Lexitron (Compute's Gazette)
Like a bowl of alphabet soup, the "Lexitron" screen appears to be just a jumbled mass of letters. Can you find the ten hidden words before time runs out?
Why TAS This Game?
The continuation of TASing games from my all-time favorite magazine, Compute's Gazette. This makes my 90th TAS from this series.
I think the moment I got this magazine, and opened it...I was disappointed. I really didn't like cross-word puzzles, and I was fed up with two players games (my brother didn't want to play these games with all that much).
This time around, this game was a challenge...in terms of TASing. Even though I still wouldn't play it casually, it was a good exercise in the many BOTing ways that I have come up with solving games.
Bizhawk 2.9.1
Lua Scripting: used to BOT out the RNG for layouts displayed.
Game Difficulty and Ending
Difficulty is measured differently in this game, but it doesn't matter for a TASer. Level 1 would layout all the words from left to right in their spelling, in a horizontal or vertical placement. Level 2 is where words are spelled backward or forwards, with the same horizontal or vertical positioning. Level 3 includes diagonal placement, with the same forward or reversed spelling.
Effort In TASing (BOTed)
This game was a bit of trial and effort, as I would BOT the RNG until I found the pattern that played the fastest. This included hundreds of RNG seeds, which I would manually complete the game after reviewing which ones met my qualifications.
Human Comparison
None to be found. :(