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My feelings on The Demon Rush
Game Page: http://speeddemosarchive.com/DuckTales2.html

Giel Goertz's difficult 100% run

Verifier Responses:

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Verifier: i forgot to say, i watched duck tales 2 
Verifier: it might be even cleaner than the 1 run 
Verifier: it's difficult 100%, so not comparable at all to the easy any% 
Verifier: he gets some bad luck at the mu boss, but that's luck for you 
Verifier: the coolest part is probably in bermuda with the raft 
Verifier: the only thing i wasn't completely sure about was the block breaking in mu, but i'm sure he tried to figure out the best way 
Verifier: oh and this time the video quality was good, no sub-second skips like the 1 run


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Hi

I have looked at the last duck tales 2 100% run.
As many people said, one of the biggest problems is that the mu island can't be done as the first level to optimise the route. In these conditions, we can't expect a "tas like" run. But this run is pretty short so an overall good quality is needed.

First of all I didn't see anything strange about the continuity, and the quality of the video seems good enough for a verifying nes video. I only noticed some slow downs which are due to the nes.

The global and the level per level routes seem both nice, or, at least, I didn't think it can be done by any other (better) way...

I couldn't test the game anymore because my nes has died recently, because of a stupid second hand game... So I won't be absolutly sure that all my criticisms are perfectly justified. And anyway I only see some little non optimal jumps or so...
Niagara :
not a tas so we can see few jumps which are not perfect. Is it really impossible to side jump and make a side shot at the same time ?
I'm not sure that the first damage is necessary...
I don't even remember if you can join the last platform without pogojumping on the boat. If it's possible, these few seconds could be optimised.
Nearly perfect boss.

Boat :
little bit slow in a ring at the second boat.
why do you jump when you need to go down after the piece of the treasure map ? sigh
Nearly perfect mechanisms...
Did you catch the first rope after the skill? It's really fast
Once more perfect boss as far as I can see.

Desert :
I really hate this big treasure!
At the first mechanism (the one to the hidden map piece) are you limited by the last jump ? I think that is the reason why you waited so much...
One 2 missing ^^
Perfect mechanisms before the boss
The boss can be done a little bit faster I think.

MU
You jump at the totem which is useless... But you don't loose more that 1/10 sec
U take two damages which slow you down a bit.
Definitively not the best boss I see for this level but it's good enough if we consider his randomness.

Dracula house
Nothing before the map. Just after, a hand blocks the chain to the upper level. Won't it be better to wait and not pogo jump before ?

The hidden stage seems really stupid when you go this way... Just nothing to do.

Last stage is always stupid... When I think that I had already lost at this stage when I was young... Last hit at 19:27

So it's overall a good run with only a few mistakes. This one should be probably optimised but the golem wasn't too much unlucky. I accept the run.


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Sorry for a delay again. My plan was to play this game some before doing the verification. I never got the time to sit down. I can not even remember the secret level. But as I can tell, the run looks great and everything should be possible to do on a console and all that, with this much luck. The quality of the video looks OK too.

Thats all I can say.


Decision: Accept

Reason: All of the verifiers liked the run.
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Verifier: the only thing i wasn't completely sure about was the block breaking in mu, but i'm sure he tried to figure out the best way 


Well I have looked at it and I believe it is ;).
There is 1 other route you can take that ends up either exactly the same or a few miliseconds slower I think.

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Niagara :
Is it really impossible to side jump and make a side shot at the same time ?

If you mean jumping and moving to the left (or right) and then performing a smack with your pogo to hit a block while still in air... Yes I believe that's impossible.

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I'm not sure that the first damage is necessary...

It can be avoided yes, I also normally try to do so, you need to hold back for a fraction of a second and then you won't get it. I do think it would be a tiny bit faster if you do not get hit even though you have to hold back, but it requires some very good timing and I ended up just not holding back at all Tongue

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I don't even remember if you can join the last platform without pogojumping on the boat. If it's possible, these few seconds could be optimised.
Nearly perfect boss.

I've tried it and as far as I can tell it's impossible (also tried it on an emulator).

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why do you jump when you need to go down after the piece of the treasure map ? sigh

I wanted to jump into the hole... but I missed my timing a bit Sad =x


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Did you catch the first rope after the skill? It's really fast

I ignore the first rope because it mostly just delays me.

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At the first mechanism (the one to the hidden map piece) are you limited by the last jump ? I think that is the reason why you waited so much...

Yep, that's correct. I just thought it would be funny to screw around a bit ;p

MU
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You jump at the totem which is useless... But you don't loose more that 1/10 sec

Not sure what you mean by this, but I guess it didn't cause to much delay ^^

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U take two damages which slow you down a bit.

Yeah, the very first hit that I get in the map must be taken (in order to not lose any time), but the other 2 can be avoided.

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Just after, a hand blocks the chain to the upper level. Won't it be better to wait and not pogo jump before ?

Yeah, I got a bit too excited I guess ;o

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The hidden stage seems really stupid when you go this way... Just nothing to do.

Luckily it's faster Wink

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Last stage is always stupid...

I also don't like the music in it. It's like they didn't know anything anymore and just used some random sounds :(.


Thanks for excepting and I hope everyone will enjoy the run (and the comments I made for it).