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Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! (1999)

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The following is 23 separate IL's I spliced in Bizhawk compiled into one video. I excluded all flights, Gnasty Gnorc, and all homeworld movement. Some of the ILs are good (Dry Canyon), some are really not (Jacques lmao).

When I began this project, the point was to emulate a technique I had used when improving in Spyro 2 in which I compared my best segment for each level with the community best. Since none of my Spyro 1 golds were remotely good, I decided to fake some by splicing what I thought was the best execution I could do. Then, I would compare it against the best segment (that used the same route) I could find, and determined exactly to what I was losing time, whether it was jumping too high, taking a bad line, charge jumping instead of full hopping, etc. I would then redo anything that lost more than a few frames until I got it right.

However, as I improved and the necessity to create these comparisons diminished, I transitioned into just going through a little quicker and not worrying as much about getting an optimal take so long as I knew what was suboptimal in what I was doing (example: most of Art). Then, I hit a group of levels (example: Canyon) where I was also trying to incorporate new strats I was finding. Then then, I decided to make an IL (example: Cove) that was as perfect as I could possibly make with a controller just to see how good my mechanics were. Then then then (finally), the last couple were once again just kinda going through making sure I had the right general idea (example: Haunted).

So across these 23 levels, its not always the optimal route, it's not always a realistic strat, it's kinda all over the place. Which is fine. This isn't meant to be taken seriously as a full theory TAS like John did last year. It's just something I was using to improve my own play that seemed entertaining enough to share. There's never going to be one fully comprehensive video of all strats ever so if you're wondering why I didn't do something in these, record the strat yourself and post it in the discord instead of asking me.

Big thanks to Spora, John, Faarnia, Flazuki, Dayo, and Saboom.

[0:00:02] Dark (Poor)
[0:01:45] Toast (Acceptable)
[0:02:56] Stone (Poor)
[0:05:25] Town (Poor)
[0:07:00] Town 2 (Good)
[0:08:34] Dry (Excellent)
[0:11:08] Cliff (Good)
[0:13:38] Shemp (Acceptable)
[0:15:10] Ice (Acceptable)
[0:18:12] Alpine (Good)
[0:20:58] Caves (Good)
[0:23:48] Wizard (Good)
[0:26:17] Blow (Good)
[0:27:22] Terrace (Good)
[0:29:42] Bog (Good)
[0:32:31] Treetops (Acceptable)
[0:34:55] Metal (Acceptable)
[0:37:17] Haunted (Good)
[0:40:22] DP (Good)
[0:43:12] Lofty (Acceptable)
[0:46:30] Jacques (Poor)
[0:49:01] Cove (Excellent)
[0:51:33] Harbour (Good)
[0:53:50] Loot (Acceptable)

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