Submission #5303: Arcree's Genesis Astérix and the Great Rescue in 26:38.56

• Difficulty : Normal()
• Emulator : BizHawk 1.11.8.2
• Takes damage to save time
• Uses death to save time

The Game:

Items:

• Gold: Useless in any%
• Sickle: Grants invulnerability for some seconds
• Bomb: Grants invulnerability, increase speed for some seconds
• Heart: Gives an extra life
• Chicken: Gives 2 life points
• Chalice: Restores all life points
• Magic potion (Asterix) or boar (Obelix) : Ends the level

Level by level comments :

Gaulish Village:

• 2:
  • I didn't take the potion at the left and turned to the right at the beginning, costs some life points but saves time.
• 3:
  • I took the chicken to restore some life points.
• 4:
  • I took Obelix because his bigger hitbox allows me to take the boar without getting on the ship.
• 5:
  • Intentionnal death to take back all my life points
  • I saved 2 seconds by going through the background instead of going back on the platform
  • I skipped a little part of the level thanks to a frame perfect jump on the elevator
• 7:
  • Duplicate the clouds.
  • First big zip on the wall, 1 minute save here. Normally, You can clip into the wall by placing yourself in the closest pixel to the edge of the cloud. I didn't succeed doing that here. The only way to clip in the roof when you can't place on this exact pixel is to wait for the cloud to dissapear.
  • I didn't take the flying potion, this allowed me to skip the part where you take it.
• 8:
  • Intentionnal death
  • I didn't take the flying potion, this allowed me to skip the part where you take it.
  • Little zip on the door, a few frames saved.
  • Glitched texture, I don't know why x)
• BOSS: When throwing a fish, Asterix doesn't move with the carrier, so you can't throw more than 6 fishs every time

Roman Encampment:

• 1:
  • Death abuse.
  • Thanks to the damage taken I didn't go flying over the barrier, this allows me to skip a good portion of the level.
  • This little barrier need two shots, by using a cloud, we can save a few frames.
• 3:
  • I skipped the last part of the level with clouds.
• 4:
  • I skipped a part of the level with a cloud.
• 6:
  • Little skip with the cloud.
  • Little zip with the cloud on the roof.
• 8:
  • The cloud position and the jumps were very hard because the spikes have weird hitboxes.
• BOSS: I managed to hit every single rock.

The Forest:

• 2:
  • By saving my bomb potion I didn't have to get other bombs which were a little bit out of the way.
• 6:
  • I duplicated the cloud potion to skip a small part of the level.
• 7:
  • Very cool zip which saves a lot of time.
• BOSS: You must alternate between A and B as fast as possible to beat the boss, and this is a TAS.

Germany:

• 2:
  • The eagles were hard to optimise.
  • I took a damage to use the flying potion later.
• 3:
  • Some clips are possible on the sausages.
  • I finished very quickly the level by skipping directly to the end with a cloud.
• 5:
  • Optimising this bomb was a nightmare.

Roman Galley:

• 2:
  • This autoscrolling is very boring so I tried to make it a bit more entertaining.
• 3:
  • I jumped on the seal on the very last frames.
• 4:
  • I saved a lot of time by killing the 2 romans with a bomb because meleeing them takes three hits each.
  • I was fast enough to take the potion before taking the damage.
• 5:
  • Very optimised level.
  • I save a bit of time by falling on the platform below.
• BOSS:
  • I can hit him 3 times on the left, but only 2 times on the right.
  • Very hard boss because I needed to take damage to hit him.

Rome:

• 1:
  • Very stupid level design.
• 2:
  • By using the passage below, I can save a bit of time and gain a bit of life because there is a chicken.
• 5:
  • Big zip which skips all the level.
• BOSS: Death abuse.