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Recently, I’ve been starting to learn how to run Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD ReMIX, and it’s been so much fun for me. It’s easily one of my favourite games ever, and the HD rerelease (with FM outside of Japan for the first time) has just made it even better. One of the best bits about it is the 358/2 Days cutscene movie, which basically turns the DS game that connected all of the games so far in the cannon, into one of the greatest 2 hour experiences of your life. But the absolute greatest part is that it enabled me to speedrun a game I love, and within a reasonable enough time frame for me to be able to stream again on a more regular basis.
It’s no secret that as a streamer, I do not get the opportunity to stream for too long, or even too often, thanks to my current internet and living situation (I mean, 4mbps download… come ON!) and now that I have college starting back up, and a near enough full time job on top of that, my time streaming is far from as often as it once was.
So, what has this go t to do with all of you? A lot, that’s what it has to do with all of you. Tonight, I had an opportunity to do a single segment of KH FM, a game that you can’t actually lose, a game that unless you give up, you can’t fail a single segment. Seriously, and the fact you can now skip cutscenes makes it much faster as well. That changed for me today. Today, I major league screwed up. I had a PERFECT run (and by perfect I mean perfect for someone who’s never had a chance to single segment the game before, not WR perfect…) and was practically on the last world of the game, End of the World. I only had Behemoth (arguably one of the easiest bosses in the game) when I realized that I forgot one of the splits. At this point I was like “meh, I’ll just split it now rather than ruin the splits later.”
It was at this point I missed the split button and hit the “reset all splits” button. 3 hours of hard work, 3 hours of near perfect running, all just vanished into thin air. If there is a god, he didn’t want me to finish a single segment run of KH FM tonight. But do you know what? That’s not going to stop me from getting a single segment run completed. I WILL do it next time the opportunity presents itself, and I will do it better than before.
The moral of this week’s article is this: When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you a flaming bag of dog turds, covered in lighter fuel, and also there’s maybe some really long nails inside the bag too? You get mad, and yell at your computer about being a piece of crap, and then you relax, and try again the next day. Do you give up? No way, no way at all. Back to the title of this week’s article, Being Bad is Good. If you get beaten by a boss and it gives you trouble often, learn from the issues you’ve had, and take your sword and shield, go up to that boss and do as Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson says and (not exactly what he says, but…) take that sword and shield, turn them sideways and ram them up his punk ass.
If at first you don’t succeed, try and try again and again. Nobody breaks a world record on their first try at a game unless they’re the very first person to ever play it. If you don’t do well, that doesn’t make you a bad speedrunner. If you have a bad run and never play that game again for the remainder of your life, then you can call yourself a bad speedrunner, but if you take what you’ve learned from your mistakes, and turn them into a learning exercise, that only helps you get better at the game. You can’t get worse at a speedrun because you’ve had a bad day. A bad day doesn’t mean you’re not good.
Keep on keeping on. Don’t look back, and don’t let a bad run put you off. Let it be the fire that ignites the passion to beat the game faster.
Anyway, I’m still severely pissed off with WSplit this week, so no splits. It’s also been over a month since I last posted an article, so I would have to sift through a month of World Records, and then either put all of them up, or decide which ones are more worthy, something I don’t think is doable. So we’ll be back with world records next week.
But that’s all for now from me folks, and remember, an apple a day keeps the bad RNG away!
Stay Green ladies and gentlemen!
-Rory “Shazbut” Barnes a.k.a. RoryExtraLife
I have been there lol