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Hidden warps are fun, too bad the actual game design is pretty bland. Most of the time is spent waiting for elevators or moving through corridors getting keys. The platforming sections I found the most interesting. Good routing and speed movement improvements though. That ending graphic of the kid and his parents is cursed looking lol.
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Well that was something. One thing I have to say is the sound tracks they put in are extremely bad, the hackers/bootleggers should have just kept the original sound tracks. The pacifist option hurt the entertainment for me since it reduced the game more to just running through with the invincible pickups. I did like the jumping up through the wall through, but not enough to prevent a No vote.
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FractalFusion wrote:
I made a semi-comparison encode with a left sidebar showing parts of the previous best submission for comparison purposes. This TAS video and audio remain intact without any mixing or pausing.
Link to video (available in 1080p60)
Also, this is an interesting TAS, with the new strategy of using Ice Mario and Penguin Mario.
Thanks for the comparison video. Really highlights the improvements per level. Icing those enemies gives a nice little boost and the penguin suit really seems to have some interesting speed tricks. Although for a full run maybe those are not the ideal equipment for the full level?
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That camera hack with Knuckles showed more detail which I liked. Very similar to the other sonic + knuckles combo games so I expected the tas to be good which it was. The 100% post bonus levels does not really add much gameplay wise since super Knuckles is never seen again after the first time. I do remember trying to beat that Egg Mech when I was younger and I really wish they had made its hit box just slightly lower so I never beat sonic 2 with knuckles, but of course tas has no issue. Easy yes vote.
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Well this is an extremely adorable game. Not something I would expect myself to even say... Anyway the movement looks good, but the one thing in the TAS is that for some boss fights it do not look like damage is being applied as often as it could be, but I am far from an expert on this game. Would watch the Waffle no Baka part again. Yes vote.
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Impressed at the entertainment value of this. Not a fan of the whole event with all the distractions of people talking, clapping, etc and video elements changing all over, but what they did was very cool. I also remember being intrigued by that one a while back Twitch plays Pokemon. I remember putting in my commands, but it was such a confused mess it was a miracle that thing actually finished.
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Found a speedrun with commentary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPMWYs8cSnw. The main character powers up 1x at base, 1.25, 1.5, then 1.75 at that light blue colored aura. He powers up when he is stationary and not moving and loses power as he is hit. The jumping looks kind of weird like if you jump and fall too much you fall straight down with no horizontal movement too. For one boss the commentary was mentioning about looking out for the red and white marks for damage, but have no idea what that even means since I noticed nothing visual changing so that confused me. The strategies in the tas seem consistently faster than that speedrun at least. No idea if they are optimal or not though since I did not see any noticeable damage glitches or clips like I would kind of expect in a jank game like this so probably some undiscovered stuff here. Going with a tentative Yes vote here.
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Surprisingly good sound tracks on this homebrew! Would be curious what the original tracks were sourced from. However the tas gameplay here would have been much much better if it was aimed for entertainment. It is a skating game but almost no tricks are performed in fact looks like almost no inputs either. Meh vote, otherwise would have been a No vote if not for the strong audio tracks.
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Interesting Batman hack although it definitely seems to be a bit harder than the vanilla game. Not an expert of the game but it looked optimized. Yes vote.
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No vote. I did not find this tas entertaining. It looks highly unoptimized right from the start with those jumps around 0:10. There also seems to be a way of going down faster (around 1:03) or maybe that was just some frame weirdness after jumping on a koopa? Later there seems to be a double jump too after jumping on a missile (around 1:25) but that never was used again. Lots of waiting and hitting objects making for slower progress too.
Side note... What is with the sound? The other Flash games seem to have that strange hollow sounding audio too.
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I noticed that the bowser fight looked slow since you have to wait, but maybe that cannot be manipulated? Otherwise the game is mostly just running forward with a couple jumps, but I did like the part where you jumped through a fire line. Meh vote.
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Pretty good, but repetitive at times since almost all the units feel the same. The best parts are when the environment is interacted with like open windows to kick guys out of or spikes on the ceiling to uppercut guys into, etc. Yes vote.
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CoolHandMike wrote:
Very enjoyable tas. Couple questions.
1. There are a lot of slides using the powerup slide and later on there are pickups gotten to replenish it. Could you switch to a non power slide and maybe get less pickups for it?
2. The blue Jet ability (seen at 22:45) does not get much use it looks like. Not sure how it works in this hack, but could be used more frequently to keep more charge for the other abilities?
3. Surprised the Wily levels do not replenish your pickups. Could a quick death somewhere save time?
4. At 9:20 for that boss would be possible to get some height to keep hitting him as much as possible?
5. At 25:30 boss looks like you exit the boss before killing him. Could you stay inside the boss to kill him faster?
1:I would say,Rider Slide(Charge Kick) is necessary for power picking up.It's inevitable.Like Indonesian Artifact and Unique Harassment.
2:If I scroll in 22:41 with arrow.How come get out of 22:45?Yes,I ues Blue Jet rarely in every stage.
3:Not sure which wily levels could be work?
4:I think it's possible to keep hitting him when Naplam was jumping.Too bad,arrow's power haven't pickup
5:It wil be take 1 more damage,and I hit Big pets's body before his's eye closed
You are still getting a Yes from me, but let me see if I understand.
1. Ok so you need Rider Slide for picking up power ups? What if you try using it outside of picking up powerups?
2. If I rephrase this question, could you use Blue Jet more often to get less powerups? Could the blue jet be used to wrong wrap the screen maybe?
3. I was just throwing that idea out there. If you are saying it would be slower I understand.
4. Ok, arrow not yet acquired, and you also do not have the jump jet? Could you jump into its body maybe then jump right behind it hitting it in midair?
5. So you have to hit the body to completely kill it? In that case it makes sense why you exited its body.
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Very enjoyable tas. Couple questions.
1. There are a lot of slides using the powerup slide and later on there are pickups gotten to replenish it. Could you switch to a non power slide and maybe get less pickups for it?
2. The blue Jet ability (seen at 22:45) does not get much use it looks like. Not sure how it works in this hack, but could be used more frequently to keep more charge for the other abilities?
3. Surprised the Wily levels do not replenish your pickups. Could a quick death somewhere save time?
4. At 9:20 for that boss would be possible to get some height to keep hitting him as much as possible?
5. At 25:30 boss looks like you exit the boss before killing him. Could you stay inside the boss to kill him faster?
