ERRRRRR ITS SPYRO NOT CRASH AHHHHHH😠😠😠😠😠 Jk both are amazing games equally (i like spyro more but mainly bc of Art Style and the little Open Worldness)
So glad you caught Lauras face on the turnaround rat proxy. Iconic moment in the history of Spyro speedrunning along with Dayo going "i am the best that ever was, and im humble"
The funny thing is, when the devs added that rat decades ago, I'm sure their thought process was something along the lines of "add cute animal for hub world because its cool" or whatever. Not a single thought was lost on the idea that this little rat could be used to sequence break the entire fucking game. It's so funny to me how such seemingly inconsequential decisions can have such a major impact down the line. All hail Dorito the rat
I find it amazing that anyone is willing to put themselves through that over and over again, where you can do everything right and still get your run killed 98% of the time at the end by something out of your control. Seems kind of sadistic, but impressive.
when you love what you do, there's nothing to it. getting up every day and pushing the limits of this amazing game every day gave me all the motivation i could have needed :)
yeah what laura said, i love playing this category and rat if anything gives it infinitely more replay value in a way. Just getting a good Dream Weavers exit time feels good regardless of what happens after that! I got my first WR on my 53rd WR pace into rat. And you might think with the time being way more optimized now it might be more frustrating, but no! Just getting a run that CAN wr into rat is a huge accomplishment and it feels really good. From the time I was first getting WR paces and averaging more than 1 pace a day into rat until now when ive gotten 1 WR pace into rat in the 22 days since Laura's 37:27, its been fun the whole time. I'm happy to be right here pushing for new levels of optimization with Laura and we're both doing it in a category we truly love and care about regardless of whether we get an end time pb or not!
If you think about it, it's no different than MMO players grinding raids for weeks or months on end for that one ultra-rare drop. I know of a guy who just finished seven months doing that going for a single item.
I adore these speedrunning rivalries where the record gets passed back and forth and that's some amazing gameplay by both Ash and Laura, they should be proud no matter where the record finally lands.
dude yeah they also totally must have almost lost their phone in copenhagen because they decided to skateboard down an escalator IM NEVER LETTING THAT GO
I've never understood how people persevere so well with such unreliable speedruns, for me even a 50% chance of being screwed over at the end is enough to add a bunch of frustration lol Great work, both to you on this fantastic video and to the runners who put so much work into these incredible runs!
I guess it's a similar appeal to watching a TAS with perfect movement and RNG luck complete it to see theoretically how fast you could beat the game if all the stars aligned perfectly.
@@connor3284 I don't know if this is a joke at the expense of autistic people or completely serious, but that does have a serious point. Being autistic can grant you an unbelievable amount of focus on a single thing... at the expense of pretty much everything else. A very "monkey's paw" situation.
The Resurrections music fits so well in that last bit. It sounds like there's not too much hope and then the moment the turnaround rat proxy is brought up, it moves to be intriguing, making you wonder "what would happen if that did happen in a run?" And then it happens. The music just FITS
It gets insane when someone discovers a new technique that shaves off time, even if its just a second, watching people do the wildest glitches all to save those nano seconds, its amazing to watch a speed running community grow
Seems like most speedrunning communities would delegate rat proxy to a separate category, because it's just a masochistic mechanic that poisons the rest of the run. Good video.
so glad this showed up in my feed, really hope you catch the algorithm cause you deserve it! the writing, pacing, edits, and everything else are so on point! Looking forward to future videos :>
I love how modular and long lasting the experience of video games can be that 23 years after a game's initial release such an unassuming little creature like this rat can become such a fiend
I've never even played Spyro, just seen some gameplay of it, but man the hook, editing and everything else that made this video up was amazing! Well done!
I just want to say that I played Spyro growing up as a kid and absolutely loved this game. I still remember all the tricks for 100% that me and my sisters learned over the years we had it as kids! But I wanted to share that your editing for this video was phenomenal! The timing of introducing "turn around rat proxy" with the Celeste OST was *chefs kiss*
I just want to formally apologize for the pain and loss i may have caused anyone over the years i am currently trying to better myself. Thank you for your support
I love videos like these its like making gaming achievements more understandable to normal people. Also learning how they do these things is such amazing investigation. Great work.
superb video about the hypest category of S1. you love to see laura and ash getting recognized for their massive mark on this game's speedrunning history
3:44 is where the clickbait title finally gets explained. Man, y'all speedrunners take fucking for-EVER to get to the point, which is extremely ironic, all things considered.
It's kinda wierd, whenever I watch some sort of speedrunning deep dive I never hear of any of the women who contribute to the journey or who get the records unless their the absolute first to try or the latest record holder at the time of writing. I'm not passive-aggressively saying it's actively malicious, just a weird trend.
Great video, clear narration, clear editing, and volumes are good. One criticism is that sometimes you blur the video a little too long before your text/visual comes on screen. A quick example would be 1:47, where the video is blurred for 2 seconds before the visual pops up. Compared to 1:55 just several seconds later, where the 'Wall Glide' text comes out right after the video is blurred. It's not a glaring flaw by any means, just something I noticed. I'll be checking out your other vids after this one. Cheers.
Just waiting for a random commenter to completely break the run by replying something like “what the rat was the hardest part for you? If you simply do X in level Y then the rat always stands on that exact spot”
Learning something new about one of my favorite games series of all time. I love the Reignited series, but theres a part of me that wants to play the old ps1 version of the original trilogy.
@@jomama3849 I know gender and sex and their differences can be confusing. I feel so sorry for you for having no desire for knowledge or the innate ability to understand such things. I will pray for you 🙏 ❤️
The quality of your content is mega dude; if this is your first channel/venture into making content for TH-cam, you're off to a really good start. Looking forward to seeing more for sure!
Ok lets take a moment to look at 1:11, my dude here just seamlessly plugged a subscribe to me segment without it being overly obnoxous. Without statistics, AND fit it into the topic of the video... just wow man, thats some thinking.
tbh, was half expecting some Wirtual Jazz or Summoning Salt Synth after seeing so many speedrun documentary copycats. XD Happy to see people can still make their own style of content.
I'm confused, I know I've seen in other speedruns that the top of the first dragon head in gnasty's world has no collision geometry. That was a huge deal in spyro speedrunning. So how do they land on it to jump over and clip through the top of the second dragon to get to gnasty?
only the middle one, the gnasty one, lacks collision! we use the rat to get on top of the gnorc cove portal, jump onto the twilight harbor head, then into the gnasty head :)
I used to make fun of speed runners but then I realised that speed running is it's own highly compedetive game and I actually get excited for every seccond people can shave off a reccord.
It's so weird to me that I know enough about spyro speed runs to know exactly what Rat proxy is without ever having played a single one of them and only watching WR prog videos
we're reaching the point of diminishing returns here, but theoretically it's not impossible! it'll require a mistakeless run from start to finish though. 36 whole minutes of not a single wrong move
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dude i love crash bandicoot
amazing video, quaide! thank you so much for telling this story 💛
ERRRRRR ITS SPYRO NOT CRASH AHHHHHH😠😠😠😠😠
Jk both are amazing games equally (i like spyro more but mainly bc of Art Style and the little Open Worldness)
@@DexGen2002 I think his brain Spyroed out of control causing it to Crash.
OH HELL YES! LAURA!
good work on that 17 second save, crazy run
@Shosu Celadon Almost laughed, then I noticed the low like count.
Thats always how it goes, no records for years, someone FINALLY gets a new WR and within 24 hours its gone lol.
So glad you caught Lauras face on the turnaround rat proxy. Iconic moment in the history of Spyro speedrunning along with Dayo going "i am the best that ever was, and im humble"
Imagine saying these words at any other time in history
I’d like to formally apologize to all Spyro speedrunners, I’m sorry for ruining 97.65% of your runs
i forgive you
Says rat the pinsir
69?
Some crimes can never be forgiven
Pinsirat
HES THE (tiny) RAT WHO KILLS ALL OF THE RUNS
Let's see what kind of records he can keep from being done!
nah I mean comparing it to Spyro that rat's pretty big
@@grape_protogen Rats! We're rats! We are the rats!
It actually only kills 0.3% of runs. The rest of the runs are all done by Rats Georg, who intentionally kills his speedrun to the rat.
Rats Georg is an outlier and shouldn't have been counted smhh
😭😭
“Is this a successful Spyro speedrun?”
“No, this is Ratrick.”
No this is Patric
you mean *Rat-trick?* :p
Ratrick: "I am *NOT* a Gnasty Gnorc!"
Sparx: "Uh, Ratrick, that's the name of the realm."
Ratrick: "Huh?" *Dowump of realization
Love the way this rat is randomly given a lot of importance, it's really funny lol
hi ralsei
Heeeey, it's the guy that 100% Celeste deathless!
The funny thing is, when the devs added that rat decades ago, I'm sure their thought process was something along the lines of "add cute animal for hub world because its cool" or whatever. Not a single thought was lost on the idea that this little rat could be used to sequence break the entire fucking game. It's so funny to me how such seemingly inconsequential decisions can have such a major impact down the line. All hail Dorito the rat
I find it amazing that anyone is willing to put themselves through that over and over again, where you can do everything right and still get your run killed 98% of the time at the end by something out of your control. Seems kind of sadistic, but impressive.
when you love what you do, there's nothing to it. getting up every day and pushing the limits of this amazing game every day gave me all the motivation i could have needed :)
yeah what laura said, i love playing this category and rat if anything gives it infinitely more replay value in a way. Just getting a good Dream Weavers exit time feels good regardless of what happens after that! I got my first WR on my 53rd WR pace into rat. And you might think with the time being way more optimized now it might be more frustrating, but no! Just getting a run that CAN wr into rat is a huge accomplishment and it feels really good. From the time I was first getting WR paces and averaging more than 1 pace a day into rat until now when ive gotten 1 WR pace into rat in the 22 days since Laura's 37:27, its been fun the whole time. I'm happy to be right here pushing for new levels of optimization with Laura and we're both doing it in a category we truly love and care about regardless of whether we get an end time pb or not!
If you think about it, it's no different than MMO players grinding raids for weeks or months on end for that one ultra-rare drop. I know of a guy who just finished seven months doing that going for a single item.
You mean Masochistic, right?
Sadistic means "Enjoying others suffering"
Masochistic means "Enjoying your own suffering"
@@KittyKatty999 Yes, that is what I mean
I LOVE THE SPYRO RAT ❤ I LOVE THE SPYRO RAT ❤ I LOVE THE SPYRO RAT ❤ I LOVE THE SPYRO RAT ❤
Dorito the rat
Still not as good as Halo 3 rat
🐁
@@No_True_Scotsman Halo 3 rat is canonically Spyro rat's son.
🐀
I adore these speedrunning rivalries where the record gets passed back and forth and that's some amazing gameplay by both Ash and Laura, they should be proud no matter where the record finally lands.
We went in depth about how hard it was to save a couple seconds, but we're just gonna gloss over how SEVENTEEN seconds were saved at the end???
the video making process was disrupted a few times by the records being set LOL but yeah, genuinely the stars aligned for that run :)
Nice vid. Whoever was the first to go for rat proxy must have been crazy
you should break any % record this week just to make this video out of date
Dayo return to Any% to smash the record confirmed
They might have been reasonably good at the game
dude yeah they also totally must have almost lost their phone in copenhagen because they decided to skateboard down an escalator IM NEVER LETTING THAT GO
And evil. “I’m gonna do this vanishingly rare bug to set this wr. Let’s see who can beat it haha”
"Ah, the rat. So it has a name. It *HAD* a name."
It makes me so happy to see my best friend own at TH-cam this hard, ur goin places brother love u ❤
Oh shit its Pint! Love your vids!!!
Great video mate. I wish you continued success with your channel.
Glad to see a small content creator supporting another
Hey Matt
I know you won't read this, but consider spyro speedrunning mate.
It'll be fun you playing spyro. you seem like a spyro guy
@@CoffeeSuccubus happy to teach! 😉
Great comment mate. I wish you continued succes with your Channel.
I've never understood how people persevere so well with such unreliable speedruns, for me even a 50% chance of being screwed over at the end is enough to add a bunch of frustration lol
Great work, both to you on this fantastic video and to the runners who put so much work into these incredible runs!
I was about to agree and then I remembered how shite I am at PUBG after 2.4k hours
The power of autism.
I guess it's a similar appeal to watching a TAS with perfect movement and RNG luck complete it to see theoretically how fast you could beat the game if all the stars aligned perfectly.
@@connor3284 I don't know if this is a joke at the expense of autistic people or completely serious, but that does have a serious point. Being autistic can grant you an unbelievable amount of focus on a single thing... at the expense of pretty much everything else. A very "monkey's paw" situation.
The Resurrections music fits so well in that last bit. It sounds like there's not too much hope and then the moment the turnaround rat proxy is brought up, it moves to be intriguing, making you wonder "what would happen if that did happen in a run?"
And then it happens. The music just FITS
its fascinating how often speedruns are like this, someone seems to 'unlock' a certain level of speed, and suddenly everyone is doing it
I’ve started to refer to it as an “era of optimization.” im glad to be on the cutting edge of one, and i promise we arent done yet ^_^
It gets insane when someone discovers a new technique that shaves off time, even if its just a second, watching people do the wildest glitches all to save those nano seconds, its amazing to watch a speed running community grow
Nice vid
Ngl I feel really happy for Laura that she was able to reclaim it so hard. 3 times in a row! Unbelievable
Well, i'm impressed.. no idea what i'm watching, but me & Laura go way back 😁
love you dad ❤❤❤
@@lumilauraa Love you too! 👏🏼❤️
Seems like most speedrunning communities would delegate rat proxy to a separate category, because it's just a masochistic mechanic that poisons the rest of the run. Good video.
I remember finding out about the wall glide as a kid and exploiting the shit outta it every chance I got.
so glad this showed up in my feed, really hope you catch the algorithm cause you deserve it! the writing, pacing, edits, and everything else are so on point! Looking forward to future videos :>
Sometimes im fully convinced that you have to be on the spectrum to want to do speedruns in the first place lol
I had no idea a rat could be such an obstacle
Take it from an ex-Don; rats will destroy you more than the law.
"You, dirty rat. You killed my world record."
I love how modular and long lasting the experience of video games can be that 23 years after a game's initial release such an unassuming little creature like this rat can become such a fiend
I did not expect this much competitive drama within a few minutes of casual explanation. I felt hyped!
TH-cam algorithm got me here. How does a video with this high quality editing and writing not have more views? I hope this blows up!
I've never even played Spyro, just seen some gameplay of it, but man the hook, editing and everything else that made this video up was amazing! Well done!
ngl this is maybe the best speedrun explained video ive ever watched please get this guy more subscribers
I just want to say that I played Spyro growing up as a kid and absolutely loved this game. I still remember all the tricks for 100% that me and my sisters learned over the years we had it as kids!
But I wanted to share that your editing for this video was phenomenal! The timing of introducing "turn around rat proxy" with the Celeste OST was *chefs kiss*
Quality video from a small creator. Thanks for the effort and congrats to both runners, and take my sub :D
I just want to formally apologize for the pain and loss i may have caused anyone over the years i am currently trying to better myself. Thank you for your support
Sonic: "Holy smokes, that's some world record! How'd you do it?"
Knuckles: "Rats!"
As a now 76 year old boomer,
Dorito the Rat will always be a champ
It's him! The giant rat that makes all of the rules!
new rat proxy drops the percentage a lot!
Bro imagine giving your kids a copy of Spyro, and 45 minutes later they're like, here I beat it.
That turn around rat proxy was amazing
I love videos like these its like making gaming achievements more understandable to normal people. Also learning how they do these things is such amazing investigation. Great work.
superb video about the hypest category of S1. you love to see laura and ash getting recognized for their massive mark on this game's speedrunning history
Wait where are those subscribe buttons? Dangit i cant believed i missed that in spyro!
Man I love speed run history like this, even if it's recent history. Great video.
3:44 is where the clickbait title finally gets explained.
Man, y'all speedrunners take fucking for-EVER to get to the point, which is extremely ironic, all things considered.
i paused john wick 4 for this video thank you
That’s my girl… the waking up at 5am from 3 years old and me sticking her in front of Spyro payed off 😂 (I wasn’t a lazy parent, honest) x
love you mum ❤❤❤
Cutest comment thread sighted!
i love how batshit insane speedrunners are. like it takes ungodly dedication for this stuff, all for a couple of seconds difference between each other
nah this run looks fun this definitely makes me want to learn
you should! its a great category and you should give it a go ^^
i dont like to hit subscribe buttons when someone tells me too
Brilliant title and thumb, this one going places
That rat is just too adorable, I feel bad that he caused so much trouble
Remember to take brakes.
Wait.
a 17 seconds shave is insane! wow!
I knew nothing about the speedrunning world before TH-cam recommended this to me, but I'm so invested now (and Team Laura!)
So this is Spyro's version of what the Dreadbox used to be in Freedom Planet. Neat!
That darn dirty rat has done so many of us runners dirty
the rat = threat
It's kinda wierd, whenever I watch some sort of speedrunning deep dive I never hear of any of the women who contribute to the journey or who get the records unless their the absolute first to try or the latest record holder at the time of writing.
I'm not passive-aggressively saying it's actively malicious, just a weird trend.
You know the funniest thing is that in all my years playing Spyro I've yet to see - let alone collect - a single subscribe button.
Inside of me there are two rats.
One of them... is spinning,
and the other rat...
IS ALSO SPINNING
awesome speedrun documentary!! Spyro is my favorite trilogy (the 3rd game is my favorite!) and I love hearing about such cool tricks!
1:11 that’s not an image of the dragon eggs from the first game. That’s an image of the dragon eggs from the third game
Great video, clear narration, clear editing, and volumes are good.
One criticism is that sometimes you blur the video a little too long before your text/visual comes on screen. A quick example would be 1:47, where the video is blurred for 2 seconds before the visual pops up. Compared to 1:55 just several seconds later, where the 'Wall Glide' text comes out right after the video is blurred.
It's not a glaring flaw by any means, just something I noticed. I'll be checking out your other vids after this one. Cheers.
Such a long run to beat that was at a later time
This is the giant rat that makes all of the rules.
Just waiting for a random commenter to completely break the run by replying something like “what the rat was the hardest part for you? If you simply do X in level Y then the rat always stands on that exact spot”
nice insight into any%, quality content
Learning something new about one of my favorite games series of all time. I love the Reignited series, but theres a part of me that wants to play the old ps1 version of the original trilogy.
WHAT DA RAT DOIN
Great video! Very interesting and informative. Keep up the good work.
Here comes a boss fight! You'd be fighting... a tiny rat.
She IS the Queen of Spyro. None deserve the title more.
I think Laura and Ash are both amazing ladies!
@d.r8482 get out
@@jomama3849 I'm glad you two can amuse each other-- I'm sure you get so tired of your crayons from time to time 😁 bless your heart!
@@jomama3849 I know gender and sex and their differences can be confusing. I feel so sorry for you for having no desire for knowledge or the innate ability to understand such things. I will pray for you 🙏 ❤️
The average sized rat that makes all the rules
Speedrunners’ lives ruined by a literal rat.
he’s the giant rat that makes all of da rules
Here I was, thinking the rat from Endgame was essential!
I actually did this glitch by accident once, when just messing around in that area. I was so surprised that it was a thing.
The quality of your content is mega dude; if this is your first channel/venture into making content for TH-cam, you're off to a really good start. Looking forward to seeing more for sure!
I was not expecting the glitch to work that way
honestly this just seems so cool :)
The Rat Taketh, but the Rat also Giveth
Props to these two runners for dragon down the WR time this far in a short span of time! Seems unlikely to go much lower without new tech, I guess?
i love these kinds of videos so happy to have found this! will watch now while i eat some grub! :)
Ok lets take a moment to look at 1:11, my dude here just seamlessly plugged a subscribe to me segment without it being overly obnoxous. Without statistics, AND fit it into the topic of the video... just wow man, thats some thinking.
My favorite collectables from the game was always the Subscribe Button's ^^
Yeah, subscribe% is probably the best category for running the game.
@@tales9476 Exactly lol 😂
tbh, was half expecting some Wirtual Jazz or Summoning Salt Synth after seeing so many speedrun documentary copycats. XD
Happy to see people can still make their own style of content.
the rat that makes all of the rules
I shall call him Master Splinter.
Very well made video
To resume this story: RATS!
I'm confused, I know I've seen in other speedruns that the top of the first dragon head in gnasty's world has no collision geometry. That was a huge deal in spyro speedrunning.
So how do they land on it to jump over and clip through the top of the second dragon to get to gnasty?
only the middle one, the gnasty one, lacks collision! we use the rat to get on top of the gnorc cove portal, jump onto the twilight harbor head, then into the gnasty head :)
Twilight Harbor dragon head is built solid and has collision, the top of the Gnasty head does not have collision
Two speedrunners locked in a fucking R A T battle
I used to make fun of speed runners but then I realised that speed running is it's own highly compedetive game and I actually get excited for every seccond people can shave off a reccord.
I'm so glad Pitfall: The Lost Expedition is getting the spotlight. So thankful for Laura for giving it the time of day.
Also fantastic video!
It's so weird to me that I know enough about spyro speed runs to know exactly what Rat proxy is without ever having played a single one of them and only watching WR prog videos
Yo this video was so good. Underrated TH-camr right here ❤️ wish you the best king
if this continues they might break the 37 minute barrier
we're reaching the point of diminishing returns here, but theoretically it's not impossible! it'll require a mistakeless run from start to finish though. 36 whole minutes of not a single wrong move