The Two Titans of Fancy Pants Speedrunning

I got home in the middle of watching this, my wife saw it, and immediately said 'Is that Fancy Pants!" This women is not a gamer at all, but apparently played it 10 years ago in middle school.

Go fast, go fancy!

Thanks for having me on! Incredible stuff maximum. Outdid yourself

I love how dha is always swearing and still unhappy while luciousness is yelling LETS GOOOOO the whole time

I was absolutely obsessed with Fancy Pants as a kid. I used every opportunity to play the first and second part. My sister and I drew our own levels, stories, gameplay scenarios etc. Once my dad took a picture of us holding our "fanarts" and sent them to Brad in an e-mail. And a few days later, he actually responded. He sent us a picture of characters from the game waving and a short message dedicated to us. For a 7 year old it was incredible. I still remember how happy I felt when I saw that drawing. Still one of the best gifts I've received :)

1:18:53 Nailed it 😎 But seriously, thanks for including me! It's so random to see this after it's been so long. And it's fun to see all the improvements that these proper runners have made

So excited to see speedruns of these games getting some attention! I've been a part of the FPA speedrunning community for a few years; I made the SFPA autosplitter and briefly held the any% and glitchless world records for Fancy Pants 3. These games' communities are criminally small. Hopefully your video can spark some interest.

The fact that there are two people and two games, and how the world record holders flipped THREE times in the span of a year as they pushed the games to new levels of optimization is insane. Easily one of the best max videos I've ever watched

the movement in this game just looks so cool despite being so simple

Oh man, it's almost criminal that these games have only been covered a little in speedrunning. Brad Borne was the guy EA contracted to make a Mirror's Edge flash demake! Thanks again for your hard work and everyone who contributed.

What we need is an RL rival meetup between Luciousness and dha. Along with a photoshoot of them wearing oversized fancy pants shorts in their respective colours (L in blue and dha in orange).

This dude casually created one of my favorite childhood games what a legend

It was an honor helping you with the video! This game has so much charm and personality put to these games that it's a shame that it isn't exactly super popular in the speedrunning scene nowadays. It really is awesome to know that I managed to have an impact on this community just by running my favorite flash game series. I really highly recommend running these games if you were a fan of this series or a newcomer in general! It may seem dead for WR possibility but it really is not so. This is exactly the situation when I first joined the community, and look what happened! When I first joined, the record seemed so optimized that I only wanted to see how fast I could go, but I managed to be a contender. I don't doubt there's still more to find in these games too!! Thank you for making this video max, and now I guess it's time to run world 2 again.. :) here's my twitch if anyone wants to watch. https://www.twitch.tv/luciousnesss

The nostalgia, man! I completely forgot this game existed! The music is hitting me in the feels!

29:39 Super spider skip was actually found by AJcomics, 0/10 unwatchable video smh No but in all serious this was such an amazing video to watch, perhaps your best one yet. I’ve been watching ever since the sub 20 train video, and you’ve been a huge inspiration to me and I’m sure many others. It’s crazy to think that I’ve gotten to know you better ever since then, and now actually appearing in one of your videos, something that I never would’ve thought was possible. I say this pretty often but the Fancy Pants series really needs more attention, and I couldn’t be more grateful for this putting the series in front of the eyes of many more people. This story is just one of many in the community and there are still many more to come :)

I’m really about to watch am hour and a half explaining the story of 2 people I’ve never heard of who had a rivalry I didn’t know existed about a game I’ve never even heard of, and I’m gonna love every second of it

Between yours and Summoning Salt’s recent video, I find it cool how documenting the history of speedruns plays a part in the history itself

1:11:59 Dang I was so close to being in the video, I'm 4th on the leaderboard for the world 1 remix (2 seconds behind DylCat). Really impressive video!

I love when people make things happen in a montage to the beat of the music like it is done at 31:33

can’t believe the speedrunning history of this game was started by the LEGEND mexican415