Gauntlet II Catergories
6 years ago
New York, USA

Cool to see a page for this.

The problem I had with this game is what to set as a category. Beating the game is impossible and setting a limit at 100 or 120? (whatever number it starts repeating again) is really long and i would never bother trying that.

Setting a shorter limit seems reasonable but it also feels arbitrary what room number to end at.

The only category i could come up with is -first dragon kill- (the mini bosses scattered through the game) At least there some sort of specific goal and accomplishment that isn't arbitrary. The only problem is the randomness of when you'll come across the dragon which is anywhere from around levels 9-14 usually.

Canada

I completely agree with the lacking potential in categories for this game, which sucks. I have added a category for beating level 10 and one for killing a Dragon.

New York, USA

I think the categories you have are fine for now. I was checking some other games that also don't have an ending. The Pinball speedrun page for example has a first to 100k points and another for rescue pauline which is comparable to complete room 10 and kill a dragon.

Once I have time maybe later next week I'll give these categories a go.

New York, USA

So I actually did bother trying to beat all levels (1 loop) in this game and it takes a while. I confirmed that after level 102 the game will loop so level 103 will be identical to level 6. Level 1-5 are always fixed and only in the beginning.

Since I have some completed runs I was wondering smoulder if you could add an All Levels category. Goal is to simply to beat all levels before they start repeating again. Run ends on exiting in Level 102. I also include levels 2-5 to give it a more 100% completion, I guess an alternative would be to skip to level 6 and just do a 1 loop but why not do them all.

There are also levels which are not numbered, Secret rooms occur every so often which can be avoided (they are huge time wasters) Treasure rooms seem to randomly occur every once in a while.

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