Connor will refuse to watch Cutscenes but will read the story in a speedrun.

It was an absolute blast to help and guide you through this hell of a game. Glad to see you did have some fun and finished it to the very end!

"Monke why dont you duel him, youre the strongest duelist I have met" Monke: I literaly just got my deck *lol

Love Connor flexing his VA skills as he reads the character dialogue haha. His Joey and Kaiba voices were hilarious.

More than the speedrunning, I enjoy Connor explaining the nuances of a game. A lot like the Fear & Hunger videos it gives a flavour of why the game is interesting but isn't so in depth it gets bogged down.

i always loved how the final boss scream of "nooooo" is so long it needs two text boxes, both me and my father played this game and laughed so hard at the time

Early industry video game design was a rollercoaster fever dream of torturous expectations, questionable decisions, and some insane "I FUCKING DID IT" moments.

Spent years grinding for Meteor Black Dragon. Even with that beating the endgame bosses were hard af

Ah, back to Twin Headed Thunder Dragon: The Game.

Literally the Dark Souls of Card Games. Edit: Yeah y’all right, this more like the Fear and Hunger of card games than Dark Souls because at least DS takes skill.

I am exactly 0% surprised that the dude helping him out is German. Like, this game was part of nearly everyone of my generations childhood~

By the way, one thing that Connor either didn't mention (or more likely didn't *know)* was that the AI has a sort of "Mercy Mode" - if the player destroys the first Monster the AI summons before they summon another (IE before the AI's next turn) then they won't summon *any* monster stronger than that first monster until they succeed in summoning a monster 2 turns in a row without one being destroyed. So if the AI summons a monster weaker than Twin-Headed on their first turn, _do everything in your power_ to get that monster off the board before their turn rolls around again.

I remember having this game in early 2000s writing out tested fusion combinations and never getting past like 3 or 4 of the duelists because i was a snot nosed third rate duelist with a fourth rate deck. Then time went by, save got corrupted and i never played it again because too hard for a 10 year old who could only play a few hours a week. Thanks for playing.

I played this game intially when I was like 5 years old and obviously got nowhere near completing it, but I recently discovered it 20 years later and managed to beat the game un modded! It still took me like a month of grinding though. It's such an RNG nightmare, these speedrunners are cracked.

Yu-gi-oh games back in the day were incredible. This one, and Duelist of Roses were incredible. Played the crap out of the latter, it is like Yu-gi-oh meets chess meets a tactical RPG.

Cmon editor. Don't do him dirty He didn't come up with the 4250 ATK for Gate Guardian, it's the amount of damage he took because the thing got an extra 500 from the meadow field

at 26:40 he isn't wrong, he's just reading Gate Guardian's ATK with the field buff.

I remember playing this game as a child and being forced to replay the same duel 2304 times because of the insane difficulty spikes

I had this game as a small not even English speaking and barely literate child and I must have spent hundreds of hours playing it, learning from trial and error what fused into what, what each of the signs were strong and weak against, even just what each button does cause the game doesn't tell you anything. My cousin also liked this game and had found on the internet the codes to buy rare cards and wrote down ALL of them for us to use, except of course any decent card in this game is insanely expensive or even costs the max amount you can hold and you only earn 5 chips per game at max, I did manage to buy one card with 2100 ATK and it carried me a lot. I never did figure out the Twin Headed Thunder Dragon strat but I did have Raigeki, I never got farther than the Low and High mages though. Watching this inspired me to download the ROM for DuckStation, activate the cheat to give me every card and I'm currently playing it to get some revenge for my kid self, 20 years in the making. You're insane for doing this legit Connor, I just don't have the time anymore to attempt this, even emulated and with fast forward.

Genuinely impressed he managed to beat it in 9 hours

5:40 Fun fact: That monster is actually in the Yugioh card game and is the Fusion of Sangan and Witches of the Black Forest. And I shit you not, its name is...wait for it...Sanwich.

The final boss cheats even more than Connor mentioned. On top of all the other nonsense, he secretly has additional cards in his hand. I want to say he has a hand size of 10, but it might be even higher than that.

Everyone: "I loved this game as a kid" Me: "Did the editor sneak in Breeders of the Nephelym?! YES!"

As an Italian, I absolutely love the fact that Connor's editor is Italian as well, his pearls that he drops here and there are awesome xD

this game was my whole childhood, basically. to see how popular it still is in the speedrunning community makes me stupidly happy.

Forbidden Memories is my one true guilty pleasure game. Yes a lot of it is because of nostalgia with me playing this game a lot as a kid, but while being kind of objectively a bad yu-gi-oh! game, I think the game is quite fun if you see it more as an RPG where your deck grows in power, and yes it's grindy but honestly I think it's a game that greatly suits playing in short periods of time, and the music, while it doesn't have a lot of variety, absolutely SLAPS.

1. My dream of a Trash Taste Yu-Gi-Oh tournament is closer now! 2. I'm a Yu-Gi-Oh, I play the card game to this day and a lot with my friends. I've played several Yu-Gi-Oh video games but never this one. And after watching you play it Connor, I'm so happy that I never even tried.

Didn't expect to see SSeth's breeders of the nephelym run as the example of speedrun videos.

this was amazing. would love to see more of these weird speed runs

Hope he tries the sequel (sort of) Duelists of Roses.

The best part is knowing that this game came out during the early PS1 era where internet access wasn't very common so many kids had to figure out how to do this on their own. Most of us failed.

This is one of the first games I have ever played back in the days, very fun to see you try to speedrun it now!

Yooo thanks for the shoutout ❤

Thanks for this speedrun Connor. It made me go back to this game and finally beat it (in normal mode) after 23 years of bad RNG.

“It’s not great, but it’s not good either” Quote of the year, fr😂

I love these videos where Connor plays retro games, or games with retro style. It's like a blast into the past, exploring a different world and time

I love this style of video, please do more!

I absolutely love this game. Thanks for this Connor!

Loved this game as a kid - just got it on Emulator. This is honestly one of my favourite videos on KZfaq at the moment. Love your voice acting too Connor!

Connor: high attack, 2100 me: oh right pre-spin-offs. I think 4 stars, monsters you can summon without hassle, can have 2100 now

That Kaiba voice was so good I can't believe it

Alright this is like the last game i expected Connor to play. I love Yugioh capsule monsters. I played that game a ton back in the PS2 era.

This is the second time I watched your video. Your accent is PERFECT for this game and others. LOVE the acting! I'll be re-watching this again

This brings back so many memories, never cleared it cause trying to go through the last 6 boss fights in a row was too brutal.

I watched live and yes I would love more Bizarre speedruns! It was a blast to watch. I'm surprised you didn't leave in a clip of the jank attack animations 😂

I could not stop thinking through this whole video that Connor is SO GOOD at doing voices. Like, I know he's a voice actor, but it still surprised me when he busted out some of these voices.

i like how the YGO tv show made it seem like you could win even with rubbish cards if you were smart enough or w/e. but in actual practice, the quality of your deck is the key determining factor in whether you win games or not.

Got to love the chokedawg showing up during streams, always makes it intresting xD

I passed over Yu-Gi-Oh as a kid, so this was all entirely new info to me lol. The art is neat, tho I was a Magic and Pokemon kid in the late 90s and early 00s. Seems this game was super early - lot of mechanics and stuff not in the game that were in later games from what I read online. Fun vid!

when the speedrun is so long it could just be considered a normal playthrough

Respect to Connor for not relying on the spirit of an ancient Egyptian Pharaoh to do this speedrun!

I had this game on the ps1 growing up and loved it even tho was impossibly hard. I did beat it but took forever. I remember using the twin headed thunder dragon so much omg. The anime didnt follow rules a lot of the time too so the game is on brand. I love it used the old anime look too

It is such a blast seeing someone play Forbidden Memories man, thus was my childhood. My brother and a I GRINDED this game to hell and back. Love ya Conner!

Connor is way too good at voicing Kaiba lmao

Absolutely love this style of content would be so awesome if we got more

my brother and I both beat this as kids, over months and with intense grinding, but we did it. our biggest feat was to win the scrippted fight against Heishin by grinding the NPCs outside of the storymode. It took us weeks of vacationtime, incredible luck with the draworders and was not rewarded by the game in any way, since you just restart the fight, but damn the feeling of wining this was incredible

I remember this game I had it as a kid! Never came even remotely close to beating it and after watching this I don’t think I ever could have lol

Actually crazy hype for Connor to play one of my favorite games of all time.

I thought "a word from our Sponsor" in the tournament announcer voice was leading to an ad read but it was just Kaiba lol, incredibly well done, I never finished this game as a kid

That was very enjoyable to watch, a blast as always! Thank you Mudan and Luca for the great work!!! 💜💜💜💜

Hooo i hope you went to tokyo dome, because they announced like a remake with a few other gameboy games sprinkled in. Also props on using Shantae music

I remember beating this when I was in early Junior High. I barely spoke English back then so I don't even understand how did I beat it, but I remember how much time I spent to grind for cards in this game. What a time, memorizing and experimenting combination of cards was really a core memory for me.

0:40 didn't know connor already came out. what a brave man 😂

this version of duel monsters is hurting my brain. glad you made the video.

Connor and Yugioh is a combo I never knew I needed.

Let's goooo, this game is so nostalgic! Glad you did this one

Hell yeah Yugioh and Connor - my two favourite things on YT in one video c:

There's another yugioh game that uses the same fusion and summoning mechanics but it's easier more fun too imo. It's called duelist of the roses. Instead of just playing in attack and defense positions and attacking the opponents monsters, the game plays on a chess board and each monster moves 1 space unless they are on a terrain that benefits them then they can move 2 spaces. You can also set a monster of your choice to be a king making you gain certain effects in battle like +50 lp each turn. Speedruns are like an hour any%

I've never seen such a lucky final 6 rng back to back :o Glad you enjoyed the game

Oh my god I had this game growing up! I loved it so much, even if it was confusing AF. This is such a nostalgia blast to watch.

i really wanted to play this game as a kid but i never managed to get past the beginning, this is giving me mad nostalgia

Beginning of video: "IF you beat this in 9 hours you'd be top 100" End of video: Sub 9 Hour run, placed 216th - Dead Last

I remember playing this game as a kid. I used to collect the cards and you can enter the number in the lower left corner of the card into the game to get the card in the game. My deck was instantly OP.

Now Connor just needs to speedrun reshef of destruction (💀) to become the KING OF GAMES!

so many good memories with this game ❤. i would have killed for 15 card drops tho, the grind was very real. im still shocked they gave every single card a battle animation, would have loved if you showed at least one of them

I'm so happy you got to touch this weird obscure game that Konami made in the early days. I'm hoping for duelist of the roses now cuz those animations go hard

Connor bringing out my inner Yugioh fan

I never thought i would see you play Forbidden Memories,. Loved it.

I had this game when I was a kid and I'm pretty sure I just looked at the neat manual and never actually tried to play the game...so I'm glad I can watch other people play it now because it seems insane.

i always appreciate the Connor plays the Playstation 1 and 2 games on emulators with Bilinear filtering on so it looks like it did back in the day on an SD TV. the old games look ick crystal clear

Now we need a duelist of the rose speedrun

So, to explain some things that a lot of people unfamiliar with either Yu-Gi-Oh in general, or just this game specifically, aren't aware of... This game was designed to basically be impossible without buying other stuff. In Japan, they had a whole guidebook with pages filled with listings about Fusions were available and decklists for the opponents and so on. Also, some cards (Like Cosmo Queen, Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, Gate Guardian... all of the best ones) are near impossible to get without a special memory card called the Pocketstation. Problem is... none of that stuff was ever released in the US. There have been efforts to recreate the guide in English and put together as much data as possible to make the game winnable. Even then though, it's still a nightmare to try and beat cleanly without mods or hacks, and without the Pocketstation. The 15 card mod isn't even that bad. Some people will tweak the save data so a Japanese copy will recognize the data, use some method akin to the Pocketstation to import the best cards, then tweak the save data again so Western copies will recognize it while keeping all their new cards. All just to try and make the game easier to actually win.

I used to love this game because you can input real card serial number into the game to get that card in game. And the strategy I used that time was: just throw everything away to get Exodia.

35:33 I don't even remember how I got to this guy as kid. Never beat him

As a big Yu-Gi-Oh fan, listening to him explain the game at the beginning about gave me an aneurysm XD

LETS FUCKING GO FORBIDDEN MEMORIES

Bro losing to Kaiba thinking was scripted was pure gold 😂

Yugioh: Eternal Duelist Soul for the GBA was my first yugioh game. I really enjoyed playing and completed it. Good timez😌

Watching you try this speed run gave me flashbacks to when i was a kid and never actually beat this game i just gave up in the end it may of been my first rage quit of a game and I beat sonic 06

Gonna watch this properly when i get home. All i can say is good luck and hope you draw a Raigeki for the Win! ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️🔥

“bring back old yugioh card art” can’t say i agree, new ygo art is the best the variety from melffy to plunder to rescue-ace it’s all incredible. they got the manga artist of miss kobuyashis to draw the dragon maid archetype for goodness sake

6:58 "After Joey gets his ass handed to him by Kaiba, we then decide to duel him as well just to rub salt in the wound". 😂😂 I like the toxicity. Really had me crying.

More crazy speedruns !!

That was fun to watch. Appreciate it

I cannot imagine playing this game on anything but 5 card drop or more. You've def become the King of Games

I’m glad you played and explained this game. I remember playing it but it was too hard for my child brain.

I had/have this game when I was a kid and he's not lying. Took way too many hours and consumed me too the point where i tried creating a physical chart of how to win each scenario in the game and went crazy trying to beat the UI and failed. One day I just gave up and started playing Treasure Planet the game which led me into Kingdom Hearts and never looked back. This is my sign to launch up the ps2 and go down this rabbit hole once again...

Watching an entire playthrough of this which I played non-stop as a kid reminds me that eventhough it was messy and frustrating, it was also just a lot of fun. The music are still all bangers. However... I would still like a chat with the designer who thought putting cool cards in the Password at 999,999 starchips was a good idea 😂

Leave it to Connor to pay attention to the story only during a speed run

That Kaiba inpression was surprisingly accurate