A trial version of neo The World Ends With You will be delivered this weekend, so I'll do some research and speedrun.
I'm also planning to play it!
If I have the time I want to do full demo RTA attempts on Sunday
I did some runs of the demo today, ended up with a 39:37 but it can be better, I'll use the VOD to try to get a leaderboard pre-release to save the trouble
Some notes:
- No skippable cutscenes at the start, I hope that changes in the final version.
- Dialogues with voices can only be mashed with A, which is awkward. Dialogues with no voices are mashable with A and B. You can mash VERY fast.
- I don't think there's any difference between JP/EN voices for now, there's a dialogue at the end of day 2 that waits for the voice line to play but I did one run with each and I saved less than a second in the EN run to better mashing.
- Neutral Groove Attack (whatever they are called) is really good, you can charge another one pretty easily using the multi strikes during it. Fire Groove Attack is also pretty good as a nuke and easy to obtain. I still have no idea how to switch between them though lmao.
- Fret's "remind" minigames are always the same directions, so they are easy to learn.
- I didn't have too much strategy tested in fights but both bosses are weak to fire. Pyrokinesis AKA Firestorm is pretty weak for the gorilla but it racks up Groove very fast. The fire sword pin you get after MKN is ideal for gorilla, the rabbit blast pin would also be great but I think Noise fights are not random and I haven't found any ravens in the way, so not worth it, I think.
- Using Minamimoto's default pin and letting it evolve is better than changing to ice pillar. I had Rindo use sword pins all the way (Shockwave -> D2 mission -> MKN fire sword) and changed Fret from Force Rounds to Firestorm to the other force rounds pin, but maybe he can use something else instead.
Got 39:19 last time I tried (ran out of storage on my hard drive and only have it recorded up until killing the gorilla sadly). Really hope this game gets added soon. I've been having a ton of fun running it so far.
Also, my game softlocked when I tried to talk to the Reaper in 104 from behind the bush so there's that.
Game request was accepted! Unfortunately, apparently setting a game as a pre-release doesn't allow submitting runs, unless I'm missing something, but the page is up. I'll be setting things up during the next few days.
