Remarkable Games Done Quick 2025, the yearly speedrunning fundraiser, has actually been specifically musical this year, and to maintain the streak, a live rock band jammed out along with a speedrun of Crazy Taxi.
A classically experienced Opera vocalist topped off their Ratchet and Clank speedrun with a belter, a pianist played the whole New Super Mario Bros. Wii soundtrack while going through the platformer, and another speedrunner did a no-hit Elden Ring keep up a saxophone – making AGDQ 2025 a more musical occasion than a lot of years.
The award for a lot of imaginative musical speedrun has to go to the 19-minute Crazy Taxi run, ingrained listed below, that had a live rock band playing in sync with the video game. Speedrunner chuckles825 took on the 16 levels consisted of in the game classic's Crazy Box mode, all while riding an in-game bike, and the band behind him played along on phase, resetting a tune whenever the speedrunner stopped working or completed a level. Certainly, this implied there was substantially less commentary on the speedrunning methods and problems utilized than normal, however the ill tunes and riled-up crowd more than offseted it.
Crazy Taxi with Live Backing Band by chuckles825 in 18:59 – Awesome Games Done Quick 2025 – YouTube
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All the musical jams added to another huge swimming pool of money for the Prevent Cancer Foundation as AGDQ 2025 audiences raised over $2.5 million throughout the week-long occasion, bringing Games Done Quick's 15-year life time overall to $54 million raised for different charities. You can capture up on all of this year's finest speedruns on the Games Done Quick YouTube channel. And, obviously, charity-oriented speedruns are returning with Summer Games Done Quick 2025 in July, this time raising funds for Doctors Without Borders.
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