Nightshade / Kunoichi PS2 speedrun - Hisui - 47:40

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Published on February 23, 2016 9:02:24 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xg7iCAaeEg

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Nightshade (2003)

Duration: 1:01:10

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Hisui, easy

1st single segment speedrun of this game

heeeeeellllllllaaaa WIP though lol. I'll just copy-paste here what I said on /r/speedrun.

First speedrun of Nightshade for the PS2 and I'm using one of the playable characters known as Hisui. Before I go into more detail about this game and run, I'm going to talk about a few key differences between Shinobi and Nightshade as far as speedrunning goes.

Unlike Shinobi, Nightshade's In-Game Timer doesn't reset itself when you die or restart the level so even if you die you can still salvage your run instead of restarting from stage 1-A.

The reason I use Hisui is quite simple. Hisui has the fastest run-speed over every other character on both walls and on the ground. Only reason Hisui isn't flat out OP like Hotsuma is because her weapon doesn't break armor like Hotsuma's and she has Hibana's sword charge projectile instead of Hotsuma's sword charge. Meaning she can't use it to fly across gaps and it's limited in uses. Her "drawback" is that her sword attacks are a bit slower than everyone else, but her air attacks share the same animation as everyone else so there goes that workaround.

This run and game is a huge WIP. There's no single-segment runs to this game that I'm aware of so I'm routing this game specifically for Hibana / Hisui so optimizing the route specifically for them will come in time...hopefully. Most of the IL runs for this game are done using Hotsuma uses completely different strats because of his sword charge, chakra metet being different from Hibana / Hisui, but I was still able to use those runs as a base. I may run this game using Hotsuma, but to be honest...I have way more fun with this game using Hisui over every other character lol

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