My feelings on The Demon Rush
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Travis Hofman's normal difficulty run
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Decision: Accept
Reason: It humbled one of the previous runners.
Travis Hofman's normal difficulty run
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Quality checks out, though the video is in widescreen even though the game is not. I think it would be better to crop out the blackspace.
If it weren't for the added boss defense, Stage 1 looks identical to the new Easy mode run. It's flawless.
In the second room of Stage 2 he takes the top route. He's a little slower than the Easy mode run which takes the lower route, but that may be because he got hit. That was close on the last wheel, he nearly missed it. The boss fight was rough.
The bone hit in Stage 3 didn't seem to matter. The spear still had to show up. That bat was a total dick, though. Despite those, he gains a lot of time here. I wonder if, in the second room of the alternate path, you can damage boost off a Medusa Head to skip going to the lower room with the Blood Skeletons and spears. He missed a few axes on the boss due to erratic patterns. If the boss would have cooperated, he might've ended up with a quicker time here. But he ends up with a time just a second slower, which is still pretty impressive.
Despite getting double teamed by a bone and Medusa Head, he had an impressive lead in Stage 4 going into the Golem fight. His time is slower because of the boss fight, but that's Normal for you.
If damaging through the robots is possible, he should probably try at least one in the beginning of Stage 5. They do save a lot of time looking at Easy mode. This isn't his best stage. There are a few hesitation spots and one or two avoidable hits. Missing the meat was pretty bad. The Death fight was okay though.
Perhaps he should try to avoid the fireball powerup in Stage 6. You lose a second from the time freeze. Unfortunate brain fart on Dracula 1. It cost him two hits, and in turn Drac teleported once more than necessary. The hit on Dracula 2 might not have cost him that much. It was perfect otherwise. Dracula 3 looked very good, but probably could've been better if he had those extra few hearts.
All in all, it's a very good run. He's on pace with the Easy mode run many times, which is impressive. There's a lot of new time savers throughout. I'm not going to dock him for the mistakes, even if some of them are dumb.
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If it weren't for the added boss defense, Stage 1 looks identical to the new Easy mode run. It's flawless.
In the second room of Stage 2 he takes the top route. He's a little slower than the Easy mode run which takes the lower route, but that may be because he got hit. That was close on the last wheel, he nearly missed it. The boss fight was rough.
The bone hit in Stage 3 didn't seem to matter. The spear still had to show up. That bat was a total dick, though. Despite those, he gains a lot of time here. I wonder if, in the second room of the alternate path, you can damage boost off a Medusa Head to skip going to the lower room with the Blood Skeletons and spears. He missed a few axes on the boss due to erratic patterns. If the boss would have cooperated, he might've ended up with a quicker time here. But he ends up with a time just a second slower, which is still pretty impressive.
Despite getting double teamed by a bone and Medusa Head, he had an impressive lead in Stage 4 going into the Golem fight. His time is slower because of the boss fight, but that's Normal for you.
If damaging through the robots is possible, he should probably try at least one in the beginning of Stage 5. They do save a lot of time looking at Easy mode. This isn't his best stage. There are a few hesitation spots and one or two avoidable hits. Missing the meat was pretty bad. The Death fight was okay though.
Perhaps he should try to avoid the fireball powerup in Stage 6. You lose a second from the time freeze. Unfortunate brain fart on Dracula 1. It cost him two hits, and in turn Drac teleported once more than necessary. The hit on Dracula 2 might not have cost him that much. It was perfect otherwise. Dracula 3 looked very good, but probably could've been better if he had those extra few hearts.
All in all, it's a very good run. He's on pace with the Easy mode run many times, which is impressive. There's a lot of new time savers throughout. I'm not going to dock him for the mistakes, even if some of them are dumb.
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Overall, I think this is a great run. Accept.
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Good quality both a/v.
This run made me cry. It's so much better than my easy mode run, given the difficulty of normal mode. Level 1 was as good as it can be. Level 2 had a couple of things that could be improved, but not by much. I was impressed with the near flawless execution of stage 3 and the excellent play in stage 4 specifically. This will be hard to beat unless other strategies are developed. Taking damage from the Steam Monsters is hard to commit to because stage 5 is a bitch and it's a shame to lose a great run that far in, so I understand the decision to not do so. Death fight was awesome, and aside from the first form screwups, Drac fight was super.
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This run made me cry. It's so much better than my easy mode run, given the difficulty of normal mode. Level 1 was as good as it can be. Level 2 had a couple of things that could be improved, but not by much. I was impressed with the near flawless execution of stage 3 and the excellent play in stage 4 specifically. This will be hard to beat unless other strategies are developed. Taking damage from the Steam Monsters is hard to commit to because stage 5 is a bitch and it's a shame to lose a great run that far in, so I understand the decision to not do so. Death fight was awesome, and aside from the first form screwups, Drac fight was super.
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Stage 2 featured a few spots in there with some dumb mistakes. Stage 3 and 4 had some minor instances of bad luck and minor mistakes. Not sure what was up with Stage 6, with going though the trouble of collecting all those hearts and then burning a bunch at the beginning of the Dracula fight. What was up with that?
Also, the AV encode shouldn't be in widescreen. The game is NOT widescreen. And if you run the Wii in 16:9 mode, the game looks like crap.
Overall, a very tight run, mistakes aside. I loved the shortcut off of the Peeping Eye a short ways after the mini-boss in Stage 5. That was beautiful.
Accepting.
Also, the AV encode shouldn't be in widescreen. The game is NOT widescreen. And if you run the Wii in 16:9 mode, the game looks like crap.
Overall, a very tight run, mistakes aside. I loved the shortcut off of the Peeping Eye a short ways after the mini-boss in Stage 5. That was beautiful.
Accepting.
Decision: Accept
Reason: It humbled one of the previous runners.
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