I Beat Paper Mario Backwards... It Almost Killed Me

Tragic: Beloved Youtuber Pronounces Mario Like "mare-io" For An Hour Straight don't worry it adds comedic value :^)

the locals watching mario perform a complicated ritual involving hopping with ridiculous precision so he can walk into a whale from the back entrance: (twice, now):

Doing Paper Mario backwards crashes your sanity. Not Paper Mario.

It was nice of Luigi to clear the dungeons for you ahead of time.

Years of watching Stryder7x has prepared me for this video

If I remember correctly, there’s an ever worse glitch that can be done than that doll bullshit, badge duplication, which comes with the added bonus of being completely useless as badges work differently in pm64 meaning while yes you can duplicate the badge, when you go to wear it, the original and the copy are worn at the same time with no extra cost or benefit

"We need as many key items as possible." Oh boy, I know where this is going.

HE SAID IT! HE SAID PRESS A! LETS GOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

What's more shocking about this video is the fact that this is a speedrun category, let alone doing it at all

Sidenote: sushi is a lady fish

Pronouncing Mario like that crashes the viewers sanity

Press A! discovers that just because a game is broken doesn't mean it's easy to break. Knowing of these glitches already made this hilarious, you know the torment that is coming

I've been getting into speedrun history videos recently and my favorite thing about the scene is how many parallels to old shonen battle anime there are. You have rivalries, you have drama, you have mentor figures that support newcomers until they finally overcome them, you have outlandish names for glitches that are akin to special attack names, which you also have to do to such precision that there's assertions of "it took me 3 months to master this". And then you have a climax that isn't even the end, in which you smash a bad guy by flying 1000 steps into the air and crashing down on him. Real Goku vs Frieza energy right there.

The comedy between "Hell Isn't So Bad" and "Oh God It's That Bad! It's That Bad" made me laugh so hard. The distorted music also sold the descent into madness.

"I've played Paper M-A-rio before-" Immediate pause Ma-Mari-MAREi-MAri-MARE-io?! Lol, I'mma watch video now. Can't wait XD

Still looks like a better experience than Sticker Star

Everything I see of the old paper Mario reminds me strider7x

This reminds me of a challenge me and a couple friends did back in elementary school. Since you can get anywhere in the map with tweaking in diamond & pearl, i thought one day "hey, what if we all had a race and we have to beat the gyms backwards" it was like 2 days after the legend of our group taught us all how to tweak. The rules were simple, you couldn't do more than 1 gym a day, because the next day at recess you had to show the badge (to prevent people doing it more like 6 then 7 then 8. Instead of 8 then 7 then 6) and whoever finished that then beat the champion got to erase everyone else's save file. I was dead last because i didn't know how to navigate in tweak land, all i accomplished that whole school year was learning that there is a girl in a cave somewhere that double battles with a Kadabra (later found out it was in the cave on cycling route)

Every time you talk about doing a trick and having to "Press A" a little crowd cheers in my head

I know that this doesn't qualify for the speedrun leaderboards due to the usage of a practice ROM (and the likelihood that you didn't do this all in one go) but seeing someone who isn't half machine perform most of the tricks required for this without assistance and explain how difficult they are is honestly amazing. It's one thing to watch someone at GDQ do this sort of stuff and then casually say "That's actually really difficult" after 2 attempts, but watching someone who's probably about as good at performing these tricks as I am do it really emphasizes exactly how difficult these can be. By the way, there are actually 9 people who are on the leaderboard for Reverse All Cards, but one of those clears is on Wii VC and one is on Wii U VC.