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SpikeOut (1998)

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This was the most difficult and frustrating 1CC to get.

Forget everything I said before in my other videos. None of the other games even come to close to the difficulty of Spikeout. Even Sailor Moon arcade was significantly easier than this game.

The game is already hard, but if that wasn't enough, the game is designed with an insanely fast timer. They throw a lot of enemies at you with tons of health, but the game doesn't give you much time to deal with them. This forces you to play aggressive at almost all times. My #1 complaint with this game is the fast timer. If the timer was slowed down like Final Fight timer, this would have made a very great and fun game to play.

The difficulties in this game are: Easiest, Easy, Normal (Default), Hard, and Hardest.

This run is on the Easiest Difficulty, but look at how hard the game still is, lol. On the lower difficulties, you're suppose to take slightly less damage from enemies and the AI is suppose to be less aggressive although the enemies still seem very aggressive to me. They show no mercy at all.

In my opinion, Linda is the worst character of the 4 characters. She's weaker, so she requires more hits to do more damage. Her moves require a lot of start up time, and also require a lot of recovery time (like her slide). Her grab special has so little range it's mostly useless. Almost all her attacks move her forward, so if she misses, she's vulnerable for attack. And she's the only character that pushes back when she does the air throw, so if you're on the edge of a platform in the final fight, she can fall off.

So, in a sense, Linda is hard mode due to her disadvantages.

This is the shortest route in the game. Mall wasn't an option for me because emu would crash every time I tried mall route. Make no mistake though. Just because it's the shortest route doesn't mean it's the easiest route. Shipyard 3B is the most unbalanced stage in the game. The game doesn't give you a reasonable amount of time and time extensions making it one of the difficult stages to do without dying or getting a time over.

Considering how much I struggled to get this on easiest difficulty, it's clear I will never be able to do it on normal default difficulty (at least with Linda).

This is probably going to be the craziest 1CC you will ever see me do.

Shout outs to Fantastic_Planet, Busterman_rta, Macaw45, A1Major, and everyone else who listened to all my complaints on this game, lol. =P

This was played on emulator. The game is the U.S. version.

No cheats. No tool-assists. No save states.

Hope you enjoy this video. =)

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