Super Mario Odyssey by NicroVeda in

[@gamesdonequick]

Runner introduction starts at 1:17. Run starts at 3:26.

[@luked.48]

Thanks

[@Testejzhwhsb]

Thanks

[@jayandthejets]

Thank you so much

[@lynnfeigenbaum9837]

Games Done

[@cosmicjenny4508]

As of right now, NicroVeda is at 2nd place on the any% leaderboard, with a 1h 02m 19s, which is only FOUR SECONDS away from World Record (by Suisaiga). This run would make *11th place,* which is just incredible, considering he did this live in front of about 200 people in the room, and for charity. Well played, Nicro. Well played...

[@Stony2103]

Skyward Sword had a similar situation, where the SGDQ-run from this year would've reached fourth place at the leaderboards. Done at the graveyard shift from 2am to 7am.

[@balano2861]

And 120k people watching him on streaming platforms

[@cosmicjenny4508]

+King Johnny That's true! I bet Nicro is only used to maybe a couple hundred viewers at any given stream. Pressure is increased when we add a thousand times the people.

[@moomooplopadom5483]

Evan Blenkinsopp I was so terrified when he tried snow dram.

[@Bernardo_Saldivar]

Did he need to get moons in bowser kingdom?

[@typoded]

its amazing how they made this game basically a speedrunners dream and then added forced motion controls

[@evo683]

Lets the runners get a work out as they grind XD

[@OmarScofield]

NicoVeda has come a very long way in the speedrunning community and it's great to see how much work, effort and determination has been put into this game in the short 8 months or so. So many new strategies , players and records being set it's incredible! One of the best SGDQ viewing experiences I've seen in a long time. Huge shoutouts to NicroVeda for an amazing run and the couch for an amazing commentary experience! #Conways2018

[@attlas-ht8qb]

I just realized the design thing behind the timer is actually a binary clock counting up with the timer. Really cool.

[@vulpine3431]

How does that clock work? I can't figure it out ;_;

[@frevee5748]

@@vulpine3431 It's pretty confusing to figure out if you don't understand how binary works, it's also kind of hard to explain so if you want to know more just do some googling

[@doublex85]

The lights in a column from bottom to top are valued 1, 2, 4, and 8. A 5, for instance, lights up both the bottom and third lights.

[@RogersBase]

That Sphinx clip trick was totally INSANE!

[@dvaccaro96]

Hey Roger, come and watch the stream some time :)

[@traviswhite2999]

MagicalShark I don’t think he is. Just his love for Nintendo and the game probably

[@Zeldathemillennial]

Why are you here Roger

[@bastidino1]

lol didn't expect to see roger here

[@ryanhorton9594]

My 6 year old watched the entire run in awe. He clapped and cheered but was bummed he couldn't be there for you to hear his cheers so please send the runner his regards!

[@havvik3505]

Luncheon, the very best Eeveelution!

[@bulba459]

What type is it?

[@so0meone]

Ooooh, I dunno, personally I'm a fan of Alatreon

[@Awesoman9001]

Jax Jewell it's a food type

[@lisasweeting9160]

Ikr the VERY best....... can i eat him?

[@molIymawk]

this was up there with my favourite runs of this year, including paper mario and mk8d. the couch and runner were super entertaining and despite not knowing the route for odyssey like i do for PM, i could tell that a lot of these tricks had to be difficult as all hell. nicro is incredibly skilled, good job man! can’t wait to see how this run is changed and perfected in the rest of this year

[@MinusBros]

This game was MADE to be done in a speedrun.

[@supermarioglitchy321]

Actually, I feel like this game was made to be an exploration-based game that rewards based on taking your time rather than going as fast as you can.

[@lajeandom]

you are both right, Nintendo designers thought about both worlds.

[@MrOmegatronic]

Hmm... it very well might've been, I'm honestly not sure. On the one hand, it very clearly wants you to explore everywhere and everything, and take your time doing so. But on the other hand, movement is _incredibly_ fluid, exploration teaches you how to do crazy shit like Jaxi skip (if you can get on top of the buildings in the Sand Kingdom boss area, Js doesn't feel all _that_ hard in comparison) or just flinging yourself through a level (there are a lot of "necessary" transformations you can avoid entirely just by e.g., scaling nearby architecture and roll-hat-jumping around, even if not all of them are needed or useful in any% speedruns, such as just skipping the parabones or hammer bros. in Underground Moon Crater), there are abilities that were clearly designed specifically for moving faster/skipping stuff/saving time, and you aren't really forced to get the story/cutscene moons to clear a world. And, y'know, it lets you just skip cutscenes anyways. It comes off to me as a game designed to be explored, _then_ speedrun once you know what you're doing. Hell, you can easily pull off a lot of skips completely blind, just _because_ the game teaches you to explore and try everything (of course, some of them aren't necessary, and a few might actually be slower than the intended route, but the fact that the game actively tries to get you to look for skips (and sometimes even do them unintentionally) makes it _very_ friendly to skip-intensive gameplay (such as speedruns)).

[@Oneiroclast]

@Light Walker The irony of that statement is that speedrunners take more time and explore the game in more depth than anyone else.

[@terrymullins5444]

Light Walker I think it can be played either way though it would be cool if they watched these speed runs then made a speed run mode and cappy complemented you when you did something fast

[@TwistedBananaProductions]

Come on guys, not everything can be the "Hardest trick in the Run."

[@smk7500]

Twisted Banana Productions Eh, they’re all really hard in their own ways

[@Bespo]

Twisted Banana Productions “one of”

[@ashercoates4345]

Few of them are actually hard

[@goldendoodle252]

and not every capture can be "the greatest capture in the run" so....

[@docill9155]

I don't think anyone dislikes the fact that the commentary is scripted. The issue is that the commentary was poorly executed so it came off as incredibly forced. EDIT: I will say the the tricks were explained well, at least.

[@Andrei3253]

tip to speed runners: the ohhh dude what are you doing you are going to die !!! comment, is old and no one really believe it.

[@MrJLD01]

I will agree that it did seem incredibly forced, but I do feel that it was a good change of pace considering that most runners only explain that techs. At least they tried to add humor to the run unlike many other runs at this event.

[@ryanhorton9594]

For people like me who are seeing the speedrun for a game for the first time, it comes off as humorous.

[@ollythomas6702]

The commentary was just a bit childish the whole way through.

[@666blaziken]

Oh come on, the jiggle physics commentary is hilarious! Also, for some reason, I always find it humorous when people act like they are going to die, it's just funny to see considering how much I play this game casually.

[@Powl_J]

It's ship fuel I get it Very funny You can stop now

[@SonicmaniaVideos]

Phrases aren't funny, quit lying.

[@JaDX243]

userguyok I thought as much the first few times they said it, but I was feeling like fellfisch after the 20th time they repeated the same thing

[@NeoNovastar]

It's not even a joke in the community? So I just didn't get it

[@n8with8s]

@@NeoNovastar forced meme

[@logmouth]

I haven't seen the progression of this game in like 5 months so this just absolutely amazes me. Good run!

[@How_Is_This_A_Name]

oooooo he said the F word he'll never be seen again

[@Jigsawtwig]

It seriously blows my mind how wholesome these events are.

[@jonasc1221]

I really liked this run, skillful runner, good couch, good commentary. It's like a perfect run.

[@stephenfiler3204]

This is one my favorite GDQ runs of all time

[@NippleCactus]

13:30 thanks

[@openpelican]

Of all the runs I've watched so far, this is the most impressive. Well done!

[@johndelafontaine5130]

Nicroveda, amazing run! To do that in front of that crowd was a pleasure to watch! Well done!

[@Exidius07]

One of the "best looking" speedruns imo was really fun to watch live and (another time) as the VoD :)

[@jcace13]

Some of the tightest platforming I have ever seen, great couch, great runner, great crowd. So many tricks and skips too.

[@ib_res2566]

I don't blame them for scripting the commentary because it's extremely difficult to do your run and entertain a crowd, but I genuinely hope that whoever wrote those jokes feels bad.

[@KevSB07]

kernapho that’s not very nice, unlike the jokes, which were great

[@hdkguy]

WHAT A RUN! So cool to see Nicro up there and doing so well. GG mate :D

[@romilrh]

Just noticed the blue bars behind the speedrun clock are counting up in binary! But every column increments at 10 (1010) to stay consistent with the timer.

[@MsMegadude64]

7:27 Thanks, dude. I really needed that fun fact in my life.

[@philmarceniuk322]

This has to be one of the most visually pleasing runs in speed running. Hyyype

[@souturus]

I completed Mario Odyssey yesterday, today i see how broken Mario Odyssey is, i'm crying how Nicro destroys it in an hour Beautiful, simply beautiful

[@dj-d2030]

Press F for Toad

[@Plinian1312]

*B* *U* *P*

[@Toxic-Pyro]

No

[@lolmattk]

F

[@maryreyes2575]

Abcdeghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

[@-rami-8528]

I remember when I first got the game almost 2 hours after it launched I’ve played it for 12 hours straight and it was one of the best gaming experiences I ever had

[@jeccles]

it's so weird to see smallant and nicro in the same room

[@Zsoul17]

14:22 best donation in the history of gdq

[@Nattegoya]

ben mclean Nope. Watch 3D World at AGDQ 2018, right before the final level is one of the best donations in history

[@sirgabealot01]

I really have to say. This was the best GDQ yet imo. I remember getting excited for this run before the game came out. And I was really happy to see that they ran through the game this year!

[@jonathanc8845]

"It's snow surprise that Snow Kingdom is home of some very dangerous tricks" Icy what you did, there.

[@spenceralger3600]

These jokes are so bad

[@davidg4869]

Wd-40 to buff out some scratches

[@on_certainty]

i like the jokes

[@morgame5742]

Hyped for Darker Side at AGDQ 2019!

[@stassmirnov727]

All speedruns on GDQ: "Here's the most difficult trick in the whole run!...a-ah!.. and again! Yeah, the hardest... a-a-and? No! Ok, play it safe, buddy.. Oh, and this is another supa-dupa difficult jump! a-ah! Sheesh! Try it again! YEAH! Forth try! Great!" This speedrun: "First try! Incredible! Wow! It looks so easy! Ah! Sick! Amazing!"

[@ScrimmyBunglets]

I N S T A N U T

[@Jungkookslayer6552]

Nice to see small ant at a larger show!!!!! Good run!!

[@andrewmurphy8234]

Amazing Run! next to flawless and in a Room with hundreds of people looking over your shoulder.

[@carlosn3511]

thanks for crediting the staff!

[@kirionDK]

Didn't know moons could be used like flex tape. Thanks GDQ!

[@Eagles4theewin]

I can't unsee the Mario Nose jiggle.

[@danielb6431]

40:31 "You're under arrest"

[@CharlieGreasby]

Amazing watching this how far the run has come up to now with Tyrone’s records

[@sidney1122]

The controls in this game are just so smooth

[@krono-or7nb]

I've had Odyssey for a while now and I've yet to any% it yet. this run inspired me

[@pearspeedruns]

Did you end up running it?

[@lushvoodoo]

Great run, fantastic couch with a lot of energy! Big props to the runner and couch for being so amazing! gg

[@cowdotking5012]

“Grand deep Mario lore.” “Why not blue coins? I think we all know why not blue coins.”

[@Spock1777]

Mario has collected Stars, Shines (which are basically suns), and Moons. Mario Iliad will have you collecting planets.

[@kjell73]

this binary timer under the normal timer is so cool

[@Flexy59]

True lol especially when you saw that patterb several times and then just think "yo, this looks weirdly specific"

[@amiante2000]

Just dont have people reading script on the couch. Never.

[@ditto31]

correct me if im wrong, but arent most gdq runs scripted?

[@amiante2000]

HungryDitto _ theres a difference, in my opinion, in being prepare and know when you will explain some tricks in ardvance, and straight up reading a text off of your phone all the time. Ofc things are scripted to an extent, but I do not recall have seen someone reading almost all the time.

[@ditto31]

true, i think they shouldve just took out the jokes. The rest of the commentary was good.

[@violetasuklevska9074]

Odyssey has no real major skips, so they where looking for little optimisations trying to make the most out of the couch. I wasn't terrible, a minute 40 off of record, they gotta practice on their strats/jokes more to pose a threat.

[@raze2012_]

I don't mind scripted jokes, but they were SOOOOO bad and cringy. The run and explanations make up for it, but man.

[@DrDrub]

The commentary is the best I've ever seen

[@SeeTv.]

This is what I was waiting for!

[@bjornwithit]

Odyssey is sick af

[@ariald869]

If it is sick I hope it recovers soon

[@mrdr.pepper2235]

atur chomicz How

[@noahevans423]

I have watched this six times and counting...

[@Cowasaki]

All the boss fight deaths are BROODAL

[@bulba459]

Touché

[@peppy619]

Good to see muh boi NicroVeda in GDQ!!! Hope you'll reclaim your title as WR holder soon!

[@fenriswoof3021]

53:57 Nokium is much harder and stiffer than Nintendium. But because of shortages recently, designers of modern armor had to resort to Titanium alloys, carbon fiber as they are a slightly weaker but effective substitude

[@mAcroFaze]

Whilst I love the sentiment and passion behind GDQ, the main event is meant to be the games, speedrunning and breaking them, naturally. Having some great commentators is always a bons but unfortunately the reeeeally forced, scripted jokes this time round fell flat a whole lot of the time to the point it nearly put me off watching the rest of the run. I'd fathom a guess that script-writing and stand-up isn't the forte of anyone on the couch, and whilst I appreciate that they maybe had to sit round together, discuss which jokes they wanted to pepper into their script, who'd say what and when and then probably practice this script with eachother (sounds like overkill, huh!) the humour just felt straight up awkward. Aside from that, absolutely amazing run!

[@KevSB07]

mAcroFaze why does everyone think it seems forced? I really liked the jokes and think they executed them perfectly

[@DaNintendude]

51:21 the only scripted joke that made me chuckle. Overall, poor commentary jokes aside, this was a great run and I had fun watching it. The last run I saw of this game was about a month or two after launch, so it was much longer than this. Nice to see how far it has come.

[@KevSB07]

Da Nintendude you didn’t like the purple goop insta death joke? All of the jokes were great, I don’t know what everyone’s talking about

[@ledoorsby7776]

27:00 It doesn’t fix it, it just seals it with the ultra strong FLEX TAPE

[@ArcRay20]

26:49 they make the joke that he will die, but i found out that you can actually pause and teleport right as soon as you touch the poison. but im pretty sure this method was faster.

[@smurfquake]

Our Conway lovin' boy, congrats on the honor of running there, love ya babe.

[@richardjoyce2764]

this guy IS the TAS!

[@Simok1234]

Top level Odyssey gameplay is so satisfying.

[@m.mproductions2461]

Superb Mayo Odd-do-seek

[@BrunoVentura22]

52:35 Commentary missed one part of the crossover - the wheels fired by spyro are the Silencers symbol, from Hotwheels acceleracers.

[@bbuchanan110]

What you're watching is Mario's training routine for the Olympic games.

[@kckondor2]

Nicro Veda is the sunshine to my Mario

[@GilbertTang]

Mind blowing. Thank you so much for this.

[@peppy619]

please check his channel: NicroVeda, you'll see even better runs than this one (which is understandable, it's not the same doing it in front of a crowd)

[@NotNite]

1:03:58 would have been a world record a few months ago. Now it's an 'average run' to NicroVeda.

[@95ZR580]

A marathon rule needs to be implemented that no person, runner, couch commenter, or audiance member shall be allowed to talk, other then the exception of announcers donation readings, while wooded kingdom music is playing.

[@Arbmosal]

"that's the best song" *Completely talks over it* :D

[@desantemeh2122]

The commentary was fine. I can see they tried to do something fun. Also the run was awesome. Good job mates

[@JaDX243]

Desante Meh emphasis on the word try

[@xspaggx]

Like a donator said, "Hat-ers gonna hat." When they banded together and decided to do whatever they wanted to do with commentary, they stuck with it and definitely had fun while showing off an amazing skill. That's THEIR brand of comedy. Not anyone else's. I enjoyed it, even the bits people thought were fucking awful. Where's everyone else's posted runs?

[@AustinGlander]

I like how after he cursed in the end, Mario and bowser quickly turn to the camera and gasp as if he had done a terrible thing

[@creeperstkoed6282]

I just noticed the timer has binary behind it

[@Invinzible001]

It's so cool seeing how the game has changed over the past 4 years. I watch these guys speedrun the game now, and the routing is mostly the same but I'm curious how things ended up changing and when

[@jamesbuckwas6575]

YES!!!! I WAS WAITING FOR THIS!!!!

[@1e1001]

HD _nose_ rumble

[@PurpleFreezerPage]

This donation reader is rad.

[@arnar-on-youtube]

These speedrunners really do push the skill CAP of the game.

[@aketsuuu]

NicroVeda...a fellow Canadian playin' some SMO for the live audience. Interested to watch this.

[@QuadAA]

I really wish they would let the run speak for itself more, literally explaining something as it is done. I have watched dozens of these runs and never get tried of watching them even with only small amounts of commentary. NicroVeda was both the best runner and commentator in this instance so good on him because we are here for him.

[@leujin]

I legit did not know you could do the spin-thrust with the Bullet Bill. There's a late game moon that would have been MUCH MUCH easier to get had I known about it. Oh well.

[@linkownsall100]

leujin maaaan I know the one you’re taking about... is it in the Sand Kingdom? The one on top of the block and you have to bullet bill towards it? I had no idea you could spin thrust either. Did it in the end a long time ago but knowing this would of made it easy.

[@z3ig332]

leujin If only it said on your screen that you can shake to go faster...

[@TimoKanal]

I absolutely loved the commentary. I don't know why many people disliked it. Of course it was scripted. Is that bad? I agree that some jokes could have been taken out, and some other parts could have been less scripted, but funny bad jokes are just a part of GDQ and otherwise they delivered non-stop unique, very informative and entertaining commentary like no other and I appreciate trihex and the other putting so much work into it.

[@Zenkirune]

I don't think the script itself is the issue, if scripted it can be genuinely fine IF the delivery was good. But the issues I have is that... well, it wasn't good, or even that subtle, the person they had to read out the jokes would have been fine if he put oomph into them, but he kept really deadpan with his delivery, not to mention whenever they all shared a joke, which was one of the worst things because it really rubbed in your face that it was scripted. They even scripted *reacting* to bad jokes, which made it feel just... fake? The worst part was probably Spike though, you can tell he wasn't expected to be sitting there and wasn't written into their script. It resulted in one of (in my opinion) GDQ's best commentators, ESPECIALLY on a game he dumped a ton of hours into, just kind of sitting there awkwardly filling air and not saying nearly anything. As the run goes on you can see he just starts getting uncomfortable and it's kind of hard to watch. That said, the actual run itself was beautiful, and when they talked tricks, they did a good job of talking tricks, I adore Odyssey as a speed game, it's just disappointing that the couch's attempts to banter was... that. Even if you go with the angle that it was a parody (The REALLY obviously forced jokes, blatantly looking at slides on a phone, Trihexx intentionally leaking his own script), it wasn't a parody that was funny, and it still doesn't change they kind of outcast Spike by not really including him in the commentary.

[@jamiehoward6505]

I've seen wrestling matches more real than this

[@TimoKanal]

Well I don't care about Spike sitting there awkwardly honestly, I love him but I care about the commentary and concentrate on the game and speedrun. You don't have to get uncomfortable just because others maybe got uncomfortable, I didn't even look at him during the run and I'm sure Spike is fine with it because he commentates on so many other runs. And it's definitely true that some things were just overscripted and stuff that can be improved on the next time they plan a commentary, I just really think it was not nearly as bad as some people make it out to be.

[@Tustin2121]

Zenkirune - I agree, wasting Spike on the couch was the cherry on top of this horribleness. Some of the best commentaries come from when the guys on the couch know the game being played by heart and can explain in depth about why something happened at the drop of a hat. This whole thing being pre-scripted down to the jokes made it feel like they were there for namesake rather than because they knew the run.

[@bert6236]

I just thought a majority of the jokes were bad or cringy. For example at 39:14 the whole terrible breath thing, I would've much rather them talk about how the trick (where can talk to the shopkeeper from so far away) works instead of some joke. Could just be me though, I prefer informative over "entertaining" commentary. I feel that the gameplay and tricks are entertainment enough, and with how fast some of these game speedruns are having these tricks explained helps understand what is going on.

[@pkkevin11]

27:04 TAH. I almost died laughing

[@doxazo5512]

42:20, Thunderpants Jr. XD

[@heyyou8915]

Imagine what Nicro would be like at Luigi's Balloon World...

[@charlesajones77]

That's not how WD40 works.

[@wildboar67]

i hate the commentary too but WD40 actually can be used to buff car scratches

[@danielraimundo2978]

Odyssey might be the BEST Open World Mario above every other.

[@SiliassOmega]

59:42 Oh god they rehearsed that... smdh.

[@leogargagliano4545]

New to smo speed running and speed running in general. I have a few questions 1: are there any tips I should know And 2: is it faster to go lake kingdom before forest and snow before beach?

[@BillyTheFunny69]

funny how gdq started out pretty small 5+ years ago and has grown exponentially

[@raze2012_]

Guess that's the one good thing about coporate intervention. They have the sheer money to scale and advertise events.

[@niftswift]

I'm watching this about a year too late, but some great commentary from Ant! \o/

[@Gr00mp]

This run is so fucking smooth, god damn. It's like the dev's wanted this to be speedrun.

[@Mooftwo]

If anyone but Trihex was doing these scripted jokes, i would hate it. But its Trihex.

[@Highrax]

lol hi

[@willlozinak5182]

first speed runner ive seen with swag

[@markquemj]

He got that I N S T A - N U T

[@LOGAN-de9ub]

What a great speed run everything worked really well good rng

[@musicalbrit3465]

EdgyVeggie there is next to no rng in an odyssey run. Everything is the same every run, things like bits depend on how fast you are earlier in the kingdom