Good route runthrough by InfestedRiche

Hello friends,

here is a basic run through of the game by InfestedRiche not yet posted here.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/119956866

It covers pretty much everything used by top runners of the game, and is the basis of Riche's (as of this posting) 3rd place PB of 3:37, a mere 4, 6 seconds behind 2nd and 1st places respectively and is a very solid run. (Using the leaderboard timing, the TAS is 3:12)

I think this will be quite useful for those looking for a simple rundown of the game and a good route to take. 

I believe the improvements made include a possible setup to get through the first room without taking damage as can be seen in my 3:55 run (yet to be verified), a strategy to get over the skeleton warriors without taking a hit after the reset (as seen in the TAS, and is not difficult RTA) and a slightly better strategy for fighting computer related to positioning and jumping as seen in Coolkid's 2nd place run of 3:33.

Have a nice life,
crazyjesse

Tutorial/Demonstration: 3:29 spliced run

Hello friends, I've been making a comparison between the top 4 runs, and I thought I'd take the best clips out and composite them into one idealized run. 

For all the splits I require that they always line up in CP. 

The clips mainly consist of the (as of 2018-04-03) 1st and 2nd place holders, Prisi and Coolkid who have times of 3:31 and 3:33 respectively, though I was able to make the cut in the second room/hyper ray split by a few frames! 3rd place InfestedRiche, 3:37, makes a very strong showing in my 4-way comparison but unfortunately doesn't make the cut in the splice due to the way I chose the splits, otherwise, InfestedRiche has the fastest underground passage just before computer. 

There is no sound because the top 3 runners had commentary over their runs which becomes disjointed when spliced like this. This run is 17 seconds slower than the full TAS (3:12 leaderboard, or 3:03 "RTA").

Here is the video:
https://youtu.be/yx0UfASbEew

Notes about the spliced run that could be improved for potential new players:
0:20, one can get to hyper ray a little bit faster if they get the forward clip through the plant, though the technique/setup is unknown. 
1:12, CP is shot at the door, it is faster if you move towards the door and back to get the CP. It is also more efficient if 2 more Hyper Ray shots are used on Computer and one kills the plant with the beam sword (leaving the user with 35 CP after picking up Flower's CP). 
1:39, missed a jump. 
1:48, one can jump early into the worm and damage boost through, but it is finicky. 
2:28 forward clip again, method unknown. 
2:45 slightly better damage boosting possible by killing the second skeleton and damage boosting off the third allows one to pass through the two faced statue, one could also use the shots. 
2:49, it is faster to use Star Crystal the moment after leaving the worm so that it finishes earlier; the elevator cutscene does not play until star crystal's animation is over.

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Good route runthrough by InfestedRiche	BootlegPickle 6 years ago
Tutorial/Demonstration: 3:29 spliced run	BootlegPickle 6 years ago