I think that you need to kill an enemy to get that enemy's card at the end. If an enemy is not in a stage, you can't get its card in that stage.
Wait a minute, if that's true, then where do you find the boss cards?
Perhaps they are just randomly thrown at the end of some stages, I don't know.
Anyway, about the run, we are still shaving some frames from world 1-1 and we'll be done with this level soon.
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This looks much better than my very, very old WIP. Against the mini boss, would puffs of air after each hit cancel the animation and allow faster fire bursts?
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Nahoc wrote:
You guys are both right. In my mind, a 100% run would aim to collect all the enemy cards, but, as Bag of Magic Food mentionned, we'd need to replay some levels to get them all. I think we'll just call this run a "All shards run" instead of a "100% run".
Thanks for mentioning, guys.
wont some shards require powers that mandate returning to other levels? why not just finish out the level for another card? this would necessitate finding the shortest level with the desired power instead of the earliest appearance, i suppose
Is it not worth it to get a double power just before the Waddle Doo boss? I don't remember the damage that every ability does, but I figured that the combo star would do more damage for a final hit.
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sonicpacker: My anecdotal experience indicates that single-fire boosts last for varying times based on some factor that I am unable to pin down, whether it be length of button press, position, or an RNG. Have you noticed this, and/or do you have any explanation for it?
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mike89: The first single fire blast is significantly longer than if you make a chain of them. After the 3rd or 4th in a row (haven't played/TASed in awhile), they start to last the same length. This is actually a good thing as it gives you more mobility for changing height, etc. Hopefully that explains what you were asking.
Also, I don't recall how many frames you need to wait before it "refreshes" to the longest single fire. But it has nothing to do with the amount of times you press it; it only has to do with time.
Ice+Cutter:
little delay in starting/stopping, good for downhill/uphill, great jumping ability (hard to control but nets good results), potential gap crossing with perfectly timed jumps, only hurts enemies when you jump
The ice spray from turning also hurts enemies, so tapping back will let you attack forward for a very short (possibly negligible, depending on how the accelerations are) speed hit.
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Stone & Cutter lets you become various animal friends from other Kirby games. I believe the little green bird form was pretty quick, but you'd have to manipulate the RNG to get it. :) Might be worth investigating.
Yeah, and I believe there was one shard that required you to manipulate the right statue, the... whichever one was able to climb walls, because even the little bird couldn't fly high enough when I tried.
put yourself in my rocketpack if that poochie is one outrageous dude
