I noticed that you're constantly mashing X throughout most of the run. Is there any reason why you do this? Not knowing the game myself, it seems pretty unnecessary and potentially detrimental to me.
Edit: Also, for entertainment, I'd have to vote no. It's very repetitive; the only somewhat interesting parts are the fights, and even those are mostly TAS one-shotting its opponent. The most entertaining part to me was the birthday song, but probably only because I've never seen this game before.
It seems to me like a bit more could be done for entertainment here, especially in the autoscroller segments. It's not very entertaining to me to watch an empty stage scroll up (down?) with nothing to see except for an occasional leg. But other than that, it was short and sweet enough not to get boring. So meh vote.
Is the emulator also that slow loading? I guess preloading the whole game into RAM would cause desync...
I am not an emulator guru or anything, but if I had to guess, I would think that for anything to work right at all, the CD drive has to be emulated as well, and therefore its reading speed. I could be wrong though.
Now I'll talk about why I skipped Arena completely.
The reason is simple. It's a minigame that breaks the pace of the game.
So you'd rather show hours of content that we have already seen and isn't exclusive to this version in your run that aims to show off content exclusive to this version, rather than having a broken pace but all new features are shown and the run is faster?
I can't really comment on whether you are right about whether the grinding is necessary, but that seems like a very weird and arbitrary goal choice.
Let's call it "new content except minigames, using only half the glitches available, forgoes time savers in order to keep the pacing, for no particular reason other than that's the way it was decided to be run... well that sounded random, just watch it plz%"
So... this is basically a fighting game speed TAS where you repeat the same move over and over again to win fights as fast as possible, only in disguise?
To be fair:
most battles aren't completely identical
it's a short number of battles
if I read the description right, most of the available moves are actually used at some point
So it's far from some of the fighting game TASes we have seen, where a single move is used to win every one of like 20 battles instantly.
Every time... every time I see this game again, I think "oh this stupid game, why does this even exist? Also, why do I have this feeling like I secretly love this game?"
Then, the credits music starts and it's all coming back to me. The laughs that have been had.
I have only one gripe with this game: the last part of the song should loop forever. (until you restart, that is) Otherwise, it is perfect.
Can't possibly vote no on this game.
This is pretty much the cutest game I have ever seen.
Also, for this game, RTAs should be called GOODPLAY!!s, and TASes just SUPERPLAY!!s.
I was quite entertained by the game, and the sprite glitches were a fun addition. Yes vote.
i vote yes for publishment,because by saying it's entertaing,i can get it published,even if it's not entertaining at all.I did vote yes and no,this is not entertaining and still i'm gonna keep skewing the voting so tasvideos will never use it's silly entertainment rules to invalidate games with a clear ending goal
I was writing a long post, explaining on how many levels this is wrong, but I decided that Kurabupenguin doesn't deserve his run's thread to be derailed into something as silly as that.
Meh vote. Liked the first part, but the flight to the moon was really boring.
Also, some more explanations of things would be nice. I have no idea what's happening with those bats in that cave. It looks like as soon as they touch ALF, they teleport for some distance and then proceed to jitter around, sometimes while moving in some random direction.
(I suppose that's just what happens after you attack them, but your attack is invisible half of the time (maybe just due to 30fps), and it's always fun to read descriptions like that, even if there's no big secret behind them.)
I love it, a yes vote (including that the entretainment is poor) :D
I don't understand this.
The poll clearly asks: "Did you find this movie entertaining?"
You answer this question with a yes.
Then you clarify the entertainment was poor.
So you were entertained, but only poorly?
Wouldn't that be more like a "meh" vote?
There seems to be some weird force that keeps making people misread the poll question as either "Do you think this movie is a good TAS?" or "Do you think this movie should be published on TASVideos.org?"... sometimes even "Do you think the time difference to the RTA is significant enough for this TAS to be published?"
My vote is the same as last time; I still wasn't entertained. And yes I am sure that is part because I don't know the game, but the question isn't "Do you think that someone who knows the game well would find it entertaining?"; neither does it state you may only vote if you know the game.
I was expecting kids to complain, not grown up adults shitposting in the comments.
I hope you don't consider my feedback in the rating thread as some of that! I know I probably wasn't constructive, but at least I tried to explain my view as nicely as possible! (Although I have to admit, I often fail at being nice.)
Waiting for temp encode.
O-ok... I-I understand... Everyone agrees then about the tier... b-but... then my biggest worry right now... is this game and TAS accepted? Is it publishable? Who will claim it? Can I... cry..?
Awww!
Everyone give Kurabu a hug?
Sarcasm? O_o
I have to admit, when I say something, chances are that it's sarcasm.
This time it wasn't, though... I'm just feeling for you and seeing how it's disappointing that all the hard work might "only" get vault in the end...
However, I hope you'll be able to see the positive thing: people in this thread seem to be in favor of a publication, and while ultimately the judges have to decide, this seems to be the direction it's heading. I admit "vault" sounds like a bit of a lesser category... but there are other runs there that are great pieces of hard work, and I don't think it would taunt your work at all if your run ended up there!
After all, a vault is a place where you store great treasures... right??
Also, nothing's been decided yet, and yes votes are the majority. So don't cry too much before you even know for sure how it's gonna end!!
:)
O-ok... I-I understand... Everyone agrees then about the tier... b-but... then my biggest worry right now... is this game and TAS accepted? Is it publishable? Who will claim it? Can I... cry..?
But think it like this, who plays Club Penguin? Kids right? Maybe kids will know about the game and they will be mindblown by the superhuman speed in it.
They can still find and watch it if it's in vault. People that precisely want to find a certain game's TAS will just search for the game's name and not care if it's vault or stars. The tiers as I understand them are more to make suggestions what to watch for people who are bored and want to see a random, fun TAS. And yes, I think it should be published, just in vault :) (which isn't really a big deal.)
When I said one of my favorite games is a point&click adventure, I think I didn't complete my thought, so I'll do it now: if someone were to TAS that game, even though I'm nostalgic for it, I think I would still vote no on entertainment, except maybe if they were somehow able to do really interesting stuff not intended by the developers, like going OOB or ignoring obstacles, making the character dance through a forced wait time, or reaching the ending early in a surprising way.
About the run...
...I found it rather boring.
While the game doesn't seem that special to me, I don't think it's your fault or the game's fault. One of my favorite games of all time is a point-and-click adventure; but the entertainment there comes from the dialog, the puzzles, and generally just being a part of the action. Basically, all those things you skip over so quickly there's no time to even notice them.
It probably doesn't help that the game isn't very popular, so for many people it will be hard to see what's wrong with what they see when you're using glitches.
So I hate to say this, especially 'cause you clearly gave this your all, and I'm sure it's well optimized and was a load of work, but entertainment-wise and in my opinion, this seems to be a vault candidate, i.e. no vote.
Sorry :(
I also found it very entertaining and don't think it deserves a vault publication.
I watched the existing TAS, and of course it had some interesting things in it, but overall I didn't find it much more entertaining than this one. Sometimes I wondered why so much time was lost on purpose for so little entertainment gain. (Like the bonus stages)
I can see, however, why people don't want this one to obsolete the old one. So re-branding the old one as playaround and publishing this alongside it in Moons seems fair to me.
