G-Darius HD Ver. 1 - Arcade/Switch - Omicron V' Manic (Level 8/8) Speedrun - One Life Clear

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Published on October 28, 2022 4:55:57 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZrBkY4JhCw

Game:

G-Darius (1997)

Duration: 25:13

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Still practicing for Interglitches, a speedrun event in France, 4th biggest in Europe, where I said I'd play G-Darius and make fish jokes. I've also proposed the ability for donations to set the difficulty so I figured I needed to practice the run on Level 8 - Manic. This is version 1 of the arcade version which has slightly better boss patterns (Queen Fossil being a big difference).

The speedrun element is simple: Firstly, M2 added in the patch in April 2022 (for us in the West) the ability to "Reduce Slowdown" which mostly means the loading times in the middle of the stage is reduced saving about 3 minutes, but also managing the rank by doing the normal Darius thing of keeping yourself weak. So I raised my shot level to just one below what is needed to take you to laser to leave a bit of wiggle room in case I picked up an accidental red during the run and this means that the HP of the bosses are reduced which means quick kills on Queen Fossil and a little bit for Absolute Defender.

Talking of him, not too bad RNG for that run, although it was a bit dodgy on the 2nd attack where I lost two hit points. His attack patterns are RNG out of a selection. Eternal Triangle was fine, always fine when it turns, but I think nerves got the better of me when I realised it was going well and lost a few hit points in the first phase which meant I started Omicron with no shield.

So for the sake of the SRC submission. Time starts at 0:17 and ends at 21:44 giving me a final time of 21:27 for probably the slowest route, but who cares since that gives me 2nd place... out of 3.

Timings
0:00 Showing settings (Level 8)
0:17 Zone Alpha - Area A
2:34 Eclipse Eye
3:19 Zone Gamma - Area F
6:24 Queen Fossil (Actual start)
7:25 Zone Zeta - Area K
10:34 Absolute Defender
11:40 Zone Kappa - Area S
14:43 Eternal Triangle
16:28 Zone Omicron - Area V'
19:28 G.T. / Great Thing / Grand Truc
21:44 Ending, Credits & High score input

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