Never seen the trick before that shortens the pause when collecting boss fights' orbs. Have you tested this trick in other Castlevania games?
Working is the best way to achieve goals in speedruning. Hardworking is a pain.
I don't really understand what makes this a joke submission. It seems like a legitimately optimized TAS that a lot of work went into, with a slightly unorthodox goal? Am I missing something?
I don't really understand what makes this a joke submission. It seems like a legitimately optimized TAS that a lot of work went into, with a slightly unorthodox goal? Am I missing something?
Working is the best way to achieve goals in speedruning. Hardworking is a pain.
assuming all bosses are actually killed, which I am not sure of yet since I dont know this game enough)
Working is the best way to achieve goals in speedruning. Hardworking is a pain.
Two of the branches are essentially side-modes that use different sets of characters. The primary game and story mode (with Jonathan & Charlotte) can do fine with three branches, with one skipping the majority of the game, then one middle-ground run with maximized action, and finally a full-completion movie.
In fact killing Richter and Bruner is not nesessary for a full map completion, so it would be more accurate to describe the branch as full map completion + all bosses.
I'll remove my temp encode once the official encode is up (please don't let me forget)
Working is the best way to achieve goals in speedruning. Hardworking is a pain.
I just got around to watching it. Regarding entertainment, it's similar to All Bosses, if maybe a bit toned down. Considering All Bosses is one of my favorite TASes on the whole site, I would consider this a good thing. When I first started watching it, I felt a bit mixed. The route felt a bit awkward at times, entering rooms for the sake of entering rooms or making weird paths through larger rooms just so all the boxes were marked off. As it went on, however, it started to grow on me. I actually really liked seeing Burnt Paradise and Nation of Fools in this run, because in All Bosses they are skipped almost entirely. Buried Chamber was also nice to see because I'm pretty sure it's completely skipped in literally every other PoR run. Sticking around in areas for longer than usual also gave the OST some more time to shine at some parts, which helped for me. Then there were also gimmicks like the cars in the clock tower that otherwise are unseen that were fun to see here. So all in all, it was a very fun run to watch. As for whether it's publishable, there are various factors to consider. • We already have four PoR publications, as many as Super Metroid currently. • It's still very much comparable to All Bosses, but longer. We want to avoid having too many branches, or branches that are not sufficiently different enough from each other. • On the other hand, there are various parts of the game seen here that are not seen in any other PoR TAS, such as Buried Chamber. • The game has many, many things to count for full completion. Subweapons, spells, monster library, quests, items, bosses and so on - yet its percentage counter is determined solely by map fill and it is filled to 1000% here, so it would count as a valid full completion category for that reason. Essentially, this is the reverse of the Super Metroid situation, where items are counted for percentage but map fill is not. I'm not fully decided on it yet.
