Nastar (Rastan Saga II / ラスタンサーガ2) Speedrun in 11m31s by Giro-X

Nastar (Rastan Saga II / ラスタンサーガ2) - 1988 Taito
Time: 11m31s
Player: LUX aka Giro-X
Played on WolfMAME .227 (nastar)
Additional comment from the author of the replay
Speedrunning this game was, at the very least, surely interesting. It's not a game suited for going fast, as you'd like to kill any enemy and slowly wait your turn through moving objects, to avoid damage as much as possible; but, at the same time, they provide you way too many lives with default settings, such that it's tempting to rush things.
This replay attempted a compromise between these two behaviours: played safe enough until reaching a point where it could be useful to sacrifice lives to speed up the travel. You also have to keep in mind that all items dropped by enemies are random, including the speed boost and extra lives, so there is potentially room for improvement.
Clearing this game 1CC wasn't required by rules, but you kinda have to stick to it, because you lose your power level when starting a new credit and that would mean slower boss fights in particular.

[@stephen-ng]

If you like stuff like this, you should check out Hippodrome by Data East. Checking out that LP next.

[@ohfivepro]

Great speedrun. Great soundtrack. But definitely not a great game.

[@MAMERetroAvengers]

Agreed on soundtrack, the game... I admit I like it a bit, or maybe I like that I'm able to play it, but yeah it's objectively a little failure so agreed on that as well.
And thanks for the first statement :v
~giro

[@ohfivepro]

@@MAMERetroAvengers ​ No problem. You guys are some of the only people to make videos and streams of high level gameplay across a huge variety of arcade games, and the gameplay is never a dull copy of an existing video.
It's just a shame I don't understand Italian or I'd be able to join in a bit more but I understand great gameplay, so I'll keep on watching!

[@stephen-ng]

I came for the gameplay, and stayed for the homo-eroticism (esp. with the up attack with the 2 handed sword).