to TheAxeMan:
I just finished watching your run last night and it inspired me to stop lurking and join the forums just so I could praise you. It was well put together, I suppose, but I've never thought about a TAS as technically entertaining before yours. What really stuck out for me was the depth of the subtitles.
You started describing the Kraken fight as long and I reflexively skipped ahead one minute to avoid the tedium of "2 hits, 81 damage" ten times. After the time skip, I saw the subtitles at the top of the screen and immediately jumped back in time. To me, the subtitles were like a director's commentary of a film I've watched too many times. They allowed me to enjoy something I've over-experienced in a new and fresh way.
It is my deepest hope that many TASers follow your lead and begin providing expansive subtitles like yours and those found in the Seiken Densetsu 3 run. Perhaps future versions of the emulators will allow programmer comments to be inserted automatically for ease of creating subtitles.
Thank you again.
Maxwell.