Edit: I have now created a speedrun.com page specifically for Castle Crashing the Beard HD. You can find it here: https://www.speedrun.com/castle_crashing_the_beard_hd#Any
maxis2417's run of the remaster of this game looked interesting, so I gave it a run.
How are we going to deal with the remaster? It'd be cool to have a leaderboard somewhere. I've got a run of the original and I plan to run the remaster as well.
After quite a few attempts, I got a 2:58:581. I considered Iris instead of Sam, since you don't get experience while in super-form and Iris can interrupt Tom's eye-laser during which he is normally invincible, but I ended up deciding that Sam is indeed probably the fastest choice.
I don't currently have a recording but I'll probably try to record an attempt
That's cool, it's always good to have more people :)
I have now recorded a 2:49:718
I have submitted it to the leaderboard, but it doesn't show up because I already have a run for the original game, which is faster
I can't show video evidence because I have none but I have a screenshot code of my time, here it is: 2021-04-28 9.41.00 AM
Just got an un-recorded 2:42:811
Edit: now 2:41:259
Edit: if you stay back and spam attack and don't let him get close enough to activate his beard attack, it seems that he skips activating his beard attack and moves onto the next phase. May be good because his beard attack makes him invincible
Edit: Also, if your feet are on the ground, you don't get lifted into the air by hitting the beard unless you are in super-form, in which case you get lifted into the air regardless of whether or not you hit the beard. May be good to avoid being lifted into the air in which case you might be lifted too high to hit the beard. If you are holding left next to a ledge and you move up onto it because of an attack your feet will end up on the ground on the ledge.
Edit: I just somehow managed to bug out the skull so that he fired fireballs immediately after I killed the cat, skipping the animation where he slowly spins around the place on the left. If we could make this consistent, it would make the run faster.
Edit: rather than just mashing, perhaps it's better to time attacks so that each attack is after the animation of the last attack has finished?
Edit: Once I managed to defeat the first stage at about 1:00 with blue and 200xp. Also once I managed to get to blue within the first 20 seconds, although I'm not quite sure how I managed that. In that run I knocked the tombstone on the left off the top and focused on tombstones and I guess Tom too or something
Edit: won in 2:33:255, killed the first stage before getting to the right hand of the screen, like at 53 seconds or something? Maybe earlier? I remembered before, but I don't remember now. If I had got that fire bug, that would have been quite good. I imagine the fire bug probably occurs when I make the skull summon Sherbert just before the skull is about to shoot fireballs.
I have now created a speedrun.com page specifically for Castle Crashing the Beard HD. You can find it here: https://www.speedrun.com/castle_crashing_the_beard_hd#Any
