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Marble Blast Gold (2005)

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Recently, my drive and ability for getting PlatinumQuest awesome times/scores has gone way up. Now that my PlatinumQuest stats screen is at the halfway point of 69/138 awesome times (nice 😂🤣), I figured it was a good point to record all of my current awesome times and put them into a video!

"Awesome Times" are the hardest set of challenge times in PlatinumQuest. Over the last few months, I've grinded many hours and my skills have improved substantially to the point where I'm able to grind out times that I never thought I'd be able to. Special thanks to petalflurry for their various videos, Doomblah for her PQ rampage, IsraeliRD/Regislian for the original awesome time guide, and the whole community for the PQ world record rampage. These videos have been amazing sources of strategies and paths and I wouldn't have achieved these times without them.

This video contains all of my non-hunt awesome times as of November 8th, 2022. The rankings are accurate as of exporting the video a few hours ago. Hunt video coming soon!

Enjoy!

A few notes:

There are a few rrec replay errors throughout, particularly with the cannon aim circles, but also with the anvil in Terminal Velocity and maybe some others. Also, god damnit I'm never gonna remember that "dependency" isn't spelled with an a!!!!

I recorded it at 1080p rather than 1440p after a quick community poll. More people preferred 1080 over 1440 since the UI is easier to read, and I agree. Also, while I sometimes play with the gem radar on, I've been more frequently playing with the radar turned off and decided to record this video with the gem radar fully off.

For anyone who would like to see my rrec files, they are available here: https://thearst3rd.com/dl/pq-rrecs/

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TIMESTAMPS

Tutorial
0:00 - Training Wheels
0:27 - Haphazard
0:49 - Downhill Skipping
1:20 - Locomotion
1:42 - Rush Hour

Beginner
2:16 - Into the Deep
2:52 - Trained to Fade
3:11 - El Titiritero
3:22 - Having a Blast
3:51 - Side-Stroller
4:26 - Transporter Lock
4:59 - Railgun
5:13 - Gems Ahoy!
7:45 - Trial by Fire
8:03 - Half Pipe Leap of Faith
9:08 - Downhill and Out of Here!!
9:32 - Net Force

Intermediate
10:05 - Construction Wonders
10:41 - Blender: Liquify
11:08 - Rickety Race
12:07 - Triple Action
12:46 - Path Finding Folly
13:33 - Evaporation

Advanced
14:01 - Terminal Velocity
14:46 - Be Elusive!
15:20 - The Spoils of Serendipity Gardens
17:54 - Tricks in the Air
18:23 - Fly the Coop
18:42 - Chilled
19:01 - Child's Play
21:15 - Scouring the Framework
21:37 - Fire when Ready

Expert
22:13 - Dependency
23:25 - Hawking's Dilemma
24:19 - Fist Bump
24:58 - Blast to the Beat
25:32 - A Marble's Home is Its Castle
27:13 - Hydropower
29:44 - Musing

Bonus
30:57 - Treacherous Pits
31:11 - Camera Woes
31:30 - Pizzanator
31:49 - Take the Gold
32:18 - Autobahn
33:28 - Gunnery Practice
33:52 - Puzzle 6 - Multi-Layer
34:38 - Level from a Devious Mind
35:00 - Puzzle 9 - King Minos's Grand Complex
36:01 - 7-1X: White Noise
36:24 - Arctic Inferno
37:30 - Puzzle 11 - Nightmare
39:10 - Super Secret Puzzle 12

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MUSIC

Alpine Skyline Bonus Track - Pascal Michael Stiefel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ0t6JG1I_Q
Crush Roll - Keishi Yonao - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fFBLYb0LRY
Golden Ridge (Golden Feather Mix) - in love with a ghost - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgDYV_IbPuo
I Am Bird (You Are Now Legally a Bird Remix) - Theory of N - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0ffir_JijA
Where's My Z Pack? - Shnabubula - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcCcgSNeDcU
Collapsing Rift - Pascal Michael Stiefel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi0B551MHm0
It Ends - Danny Baranowsky - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqCHdKFf7OY
The Clock Master (Sync/Majesty) - coda - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivNihcA-b7Q
Where Hot and Cold Collide - Nostalvania - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04304
Trainwreck of Electro Swing (Remix) - Pascal Michael Stiefel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgaV3_kCtCA

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