The hell, another one already? Are you sure that you're not a robot?
The playthrough was very nice, and the dancing amused me as much as the playing did. Easy yes vote.
Beautiful run, but for my money on 100% runs I would have like to see you rescue the critter alien things (the bomb room during the escape at the end of the game, I believe. I think this is rescuing them right? They're back in metroid fusion...)
The comment below (originally a series of message board posts) is quoted for truth:
<Torgen> Is 100% going to include rescuing the critters during the escape?
<JXQ> No, those retarded animals can burn for all I care. (I'm so nice)
<Bag of Magic Food> But I heard they were important for later game continuity!
<Torgen> This is true. If you don't go to that room and make that pixel move across the screen, Fusion won't make sense.
<JXQ> Fusion doesn't make sense anyway. They will burn.
Normally, when I start watching a TAS when I'm tired, I have the tendency to nod off or come close to falling asleep, even if I'm not lying down. I've been up for close to twenty hours, and not once did I come close to nodding off in my chair. Awesome job for both the quality of playing, and the hilariously awesome input displays.
Yes vote, star vote, and vote for JXQ to obtain ninja status.
I finally got around to seeing your stage two. (Yeah I know I suck what of it.) The first time you use your AoE attack, it seems like it would have been better to wait until there were more enemies in your radius, and then fire it off. Dunno just how more or less effective it would have been; just speaking my mind.
Other than that and the immense lag (which you can't do much about, because it starts to lag on the console itself), some of the fighting seems that it could have been more polished here and there, although trying to explain which segments would cause my mind to go into immense overload and fry itself like it had just been dumped in a hot vat of grease.
Good luck in the rest of your run, and here's hoping that I don't wait as long to see another one of your wips. >.>
The platforming sections do nothing for me, the gameplay looks very sloppy, and the bosses look like they could be completed several sections faster than what they are. I don't even TAS games and this looks bad in my eyes. No vote.
That's almost as silly as when I started acting like there were two different Kirby series!
Wait, you what? Explain thineself!
Awesome run BioSpark. I've never really been into Fusion or the Metroid series as a whole, but this manages to keep things interesting for the TAS's duration. Nice work.
I wish to change the "game system" option that movie files play on. For example, if game was recorded in "Super Game Boy" mode, but I wanted to play it back in "Game Boy" mode, how would I go about doing this?
"People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them".
That's what makes it a religion, I guess…
No. A religion is something that people follow in order to give their lives purpose, hope, things like that. In no way does it entail completely shunning someone else's beliefs because they what path they follow is different from your own.
JXQ wrote:
There's a difference between something possibly looking like blasphemy, and something actually intending to be blasphemous.
I really really liked this run... up until about halfway through, when biospark starts going far out of his way to collect all the items that were previously inaccessable.
That's funny, because that was my favorite part of the run.
However, if catching every single pokemon along the way still isn't enough, rare candies will be necessary. Probably for pokemon like Wurmple, because they can be caught early near evolution.
Wurmple aren't in FRLG, so that isn't a concern. Sounds like the major question was answered though, which is cool.
I found out there's an actual boss in the area where you're supposed to rescue DK before K. Rool wisks him away to his airship. It's not much anything worth doing a TAS over, but it's something.
And here I am just getting finished watching the last WIP that you put out before this one. *sigh*
Overall, this run is looking very nice. Just one question concerning stage 1 — in the area with the blazing fire and trees blocking your path, would it be possbile to use another lightning attack to clear the tree even quicker, or would it have drained your magic meter too much to use the attacks against Zur?
If I lose the starting battle, does my pokemon still gain the EV point?
No.
kirbymuncher wrote:
Without testing, I'd think it would be leveling it up as the fastest way, but I'm not sure, as the evolution movie thingy takes a while.
While it's unknown if it takes longer to give a pokémon a Rare Candy and let it evolve instead of just catching one, you'd have to go out of your way to get an RC, then go over to the menu to select it (because you're going to have your Bicycle registered so that you won't have to go into the menu constantly to ride it), then watch the level up process. It may take just about as long to catch a higher evolved pokémon with a Ball, but a) at least you won't have to go out of your way for an RC, and b) if you really do need RCs, then you could save them for the pokémon that you can't get in the wild or would be too far out of the way to normally get.
Dunno how well this would work in execution, but it at least sounds plausible. ;>.>
Megaman X or Zero or something like that (pick any of them) in a Metroid-style setting.
Isn't that basically the premise of Megaman ZX?
I'd like to see a game that combines elements of Guardian Heroes and El Viento, with possibly some Zelda on the side. That could prove to be interesting.
Pokémon with the gameplay of Super Robot Wars. That would be awesome.
Do you need the 60 pokemon when you beat elite four, or can you catch them later?
You can do either or, but it's quicker to pick up the pokémon before you trump the Elite Four the first time around, because Oak will come directly to you after you reset the game.
Would it ever be quicker to catch pokemon and use stones or rare candy to evolve them?
I'd say it's better to catch whatever wild pokémon you can find, and the ones that aren't found naturally in the wild should either be evolved with rare candy or stones, whichever the situation calls for. (Remember, rare candies are scarce in FRLG.) Also, you won't be able to obtain the pokémon in GSC until after you beat the game once, so no random sentret popping up out of nowhere.
I think these games have a plot too close to R/B to make an interesting new run, unless you do the Sevii Islands bit. So I guess it is necessary to catch 60 pokemon before hitting the islands.
Who cares about the plot? Even if it's the same route, the changes carried over from RSE make the game play little like RBY, so that alone could warrant a new run. If anything, it would look more like the Sapphire run that was just published.
Although, if the player were to try and complete the second quest, then it might be better to undertake the first Sevii Island quest after Blaine's gym, because it's not out of the way at all. Not too sure about that though, because I never really did it any other way.
By the time you get to this stage you may have enough to money solve their lack of EV problems with Protein, Iron and the like. There still for sale in the huge Poke Mart right?
They would be in Celadon, yes, but you can only give your pokémon so many. If their EV number for that stat is over a hundred, then it "won't have any effect".
kirbymuncher: If you are planning to undertake this, which starter do you plan on choosing?
The legendaries are level fifty, and wouldn't have any EVs (points you get from battling various pokémon along the way) — might not be a big deal in these runs, but who knows. The new Elite Four have pokémon averaging in the seventies; the only trainer that has higher levels is GSC's Red.
Although who knows, picking up a legendary feline/mutt/whatever/potato and Mewtwo might prove to do some good.
When you beat the Elite Four the first time, the game ends with the credits. If you've managed to snag sixty pokémon, then when you reset the game, you get a "second quest" in the vein of SMB2J — not as long as the main game, more challenging, completely different paths to go through, stuff like that.
I can see there being two runs through the game: beating the Elite Four once (more or less what's done in RBY, only with different mechanics), or clearing the Sevii Islands and pwning the Elite Four again with their shiny new and higher leveled pokémon. Personally, I'd like to see the latter, but I'm not the one TASing the game. :P
My first time playing Sonic 2 in years. Forgot how much fun it was to play this game.
And as an added bonus, me trying to remember how to play Sonic Battle. The file was made when the rom first got dumped, so ignore the filename that I added to fill space.
Just got around to watching the new WIP retry, lazy me. Nice work with countering the falling platforms for EXP crystals; I hadn't even thought of trying that out. And not only is the ogre fight quicker, but it looks more entertaining to boot (read: I laughed so damn hard). Looking forward to seeing how you've come along since then.
Oh, and I started playing AGH again, and remember how I said that I originally thought it was possible to kill the golem boss within the time limit? Well, I was mistaken, but there's another endurance battle in stage four where you have to wait five minutes until missiles come to destroy the enemy. Naturally waiting around for five minutes doing nothing sucks, but turns out that you can destroy those spires before the five minutes are up.
lipucd wrote:
I also thing hes the only base charater that gets both a AoE AND a beam! XD
All of the base characters have AoEs, but they work differently. Ein gets some flaming swords of doom which are too unpredictable to be reliable. Hyu makes an ice pool, and anything that comes within its radius is frozen and rendered immobile, but thunder effect basically does the same thing. So basically, Ray has the best AoE in terms of damage and reliability.
Also, Ray's beam is the only one that has a fixed charge time, but it can hit enemies out of the air, and again while on the way down, if you're able to time it just right.
And, now, a PROTIP: Remember that if you have a status (on fire, frozen, electrocuted), anything that you touch will have that status as well. That saved my life in the gargoyle from hell fight on stage five.
Have fun TASing.