My feelings on The Demon Rush
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Keith 'The Quiet Man' Skomorowski's single-segment Riku run
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Decision: Accept
Reason: The runner single-segmented an rpg that relies on decent amount of luck.
Keith 'The Quiet Man' Skomorowski's single-segment Riku run
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Everything is in order. The video quality is sufficient, there weren't any signs of cheating that I noticed. In terms of speed, there is a bit of navigating the card door menus that seemed longer than they need to be, but considering the acquired cards are a bit random, it's excusable (and the fact that only about a minute could be saved.)
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To be honest I only played Soras mode in this one, but I read some text regarding the differences in modes to get an idea of Rikus. Turns out its easier and faster, too. You get a set card deck per level, can use boss cards anytime and Dark Mode is awesome. the big big final boss of Sora is also not there.
The run has some parts where it is not that enjoyable, but that is necessary and ok, because he just has to collect cards to open the doors that will come.
He almost always uses the fastest method to enter a fight by first-hitting the enemies which is a good time saver (only 2 fights or so he enters accidentaly and fights).
Commenting on a single level isnt needed, as he mostly rushes through them right to the boss.
The level of play is high and pretty good. He always positions himself in that way that he hits multiple enemies in fights which saves time, too. The boss fights are really quick, especially Ursula with that shoulder trick. He had a tough time on the final boss and Copy Riku and almost died there, but he managed not to.
The lack of sleights for Riku while in normal mode makes up for not having to build a good card deck like Sora, and every fight gives you a door open card because of that, so a Sora run would propably be much slower, although I would like to see one, too
Its a pretty good and pretty fast run, I couldnt find that much time savers myself, other than the hesitation on which cards to use to open doors (which seems naturally).
Maybe this run should be considered a NG+ run, because this mode is not available until youve beaten Soras mode, the main story mode.
Accept this, please.
The run has some parts where it is not that enjoyable, but that is necessary and ok, because he just has to collect cards to open the doors that will come.
He almost always uses the fastest method to enter a fight by first-hitting the enemies which is a good time saver (only 2 fights or so he enters accidentaly and fights).
Commenting on a single level isnt needed, as he mostly rushes through them right to the boss.
The level of play is high and pretty good. He always positions himself in that way that he hits multiple enemies in fights which saves time, too. The boss fights are really quick, especially Ursula with that shoulder trick. He had a tough time on the final boss and Copy Riku and almost died there, but he managed not to.
The lack of sleights for Riku while in normal mode makes up for not having to build a good card deck like Sora, and every fight gives you a door open card because of that, so a Sora run would propably be much slower, although I would like to see one, too
Its a pretty good and pretty fast run, I couldnt find that much time savers myself, other than the hesitation on which cards to use to open doors (which seems naturally).
Maybe this run should be considered a NG+ run, because this mode is not available until youve beaten Soras mode, the main story mode.
Accept this, please.
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Yeah, sorry, I've been ridiculously busy for the last few weeks, so I keep forgetting to respond. Anyways, I saw the run a few weeks ago and I wanted to give a good detailed review, but I'll just settle for this:
This run of Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (Reverse/Rebirth) is a very well planned out and executed. As far as I'm concerned anytime under 1:40:00 is really good and he beats that by an extra 16 and a half minutes. At the end he is only off by about 2 cards and he ends up getting into a few extra battles in the second to last world to make up for that. Only about 6 extra battles are initiated that he ends up running from, and pretty much none of them were his fault, they popped up right where he was walking. In this game you really just want to keep that number to single digits. Not to mention these small problems are almost cancelled out when considering how awesome almost all of his boss fights go. Other than the end of Hades, pieces of the Riku Replica II fight and pieces of the Ansem II fight(the three hardest battles in the game), the boss fights are all about as fast as they can be.
In terms of cheating, I watched the run multiple times and kept a list of what map cards he received from battles throughout the run. He matched up with what cards he used perfectly. So no cheating here or on the battles.
Audio/Visual are really good.
A great run that can only be improved by maybe a few minutes only if somebody were EXTREMELY LUCKY. This run already has more than it's fair share of luck and then some. Not to mention he did this all in a single segment, when the hardest parts of the run aren't even until the 1:17:00 mark of the game(Riku Replica II and Ansem), which even to a skilled player of the game can kill you if you are worrying about killing them fast(which obviously he's trying to do). Overall I would say his ability to pull this off in such a quick amount of time means this run is:
Accepted.
This run of Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (Reverse/Rebirth) is a very well planned out and executed. As far as I'm concerned anytime under 1:40:00 is really good and he beats that by an extra 16 and a half minutes. At the end he is only off by about 2 cards and he ends up getting into a few extra battles in the second to last world to make up for that. Only about 6 extra battles are initiated that he ends up running from, and pretty much none of them were his fault, they popped up right where he was walking. In this game you really just want to keep that number to single digits. Not to mention these small problems are almost cancelled out when considering how awesome almost all of his boss fights go. Other than the end of Hades, pieces of the Riku Replica II fight and pieces of the Ansem II fight(the three hardest battles in the game), the boss fights are all about as fast as they can be.
In terms of cheating, I watched the run multiple times and kept a list of what map cards he received from battles throughout the run. He matched up with what cards he used perfectly. So no cheating here or on the battles.
Audio/Visual are really good.
A great run that can only be improved by maybe a few minutes only if somebody were EXTREMELY LUCKY. This run already has more than it's fair share of luck and then some. Not to mention he did this all in a single segment, when the hardest parts of the run aren't even until the 1:17:00 mark of the game(Riku Replica II and Ansem), which even to a skilled player of the game can kill you if you are worrying about killing them fast(which obviously he's trying to do). Overall I would say his ability to pull this off in such a quick amount of time means this run is:
Accepted.
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OK Here are my notes (sorry for the delay)
2/3 times when I load the vid, the Gameboy screen has reversed colors, then clears. No other audio or video sync issues (probaly my just player)
Overall, the run was very good. Slight issues of missed swings when trying to hit enemies or doors and an unusally high number of guard monkeys.
Great strategy of using overdive in normal form. I had assumed runner would try to break to dark form as quickly as possilbe, as you do more damage and have access to slights.
I thought I caught the runner cheating by opening a 7+ door with a 0. I never realised doors work like combat, all that time I spent farming for a 9+ when I had stacks of "useless" zeros
Speaking of doors, runner did an OK job of choosing cards, it's difficut to keep track of all the cards you'll need for 4+ stages in the future. This would be the biggest time saver if runner could optimize (probally not possibe in a SS run)
All boss battles were amazing. Slight trouble with Hades, but they do give you a "crap deck" and he pulls slights like it's his job.
Shadow Riku battle was great. That's such a hard fight. (Could the programmers have made him a slightly different color in Dark mode?) I believe I was double the level the runner was and STILL had fits with shadow Riku. AND I had the luxory of saves.
Overall, maybe 1-2 min could be saved with perfect play and better luck.
It's amazing how you may think you are good at a game until you see a speed runner display what true skills are.
Bring on a Sora run!
Verdict: Accept
2/3 times when I load the vid, the Gameboy screen has reversed colors, then clears. No other audio or video sync issues (probaly my just player)
Overall, the run was very good. Slight issues of missed swings when trying to hit enemies or doors and an unusally high number of guard monkeys.
Great strategy of using overdive in normal form. I had assumed runner would try to break to dark form as quickly as possilbe, as you do more damage and have access to slights.
I thought I caught the runner cheating by opening a 7+ door with a 0. I never realised doors work like combat, all that time I spent farming for a 9+ when I had stacks of "useless" zeros
Speaking of doors, runner did an OK job of choosing cards, it's difficut to keep track of all the cards you'll need for 4+ stages in the future. This would be the biggest time saver if runner could optimize (probally not possibe in a SS run)
All boss battles were amazing. Slight trouble with Hades, but they do give you a "crap deck" and he pulls slights like it's his job.
Shadow Riku battle was great. That's such a hard fight. (Could the programmers have made him a slightly different color in Dark mode?) I believe I was double the level the runner was and STILL had fits with shadow Riku. AND I had the luxory of saves.
Overall, maybe 1-2 min could be saved with perfect play and better luck.
It's amazing how you may think you are good at a game until you see a speed runner display what true skills are.
Bring on a Sora run!
Verdict: Accept
Decision: Accept
Reason: The runner single-segmented an rpg that relies on decent amount of luck.
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