- I'm clicking so fast and she's chopping so slow.
(upbeat music)
I am challenging myself to see how hard it is
to complete a speed run in Stardew Valley.
I've been playing Stardew since it came out in 2016
and I'm always looking for new ways to play the game.
I have never attempted a speed run in Stardew Valley ever.
I am going to attempt the marriage speed run,
in which you need to woo and marry an NPC
as quick as possible.
The world record time is 42 minutes and 26 seconds.
We're gonna be moving fast in this relationship.
So I decided I'm going to marry Shane during the speed run
just 'cause it looks like the easiest.
And I've been trying to put together some notes
and I have a checklist of things I need to do
in order to marry an NPC.
The bridge on the beach needs to be repaired.
My house needs to be upgraded so that Shane can move in.
I need to get Shane to eight hearts with me
so that I can give him a bouquet to be my boyfriend.
Then I need to get him to 10 hearts, get the mermaid pendant
to propose, and then we need to get married.
We are gonna try our best but holy moly,
that's a lot of stuff.
(words thud)
On the count of three, one, two, three.
Oh my goodness.
Okay, so our time has started.
We're going, okay.
Oh (blows raspberry) parsnips.
I'm assuming we should probably plant these
so that we have some sort of income?
I'm clicking so fast and she's chopping so slow.
I need 750 wood and
15,000 gold, which is a lot.
I there anything, oh, there's some stuff down here.
(gasps) Ooh, nice!
I heard the door open, is he already outside?
Oh my gosh, there he is.
Shane has a birthday in the spring.
He's on the 20th.
So I'm actually gonna go buy a beer
from the saloon when they open.
I'm gonna give Shane his gift
and I can only give him two gifts per week.
So I'm gonna designate Mondays and Tuesdays
as my Shane days.
Mark your calendar, Mondays and Tuesdays,
every single week,
(words sparkle) Shame Day.
I feel like I'm waiting outside places.
And I think that's just a thing
that's gonna come with practice
of knowing exactly when to leave an area
to get somewhere on time.
And now we're on a Monday, all right.
Oh! (suspenseful music)
Marnie! Why?
Okay, I'm gonna click as fast as I can't through this.
I think,
I think I'm just not gonna adopt the cat.
She's about to ask me if I wanna adopt.
No, no, oh fine, okay. Sure.
My cat (laughs) that I accidentally adopted.
Do I have something cool in the mail?
(gasps) I just realized that I missed Shane's birthday.
The thing in the mail was talking about the flower dance,
which happens after Shane's birthday.
I'm so upset.
How do I go back in time?
Can I just give him the beer now?
Here you go. (laughs)
This is bad. I might have to start over.
I might have just ruined the entire thing.
The whole reason I picked Shane
was because his birthday's in the spring.
I'm going into this festival, heart in my hands,
ready to go.
If he rejects me, I'm starting over.
I can't deal with rejection.
Ask Shane.
Don't forget people's birthdays.
That's the lesson, today.
(buzzer rings)
I love that I have to do this all over again
for one silly mistake.
All right, we have the beer.
The beer is in hand.
We are not gonna forget Shane's birthday.
Let me in, let me in, let me in, let me in, let me in.
(squeaks)
All right, here you go!
We look snazzy.
Who could say no to us now?
Yes. (gasps)
Yay!
He said yes!
I was kinda halfway thinking he was gonna say no again.
Oh, I look so cute dancing with everyone.
I mean, they could have gotten me a matching dress,
but whatever.
Let's get pepper seeds and let's get...
Oh, I only had enough for 19.
That's not good at all.
I don't have any money.
(laughs)
I really thought I had money.
Me walking into Pierre's like,
"Yeah, give me 30 seeds."
And meanwhile, my big account's crying.
You know what, I know it's a Saturday,
but I'm gonna go to Shane's house because I can't
not give him stuff this week.
All right, we're at seven hearts.
I know I should not be checking the heart levels,
'cause we don't have time for that,
but it's very encouraging to see.
I don't know how many times I've had
to remind myself to breathe.
(gasps) We're at eight hearts.
We're at eight hearts, oh my gosh.
Check! (bell dings)
Eight hearts, done.
You can have all of this Pierre
and I'm gonna buy that bouquet.
Be my boyfriend, be my boyfriend!
We are dating now, this is amazing.
Upgrade house? Yeah.
Awesome.
(bell dings) She's gonna
construct my new home.
I think it's really funny that we have already gone one hour
over the existing world record.
(gasps)
Was that it, was that it?
We got 10 hearts! (bell dings)
Uh-oh.
I don't think I've gotten any rain day.
(gasps) Rainy day.
I was gonna say, I haven't gotten any rain days
this whole time
- Fix the bridge.
(bell dings)
Here's this guy.
Buy the mermaid pendant.
Shane, hi!
Ah, he accepts!
Okay, our ceremony's in three days, guys,
we got three days to get ready for a wedding.
Just gotta sleep through three days.
Three days, that's it!
Oh my gosh, we look so cute.
Oh, I guess I gotta, I can't read all this,
I can't appreciate the actual wedding,
I just gotta click through it.
Okay, and then, I'm just trying to make sure that we
kiss. (gasps)
(bell dings) And that's the end!
The second we kiss is the end of the run.
Oh my gosh!
(bell dings)
All right, we've made it to day two of me trying
to beat this speed run time
and it's been several hours of research later.
I ended up finding a guide on speedrun.com
that walks you through what you're supposed to do
every single day in the game.
I'm very curious to see, if I follow this exactly,
how much time I would be saving.
(words thud)
It is day one, we're grabbing our parsnips
and we are gonna plant all of them
but only water six of them.
Okay, see, we're already off to a better start.
I feel like this is fairly close to what I was doing,
just a little bit faster.
This guide focuses a whole lot more
on foraging and using that to make seeds to sell.
So I am gonna focus a lot on that this time around.
And I saw this cool trick.
I knew you could do this,
but I didn't think about implementing it in a speed run,
if you run up to people and you stand in their way,
they get frustrated and then walk faster.
So Gus is probably gonna end up at that cash register
faster than he would have if I had not done that.
We're gonna sell those 40 seeds, that 25 fertilizer,
and anything that I got in spring.
We're gonna go to Pierre's, sell that,
and buy 25 pepper seeds.
In case you were wondering what new
and innovative thing we're doing today,
we're watering crops.
Again.
It does say on day 15,
we should have around 400 wood.
So you know what, let's try to catch up on the wood.
(suspenseful music) Please don't fall
in the water, please don't fall in the water,
please don't fall in the water.
Oh, thank goodness.
Following this exactly did not give me
the exact hearts I needed with Shane
at the exact time that I needed it.
This could entirely be my fault
for just not reading the guide correctly.
Hopefully this could just get him to the hearts,
that one extra heart that I need.
Let's see.
Yes, that got it! (bell dings)
Okay, so I was just one day off
on the whole pepper situation.
Okay.
Apparently you have to make someone like you
before you can ask them to be your boyfriend.
It was supposed to be that one day where I did everything
and nothing worked,
nothing worked out. (bell dings)
It was awful, but here we are.
(rain falls)
And it's raining, it's raining again.
So maybe if this pepper is the thing
to make him get to the 10th heart,
we're the luckiest people ever.
Maybe not the luckiest because people have done this faster.
Just me, standing in the rain, waiting for Shane.
This is so sad.
(bell dings) Ah!
Oh my gosh! (triumphant music)
We're so lucky!
Oh my gosh.
Okay, so that leveled us up enough
to go and get a mermaid pendant now, which we have
the money, we have the wood, we're gonna get married.
Yes, fix this. (bell dings)
Okay, skip through!
Kiss! (bell dings)
(bell dings)
Needless to say, I did not beat the world record time,
but I did find a new way to play Stardew Valley.
Will I play it this way normally? Probably not.
This was a frustrating, fun experience.
If you are ever interested in speed running
or just playing a game differently than you normally would,
I highly recommend just getting out of the box.
It's very refreshing.