Le Manoir des Zombies (English: The Zombie Manor) is a short puzzle-platformer made by SJ Games, the same company that made the KUBO series. In this game, a tanuki must complete 2 puzzle levels and a boss fight to change himself back into a boy.
Objectives:
- Emulator used: FCEUX 2.6.4
- Ends input early due to being in position to collect the leaf
- Kills dead people
Some in-game physics
- The lag when there's 2 enemy sprites on the screen is horrendous. Thankfully, the lag stops when you kill the first one.
- The tanuki goes significantly faster on ice.
- In the final boss room, you must kill the boss before knocking down the wall, otherwise the button won't do anything.
- The game lags every 7 frames just like KUBO 3 and SkateCat.
New strats:
Some of the strats were borrowed from Beardstrength, the RTA WR holder, and some I invented myself:
- Killing the first zombie before it turns around
- Turning left on the ladders to move the blocks sooner
- A slightly improved boss fight strategy
This is a demo, featuring only 2 levels and a boss fight. It’s unknown whether SJ Games is working on the full game.
Thanks for reading. As with all my other TASes, any improvements found would be much appreciated.
- LGR
EDIT: I have since improved this TAS by 291 frames - https://tasvideos.org/UserFiles/Info/638125252420719241

feos: Claiming for judging.
feos: Delaying since the author is still improving it.
LogansGamingRoom: i wasn't able to go under 30 seconds, with my best effort being 30.15. you may now resume judging.
feos: Replacing with the final improvement, as the author informed me the work is over, and accepting.
Not sure if this is just a demo version and a full game is planned, or if it's a demonstration game for NESmaker Byte Off and it's done. Either way if a new, fuller demo is released, we can obsolete this one.

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This topic is for the purpose of discussing #7989: LoganTheTASer's NES Le Manoir des Zombies in 00:30.15
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another 5 frame improvement https://tasvideos.org/UserFiles/Info/638108834375650575 it's now at 31.31
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31.29 seconds / 1881 frames https://tasvideos.org/UserFiles/Info/638111206952929395 i've had enough of improving this tas. if anyone else would like to improve it, go ahead.
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forget what i said about giving up, here's a 39 frame improvement: https://tasvideos.org/UserFiles/Info/638120529615562667
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10 more frames! it's now in the low 30s! https://tasvideos.org/UserFiles/Info/638122631238436692
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immediately found 4 frames more improvement https://tasvideos.org/UserFiles/Info/638123300293222487 i'm getting really close to that sub 30 holy shit
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my final improvement: https://tasvideos.org/UserFiles/Info/638125252420719241 feos, if you’re reading this, you may now resume judging.
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This movie has been published. The posts before this message apply to the submission, and posts after this message apply to the published movie. ---- [5115] NES Le Manoir des Zombies by LoganTheTASer in 00:30.15