Columns III - Hard mode speed run [
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- This is my Columns III speedrun in 25 minutes and 32 seconds, as timed from selecting Hard mode in the menu to the screen fading out after defeating the Sphinx. In case you're wondering, the menu at the start is the Everdrive MD menu - I'm playing this game via that as I don't have the cartridge.
Hard mode is chosen because it plays the entire game: Practice and Normal modes only play the first 3 and 10 stages respectively, whereas Hard plays all 11. Otherwise, as far as I know, the levels that are common are unchanged.
Strategy in this game is very interesting and I intend to make a tutorial video on the topic in the near future, but the short version: clearing gems makes you earn points which you use to attack your opponent - each 10 wipes one row of garbage off your stack as well as adding one to your opponent. If you chain clears together they become worth progressively more - a basic clear is 3, the second in the chain gives 7, the third 11, and so on. The score counter caps at 30, however, so it's not worth going for more than three at a time. The setup I use at the start of each stage allows me to get a three chain quickly as an opening move, and then I look for opportunities within the stack to make double or triple chains for the rest of the match.
I'm pretty impressed with this run, because it both features a perfect 22-0 record and only one fight in the first 18 went particularly slowly (the second one against the snake). The last two stages are so much more difficult than the rest that just clearing them 2-0 is enough to make me happy, but these were also above average times. Sphinx matches can easily go beyond three minutes!
Enjoy the run!
That ending theme is so good.
From Bb major to F# major
Columns is the rare games of all time in sega. You got understand, when you need to solve like puyo pop or mean bean machine to solve it quickly. Throwback nostalgia once again.
I played this game once on my Atgames Sega Genesis and retired from using it. All because of a mismatched clock speed on both the ym2612 and sn76489 sound chips
I can’t even tell what you are doing. I just see matches being made!
amazing skill bro!! epic game, thanks for this
Great playthrough.
I love this game
Let's play! I have been playing since I was 7 years old !!!!
Reject strategy
Return to impulse
Columns 3 it's the dark souls puzzle for sega genesis
Hey man, just for comparisons sake, might I take the clip from this, more specifically the Sphinx matches to get an idea on what both myself and you were doing?
I feel that there was some form of optimisation with the matches I had done with the Sphinx and it would be interesting to see how both play out.
Hey, absolutely! I've been looking forward for a long time to see what somebody playing on a higher level than me would do with this game, and it shows in your run! When I watch other people do puzzle runs I tend to act as though I'm playing myself and try and predict the moves, but aside from one significant mistake on the Mummy, you were always well ahead of me!
mike89mkscelite I blundered hard on Witch and Mimic chest but recovered quick
The blunder on Mummy didn’t even matter at that point because of the sub 25 round on Sphinx
Oof, forgot to mention the amount of reliance on pieces with 2 of the same color. That was like the biggest downfall of this run so far.
覚悟をいいか I just PB'd
A misty maze zone 2 le gusta el ending
Ahí es donde también escuché la canción final. Sonic Megamix me presentó una gran cantidad de buena música de Genesis, incluida la música final de Columns 3.
(That's where I heard the ending song too. Sonic Megamix introduced me to a lot of good Genesis music, including Columns 3's ending music.)
I used to not know what the hell to do, and I'd fail to make it past the first round. I think the farthest i can go now is the treasure chest
muy buen gameplay! me gustaria jugar contra vos! yo tambien soy buen jugador de columns III
Daniel Gamarra sé que el comentario lleva 9 meses,pero...¿si estas consiente de que el que hizo el speedrun habla ingles?
Надо было для полного хардкора не использовать Бафы защиты
Hi, i really enjoyed your gameplay, but, you can not be a human, how can you play so good? I have been trying to defeat te mummy since i was 13 years los and it is kinda imposible. So, my conclusión, is that you hacked the game, or you are not a human being. Greetings from south América.
Primeiro,tem que ajustar os blocos rápido e segundo formar combos em uma jogada que resultem no máximo 30 de dano,tem que traçar uma rota que você elimine mais de 7 blocos de uma vez e geralmente somado de cores diferentes,creio que seja isso
The mummy is not the last boss lol
Bravo ! 👏🏼 👏🏼
It's Sphinx playing?