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Super Bonk

If you are completely uninitiated with Super Bonk and haven't seen it before, you should just stop reading and watch this run. Go! Go watch. It's... it's a special game.

- "I'm guessing most of you have never heard of Super Bonk." Wrong, motherfucker! I know exactly what's in store here.

- "And I'm guessing most of you that have aren't familiar with the speedrun." Okay, got me there.

- Our second powerup stage is called Cronk Bonk. I'm not sure if that counts as a stupid tech name.

- "Now, in games like Mario when you get squashed by a giant block, you die, or in other games you take damage or get flattened. When you get squashed by a block in the Bonk series, you..." I'm not going to spoil this by finishing that sentence. You have to see it for yourself.

- God bless the story recaps for this game. "What would have happened if we continued act 2 is that we wind up in a large glass of orange juice, we would have found out the owner of the house is a large dinosaur (surprise), who would have consumed us with the orange juice, we would have to navigate through the innards of the dinosaur to the heart, where we would have to fight a large mustached parasite inside the heart, upon defeating the parasite the dinosaur would sneeze, launching Bonk out of his nostril at escape velocity and sending him straight to the moon. Now nobody will have any questions about why we start act 3 on the moon."

- "This cave contains Crabless Lake. as you may have guessed, we do not want to turn into a crab, so we're gonna wait for these crab blocks. the reason we do not want to be a crab is because, as the sign says, no crab can climb. they cannot climb vines, and they cannot climb waterfalls, so if you get turned into a crab there it's a time loss." Just explaining what we already obviously know.

- "This warp, we're gonna be getting skips not just act 3 but all of act 4, so you know what that means, I've got some storyline to catch everyone up on. What happens at the end of act 3 here, we would have fought a samurai rabbit riding a mechanical thing as the boss, and upon defeating the rabbit, the pyramid explodes, the rabbit drops a giant blue candy, and bonk has to go navigate the rest of the solar system to look for a way home. Then Bonk would find a large creature-made comet, have to infiltrate the comet, defeat the boss of that comet which is a mammoth with a vacuum cleaner nose, and then cause the comet to explode, launching bonk out at a very high velocity and of course what happens when bonk is exposed to extreme conditions, you get turned into a crab again. and then there's a final crab autoscroller which is at the beginning of act 5 and that's what we'll be warping to." He wasn't kidding. It was a crab autoscroller.

- Who could have predicted that leadostrich's favorite form is Ostrich Bonk?

- Despite the fact that this game is mostly just for laughs, there actually was some genuinely cool movement tech here, especially in the last level where Bonk uses an unintended enemy bounce to get higher.

- ANGELA <3

Bulk Slash

I mostly only like seeing this one run out of a curiosity for old Saturn games and games of this era in general. The visual style of this game looks really cool, and it might be kind of fun, but the run is boring; skip it.

- This game literally begins with like a 4 minute autoscroller. Not the best of speed games.

- We get our first HONK of the marathon from a donation comment. I feel like the socially-distanced crowd and the few years of online events have really cut down on the memes, for better or worse.

- The anime girl in this game is cute and her name is... Medical Flare? I can never tell if I'm hearing that right, but this is a game called Bulk Slash.

- I am interested in the fact that there's apparently a fan translation of this game that comes with voice acting. That's cool and kind of rare!

- "Yeah the final boss was your childhood best friend who you murdered, but you know, it's war. Anyway, that's Bulk Slash."

Alien Cabal

It's Awful Games Done Quick, in summer! That's not a bad thing. It's 6 minutes long, so go watch this run, because I can't adequately explain it, and neither can the runner. Something about not being authorized, bees, and tearing the fabric of time and space a lot.

- The company that made Alien Cabal isn't around anymore. Wow, you don't say!

- This game is very strange to watch, and unfortunately I feel like the runner being the only one on commentary hurts here, because like I said, he just doesn't have time to explain everything and that's not his fault. I have absolutely no idea what he's doing here and that hurts the run.

- "I got kind of discombobulated, which is easy, because every room looks the same."

- You know a run isn't going to plan when you have to revert back to the Bee Save.