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Stuart Little must run, jump, and drive across eight levels, collecting things along the way during his journey home.

Game objectives

  • Emulator used: BizHawk 1.6.0
  • Aims for fastest time
  • Uses self-damage to save time
  • Complete the game on easiest difficulty
  • Aims for Vault

Comments

This movie is 1106 frames faster than the previous (rejected) submission by lu9. This was mainly due to menu-ing optimizations as well as major path and movement optimizations. This run and the hardest difficulty run are vastly different due to the levels changing based on what difficulty you're playing on. The racing levels are perhaps the biggest changes between Easy and Hard, as there are different paths for each difficulty. The 10 collectables on each level are also placed in different places (some of them are really out of the way on hard mode). Overall, this run is nothing spectacular, but meets it's intended goal of Valut tier.

feos: Judging by the votes and the comments, many people don't find the easiest difficulty TAS satisfying, even for Vault. The same is expressed in the Guidelines. So even though this movie is way shorter than the existing one, the latter won't be obsoleted, due to feeling more of a record. And they can't be published alongside in Vault. Let this submission be referenced in the current movie's description. Rejecting.

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Jump. Jump you little mouse. meows On the terms of "easiest difficulty" this can be accepted and be part of a new branch for this game. I will say it was more entertaining (for me) but still not enough for me to be completely entertained. Considering about 52% of time was taken off from hardest difficulty. Meh Vote. Towards Vault.
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Spikestuff wrote:
On the terms of "easiest difficulty" this can be accepted and be part of a new branch for this game.
The Vault doesn't allow separate categories for difficulty. Also, for Vault, hardest difficulty is still preferred.
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Mothrayas wrote:
The Vault doesn't allow separate categories for difficulty.
Well at least we have this TAS as a reference for future ones (if anyone makes another "Easiest Diff." on this game).
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I don't see the point in easiest difficulty TASes. Aren't TASes supposed to show super-human skill? Beating the game on the hardest difficulties and making it look really easy? Playing on easy mode just seems counter-productive to that.
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QuizmasterBos wrote:
I don't see the point in easiest difficulty TASes. Aren't TASes supposed to show super-human skill? Beating the game on the hardest difficulties and making it look really easy? Playing on easy mode just seems counter-productive to that.
May I point you to the hard mode run? http://tasvideos.org/2576M.html
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Well, this game sucks, and looking at the hard mode (which seems to show off more of the game due to different placement of items, not sure for better or worse) I found this run off worse since the easy setting makes some of the stages (first 2, for example) just jump right for justice.
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This game doesn't look as bad in this run, with the better item positions and without all the awkward "trampoline" jumps. It's also quite a bit shorter, which makes it easier to watch without getting too bored. So I'll give this one a Meh.
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