Game:

Blast Wind (1997)

Duration: 1:28

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This stage is pretty short and easy. Tengu Blade through as much as you can, one cycle Combiloid by mashing Concrete Shots, kill or Blast Wind Rock Throwns that Tengu Blade can't deal with. There's a few nuances like having to wait for some Shield Attackers to pass or having to space yourself correctly at some point so you don't crash into an enemy when Tengu Blade ends, but nothing big.

Where most of the time is made or lost is on the BombMan.EXE fight. This fight is very RNG-based. You really don't want him to hop around too much. Or if he does, hope that it's short hops. He can really really waste your time if he feels like it. Also, hope that he doesn't die when he's along the left wall. The game doesn't like the Element being in the wall and if BombMan.EXE dies along the left wall (not sure if it happens along the right wall), it'll eject the Element towards the center making you have to slide over to grab it. It's just irritating to lose about a second to that right at the end of the level.

This run beats the previous normal record, megabanana's 1:18.269, an improvement of 411 frames (or 6.850 seconds). For improvements, everything went pretty well here except this part where I fumbled with Salt Water and Concrete Shot. That lost me a bit of time which is infuriating. I went back in to try and get a better run than this, but I just couldn't manage it. BombMan.EXE would just give me worse RNG every time. So I settled for this. The BombMan.EXE fight could have better RNG. I had a run that had pretty much perfect RNG, except for the fact that he died on the left wall which caused the Element to get ejected to the center of the screen, losing me all the time I had saved. That was pretty tilting.

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