2021_recap

2021

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Casual games
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Persona 1 PSP
    Really fun, way better than expected
Persona 2 PSP
    I had higher hopes for this game but it was still good
Persona 3 PSP
    Overall OK, was a miserable Hard mode experience. Has a lot of great parts though.
Zelda Skyward Sword 100%
    Very fun!
Super Mario 3D World
    Excellent. Champion's Toad
Mario & Luigi Partners in Time
    Excellent
Mario & Luigi Bowser's Inside Story
    Flushed it, not fun
Luigi's Mansion (race)
    Woot!
Rygar PS2 (race)
    Woot!
Dragon Quest XI Postgame
    Excellent
Star Ocean: The Second Story
    Haven't played a RPG this good in many years. Incredible
Wild ARMs
    Excellent

Touhou 6-18 (13 games)
    I could write a lot about Touhou, but really I had such an incredible fun time playing these games, way way more than I thought I would
Rusty
    Rusty!
Metroid Dread
	Excellent
Goemon SFC 2-4
    Super good!
Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon
    Super good! IMPACTO




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Speedgames
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Dragon Warrior Monsters All Gates
    I got run for this category that I'm generally happy with. It's very long, and mostly a casual run.

Rockman Zero 3
    Game is great, very fun & hard. Requires a serious amount of practice. Getting a sub 45 was good enough for me!

Dragon Quest III
    Trying to run this game might have been the most difficult endeavor for speedrunning for me up to this point - I put in a lot of time, research, and practice, did runs for almost 6 months, and have nothing to show for it, no PB. IMO the game is not insanely hard to perform, but man is it ridiculous to get it to cooperate to go fast. Unfortunately feels like a wasted effort. But I still like the game.

Rockman 8
    Similarly to DQIII, I did not get a PB in this game, after doing quite a bit of practice and research. But I feel less bad about this one really - I love RM8 dearly and I had a lot of fun trying again. I maybe could have put more time into this game for a PB but I think this game made me realize that extremely RNG heavy games really wear me down. I decided to focus elsewhere on some projects after this, some that I wanted to start or return to.

Dragon Quest VI
    After DQIII didn't pan out, I learned DQVI, which took multiple months of offline learning. A very large game. Despite DQIII being a disaster mostly, DQVI somehow (despite being the harder game) worked out really well. I got a sub-8 hour time in this game and I'm really proud of it. From an viewer perspective, it may have felt like this game and went very quickly, but I put a ton of effort into it offstream and it paid out. I don't plan on running this game again outside of some sort of marathon situation - it's very taxing to stay on top of everything. But I'm very happy to have finished it up well.

Dragon Warrior Monsters any%
    After getting the time I wanted in DQVI, DQM was on one of the speedruns on the "I want to improve my old PB one day" table, a old PB from 2013, and that's what I did. I improved it by quite a bit, and although there's some more time to be saved, I got it to a good stopping point. Grinding out some RNG timesaves in this game can really be soulless, so I got my run and decided to stop. Definitely happy with the last run!