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A TAS of the (short but sweet) freeware Windows game Eversion.

Game objectives/info

  • Emulator used: none, created using Hourglass
  • Game version: 1.7.3
  • Gets the bad ending
  • Aims for the fastest time

About the game

A freeware platformer that's available here [link no longer exists] (and also on Steam for $4.99 with slightly more fancy graphics) which has a few nice surprising twists. As it's fairly short (especially when aiming for the bad ending) there's very little reason not to play it.

Comments

As it's a fairly straightforward platformer, there's very little that needs to be done except "run right for justice". However, a glitch is used in this movie to float over large gaps, saving some time in world 2 and 3. The glitch is done by jumping against the left-bottom corner of a block that's right above you. Then you can float (either left or right) as long as you keep holding the jump button. Apart from that, the continuous everting in world three is annoying.
I hope you enjoy this movie!

DarkKobold: Fairly poor response, given that it is somewhat of a generic platformer given the bad ending. However, my understanding of the game is that it is mostly about discovery. Since everything is known going into the TAS, even the any% good ending and 100% endings may also be rather bland. However, that really doesn't affect this decision. Rejecting due to poor feedback on goal choice.

turska: Unrejecting.

adelikat: For the purpose of the Vault, this does not seem to clearly complete the game. A "good ending" seems to be a real completion and thus Vault worthy (as would a 100% run). Setting this back to rejected.


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Rejected movie, why you in my workbench.
YoungJ1997lol wrote:
Normally i would say Yes, but thennI thought "its not the same hack" so ill stick with meh.
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om, nom, nom... 'twas dry
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Scepheo wrote:
I've watched the 100% run by Acmlm, but both his improvement to that and his any% good ending desync for me. I'd be willing to do a quick (YouTube?) encode of the 100% run though.
Just make sure to delete save.sav (in the game's folder) before running a movie file, since it keeps track of the collected gems and sets the game to time trial mode once completed ... Both runs still sync fine here, with the latest Hourglass (r81).
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Sorry for forgetting to link the Eversion thread here. All 3 vids are encoded by me and look awesome. Thread #12397: Eversion
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Go ahead and publish to the Vault.
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I would prefer seeing this obsoleted by a version that completes all eight levels.
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Radiant wrote:
I would prefer seeing this obsoleted by a version that completes all eight levels.
If you mean a 100% run: that's another category so I doubt it'd obsolete this. As far as publishing this is concerned: looking back, I don't really feel to strongly either way. Yes, it's probably the current record, but I'm fairly sure it's still not optimal.
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Scepheo wrote:
Radiant wrote:
I would prefer seeing this obsoleted by a version that completes all eight levels.
If you mean a 100% run: that's another category so I doubt it'd obsolete this. As far as publishing this is concerned: looking back, I don't really feel to strongly either way. Yes, it's probably the current record, but I'm fairly sure it's still not optimal.
and the ending is a serious nightmare fuel... seriously...
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Scepheo wrote:
it's probably the current record, but I'm fairly sure it's still not optimal.
Turns out I was right! As such, I'd like to replace the movie file with this one. It's an improvement of 40 frames, made mostly by optimizing corners (which, in this game, is horribly counter-intuitive sometimes). Also, YouTube encode.
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sh*t scared yes this game seriously terrify me...
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If World of Goo could get a yes vote, so can this.
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Please change emulator version to r81
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Randomno wrote:
Please change emulator version to r81
Why? If it syncs on latest who gives a shit? Also there's the possibility they started it on one version and ended on another.
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+fsvgm777 never censoring anything.
Disables Comments and Ratings for the YouTube account. Something better for yourself and also others.