About the Game
Arrow of Death Part 2 is part 2 of a 2-part text adventure game published in 1983 for home computers. Having successfully completed Arrow of Death Part 1, you now have the components to make a magical arrow with which you will be able to destroy Zerdon, the evil accomplice of the Wizard Akyrz, the real mastermind behind the evil that has befallen the Golden Baton. It is the 4th instalment in Brian Howarth's Mysterious Adventures series.
About the TAS
This TAS aims to complete the game as fast as possible.
Why Such a Massive Improvement?
This is an improvement of 24,429 frames (8:07.80) over the previous TAS. This improvement was made possible thanks to a new discovery where pressing enter without typing a command gets rid of the picture. This does make loading between typing non-directional commands a bit longer, because the game's keeping track of everything you see and own with text, but it doesn't have to load the pictures, saving up to 10 seconds or more per directional command. We press enter just before typing our first directional command (N/E/S/W/U/D/GO/CLIMB), which happens to be the 1st command in this game. Input ends on frame 18300 when we input the command "SHOO ZERD" (SHOOT ZERDON).
That's all from me. Thanks for reading.
nymx: Claiming for judging.
nymx: The Geiger counter continues. Comments are on the other submission, apply here as well.
Accepting over [5768] ZXS Arrow of Death Part 2 by LoganTheTASer in 14:13.23.
nymx: setting to delayed, since the author found more cuts. I will replace when I get home.
nymx: Movie has been updated with an improvement from the author.
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