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(Just in case SDA cares about spoilers, I am going to put a massive SPOILER WARNING right here.)
Hello, readers! I am The Lord of Dome, and I (try to) speedrun PMD: Sky, for the nintendo DS. For those who aren't familiar with the game, I'll give a short introduction.
This game is probably the most RNG-heavy game ever, and I wish I was exaggerating. The game consists of Mystery Dungeons, with any number of floors. The dungeons in the run range from 4 floors to 20 floors. To navigate b/t floors, you find stairs leading up or down, depending on the dungeon. The main problem isn't crits, good IVs, or min/max rolls like other pokemon games. It is the floor generation. Each floor of every dungeon (Bar a few, but none of those are in the type of run I am doing) is generated completely randomly. You may spawn one tile next to the stairs, or you may explore every room in the floor before you find them. Deaths are extremely costly, as you lose 50-75% of your items and you start back at the beginning. In the latter half of the game, there is a very small chance that a room is a "Monster House" where around 15 pokemon surround you and usually kill you. It is a very hard game to run. But I still love it.
Anyway, on to the main point of this topic. I am looking to meet up with other runners of this game, as I don't actually know any myself. Currently, I am doing runs in small segments, but not like a segmented run. I'll play for 2 hours, pause the timer, and come back later that day. Or something like that. I hope that by getting used to the game, I could become more patient and hopefully finish a run in 2 sittings instead of 4. My current run is paused at 52:41, and is right after beating drowzee. Died at 6F on mt. bristle, nearly gave up the run.
tl;dr: I am hoping to meet up with other PMD: Sky speedrunners. I doubt that there are many, as sky is a very hard game to run. Anyway, that's all I really have to say, I'll post updates on my current run when I finish my next session.
Also, is this in the right section? I don't know if the DS is considered an "Older console", seems pretty recent to me.
UPDATE the 1st: I don't know the rules about double posting, so I'll just edit the OP instead. I paused my timer after the second session, at 3:01:22. I am literally standing in front of groudon. I don't know the standards for Sky speedrunning, and I haven't set my own standards yet, so I don't know if this run is really good or not. I'll finish it regardless, just because I need a time to beat. Will probably update later tonight. I think the next session will be from groudon to crystal cave.
In case you couldn't tell, I am cutting the run off after Dialga. Post-ending is stupid-hard to do underleveled. Darkrai is nigh-impossible to beat without excessive grinding, even on casual playthroughs. Can't even discharge spam because rhyperior has lightningrod. I have no wish to make a 20hour+ run, so I am just doing pre-ending.
UPDATE the 2nd: Paused at 4:40:38. Just beat mespirit, paused during the cutscene where magnezone says that "MESPIRIT IS SAFE BZZT" or something like that. Quicksand pit can do die in a hole for all I care. It has only 10 floors, but I had no oran berries or reviver seeds, and none are found inside the dungeon or the 2 previous ones. There are 3 problem 'mons in Quicksand Pit.
Hippopotas: Only makes the weather sandy. Easy to kill.
Sandslash: Has sand veil. Need I say more?
Skorupi: Resists Riolu's STAB 4x. I picked up a rock slide TM and gave it to riolu, but it still only does 50 damage, and skorupi has around 85 HP. He also resists treecko's STAB absorb (lol) 4x, so it is a pain to take out.
It took me a total of 6 deaths before I got through it. Mespirit was no problem whatsoever. Only used one sleep seed before mespirit stupidly used rest. Bite+Absorb spam took it out quickly. I would normally give up the run at this point, but I need a time for my splits. I also had an absolutely perfect amp plains, spawned inside the room with the stairs in 8 floors, and got 3 crits in a row on manectric. May update more later, I need a break after that brutal Quicksand Pit.
UPDATE the 3rd: Got to crystal crossing, paused at 5:04:29. Not much to say. Only got through Crystal Cave this session, but I need to sleep.
EDIT: Might as well elaborate a bit. Got had an unfortunate death on 2F of crystal cave, but a quick reset saved my items. It may seem like a waste of time, saving before each dungeon, but it has saved my items many times. Overall, it has probably saved more time than it costs. Rest was pretty easy. Saved right in front of the crystals. Next session will be Crystal Crossing to... maybe chasm cave? I don't know. I'll stop playing when I feel like it.
Hello, readers! I am The Lord of Dome, and I (try to) speedrun PMD: Sky, for the nintendo DS. For those who aren't familiar with the game, I'll give a short introduction.
This game is probably the most RNG-heavy game ever, and I wish I was exaggerating. The game consists of Mystery Dungeons, with any number of floors. The dungeons in the run range from 4 floors to 20 floors. To navigate b/t floors, you find stairs leading up or down, depending on the dungeon. The main problem isn't crits, good IVs, or min/max rolls like other pokemon games. It is the floor generation. Each floor of every dungeon (Bar a few, but none of those are in the type of run I am doing) is generated completely randomly. You may spawn one tile next to the stairs, or you may explore every room in the floor before you find them. Deaths are extremely costly, as you lose 50-75% of your items and you start back at the beginning. In the latter half of the game, there is a very small chance that a room is a "Monster House" where around 15 pokemon surround you and usually kill you. It is a very hard game to run. But I still love it.
Anyway, on to the main point of this topic. I am looking to meet up with other runners of this game, as I don't actually know any myself. Currently, I am doing runs in small segments, but not like a segmented run. I'll play for 2 hours, pause the timer, and come back later that day. Or something like that. I hope that by getting used to the game, I could become more patient and hopefully finish a run in 2 sittings instead of 4. My current run is paused at 52:41, and is right after beating drowzee. Died at 6F on mt. bristle, nearly gave up the run.
tl;dr: I am hoping to meet up with other PMD: Sky speedrunners. I doubt that there are many, as sky is a very hard game to run. Anyway, that's all I really have to say, I'll post updates on my current run when I finish my next session.
Also, is this in the right section? I don't know if the DS is considered an "Older console", seems pretty recent to me.
UPDATE the 1st: I don't know the rules about double posting, so I'll just edit the OP instead. I paused my timer after the second session, at 3:01:22. I am literally standing in front of groudon. I don't know the standards for Sky speedrunning, and I haven't set my own standards yet, so I don't know if this run is really good or not. I'll finish it regardless, just because I need a time to beat. Will probably update later tonight. I think the next session will be from groudon to crystal cave.
In case you couldn't tell, I am cutting the run off after Dialga. Post-ending is stupid-hard to do underleveled. Darkrai is nigh-impossible to beat without excessive grinding, even on casual playthroughs. Can't even discharge spam because rhyperior has lightningrod. I have no wish to make a 20hour+ run, so I am just doing pre-ending.
UPDATE the 2nd: Paused at 4:40:38. Just beat mespirit, paused during the cutscene where magnezone says that "MESPIRIT IS SAFE BZZT" or something like that. Quicksand pit can do die in a hole for all I care. It has only 10 floors, but I had no oran berries or reviver seeds, and none are found inside the dungeon or the 2 previous ones. There are 3 problem 'mons in Quicksand Pit.
Hippopotas: Only makes the weather sandy. Easy to kill.
Sandslash: Has sand veil. Need I say more?
Skorupi: Resists Riolu's STAB 4x. I picked up a rock slide TM and gave it to riolu, but it still only does 50 damage, and skorupi has around 85 HP. He also resists treecko's STAB absorb (lol) 4x, so it is a pain to take out.
It took me a total of 6 deaths before I got through it. Mespirit was no problem whatsoever. Only used one sleep seed before mespirit stupidly used rest. Bite+Absorb spam took it out quickly. I would normally give up the run at this point, but I need a time for my splits. I also had an absolutely perfect amp plains, spawned inside the room with the stairs in 8 floors, and got 3 crits in a row on manectric. May update more later, I need a break after that brutal Quicksand Pit.
UPDATE the 3rd: Got to crystal crossing, paused at 5:04:29. Not much to say. Only got through Crystal Cave this session, but I need to sleep.
EDIT: Might as well elaborate a bit. Got had an unfortunate death on 2F of crystal cave, but a quick reset saved my items. It may seem like a waste of time, saving before each dungeon, but it has saved my items many times. Overall, it has probably saved more time than it costs. Rest was pretty easy. Saved right in front of the crystals. Next session will be Crystal Crossing to... maybe chasm cave? I don't know. I'll stop playing when I feel like it.
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