GB Jurassic Park Part 2: The Chaos Continues TAS in 23:20.04 by Hetfield90 and StarvinStruthers. Emulator used was BizHawk 1.11.8.

Goals

  • Aims for fastest time
  • Takes damage to save time

Game Info

  • This game is about a mafia hitman who somehow gets lost in Jurassic Park.

Run Info

Zone 1-1

  • In this stage you're gonna see the protagonist basically run to the right and then he's gonna JUMP N SHOOT!

Zone 1-2

  • The only underwater movement controls you have are left, right, and jump, so movement options are fairly limited.
  • You have to collect all the books to open the door at the end of each stage. How or why it works like that is beyond my comprehension.

Triceratops Zone

  • The rifle has a 12f CD compared to the hand grenade's 21, so even though individual hand grenades deal more damage, the rifle pulls way ahead on boss DPS. Though it is worth using 1 grenade for the last hit of each cycle.
  • You can only have 2 shots on the screen at any given time, so it's impossible to utilize a full screen doppler effect.
  • Getting a frame perfect suicide on boss kill sets hp to 0, but then the protagonist is resurrected by the victory animation. Taking damage in the subsquent stage would overflow hp to achieve effectively infinite hp, but there isn't anywhere in the run where this trick even saves time, so health is refilled back to 1 at the first med kit.

Zone 2-1/2-2

  • Spamming down at 30hz before turning around after picking up a book etc is a an effective tool to adjust X-axis subpixel so you don't overshoot it.
  • Zone 2-1 contains the 1 mid-gameplay lag frame of this entire run. See if you can spot where it is!

Pteranodon Zone

  • You can't aim up or diagonally up while airborne so you're limited to staying on the ground during this fight, making any sort of doppler effect strat impossible.

T-Rex Pursuit 1

  • I'm not really a big fan of excessive rhythmic playaround, but I couldn't think of anything else to make this autoscroller less boring than watching paint dry.

Zone 3-1

  • Auto Park Part 2 - The Scrolling Continues

Zone 3-2

  • Whatever the underwater enemies on this stage are called, they take too many shots to kill so it's better to just avoid them.

Cephalosaure Zone

  • Subsequent cycles don't begin until the two adds are dead, and since it takes so long to swim downward, sometimes you have to get less hits on one phase if it means you can greatly expedite killing the two adds.

T-Rex Pursuit 2

  • Why is there a second one of these? I don't know.

Zone 4-1

  • For some reason the bassline in this stage's song is making me have deja vu.
  • How high you jump before going over a ledge can adjust how the enemies spawn down below, which is sometimes more beneficial than approaching the ledge at terminal velocity.

Velociraptor Zone

  • Same basic strats as in previous boss fights.

Zone 4-2

  • You can despawn the final elevator by jumping high enough off of it to make it come back up quicker to reach the end of the level.

T-Rex Zone

  • Holy f*cking sh*t, it's a dinosaur, jesus christ, what the f*ck!

Screenshot Suggestion(83262)


Masterjun: Judging while shooting giant circular objects towards prehistoric creatures.
Masterjun: Before watching I was skeptical about the entertainment in a run of this game. However, the gameplay is actually really fluid and the run shows off many things we want to see in a TAS, such as silly last-frame jumps and entertaining music syncing in places which are otherwise boring. This run also looks very optimized, so it's overall a high quality TAS.
Accepting to Moons.
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Absolutely voting yes! The run seems flawless and rhe game itself is very well made, with fluid gameplay and keygen musics. I wish I have known before! And TASed it, of course.
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Aside from those Side Scroller levels (pretty hard to make them entertaining and they drag on foreeeever, I think they REQUIRE excessive rhythmic interaction with the music to be entertaining), pretty neat video (thanks for the 60FPS encode). I find it odd that they have a very good walk cycle animation yet skimp on it during the end cutscene lol. Also the swimming animation coulda been smoother too, I assume they ran out of space for graphics and had to cut corners somewhere. The gameplay looked very bare bones/basic including the level designs but it seemed well put together (the "books" seem to be key cards). The music saves the game. I voted yes.
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If this ends up vaulted, it'll solely be due to those autoscrollers. The music really helps out there, but much of the mid-section seemed like padding. Props for trying to make those bits entertaining. The rest of the run is much better due to decent pace and run & gun action I enjoy the simplicity of the premise here. Just a dude who ends up on Jurassic Park and wants to leave. The PC being a shadowy fedora man with a rifle, he might as well be a hitman who is passing time by killing any and all dinos he sees. Also like the swimming animation. Reminds me of those wind-up harpoon toting scuba men that made good bath toys way back in the day. Just casually swaying back and forth as he mows down the dangers of the deep.
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This game is about a mafia hitman who somehow gets lost in Jurassic Park.
You know, something's wrong when a hitman in Jurassic Park with giant squids somehow doesn't entertain. I mean, 9 minutes of autoscrolling really takes it's toll; even with the dancing during the free time. Meh vote. Hey, at least this line alone made me sit through it, despite being busy irl. :)
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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. ---- [3262] GB Jurassic Park Part 2: The Chaos Continues by Hetfield90 & StarvinStruthers in 23:20.04