This is TASVideos Road Works. How may I be of service?
This game is a bootleg created by Nice Code and their not so nice music.
Why does this exist? Great question.
Why did I TAS this? An even better question. To which the answer is superhuman choices that are absolutely nuked by a bulldozer... and everything is set, so there's no randomness... yay
Why does this exist? Great question.
Why did I TAS this? An even better question. To which the answer is superhuman choices that are absolutely nuked by a bulldozer... and everything is set, so there's no randomness... yay
Ok. But why?
Yes.
Yes.
The bootleg also goes by the titles: Road Man and Repair Urgently.
feos: While this game demands quite some effort from a human to optimally speedrun it without tools, TASing it optimally is really trivial, just like with #6345: MarbleousDave's NES Duck Hunt "All levels" in 1:15:12.15. A meaningful record is something that requires effort to make, and it requires more effort to make a more optimal record. With this game, one can be very very sloppy and still have plenty of time to fix the road before the vehicle comes close to those broken spots. Even if we consider ending the input early a TAS-only technique, the vehicle still has to travel all the way though, so the game end won't be sped up by making the movie shorter.
I provided lots of explanations regarding why we don't value trivial records valuable enough for our site. But they all boil down to this rule:
- "The game-play needs to standout from non-assisted play, and must not be seen as trivial. Note that a game is considered trivial until proven otherwise. If getting perfect times everywhere is not challenging, such a game is considered trivial. If later a technique is found that makes TASing it challenging, that game becomes acceptable."
The feedback was largely negative, so Vault was the only place this game could go, and because of the above, it can't. Rejecting.
DrD2k9: Re-evaluating due to rule changes.
DrD2k9: Road Worker is now definable as a game based on our current definition of a game. With the shift from publication tiers to publications classes, the triviality argument is also no longer a factor.
Nothing in this run appears obviously sub-optimal. As such, accepting.
Publication note: This run syncs on BizHawk 2.9.1
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