Due to popular demand, here is my solar jetman video.
http://liquidperspective.20m.com/solarjetmanTA.fmv
This video is me going to planet 1, 2, 3, warping to 7, 7, 8, and finally warping to 13. I
didn't finish 13 or move on to planet 12 (12 does come after 13) or do the final side
scroller level.
Planet 13 (then planet 12) are about the same as 7 except bigger, so I didn't do them.
You'll get a general idea what the game/video is about by watching this. I just made
this video to gauge interest in a real time attack. I did this run almost 100% in real
time. This is also my very first video. So be gentle. This is far from a proper time
attack, it only took me a little over an hour start to finish. Its very sloppy, there are
missed shots, etc. Don't critique me on that, I don't care :) If I had the time and desire
I could make it look much better. Maybe not better than some of the other awesome
videos on this site, but respectible at least. Its about 12 min long, and has almost 400 rerecords. Didn't seem like that many, but when you get frustrated you may jam the undo button more times than you meant to.
High points, low points, ideas for improvement:
Picking up the first fuel cell sucks without boosters. It gets better, I promise.
I make picking up the ship part look easy. It weighs about 10x more than your ship,
and is pretty hard to do in game without retries, especially on this level when you don't
have boosters.
Maybe I shouldn't use the space suit after I get the first ship part? It makes the gem
stage 100x easier, but probaly not in slo mo. Also, I really don't need money, but sitting
there and letting time expire seems boring, even though it would save a little time
counting up the crystals. I use the ship for it later, so I do something different on every
bonus stage (its fixed time, your total time only changes depending on how many you
get. I always get them all in this video).
I buy 3 weapons because I'm not sure which I'm gonna use. Don't ask my why I didn't
equip anything for planet 2 (when I needed it) but not for stage 3 (when I didn't).
Room for improvement there.
Picking up the booster is slow, its heavy as a ship part!
Picking up the first fuel canister on P2 is nice. The second is also very not bad.
I get the 3rd fuel cell swinging so I can easily get it into the warp.
I take a hit because I can, I'm almost out of fuel, and you might think I was gonna die.
I take a hit near the gravity balls so I don't get knocked back and can get in the warp
quicker. If I had the upgraded bullets I might be able to do this faster.
Now that I have the boosters, I try the cyberzone with the ship. I use the "propelled
pinball" method this time, not really that fast, but fun to watch I think.
Planet 3 goes by fast...
Planet 7 is the majority of the video. I need to fight a few guardians who go down quick
er with upgraded bullets, but not fast enough. I think I have a good route for this
planet, and it wouldn't be much (if any) faster with the upgraded ships. The guardian
battles suck, I know. Flying through the one tight caver, I wanted to get the gravity abll
on screen so you could see w hy I was flying like a retarded monkey. I like the race
with the missle straight down that one cavern. Getting the ship part is fairly straight
forward. I do a little turn to swing it around instead of doing the boring fly right next to
the warp zone.
This bonus stage, I fly normal without hitting everything. I spin at the end because no
action is boring.
Planet 8 also goes by fast.
What do you think?