Just wanted to talk about my initial findings after playing the switch version.

It comes as the "Ultimate" version, and thus comes with all DLC on, and there isn't a way to disable it.

Loading times seem pretty average to good. There is some noticeable lag often (by someone who has put 500 hours into the game, would be harder to notice if you're playing casually), very noticeable lag occurs in a few spots.

Most of the skips/speed tech appear to work (cutscene skips, pre-umbra pause, Oengus skip, and stardust duping. Had trouble getting Finn Skip on first try; when I did get it, appeared to crash the game. Needs a bit of further testing to be sure.

2 Player support comes easy as it has Joycon support. I personally dislike controlling Igniculus via a joystick. In terms of control issues, that would be really the only thing that stands out, but that would be identical to any other version where you are playing the controller.

Tested using the dock, haven't tested dock-less.

So there exists a TAS for this at 1:55:38. I don't believe it'd be RTA viable. It is played emulating GBC (there are some console differences).

http://www.nicovideo.jp/mylist/35608483

The main thing it does is fairly early (after Land Dragon) crafting of best possible weapons is done for Ashton and Celine, and crafting of the Field Actions of Run & Hover for Precis. I don't think it'd be possible to RTA to craft the weapons, it's done in a few steps, and the last step would be too hard to do at that low level. Additionally, there is some manipulation of getting rare drops from monsters.

I DO think it's RTA viable to craft the FA for Precis to Run/Hover. This allows us to not have to dump 1500 sp onto Celine so she learns hover (done after Aspara). And get's us hover a little earlier.

All in all, unless there exists reliable RNG manip for some of the things used many things in the TAS, I don't think I can adopt much. But I am going to some experimentation to see what I can get out of this.

I decided to remove Mochigome's run (the 2:58:43). JRTA rules tend to allow Turbo controllers, while that is often banned in the west. To keep that spirit, I decided to take it off the leader board. Also apparently he has a better time, but doesn't appear to have a recording (2:46:54).

I'll still post the video below so it can be used as reference.

9 Part Playlist: Requires a Nico account.

It's been known for some time that Child of Light will be run at RPG Limit Break. Essentia will be running it on 5/9, 5:20 PM MDT (GMT -6) @ https://www.twitch.tv/rpglimitbreak. I encourage everyone to watch it! She will be playing on PS3, and will be doing some different strats, it's great to see CoL get some exposure.

More recently however. I had submitted Child of Light into Summer Games Done Quick, and my submission was accepted! I don't have a whole lot of details until the schedule is released in a few weeks. SGDQ is from July 3-10. As you might have guessed, I'm pretty excited about it, and I'll be practicing a bunch over the next few months to make sure we give SGDQ a good showing. If you are planning or thinking about attending, let me know and we can work something out!