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Speedrunning and rainbow S-ing the game made me learn a lot about Neera. Merga honestly wasn't that difficult to me. She took me around 2 hours, and I could have easily beat her in 1 but on 2 separate runs I died to the final phase to the usual kunai. I'm one to say the actual levels and certain battlesphere arenas are much harder. The longest levels for me was both Bakunawa Rush and Clockwork Arboretum, both taking 2 hours. The longest I've ever spent rainbow S-ing, exlcuding the boss divisions, was Mecha Madness which took me 4 straight hours. As for the kunai strat, I actually learned that out myself and applied it to my Neera guardless, boss division 2, and Potion Seller runs (all of which have videos and their own respective playlists - minus division 2 which is apart of the "True Damageless All Rainbow S" playlist for Neera. I also made a video several months ago showcasing the strat as every character. The strat I do here is practically my "beta" version of what I end up doing in my Neera guardless run. The idea was to just move in a circle pattern, only parrying if a kunai spawned either inside or close to Neera. I've gotten good at the guardless strat that I can comfortably stand in the center and apply that strat to dodge the kunai from all 3 directions.

@@Supersonic6427 Yeah, admittedly, Mecha Madness... not sure how you're supposed to do that without relying on shield damage-boosts. A patch added a shield near the beginning, and I had to resort to Shield Potions anyways; I didn't have to do so for most of my other Rainbow S runs (the Boss Divisions being exceptions). Cool idea in concept, execution-wise it falls flat due to the giant hitbox and tiny enemies making it hard to deal with.

@@noizihonni8191 Mecha Madness does have a consistent strategy for each round (very specifically rounds 5 and 6), it just requires (a lot of) trial and error. It is possible shieldless, you just need the sanity for it. To me, Mecha Madness is unironically harder than Merga.

Tiger Falls reminds me of the second stage in Rocket Knight mainly because of its waterfall gimmick and Rosebud. I had to use it lol, and I probably should have used the midboss theme again for Rosebud

Freedom Planet 2. It's on Steam, Switch, Xbox, and PS4/5

@@Howardpower679 Shinobi 3 in general's a good game. I need to actually go beat that game. It has to have been close to 10 years now lol

@@Supersonic6427 you can do it

I just realized this' the older version of this fight with modded sound effects. I'm probably going to nerf some of them when I get to doing Lilac rainbow Ss just because they either have bad mixing or don't mesh well when certain events happen like "Gnawsa's rocks, multiple explosions, etc."

Been a bit since I've seen this. Need to come back and grind 27 since that's the current WR

Yo, appreciate you watching the video! I think sub 4 should still be possible on 1.2.3 and below. Even though Carol helps and Merga to an extent (though she's kind of annoying), Lilac is still capable of draining a full bar with an uppercut cyclone into a dragon boost, so that should work out. That phase 2 strat can be annoying to pull off in a no hit run, but it's pretty consistent to pull off. This run into the boss was bad. My best pace ever had a 2:08, and I remember also getting a 0:58 3rd to last checkpoint. Idk if a time that low without at least potions is possible. The only way for it to work would be to get the fast phase 2 strat where you get Syntax to phase 2 before she starts flying. And yeah, I did get sleep that day lol. I immediately stopped playing after. With Lilac's speedrunning tech, you could also try looking into Bakunawa Rush since iirc, you didn't get the half par time there

I was waiting for this moment, and aside from the lag spikes, this lived up to what I wanted lol

thanks. it got beaten again, so I have to grind it back

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@@Howardpower679 It's more funny when I casually just play the game like this as if I didn't just modify the game to become a meme-fest. I spend way too much time doing this too lol

The power of the spear drive

It was satisfying to know she could do it. I was scared I would be able to get the card because I wasn't sure on where it was gonna spawn lol

Thanks! I need to play this game some more

Final phase in particular always gets me, and it's specifically because of the first 7 sets of 3 kunai. I also got really terrified at 5:05 because my original plan was to have Merga swing at the barrier which will despawn the vertical projectiles she fires, but I forgot the barriers don't despawn unless you restart at checkpoint, so i thought I was fucked. And then right after that mess I had to quickly prepare myself to dodge kunai. Oh, and the final hit was nerve-wracking because I didn't know you're invincible after killing Merga, so I was focused on getting out of the way.

He evaded the law

Freedom Planet content is good!

The weird thing about division 2 is despite being 20+ minutes long, the bosses are rather easy. There are a few choke points such as Kalaw, Gnawsa, Askal, Lemon Bread, and Astral Gomech, but for the most part everything is pretty chill but LONG. Merga honestly didn't scare me much aside from Blue moon, what would have been super moon if I didn't dodge the blades the way I do, Lilith because the battlesphere version oddly works differently, and final because nerves. At 23:28, I actually fucked up the movement for dodging the blades which seriously threw me off on top of my nerves. BF is pretty much an autoscroller to me, so it's just enduring everything for 3 minutes. I do plan at some point to actually try playing both division 1 and 2 back-to-back because this was a challenge someone post some months ago on the GalaxyTrail discord. I think I'm more than capable of doing it.

This' an older run. My best time is 4:41.03. I have a video of that on my channel and it's WR by a second, but it could be a lot faster if I got good Gnawsa rng

Yeah, I know Lemon Bread's bite attack cannot kill you, but I'm going for a true no hit run, and since Lemon Bread's bite attack drains your health or shield points, I consider it taking damage and will restart. I'm not even sure if that's intentional. Oddly enough, Merga's special attack during Eclipse where she jumps offscreen and tries to inflict a critical hit cannot kill you. Oh and a little fact: In the case of a speedrun, it's actually faster not to let Lemon Bread bite you because you waste around a second letting him do so.

I don't remember if it exists in 1.0.0, but it does exist as far back as 1.2.3. I have a rainbow S video and a speedrun where I do it on 1.2.3

I actually wasn't even bothered too much by them lol. I was more concerned about the shell growth dropping a missile on me

The bomb is there, I was holding right so it looks like the bomb's not there lol. The balls are pretty useful for fighting the boss, but when you cannot guard, you have to strategically use them. The last thing you want is to get out the ball and immediately die to lasers and bullets. I tried to use those balls during my normal rainbow S run but didn't due to framerate issues.

This level is still a puzzle, even while speedrunning. The difference is that when speedrunning, you have to solve unintentional puzzles in creative ways.

I only do it for certain boss. In the case of Kalaw, I do it because I wasn't face towards the right when the fight starts, and I didn't want to risk turning right and mess up Kalaw's movement, increasing the risk of him just hitting me. Restarting faces Neera to the right, positioning me correctly. Later I learned the other benefit for restarting was it delays Kalaw before the fight starts, allowing me to be greedy and get a few hits before he starts moving. TL;DR - Consistency reasons

Serpentine has this stupid mechanic where if you are far away from him, when he attacks he gets a speed boost to get closer to you. I'm pretty certain this mechanic also exists during the Wolf Armor fight when serpentine does the swipe attack. That was not a fun death lol and I tried to correct that in the run after (hence why I dash at 3:06). Now see, I was pissed when this happened, but watching it now it's rather funny, but only because I'm not playing the level. Dude just decided to speedrun killing me.

If I died to this attack during a hitless run, it would scar me for life, lol

@@lunaticludwig8311 Better start taking notes then ;D

I wasn't going to risk going fast on this level specifically because of the missiles. The best thing I've learned while playing this was figuring out how to preserve your speed when the cutscene triggers. I don't think Zulon Jungle Part 2 (aka Inversion Dynamo, but we all know it's just Zulon Jungle's sequel) shouldn't be that bad, especially since I've gotten much better at the game and have a decent idea on the level design. The only difficulty is just figuring out how to get through sections without the guard, otherwise I should be fine unless I keep making stupid mistakes. I'm a little more excited for Ancestral Forge, but only because I'm addicted to playing it lol.

That was one of the wholesome moments of Neera and Askal before the betrayal

Thanks. This record was annoying to get, and I'm probably done with this level for now.

Already took it by 21 milliseconds. Not proud of it though

I honestly don't see the similarities, mostly because there's a 3 second difference in our runs (I'm comparing against your 1:27 btw since I'm assuming that's still your most recent), but for a fact the second half still has some improvements for what can be done.

Thanks. Likely not touching this level for a bit until someone gets too close to the record, but I'm probably gonna aim for 1:22 or 1:23. Don't know if I wanna grind out 1:20 or 1:21. Sub 1:20 sounds really nice though.

Thanks. It got beaten (again) by about 2 seconds, so I'm likely gonna have to steal the record again...

You have to equip the powerup start item

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Are you referring to the time or the gameplay?

@@Supersonic6427 Both. I can't defeat this boss in any faster than 20 seconds. I think I just need a little practice.

@@МалыгинФедор Practicing would help a lot and learning basic Neera strats for taking down bosses. Also getting good at spear driving, pretty much your main driving force of damage alongside everything else