Live A Live: Single Segment Any% Speedrun: 6:07:01

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Published on October 27, 2015 1:16:28 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox4rJkZnc04

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Live A Live (1994)

Duration: 6:18:25

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It's finally done. Phew...

This is basically just me executing all my IL strats in sequence in one long run. A few things I do safer but not much; the biggest difference is the presence of safety saves through the run: 15 or so.

This run has only two major issues...
- W-1 in Akira's chapter killed me. He TURNED AROUND as I was moving to punch him in the back for the one hit KO. I later realized this was because my party was ordered differently than usual. Matsu needs to be in the left slot for it to work. Since W-1 is supposed to be free, I hadn't saved, so I lost about eight minutes.

- Claustrophobia in Oersted's chapter killed me. This is straight RNG and nothing can be done about it. I safety saved just before and it only cost me about two minutes.

Aside from that, Oboro's chapter wanted me dead something fierce. Everything that'd cause me to reset an IL run went wrong in that chapter. Ode Shuriken didn't kill the trapper, Gennai zapped me, the Eight Swords spawned all spread out and wrong, the succubus used Cold Touch way too often for my liking, and Ode used Drink Blood 2 or 3 times. Argh.

A short breakdown by chapter...

- Oboro: Crap RNG, see above
- Sundown: Great. I actually am going to adopt my safety strat of using Jitterbug into an IL Run.
- Masaru: Mediocre luck picking up Tsuda and Abise-Geri. More misses than normal through the rest of the chapter.
- Pogo: IL PB! This just went so well. No fights in the cave and not getting stuck at all on route to the tribal village.
- Li: I accidentally attacked Sammo in his scene, but that only cost me about 60 seconds. Ode almost killed me due to a spawning configuration I'd never seen before.
- Akira: The W-1 death is the only black eye this chapter has. Solid just the same. The two-escalator room in the Facility looks nasty but looks worse than it actually IS. Probably only cost about 15 seconds.
- Cube: Good. Not much to say about his chapter.
- Oersted: Claustrophobia killed me. The demon ALMOST killed me because I moved Hash up to a position I shouldn't have. I pulled it out though, solid IL-quality run even with those issues.
- Finale: IL PB! Sundown was a beast during the Odio fight, landing two massive Hurricane Shots. The grind went well too. I almost had a heart attack when Pogo got hit for 250 during his refight. D:

Totaling up my ILs VS this run, this run comes in about 18 minutes behind my sum of ILs. It's about 1h15m slower than the TAS. I'm happy with it as my goal was to create a run showcasing the strats, not grind out a WR quality run. I don't think I'll be seeking to improve.

PS: Cube is named "A" to speed up re-entering his name during his chapter. Sundown is named "A" because I'm an idiot and mashed B one too many times and cleared his name on entry. Naming Sundown "A" does absolutely nothing to speed up the run :)

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