My feelings on The Demon Rush
Game Page: Better get one.
Benjamin 'UraniumAnchor' Cutler's single-segment run
Verifier Responses
Response (the runner had more to say, but I was hasty):
Verifier's response
Decision: Accept
Reason: We're getting a lot of sick NES runs this year.
Benjamin 'UraniumAnchor' Cutler's single-segment run
Verifier Responses
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Hi, here's my verdict.
Levels 1 through 3 are very close to perfection. I especially liked the Armor trick to get in the safe spot of the third boss.
4-1 is an autoscrolling stage, miniboss execution is perfect. 4-2 is an autoscroller too.
4th boss: there is a trick to instantly kill this boss. Apparently getting hit by the heart (the red part) while wearing the Armor powerup destroys it. I tried it a few times but I could get it to work only once. I couldn't find any information on why it doesn't always work, so I won't take this into consideration unless someone can explain it. The actual execution is very good.
5-1, 5-2: nice use of the Armor to speed up this part. There's a missed shot in 5-2, nothing serious as it wasted less than half a second. Using the Gravity Ball instead of the Power Beam would have probably been a bit faster.
5th boss: again, this would have been faster with the Gravity Ball. Execution with the Power Beam is good.
6-1: perfect.
6-2: there's a small stop to get the Armor. Necessary for the boss rush.
6th boss: it's as fast as it can be.
Boss rush: the Power Beam is the best choice for this. Bosses 5 and 6 are very flawed, they took 4-5 seconds each more than their first versions.
Final boss: not much to comment here. Perfect.
Audio/video quality is good, and they're correctly synchronized.
Overall, this run is pretty good. The small mistakes here and there are not ground for rejection. The only thing that made me think a lot is the choice of weapon in stage 5. I'd like to know from the author why he didn't try the Ball. My vote is a yes.
Levels 1 through 3 are very close to perfection. I especially liked the Armor trick to get in the safe spot of the third boss.
4-1 is an autoscrolling stage, miniboss execution is perfect. 4-2 is an autoscroller too.
4th boss: there is a trick to instantly kill this boss. Apparently getting hit by the heart (the red part) while wearing the Armor powerup destroys it. I tried it a few times but I could get it to work only once. I couldn't find any information on why it doesn't always work, so I won't take this into consideration unless someone can explain it. The actual execution is very good.
5-1, 5-2: nice use of the Armor to speed up this part. There's a missed shot in 5-2, nothing serious as it wasted less than half a second. Using the Gravity Ball instead of the Power Beam would have probably been a bit faster.
5th boss: again, this would have been faster with the Gravity Ball. Execution with the Power Beam is good.
6-1: perfect.
6-2: there's a small stop to get the Armor. Necessary for the boss rush.
6th boss: it's as fast as it can be.
Boss rush: the Power Beam is the best choice for this. Bosses 5 and 6 are very flawed, they took 4-5 seconds each more than their first versions.
Final boss: not much to comment here. Perfect.
Audio/video quality is good, and they're correctly synchronized.
Overall, this run is pretty good. The small mistakes here and there are not ground for rejection. The only thing that made me think a lot is the choice of weapon in stage 5. I'd like to know from the author why he didn't try the Ball. My vote is a yes.
Response (the runner had more to say, but I was hasty):
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[This is what the runner had to say about stage 5.
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The ball is only faster if you can do the TAS trick
which requires frame precision on each jump
There's a trick where if you jump on the same frame as you hit the ground after using the gravity fire you'll do a regular jump but still be on fire
But to do it reliably or repeatably in a real time run is just going to make you reset a million times because of luck :p
Also using the fireball in level 5 would slow you way down, you wouldn't be able to kill the laser shooters and you'd have to rely on the TAS trick to get through most of the lasers
ie impossible
which requires frame precision on each jump
There's a trick where if you jump on the same frame as you hit the ground after using the gravity fire you'll do a regular jump but still be on fire
But to do it reliably or repeatably in a real time run is just going to make you reset a million times because of luck :p
Also using the fireball in level 5 would slow you way down, you wouldn't be able to kill the laser shooters and you'd have to rely on the TAS trick to get through most of the lasers
ie impossible
Verifier's response
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I tried using the ball in stage 5. With my sloppy skills I manage to do it ~2 seconds faster than your run, and that's all thanks to the boss. Even with perfect skills I estimate a maximum improvement of 4-5 seconds, not worth the significally higher difficulty using the ball would involve.
I never implied using the TAS trick, anyway. I know it's impossible to do that in real time.
Again, I accept the run. Sorry for the delay caused by this matter, Mike.
I never implied using the TAS trick, anyway. I know it's impossible to do that in real time.
Again, I accept the run. Sorry for the delay caused by this matter, Mike.
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This is run is Frezy_Man, contrafied and sexy. 
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This game is awesome and so is the run. Accept!
Decision: Accept
Reason: We're getting a lot of sick NES runs this year.
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