This topic is for the purpose of discussing #843: Maximus's NES Nightshade in 08:53.12

My only problems with this now are that you mostly just stand around after fights (I bet Nightshade can dance pretty well during that time instead), and the fights with Goliath and whatever those spinning enemies are look like they have a little room for more precise playing / manipulation of the enemies. But it's good enough now to get a Yes from me. Oh, also, you should probably describe the game in your submission message; it's not exactly well-known.

The dialogue in this game is beyond awesome. I now have a new signature! I had forgotten about this game. The run was played well, but the game doesn't lend itself to being that fast. I say meh.

jxq2000, I hope I'm not getting a meh cause it was boring to watch :) I'm going to attempt a more action oriented game for the next submission. Doint TAS' is kind of addictive :)

Amazing battles, spot on menu manipulation, a refined route and generally awesome gameplay makes me feel like voting YES, and so I will. :) You've really improved a lot during the making of this movie, Maximus, you cut down the time by around 5 minutes compared to your first submitted movie. Very impressive. I'm looking forward to your next run, whatever game it will be. And yes, doing TAS' is kind of addictive sometimes, I know :)

I'm going to attempt a more action oriented game for the next submission. Doint TAS' is kind of addictive :)

Just be aware: It does things to your brain. At first you won't be able to play games imperfectly any more. One mistake and you'll have to start over. Soon you'll be planning the most efficient route when you're buying food at the grocery store. (I'm serious) Then you'll start thinking about the gas you could save if you optimized your route before driving. Then it will be the most efficient way to remove your girlfriend's bra. Life will become an endless quest for optimization and efficiency. Then the dreams start. You'll be playing games in your sleep to get new ideas for your latest TAS. Your friends will hold an intervention, but you won't care. They don't understand. They don't see how the quest for purity benefits mankind. Everything must be perfect. The herd must be thinned! Eventually you can't even see the people any more. Everyone looks 8-bit. People have gloves because their hands are too hard to draw, and a mustache because it shows up better than a mouth. You'll tell your girlfriend that she needs to shave, and it will look she's throwing a fireball at you. But it won't burn. No, it won't burn. That's her slapping you, trying to bring you back to reality. Finally the whitecoats, dressed as ninjas, will strap you to a chair and try to communicate with you. By then you won't need their help any more. All you can hear is the music from Super Mario 1, world 2-2 playing over and over again. You'll enter the Minus World of your mind and be able to play the games without a console. You'll achieve Nintenvana and the perfect bliss of leaving the real world behind and finally seeing the code. All will be a game, and you will have infinite lives. No final boss will ever hurt you again. <Ahem> Just a friendly warning.

>Then it will be the most efficient way to remove your girlfriend's bra. Ahem. Real gamers do not have girlfriends. They live their single lives until age 29, when they vanish in a puff of loneliness. Everyone knows that. It's okay to think about the most efficient way to remove the bra from any imaginary potential girlfriend (in your view, not hers), video game girl (with oversized mammary glands), or underaged hentai manga babe, though the latter's bra usually does not need to be removed.

Heh.. Im a true gamer, yet i am not single.

There ya go, that was good mastery of the battle system! And faster yet again, is there anything bad that happens when your health dips into the red? Could you have made it through the sewers without getting the gas mask? or would you have died?

The bomb at the beginning halves your life, as does the gas in the sewers, so if you take both hits, you die :( I might retry this run again sometime, but i don't think it's all that improvable (at least i hope not :P). For now, i'm working on finding a new game to attack while i wallow away my last few years before vanishing in a puff of lonliness ;)

I liked the run. I can agree on the comment about doing something interesting in the wait secuense. Haven't played the game myself but it looked cool, however, I don't think this is the kind of game that is suited for TASs. This one's okey but no more of theese. Vote: Yes.

I seen this also. I had to ask my friend to watch it since he knows more about the game then i do. Voting yes.

Man, I thought all interest was gone for this run. I tried doing it over again a few times to see if I could improve the fight against Goliath, because that part is pretty boring (jump jump kick repeat). If there's enough interest though, I could try to shave a few seconds off and have nightshade dance while the scenes fade :)

Because people have liked this movie, I have made an .avi of it. So if publishers are going to publish this, they can get the .avi from me (and thus reduce the trouble of publishing).

If there's enough interest though, I could try to shave a few seconds off and have nightshade dance while the scenes fade :)

How much time do you think you can save? Either way, if you're up for it, then by all means try to improve it. I know I would watch it if you made a new run...

I actually don't think i can save much more time unless i can find a new strategy. I tried a test run where i don't get the gas mask and just heal the damage i take in the sewers, but the dialog boxes that popup saying that i'm dying of the gas takes longer to clear than just getting/using the mask does :(

This movie has been published. The posts before this message apply to the submission, and posts after this message apply to the published movie. ---- [509] NES Nightshade by Maximus in 08:53.12

For those that want to play the game, I originally wrote a much funnier description but it was less about the run and more of an advertisement for the game. Here it is for those that want to read it:

Welcome to Metro City, the intro of this game promptly starts with the murder of Metro City's hero Vortex. The need has arose for a new hero; Nightshade - a guy in a trench coat! The game starts as exciting as the intro, our hero is tied to a chair next to a bomb that is about to explode. Guide Nightshade through Metro City to build popularity, fight rats, gentleman, and female ninjas, and most importantly museum statues. Take advantage of a secret telephone booth hideout, ashes, or ancient egyptian staffs. In this game you can collect items, talk to people, operate some scenery, fight the bad guys; and if you faint in battle, you get to fight for your escape after being strapped down to a conveyor belt ready to be turned into swiss cheese, or save yourself from being turned into a rug for Sutekh by his deadly pancake making room of death. One of the highlights of this game is also the excellent dialog. Where else will you be threatened by the legalization of wooden nickels? This run by Maximus speeds through the game as fast as Nightshade is able to, ignoring lesser goals such as the museum items, saving a kitty, or checking out the women's dressing room. The only escape from a deathtrap seen in this run is the deathtrap you Nightshade finds himself in at the beginning.

Congratulations on getting this published Maximus! :) A very entertaining and good run indeed.

Thanks Randil. I'm just hoping not to be a one hit wonder, so to speak, but finding a new game to run (and run in an interesting fashion) has been proving to be difficult.

Yeah, i know what you mean. I'm guessing you've checked out the list of ideas... Myself, I have no specific idea about what you could run. Why don't you join the IRC channel sometime and discuss it there? Here are some other pages with some game ideas: Highness' page here on Nesvideos Nach's page here on Nesvideos Godd luck on finding a new game to TAS. :)

I never heard of this game until now. i had to watch this since i was unaware of it. if i ever played this game, i wouldn't have the patience for it. great work :) how about a run where u complete 100%? also, I found the NSF for this game and a bunch of others here: http://gilgalad.panicus.org/

I thought of doing a 100% run, but it prolly wouldn't be much more interesting (the minimalist run still completes 65% of the game :P) If there's any interest though, it would be more fun to watch since for each of the 4 artifacts you cover, it's one less boss you have to fight in the last level (if i remember correctly). You might wanna play the game for yourself though, the dialog is kinda quirky ;)

Trying to encode