[TAS] PSX Spectral Tower by CoolHandMike in

This is a tool-assisted speedrun. For more information, see tasvideos.org/...
TAS originally published on 2024-03-01
Spectral Tower (スペクトラルタワー ) is a role-playing game for the PlayStation that was only released in Japan and the first game developed by Idea Factory, creator of various otaku games such as Cross Edge and the Neptunia series. You play as an adventurer that's looking for wonders and treasure, and it's said that the Spectral Tower contains both that are beyond any person's imagination. Your objective is to get to the top of that tower and see what the heavens can give you that Earth can't.
The game is infamous for its extremely long length. Each floor in the towers contain procedurally generated floor layouts and monster layouts, and the titular Spectral Tower contains 1000 of these floors. It also has enemies that can destroy items that you're carrying, chests that have to be attacked if your chest opening level is too low, and dozens and dozens of traps.
For this run, CoolHandMike ( tasvideos.org/... ) decides he doesn't want to deal with all that tedium and annoyance and greatly manipulates the RNG so that the floor teleporting items, the Warp Rod and Jump Rod, can skip as many floors as possible without fail. In the process, he clears even the 10,000 floor Final Tower in record time. For more details on the mechanics of the game, you can read the author's notes.

[@thishandle.wasnttaken]

Someone really watched the video about "one of the worst RPGs ever made", heard that it takes hundreds of hours to beat, and said "half an hour."

[@zeeoh5466]

technically this is the best way to experience the game, since you're playing it for as little as possible. it helps that the game has only half an hour of content anyway lol

[@dj_anthon]

23:50 action starts

[@chackbro1]

This video looks like a depiction of insanity

[@MaxBrains]

That even with this much RNG manipulation it takes so long to skip through the game is insane. I can't imagine what the designers were thinking.

[@streighkaat]

Get this man an elevator.

[@delicioustoast123]

I’m not sure what I’m what watching right now

[@RADish-official]

I would be the type of person to beat every single floor in this game to the highest rate of completion as I can muster. That is if I was ever able to afford this game lmao

[@gabrielstrong7322]

Emulate it

[@gabrielstrong7322]

If ya nasty

[@MaxxyBee]

they really said "we could make a ten thousand floor dungeon" instead of "should we make a ten thousand floor dungeon"

[@avalonjustin]

Torneko:The Last Hope wasn't great but it was leaps and bounds above this.

[@sarcasticguy4311]

Looks like a combination between Shining the Holy Ark and every single mystery dungeon game.

[@tevlonwater5643]

What the...?

[@FabioGnecco]

someday they will mix this game with Tower Of Druaga and it will be the most impossible game ever

[@ranulfoduran9294]

Jjajaj glicht😅😅

[@Thomfamily5]

No glitches are in this tas btw