Why. Was the Chalice. In the White Castle. Instead of the Black Castle. Why?
Also, I'm utterly astonished the author managed to manipulate the AI to cast Imprison on their DRAGON; by all rights, the AI should have either cast Imprison on the Shapeshifter or else summoned an elemental on it.
Yes vote for silly Atari game crushed. Laughing that the game has like a 5 second title screen, after which the 5 separate stages documented in the comments are passed in the subsequent ~17 seconds, including stage 1 which requires obtaining 10 separate items (or 1 item 10 times, but you get the idea...) Since it looks like you only used 7 spears in stage 2, I'm assuming you need to get 10 before you can exit stage 1?
Difficulty. I'm unsure about using the easiest difficulty. Does this TAS make enough entertainment for the viewer by this demonstration regardless of the difficulty?
Tried the easter eggs, here's the TAStudio frame number and input for it: - Fastest "move on title screen before starting the game": 0003 Reset (and remove Select) 0006 Select 0012 Select (edit: or every 3rd frame after this. 0015, 0018, etc) 0024 you can go left, right, down etc. Syncs up to the end == Doesn't changes syncability- Slow down the music: This TAS goes for shortest input and the ShesChardcore's friendly bat finishes it later. The "trick" is simply pressing Select, which returns you back to the select screen while the "victory fanfare" plays slower. edit: therefore this easter egg is not applicable to the TAS.
Well done! Throwing out a personal opinion here:IfWhen this is accepted, I feel it should be accepted alongside the current run as a different branch (as opposed to obsoleting the current run), because the bat presence/manipulation introduces significantly different gameplay possibilities which yield a completely new approach the run that is simply unavailable at the easiest difficulty. The differences result in completely different routes and item use. If this is done, the current publication would likely need its publication ammended to include "easy difficulty" or something similar as its branch.
Looks good. It's not clear to me from the submission texts, though: Which game mode(s) did the previous runs use?
Oh god I've forgot it... :D Yeah need to rethink it then edit: my dragon route won't work, tried a lot of different delays. Don't have any idea for potential savings currently. Will retry light side edit2: light side phoenix too slow, tried other order of placing units but your userfile seems to be the fastest (and complete) movie. Good job! :)
3611 User movie #637850288296553933 I wrote the description there: "Moved forward Dragon instead of 2nd row units to have a faster imprison and finish the game as usual" notes: - the single frame delay for starting the game before unit placement animation is the best - and starting 2nd with dark (to avoid (edit:) fighting as phoenix and aggressive spell casting or enemy attacks) is good - unsure, if it's possible to be light side and imprison our phoenix instead of djinn. there was a 4 frame fast for light side phoenix but it's dmg makes it worthless / super slow I can't think of any other improvement but will think about it
Tested the route, it looks like very good. - RNG is rolled between selecting which side starts first and placement of units - If our side starts first, enemy will be way too aggressive to make a fight in turn 4 by casting a spell - Light side submitted version route: (being light while dark starts first) 4 frames faster (3260 versus 3264) at the start of battle however in this case, Djinn gets imprisoned, so Phoenix is used which only has "aoe dmg", not sure if it's faster, currently testing it. If your new userfile has a new strategy, it will work for light too. It's perfectly fine to find new improvements after initially submitting it. Going to say both: don't be too hard on yourself, and I really like your attitude for keep improving TASes :)
Another great job at improving / obsoleting TASes, keep up the good work ShesChardcore! - Route: Nice, didn't even knew about Shapeshifting or other features of this game because I've thought it's unavoidable to fight less than 2 times. Until now :) - Tombstones: The battlefield is a 14x11 grid and tombstones have a variable height, assuming 4 different values: max, smaller, smaller and zero. I think they are manipulatable by frame time (don't know exact place of RNG) before engaging a battle and by doing different actions, for example using the same route but moving with a different unit to the same place of this route Easy yes vote!
Also I forgot that I'm a Believer was an option for the final song. If only All Star was an option at the start of the game, if at all.
A lot of these homebrews that come out for ancient systems are high quality. Makes for a good looking tas too. Yes vote.
Without changing levels: 3, 1, 4, 0, 2 = 541 + 811 + 659 + 693 + 845 = 3549 3, 1, 2, 0, 4 = 541 + 811 + 357 + 693 + 1045 = 3447 1, 3, 2, 0, 4 = 603 + 517 + 357 + 693 + 1045 = 3215 <-- This submitted TAS 1, 3, 4, 0, 2 = 603 + 517 + 659 + 693 + 845 = 3317 4, 3, 2, 0, 1 = 611 + 517 + 357 + 693 + 907 = 3085 <-- Fastest strategy so far 4, 3, 1, 0, 2 = 611 + 517 + 771 + 693 + 845 = 3437 3, 4, 2, 0, 1 = 541 + 831 + 357 + 693 + 1115 = 3537 <-- Current published TAS 3, 4, 1, 0, 2 = 541 + 831 + 771 + 693 + 845 = 3681 Will edit later with more variations
- 2 positive values: use MAX - 1 negative 1 positive: ABS(MIN) * 2 + MAX - 2 negative values: use MIN
Now that's where I think my math might be faulty. I currently used ABS(value) - ABS(value) but this might be just ABS(value-value) for total number of pixels between the two objects. But I'm confident in the other values/math being OK.