.

[@jonstewart5525]

It would also mean you could plan a route where you throw the first game to get more moons for the next two games or throw the second game to do the same. It would be an amazing event to watch

[@moshimeshowu747]

Great idea! @@jonstewart5525

[@hedgehogsonic11]

A best 2/3 or 3/5

[@migwellitomuarrita2898]

Even better. Best of 3 but you have to keep going. So if someone goes to sand kingdom, they might lose the first game but win the next 2

[@migwellitomuarrita2898]

Even better. Best of 3 but you have to keep going. So if someone goes to sand kingdom, they might lose the first game but win the next 2

[@royalfizzbin2131]

I think it's very funny that Fir notes that he doesn't want to be too loud because of his neighbors and not long after plays very rambunctious chess with CJ.

[@Nintenblox]

200 likes and no replies? Let me fix that

[@milesestel281]

Me too

[@JayboCorp.2014]

*BOOM* Third comments. Hope everyone's day/night is nice.

[@mewr11]

I think for Chess% multimoons should only count for one chess move, otherwise whoever beats madame brood first has a guaranteed win if they move their e-pawn after getting the first story moon. (Qh5, Qxf7, Qxe8 or Bb5, Bxd7, Bxe8 both capture the king on the fourth move, and there's no single move the opponent can play for their first story moon that can stop both)

[@Fir]

Is this considering that you have to move 3 different pieces with the Multi Moon? With the app we used there is a cooldown so on things like multi-moons you weren't allowed to move the same piece multiple times.

[@ManlyPumpkin]

I'll be honest, when I came up with the idea of a chess%, I thought you would go against a bot, not another player. The way Fir interpreted it was so much better lol

[@CoffeeHype7356]

Well then switch to 1.0, do first moon skip, and prevent the attack. lol

[@someduckREAL]

@@Firno it isn’t

[@RuiainFN]

@@ManlyPumpkinyour in the vid

[@AmethystSZS]

I loved writing those sphinx questions so much

[@Diamondking599]

First reply on amethyst comment Also hi amethyst

[@ItzzzYoru]

Hi second reply

[@rosiedilworth4501]

Evil genius core

[@ritzgamez]

Did you actually go and count every cactus?

[@Diamondking599]

@@ritzgamez I mean there aren’t THAT many

[@riverofthewild]

chess% was genuinely hype, that was so fun to watch

[@Thomasthetackmasterpersob]

Yeah but cj played scholars mate i think they’re both new

[@Thomasthetackmasterpersob]

Aslo the rules are altered, instead of checkmating they eat the king

[@blazingkite8983]

@@Thomasthetackmasterpersob it's not a literal chess game if it was the real chess, racing for moons would make 0 sense because of turns forcing you to wait for the opponent to move the game instead is a game mode of free movement chess, where you can literally move all pieces at once like if it was a real war scenario, with free movement like that, it's required to outright kill the king otherwise it wouldn't make sense to just checkmate them on a free move mode, so rules are ofc in requirement to be changed to fit this meme game mode

[@Fidooop]

ya'll should do a best of 3 chess tournament with a bunch of speedrunners to see who is the best Mario chess speedrunner

[@General_Blockz-Ibelieveyouguys]

Im better at Chess than speedrunning mario😂

[@jonstewart5525]

I also think it would be more fun if the run doesn’t reset when a chess game ends. You’d have to plan your route based on which games you need the moves in. You could throw one game to set up more moves for the next one and would add another layer of strategy.

[@ChibiRuah]

This idea is fire

[@BMXLore]

Pay2Win% would actually be an interesting category *if* you had multiple runners. Walking everywhere *is* boring, but if you walk everywhere, then the person who does only one shortcut jump gets the lead, which incentivizes you to do 2, then them 3, and so on until the logical conclusion is you try to do the normal speedrun as close as possible, but have to either make detours to pick up coins, or get a *lot* more economical with your movement. I wish you hadn't dismissed it as quickly as you seem to, it would be a really good one for you to invite another runner to join you, since you'd be wondering the entire time how much they are using normal movement mechanics vs conserving coins, and where they are making detours to pick them up. I do think it requires a careful balance of costs, maybe scaling with how many moons you have collected either in whole or per world, to encourage really thinking about your route and what stars you want to spend the precious early coins in each level on. Alternatively, just making each moon require an increasing number of coins to collect would also be a good interpretation of the category, it still allows full movement while requiring different pathing of the run. Plus, it's technically canon to the Mario franchise - see any Mario Party game.

[@TheSummerCoast]

Pay2Win% mode in Hide N Seek would be great imo

[@blunderbass851]

The Chess% idea has some real legs to it. I'd love to see that turned into a bracketed tournament or something. Maybe have each round start in a different kingdom?

[@lewisshort4994]

Do chess % against smant

[@SGEnjoyer]

yoo the Any Austin shoutout is wild Austin's series about being a pencil-pushing bureaucrat in video game towns taking the work census is one of my fav things of all time, actually entertaining with how stoic and mundane it feels.

[@silvrstrm2819]

Cacti% you have to destroy all 131 overworld cacti in Sand Kingdom

[@Nintenblox]

Make a mod that allows you to capture all of them and every single one has a moon

[@constellationmaker135]

@@NintenbloxFinal 131 moons finally found!??!!??/j

[@TheDigileet]

Now I’m wondering if Amy can mod Among Us into SMO. Just redo that 8 player any% route that’s on CJ’s channel, but 2 players can kill anyone with a single cap throw, and they play on a 100% file, so they have to fake collecting moons.

[@3CatsInATrenchoat]

This would be amazing

[@blondie3817]

Ive been suggesting this for so long please

[@littenrock]

That sounds like it would be so fun lol

[@thegamersclub9326]

Let's make this a top comment people.

[@ritzgamez]

They’ve played around with the idea before. But it never happened.

[@davidrisi4539]

Amethyst moving the answers on sphinx was hilarious

[@Nuggetworld9204]

She sure did :)

[@SomeGalNamedEve]

Sphinx% was so evil, there were so many unnecessary roadblocks added in and I love it

[@MarioAndFriendsPlushOfficial]

I’m so evil

[@Gamesmarts194]

Chess% was pretty cool and I kinda want to see it again. I think it'd also be pretty hype if instead of restarting the run every time you lose you simply continue from where both players are, which could make Sand Kingdom kinda hectic lol

[@thegamersclub9326]

That makes actually a really good fix there, not resetting would really overturn some strats.

[@average_youtube_commenter]

superbowl% speedrun getting the football costume. while in the football costume you must 1- capture and defeat a chargin chuck 2- kick a football in metro kingdom 3- get both moons in the ruined kingdom moon pipe

[@Fiberoeatingfiber]

i love playing soccer

[@average_youtube_commenter]

@@Fiberoeatingfiber im ‘murican, i agree

[@liamhorton7629]

I think coin% would have been interesting as a race where your need to go faster than your opponent counteracts the incentive to walk everywhere.

[@Nicholas86753]

Fir is an Any Austin Enjoyer, my respect and enjoyment of his content has risen dramatically

[@notsusamongus2147]

Cacti%: Count all cacti in Sand Kingdom except for sub areas 😂

[@visualgagging]

Even better: *destroy* all cacti in Sand Kingdom except sub areas

[@AverageEggmonEnthusiast]

Count all cacti *exclusively* in the sub areas. We already know how many are in the over-world so the rest must be catalogued for science.

[@Mr._Lemon2]

Fork% every NPC is a fork and every capture is a fork.

[@garydavis9798]

FORK

[@kiro9291]

I think amethyst would cry

[@AverageEggmonEnthusiast]

@@kiro9291 we can raise money for her post-fork therapy 🤭

[@Pooky1991]

Amy is just so cool with the moddings.

[@akvcubing8792]

Language%. Every moon changes your language. Before each moon, guess the language the game will change into. Timing ends when you correctly guess the language.

[@Famouswatermelon12]

I Mean, like that’s really easy though

[@bernard832]

Hangman% and Chess% were really creative. Playing chess when the moves aren't turned based is crazy.

[@Gamesmarts194]

Idea: What about a Jeopardy race? Same as Jeopardy, but instead of trivia questions they're hint arts (or just hints). And instead of one "question" at a time, everyone picks something on the grid and then just GOES. Once a hint gets picked, it's off the grid for anyone else to take. You get only one guess for each moon. Guess right and you get points. Guess wrong and you lose points.

[@gametheory3458]

So it's kind of like lockout but you get hints instead of goals? Seems like a cool idea

[@Gamesmarts194]

@@gametheory3458 I forgot lockouts were a thing but yeah basically

[@Fenrakk101]

the knockoff any austin segment was legitimately the most entertaining part of this video lmao i love that stuff

[@Xychic]

Public Enemy%: Beat the game saving the least amount of kingdoms possible, for example, leave Sand Kingdom in night, leave snow kingdom in a blizzard, etc

[@explode.1272]

I decided to do this one myself and I definitely think fir should do it since it was really fun for some reason

[@Fidooop]

I think the red light green light would've been much better if it just listened for input rather than Mario's movement.

[@capris_peach]

Physics%: Beat the game performing as many clips as possible, thus breaking the laws of physics

[@stone5against1]

What a bunch of great ideas! Whoever thought of chess% is a genius! (and you can use that idea for pretty much any 2 player game.. Or heck don't limit yourself to 2 player games! Imagine 8 people playing Monopoly where you can only roll the dice after each moon.

[@AceJackWagon885]

Super Mario Odyssey but there's an ingame daylight cycle & you have to play Minecraft during the night.

[@NoobsailerRBH]

Golf%: Every moon you collect, you play 1 stroke in Wii Sports Resort Golf. Run is completed after finishing a round of 18 holes. - Multi moons can count as either 1 or 3 strokes, depending on whether you want to challenge yourself. - Buying moons from shops only count the first moon you buy from each shop. - Jump rope and volleyball moons give 1 additional stroke each. - Hitting the ball out of bounds or into water require 2 moons before you can take the next stroke (hazard stroke penalty).

[@leman20121]

Di**head% Leave evey kingdom in shambles. The run doesn't start untill Sand. What to do for each kingdom. Sand: Leave during night Wooden: Leave after killing the broodles Lake: Just leave without killing the broodles Metro: do a CR from the sand kingdom painting then leave Seaside: Don't kill the octopus during the boss fight then leave Snow: Leave during snowstorm Luncheon: Do the meat part and don't kill Cookatiel and then you can leave Cap and Cascade don't count because they both stay the same Ruined, Bowser, and Moon also don't count because they also don't change. Also, you know when you can leave when Uncle Amiibo and the blue toad are not there. I also have another speedrun Souvenir% Get every sourenir in every kingdom. Costumes don't count.

[@SPUDog]

The neighbors part was funnier than it has any right to be XD Sidenote: love that the chess intro ended up having cj completing his username. Shoutout to that one person who change how the whole site works to make the chess challenge possible

[@dman1456]

That last run was so wholesome actually. 10/10 💙💙

[@Venticinco]

Fashion%: Before collecting any additional moons for a kingdom, you have to find enough purple coins and buy the kingdom’s outfit; change into it before you continue the run. run ends when you beat bowser.

[@The_Maestro_Mind]

Npc% talk to every single npc in the game. Game ends when you have talked to every single one of them

[@chromatica__]

23:30 i think this is supposed to be in reference to the video about how many mainline Mario games there are by jan Misali.

[@tristania6781]

Mole%: Each time you touch the ground, a dog spawns, but the dog is 2x as small. Make it so the dog can teleport too bcs why not. The dog can’t kill you btw. Also make it so the dog can grab your cappy for 5 seconds.

[@SephirothRyu]

You must challenge everyone you know to Chess% Also idea: keep a save or something that is at the very start of different worlds (or just no moves until both people reach the second world). So you can start a chess% at a different world.

[@MisMatch1234]

Idea: Sick mod: Mario is sick and sneezes every 10-30 seconds causing him to bonk. Mario’s speed and jump are decreased by 25%, Mario only has one life and gets cold super fast. Also if you wanted to every time you something sick related you would sneeze.

[@Average_K-pop_Fan]

Teleport%: Every time you get a moon you teleport somewhere random. You can teleport to any kingdom and anywhere in that kingdom. Once you beat the final bowser boss you win and you don’t need to complete every kingdom.

[@Ant0nF1r3]

IRS%: you have to pay 30% of every moon, regular coin, and purple coin to the IRS.

[@Pidhood12715]

Anxiety% basically every minute your controls randomize

[@Su_tarman6-Bio]

Classic% the run only ends during one of the following confitions:1. getting the Jump Man Suit. 2. Getting the Luigi Suit. 3. Getting the 64 Suit. 4. Getting the Metal Cap Suit. It has to be one of these.

[@borkrz]

sculk% Every sound effect Mario makes charges you a coin (excluding footsteps if you need)

[@RadTroppy]

Nut%: Get every moon in Wooded Kingdom that comes from a nut. Doesn’t have to have the word ‘nut’ in the name of the moon, just has to come from one.

[@Zavalas_SMT1]

Love the video Fir, also its strange to see a streamer actually concerned about his neighbors its quite nice and wholesome lol

[@MegaDerpyDragon...52]

Controller% : every time you finish a story section of a kingdom you change how you play the game. (Example: finish cap kingdom on hand held, switch to on big screen.) "This includes all necessary story moons. And kingdom changes/progression."

[@chris_8572]

Superman% your jump, and run stats are incredibly increased by 30x.

[@chris_8572]

Why am I replying to my own comment 😂

[@Muzzwa]

All captures% you just capture everything Allsheep% complete all the sheep rounding up moons Broodals% beat all broodal boss fights Genocide% kill every enemy you see or you die

[@Nintenblox]

Overflow% every time Mario collects a moon he gets bigger

[@Nurlöwe]

2:22 First I read "fir can you try driving during a red light??"💀

[@Astr092]

U want more bad speedrun ideas i heard? Math% Every time u get a moon u have to do a quick math problem

[@RSM_124]

Make this top comment so fir can see this

[@sebastiang9638]

@@RSM_124deal

[@ashtongiertz8728]

28:10 THAT IS NOT DRAWING! That is painting. Just because my college drawing professor doesn't know the difference doesn't mean you didn't do a completely different speedrun challenge.

[@Hammerheadcomedy]

chess% was unreasonably fun to watch

[@bonessai]

you just inspired me to pick up my sketchbook again and draw fur FUN, no matter how the outcome looks ^^ thanks!!!

[@owlboy_28]

Cappy%: Any% as nornal BUT cappy can collect moons. Imagine the 2 player movement...

[@PomadaGaming]

Crazy thing,i was JUST this last week (since a year and some change ago) catching onto odyssey content again from guys like you,smallant and cjya and really enjoyed rewatching the viewer ideas speedrun videos from like a year ago or so. Just so happens in this time frame this video releases lol. Nice

[@ManlyPumpkin]

LET'S GO I'M IN THE VIDEO🤠👍

[@TheDrDarwin]

Bosstrap% Every moon has a 50% chance to teleport you to a random boss fight. When you beat the boss, it gives no moons and you will be teleported back to where you were before it started.

[@JuanpyStudios]

Pokémon%: Touch every Pokémon type, speed run ends once you get every type

[@CaptainDevy]

You should do a cacti% where you find all 131 cacti. I am interested where they are and it be interesting to see you take on the challenge. Also love the videos, keep up the great work Fir.

[@-Colonel-sanders-]

Challenge idea, KFC% try to speed run while eating KFC at the same time multitasking

[@delmattia96]

Now I want "Cactus%" where you find/rate every cactus in Sand

[@C00LC]

Stopping all the kiddies from saying first

[@Jacob-Sophia]

This is equally irritating. Just say an original thought or even just "good video".

[@biggiedrakesnake]

and youre the one whos saying that youre first on the comments that literally came before yours

[@toran9909]

i didnt work at all,but i apreciate your work. take this 🍪

[@Immrfennel]

First

[@timmygaming4000]

You didnt cus you werent first

[@L15Gaming]

Actions%: You have to do whatever action Mario is doing in real life. (Motion controls are disabled) (you use detached joycons)

[@masdyn.]

First

[@masdyn.]

Lets gooo hi fir

[@gadielinutil]

Touch grass

[@C00LC]

No I was

[@BhbibobRL]

@c00lc yeah it was one of us

[@CommentPositionInformer]

Yessir.

[@Starlight0387]

Exe% everyone is dead and a scary mario haunts normal mario and can kill him if he touches him, captain toad and mario are the lone survivors, Cappy is working with exe mario

[@MidnightAtom777]

I swear firs videos just get better and better I love you’re channel so much and I’m really excited for future vids❤

[@TheBreadLord_]

Soup% The soup of luncheon kingdom (on top of the volcano) has spilled over the world. The floor is lava, with the lava bubbles and the salt islands. The run ends when you kill bowser because he spilled the soup. Also you need to wear a soup bowl hat

[@CoffeeHype7356]

Sphynx%: Answer every question by the sphynx in the base game, including the one in darker side.

[@teiteika]

the emergency meeting with chat had me laughing great job editor! xD

[@kaelablue4343]

watching chess% i finally understand my father yelling about basketball. thank you fir and cjya for helping me understand a little more every day

[@gamingfriends5807]

Do the FunnyMan% where every mod stated before this is now active for one entire kingdom than in the next kingdom choose another mod until you beat the game

[@Nuclear_Lemon]

coin lover% In every kingdom from cap to mushroom you need to collect 1000 coins and as many purple coins as possible, than spend every last one on costumes, if you don't spend them all you need to reset the run but keep the timer on. cap and cascade don't count

[@chart_9196]

27:50 naww that third golden chomp is diabolical 😭😭😭😭 LMFAOO

[@G.S-b3i]

Out of bounds% go out of bounds as fast as possible

[@HåkanWestlinder]

FirsPersonalHell% get the "a treasure made from coins" moon in deep woods as fast as possible

[@KirbyKing821]

There's music that plays at 26:22 that I've heard before but don't remember what it is. What is it?

[@gamingfriends5807]

Do the FairPunishment% for every enemy you kill you pay one more gold like kill one pay one kill another one and now you pay two this includes bowser, bosses and Mario.

[@joeblox1]

AI% you have to beat Mario odyssey but 2 AI hunters chase you and if they touch you, you die

[@jordancalloo990]

Pokemon% capture everything in the game or you randomly get turned into a capture every 5 minutes

[@megamarvelousmarty]

Do a speed run called mariokarttour%, you need to get a costume that exists in Mario kart tour as fast as possible!

[@Lucien-vb7eu]

This is my favorite type of video. Great content

[@FluNinjaYT]

T-Rex% Every enemy is a active T-rex very rare chance for a sleeping T-rex

[@JosephJoestar69420]

Breaking bad% every 5 minutes mario dies of cancer

[@LivvyL8106]

Normal Day%, recreate your daily schedule in Mario Odyssey. Timer starts when you jump up from the sleeping animation and ends when you go to bed and it plays the sleeping animation. The Odyssey will represent your bedroom, and you can travel between kingdoms. For food, you can just pretend to eat them. You can just go onto a random pipe and somehow crouch on it without going down the pipe to represent you going to your bathroom. If streaming is in your regular schedule, start a new file and speed run odyssey until the Festival. Hope you like it!

[@SansTheSkeletonGuy]

No mercy% you must kill every boss and kill one of every type of capture you see

[@drippy7607]

Fitting that your pfp is sans, the final boss of genocide

[@lays5277]

I can't get over the way this guy bleats like a goat when he's excited. great video

[@SephirothAndino]

Dialga% you can now play as dialga (when you beat the game play Pokémon brilliant diamond and catch dialga) and you can fly

[@ThienTran-ct2yu]

Elon musk%: Get max coins and max purples(purples are only for 1 kingdom) and get all bird related moons and spend all of the coins made through the run at the end

[@Austrianboi]

German%: create a duolingo account (if you don't already have one) and take the german course, now start the run. Every time you collect a moon you have to do a duolingo lesson, the run ends when you can say a full sentence with 5-10 words in german. (Multi moons count as three lessons)

[@blackcat_064]

You've gotta do one of those voice recognition challenges again, but this time you don't know what words are the trigger words. Get someone else to pick the words and then you have to figure out which word does what!

[@WooperIsTheGoat]

Anything%: Like any%, but anything can go

[@TwighlightPrince1]

Fir, you mentioning Any Austin led to me immediately being like “That sounds interesting. Imma go check that out.” I then went and watched the entirety of his Unemployment Rate in video games series twice before remembering to come back here a day of two later to finish watching this video XD

[@superyoshiparker8979]

Tax%: every kingdom has a coin counter in the top middle of your screen that has a coin value from 100 coins to 2500 coins, if you can’t get that many coins then you restart, after every kingdom your coins from the tax amount will disappear when you go to the next kingdom.

[@joeblox1]

It should be no tax in Cloud and Ruined because they have no coins until you beat the game

[@superyoshiparker8979]

@@joeblox1 well I agree with you on cloud, but ruined does have a coin stack prior to the dragon boss.

[@AveryTurner-ot9hx]

Plushie % the speed run stops when you squeeze a plushie on your desk. A test of willpower

[@Yankeeontt]

Tourist% read every brochure in every kingdom, purchase every souvenir and regional clothing