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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Any %) (Single Segment) [Deaths]
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Decision: Accept
Congratulations to 'Whitman_Price_!'
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Any %) (Single Segment) [Deaths]
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Quote from HavocProdigy:
Because I'm not a fan of anonymity, I'll start off by letting you know that this is HavocProdigy.
I casually dabbled in running this game earlier this year and have watched several runners stream this game over the past 5 or 6 months. The record for this game has been passed around no less than 6 times since May (possibly more) and I've been a live witness to most of them. Needless to say, I'm quite familiar with the route and the runners of this game. A couple months ago, I realized that this particular runner had become the most talented and devoted runner of this game and so this submission isn't particularly shocking to me. It was expected.
Cheating: None.
Audio: No problems.
Video: Here's where I have some concerns. The video bobs up and down and blurs throughout the run, making it somewhat of an eyesore. There's some rather nefarious shit going on at the top (and sometimes the bottom) of the screen. I took the liberty of checking out the video quality of the run on Youtube and it does not have the same blurriness. I assume that the encoded video will have these issues fixed. Assuming that this is the case, I suppose this won't be an issue.
Timing: I timed the run at 18:22.1.
Gameplay: I won't bother to spend much time here because this particular run is excellent and is currently the fastest publicly available run of the game. All of the mistakes are incredibly minor errors in execution that are so minor that they do not even remotely detract from the quality of the run. All of the "extended jumps" are executed on the first attempt. Occasionally, the runner is hit by an enemy, the Rocksteady fight was good but not great, and the first two rooms of the Technodrome showed some difficulty with enemies. However, these moments overall are few and far between. Getting both ceiling glitches in the Technodrome on the first try is an unrealistic expectation. While the 1st ceiling glitch took 4 or 5 attempts, the 2nd glitch was pulled off instantly (the 2nd one is harder to do, in my opinion).
This is a fantastic run and assuming that the less than stellar video quality can be fixed in encoding, I don't see any other issues.
Verdict: ACCEPT
I casually dabbled in running this game earlier this year and have watched several runners stream this game over the past 5 or 6 months. The record for this game has been passed around no less than 6 times since May (possibly more) and I've been a live witness to most of them. Needless to say, I'm quite familiar with the route and the runners of this game. A couple months ago, I realized that this particular runner had become the most talented and devoted runner of this game and so this submission isn't particularly shocking to me. It was expected.
Cheating: None.
Audio: No problems.
Video: Here's where I have some concerns. The video bobs up and down and blurs throughout the run, making it somewhat of an eyesore. There's some rather nefarious shit going on at the top (and sometimes the bottom) of the screen. I took the liberty of checking out the video quality of the run on Youtube and it does not have the same blurriness. I assume that the encoded video will have these issues fixed. Assuming that this is the case, I suppose this won't be an issue.
Timing: I timed the run at 18:22.1.
Gameplay: I won't bother to spend much time here because this particular run is excellent and is currently the fastest publicly available run of the game. All of the mistakes are incredibly minor errors in execution that are so minor that they do not even remotely detract from the quality of the run. All of the "extended jumps" are executed on the first attempt. Occasionally, the runner is hit by an enemy, the Rocksteady fight was good but not great, and the first two rooms of the Technodrome showed some difficulty with enemies. However, these moments overall are few and far between. Getting both ceiling glitches in the Technodrome on the first try is an unrealistic expectation. While the 1st ceiling glitch took 4 or 5 attempts, the 2nd glitch was pulled off instantly (the 2nd one is harder to do, in my opinion).
This is a fantastic run and assuming that the less than stellar video quality can be fixed in encoding, I don't see any other issues.
Verdict: ACCEPT
Quote from HavocProdigy:
I guess that makes sense since the same run on Youtube doesn't have anywhere near the same amount of problems that this does. Since it was probably screwed up during encoding, these issues should be easily fixable I would imagine.
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No cheats
Audio: great
Video: not so great, just needs a proper re-encode with the correct settings and it should be fine (picture clarity is really good when it's not bobbing)
This run shows considerable improvement over the older run on the site. Not taking into account the massive ceiling glitches, this is easily 20-25 seconds faster from better execution coupled with better enemy luck in key places which let him keep moving instead of stopping to fight. On top of that, the aforementioned ceiling glitches save another 40ish seconds. As mentioned by Havoc, any mistakes are really tiny and don't take away from just how good this run is.
Accept
Audio: great
Video: not so great, just needs a proper re-encode with the correct settings and it should be fine (picture clarity is really good when it's not bobbing)
This run shows considerable improvement over the older run on the site. Not taking into account the massive ceiling glitches, this is easily 20-25 seconds faster from better execution coupled with better enemy luck in key places which let him keep moving instead of stopping to fight. On top of that, the aforementioned ceiling glitches save another 40ish seconds. As mentioned by Havoc, any mistakes are really tiny and don't take away from just how good this run is.
Accept
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As long as the video can get encoded proper, this is an easy accept
Corrected videos were sent in.
Quote from HavocProdigy:
Looks fine. Accept it.
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As long as the video can get encoded proper, this is an easy accept
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Looks like I'm late to the party. Sounds about right.
In any case, everything looks good to me, and I can't add anything that hasn't already been said, so...
Accept!
In any case, everything looks good to me, and I can't add anything that hasn't already been said, so...
Accept!
Decision: Accept
Congratulations to 'Whitman_Price_!'
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