KIKI KAIKAI is an action game released by TAITO in 1986.
Player will control Sayoa young Shinto shrine maidenin fighting against monsters in order to save the kidnapped Seven Lucky Gods.
Game objectives
Emulator used: openMSX 0.13.0
Aims for fastest time
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To save time I avoid the majority of the enemies,and take the power-ups of the statues.
The game finish in the scene 8,and then begins the round 2.
Has an interesting trick that was used in the boss 6.
Basically few seconds before him do vulnerable,do an attack with multiple scrolls,depending of the number he can lose 2 bars of health.
Noxxa: The movie looks technically sound, although it comes short on entertainment value and audience response (largely due to the eye-searing scrolling). Accepting for the Vault.
I want all good TAS inside TASvideos, it's my motto.
TAS i'm interested:
Megaman series, specially the RPGs! Where is the mmbn1 all chips TAS we deserve? Where is the Command Mission TAS?
i'm slowly moving away from TASing fighting games for speed, maybe it's time to start finding some entertainment value in TASing.
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grassini: I was thinking the same thing. There's also one stage of Rainbow Islands (Bubble Bobble 2) that is probably referencing this game, since it starts with the same music and similar images.
The scrolling made my head hurt at first, but the action is pretty good. It looks like the run makes the game look too easy. zupapa, can you explain bosses 6 and 7, since they look quite different from the other fights?
Used to be a frequent submissions commenter. My new computer has had some issues running emulators, so I've been here more sporadically.
Still haven't gotten around to actually TASing yet... I was going to improve Kid Dracula for GB. It seems I was beaten to it, though, with a recent awesome run by Hetfield90 and StarvinStruthers. (http://tasvideos.org/2928M.html.)
Thanks to goofydylan8 for running Gargoyle's Quest 2 because I mentioned the game! (http://tasvideos.org/2001M.html)
Thanks to feos and MESHUGGAH for taking up runs of Duck Tales 2 because of my old signature!
Thanks also to Samsara for finishing a Treasure Master run. From the submission comments:
Shoutouts and thanks to mklip2001 for arguably being the nicest and most supportive person on the forums.
Boss 6 has a period of invincibility, I think this can not be manipulated.
Boss 7 is much healthier than others, and usually follows the character making it impossible to beat him with normal methods.
Update: http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/35928501575170431
That is a version improved in the boss 1,boss 6 and some routes were improved.
According to the Wikipedia article of KiKi KaiKai: Like The Ninja Warriors, KiKi KaiKai had been a one-off work until 1992, when Taito allowed Natsume to release KiKi KaiKai: Nazo no Kuro Mantle, which would be known as Pocky & Rocky for its North American release.
Therefore, Pocky & Rocky is the sequel of this game.
Anyway, the TAS was pretty solid, but....I'd prefer if it was either done on the Arcade or the PC Engine version. Really, this port's main weak point is the choppy scrolling. This gets a very weak Meh for the entertainment for me.
By the way, the 7th boss is a tanuki (or rather, a bake-danuki), known in Japanese folklore to transform into humans or other objects. See the Wikipedia article for more details. By the way, said Wikipedia article also mentions this is, in fact, Rocky, who turns out to be an ally in Pocky & Rocky.
Yes, it was very expensive and the review also mentions that as one of the reasons why the conclusion is "Highly NOT recommended!!".
It was a direct import from Japan and these were always quite expensive in those days. But for that money you could buy much better new Japan imports.
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I enjoyed this run's movement optimization but I struggled with the scrolling. I don't often vote Meh but I've opted to do so here as I think it falls just short of the bar in the entertainment category to be in consideration for Moons. Well done on the optimization though!
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Synced/dumped. Should I judge or publish this?
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