off as real i have here a video of one of these runs and i aim to show some of the clear discrepancies between this run and the genuine blindfolded runs of smNUMBER_TOKEN that are out there when watching this run it's important to note that the author claims not to practice blindfolded speedrunning much at all and that this is apparently only his third blindfolded run he claims to make up for this with the fact that he's been playing super mario so he claimed himself it's his only third attempt and he hasn't practiced much listen anyone who's ever seen a blindfolded speedrunner of mario NUMBER_TOKEN. they all tell you the amount of time and insane effort that they have to put in to be able to even do a few stars fall as NUMBER_TOKEN star or NUMBER_TOKEN. so right off the bat is like you making that claim you are crazy bro NUMBER_TOKEN for the past three and a half years however it should be noted that despite the amount of time he has spent on the game the best time on a run he has currently submitted is in NUMBER_TOKEN a relatively mid-level time for NUMBER_TOKEN star yeah mid-level first thing that actually put me off when i was watching this run was the fact that the streamer had both follow alerts and text-to-speech alerts on thank you for the follow if you've ever seen a blindfolded speedrun before you will know that runners pretty much always have these kind of sound alerts turned off yeah considering how important the strong cues are when you literally can't see you would think that he would do the same however this guy is so good he apparently doesn't even need clear sound cues to do the run throughout this run he also attempts multiple times to explain the strategies that he's been using except there are multiple problems with what he's saying versus the things he's actually doing he mainly claims to be using a combination of sound cues and muscle memory for most of his strats most speedrunners know however that visual cues in particular are just as important as muscle memory in many cases it's very unrealistic to assume that anyone could just casually do a blindfolded run off of visual muscle memory alone no matter how long that person has been playing i've i've tried to do stars i can't do one star blindfolded like even though i've played this game for years and years and years even trying to do one star blindfolded is insanely difficult it's impossible almost yeah blindfolded speedruns often employ what are called shameless plug but i have a blindfolded video from like a year ago where i had i randomly attempted stars blindfolded and it took me hours to do three stars blindfolded and they weren't hard easy stars they were easy stars it took me hours but anyway continue normalize strategies a normalized strategy is any strat that is done in such a way the outcome is always exactly the same in super mario NUMBER_TOKEN many of these kinds of stuff this guy is PROFANITY_TOKEN insane for example moving in a cardinal direction on a controller with notches using two slow walks to let grab at the corner of a platform or punching against a wall to push mario backwards a fixed distance are all normalized strats as you can imagine these
START_SELFPROMO_TOKEN shameless plug but i have a blindfolded video from like a year ago where i had i randomly attempted stars blindfolded and it took me hours to do three stars blindfolded and they weren't hard easy stars they were easy stars it took me hours but anyway END_SELFPROMO_TOKEN