I'm really pleased with this run, even though level 5 once again went very poorly. Most of the other levels went quite smoothly for me, and level 8 was way faster than anything I've ever done before. My aggressive strategy on the Bear Jr wave finally worked out to near perfection, with the robots cooperating throughout.
This is almost a minute faster than the best time I'd managed in late 2020. SoR2 isn't my primary focus at the moment, but I might do some normal & very easy runs in the reasonably near future, too.
I noticed my last couple videos on here seem to have big buffering issues, so I decided to do some attempts in windowed mode at 720p to see if that fixes things. And got a 5 minute pb in this category along the way :)
The more I improve, the more room there seems to be for improvement. This run had a slow, poor start, but the strongest finish I've had so far, despite the many issues in the final two levels.
I hadn't completed mania on 1 credit before, so I decided to just casually attempt it because I figured my recent speedrunning should make it easy enough to do. In retrospect, I underestimated the importance of mapping out the later levels, as I just barely pulled it off with a 9 life start.
Someday I'll try to do a 1cc starting with 1 life, but not anytime soon.
A year after my last success, I have finally managed to beat all 6 levels in a single session for the 2nd time. Hopefully it won't take a year for the next one!
Successful level attempts timestamps:
Apple 00:03
Orange 09:56
Kiwi 14:58
Watermelon 39:48
Coconut 56:21
Banana 01:09:32
Game played on the pico-8 fantasy console. Free web version available here:
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=40490
https://benjamin-soul.itch.io/pigments
Since my new RTA mania pb in the OG Streets of Rage 2 is faster than the IGT pb I had in the New Era version, I decided to come back and rectify that. By RTA timing, this would be a 54:04 or 54:05, which is close enough to my RTA pb in the original to satisfy me with this category for now.
I'll be working on mania+ & megamania next, looking to get sub hour in the former and... some kind of time in the latter.
This is exactly 2 minutes faster than the best time I managed at the beginning of 2021, and good enough for 2nd place at the moment. Blaze on the easiest category hasn't had much activity recently, but perhaps me bopping some people with this beatable run will help breathe some life into it.
My first full game speedrun of Grabanakki, a fun game made by Team Bugulon. Pretty bad, with several poor deaths as well as some bad aim and movement mistakes. Hopefully I'll have a better run soon.
Played on the Newgrounds version, which was updated from the game jam version:
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/822142
Download a PC version here:
https://team-bugulon.itch.io/grabanakki