Hello everybody. I am the author of the first CoI Run, the one played on normal mode. I'm glad there's a new and better run avaliable, and would like to expose some points why my run looks boring (that's of course the reason it was replaced!):
First off, this was my FIRST RUN EVER! Somewhy I never managed to make rerecords to work correctly on my Famtasia (maybe I'm a bit lazy to try to solve the question, but oh well) so when I tried it on Gens and noticed it worked, it got very exciting how it would be to create one of what had entertained me and thousands of people all around to watch.
Second, I did played it in a simplist, and now for what I can see from viewers' comments, boring way. For two main reasons: First, I was primarily concerned on speed and time-saving, and since I had few practics into doing so many mirabolant moves, that could had unfavored the excitement of the viewer. Second, I chose my own style of play: doing just and only the extreme necessary moves to accomplish the game. I always wondered how could a "utopic-perfect-machine" handle a program (game) given a certain guideline (finish by the most fast way possible), it surely would look pretty impressive, yet boring sometimes. My problem is that I tend to be strictly cold and technical, and not much creative. I'm really sad this play style of mine would ever mean boringness. Maybe I shall review my game concepts, afterall this is art, not sci-fi =)
Third and last, unfortunately I surely am far far away from the levels of avaliable free time most timeattackers have to deal with our games. I can't imagine myself spending my (little) free time all in front of a PC in order to achieve so great feats you all are used to watch. I primarily did this TA most for fun, since CoI was my first ever Genesis game I played, so I found it rather nostalgic for a startup. I confess I got a little sad by the critics I could see popping up at the site... not by the replacement of my run by foda's one, this is natural and positive, entertainment is what matters, if someone managed to improve a given run, great deal for everyone. foda's run is really impressive and I really wanted it to be published.
Well that's all folks :P I hope I didn't bothered with my rather long points, I just needed to say that stuff.
[]'s
Zakatos
The eyes of a machine are wonderful, but there's nothing like the the eyes of the heart – Old Cid, Cybercop