ok I know what I said about not wanting too many Zelda stars but
[6307] N64 The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time "Triforce% ACE Showcase" by Sauraen, dwangoAC & Savestate in 53:05.300 was such a different TAS that I felt was important to Star and got a good amount of support on the discord as well.
Additionally, I replaced the star of
[2473] DOS Jetpack by slamo in 32:22.550 with
[6473] DOS Alone in the Dark by tigrou in 05:51.220. The latter is flashier, a more well known game and is a horror game which we don't have many stars of to begin with (I think just Resident Evil 4). I am far from opposed to giving Jetpack a star back at some point, but for most of its history, it was hard to separate it from how it was kinda pushed as a star largely by an admin and had some rather minimal support otherwise. If it gets support in the future I'd be happy to revisit it.
In the meantime though, I'd like to talk Touhou. Touhou is mega popular, is of a genre that is frankly underexplored on tasvideos, and has some rather impressive gameplay. In particular, I'd like to focus on the shmups (not to knock touhou 1 but it's probably not what people expect of touhou). The scoring system of the shmups has some really interesting stuff going on in it, namely the Graze mechanic where you get extra points for getting close to enemy projectiles, resulting in gameplay where you get close to the bullets.
I know a lot of people here generally seem to prefer speed based TASes or playarounds, but I know the STG score scene is fairly prominent outside of our sphere and I would like to appeal outwards, not just inwards.
The publications I would like to discuss:
I'd like people's thoughts on this.