@@Miku_ds thanks! I love your cool things about Blinx series. I've played the game since it came out and never knew many of these things -- including the fact that a platinum edition exists.
Every time control is based. I like your channel is nice to see someone still playing and talking about blinx. Easily one of my favourite childhood games
In my personal opinion the list of time controls goes like this 1 - Pause (I always have like 4-5 if not more of these stacked up its universal and with map knowledge can be utilized for most puzzles in the game and lets you get a freebie hit on all enemies in the room, and you can burn a pause to get out of the way of imminent danger. It is the epitome of easy to use but the amount of uses depends on your creative thinking making it hard to master.) 2 - Record (Initially I was not a big fan of it but as time went on its an extremely powerful command. It gives you total immunity when you are the copy but its biggest strength is it lets you double up your offense or to make the most out of your ammo in situations where your dealing with a lot of foes and a lack of ammo to shoot at them. As once you rewind to the point of origin all the ammo you used as the clone is returned. Also to the enemies the real instance of you is completely hidden meaning your invulnerable while using it and it keeps the heat off of you when you can get hit. The downsides with record is if the real instance of you gets hit while your recorded clone is doing things it can cause you to lose the clone and waste a use of that command besides just the loss of a heart. Also Blinx can only concentrate, and keep active 1 time command at a time but since records playback is a part of Records function no time commands can be used while the record is playing back so Blinx cant use time commands as a reaction to a situation happening to his Real instance while the Recorded instance is in play which can mess you up in some situations if your not paying attention. 3rd - Fast Forward (In the middle because it can be good and bad a good player can get a lot out of FF but only if you are skilled in using it the advantage of it though is it lets you get from point A to point B more quickly so its useful when the levels get long and your using most of the 10 minute time limit to beat it. But it takes a skilled player to avoid obstacles in a platformer at double speed thankfully that is what the shield is for. 4th - Rewind (Is it useful for story and situational things then yes but in general no, its a obligatory puzzle solver which requests you hold 1 or 2 of these just to prep for the possible encounter where the situation calls for something to be rewound. But honestly if it wasn't for that I wouldn't be stacking them period. You could use it in combat to undo a potential bad happenstance but pause is just flat out better then that in fact with map knowledge pause can be used before hand to stop the thing that needs to be rewound from happening. Last - Slow (I honestly feel bad about this one the problem with slow is its superfluous there is no situation to use slow when you can use the much more superior pause. Its one of those abilities though that is added not for usefulness its a ability that on paper makes sense for Blinx to have since he can pause time he can also slow down time. So its more like a fun toy the player can toy about with then a useful ability. Personally what I would have done to make slow more useful is make it take up a portion of the slot capacity that way you can store more of them to compensate for a weaker effect. Or incorporate situations where having slow be picked over pause would be a better idea like making it so slow allowed you to slow down enemies but still interact with the environment at normal speed stuff like that. But with Pause you cant because you need time for physics to occur where slow would allow some to let them play out but slow things down to give more reaction time to the things playing out where precision is involved. There is so many things they could have done to make Slow feel less like a afterthought and more like a useful ability that this game fails to deliver here.
It wasn't until I saw the RAMPANT speedrunning community use these tricks with the FF and Record that I saw the true potential of the two. Sure, Pause and Slow are generally the logical choices, but they hold no candle to the Record, not to mention the niche uses the FF's shield has, are a very notable niche. Also, my favorite time control is the Record because I like the clone's invincibility, trash-saving potential, and money duping potential. I did use those when I was a kid!
For some reason my idiot brain as a child didn't understand record so I never used it and couldn't get past the sand level. I was really impressed with how balanced all the powerups are when revisiting the game, they all have their own quirks and advantages, some being easier to use but less efficient and others being harder to use but much more useful if you master them. I can understand why this game wasn't a massive success though, having a really slow character with almost puzzle like abilities can be really confusing for casual players expecting a platformer where you play as garfield and sonic's weird offspring who wears overpriced Gucci clothes
@@zevacApart from retrys, records are the only time conItroll that can affect the timmer. And it not only lets you multitask, but also dupe trash and your clone is invincible; allowing your record clone to shoot a superbomb point blank at a group of monsters, without consuming the bomb or a retry! ... You can also use it to dupe gollem parts and dusthearder balls, and boss gold, for more income.
The editing of the time effects being applied to the video was really creative
It's awesome enough to have a dedicated Blinx channel, but one with great production value? I feel spoiled
I never thought about using FF as an on-demand shield against an explosion...very nice video
WOW no way, I love your videos Marblr. Always knew you were a blinx fan with all the OST’s in your OW vids.
Thank you!
@@Miku_ds thanks! I love your cool things about Blinx series. I've played the game since it came out and never knew many of these things -- including the fact that a platinum edition exists.
Blinx video with JSRF music... you earned a like 😂
Every time control is based. I like your channel is nice to see someone still playing and talking about blinx. Easily one of my favourite childhood games
0:03 I care, so do the other 2 people who love Blinx
make that 2.5
@@Desitos Nah that's like 1.5
That at least breaks the record for Zapper and Scaler at least!
I've been slowly filling out every hireable character slot in the hall of fame for Blinx 2. I hope that qualifies.
In my personal opinion the list of time controls goes like this
1 - Pause (I always have like 4-5 if not more of these stacked up its universal and with map knowledge can be utilized for most puzzles in the game and lets you get a freebie hit on all enemies in the room, and you can burn a pause to get out of the way of imminent danger. It is the epitome of easy to use but the amount of uses depends on your creative thinking making it hard to master.)
2 - Record (Initially I was not a big fan of it but as time went on its an extremely powerful command. It gives you total immunity when you are the copy but its biggest strength is it lets you double up your offense or to make the most out of your ammo in situations where your dealing with a lot of foes and a lack of ammo to shoot at them. As once you rewind to the point of origin all the ammo you used as the clone is returned. Also to the enemies the real instance of you is completely hidden meaning your invulnerable while using it and it keeps the heat off of you when you can get hit.
The downsides with record is if the real instance of you gets hit while your recorded clone is doing things it can cause you to lose the clone and waste a use of that command besides just the loss of a heart. Also Blinx can only concentrate, and keep active 1 time command at a time but since records playback is a part of Records function no time commands can be used while the record is playing back so Blinx cant use time commands as a reaction to a situation happening to his Real instance while the Recorded instance is in play which can mess you up in some situations if your not paying attention.
3rd - Fast Forward (In the middle because it can be good and bad a good player can get a lot out of FF but only if you are skilled in using it the advantage of it though is it lets you get from point A to point B more quickly so its useful when the levels get long and your using most of the 10 minute time limit to beat it. But it takes a skilled player to avoid obstacles in a platformer at double speed thankfully that is what the shield is for.
4th - Rewind (Is it useful for story and situational things then yes but in general no, its a obligatory puzzle solver which requests you hold 1 or 2 of these just to prep for the possible encounter where the situation calls for something to be rewound. But honestly if it wasn't for that I wouldn't be stacking them period. You could use it in combat to undo a potential bad happenstance but pause is just flat out better then that in fact with map knowledge pause can be used before hand to stop the thing that needs to be rewound from happening.
Last - Slow (I honestly feel bad about this one the problem with slow is its superfluous there is no situation to use slow when you can use the much more superior pause. Its one of those abilities though that is added not for usefulness its a ability that on paper makes sense for Blinx to have since he can pause time he can also slow down time. So its more like a fun toy the player can toy about with then a useful ability.
Personally what I would have done to make slow more useful is make it take up a portion of the slot capacity that way you can store more of them to compensate for a weaker effect. Or incorporate situations where having slow be picked over pause would be a better idea like making it so slow allowed you to slow down enemies but still interact with the environment at normal speed stuff like that. But with Pause you cant because you need time for physics to occur where slow would allow some to let them play out but slow things down to give more reaction time to the things playing out where precision is involved. There is so many things they could have done to make Slow feel less like a afterthought and more like a useful ability that this game fails to deliver here.
This is so cool, I love seeing this kind of thing for Blinx
It wasn't until I saw the RAMPANT speedrunning community use these tricks with the FF and Record that I saw the true potential of the two. Sure, Pause and Slow are generally the logical choices, but they hold no candle to the Record, not to mention the niche uses the FF's shield has, are a very notable niche.
Also, my favorite time control is the Record because I like the clone's invincibility, trash-saving potential, and money duping potential. I did use those when I was a kid!
For some reason my idiot brain as a child didn't understand record so I never used it and couldn't get past the sand level.
I was really impressed with how balanced all the powerups are when revisiting the game, they all have their own quirks and advantages, some being easier to use but less efficient and others being harder to use but much more useful if you master them.
I can understand why this game wasn't a massive success though, having a really slow character with almost puzzle like abilities can be really confusing for casual players expecting a platformer where you play as garfield and sonic's weird offspring who wears overpriced Gucci clothes
Nice video man, its always great to your videos
Cool video, any tip for speedrunning tho?
We have full speedrun tutorials for the game. Any% on Miku's channel, All Medals is on my channel.
Memorise every time monster location
Hey man love the Blinx content
Banger
pog
From best to worst:
Record, Pause, Rewind, Slow, Fastforward.
Edit: Rewind and Pause are tied.
Why record? I don't find it that great. It's kinda Janky to me. Why do you find so much value in it?
@@zevacApart from retrys, records are the only time conItroll that can affect the timmer. And it not only lets you multitask, but also dupe trash and your clone is invincible; allowing your record clone to shoot a superbomb point blank at a group of monsters, without consuming the bomb or a retry!
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You can also use it to dupe gollem parts and dusthearder balls, and boss gold, for more income.
I wish fast forward was used more often in the base game, instead of just those jumpy things
Jsrf ❤