This is what you watch GDQ for.
If anything it's easier to do it blind.
in the name of science, i request that you record yourself trying it both blindfolded and unblindfolded.
I was mostly kidding, but they'd both look about the same. Have you ever even played Battletoads? The bike level is so absurdly fast that you end up somewhere in between actually reacting to what you see to the screen and just flat out memorizing what order to move the dpad in.
haven't tried it since i was a kid, but yeah, fuck that bike level. i think i beat it once and then died like five minutes later. still kept making my mom rent it for me all the time and getting cockblocked on level 3. at least i had perseverance.
Who gives a shit? Having a bunch of unintelligible jibberish on the screen makes this crap decidedly less fun to watch. Play the shit in English, or stay home and speedrun from your basement.You guys retarded or something? Almost every speedrunner plays jp titles where it makes sense that it requires less text to scroll through. Sometimes games are french or other languages for the same reason. Ain't like you're reading anything.
The Yoshi's island 4 person race last night was really good. Had a really outstanding commentator.
Ok so going with retarded thenits not about reading the text, its about playing versions of games people are familiar with.