Okay so I've been trying to see if it's possible to beat this game both without taking damage and without letting any civilians (meaning, any non-combatants) get killed. This is mostly for my own amusement, but also to see if it
can be done (henceforth this condition will be called "Royal" in the thread, in honor of Kyle - the player character - being the Crown Prince or something). Doing this for sections 1-1 and 1-2 is possible even in a non-TAS environment.
However, the red guard on the right is giving me trouble - there doesn't seem to be enough room on the following screen to dodge his punch (landing exactly as far as I can gets me punched off of the edge of the cliff on the next screen), and he won't move away from the bridge without shooting (which either hits me or kills the civilian).
E: It might be possible if I use the hoverbomb (I'll need the beebomb on the very next screen for a door), but I still need to be on the right side of the left guard (plus then I'd be down a bomb)
Note: Aside from the above screen, it's plausible to pull off Royal 1-3 realtime, however the purple guard who holds the beebombs needs to be shot as soon as you enter the screen, and then shot again before he has a chance to punch you. The first part is practicable, the second is luck-based (or can be done by killing him before he fires, which the timing on that is tighter) and so a Royal 1-3 is TAS-only without some sort of luck setup. (which given this is TASvideos shouldn't be seen as an obstacle)
E2: Uploaded BK2 files for
1-1 and
1-2. Both can be improved, both generally and from a TASing standpoint (1-1 was done entirely realtime, 1-2 was only TASed for tight timings and was otherwise only re-recorded in broad strokes), but the movies should give a clearer picture of what I mean.
E3:
Apparently Beebombs can be used as shields. And doing that gives me exactly enough explosives to finish the section.
1-4 has also been finished. As always, these are only TASed enough to reach the objective and are by no means optimized (the fact that you have a window of opportunity to shoot a guard after he comes out of sidling but before he fires is proof enough that Royal is trivial in a TAS environment as well as of the fact that these movies are very much not optimized)
