As Lemmings mentioned at the end of the run, One Short Eye has 2 fantastic videos about this game, The first is a good primer on the game ua-cam.com/video/MYawahBTJaI/v-deo.html&ab_channel=OneShortEye And the second video goes through why to speed run this game, you need to make Robin Hood a coward. ua-cam.com/video/fmaP8R0D9sQ/v-deo.html&ab_channel=OneShortEye Great job and great run, which I could have watched it live.
The last trick of the run was actually introduced to the community in a comment on that video. Someone found it casually but since they weren't a speedrunner they didn't share it until they watched the video.
Very cool. As a side comment, whoever wrote this game seems to have read some of the original Robin Hood stories, as evil monks & bishops, knights in need of aid on the road, swearing by the Virgin, and Robin playing highwayman on the road absolutely appear in the oldest stories! (Before Robin was cleaned up for kids by Howard Pyle, which was also cool & all, but the rougher, earlier legends make for some good material here.)
huge congrats lemming, great job on the run and commentary. incredibly difficult to squish in both story and trick explanation into less than 20 mins, and you did it wonderfully. big props to davidtki and thewoofs for their commentary and voiceover work here too
I'm still not sure why getting the bad ending counts. You can get a bad ending by dying seconds into the game. You get a cutscene and everything! You get a cutscene every time you die. Do those not count?
If you want to run "game over as soon as possible ending" you can propose that as a category, of course, but I can't imagine that there'd be a lot of interest. "Get to the end of the game alive but with the worst ending" seems fair enough as a separate category to me. Plenty of games' speedrunning communities have categories like that - especially important for games where the "good" ending takes 3 times as long as the "bad" ending.
My assumption is it's in the spirit hitting the game's credits/"official" ending, since any deaths before the Bad Ending from the trial aren't really an "ending" unless you decide to quit the game. It's like saying you can speedrun Mario games by seeing how fast you can die on the first goomba. Technically? yes! but it's not competitive or fun.
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As Lemmings mentioned at the end of the run, One Short Eye has 2 fantastic videos about this game,
The first is a good primer on the game
ua-cam.com/video/MYawahBTJaI/v-deo.html&ab_channel=OneShortEye
And the second video goes through why to speed run this game, you need to make Robin Hood a coward.
ua-cam.com/video/fmaP8R0D9sQ/v-deo.html&ab_channel=OneShortEye
Great job and great run, which I could have watched it live.
The last trick of the run was actually introduced to the community in a comment on that video. Someone found it casually but since they weren't a speedrunner they didn't share it until they watched the video.
Great run Lemming, and well done David and woofs! Representing the Speedy Adventures community and all the heroics we skip 🙂
first a video by oneshoteye now by gdq nice
Glad I checked the VODs, really curious about this game now! Fun run!
Very cool. As a side comment, whoever wrote this game seems to have read some of the original Robin Hood stories, as evil monks & bishops, knights in need of aid on the road, swearing by the Virgin, and Robin playing highwayman on the road absolutely appear in the oldest stories! (Before Robin was cleaned up for kids by Howard Pyle, which was also cool & all, but the rougher, earlier legends make for some good material here.)
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huge congrats lemming, great job on the run and commentary. incredibly difficult to squish in both story and trick explanation into less than 20 mins, and you did it wonderfully. big props to davidtki and thewoofs for their commentary and voiceover work here too
couldn’t catch this live, but i’m thrilled to see it here :] masterfully done!!
wait, christy marx? queen of 80s saturday morning cartoons christy marx?? dang, she's so prolific!
the very same!
I'm still not sure why getting the bad ending counts. You can get a bad ending by dying seconds into the game. You get a cutscene and everything! You get a cutscene every time you die. Do those not count?
If you want to run "game over as soon as possible ending" you can propose that as a category, of course, but I can't imagine that there'd be a lot of interest. "Get to the end of the game alive but with the worst ending" seems fair enough as a separate category to me. Plenty of games' speedrunning communities have categories like that - especially important for games where the "good" ending takes 3 times as long as the "bad" ending.
Thanks for the heads-up! I've alerted the authorities. From now on this bad ending will NOT count!
My assumption is it's in the spirit hitting the game's credits/"official" ending, since any deaths before the Bad Ending from the trial aren't really an "ending" unless you decide to quit the game.
It's like saying you can speedrun Mario games by seeing how fast you can die on the first goomba. Technically? yes! but it's not competitive or fun.