I was the FIRST to beat Super Mario Odyssey Blindfolded! 

Well, sorry for the length again. There were so many good moments to include in the video! Hopefully you all enjoy!

"Why is the game in Japanese?" "It's Japanese because Braille isn't an option" I don't regret reading chat sometimes.

4:56 If I’ve done this right, there should be a moon directly in front of me Stares into desert

24:45 Mario's bonk went perfectly with the music

moms: NO You can't play for hours without hurting your eyes plays blindfolded

I wanna even the score. I'ma watch this video blindfolded.

Fake As you can see Mario does not have a blindfold

8:07: "Hey Toad, what's up lil buddy, how you doing. Getting a little lonely down here?" Toad: _YEAH!_ "It's ok. Here to keep you company. Nah I just want your moon. See ya" I like to imagine Toad had had serious issues after that and never trusted anyone after that

24:43 The timing with the music and when Mario rolled into the wall was so bloody perfect. It cracked me up.

What's the point of wearing a blindfold if you could just take off your glasses?

i love how the chat keeps answering his questions and giving him hints

Love the contrast of chat arguing about the misuse of the phrase "triggered my ocd" at 31:53 while SmallAnt is looking for moons while blindfolded.

Funny how he could navigate himself not looking in metro kingdom when I get lost even looking at the map

I'd honestly be more impressed if it WAS fake. The acting and patience required to pretend to be blind is quite difficult.

He took the "I can do this with my eyes closed" expression too far

24:43 this musical perfection to the beat and fills a hole in my soul.

This takes the saying “I’m so good, I can do this with my eyes closed!” To a *whole* ‘nother level

"Hey, should we turn off the assist bubble for the escape sequence?" "Sure, why not. You'd have to be blind to end up getting stuck there anyway."

This is proof that Solid sound design and rumble in the controllers (along with good memory) in Odssey is quite good

Parents: playing video games hurts your eyes SmallAnt: Not today

Imagine SmallAnt beating Dark Souls blindfolded

When you realise ant can beat the game faster blindfolded than you can beat it normally.

dude imagine knowing a 25 hour game so well that you can play it, blindfolded, in less than 13 hours. what the fuck

This is clearly fake: If you look at the blindfold closely it has eyes

24:43 I loved how the bonk was so in rythm in the song!! It was perfect! I watched it atleast 10 times!

This reminds me of the guy who watched Shrek so much as a kid that he would just watch it line-for-line in his head

26:55 Smallant: Am i on the pipe right now? Mario: Yup!

This was the first smallant video i ever saw, it's incredible how back then the sub goal was 125 instead of actual thousands. Well deserved success Smant :)

I can’t stop watching the clip at 24.44 ,, the timing of the bonk is just so perfect

People: fake Everyone that usually watches him: we already know he lives this game out every second of every day. He has probably beat it without even playing it.

26:58 “Am I on the pipe right now?” “ _yup_ “

This is actually one of the most incredible things I've ever seen. I would have imagined that the first recorded blindfolded run would have been like twice this amount, what with all the crazy platforming and things you'd have to remember, and especially since at the time an hour was about the record for a non-blindfolded run.

My favorite part of the video is when Smant was humming along with snow kingdom and then mario bonked perfectly in time

"no one's ever done this, i make the rules" i mean, fair enough

You should have used braille instead of japanese

One of my favorite jokes is when he goes to 150+ or something on jump rope and says “Do you think we’re at 30 yet?” Top tier comedy that I nearly died laughing on when I saw this vid the frat time

Coming back to this vid in 2 years, still amazing

waiting for the music to time the jumps at 51:00 sick strats

"I'm taking a break in between kingdoms to [...] take breaks" *ah yes, the floor here is made out of floor*

24:45 I love how mario bonks his head to the rhythm lol

He didn’t even break a sweat! But Mario definitely did wearing that snow suit the whole game.

The best parts are where you spend way too long looking for a checkpoint on the map

I can't even begin to describe how INSANE what he did is. Holy crap. I literally cannot believe he made it although I watched the whole video. Incredible

Imagine being a giant firebreathing turtle and getting beat by a blind plumber

4:53 "If I've done this right, there should be a moon directly in from of me" *Jumps into sand*

That's so impressive! Its so amazing how many hours of practising and paying attention to audio cues has lead to this, it seems so natural (well...90% of the time). Some of the tricks you pull off are hard enough without a blindfold on! I'm so happy you managed to beat it after so many hours poured into the game. Bravo!

Bruh i was just thinking "i wonder if someone beat odyssey without looking?" Then this popped up in my recommended

Must be fun watching this back after having played it blindfolded, seeing how close/far off you were from what you thought :P

"No one has ever done this, I made the rules"

Im tired of people asking why He's playing in japanesse, its so that he can read better

This is one of the videos you can watch over and over again, and it’s still a banger

24:48 that bonk was perfectly in sync with the music

38:15 “see you in an hour” That’s a weird way to pronounce 20 minutes

29:20 the plot of finding dory

It’s concerning how many people just automatically assume that it’s physically impossible to do something blindfolded.

This is probably faster than my first time playing oddysey

26:59 Smallant: "Am I on the pipe right now?" Mario: "Yup."

"Mario! My hero! You've come to save me- what's that over your eyes?" "It's-a nothing! *Walks into a corner for thirty minutes constantly jumping* "Wahoo! Wahoo! Wahoo!" "CAAAAPPYYY-AAAA"

Bruh sometimes I forget he’s even blindfolded his so good

You can see how excited he got when he got to the final pillar I wish we had a heart rate monitor though

51:02 he’s so smart he used the music in the background to help him jump

Imagine being Bowser and Mario just beat you with a blindfold on

22:57 EZ moons EZ life Immediately bonks

t face value this is beyond incredible. Somehow it gets more unbelievable the deeper one analyzes what you've done here. During your run you perform hundreds upon hundreds of orientation movements, spacial placement maneuvers, and intricately exercise fine granular camera control based on whatever your current task requires. This is what I find to be the most impressive part of this achievement! All it would take is a small deviation from your planned route to become disoriented and potentially lose time or force a restart... But even when there was one of your very, very few minor missteps in this run, you immediately had a contingency in place and were able to reorient yourself to your desired spacial placement and direction. This is beyond Super Mario Odyssey. This is a vehicle on which you display a skill set that is something entirely difficult to comprehend from an outside perspective. I know I sure don't have the ability to commit to rote memory the kind of detail required to never miss a single step in something so insanely complex. On top of processing your exact coordinates and plane of view at nearly the rate of a computer, you still have to physically control the character and deal with the game mechanics... This is amazing, and I congratulate you on your new personal best and of course the world record. Looking forward to more content sometime. You've set the bar really high, but I have no doubt you have the determination to succeed in something even more unbelievable.

"I'm taking a break in between kingdoms to check on chat/take breaks." You're taking breaks to take breaks. *Seems legit*

ruined was better than fearsome with eyes open

Is nobody gonna talk about how this got recommended to me 4 years after I had already watched it 4 years ago, also at 24:50 smants bono lined up perfectly with the music

i think the bigger piece of evidence that this is real isnt him dying is stupid ways, but him being able to do crazy things while the camera is in a stupid position

Smallant: doesn’t do XD skip His fans: *so you have chosen, death*

"What even is going on" *"content"* -twitch chat 2019

this is so fantastic!!! it’s so amazing that you did it only with sounds

That's the difference that having a few thousand hours in a game really makes (I'm assuming he already had that in 2019). I've played it for 3 weeks now and from this video I just learned that Pokios have a spin attack...

24:44 Mario really feeling that beat lol

22:25 you know he is good when he finds a glitch blindfolded

24:43 That was immaculate timing

Parents: Come off that, it hurts your eyes! Small ant:

Lets make a petition to get "blindfolded" an official speedrun category!

24:43 the bonk is in time with the song XD

26:59 SmallAnt: Am I on the pipe right now? Mario: yup Go, you won't be able to unhear it.

Anyone else notice that at 26:59 Smallant goes “am I on the pipe right now?” And Mario answers “yup”

He clearly can see theres eyes on the blindfold

This truly shows how important music/sound design is in a video-game. Fantastic run ! ^^

24:43 giga chad timed bonk right there

Man was so young back in the day. Hope you continue the challenges and experiences you’ve shared with everyone!

At 24:48, did anyone else realize that his singing lined up perfect with Mario hitting the wall???

-"Hey Smallant! Play this game it has some beautiful graphics" -"No thanks, I'm good."

i love how the bonk at 24:44 perfectly synced with the music. but yeah, this is really cool! GG

24:43 I love how that bonk lined up with the music

Fake. The blindfold is a paid actor.

this guy plays mario better blindfolded than I can play the game normally lol

omg when i realized he was using the music to cue his jumps at the 2D escape sequence, like i already knew this was real but that's when i *knew*

Wow, crazy to see this footage from nearly two years ago where Ant's sub goal is 125. At the time of writing it's more like 8,000something and he just reached 1mil subscribers on YT. That's quite some growth!

Wow, I just watched a guy play a video game blindfolded for an hour

Mom: You shouldn't be playing for so long! The screen hurts your eyes! SmallAnt1: Edit: Thanks for the heart

He seems so different now from who he was then, but still too pro at Odyssey and speedruns. I want to see him try this again.

BRO ITS FAKE MARIO'S CLEARLY NOT WEARING A BLINDFOLD

Imagine if the whole time he was still in cap kingdom

I commend you on your patience and your fairness to not actually lift the blindfold for a second. Spending 3 hours on the final stage alone would have broken me. Wow. Just wow

It's so hard to believe that this isn't cap. You are insane, and congrats!

The part that stands out the most to me now is sub goal: 125. Boy, that was sure a long time ago huh?