“[The run] went very well actually, both a cursed and blessed run you could say,” Mipha remembers when asked about it. “It was one of the most nerve-racking experiences I have ever had [besides] exams in school, but I managed to get through with help from my commentators, Footcream and Yomkool, to take part of the pressure off!”
Mipha has always had an interest in completing games quickly. At the age of ten, he started experimenting with New Super Mario Bros Wii, which he mostly did for fun. But after watching Awesome Games Done Quick in 2017, his light-hearted hobby suddenly grew into something more serious and organized. “As for Dungeons, I just came off of the back of running another game and needed something new,” he says. “This was around the time Minecraft Dungeons came out, so I thought ‘why not?’. I had never run something of that nature before and it was a new, interesting challenge!”
Mipha tends to prefer games that require a large amount of “RNG” – random number generation – something Dungeons has plenty of. This means relying a fair deal on pure luck during runs, such as obtaining a certain weapon or artifact, rolling decent statistics on your gear, or getting the best possible procedural generation on a stage. It might sound like a lottery that has the potential for many frustrating resets, but at the end of the day, it’s all about adapting to the situation that is given to you. And the more you know about a game’s rules, the better you can prepare for them. In Mipha’s case, he has a small, but trusty community he can ask for help.
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