Mario Party has a lot of RNG, so it's really hard to get a good time, it's just being lucky for a good time
RPGs are typically a good answer to this. The usual combination of:
- "Random Encounters". You know that random encounter that likes wiping your team in a certain area? Count on getting it while speedrunning at some point. Lots of resetting in RPGs because of this during RPGLimitBreak all week long.
- Random drops. Drops can drastically alter the run especially when they are good weapons or damage inflicting usable ones.
- Random damage, The randomness varies in some games. In RPGLimitBreak TheRpgChick (if I get that wrong don't crucify me), was having fun with getting Critical Hits with Claude in Shining Force Cd Book 1. You miss you reset to your safety save.
- Random Evasion. You can have as high evasion as you want...in some games it seems not to matter when RNG is not on your side.
- Random Aggro. Swords and Serpents and Dan in RPGLimitBreak. Poor guy had like honey or something on him. Got hit like 20 times in a couple minutes.
- Random Position of enemies on a map in some games. Wild Arms has enemies on the map while you run around, Sometimes enemies can appear in front of doors apparently.
- Crashes - Since RPGs are long and single segment is a popular way of running them, if the game crashes you have to reload from your last save or restart. Ar Tonelico 2 seems to be highly unstable, with the runner during RPGLimitBreak saying that not one person has ever done a clear of the game without it crashing.
- Glitches - Nasty buggers when you are not the one in control. Can easily ruin things for you. Some games are so glitchy you need to save in case stuff like that happens. Years ago was thinking of running the crappy Star Wars Phantom Menace Episode 1 game on PS1...but it has too many glitches. Falling through the map and dying was common so I gave that one up due to frustration.
Swords and Serpents is pretty disgusting.
Try out Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories. A speedrun can barely have more RNG than that. It begins with resetting for a good starting deck, then you need to farm for good cards which have drop rates of about 1 or 2% per duel (varies per card) and even with a good deck you can still lose very easily at the end of the game if you get bad RNG in terms of your opponent drawing a Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon which you can't beat most of the time. Speedrun times for any% range from 3 hours to 24+ hours and that alone shows how much RNG is involved. It is the biggest RNG speedrun, that is my personal opinion but I could even go that far to say that it is a fact. (Feel free to prove me wrong)
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Guess I need to take that opportunity to also advertise another beloved speedgame of mine which is Digimon World 3. It pretty much plays like an RPG so you have the normal RNG elements like Random encounters, CRITs (which seem very rigged in that game), evasion and training for stats can fail depending on RNG. Plus, in order to use the speedrun strats you need to drop a certain accessory from an enemy which has a drop rate of 6.25% (plus another one in the beginning which is mandatory for story progression, that one is 18.75%) So this game is (obivously) not as RNG heavy as Yu-Gi-Oh! FM but it's still a hell of an RNG fest, especially when you want to go for a good time. It is 7 hours plus though, so you need some spare time for that.
