Game:

Dustforce (2012)

Duration: 0:17

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The supershotgun's not just in Doom II.

This TAS is actually from a little while back. Talking to abirdofprey about his previous Wild Den TAS, he commented that, using this strat, everything is basically on a timer based on that leftmost porcupine. Thus optimizing this route comes down to two issues: First, trigger its first shot as early as possible. Second, end the level as quickly as possible after its second shot.

The first problem is fairly easy. By starting the level by running right (to alert the small totem on the right side), then dashing and jumping left, then doing a fully rightward jump rather than the curved jump the live strat uses, I can get into range of the left porcupine slightly earlier and still make it up to the platform. That's the easy part.

The hard part, though is ending the level ASAP after the second shot. To this end, I want to land a single attack that reflects the spine to kill the big totem, cleans the three remaining enemies, and cleans up all the remaining dust on the left side. This saves around a quarter second over the live strat of using a light attack to reflect the spine then a heavy attack to clean the remaining enemies and dust. This is a little trickier... I land as early as I can to trigger an attack from the big totem, just barely to the right of the small totems. I chase them so that they turn around more slowly, and also the big totem jumps to the left rather than in place or to the right. Then, I jump and carefully position myself so that I can land the perfect attack just as the spine overlaps the big totem.

replay: http://dustkid.com/replay/-7180328

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