My attempt in trying Soul Blader for a bit. Wow, the text sure is fast.
Notably, due to timing differences in text, I can pick up two larger GEMs in the first room without a single frame delay.
Regardless, potential improvements are noted:
- Skip killing the blue slime (-1 EXP, -1 RNG call, +1 frame)
- Skip picking up the small GEM around frame 4584 (-1 GEM, +8 frame)
- Exclusively use magic on yellow buzzy things around frame 7000 (-8 GEM, +32 frame)
- Dance around the RNG calling plants around frame 9000 (+ RNG calls, + EXP, hopefully)
I hope to have 39 RNG calls by the time I release the bridge guard (currently, it's 40 calls). This will allow for two large GEM drops from the later enemies I have to fight, and make up for the lacking GEMs I'm left with.