Hah, did Retsupurae bring this game to someone else's attention here?
hum… excellent thought I find that version PSX will count to more glitches but will difficult to work in it.
If that river jump becomes possible... man. That would be huge. I also tried it for quite a while. A shame there's no way to have Faerie Wings at that point...
I thought that a TAS of this game would be kind of boring, but I was wrong! Your WIP looks great! I think it's abundantly entertaining, and has style!
Excellent work! Things that were great: 1) I like how you targeted the Ghost as soon as it spawned. Being right next to the door is a bonus. 2) You just hopped over that skeleton like nothing right after the Ghost. I guess you have to be at a higher level to make it, I never even thought of that. 3) Optimal box puzzle solution. 4) Taking damage from the enemies following the lizards mini-boss battle. You have to take damage somewhere and this is a good place for that. 5) Playing hide & seek with the slime and bat right before the Dragon. I could do this with the slime alone but not with the bat too. Funny stuff. 6) Targeting the Dragon's tail. Excellent strategy, that seems tough to do normally but it should be worth incorporating into a speedrun. On the Duane battle: yea I've definitely revamped my strats against him since my submission at SDA. I also target his legs but I have to rely on a ~30% chance of landing an initial blow of roughly 25-30 hp dmg with over 80 RISK usually. Yea each henchman actually says something different, depending on which one is still left alive. One important question though: after Duane, have you tried jumping over the river to the other side? This is practically the only sequence break I can imagine for this game (besides somehow glitching through locked doors). If you could accomplish this, you'd be able to skip ALL of Abandoned Mines B1 and save yourself almost 10 mins. game time. I've never been able to pull this off but I'm hoping this is possible in a TAS?? I doubt it, but you should look into it at least.
I'll check out the WIP later since I'm at work right now. Regarding equipping the Magnolia Frau, you should wait until after the Wyvern fight considering its tail is weak to edged weapons. There's also a mandatory fight with a couple zombies where the Fandango also comes useful. The staff is made of silver so it should be useful against them too but the low PP would result in roughly the same damage output as the Fandango which should have a lot of PP by now. That's why I say wait so there's less menu navigation.
Wow, you're really cruising through this. My best segment 1 time is actually 14:07 (which can be dropped further obviously), but you still blow that away! I got my 3rd chain ability after the golem. And if you managed to avoid that hellhound in the catacombs at the box puzzle then that's pretty impressive. That thing has ohko'd me a couple times during my single segment attempts. I'm trying to figure out what exactly you're doing, clearly you baited one of them to destroy a box but that still leaves the other one. Used the skeleton as a human shield perhaps?
Heh, you definitely have the right idea. The Ghost spawns out of range like most of the time. So getting to it right away can be tricky normally; I usually get out of its range to avoid Solid Shock by inching my way to the right. This way I open the combat sphere on its 2nd teleport. However, it's possible for it to teleport next to you right away. It seems random to me, but maybe there's some way for you to manipulate it to spawn in the right place?
Good stuff. Those slimes appear when you have less than 149 HP I believe, so you'll have bats instead. Also, after the 3rd boss when you return to the adjacent room, there will be a skeleton in your way since your current HP will cause it to spawn. You'll lose some time killing it to get it out of the way, but the chains should help your Battle Point count. You might run into an additional skeleton after the lizards 'mid-boss' fight too I think for the same reason. Any slimes you encounter are entirely avoidable though, including the slime right before the Golem boss fight in the next Sanctum section. You just have to wait for it to descend the stairwell a little bit and then climb up so that it's forced to jump up after you. Edit: You probably shouldn't sheathe your weapon since you're going to have to use it soon and you should be able to manipulate an initial hit anyway. It's probably faster to sheathe until after you kill the skeleton in the room with the rusted door, during the door opening animation (right after 3rd boss).
Yeah, I've also noticed this issue: For example, you make a save (to memory card) at frame 45,000 (for example), close and reopen PSXjin. When you reopen the movie at a frame past the save, it won't remember making that save. So when you go to load game, you can't. I worded this really poorly but it seems as if the save isn't stored with the movie, though I guess that isn't quite as easy as it seems to make work. Or maybe it isn't even an issue and that's just how it's supposed to work, I don't know.
Yes, after looking at the damage formulae I just don't see any way a weapon pickup is faster than running around at no health and relying on Raging Ache, given the need for buffs/debuffs to make it viable. I still think a crossbow may be worth picking up for a few boss fights where you won't land the first blow with Magnolia Frau's short range--the time lost from its longer animations can't be worse than the delay from enemy attack animations, and this avoids the issue of having to worry about defense abilities to survive special attacks. It's honestly a toss-up in my book, though. I know jumping up and down constantly can delay enemy attacks (they won't ever hit you when you're in the air) and you can possibly avoid them ever getting attacks off, which makes the Frau a better choice. When I get the chance I might try to pick up one or two of the strongest items and see where that puts a first playthrough Ashley in terms of damage output. If there's any boss in particular that you might save a lot of time on, it could be worth it. I'll look into it, but plan on Raging Ache. Riskbreaker Y might be able to verify for me exactly how Braveheart works--I'm curious if this gem might make it possible to get less MISS effects on your attacks. If so, that makes getting a weapon with it worthwhile. What are you trying to do vs Dullahan? Manipulating so that every attack hits?
SDA's run is 8:32 by SDA timing; add ~2.5 minutes for the intro. All other runs I found skip FMVs and aren't comparable.
WIP + savestate at the start of Disc 2 : http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RJCCU92A Glad to be done with this part. I usually love to manipulate luck but those battles were a real pain in the ass...
