I wonder what other games a "maximum score" or "highest score possible" run can be done on...
You mean, interestingly, for submission and acceptance? Every arcade game and many others give you a score, and many are in a format in which fastest completion time is not interesting and/or the majority of action takes the same duration no matter what you do.
For most shmups, it seems like maximum score would be the most natural TAS objective.
The real question is what makes a good shmup to TAS. Dodging bullets is a given and is not much interesting. It's probably going to be something where (1) actions are usually not wasted because there is something else to be done that will increase points, (2) TAS execution doesn't look like how a human player with the same strategy and goal would play, (3) big movements are favored over small ones. TAS precision for grazing bullets all day long just wouldn't look all that interesting, in my opinion. The more targets to kill, and with higher precision (bonus if with hard-to-control weapons) for higher score, the better.
What really works in this run is all of the moving around to eat bullets combined with the restriction of killing all the enemies on time without breaking the chains. There are only two weapons, but the homing lasers make for some good tension with maintaining the chains.
Fantastic TAS, ars4326.
I never actually played Langrisser 2 myself, but I went through all the routes in Der Langrisiser many years ago and played a couple of the others in the series. Very interesting character, equipment, and troop management. I watched the WIPs and only some of the temp encode, but yeah, I also did notice about the subtitles...
Spikestuff wrote:
SXL wrote:
Only drawback ; commentary was not enough for me, had to read description while watching to (try to) follow what was going on.
Agreeing with this.
6 of 115 goes to Name
17 of 115 goes to the Ranking
34 of 115 is the Conditions needed for the Senario
58 of 115 is the commentary itself
Plus, the game being almost 2 hours long. Makes it pretty minimalistic for the subs.
Reason why I know into detail is because I decided to TAB out each part in Aegisub after extracting the subs.
If somebody wants more system details and other stuff in the subtitles, I'd be more than willing to go through the sub file and add more commentary at some point in the nearish but not immediate future. (it's not nearly as much work as running the game, but let's leave the runner for that) I mean, obviously I don't know nearly as much about the game as the runner, but a lot of the things people may be wondering about are system and character details that about anyone who's played the series would know about. Guides and the submission text would fill in most of the gaps in anything I've forgotten.
After all, this is a pretty much glitch-free playthrough that relies only on heavy luck manipulation and sweet tactical planning to speed through the game.
If so, what are people not quite following? I'd imagine at least a basic explanation of classes, what the troops do, the system, and maybe character names would help. Anybody care about the plot details?
I dumped this so I could watch later in qualilty befitting high-quality glitchy-movement Castlevania TAS action (I hope; haven't seen it yet).
Quick lazy encode, middling quality, if you want something downloadable and 60 fps:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/yzp3tk
Nice run and nice improvement! Of course not as awesome as some of the other categories for this game, but that's the nature of glitching away the majority of the game.
Here's my quick temp downloadable encode (for 60 fps, @ crf 23, 31.05MB):
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?3jd9u54dszmxa12
Hopefully this one's not borked.