In WarioWare the objective is to complete a number of 5-second minigames. There are 11 stages in this game with each its own genre. The whole game is played by only using the "left" and "right" arrow keys and the A-button.
About the run
All the previously completed runs mostly aimed for fastest time and as a result often missed out on entertainment. This game never really fit for a speedrun, especially due to the long cutscenes. Now in this game you can skip all the cutscenes and loading screens by simply using reset (A+B+Start+Select). Ryuto138 made a run using this trick and saved more than 20 minutes. But his run wasn't always pleasant to look at as sometimes he didn't do anything in some minigames or he completed them too fast to see what was going on. So I decided to make a new run, aiming for maximum entertainment without losing time and this is the result.
Uses a game restart sequence (31 times, I think)
Aims for fastest time (Though I used time to enter a name at the beginning of the movie)
Manipulates luck (In two places in the movie I pause the game to get a better outcome)
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As much as I can tell that there was effort put towards making this run entertaining, it still comes up short. Perhaps it's that as a result of lack of consistency (sometimes aiming for the best possible result and sometimes aiming for the worst possible result) it doesn't feel particularly tool-assisted.
I also maintain that a run of a game of this genre has almost nil technical merit; there's little to trade here in favour of entertainment.
The result is that basically any run of this game, no matter how much of a speed-entertainment trade-off there is, is going to come up short in both respects.
I vote no.
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Agreeing with what sgrunt says and also voting no. WarioWare simply isn't good TAS material.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
<dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects.
<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
Warioware doesn't seem to be a good candidate for a run. While I did enjoy it, it was really because I've never seen a Warioware game before. That's some random stuff!
I'm sure those that have played the game before aren't quite as easily amused as I am.
Well this run was good for my ADD.
Meh vote from me.
Every minigame is linear and always has the same outcome if you win/lose. You can't really do much to enhance the enjoyment other then what speed you choose to complete the minigame at. Since they are only a few seconds each there isn't much room for playaround either.
That being said I still enjoyed the run and wouldn't mind if it got published. however unless Nintendo releases a WarioWare title in the future that can have different outcomes and such, I feel they shouldn't be tas'd.
It's more of a "keep the hyper kid occupied" series then a "impressive to see played by godlike player" one.
I know, some people may think reflexive games has have meaning in a TAS.
I still like this run. Some of the mini games are just too difficult to do it in real time. So, it's nice to have a as fast as possible "walk-thru".
Voting yes.
My first language is not English, so please excuse myself if I write something wrong. I'll do my best do write as cleary as I can, so cope with me here =)
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As far as WarioWare games go, I think this was done right. Some of the games were pretty amusing when you have time to mess around (such as the shooter boss battle).
Recently, Salary Man Champ got published, and it's a similar sort of game style. However, that game has a run which is 10 min shorter, and you can actually see more TASing skill going into the games. Here, there's not as much playaround potential, but there is some. I was able to get through this run.
All in all, Meh.
Used to be a frequent submissions commenter. My new computer has had some issues running emulators, so I've been here more sporadically.
Still haven't gotten around to actually TASing yet... I was going to improve Kid Dracula for GB. It seems I was beaten to it, though, with a recent awesome run by Hetfield90 and StarvinStruthers. (http://tasvideos.org/2928M.html.)
Thanks to goofydylan8 for running Gargoyle's Quest 2 because I mentioned the game! (http://tasvideos.org/2001M.html)
Thanks to feos and MESHUGGAH for taking up runs of Duck Tales 2 because of my old signature!
Thanks also to Samsara for finishing a Treasure Master run. From the submission comments:
Shoutouts and thanks to mklip2001 for arguably being the nicest and most supportive person on the forums.
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I don't know how to vote on this one. It's WAY better then the DS version in terms of speed and entertainment but there doesn't seem to be anything that is special aside from the inhuman input speed.
When TAS does Quake 1, SDA will declare war.
The Prince doth arrive he doth please.
Yes vote. A combination of being somewhat able to play along as you watch, the odd game where you can wonder what on earth the runner actually did and the games own quirky humor, made this video entertaining enough.
Though it probably helps that this is my first time seeing this Warioware game, so all the macrogames were fresh to me.
Definitly better than the title on DS, no cutscene and at least you you tried to entertain us for the ~5 seconds to spare on most mini-game.
But still, I don't like how they keep recycling(with some variation) those mini-game already used, again and again. Meh.
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The absurdness is very prominent and ridiculous in this game. But in a good way, I liked it. Catching your meal from the toaster was pretty funny. Voted yes.
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Arc wrote:
I enjoyed this movie in which hands firmly gripping a shaft lead to balls deep in multiple holes.
natt wrote:
I don't want to get involved in this discussion, but as a point of fact C# is literally the first goddamn thing on that fucking page you linked did you even fucking read it
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I'm worried. I said that no WarioWare games could make publishable TASes, and then I sat and watched this one all the way through and was entertained the entire time. Where did I go wrong?
My negative assumption was defeated by your awesome reset technique to skip those boring cutscenes.
Still, it's hard to make many of the microgames entertaining. Waiting until the VERY last frame to press A once was only interesting for so long. But all of those games with more flexibility...it was a bit more mesmerizing. I was even watching with the audio off and didn't realize it.
If any WW run is published, it would be this one
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The run was a little boring but several things were nicely laid out. I'll give a Meh vote. Now what's the problem about combining TAS and entertainment into a microgame?
twisted eye: Still, it's hard to make many of the microgames entertaining.
Do I look like someone who really cares what God thinks?!
"GI Joe: The Atlantis Factor" - May be improved in the future.
Okay, I'll bite. This was hilarious to watch. I loved the whole attitude of "Just barely win" or "Win as fast as possible" for each game. I also liked the misses, screwing around, and weird clipping oddities you demonstrated.
Still wonder how they got away with that blatant Dragon Quest parody...
Can't quite tell if this is suitable for this site, but in the context of the game, I certainly enjoyed it.
This game has one of those never-ending towers, right? Maybe that would be more suitable for a published movie, since it's just nonstop microgames picked from all possible games, and they level up and get harder and faster.
Higest possible score on the tower? That would take forever. :P
Anyway, voting yes because in every game where you had access to the D-Pads (and some you did not) you really abused the hitboxes. I was entertained~
Voting Meh, mainly for the reasons Sgrunt stated. I don't think this is the right material for this site.
Anyway, you did your best, I was quite entertained overall - even if I used to play each mini-games a lot - and I liked seeing this game pushed to its limits. Your TAS is definitely funnier than Ryuto's one.
But most mini-games were too repetitive and predictable, especially those using only the A button.
By the way, is manipulating which set of mini-games you will challenged in each categorie possible ? (indeed, so as to reach the boss, one has to beat fewer mini-games (10, 15, 20, or 25) than the categorie actually offers).
It could be interesting, entertainmently speaking, because it could let you avoid repetitive mini-games.
