Can't wait until it's finally possible to TAS PS2 games. Meanwhile, I'm writing down a few esoteric time-saving ideas I had while reading my old FAQ of the game.
- I once had a glitch in which Akiko fell through a staircase when she was attacked while on it. If that glitch could be perpetrated at will, especially with any character, it would allow plenty of odd strategies through the game.
- Manipulating Mamoru to drop his
"glitch handgun" in Yorito's Pylon mission in order to get a much faster running speed in staircases.
- In one of Surrealgamer's videos that exist on Youtube no longer, he was playing Ikuko's Pylon mission. The spawning Yamirei were so abundant that they actually pushed Ikuko over the edge of a stairway so that she fell into the courtyard below, effectively skipping a part of the level. He had to fight the boss with melee weapons instead of guns because of this skip, but it is still overall faster, I'd say.
- Well... I think testing for OOB spots that come from
getting squeezed behind doors is not complete in this game. So that might allow some strange skips at best.
- Will be enjoyable to see the crouch-spamming running technique optimized.
- Running with a rifle in hands is faster than normal?