{"id":122796,"date":"2021-01-04T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2021\/01\/agdq_schedule_includes_hades_and_super_mario_bros_35_speedruns"},"modified":"2021-01-04T19:45:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T19:45:00","slug":"agdq-schedule-includes-hades-and-super-mario-bros-35-speedruns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2021\/01\/04\/agdq-schedule-includes-hades-and-super-mario-bros-35-speedruns\/","title":{"rendered":"AGDQ Schedule Includes Hades And Super Mario Bros. 35 Speedruns"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Awesome Games Done Quick<\/a> is always a great time of year. This year, of course, it’s a little bit sadder than usual, because the AGDQ staple – a crowd of fans yelling support from behind the speedrunners on stream – won’t be possible, thanks to this pandemic thing going around. Nevertheless, the charity fundraising stream is going ahead, and it’s a jampacked schedule as always.<\/p>\n

This year’s AGDQ kicked off on Sunday, January 3rd with a sub-45 minute run of Mirror’s Edge<\/strong>, and it only got better from there, with speedruns on the SNES, the N64, and the Game Boy Advance.<\/p>\n

Today (Monday, January 4th) the lineup has so far included Pikmin 2<\/a><\/strong>, Yooka-Laylee<\/a><\/strong>, and Startropics<\/a><\/strong> on the NES, with the customary AGDQ Sonic<\/a><\/strong> chunk taking place at the time of writing (gotta go fast).<\/p>\n

Highlights of the next few days include Hades<\/strong><\/a>, which will be played to completion on Tuesday, January 5th, in just over an hour (don’t tune in if you don’t want spoilers, obviously), a one-hour-forty run of Skyward Sword<\/a><\/strong> on Wednesday, a run of the unappreciated CD-i Zelda game<\/a>, The Wand of Gamelon<\/strong>, on Thursday, and, for the first (and probably last<\/a>) time at a GDQ event, Super Mario Bros. 35<\/a><\/strong>, which looks like it’s being tag-teamed by four different speedrunners.<\/p>\n

There are also a couple of TASBot runs, including the Game Boy version of Link’s Awakening<\/a><\/strong>, which are always worth watching. TASBot – short for “Tool-Assisted Speedrun Robot” – is a clever little thing that watches a bunch of speedruns of a game, then uses those inputs to create the ultimate speedrun better than human hands could ever manage. Take a look at the video below to watch TASBot flying through Celeste<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n