Pokemon Puzzle League - 1P Stadium (Super Hard) speedrun in

Sdílet
Vložit
  • čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
  • 15:35 after re-time. Sorry about the desync, capturing with a Dazzle on OBS is weird. And headphone warning after I get way too loud after the Mewtwo kill.
    This was the run of a life. Only reset a few times, and didn't get THAT lucky throughout the run. Great situational awareness to get those quick kills, and used the new strategy of dropping garbage after AI raised their stack on the first half of the run. This resets their stop time and gives them less time for a clear.
    Old WR was 17:01, and we skipped over 16:xx entirely. This category is close to dead - though sub 15 is possible with close to zero resets.
    Thanks to everyone who was watching! -- Watch live at / taymannd
    Explanation for the run:
    The way puzzle league works is that you swap blocks around. Swapping three or more of the same color in a row causes them to clear and the blocks above to fall down. If you clear four or more blocks in a row, that's a combo. If you clear blocks and blocks fall down to clear again, that's a chain. Combos and chains send garbage blocks to your opponent. If your screen is filled up entirely with garbage, an invisible timer called stop time counts down. When it hits zero, you die. Stop time is paused when blocks or garbage is cleared, and doing chains increases your stop time above the default.
    Now, the AI has a weird quirk in this game. They're programmed to clear the lowest garbage block on their screen. So I start a chain with a four combo, then get another four combo in that chain to send two small garbage blocks below the big chain garbage block. If one of these falls to the bottom, and the AI can't find a clear on it, their cursor will freak out before dying, even if they had clears elsewhere on the board. So while I'm chaining, I'm also watching the AI's screen for an opportunity to drop my garbage. I want the AI to chain a lot to leave an opening for garbage.
    Because the AI on the first half of the game has slower cursor speed and doesn't chain as much, I have a backup strategy where I send my garbage as soon as the AI raises their stack. Raising the stack resets the stop time to default, giving them less time to find a clear on the garbage. This doesn't work on latter half AI, since their cursor speed is so good, but they chain a lot more, meaning it's easier to drop garbage to the bottom and get a quick kill that way.
    This game has a ton of RNG, as you'd expect, but you can mitigate some of that by chaining a lot and having good timing. Everything came together in this run to wreck the previous WR (17:01), where I got lucky on some stages and made very few mistakes. I did accidentally dropped my chain on Mewtwo, but luckily he left his stack really high on the right, so I could still top him off with garbage.

Komentáře • 48

  • @CrossyChainsaw
    @CrossyChainsaw Před 4 lety +46

    I feel like if this game deserves way more attention, like the should make it a competitive game or something and re-release it that would be amazing

    • @Darkscenes-jp4ge
      @Darkscenes-jp4ge Před 4 lety

      Pokemon games is about catching pokemon and battling them not some stupid puzzle solving crap

    • @CrossyChainsaw
      @CrossyChainsaw Před 4 lety +15

      Dark. scenes3578 i'm not even gonna argue with you

    • @CrossyChainsaw
      @CrossyChainsaw Před 4 lety +3

      Dark. scenes3578 but i could agree that they dont have to remake it with pokemon at least make an tetris attack remake, how could they let a fun game like this just die

    • @Meat-Puppet
      @Meat-Puppet Před 3 lety +2

      I agree, I played this so much as a kid I would see moving blocks in my eyes like screen burn in

    • @Meat-Puppet
      @Meat-Puppet Před 3 lety +2

      @@Darkscenes-jp4ge It's just an improved tetris attack with a pokemon theme. I don't see a problem with it. I also love real pokemon games

  • @kizznillroy07
    @kizznillroy07 Před 4 lety +7

    I don’t even want to play after watching that. That was crazy. You are insane at this game.

  • @MitchBison
    @MitchBison Před 4 lety +7

    Nutty good run. That was impressive. Beating Pokémon Puzzle League on Super Hard was already the hardest game I've ever beaten. Clearing it in less than 16 minutes is wild. 👏🏻

  • @7hou
    @7hou Před 5 lety +9

    i was laughing everytime you slammed your keyboard for the next segment, followed by “LETS GO!” lol. congrats on WR!

  • @BlackFriday242
    @BlackFriday242 Před 5 lety +7

    DUDE. Amazing. Seen this posted on r/speedrun. Used to play this game as a kid, and this totally blew my mind.
    GG

  • @ronin7561
    @ronin7561 Před 3 lety +1

    This guy looks like a fusion between Bill Murray and Rainn Wilson and gained some weight
    Good run Bill Wilson

  • @nogard8541
    @nogard8541 Před 5 lety +5

    Insane run dude! Makes me wanna get back into running it myself just for fun (I wasn't very good; I think I managed 35:48 on my best recorded run). Congrats on the record =D

  • @AriochStarr
    @AriochStarr Před 4 lety

    Just came over from ProJared's archived footage of this gameplay, and my god, you are a freaking god at this game.
    I played something similar to this but forget what it's called and sucked at it. Nice to see someone own this shit.

  • @zmslayer69
    @zmslayer69 Před 3 lety

    God this game, this mario kart 64 and sonic riders were the games I played a lot as a kid, took me about 2 years of watching my brother go from easy to super hard for me to get interested and another year to win against mewtwo on super hard for the first time.
    I have really fond memories of this game.
    I would play it nowadays but I have no idea where my nintendo 64 is.

  • @damianjones5638
    @damianjones5638 Před 2 lety

    I literally can't leave this game alone

  • @newphilmz3605
    @newphilmz3605 Před 4 lety +1

    Nice run. What more can I say

  • @PKMNwww411_MkII
    @PKMNwww411_MkII Před 5 lety +1

    08'57 in-game time awesome WR

  • @ryonlewis5895
    @ryonlewis5895 Před 2 lety

    Yeah I am remember doing this one and watching the end credit for a secret code and was disappointed that none was there after completing s-hard

  • @GabMacedoo
    @GabMacedoo Před 3 lety

    This is insane

  • @Spheal777
    @Spheal777 Před 4 lety +2

    This is literally the first time I've seen bruno pick primape as his choice it's hilarious to me lol congrats on the world record

    • @NurseWalker
      @NurseWalker Před 2 lety

      The title says “former record”
      Has this one been broken?

  • @CrossyChainsaw
    @CrossyChainsaw Před 4 lety +1

    Does anyone know yet if its possible to play as gary (2). Like nidoqueen arcanine and kingler

    • @maxerAA
      @maxerAA  Před 4 lety +1

      There's no way to play as Gary 2 Pokemon, as far as I'm aware.

  • @dylanmtg
    @dylanmtg Před 4 lety +1

    Finally someone near my lvl. I do wish we could play across the interwebs :D

  • @CreadorDeBugs
    @CreadorDeBugs Před 2 lety

    Are the blocks a kind of tetris attack mod??

  • @nidoking1201
    @nidoking1201 Před 3 lety

    Are you on emulator? What controller are you using? I use XBox One controller but the joystick sensitivity is weird. Any controller recommendations?

    • @turnbomb4
      @turnbomb4 Před 3 lety +1

      Try the d-pad, I find it more accurate

  • @giovannapetito5010
    @giovannapetito5010 Před 4 lety +1

    I miss this game

  • @marquisekelly5431
    @marquisekelly5431 Před 5 lety

    Imma try this one day

  • @Stinger-rq4gy
    @Stinger-rq4gy Před 2 lety

    speedrunning destroys games

  • @MyelinGrey
    @MyelinGrey Před 5 lety +3

    Dude how did you get this good

    • @whs1pmjazz
      @whs1pmjazz Před 4 lety +1

      strats, dude. This run is all about taking advantage of the way the AI works, and cheesing it. If the AI wasn't as exploitable as it is, this game would be beyond rediculously hard. The main difficulty in running this game is being able to do the chains you need to do while also looking at the AI's screen and adjusting acoordingly, which is definitely no joke though.

    • @newphilmz3605
      @newphilmz3605 Před 4 lety +1

      @@whs1pmjazz Could you explain a little on how he's manipulating the AI? I can see they act weird before they're defeated

    • @whs1pmjazz
      @whs1pmjazz Před 4 lety +5

      @@newphilmz3605 the AI will always go to try and get rid of the garbage block nearest to their regular blocks. So, a puzzle league speedrunner always starts their chains with a 4 in a row combo, which produces the smallest size garbage block, which has the best chance of falling down further and creating some space between that small garbage block, and the rest of the garbage blocks. This separation is very important, and allows a runner to cheese the AI in two ways: first, because the AI will always go to clear that small garbage block first if it has fallen lower than the rest of the garbage stack, they can lose if the rest of the garbage stack has reached the top in the time taken to clear the unimportant little garbage block made from the 4 combo at the beginning of the chain. Second, if they don't have a way to directly clear that tiny garbage block, the AI will panic and their cursor will go up and down, thinking that they have no plays, EVEN if they have a way to clear the much larger garbage stack above, which is the actual way that you lose in this game. 2:39 is an example of the first scenario happening, and 9:13 is a good example of the second scenario happening

    • @maxerAA
      @maxerAA  Před 4 lety +1

      I started playing Tetris Attack (which is also a puzzle league game) when I was five. ^_^

    • @whs1pmjazz
      @whs1pmjazz Před 4 lety

      @@maxerAA quick check, was my explanation of the mechanics accurate?

  • @kuyuitokun9042
    @kuyuitokun9042 Před 4 lety

    How is your bigest combo?

  • @yandryliebth5296
    @yandryliebth5296 Před 3 lety +1

    no es tan bueno

  • @Eradica
    @Eradica Před 3 lety

    this is insane