My feelings on The Demon Rush
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'sinister1's run
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Decision: Accept
Reason: This run knocks a huge chunk of time off the old one, accepting is a no-brainer.
'sinister1's run
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Hola Mike,
DDII ready for approval. I would usually send a level by level report, but it isn't really necessary. This run beats the old run by a few seconds on level 1 and then goes on to speedrunning victory, by a large margin.
Each of the levels has some trouble spots, but the new runner still makes up the time with more optimized plans for killing enemies, meaning the few battle problems only show an open window for some improvement.
I will say the last level gets pretty ugly in the end, but the final boss fight is perfect, the AI goddess of luck showed her face here.
Overall, I timed this at 12:00 on the dot. Shaving off almost two minutes from the current run makes this an obvious accept.
Oh, and that audio/visual stuff is good too. No cheating, unless he payed the Shadow Boss to throw the fight.
DDII ready for approval. I would usually send a level by level report, but it isn't really necessary. This run beats the old run by a few seconds on level 1 and then goes on to speedrunning victory, by a large margin.
Each of the levels has some trouble spots, but the new runner still makes up the time with more optimized plans for killing enemies, meaning the few battle problems only show an open window for some improvement.
I will say the last level gets pretty ugly in the end, but the final boss fight is perfect, the AI goddess of luck showed her face here.
Overall, I timed this at 12:00 on the dot. Shaving off almost two minutes from the current run makes this an obvious accept.
Oh, and that audio/visual stuff is good too. No cheating, unless he payed the Shadow Boss to throw the fight.
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I came up with 12:02 for the new DDII run, ending at the start of the final cutscene. The player said he got 11:58 and I can only assume that wasn't accounting for the last several seconds of control. Frame-wise, 654 is when the first stage starts to appear and 43870 is when the end cutscene kicks in. I accept the run as a boot to the head of DK28.
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What can I say this is an excellent run.
It is optimized to the nth degree. The only improvement to my knowledge is the mansion platform skip that will shave off a sizeable chunk of time. With close to best strategy used thoughout leaves only luck of emeny randomness to improve. A sizeable benchmark. Great work.
Did not see any signs of cheating
No audio/video issues
It is optimized to the nth degree. The only improvement to my knowledge is the mansion platform skip that will shave off a sizeable chunk of time. With close to best strategy used thoughout leaves only luck of emeny randomness to improve. A sizeable benchmark. Great work.
Did not see any signs of cheating
No audio/video issues
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This run is a good improvement over the current run. Good quality and no signs of cheating. The mistakes were minor (and all listed in the runner's comments) and acceptable but there were deaths abused to move along a little faster in two places. Some of the fights (like the final boss) were pretty incredible and this run should definitely be accepted.
Decision: Accept
Reason: This run knocks a huge chunk of time off the old one, accepting is a no-brainer.
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