Posted: 3/23/2024 1:48 AM
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YoshiRulz
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How has no-one mentioned this Flash classic yet? The OG AG TD. Some initial thoughts:
  • The game runs smoothly in Ruffle. (And I really hope lowering the graphics quality isn't optimal, because it looks remarkably good on max. on a modern machine.)
  • The official strategy guide is still up and serves as a good refresher for those of us who haven't played in a while.
  • On the subject of Armor Games, there's a domain-gated feature, the third skill. Have we figured out domain spoofing yet?
  • I'm imagining that a TAS would want to visit each 'battle' only once. In my RTA test, I got halfway to the quotas for the first few battles, so it's not too much of a stretch. Though I don't know whether the game will force you to backtrack at some point since I've never actually beaten it.
  • There doesn't seem to be a speedrunning community for this version. I saw a few runs of later releases on SRC, but the mechanics are probably too different to be applicable. And the optimal strategy for RTA may not be optimal for TAS anyway.
  • You get skill points by levelling up, and levels are just score milestones. It seems you can pass multiple milestones with a single 'battle'.
  • There are no restrictions on respec'ing; with one click you reset every skill and get all your points back.
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