It seems that there is a bit of popularity on the idea of Zio% among the community. Where Final Fantasy IV has Paladin%, people are interested in learning the first hour or so of the game up to the 2nd Zio fight.
Rules would be simple: Timer starts on Start of game Timer ends on last hit of Zio.
A small tournament is in discussion but we will see how the popularity gets first. If anybody has any questions about learning the game or about the tournament, feel free to contact me or, better yet, join the Phantasy Star Speedrun Discord channel: https://discord.gg/pkyfy22
A small tournament would be great. How about adding a Zio% to the leaderboard? That might help more people become interested. The game isn't as widely popular as any of the Final Fantasies have been over the years.
Unfortunately, right now I don't see either moderator paying too much attention to this game (I could be wrong). We also need rules defined for 100% as well.
Might have to hunt them down on twitch or something. Can you send messages directly through this website? I'm still new to it.
Messaging on here is technically "coming soon" (been that way for at least a year).
I can try to find somebody on discord to see if we can get a new mod in here. I think they were just added in when the game was created because there wasn't a huge need for it at the time.
New to PSIV, but love it when I was young. Was routing this game(I enjoy doing the research and going by my own notes) last night, and thought a good first time to stop routing and do test runs would be Jouza, but as there's a zio%, I will continue routing today up to that point and try it out :)
Love the idea of splitting up the longer games(3h+) and make a shorter goal, and Zio seems perfect, it's such an iconic boss fight, at least for me that grew up with this game.
The idea behind it was similar to how people run Paladin% in Final Fantasy IV. Since RPGs can be long and many people love these classic games but don't have time to commit to the full game, categories like Zio% and Paladin% were born. I look forward to seeing your runs!
Zio% can get me started on speed running this game just like earthbound did with boogey%
