Beating Spore with the Worst Creature on Hard (Commentary) 

I like the fact that the Pitiful Slugs were religious during the city stage, as it is only through divine intervention that they continue to exist and prosper.

"Your people are descended from limbless space slugs" *YES.*

-Slithers out of the primordial ooze -Refuses to evolve -Becomes an advanced civilization through sheer determination -Somehow develops space tech -Totals own ship -Refuses to elaborate -Just goes past the Grox and reaches the center of the galaxy

"We may not have physical strength, or engineering talent, but what we do have is a whole lot of determination, tactical prowess, and a little bit of witchcraft."

the idea of a species of blind featureless slugs that became a space-faring species via sheer intellect and strategy is honestly pretty cool. and scary!

These worms haven't even made tanks. They just push boxes around and pretend these are vehicles.

Pitiful creatures: worms Pitiful tanks: cardboard boxes on top of worms Pitiful boats: two worms in a cardboard box using spoons as paddles Pitiful spaceship: re-enforced cardboard box with worm using a light bulb to fly

Imagine trying to design city architecture solely through the senses of touch and taste.

Imagine you're the space guru living in the center of the galaxy, surrounded by the vicious Grox on all sides for lightyears on end, and then an overgrown flatworm piloting the wreckage of a cube spaceship pulls up to receive your gifts of enlightenment. Actually, sounds like just another Sunday in the void.

"This creature is commonly known as the suicide bean. The only feature that it has is a mouth to digest food, but it cannot taste, smell, feel, hear, or even see. We actually have no idea how it's still survived for this long,"

He turned his whole race into a pickle, and flew to the center of the galaxy. Funniest shit I've ever seen.

Imagine being the grox and you get gameended by a worm

"Going to start with the most useless vehicles possible" then I got an advert for Northern rail (for anyone that doesn't know Northern rail is renowned for being late,canceled, or over crowded)

My headcanon is that the space stage glitch means the ship just exploded and Spode guided the debris to the center of the galaxy out of pity.

Can't believe I'm still learning new things about spore, I never knew of the beast master ability in the tribe stage, and the only way I could win the tribal stage is to go aggressive, I still don't know how I managed to kill almost every tribe with literal slugs, must have been one in 1000 lucky chance XD

By all accounts of the laws of nature, there is no reason this species should exist. It cannot exist. And yet it does. Many see this simple creature as a joke made by nature in poor taste. For me, no other organism has struck such fear inside... for this thing, cannot be stopped. It always comes back.

This creature may lack 3 of the five senses but it also lacks the ability to fear

Became the dominant and most intelligent species on the planet... Despite not having hands, legs or even eyes!

sure the herbivore mouth in the cell stage is bad because you cant attack, but in creature and tribal stage, id argue that the herbivore mouth is actually better, because you can get food freely instead of having to kill things for food.

Imagine evolving into the optimal creature just to go extinct by an army of slugs with wiggly mouths

I rarely play Cell as herbivore so I always thought Siren Song was just for protecting yourself from aggressive creatures or preventing orange (unhappy) creatures from attacking you first while you socialize them. I never knew you could use it to bring a creature from red (angry) face :o Also I think the tribe happiness dropping down when you're at blue or green because they attacked your pets has happened to me before. That happened to me with a tribe that was blue with me and I didn't realize it was over my pets, so from then on I just assumed there was a time limit on blue where it would eventually drop to yellow, but not on green. This whole run made me remember how when we as humans eventually leave this planet and solar system, unless we do a perfect sterilization of ourselves and our ships (which likely isn't possible), we'll be shuttling bacteria native to earth around the galaxy with us. There really will be limbless space slugs in the future.

Love your spore content! I dunno how “speedrun” friendly it would be, but I would be interested to see how fast you could completely wipe out the grox, as a companion to your “ally the grox” run. I’m actually curious what the game might do if the grox are completely eradicated if you go there with a different race later.

Having come back to spore recently these videos are a blessing to binge watch

I didn't know you can eat eggs to get dna. I've been playing this game since I was a kid. The glitches you showed were awesome too, they really just add to the game's charm. I love listening to your speedruns in the background while I do other things! It's a shame Spore doesn't have more of a cult following. Anyways, thanks!

Wrong. You have to run the game using the Minimum system requirements on the lowest usable resolution (640 * 480) CRT monitor with a keyboard and mouse that only passes as "functional".

Congratulations, you've brought e.coli into space

You don't need to be adaptable for Tribal, if you isolate a small group of enemy tribe members and preform for them they'll be much easier to befriend. You can be predatory, friendly, or adaptable. I did a personal challenge with Folees only (green starting cell with one eye)

Speedrunning Civ stage got interesting all of a sudden lmao

Eldritch psychic slugs with cosmic knowledge conquer the whole planet.

Imagine getting attacked by an endless stream of bright green floating slugs. Pure nightmare fuel

This game is 13 years old and you're still making content for it. Respect.

"These formless spirits haunt the void. Their ghost ships pass anywhere they please, yet are too weak to affect any part of the galaxy." "We have begun to pray to their god, in the hopes that they shall grant us the salvation that these pitiful worms must have been given."

i love that in your voice you could say the strangest stuff and you'd still sound calm

I don't usually watch these, but this guy has an aura to him that keeps me watching

I have never before related to a spore creature so much

This kinda makes me wonder why they didn't introduce an extinction mechanic into the game if your creature dies too many times. I think Spore would have been a little more interesting if it were a rogue like lol

I once had a tribeman with blue face relationship attacking my pet out of blue (like in a video) and they turned red as soon as my pet started fighting back. It probably happens because the game still considers player's pets as normal animals that can be targeted by AI tribes for hunting, but since player's pets are also technically a part of the tribe, any damage dealt by them to other tribes is considered an attack on this tribe

Red vs blue, a stalemate, its a wonder that it isn't in a box canyon in the middle of nowhere

Those pitiful worm videos are classics in my mind! I’m excited to watch this video

oh! i knew for ages that you can push creatures away with their nest (and as ive also learned on my own also making sure theyre selected) to ally them but not that you can use the same to attack them! i actually did a challenge last year or so where i completed creature stage by excluxsively eating eggs. it was annoying at first but really picked up once i was able to upgrade my creatures mobility you can double your social ability??? that doesnt seem like something that works on windowed though? hiring stronger creatures to attack for you is also clever ! it even factors into tribal stage oh yeah i forgot about the free baby trick its still preddy cool you can gift from a distance???? this sounds really cool i love learning of new spore things from these vids i also didnt know social outfitter parts actually had such an effect on allying to the point where its like impossible just why was the brown villager attacking one of the pets ? this is realy funny i didnt know building creations had a gameplay effect too??? this is new to me wowww the zombie ship usage is also clever. i like the clever tricks used to get around everything

that space section reminds me of a very similar glitch in Deus Ex where you do some save loading trickery to play with 0 torso health so the game considers you to be dead

Spore: Dark souls

Nice video as always, though you could have added some quick color to your creations. Post-scripted gaming videos like yours are criminally underappreciated when compared to post-edited streams. I'm very grateful for the effort you put in your videos to best immerse us!

imagine going extinct because your entire species got decked by dudes with one mitochondria

Love this, really brings me back to all the weird runs where I crafted convoluted lore for all my races. Thank you for making this

You know, these little worms are actually kind of cute. 🪱

I love rewatching these pitiful worm challenges from time to time, they help me believe in myself whenever I see these pitiful guys becoming the space-faring race. I propose another challenge: make a cell even more pitiful. That is, not a worm, but a small sphere, with a tiiiiny mouth. On its butt. Let's see how well these guys will do.

Awesome video. I really like how this challenge incorporates these different tricks and glitches; it make it all the more enjoyable to watch. Keep it up!

Amazing as always. Perfect run!

Tbh, spore is one of the games i grew with and is honestly one of the bests games i ever seen through all my life, the freedom to build whatever you want is incredible, and is a really fun game to play for all ages.

Just found your channel and holy shit you’re fantastic. Just started playing spore again after years and loved it. Every one of your challenges are fantastic and always great to watch. I’d suggest doing streams and/or starting some “lore” type videos. I for one would love to know more about the stuff in space stage, either way keep up the great work. Love it!

I can sense your increasing desperation and rage in the cell stage. I'd be willing to bet this was your first ever time having a hard time in cell stage

The bug where an allied tribe goes back to friendly can also happen if you use Fire Bombs near an ally's main hut. You can even destroy the village afterwards. Also, I had no idea you could use social abilities twice in the same turn in creature stage, this is really cool. How do people even find these glitches?

Fascinating job, particularly that moment that our Tribal worm held their staff up. Somehow. Interesting glitches shown off too, thank you for the demonstration and commentary. Great video!

So good to hear from you again! Great run by the way ;)

Keep coming back to this challenge. Its concept is hilarious

Awesome! Glad to see one of my favorite Spore creators inspired such a fun speedrun! If anyone hasn’t seen Narotiza’s video on Star Worm, I highly recommend, legit one of my favorite Spore videos.

LETS GOOOOOOOO IM SO HAPPY YOU POSTED IVE BEEN LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS

This is impressive, really pushing the game towards its boundaries

Maybe once a month the YT algorithm manages to recommend me some really excellent under the radar content. This was one of those times. Loved this video and watched a few more right after. Making sure to comment and like so that others will be blessed by the algorithm like I was. There's loads of people like me who played this game 10 years ago and would be interested to see what the speedruns / challenge runs are like. Wouldn't be surprised if your channel starts to blow up!

I find it funny that a bacteria managed to do THIS much in 5 hours. That said spore devs are probably watching this and thinking about patching the glitches but also... "Wait a sec, who's gonna pay me?"

Fantastic commentary, this was an amazing video and really well thought through on the challenge. You're a really good technical commentator.

Always nice when speedruners do commentary videos. Thank you for this one!

I've noticed a few people complaining about over narration. But I found it incredibly informative. Nice vid keep up the good work

Thanks for still making spore videos, they are really interesting

i love your videos. the spore sfx r super nostalgic for me and its calming to listen to them, but your voice is also super calming & your commentary is very clear and concise. love putting ur spore vids on and drawing

Blind, limbless, weak, naked worms with terrible tech, flying an energyless, empty, destroyed ship. Amazing

super interesting run! Great Stuff

This is the most hilarious challenge ever and I love it

There is something so pleasing about your worms... spitting in the face of evolutionary selection pressures, through sheer bloody mindedness, clever strategy, and a ton of hard work.

Thanks God i've found your Channel... I love the vids and the content... I dont play anymore, but I love to see!!!

“Your people are descended from limbless space slugs!” “And we thought we were blind”

I am so glad people are still playng this game, I miss it so much

The fact it looks like a tampon in the thumbnail is even funnier. Lol Nice to see people still keeping Spore alive

im super glad to see somebody so invested in spore. it's a game i grew up with, so it's nice to see it getting appreciated

Imagine getting out-evolutioned by a pickle.

Would love to see a pitiful cell run with no deaths. But having played cell stage on hard myself, I don't even think that is possible without just pure luck.

i remember i found a way to make a vehicle out of only decal pieces, doe it was years ago so i don't exactly remember how... what i do remember is that i started out with a block, then i made one decal piece cross it's mirrored counterpart, then placed a decal part onto the intersection of them, and i did something to that... i'm sorry i can't describe the exact process but i CAN confirm it is possible

This is a fine tribute to the best Spore lets play ever.

Good video as always.

I freaking LOVE this channel.

Alternative universe where sea pickles evolve to dominate the universe, nice.

Loved the vid, well done

18:18 I think you can perform a glitch where you save right after you ally, and then you won’t upgrade your settlement, and won’t need additional instruments

Really enjoyed this one!

It was really neat watching the pitiful civilian stage

God, i CANNOT imagine the patience this must've taken

Hi! I’m new to the channel. Spore is a cursed abomination and I love it so so much and also completely forgot it existed. Super happy this was in my recommended!

This speedrun is cursed ASF Still amazing

This was beautiful

When you casually spend an hour in the cell stage

I love how you thank us for watching at the start 😭🙏

I love how this person genuinely cheated to make things harder. I love it when people do things like that, and use cheats and glitches to make the game even more difficult instead of just breezing through it like someone who 100%ed a game and then started an NG+ save.

This video is so much fun, I hope you do more longform commentaries in future! I had a lot of fun with an 'ultra-aggro' playthrough on hard, anytime you see an attackable entity you have to drop everything and try and kill it Works well on all 5 stages :D (I could ignore 'lower level' enemies tho like animals while in tribal stage+, otherwise is a bit tedious) I recommend you give it a try! Maybe even a speedrun? You would get the world record lol

Awesome work! I love Spore but I've never seen anything like this :)

using a glitch to cheat to the centre of the galaxy seems less difficult than trying to get enough energy packs

Damn your civilization stage was on point

when you bribed Red and Blue during the Civilization Stage: " Keep your friends rich and your enemies rich and wait to find out which is which. "

Thank you for the spore content

I like that with this,u actually have to be strategic in civilication stage.