Hi all,
I know cestpatou is maintaining the individual levels leaderboard.
I felt like there may be a place for people who want to put together full segmented speedruns, so... here is a space where you can share yours and we can discuss areas for further optomisation, competition etc.
To start us off, here is my segmented SOR1 Blaze in 53:11 (Easy difficulty).
Dissection:
Stage 2 I have played hundreds of times to get that time, and I actually made two "mistakes" that may have accidentally saved time (I normally try and keep 3 charges on the taser vs Murphy, and I dropped the stun jab on Commissioner twice, yet finished nine seconds faster than my previous PB, which I already thought was the absolute ceiling of the level). So I'm quite confused as to whether there is actually time to be saved there, or if my theories on the taser and the stun jab are just plain wrong.
Stage 3 I waste about a second trying to hit Dylan offscreen when I haven't actually moved far enough right to load in him and Galsia. This type of nonsense happens throughout the run.
Stage 4 I feel I could have saved a few seconds if Estel (boo hiss) didn't troll me so hard for that final jab.
I know for a fact that Golden Axe has a 2:40 on Stage 7 so there are at least a further two seconds to be saved there. Again, my hatred of Estel is never-ending.
GA also has a 4:12 on Stage 10 vs my 4:31 (19 further seconds to be saved) but I am admittedly awful vs Max as Blaze1.
I also know for a fact that Stage 11 can be done at least one second quicker, as I have an offline speed of 4:59.
Finally, Golden Axe again has me beat on Stage 12, with 6:49 vs my 6:58. With cleaner stars I could maybe reach that, but that's another 9 seconds left on the table.
So adding all that up saves us a guaranteed 31 documented seconds, and I feel with better execution overall [there are a few sloppy sections of almost every Stage here] I could maybe save a further ten or twenty seconds, but the question I now have is, could a sub 52 run be technically possible with SOR1 Blaze?
I have exhausted my own faculties and abilities, so I am hoping someone in the community can look over this video and Axe's WR run to maybe point out some potential time saves that I've overlooked?
