Star Fox for the SNES is the first game of the series. It introduces the four expert pilots and their Arwings, incredibly built ships which are far superior to just about all enemies and can perform maneuvers such as the infamous "barrel roll". On a console, it can be rather difficult to control the Arwing and very easy to run into obstacles. Obviously a TAS is called for in order to truly show off the skill of Fox McCloud. However, there is a problem with the emulation of this game, namely that it runs too fast compared to the audio. This can be seen especially in the beginning "Emergency!" scene, in the boss fights, and in the ending credits. The good thing is that this discrepancy doesn't affect gameplay and can be mostly ignored.
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Corneria
I had to take a hit in order to get twin blasters. It is unfortunate, but I couldn't find a way to make the door close at a different time while still boosting continuously.
This level has an unbelievably high number of nova bombs compared to the others. I wish they would have spread them out, because in the later stages I often have none.
Asteroid Belt
Noticeably less obstacles to dodge than Corneria, so less entertaining maneuvers. I still barely avoid asteroids a lot, though.
HOLY CRAP, IT'S A HUGE BIRD!! Yes, shooting that particular large asteroid results in it laying an egg, which hatches into a bird, which, if I had touched it, would have taken me Out Of This Dimension.
The Blade Barrier can't be defeated in 2 rounds on a console without nova bombs. Even though I was shooting as fast as inhumanly possible, I was still barely able to destroy all three appendages each round before the blade started spinning.
Fortuna
The water part with the dragons was annoying to say the least. Where each head will pop up is highly dependent on Arwing movement, so if I moved towards one to shoot it, it might decide to appear somewhere else. I also ran into a large number of desyncs while recording; fortunately it plays back fine now.
This is, IMO, the best boss fight in the game. The Monarch Dodora didn't know what hit it. Literally, it didn't get a chance to turn around before dying.
Sector Z
Another space stage. But in a surprising twist, this one has an enormous amount of transparent blocks to dodge, resulting in entertainment and lag to the extreme.
I started off this stage with no nova bombs, and the one I get I decided to save for the Great Commander.
Macbeth
Okay, Andross somehow thought it would be a good idea to transform the planet right next to Venom into a giant bomb. WTF? Isn't this guy supposed to be a genius? Oh well, at least it doesn't explode on me. ;)
Fox is dizzy...
Venom (Atmosphere)
NO obstacles. I repeat, absolutely none. Wow. So what entertaining things can I do, hmm... I know, sped-up-twist-to-the-music!
The Great Commander fight is usually quite difficult, but 2 nova bombs as well as 2 other shots puts him in his place quickly. As he retreats, Fox watches in confusion.
Venom (Ground)
Oh, the lag, the lag! Seriously, there were 10 or so desyncs on this stage just from the lag at the beginning. It plays back fine now, but wow that was a pain in the proverbial enormous divine ass. (A "holy crap", if you will.)
There are a couple of flying enemies that are out of reach of my blasters, so I can't kill them. It might look a little sloppy, but unfortunately it's unavoidable.
The Great Commander returns, and this time he tries to molest me! But I turn the tables on him with my sexual harassment training! First, I shoot him in the crotch until his lower body explodes. Then, as he frantically waves his arms around in pain, I blow his head to smithereens. That's right kids, Star Fox knows what to do when someone threatens you!
Andross
As the head is forming, I shoot the locations where the blocks go in order. This serves no purpose other than pure awesomeness.
I couldn't defeat both eyes before the sucking began. It might be possible if the blocks weren't flying towards the Arwing and interfering with shooting, but even then probably not. Those eyes take a whole lot of hits.
No demon form! Hooray!
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If what nitsuja is saying is true, there should be some mention that the speed of the game is emulated incorrectly in the AVI or description, or both.
Despite being a rail shooter, this does have a few moments of excellence.
Though the majority of the run still feels rather repetetive.
This is just on the yes side of the border between yes and meh.
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If you listen to all the character voices in slow motion or in frame advance, it is obvious that they recycled the words "wing damage" and simply used it at different speeds for each character's voice.
Anyway this run was very well made, and though some levels got repetitive there was nothing the author could do about it. Going to toss in another yes vote.
Count me in for another yes vote. It was well played and fun to watch.
BTW my sound synced with the video just fine, so I didn't really get to see the spinning in time with the music because it was off for me.
Yes vote.
Venom 2nd part is a vile level, I remember struggling to have 100% on it when I was a kid, but I always got something like 98%, which pissed me off considerably. :)
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Meh vote. I can see why this could get a Yes or a No fairly easily. While some parts were entertaining, there were too many boring parts for me to ignore them. That, and the fact that this game is fairly unfun to play, makes watching this a bit of a chore.
I must commend you on your play level, though. Venom2 was great.
I don't know what's going on in this movie -- what are the goals and so on.
But I know it's technically very impressive for SNES.
My vote is a positively tinted "meh".
I don't know what's going on in this movie -- what are the goals and so on.
My goals are, in order of priority:
1) 100% on each stage
2) speed from boosting and fast boss fights
3) entertaining maneuvers and such
Of particular note is that (2) doesn't include lag reduction. If I were to reduce lag by, for instance, not narrowly dodging large groups of walls, that would be far less entertaining. Also, this game runs at 20fps, so if one 60fps frame is wasted to lag that's still relatively not very much.
Maybe I should have put this in the submission text, hmm...
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SNES Star Fox, Level 3 (100%, published)
SNES Star Fox, Level 2 (33%, after Sector X)
SNES Star Fox 2, Expert mode (100%, published)
HOLY CRAP, IT'S A HUGE BIRD!! Yes, shooting that particular large asteroid results in it laying an egg, which hatches into a bird, which, if I had touched it, would have taken me Out Of This Dimension.
Whoa. I've heard of Easter Eggs but this is ridiculous!
Er... Just out of curiosity, would a Tool-Assisted-Speedrun of the finished yet unreleased Star Fox 2 be accepted?
Why, oh, why do I even <i>try</i> to understand my own species?
I have been following this run since corneria was finished. I'm a huge fan of this game and seeing ytt take it apart with style definitely gets a yes vote for me. gratz on finishing the tas ytt
I know that the work behind this run is very good in all ways.
But to be honest I wasn't much entertained by the run it self.
It is hard to keep track on what is going on, and the graphics of this game just makes the eyes bleed.
The game is very fun to play indeed. But it's not fun at all to watch it for this long.
I vote no. Sorry.
I voted meh on this.
A couple of reasons why:
1) The cockpit view. Out of all of the stages, you went into it in 3 of them, for a pitiful amount of time. twice, you killed at most 3 enemies while in it, the other time (the first time), you didn't even kill anything. You just changed views and changed right back before enemies came. You should've at least done one level completely using it, boss fight included if you were going to use the view at all.
2) That boost sound gets rather annoying after the 50th time hearing it.
There's at least one more reason, but i can't be bothered writing it.
Also, out of curiosity, why use v1.2? does it have any advantages over 1.0?
The switch to this view is automatic in those three levels. The switch back was probably done in order to increase onscreen action, reducing boredom.
I voted yes on this, it was much much better than I thought it would be. Watching the Arwing dart around a bunch of different spinning bars in Sector Z was really cool.
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