This topic is for the purpose of discussing #4691: phamthanhphung's SNES Little Magic "100%" in 50:49.16

Is this cheatless?

Ok, so this is a puzzle game. Thank you for the encode. I only watched the first six minutes. It seems to be a pretty simple game, worse than Adventures of Lolo. The ability to use those magic bubbles is sort of cool, but the bubbles take a long time to pop. The game felt repetitive very quickly for me... it's probably more fun to play than to watch. In addition, it looks like you have some wasted steps and extra unnecessary motion in a few stages. (I saw questionable parts in stages 8, 18, and 20. I stopped watching in stage 21.) I'm not voting yet, since I have not watched the full movie, but unfortunately I think this is a No for entertainment.

I like how there's a Gameboy Little Magic that's a port, and a Famicom Little Magic that's a completely different, totally unrelated game.

Good for the vault.

In addition, it looks like you have some wasted steps and extra unnecessary motion in a few stages. (I saw questionable parts in stages 8, 18, and 20. I stopped watching in stage 21.)

From what I can gather by watching the video, and assuming I am seeing the same thing you are, think of the movement in this title as being like a classic Final Fantasy: if you press a direction, you immediately move in that direction. This would mean that sometimes, in order to plant a bubble on a given square, you will have to move away from it in order to give yourself room. I don't see any strange moves in 20, though.

Charming game, but the date is wrong. It's May 17th.

this is good

What does “Re-record count: (unknown)” mean?

this is good

Lmao.

What does “Re-record count: (unknown)” mean?

It means that the rerecord count is listed as 0 in the movie file.

Serious post: the bubble mechanic is very interesting. It's so interesting, actually, that it seems to have obscured the designer's ability to make interesting levels. After watching the whole TAS I can only remember four enemies: snake (paces back and forth), octorock (pushes blocks), the green charger, and the turret. But none of them except the snake are used more than a few times. They also implemented traditional push blocks and the arrow panels from Eggerland/Lolo (also green!) and barely used those, too. Instead the game mostly consists of:

Getting the block around a corner with magic bubbles Getting the block across water with magic bubbles Anti-magic squares where you can't use magic Collapsing floors

Over and over and over without much increase in difficulty. (Until the very end.) It's like they were having so much fun with the core mechanic that the unintentional thought was "Meh! Let's just vary the layouts and keep doing this." Voted yes by the way.

Thanks for the follow-up posts, Ferret Warlord and Archanfel. It took a while, but I got back to this and decided to give it more of a try. I see now what Ferret Warlord was saying about the turning mechanics... the steps where the player went away from a bubble spot were my concern. When I looked back over those stages, they seem fine now. Catastrophe also brings up a good point with the main game mechanic. Personally, I still have the issue that the main game mechanic tends to create a lot of waiting time. This game did get more interesting as it went on, for the most part. The best levels, for me, were the ones in the late 30s with the sliding ice floors. The music was ok, but it did have a very cool point in the late 50s, when it got very dark and spooky. The end was good too. I'd say this is a Meh vote from me. One question: is it possible to win this game while playing fewer levels? If not, then 100% is a redundant category.

Instead the game mostly consists of:

You neglected to mention the lava panels which have bubbles increase in size to pop after maximum, rather than the usual decrease. This is only terribly interesting in stage 95 where they checkerboarded water/lava tiles, as you never really have to worry about mixing the fuse burn direction otherwise. (Another game with no convection.) And the gimmick where one has to push the key in behind oneself. So...amateurishly translated, block names are Magic Forest, Flame Cavern, Ice Palace, Trial Tower, Dark Space, and Final Exam Tower.

TT3-IP3 IP2-MF2 MF1
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FC4 MF3 FC3 FC2 FC1
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FET DaS-TT2 TT1-IP1

Watched the whole thing, but it wasn't terribly interesting for most of it because it was usually just a case of "And how do you get the bubbles across ONE MORE panel?" Meh voting.

Wow, this game looks vicious. What are the significance of the "M" scrolls that the witches leave behind? Understanding them could solve the mystery of 100% vs. any%... has anyone other than the author ever played this game? :S And on the note of optimization, in a few spots it looked initially like it may be possible to push things into place with bubbles rather than doing so manually to save a few frames, but on further examination the awkward mechanics disallowing turning without taking a step likely prevent that from saving time in any of the spots I looked at. The run also seems to avoid the problem where many puzzle game TASes look more like walkthroughs than speedruns due to slower mechanics... quite a few spots appear to have quite tight timing that would be difficult if not unreasonable under more casual conditions. Overall, I was quite entertained, though I can understand why many players wouldn't be. Yes vote from me, for what it matters.

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