Kirby's Return to Dreamland Any% TAS in  

A lil friend on the right joins us at 11:27 to accompany us through the whole journey; but they're quite shy to show their whole face. That is until 1:30:38, where after spending all that time watching together, it feels comfortable enough to finally come out and show you. TAS so good, that it also provided sneaky character development on top of optimized kirby gameplay ~u~

"Water should be avoided at all costs" Onion Ocean: *I'm gonna stop you right there*

58:09 Morse code: - •- ••• [TAS] Genius

For some reason I’m picturing a 100% 4 Player Tas..... No I’m not sure why I wanna see the insanity

No-one: Winged Kirby tas flapping: BRRBRBRBRBRBRBBBRRBRRUPBBRIPRPPBBRJPPR

I really enjoyed this TAS! The captions I think make an already really good TAS even better, and I had a blast watching it the whole time!

The only downside to this TAS is Kirby‘s sad face at the end of every goal game.

I love the way mini bosses are fought as Wing in this TAS: -Dance behind the boss as it spawns -Stay still for a second -FOAWNFOAWNFOAWNFOAWNFOAWN Not gonna lie, mini bosses are my favorite thing from this TAS, great job in all of it, though!

Short version of this run: Kirb kills some knights and yeets him self across dreamland for the next 1 and a half hours

This needs more recognition. This is dope as hell.

45:39 got me laughing so hard and I don’t know why Man this video is great! Not only is it wing ASMR but it looks amazing the amount of nonsense you did to speed through the game

Kirby spamming any move every single frame is very satisfying

This is an impressive TAS! Not many people have the endurance to make a TAS that is this long. I do have 2 questions: 1 How do you do the random item manip. to get Wing at the start of the run? and 2 how do you do so much damage quickly with condor dive

34:42 Imagine you were in a regular playthrough and at 1 hp and saw that cake. It would have been extremely frustrating.

Thank you so much for making this Tas! This was very fun to watch and I'm very glad someone finally tased this game. Even if it wasn't super optimal there were some optimizations that even I didn't know about. Super good job!

Those stunts at 1:09:40 are terrifying. Literally a millimeter from death on most of them

The entirety of the video, Kirby was like I must zoom I must ascend I must peck (wing ability) Water is evil

The amount of effort put into this is insane. Glad to see that there's a speed running community for Kirby, and loved the video! It definitely deserves way more recognition

I can't imagine how much effort it would've taken to make this TAS, massive props to you for doing this!

Every so often I always come back to this video and I never get tired of it. Something about seeing Kirby flying through each stage is truly amusing. Great work on your TAS and keep up the great content!

This was so so so delightful!! The effort really really shows! I also love the fact you entered Fatty Puffer's mouth as he is defeated I love doing that as well x) the shielding on beat is also always appreciated, really fun TAS!!

Awesome run! Seeing Kirby freak out TAS style during the autoscrollers was great, and the subtitle info was super interesting. I highly appreciate the effort that went into ending the run with 69 stars :)

"As a TASer, you don't have any friends" "No, no... He's got a point."

I hope future speedrunners learn from you about this game, you deserve a lot of credit from what you said in the early section

Great vid, man. :) And here I thought Fighter was the most broken power-up in the game, but you proved me wrong with what you managed to pull off with Wing. XD

Very impressive! Really liked this game as a kid, still like seeing things like your work here today. Thank you!

This tas makes me wanna do a whole playthrough as wing kirby tbh, great stuff btw!

(53:33) Lmao, that knuckle joe is just like "Bitch, wtf?" as you go through the exit door

I swear downtime in a TAS is some of the funniest flexing I'll ever see.

Is anybody gonna talk about the Point Star count in the rest of the run, starting at 1:25:01?

The TAS dancing during idle time makes a great speedrun even better

I very much appreciate the guards at 54:07 being synced to the music. XD Aaa and it continues throughout that level too! Beauty

17:46 that was GREEDY but in SUCH a good way too oh my god I'm hooked already

Let's take a look at all of the main bosses in his speedrun. Whispy Woods 7:42 Mr. Dooter 17:31 Fatty Puffer 32:14 Goriath 44:47 Grand Doomer 56:36 Metal General 1:12:00 Landia 1:22:48 Magolor's first phase 1:27:20 Magolor's second phase 1:29:48

54:02 I adore that you made Kirby dance to Dedede’s theme over here

32:33 Michael Rosen Nice.mp3 Probably found that a lot funnier than it shoulda been. Really good TAS, very much enjoyed it, especially for one of my all time favorite games.

Best speedrun ever, you make people being entertained while watching it and learn new things with the captions. I subscribe!

I didn't know you could skip the Dynamic Kill on the grand doomer

I kind of wished that they made wing work like Meta Knight's glide in this game. But that would make Meta Knight less unique compared to other abilities

This is an amazing run! This is really polished and was a very well spent hour and a half. You've really inspired me to want to do something similar.

I like all the needless shit during the timed box sections. Really entertaining

1:03:39 Ah, yes, the best way to avoid spikes, ramming your entire body into them

this has been the most refreshing 1 and a half hours of my life for over a long time. great job at the TAS and I really enjoyed the captiones. thank you!

Sick tas! I never knew wing was so broken in this game lol

making kirby get eaten by puffer at 32:30 was hilarious

This is automatically my favorite TAS ever because it’s on a childhood game I played

Yay! It's finally complete!

I really enjoy that you speed-run my favorite game ! And I see that wing is really the best power even if I prefer ninja or sleep (jk). Your run was perfect ! gg ! Thank you for this beautiful run ^^

no joke this tas got me to play star allies again!

Im glad i took a chance to go back to my childhood and watch a speedrun🥲

have been using this video to help me sleep lately, thank you for making this

Nice TAS. I especially appreciated the Tool-Assisted Doing-Things-Along-With-The-Music.

just finished the video, and wow, do i have a lot to say! (by the time i finished, i realized just how much i wrote. how embarrassing!) to start off, return to dream land was the first kirby game i ever played, and also my favorite game as a little kid. granted, i wasn't super skilled - i still haven't completed my file 100% - but it still is very dear to me and holds a special place in my heart (so much so that when they announced rtdl deluxe, i started crying of joy.) then, pair that up with one of my more recent interests, which is tool assisted speedruns, and this video... this video just becomes the perfect video to appeal to my past and current self. i loved watching it, and seeing the speed optimizations, and the little dances and inputs to the beat, and the captions (by the way, i saw that! nice indeed ;) and then when i saw you purposefully avoided every star afterwards to maintain that number i couldn't help but laugh. i also learned a lot! somehow, i never knew those little key guys were called "carry dees" - what a cute name! i wonder if they're a variant of waddle dees at all? also, that morse code - i should translate it, actually. i was so focused on the video that i didn't have time to interpret it. seeing the game of my childhood played through so quickly and perfectly? it felt as if i could see my memories flashing before me. i'd see sections and say, "hey, i remember that!" such a special feeling that i don't know how to replicate, but feeling it now was magical... also, it is really beautiful at high resolution, i was surprised! my only issue? kirby's sad face during the goal game. i know jumping as soon as possible is fastest, but oh, kirby, don't be sad... it's alright... overall, an amazing video, an amazing tas, and an amazing experience. thank you so much for making this, and well done! EDIT: ...yeah, i can't translate that. i am not very intelligent! wait, i do remember a question i had, though. would having two players make the run faster at all? and if so, would it make a difference if it was two players for the whole run or just another player hopping in and out? does what character matter? would TWICE the wing kirby be any help? what about bandee, meta knight, and dedede? ...sorry, just curious!

Thank you so much for taking the time to caption this, it makes it much more enjoyable :)

Seeing this makes me wonder what this speedrun would look like with the needle’s “wheel” attack

captions? check Knows how to spell? check! Doesn't put a ' on random words that end with s, regardless of context? CHECK!!! Best demonstration ever, 11/10

that was impressive, like, a lot - congrats !

T bagging is vital for this TAS because the sheer power of dank Kirby makes the game wants to ends itself faster making the game speed up 0.00000000000004%

Wing Kirby: haha midair jump go BRRRRRR

This is Kirby using 30% of his power

Magolor: alright should take Kirby a couple days to get the parts to my ship back 58 mins later Kirby: poyo Magolor: pfff! what you were gone less than a hour you already got my parts back

Magolor: Kirby! Could you journey to all corners of pop star and get my ship parts back? Kirby: Give me an hour

"With no copy ability, sliding should be used as much as possible." noooOOOOOOO- **Slide Noise Intensifies**

So clear. Thanks for the upload man. :D I really enjoyed it. :D

This was incredible to watch and please do others in the future. The captions were odd at first because of their positioning and look but they provided a bunch of info I wouldn't have known. Good stuff homie

I love the stuff, that a TAS does when forced to wait or slow down

you're so nice to answer everybody

I just beat this game again today and this pops up in my recommended. Wing the best.

im amazed by how perfect this video is you deserve a price for this

Now i know what i want to do for the next 10 years Try to fly with kirby wing as fast as a TAS

Man I love when kirbys flight sounds like an A-10 warthog

Congrats on making Kirby sound like an A-10 Warthog!

"Using multiple players is banned. As a TASer, you don't have any friends." lol. A 4 player run certainly would be interesting. Besides the cannon skips in world 4 and higher DPS, what would be some other 4 player exclusive strategies? Would 4 players be slower since you would need 4x the abilities?

watching this again is making me more excited for the remake!! 💙

Jeez speed runners are always cutting corners I didn’t know you could cut. It must take a long time to find out the best combinations of tactics and even longer to perfect them. And with the subtitles and boom awesome video

About the framerate- On the Wii, I have played it on there and it looks like this with the good quality rendering you did. Not how it looks like 360p on some other videos of gameplay.

Bro I love this TAS this is frikin insane!

People still play this game? Cool! I wondered if it was just me who still did.

23:01 "this looks so good in 1080p60" me: I am watching in 480p

3:34 maybe kirby had too much sugar

53:34 that knuckle joe hit me hard

Kirby sounding like an A10 Warthog while flapping

12:10 gives me anxiety He’s SO close to the water 😭

wing kirby sounds like a hercules beetle flapping his wings that fast

Magmoor: help me get my ship fixed and get that crown Kirby: give me a minute Also Magolor: hahaha fool! With this I'll Kirby: *give me a second*

Ok, so wings turn Kirby into an AC130 when flying. Interesting..

Long story short, kirby ate some bad candies

Great tas! Maybe in a different video you could show off every ability and their unique optimizations outside of a speedrun?

00:01:45 To 01:22:21 (1 Hour, 20 Minutes, 36 Seconds) Is How Long The Wing Ability Have Been Used! (A Little Over 89.5% Of The Run, Instead Of ~89.39%!) Did You See Hm Zhang Use TAS For The True Arena? (For 1 Player, He Completed 15 Rounds In 06:04.20 With Hammer Kirby! When He Used 3 Players... He Cleared The Same Competition In 04:58.36... Where Louis Wa Used The Same Tactic For The Normal Arena To Beat Those 13 Rounds In 03:49.78... Way After A Lot Of Tool-Assisted Speedruns Of Doing The True Arena With 1 Player, Where Most Of Them Are Kirby’s Other Abilities, Like... Ice, Cutter, Wing, Etc.... Aside From Using His Allies!)

Jesus crist I didn't know my favorite game of all time came beaten in 1 hour 30 minutes and 10 seconds also I loved the vid

Red Bull gives Kirby wings

Love getting anxiety attacks during the Landia stage

I love when he guard dances, hilarious

I love how the condor became a giant bug

The autoscroll crusher sections in Egg Engines were so stressful

This video is a gem xD It needs more views for sure !

My idea for names of stages: Cookie Country: Level 1-1: Welcome to dream land! Level 1-2: Fauna Fantasy Level 1-3: Cocoa Caverns Level 1-4: Cream Canyon Level 1-Boss: Whispy Woods Battle Raisin Ruins: Level 2-1: Butter Breakbeat Level 2-2: A Long Journey... Level 2-3: Pancake Pyramid Level 2-4: Darkness Dementia Level 2-Boss: Mr Dooter. Dome Onion Ocean: Level 3-1: A "real" Palm Tree Paradise (Wario Land 4 Easter Egg) Level 3-2: Special Sea Level 3-3: Danger! Level 3-4: Ecologic Euphoria Level 3-Boss: Fatty Puffer's Lair White Wafers: Level 4-1: Snowdown Station Level 4-2: Iceberg I-dventures Level 4-3: Cold Craters Level 4-4: Winter Weakness Level 4-5: Ice Cube Inertia Level 4-Boss: Goriath, The God!

58:09 What does that say ?

Good job

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