Rocket Knight Adventures by d4gr0n in

Runner introduction starts at 00:26. Run starts at 1:16. Couch Commentary provided by Courierluke, Drakodan, and Mike89.
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Runner introduction starts at 00:26. Run starts at 1:16. Couch Commentary provided by Courierluke, Drakodan, and Mike89.

[@5hadax]

Hope you all enjoyed the run. Thanks again GDQ for letting me run this. Obviously I would love to take back the bad mistake on boss 4 but a deathless run is still deathless so I'll take that run any day for a marathon.

[@MrDarkmario777]

D4gr0n This was actually one of the most enjoyable runs I've watched from this SGDQ. Thanks for giving me a way to find a game I didn't know existed and showing off some spectacular techniques. I find the health management in particular a very interesting aspect of the run.

[@5hadax]

I'm glad you enjoyed the run. Yeah, the health management is very important to the run and it also works quite differently on normal since you take more damage from the same sources.

[@MrDarkmario777]

D4gr0n Interesting. I'll have to look at some of the runs to see how it changes the routing.

[@RVN-cz2lu]

Incredible stuff man, keep it up!

[@DragonNexus]

Is there anything to be said for using the sword swings to hide inside of the boss' body? If you're hitting him, he doesn't do damage to you. It does cause lag frames which is why I assume it's not used, but I figure that could be useful towards the end of the debris. I discovered that as a kid and I always use it as a way to avoid the debris. Just hammer that attack button and slowly move into him until you hit an invisible wall, then keep attacking until the debris is over. That said, I'm a year late, but this run showed me a bunch of things I didn't know on what is one of my favourite games ever. Even silly things like down and jump to fall through those platforms in world 5. I don't know why I never even tried it. I'd always assumed they were too solid to do that with.

[@NYInfamous]

Played this game since it released, been watching speedruns in it for quite some time and this was easily the most impressive one I've seen

[@chadcatarozoli7776]

28:48 synchronized laughing was very trippy lol

[@mishikomishiko9088]

One of my childhood's gems...

[@CarozQH]

As someone who's a big fan of this game, I can confirm that D4gron does some *extremely* risky stuff in this run... Very very impressive!

[@x.Aura.x]

This is blowing my mind!! I found this game so difficult when I was young! I'm so amazed, totally clapping along with you guys as he nails this!

[@fiercekitty4982]

Sparkster is good but Rocket Knight Adventures has a more comfy feel to it....it's more nostalgic to me

[@Garomasta]

Nice run and very informative commentary. I'm no speedrunner but I love this game and picked up a few tricks that I'll definitely try to use when doing a playthrough in the future.

[@Anthopants]

I got to see this live at the event but I had to watch it again :)

[@biomecaNICK]

probably my favorite side scroller game I had on sega. and wow the more you are low hp the more damage you do ? played this around 9 to 10yo

[@GimpyFriday]

"There's no way this guy's name is Generalissimo Lioness... He's a pig in a tank!"

[@CTEpoch]

Way to go to my brother d4gr0n!! I am so proud of him and his run!!

[@Chaogardenx]

First time watching this game´s speedrun, didn´t know it could go so fast

[@djvoid1]

One of my favorites from childhood

[@Spikero2]

12:55 Let's go, Strats!

[@ophikus]

It's great to see that the bosses just look like some of sonic vs robotnik (eggman) fights :O

[@jeffreyh1778]

i could never get to level 2 so holy crap that was amazing.

[@ivgentis]

I have beaten the game on Normal (US version) and would love to see a speedrun of the Normal difficulty.

[@rhedb4050]

I loved this game as a kid, but could never finish it :( it was so hard

[@Ashamaxa]

The guy need to get some cough drops. Amazing run btw!

[@GodlessPhilosopher]

Man what was that sega game where one of the levels had a huge circular room with a big cylindrical machine in the center and you ran in a circle around it? Edit: it was gunstar heroes

[@LittleMasaPan]

44:16 Funhaus donation appears 47:26 Funhaus donation comment is read

[@lainenz]

Literally what I came here for. You the real MVP!

[@THEmuteKi]

Some real white-knuckle moments in that run, WOW

[@makarsk]

How the hell he is able to kill things so quickly?

[@giovannigonzalez3318]

Did that boss just... expose himself?

[@0o0Zero0o0]

4:33 Am I the only one that got Bayonetta flashbacks?

[@TheAdamdunlap]

2 things... 1 the way the say "H" in Hp sounds wheird lol and 2. This runner sounds like Tom Arnold... just saying

[@fanathewanderer4417]

Cool Whip