I still watch pj's runs every once in a while. I hope he does more soon. The guy is hilarious. One of the best gdq runners IMO.

I love how excited puwexil is when PJ defeats ella, we all need a friend that supportive lol

Every PJ run at GDQ is required watching

44:30: "Have you tried paper?" Man after my own heart.

Well you know how that old wise saying goes: "Give a gnome a fire and you warm him for a day. Light a gnome on fire and you can survive an ice cave." *Seems legit*

Fucking Mecha Richer and Pj are legends, they make stuff funny without trying and thats when humor is the best.

Two things. First, this run was really fun to watch! Second, I absolutely loved this game growing up. Beat it somehow and now absolutely love hearing about everyone's struggles. I nod knowingly.

I figured "If you can get in, use this book!" was a mistranslation because 本 is used both as one of the Japanese words for book and as a numeral modifier for counting objects that are longer than they are wide, such as trees, bottles, and staffs. So I looked the game up on NicoNico to see the original line, and they don't even use the word. The actual dialogue at that point is just "もし はいることが できたら これを やくだててくれ！" Translated, that'd be "If you're able to enter, [please put this to good use/this will come in handy]!" No mention of a book or a staff anywhere. So while it's TECHNICALLY translated properly, whoever did it decided to just replace "this" with "this book" for some unknown reason. Also, for the record, when you're asked to put on 300 gold, the original line was "すまないが これで みじたくを ととのえて いってくれ・・・。" which means "I'm sorry, but please use/take this to get dressed and go..."

This is another one of my favorite runs that I've watched a hundred times. PJ is a legend and this run is so fun to watch and listen to. Excellent work PJ.

This run is an absolute _blast_ to watch, it's chock-full of hilarious moments and I never get tired of it.

All fire is truth fire.

PJ is my favorite runner. Informative, funny, and dedicated.

PJ is one of my favourite runners due to the combo him + his luck + his awful games. Never change, PJ

PJ and Klaige are my favorite runners, they have outstanding chemistry and commentary.

My first thought was "Well, that's a pretty decent looking NES game." "Limitations of the SNES hardware" - 9:35 ... O-Oh.

Starts at 8:25

I’ve been re-watching this speedrun for years and finally I understand the joke at 44:23

I love PJ, he can make even an awful game fun to watch.

I love PJ's runs.

This game was a monster. I am one of the many that conquered Lagoon. Thanks for making the video, makes me nostalgic of my early gaming experience. It seriously took me 2 hours to find Thor's pendant, and i literally snapped when i discovered some random NPC had it.

OMFG THATS WHERE THE MOON BLADE IS! BRB I've got to go and finally put my Lagoon-induced childhood PTSD to rest.

PJ my favorite runner, funny and skilled.

remember playing this game when I was little , so much memories

I completely unironically love the soundtrack to this game. I didn't grow up with it, but watching PJ's GDQ runs definitely sparks some nostalgia :D

I love this game. It was a great part of my childhood, and they treated the plot perfectly.

I didn't realize PJ did this game again! I LOVED it in 2012 and I already love this even more! PJ, you made my day. ;w;

This game looks *just* charming enough that if I had played it as a kid when it was new, I would probably have very fond memories of it. It seems a bit convoluted in figuring out where to go, but it doesn't seem *difficult*, as long as you stay leveled. Free saving anytime, consistent upgrades and simple magic usage? I feel like a kid would enjoy this and have the free time needed to figure it out.

Lol I love Pj, such a hell of a fun guy. =) fav speedrunner by far

THIS! This is one of the best runs I've ever seen. Top 10

All runs by PJ are great(:

Wow PJ!! Well done mate. This was very entertaining and hilarious. Thanks for a great run!!

PJ is da man. Love his appearances on the *gdqs. When it's him or dram51 i always make time.

as soon as i saw puwexil, i knew id have all my questions answered hahah. great run!

This is my favorite run next to the Brain Age: TASBot run!

I come back to this video a couple of times a year, such a great speedrun to listen to.

Games like this should be remade. It has a lot of potential.

PJ is so great, I like him so much. His runs are always so entertaining.

I beat this game 20 years ago as a kid playing late at night on my snes. Also, i could not read the japanese text so i figured everything out by just trial and error and just roaming around. Took me about 6 hours.

Love the music in this game. Cozy run.

1:16:45 now that is a crazy random boss... damn what a finish.

Time for the roughly yearly watch!

This is my favorite speedrun of all time! 10/10

This run is still one of my favorites

Wow. This game is the SNES equivalent of a 12 year old's RPG Maker project.

Great run and great commentary!

Loved this game.

Lol, I love how they just make fun of the game the entire time lol. Made me laugh.

Wtf... Is that Ray? Brownman himself in the front row? Swear to god.

I watch this run all the time!!! One of agdq or just gdq's best runs of all time!!!

One of the best Speedruns :)

I still think this is my all-time favorite run.

this run is so fun and chilled and funny i rewatch it so often XD

I loved this game as a kid yea it's terrible but it has a special place in my heart

I feel like this game had a good chance at being good. The music isn't bad, art isn't horrible, seems to have the mechanics of a normal game almost there. Although that might just be a fantastic runner piloting the dumpster for all I know.

42:03 bionic commando rearmed 2 donation from the dev. Hype mode AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Thor (in Lagoon in SNES) is one of only a small number of video game characters with heterochromia (different colored eyes ... fascinating)

When you go to watch a random GDQ speedrun and Ray (aka Brownman) is just chillin in the crowd lol

I actually enjoy this game. Yes it has flaws, some of them rather glaring, but it's a decently fun little game with a fairly rockin' soundtrack. If the controls were a bit better, the sword a little longer, the plot a bit clearer and the way forward a bit less aggravating, I think it could have really developed a following.

This should be shared with everyone who worked on the game, I think they'd get a kick out of it!

They covered most of the bullshit but to summarize: 1. Your only weapon is a sword the size of a toothpick. No matter how much you upgrade its damage its range never changes. 2. To make matters worse, the screen doesn't scroll unless you're 85% across the screen, giving you no reaction time. Imagine playing Contra like that. 3. This guy knows where he's going but if you don't all the dungeons are huge multifloor mazes with respawning enemies. 4. Yes your health regenerates but not in Boss Fights which are stupid hard. I played this game as a kid. It has one saving grace (Hah!): You can save ANYWHERE. Even in the middle of a fight (but not bosses). I raged quit when I saved right before getting comboed to death that killed me instantly everytime I reloaded. Out of spite I rented it again later only to get hopelessly lost inside one of the dungeons and gave up for good. Fuck this game.

“Despite having ONE THOUSAND YEARS of advanced warning . . . “ “If you can get in, use this book . . . “ “I’m glad I’m alive . . . “

Everyone shits on the graphics on this game, but they were quite decent for 1991. Source: was 9 years old when I played this

PJ and Puwexil, two legends

Music isn't too bad, though. At least that's something :)

I legitimately enjoy this game as a kid. It has a bunch of faults but I really liked it, but it IS brutally hard.

I enjoyed watching this run a lot. I would never play this game myself and actually I never heard about it before, definitely not intending to play it now.

When he's fighting the boss at around 1:14:00 if you get the blue ring (I believe that's a thing?) you can jump over and hit the gems and clip through the gems going forward, making the battle last about 10 seconds. I know this because my friends brother has this game and that's how he was able to beat that boss.

ive played this game a bunch when i was a child i found everything killed all the bosses except for the final final boss i never could beat the final form this game is a legend for sure

the worst thing about this is that i see the skeleton of a good game here

I knew I recognized Ray just sitting there at the front of the audience lol

43:00 cuddle time is best time

Honestly, this game isnt that bad. If there was a remake of this game with decent mechanics and nice gameplay I would play. The story is simple, but from what I saw seems fun.

PJ running lagoon with puwexil and klaige on the couch. Perfection

I just hope when summer games 2018 comes up, they speed run this game, with all the talk about short swords, and instantly follow it with the sega genesis "Strider", and talk about how awesome the sword reach is.... maybe even make that a theme.... "Contrast Games Block" where the games have differences that are blatantly obvious.

Honestly had loads of fun with this game. Great speed run and making it look easy, spoiler it's not.

yo, idk why, but so far this is my favorite bgdq, or well... gdq game in general, I'm back here so often

Say what you will about this game, but I absolutely *love* the music. Outside of many FF games and SO2, Kemco games have some of my favorite music in them. I say this having both played and beaten both this game and Drakkhen.

I always saw this game at the rental store, but the box art never intrigued me enough to pick it up.

31:21 The “muddy water” thing must've been decided at the last second because...this doesn't look muddy!

"How did anyone finish this game as a child?" With extreme difficulty.

My Brother loved this game when he was young and defended it like it was his child. Meanwhile I was playing FF4 and 6 on, and Crono Trigger and laughing at him.

I can confirm 1:13:54 boss is extra fun on low percent. Took many many attempts to defeat when I was at my friends house.

I wish this game would come out on the Wii U Virtual Console.

This was one of my favorite games as a child. I swear I'm not a masochist.

Ah I see a wild brown man :) him talking about speed runs when he was part of achievement hunters got me into watching these things

Oh my god I didn't know anyone else even knew about this game. I played this when I was a kid, I couldn't ever make it past the first dungeon.

Why do I got the feeling that much is lost in translation? Some stuff is more translated literally while other stuff just suffered from goofy translators. (Like those who did much of the german translations of that time)

Is that Ray?

Just noticed Achievements Hunter Ray in the front row! Makes sense he's into speedrunning too 😋

"It's a big pile of anime" - Sums up the entire game basically

Strange game...great run.

This looks like a bootleg version of Ys I&II.

I would love to see Lunar Silver Star Story Complete run at GDQ.

Oh hey look! Its the famous Roy from Trophy Finders! Sitting front row! That devilish guy!

Is nobody going to say how Thor looks alot like David Bowie from Labyrinth, he even turns into a white owl thingy at the end... Love both game and movie

1:22:20 for the attempt that shall not be repeated.

I only beat it as a kid because I was grinding for hours to buy the stupid expensive healing orb in Voloh. 10,000 gold when the field enemies only drop 2....god that took forever, but I wouldn't have beat it without it.

The enemy death SFX sound the same as the SNES Street Fighter II Dhalsim-stage elephants.

I remember renting this as a kid...never did get too far. It's sad that we got this Ys ripoff instead of Ys V. :p

Why it Iron Maiden's mascot Eddie in the pillars of the last level?