Completely disappointed by the fact that this is not an all burgers run. However the tas absolutely wrecks an incredibly poorly controlling game and is a great watch. Hopefully judgment will happen soon.
Here is an album of just a few places that air sliding is meant to/being used http://imgur.com/a/8InpT
I think all but one of those can be cleared with a basic dash jump, to say nothing of the other pre-existing mechanics that you mentioned yourself. The fifth one isn't even that. Just basic jumps.
I am now convinced you've never even played a mega man game. Those jumps are completely impossible in any normal setting.
I dislike the concept of adding an air dash when there really wasn't much call for it other than to constantly fly above enemies. It wasn't exactly worked in as a core game mechanic, just, to repeat what was said in http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14576 , made it look like a regular Megaman run on fastfoward with much less care and strategy needed since the modified dash jump was the answer 9 times out of 10.
Garrison wrote:
it's pretty absurd (once again in the great traditions of tasvideos.org) to have people who don't even comprehend the basic mechanics determine what the game plays like.