Yoshi's Story by Dan Salvato in  

I didn't know he used to play smash lol

yoshi enters a permanent state of euphoria, so good for him at least.

I didn't know about project m but I'm more familiar with 20xx for melee.....still have 20XX as my name for smash ultimate to pay homage

I also had the pleasure of facing off against his Link in a random Smash Ultimate local bracket. He is a man of many talents!

​@@alococuccoyo6103I would have said "man of many hats" but same diff

And he introduces himself as "guy who speedruns Yoshi's Story"!

i believe he also made some tools that made practicing super mario sunshine significantly easier.

He made DDLC He also made FrankerFaceZ. He also made 20XX which is basically the only way Smash Bros Melee is played in tournament now. He also has been trying to get this game into GDQ for about a Decade. I'm insanely happy for him. But "I'm probably best known for my Yoshi Story speedruns" is a hilarious statement haha

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Oh that's why I recognized his name. Ha!

I thought the same thing

We know he's mad. He caused Monika.

I thought the exact same thing lol!

definitely gets a spot on my list for funniest moments on stream this gdq

Question, played this as a young lad, where did the only melon run idea come from?

​@@AC_Philosopher for me and my siblings it was out of observation. Melons were clearly a prize for doing specific things, never were lucky/favourite fruit and they had very weird ways of obtaining them. We almost never had 30 melons per level so we just searched 1 or 2 runs of the same level and then fill it up with either a lucky or favourite fruit

He did stuff with speedrunning and Smash for years before his other most famous thing, in fact Smashers and speedrunners were some of the first people to stream it before the rest of the internet caught on.

For those playing along at home: 47:08

Yo dawg, we heard you like melons.

That's just how the game works - instead of the typical 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, ect, you see with most games of this formula, it automatically puts you at the next world. It's why he had to fight the final boss four times.

The plot of the game is that Yoshi Island was turned into a storybook. It’s not necessarily six worlds, as much as six pages. (Which is why the menu says “Start From P.3” or whatever.) Each level you play has three large hearts to collect. Each heart unlocks an alternate level you can choose from for the following Page. What he skips in the run is that the game has a cutscene at the end of each Page which is unique to whatever level you chose to play, where it reads the “story written on the page” that you just completed. After defeating Baby Bowser and beating the game, it plays a cutscene and reads the full story start to finish. This means that every single time you play the game, you end up with a unique story specific to that run. The game really goes hard into the “storybook” theme that way. Despite the game being easy as hell, provided you aren’t masochistic enough to suffer an all-melon run, the game was one of my favorite growing up because of how it did the theming.