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Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back

I'm not familiar with the Crash Bandicoot series at all, so you should trust me when I say that this is a highlight run. It's just a super fun watch, as a speedrun of a pure platformer it's consistently entertaining throughout and has tons of cool execution, tricks, and the commentary is great throughout. This game is an especially good run for an uninitiated viewer because it's always so easy to see everything and easy to understand what the player needs to do to advance; the stakes are clear. Probably one of the better pure speedruns you'll see in the marathon.

- This is another game with slide kick canceling after Kirby. It's just a theme I guess! Apparently this game is particularly arthritis-inducing which is a shame.

- "We don't wanna bounce on these, so we're just gonna do this - okay, backup, so we're just gonna do that- okay, backup, so we're just gonna do THAT - I'm dead."

- There was almost a 'that's never happened before' in this run but he took it back.

- Apparently multiple possible chances to softlock your game in this, but all of them were avoided in this run, thankfully.

- I'm gonna dial in for this one, you guys talk about whatever. "Yeah, so this is the second snow level -" and he's already dead.

- "Beautiful. This is art. Spin these, slide back, slide back, slide back..."

- It is apparently a meme to insinuate that the lead dev put problems in the game just to mess with speedrunners.

- "Skip this flame, get over to these nitros, light this TNT and die. ...I did not die." "To be clear, dying was not the intended strat, it was just what potty was expecting."

- "You didn't die, we take those." "I did die. "You did? Well, it's midnight."

- I feel so bad for the donation comment in which they talked about playing this game as far as they could as a kid until they could save up to buy a memory card. I never had this problem as a kid - I didn't own a PS1, and my N64 came with a memory pak - but that's such a mood anyway. I totally get that feeling of just doing what you can.

- "You can kill seals with a charge by the way. A lot of people don't know that."

- This is the first time I've ever noticed someone mention having different input latency on the TV they're playing on, which is something that's always freaked me out about the idea of playing at GDQ. If something's even like a millisecond off I freak out. Potty seems to handle it though.

- On the game's gauntlet of three levels at the end - "One of them has a frame perfect trick, one of them you can't die at all [or the game softlocks], and one of them is just terrible."

- "I'm gonna say check this out assuming I do this perfect, so check this out."

- "That's it for me. I need to go to bed. Clap, I suppose." The audience clapped. He Jebbed the audience!