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It was an unusually musical Awesome Games Done Quick this yr, with an Elden Ring hitless boss showcase carried out utilizing an electrical saxophone controller, adopted by a Crazy Taxi speedrun with a stay backing band.
The authentic soundtrack of Crazy Taxi by Bad Religion and The Offspring is an important a part of its attraction, but in addition a positive approach to get a DMCA strike in your video of it. To get round that, runner chuckles825 carried out this run with Limiter Cut, a backing band shaped for the event. They performed the songs to a thrilled viewers, skipping to the following observe when chuckles825 completed every stage and restarting no matter music they have been taking part in when he goofed and, as an illustration, drove a complete taxi-load of grandmas into the ocean.
It’s not the form of speedrun you watch to study how numerous glitches and skips are carried out—the all-romances speedrun of Fallout: New Vegas went a little bit deeper on that stuff. This one you look ahead to the leisure worth of recurring arduous stops each time a stage’s full adopted by the drummer doing that snippet of Change the World over the menu display screen.
You can inform the music order was chosen to swimsuit the extent size, so don’t be concerned, you will get to listen to an honest quantity of Bad Religion’s glorious Ten in 2010. (And much less of The Offspring’s not-so-great Way Down the Line.) While clearly a take a look at of everybody concerned’s stamina, and the singer’s vocal cords particularly, it is a enjoyable watch and I’d be blissful to see them do one thing comparable subsequent yr. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater is the plain selection, however contemplate: Trombone Champ.
This yr AGDQ raised greater than $2.5 million for the Prevent Cancer Foundation, pushing the occasion’s lifetime fundraising complete over $54 million.