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Valkyrie no Bouken - Toki no Kagi Densetsu (ワルキューレの冒険 - 時の鍵伝説) is a Action-adventure game published by Namco.

Game objectives

  • Emulator used: FCEUX 2.2.2
  • Fastest time
  • Manipulates luck (Items, Level, attack and movement of mobs etc.)
  • Cancels encounter (by pressing pause or walking at a specific zone)
  • No continue

Comments

I wrote down some useful information below to watch the movie.

Necessary items to beat the game

Soul of Sandra, Super mantle, Ship, Super helmet, Super sword and Time key. Also three silver keys are required. You don't have to get Lamp, Gold key, Marco the Whale and Tiara.

Character making

You should choose a blood type, zodiac sign and color before starting the adventure. I chose these:
  • Zodiac sign (星座) - Aries (おひつじ座 : Can start with 64 HP)
  • Blood type (血液型) - AB (Increase HP (体力) and MP (知力) at random)
  • Color (色) - White (Not so important. so I chose the default one.)

The first continent

Got a potion (Restores 32 HP) and $10. The rate of getting any items rather than money from mobs including the boss is only about 3%. Found an axe which was hidden (Chops down trees, and even mountains when your HP is more than 127). Took a warp gate to the second continent.

The second continent

Got a soul of Sandra and used it at the Pyramids to enter.

The Pyramids

Got a silver key (opens gates and treasure boxes four times). Earned more than 900 exp. Opened a treasure box and got a super mantle (prevents desert and arctic damage). Took a ladder to the ground.

The second continent

Got $10. Had a rest at an inn. Restoring your MP requires at least $20. The level (レベル) jumped up to 4 and maximum HP became 128 (Only about 0.5% chance). Used the potion and took a warp gate to the first continent.

The first continent

HP was fully restored to 128 by casting the healing spell (まほう) twice which requires 40 MP in total. Opened a treasure box and got a ship. Got a potion. Went to a well.

The well

Got a silver key. Opened a treasure box and got a super helmet (reduces damage by half). Took a secret warp gate to the second continent.

The second continent

Used the potion to be able to cut down mountains. Made a glitched wharf (It can be created when you use your axe with the down key while facing a tree or mountain). Went to the last continent by ship.

The last continent and boss' castle

Entered the castle. Opened a treasure box and got a super sword (has maximum power). Beat the boss and got the time key. Put it in one of the key holes.

Special Thanks

To Valkyrie RTA players in Nicovideo. I couldn't have made this movie without their informative and cool videos.
Samsara: Judging.
Samsara: Hello, Takanawa, welcome to TASVideos. I always enjoy seeing Nico TASers coming here and submitting their work.
It's clear that a lot of work went into optimizing this run. The standout here was the luck manipulation and how tight and precise it was, but things like the glitched wharf and the route planning were also very nicely done. The game's a bit slow-paced and hard to understand if you're not familiar with it, and the posts in the thread seem to reflect that, so I'm going to hesitantly accept this to the Vault, though I believe it has a very good chance of being promoted to Moons post-publication.
Excellent work all around, Takanawa! I hope to see more TASes from you in the future.
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Posted: 10/13/2015 4:28 PM
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This topic is for the purpose of discussing #4878: Takanawa's NES Valkyrie no Bouken: Toki no Kagi Densetsu in 06:12.35
Posted: 10/13/2015 7:40 PM
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FractalFusion
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Glitchy TAS of 2013 Gameboy TAS of 2013 PSX TASer of 2010
720p60 mode available. Please use that. Link to video Nicovideo: (account) http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm27367644 (no account) http://www.nicozon.net/watch/sm27367644 Actually, a 6:56 run was uploaded to Nicovideo about 12 hours ago. I wonder if Takanawa knew about that run.
Posted: 10/13/2015 10:14 PM
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Derakon
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Well, that was fairly incomprehensible. I assume the pauses/equipment swaps were for luck manipulation? I didn't see anything obviously suboptimal, so well done. Thanks for the run notes, which help explain what you're doing. By the way, it's "potion", not "portion". :) Thanks for the encode, FractalFusion!
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Posted: 10/13/2015 11:22 PM
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Takanawa
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Thank you for the encode. I started making this movie just after watching RTA in Nicovideo which was published last week, so it was just a coincidence. Thank you for correcting me. I've already fixed it. Pauses are mainly used for cancelling encounter and luck manipulation. And some of them are just for equipping or using items especially silver keys to open gates which are invisible without a lamp.
Posted: 10/15/2015 9:20 PM
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AKheon
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Alright. This is the first time I saw this game. Seems like a Legend of Zelda-type of adventure, except you're a valkyrie. It's a quaint run where you mostly walk in a solitary area and sometimes bypass some enemies. It wasn't the most entertaining thing ever, but completely watchable. Had a nice atmosphere to it, I guess. Doing the glitched wharf is a big sequence break, isn't it? That looked pretty interesting. It seems to be a good TAS. As for the poll question, my perceived entertainment value here was a little vague, and so I'll give the run a 'meh' vote.
Posted: 10/16/2015 12:09 AM
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Takanawa
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Thank you for your comment. I quite understand what you mean, especially just walking for the most part. One of the most difficult things of making this movie is to get important items dropped by mobs and the boss without waiting so much. It's only about 3% chance to get and besides the rnd of this game is not very random, so items are sometimes dropped three frames in a row and often have to wait more than 100 frames to be dropped. I tried to control the rnd as much as possible not to wait so much. Come to think of it, which item is dropped by each mob is fixed. For example, guys with clubs only drop potions or money ($1, $2, $5, $10 at random). And when you sleep in an inn to be level 4 to be able to cut down mountains, it's only about 0.5% chance because once you go to bed, the result of her growth is fixed, not changeable in the meantime, so I managed to minimize waiting time by doing something different beforehand. The glitched wharf allows me to skip some necessary things like getting Marco the Whale and Tiara which are normally essential to beat the game and it takes long, so it's a big improvement. This is a famous Valkyrie TAS video posted about 9 years ago on YouTube which didn't use the glitched wharf.
Posted: 10/19/2015 12:45 PM
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The TAS in itself was well made. However, I didn't find it very entertaining to watch. Therefore, I'm going to vote No on entertainment. It can be published to the Vault, though.
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Posted: 10/20/2015 11:49 AM
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This movie has been published. The posts before this message apply to the submission, and posts after this message apply to the published movie. ---- [2989] NES Valkyrie no Bouken: Toki no Kagi Densetsu by Takanawa in 06:12.35
Posted: 1/18/2016 3:11 PM
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mtvf1
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I just realize this tas made by Takanawa!!!! Takanawa has made too many awesome tas. I hope he will submit all of them some days.