Nice! That was some quick work! Some comments:
On the contrary, would it not be very damaging to only watch runs of the games we know we like? I mean, I've TASed several games I've never played in my life. Because they seemed to be games suited for TASing.
When you grab the diamond in the mines, a boulder starts chasing you. For some reason, EVERY time I got to the next screen, I would just instantly die. Never quite figured out why.
Saved you 14 frames lol. http://rghost.ru/36985881 It frustrated me extremely that you wait while the enemy passes. The first input change that came to my mind manipulated him to vanish much faster. Just open the project, it's set to the first frame of difference. I have an advice for you for future.
As for this new WIP, things look pretty good! (with the exception of the new damage-taking opportunities you mention). One comment, though, is that you're sometimes bumping walls in the overworld. Is that deliberate?
In any case, you've taken a fairly clunky game and made it look pretty good. I'm not sure if it's improvable enough to vote Meh at this point. I will say, though, that if you attempt an improvement of any of this, I'd be thrilled to offer support and observations (I didn't know you were making this run until today... :-( ).
I haven't watched it yet, but based on your comment on the gameplay, I think a playaround would be better due to 25 minutes of the same thing isn't exactly the most entertaining thing to watch.
By the way, could you provide some details about how to maximize the horizontal distance you get from flying with limited wing power? I could never really figure out if it made more sense to keep starting and stopping flight or just to fly in one continuous motion. (This is important for the big gap you have to cross on the way to Desert Sittem.)
I'm not convinced that the movement is fully optimized here -- for example, when returning from the desert you fly over a platform that you could have walked on, which implies that you jumped a bit high, which in turn means you were using the slower horizontal speed of jumping rather than the faster speed of walking/hovering. Similarly when backtracking across the broken bridge shortly thereafter -- it seems like it would be preferable to land on some of the moving platforms rather than jump so high. But I can believe that optimizing movement for this game would be a royal pain and I don't think it's worth going back to change these areas.
Other thoughts: it doesn't seem like it takes very long to switch weapons. It might have been worth using the tornado in the cave after getting the Candle of Lethe -- you have to go out of your way to get to a ledge to jump up from when you could have just made a platform. I enjoyed watching it, though I'm familiar with the game. It's almost a point-for-point remake of the Gameboy version though. Also kinda weird how the ghouls are deathly allergic to UV. Oh well. Nice work!
But did you try to redo the run for Old PPU?
He probably speaks about old TASEdit from 2.1.5. Now that you're accustomed to new TAS Editor luxuries, try switching to old TASEdit for an hour... :)
The general rule is that when a 2-player run is slower, there are often two versions, as the 1-player version is the fastest game completion, and the 2-player version adds interesting 2-player gameplay. In this case, the 2-player TAS is faster though... This is just a rule of thumb, and I am not saying that it applies in this case... but that's why I am asking why these different aspects are more interesting. I don't know how many of the people who voted yes took this into consideration when voting, so some opinions on this would be nice. I did see that AnS wrote in the previous 1-player submission that he was in favor of 2 published movies for this game.
TASEdit plugin ins't a good plugins for game such Mario , but still good
ah, i just used 2.1.5. goofydylan8, do you mind if i quote your 'comments' so i can post the information to my blog?
where to get 2.1.6?
Lethal Weapon
Bosses shall be manipulated here. But I hate how the last one looks!
Why are the differences compared to the 2-player TAS particularly interesting so that this game deserves two published movies?
I liked it. It seemed well run and entertaining. I just wish you didnt moonwalk that much.