I think that this is my favorite movie to date. A lot of fun to watch. I did notice that graphically the game looks "prettier" though, which caught me off guard. Is this a different ROM, or what?
I love the route.
Kudos!
You seem to have knowledge about this game, why don't you give it a try?
Honestly, I just don't have the time. I watch the new movies when they're published, if I'm familiar with the game, but I would never be able to finish a game myself.
This game doesn't ever seem to get any love. It was one of my favorite Genesis games growing up. Along with Kid Chameleon, which has a speed run already, Chakan was the only other reason that I even wanted a Genesis. I had a Super Nintendo, which I was content with, however I still spent many hours at a friends house playing his Genesis. Mainly because of the two previously mentioned titles.
Original release date was August 12, 1992.
Chakan was the greatest warrior the world had ever seen. Wielding two powerful swords, his skills were unmatched by any mere mortal. After losing the desire to fight humans, Chakan challenged the Grim Reaper himself to a duel. If Chakan won, he would be granted eternal life, but if he lost it would mean an eternity of pain. Surprisingly, Chakan won the battle and was awarded his prize, but there was a catch--while he would live forever, he would spend that lifetime in the underworld, slaying all that is evil until there was no evil left. Now, it's up to you to help Chakan finish off evil and find the happiness of eternal rest that he so desperately seeks. Through level after level, you'll come face-to-face with some of the most hideous creatures imaginable, using your mastery of weaponry and alchemy to deal out punishment and magic. Is there an end to evil in sight? Only you can help Chakan find out.
I was just curious if anyone had any intentions of running this game?
Just finished a run of this one (in virtuanes) with a time of 20'30'', i have already an avi of it, i will share if anyone interested has any suggestion, i was thinking of emule since i don´t have a tracker in order to use bittorrent.
I'm very interested personally. I never actually finished the game before. I think that the farthest I ever made it was to the lava stages with the moving platforms.
So if you could throw up a link to the .avi download, that would be terrific!
So you just can't go to Dracula without it? That makes sense then. This is a good run. A couple of times he takes some sloppy hits, but it's a good run. I'm trying to get the pattern down so I can try to compete at this one.
I have another question though. How long did it take you to get each creature to drop a full heart when you were working up right at the beginning to get the Holy Water & White Crystal?
Well, I've really enjoyed watching the Super Mario Bros. 2 videos gradually get better. The Princess only run was sick!
I think my favorite movie is Megaman 3 though. It's close between it and the last Castlevania movie I watched.
That's your opinion, and mine is different. To me, it's just as entertaining, if not moreso, to watch people run through areas of games while making it look like it's not difficult at all. Take the Batman run for example. That game, to me, was extremely hard. Just watching him run and jump over enemies like they aren't even there is really entertaining to me. It's almost like the enemies that are non bosses don't matter at all and they are just there as an inconvience to slow him down. What about the areas where he just makes the jumps with the greastest of ease? Or when he dominated enemies with the boomerang? See, to me that's what's entertaining.
I think what my the problem with me is I'm not watching them as speed runs. I'm watching them as movies of really good players playing games of my childhood really well. I don't care how fast they beat the game, or if the newest run is ten time units faster than the previous version. I just want to watch the people dominate games that I used to think were really, really hard.
Look, I know that my opinion is in the minority. That's fine. I'm just voicing my opinion because it varies from a lot of other peoples opinion, and it could help add conversation. Maybe I'm looking for perfection runs instead of speed runs?
I don't really care about the difficulty of things when I'm watching the movie though. It'd be different if I was trying to recreate the movies, but when watching them, that takes a lot of the fun out of it for me. I can't see how they handle areas compared to how I remember playing them. At least I can't when certain areas get skipped.
A lot of these movies, to me, bring back nostalgia. That's part of the reason why things like that are disappointing to me. It's almost like they aren't playing the game, but just looking for exploits so that they can run through the game in a way that it wasn't designed to be played.
I don't know. The glitches are kind of a mixed bag for me. At least for some speed runs. I guess I'm subjective depending on the situation. Just like how I feel about getting hit.
For example: In the Castlevania speed run, it was entertaining to me when he jumped and got hit by the flying Medusa head, which pushed him up onto the top ledge, saving him time from having to walk all the way to the right and then all the way back. So, I liked that.
However, things like the glitch in Megaman 2 where he gets stuck at the top of the screen and scrolls all the way through the stage, to me, is cheap.
I guess it just depends on the situation. As a general rule, I like watching the runs where it looks like a damn robot is playing the game because it's so flawless. When a run makes people say "this is fake, he must be cheating" those are usually the ones that I save and watch all the time.
I think the Megaman 2, Megaman 3 & Castlevania runs are my favorite thus far. All of them exploit things, but it doesn't take away from the overall movie.
I'm more impressed when the game is played flawlessly than when it's an actual speed run. What I mean is, it's more impressive to me if they don't get hit at all instead of getting hit because it'll save a second or two.
I'm also not too big on people exploiting glitches. It doesn't really matter, but I like to watch old NES games played to perfection, beginning to end, without someone doing something that makes me say "that was cheap."
You know what I mean? There's a difference between using a turbo control and save states than there is to following through the ground....
I've been waiting for over three hours and have yet to transfer anything. I've used bit torrent a lot, I know what's going on....
I'm downloading at 0.0kb/s and have transferred 0.0 mb. Estimated time left is ?
Thanks for just assuming that I'm an idiot however. That's a good way to get repeat traffic.
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All of this stuff (about glitches) has sparked my interest. The problem is I can't see the original movie that's up on the download site that Bisqwit made because there aren't any seeders.
So, if anyone could hope on and seed, it would really help me out. I'll leave my shit open over night, and hopefully in the morning I can get started on studying and whatnot.
I highly anticipate that Blaster Master video. If I can make a suggestion, someone running Bionic Commando would be really enjoyable to watch.
The last time I played Blaster Master I got stuck on the bubble shooting crab boss. Of course, I went up against him with a weakly powered gun and not many lives left.
It's cool to hear that someone is mid-run on Blaster Master, because outside of Bionic Commando, that was the game that I wanted to watch the most.
This game doesn't ever seem to get any love. It was one of my favorite Genesis games growing up. Along with Kid Chameleon, which has a speed run already, Chakan was the only other reason that I even wanted a Genesis. I had a Super Nintendo, which I was content with, however I still spent many hours at a friends house playing his Genesis. Mainly because of the two previously mentioned titles.
Original release date was August 12, 1992.
