📜 Today’s Side Quest ❗
Welcome to 🎙️Side Quests & Save Points💾 - the podcast where ignoring the main quest is half the fun and every great adventure starts with a side quest!

This time I’m joined by TheBroodles - world record Final Fantasy IX speedrunner, streamer, and professional breaker of games. From Sega childhoods to Pokémon as a first JRPG, to shaving dozens of hours off games most of us take months to beat, Broodles dives deep into how speedrunning works, the categories, the skips, and the chaos behind chasing world records.

🎮 Episode Content Overview⚡ Early gaming memories (Sonic, Mega Drive, and Pokémon as the first JRPG)⚔️ First steps into Final Fantasy IX and how speedrunning became an obsession⏱️ Excalibur II runs, failed attempts, and the addiction of retrying🌀 Explaining categories like Any%, 100%, and "No Slots" in FFVII & IX💥 Famous glitches, skips, and the genius (or madness) behind finding them🎲 Why FFIX speedrunning is “pure” chaos compared to FFVII & VIII🏆 Holding multiple world records, blindfold runs, and community races🔥 Unpopular RPG opinions & why FFVIII deserves more love

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