Minecraft Console Minigames Are Back!?

Most Minecraft players have a fairly rudimentary understanding of the elytra flying down will speed you up and flying up will slow you down sure but console edition players have a huge Edge in this regard because of the Glide mini game this was built into the console and it

Was an entire mini game based around flying with the elytra and so when it made the front page of Reddit today with almost 9 000 upvotes it had to be said that I felt a little bit of Pride about this because this person lcy 2k07 completed Canyon in less than a minute

The skills used here are absolutely insane but what if I told you this wasn’t the first time that the canyon minigame had been done in less than a minute actually the world record currently sits at 56.9 seconds and it’s one of the wildest Things you’ll ever see in fact to this

Day there are still World Records being set for these mini-games an active community of people playing the console edition mini games and this is something which 4J Studios looks to be capitalizing on let’s explain all that in today’s video because it’s not just this brand new amazing record of Canyon

Which has been done and again if we look through this very briefly you can see that like okay he starts it and things are looking fairly fine it’s uh wait wait we’re flying through the mountains and it looks like it’s just yeah a good elytra Mastery he’s flying up and down

As close to walls as you physically can you might think that you have to stay really really far away to stay safe but the truth is once you know exactly where you’re flying and you have a high Precision even with a controller which is what every consolation player is

Using you can do some insane things right here I mean look at these look at the edges he’s cutting to make sure he loses every single fraction but where this really gets wild is how some of these other fun mechanics tie in there so obviously there are these boost pads

And there are these uh you know like uh up drops to get some wind but I think what’s Wild is when you look at these things combined and you see him hit the ceiling and then do a 360 this isn’t just a flex this is actually to ensure

Uh that he slows down at the right pace while still going around a corner um and as you can see uh by just doing a few of those and then finally uh ensuring that his angle has gone the right way he beats the record and gets the first ever

56 time this was a year ago and I was curious like light Legend is someone who I’ve heard about before really big into the Minecraft console mini games would love to talk to you sometime if you’re watching the slide Legend uh one of the wild things about this is this isn’t the

Only uh Glide mini game stuff that’s being done right now people aren’t just playing the old Maps over and over again in fact DLC exists for this which wasn’t made by 4J Studios in fact uh the community for Glide is so vast that there are some custom maps so this map

Is called Lighthouse and I’ll give you exactly 10 seconds to guess why it’s named that it’s gonna blow your mind when you work it out but um yeah this is a again this looks a lot like some maps that exist but this is a map which was custom made from scratch obviously this

Is Glide Legend showing his extreme skills and knowing how to keep things balanced but look there was the lighthouse and then there’s a second map called skylines and this one looks a lot more hacky I mean uh you can see it’s like it’s a lot of big things put

Together but the fact is there are Minecraft players still after all this time uh going through creativity not just in the creative mode of the game but people are actively modifying these games so that they can put them in the game files as I understand it this is Wii U only

Um and you have to be doing it by some emulator but the fact is some people really love uh you know the console edition because to them it was their childhood and that is an interesting place I wanted to take this uh if you don’t mind me uh moving you to the side

In this video to mention something interesting about that original post because I love whenever console edition gets the praise it deserves um when it first came out a lot of people saw it as lesser Minecraft I uh you know someone who made videos of it for years people

Like oh what about real Minecraft but I love seeing people actually acknowledge all these years later uh like the top comment here is saying I want these OG mini games back they are better than the BS ones we have today and it’s true even though Glide is only six years old and

It uses a mechanic from 2014 which is very much new age Minecraft and uh certain certain ways of thinking uh the truth is this was for some people their childhood six years ago is enough time for someone to have been uh 12 years old when they were playing desperately

Through Glide and now they are 18 and ready to make a difference or maybe to go on Reddit and leave comments about it and uh you know this is also something interesting because you see people having all these positive thoughts about it I mean I’m still bitter that console

Edition which was far more stable and better looking uh got acts for the iPad Minecraft I think it’s crazy how many comments we get from people saying that they love the way these mini games look they want the Mesa to look precisely like this and I do have to say every

Time I come back to it I’m like yeah actually this is really uh like an underappreciated Vibe for the bomb having these cactuses that actually like cactuses having these fun structures run through them I think I’m reminded of like just the incredulousness uh that comes from 4J Studios here I mean

Although really you have to give some credit to the community again if we watch through this run and you’re looking through it uh you can see that it did a 360 there and this is based on uh the fact that the glider was programmed to take you from you know

Your speed to the max speed in the game so to get more of the speed from the glider it’s worth doing a 360 as fast as you can and the logic behind that is that it will keep you boosting because you won’t reach your top speed anywhere

In there as quickly which means you see right here to see that he gets more speed he does a 360 as he’s going over here it’s absolutely wild to see you know 720s in some cases it’s well to see the players Ingenuity but honestly 4G Studios themselves have to be credited

They created mod tools that are just as powerful as the consumer versions available today uh just so that they could make these maps and their DLCs Etc um they created a console Port of Minecraft that worked better than a giant you know the biggest Studio on the

Planet or the biggest uh company on the planet not even uh the biggest company on the planet can’t quite nail down how to make Minecraft run across multiple devices as well as a small studio in Scotland can and uh that isn’t meant as a dick it’s meant to say that there is

So much amazing stuff going on and I think the reverence for their games really shows this I mean sure you could always argue that some large part for Success was Minecraft but I I don’t know the fact is uh there is a large uh you know Collective of players who are

Missed something about these 4J Studios mini games that Minecraft themselves despite owning the rights to make one whenever they want to have just kind of left on the burn in fact many games are exclusively done by servers and that’s what Minecraft encourages you to do what

Happens if all the servers go the way of the hive it’s not something that Minecraft is focused on because that’s the partner server’s problem um but this is something that does leave a gap for 4J Studios and they’ve been working on a new game for quite some time and we only

Just got the most recently exciting hint that really gets me hyped about mini games again because they say that their new game that they’ve been working on for years follows on from where we left off with the mini games and so the challenge is on in fact they’re hinting

Uh in fact they said something in this tweet from May the 10th saying that we should get you all back to the studio to see what we’ve been up to because a few uh you know years ago for a for an update uh they invited quite a few

Console YouTubers up to 4J Studios and it looks like they’ve invited us back and at the time I thought this was fun and I said I was entirely down but since then I have been in contact with 4J and it looks like it’s actually happening I’m going to Scotland later to I guess

Next month at some point assuming that everything goes to plan I will be able to see what’s happening with this game and you better believe that I won’t be going if I can’t share it with you I am so curious about what they’re working on

I am so excited to see uh what the years since Minecraft console editions discontinuing have been spent on and how that relates to mini games the mini games might not exist in their truest form uh you know in terms of updates and new stuff there is going to be some

Successor and you can always play servers I’m always trying to get back into serve many games but they’re never quite the same thing are they um but it the truth is the old console edition mini games always will exist they’ll never die console edition is something

Uh that you can always go back and play and sure it gets more and more outdated every year because the Bedrock and Java versions are updating but the truth is Battle mini game and Tumble to some extent and the Glide mini game are absolute Classics and I enjoy any

Opportunity to go back to them do you remember they partner with Fallout to make some Fallout maps for that uh do you remember the number of Glide Maps there were do you remember how tumble just used to get free updates and how fun it was to play battle game after

Game after game in a Lobby and how much they made the lobby even the most interesting place to hang out there were so many fun additions and I uh cannot say uh with enough uh you know like a troopness to my voice how excited I am

To see something in the future of that anyway later today I’m going to be checking out the cubecraft server it’s the most popular Bedrock multiplayer server I know it’s not the same as these console mini games and I really want that back but I feel as though I need to

Keep trying the Bedrock mod player servers as they’re doing stuff this is the most popular mini game out right now so I’m gonna play it for an hour and a half and honestly spend some amount of that time sad that it’s not as good as console mini games but hopefully try to

Find a Bedrock alternative to the thing that is just kind of currently missing anyway I hope you all enjoyed this video because I’ll see you in the next one goodbye oh wait subscribe or power Spire or something Foreign