Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet Speedruns

2014-01-14 04:00:02 pm

Hello, I recently started speedrunning and I decided to start with an obscure game, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet. (on steam and XBLA) I'm starting to get fairly good at it, but there is not really any community for this game.
If you wanted to run it that would be awesome and I would certainly appreciate some friendly competition.

My best time is 44:55 and if you wanted to see my strats this is that run, (I don't talk much during it sorry XD) http://www.twitch.tv/vincentx9/c/3538813
If you happen to follow my twitch while you're there I would be very thankful Smiley

It is currently single segment any% runs on the XBLA version (pc or console doesnt matter because steam is a direct port of XBLA), but I'm open to anything for this game.

If you want to run it or race it and have any questions about what I do on the video please ask me on this thread or on my twitch Smiley

Thank you for your time Smiley

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mistrof3lis

2014-01-14 07:15:53 pm

Well, I want so start on speed runs, inspired by the amazing #AGDQ2014, and I was thinking "what game do i play that I love and would be awesome for speed run?" and here we are "Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet".
I've just created this account just to see if there is ppl speedrunning on this amazing game.
I really wanna learn strats and tricks to speedrun on this game and make it my main speedrun game, and i hope i can count with your help and friendship Wink

I'm following you on twitch, and my XBLA is "Rafsz" (that's where i have the game at)
See ya man!!

VincentX9

2014-01-14 08:37:51 pm

Thanks for the response Smiley

I added you on XBLA and followed you on Twitch

VincentX9

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VincentX9: 2014-01-19 07:49:20 pm

2014-01-19 07:48:51 pm

If anybody else is interested I'm still running this game. Don't be shy if you are interested in friendly competition, because even with my new current record of 44:04 there is still plenty of things that are not optimized in my run. Smiley

TheVoid

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TheVoid: 2014-01-20 01:12:01 am

2014-01-20 01:10:54 am

Nice run

Is it maybe possible to abuse death? I'm thinking about the boss in the machine level so that you would get spawned all the way back, although I actually doubt that's possible. There's probably a checkpoint before the boss that you can't skip.

VincentX9

2014-01-20 03:29:43 pm

Thank you !! Smiley

From what I know the only spot to abuse death is in the electric zone, but I have thought about the machine zone multiple times when it comes to abusing death. The issue is that the center room in the machine zone is one of the only areas in the game where it auto checkpoints. What I mean from that is as far as I can tell, every time you insert a cog-key the game does a checkpoint and that does not heal you and is not visible other than a loading circle indicator on the top right corner of the screen. This feature kinda dashed my plans for machine zone death abuse. You were specifically talking about the boss, but from what I know, every boss has a checkpoint before it that is unavoidable. Which would make it difficult to do anything with boss death abuse.
Although, you did give me an idea for the ice boss specifically, I might be able to use death abuse to save myself from having to complete the second half of the ice zone, and instead just backtrack a short way to where the laser needs to be used.
So I'll take a look into that today. Thank you much for your help!! Smiley

If you ever have any more advice I'd be happy to hear it Smiley

Thank you !! :) 
From what I know the only spot to abuse death is in the electric zone, but I have thought about the machine zone multiple times when it comes to abusing death. The issue is that the center room in the machine zone is one of the only areas in the game where it auto checkpoints. What I mean from that is as far as I can tell, every time you insert a cog-key the game does a checkpoint and that does not heal you and is not visible other than a loading circle indicator on the top right corner of the screen. This feature kinda dashed my plans for machine zone death abuse. You were specifically talking about the boss, but from what I know, every boss has a checkpoint before it that is unavoidable. Which would make it difficult to do anything with boss death abuse. 
Although, you did give me an idea for the ice boss specifically, I might be able to use death abuse to save myself from having to complete the second half of the ice zone, and instead just backtrack a short way to where the laser needs to be used.
So I'll take a look into that today. Thank you much for your help!! :) If you ever have any more advice I'd be happy to hear it :)

RinKagamine1

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RinKagamine1: 2015-08-03 12:21:36 am

2015-08-03 12:21:17 am

I only considered running this recently, I've pretty much with 100% Items (Not including Concept Art) and I managed to actually get the game up on speedrun.com ( http://www.speedrun.com/Insanely_Twisted_Shadow_Planet ) So hopefully people will spot it and consider running it.