AGDQ 2025 earns $2.5 million for charity with its best event yet

Awesome Games Done Quick 2025 has concluded, raising conscionable implicit $2.5 cardinal for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. Every Games Done Quick lawsuit is worthy tuning successful to either unrecorded oregon aboriginal via VODs, but this AGDQ was uniquely fantastic, filled with runs that’ll spell down arsenic immoderate of the champion GDQ has to offer. Here are immoderate of our favorites:

New Super Mario Bros. Wii

The large happening astir the speedrunning assemblage is that it’s often not capable to beryllium the fastest runner of a peculiar game. That’s boring. For Wes, simply moving New Super Mario Bros. Wii wasn’t capable to fulfill him. He had to get originative with it, deciding to maestro playing the crippled arsenic accelerated arsenic imaginable while playing the piano. But however tin idiosyncratic play a video crippled if some their hands are occupied, you ask? The reply is obvious: by controlling the crippled with your caput and feet. I don’t cognize what inspires a quality to bash this benignant of thing, and I don’t care. All that matters is that Wes enactment the extent of quality quality (and multitasking) connected display, and it was brain-breaking to watch.

Elden Ring bonus showcase

Speaking of unthinkable quality talent, however astir playing Elden Ring — a crippled known for its punishing difficulty — with a saxophone. I was looking guardant to this tally each week, and Dr. Doot did not disappoint, but not for the crushed I expected. It’s 1 happening to bushed the likes of Malenia, Blade of Miquella with a specially programmed aerophone. But thing could person prepared maine for each input, from landing an onslaught to utilizing consumables, sounding a hilarious “doot” noise. I cried laughing it was truthful funny.

Super Metroid

Super Metroid is simply a GDQ staple, often anchoring the event’s past time successful a week’s worthy of programming. But lately, GDQ has gotten distant from featuring a specified tally of the crippled to alternatively showcase each the enactment the Super Metroid modding assemblage has enactment into keeping this crippled from 1994 caller and interesting. This four-way contention of Super Metroid included a representation randomizer, meaning the game’s mean layout had been shuffled astir and enactment unneurotic successful an all-new configuration.

Map randomizers for a Metroid game are uniquely unsafe due to the fact that each of the abilities you request to advancement are nary longer laid retired successful a logical fashion. Samus mightiness tally into the fiery pits of Lower Norfair agelong earlier uncovering the heat-shielding Varia suit. And with the representation randomized, it’s present mode harder (and takes mode longer) to find wherever the suit is. Now adhd an constituent of competition, and you’ve got 1 of the finest races successful AGDQ history.

Crazy Taxi with unrecorded backing band

It utilized to beryllium that if you wanted to debar DMCA strikes for playing a crippled connected Twitch with licensed music, you conscionable turned the euphony off. But AGDQ has travel up with a caller mode to get astir this aged problem. For this tally of Crazy Taxi, each opus was played by a screen set that transformed AGDQ from a speedrunning video crippled lawsuit into an impromptu punk stone amusement — mini-mosh pit and each — and it ruled. I’m not gonna stock immoderate details. Just spell ticker it for yourself.

GDQ is simply a uniquely peculiar lawsuit for much reasons than featuring cool, creative, oregon crazy-ass runs. In a satellite wherever cowardly corporations person decided it’s good to telephone women and LGBTQ+ radical slurs, and 1 wherever gamers person a unsocial estimation for being atrocious to each other for differences beyond our control, Games Done Quick has been precise vocal successful its enactment of marginalized people. Whether it beryllium its divers programming with Frame Fatales oregon Black successful a Flash oregon the specified information that each different donation featured a connection of “Trans Rights,” which was enthusiastically work aloud and enthusiastically cheered by the unrecorded crowd.

Games Done Quick has been a shining illustration of however intentionally curated communities tin foster acceptance and beryllium a root of joyousness and goodness successful a clime that needs it, and AGDQ 2025 was 1 of the best.