Time, %, Difficulty.

view all posts by arkarian

2004-11-25 08:04:22 pm

Quote from LeCoureur103:

Normal 22:30 - 91%

That was my first time through the game.

I now have a Hard file saved around 7:30 in the Sky Temple with 46%. I am unable to beat the Emperor Ing's 3rd phase with my feeble 6 energy tanks. :(

Ouch: I know how that ones feels (Had 7 Energy Tanks on my hard run) Here's a hint for you:

Love the annihilator beam

It was the deciding factor in my attempts against him. I also had 51% there, so I can also tell somewhat how difficult this will be for you. Good Luck with that one, took me quite a bit to finally defeat him.

Tim:

registered on 2003-09-13 04:45:13 pm.

Location: Fort Worth, TX, USA

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Tim

2004-11-25 09:22:24 pm

My last Hard Mode run (I suck, btw): 16:08, 100% items/scans

Current speed run (needs to be tweaked, I think): 1:07, 17% items/45% scans; saved after beating Amorbis.

I goofed up a lot in forgetting where exactly I was supposed to go, and that battle with the multiple Warriors hung me up a bit when I ran out of Light Ammo :(

Quote from LeCoureur103:

I now have a Hard file saved around 7:30 in the Sky Temple with 46%. I am unable to beat the Emperor Ing's 3rd phase with my feeble 6 energy tanks. :(

Heh heh, Emperor Ing was massacring me even with 14 energy tanks. But he was also making me a punching bag in phase 1, and those Inglets wouldn't leave me alone in Chrysalis phase, so I took a lot of damage, eventually entering phase 3 with about 8 or so left. But here's a rather simple strategy that I found to work nicely. Just strafe (whatever it is you do by pounding B while moving and locked on that makes you jump quite a ways) while trying to avoid everything possible. When he creates the lasers, move to where they can't hit you, and unload the Annihilator until you break the shield. Then move in close to where you can just pound away for a few seconds before running away. And hope that his creature swarms drop lots of Ammo refills (try using a Darkburst if you can spare it). The only thing that he can sure-fire knock you around with is that hellish shockwave after he jumps. And his charging attack, but if you morph quickly enough, you can boost right under him ;)

Dark Samus... was a whole another story x_X

-Tim

My last Hard Mode run (I suck, btw): 16:08, 100% items/scans

Current speed run (needs to be tweaked, I think): 1:07, 17% items/45% scans; saved after beating Amorbis.

I goofed up a lot in forgetting where exactly I was supposed to go, and that battle with the multiple Warriors hung me up a bit when I ran out of Light Ammo :(

[quote="LeCoureur103"]I now have a Hard file saved around 7:30 in the Sky Temple with 46%. I am unable to beat the Emperor Ing's 3rd phase with my feeble 6 energy tanks.  :([/quote]

Heh heh, Emperor Ing was massacring me even with 14 energy tanks. But he was also making me a punching bag in phase 1, and those Inglets wouldn't leave me alone in Chrysalis phase, so I took a lot of damage, eventually entering phase 3 with about 8 or so left. But here's a rather simple strategy that I found to work nicely. Just strafe (whatever it is you do by pounding B while moving and locked on that makes you jump quite a ways) while trying to avoid everything possible. When he creates the lasers, move to where they can't hit you, and unload the Annihilator until you break the shield. Then move in close to where you can just pound away for a few seconds before running away. And hope that his creature swarms drop lots of Ammo refills (try using a Darkburst if you can spare it). The only thing that he can sure-fire knock you around with is that hellish shockwave after he jumps. And his charging attack, but if you morph quickly enough, you can boost right under him ;)

Dark Samus... was a whole another story x_X

-Tim

arkarian:

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registered on 2004-09-01 04:15:32 pm.

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Location: ellicott city, md, usa

arkarian

2004-11-25 09:36:47 pm

mindfulness

fully erect

Well, I still haven't beaten the game once yet. I didn't play it all today, and I hardly played it yesterday. Actually, I'm only just about finished the Bog. Hopefully I'll be able to get my time up soon, but it sounds like Emperor Ing is going to be a bitch to beat.

Yoshi348:

registered on 2003-09-15 04:52:52 pm.

Gender: male

Location: My own little world

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Yoshi348

2004-11-25 09:39:17 pm

PAGE BREAKER

Ready and willing.

He isn't too hard on normal.

Red Scarlet:

registered on 2004-01-20 01:26:46 pm.

Gender: female

Location: My house

2004-11-26 03:32:19 pm

I('d) like to watch (some MP3 runs)

4:51 100% normal using Radix's route. But sparky is likely going to get under 4 hrs. Now I need to try my route again for a better comparison.

Prime Hunter:

registered on 2004-08-09 06:04:32 pm.

Gender: male

Location: USA

view all posts by GreenMamba

2004-11-26 04:47:57 pm

Man, some of you are already doing this good? I need to step it up a bit... Last I knew, I was about 1 + 1/2 hours in, and had just gotten the Supers on my latest run (Haven't played it at all today, so I can't remember exactly.) However, my run is also a low% run (Hoping to get around 30% or less Wink

) instead of the 100% ones that seem to be popping up lately. I still have a feeling that my low % will be slower than the 100%, knowing how a lot of you run things... Crying or Very sad

Edit: Also trying to FINALLY get my 100% scans, since I seemed to miss at least one on each of my previous two runs...

GreenMamba:

registered on 2004-02-12 05:27:45 pm.

Location: Underneath your shoe. Get offa me!

GreenMamba

2004-11-26 05:01:35 pm

What luck, there's french fry stuck in my beard.

100% scans is all I have to do now before I start... "speed" running this game.

Red Scarlet:

registered on 2004-01-20 01:26:46 pm.

Gender: female

Location: My house

view all posts by Dragondarch

2004-11-26 05:58:12 pm

I('d) like to watch (some MP3 runs)

It's not that good really, I've just gone through the game 4x now.

Dragondarch:

registered on 2004-04-21 04:55:50 am.

Location: The Spiritual Realm

Dragondarch

2004-11-26 06:31:53 pm

I'm practically finished with a Hard mode run now...have 100% items this time, but I'm missing ONE scan! I've been keeping track of everything this time around, and have the location of all items/scans written down except this one.

Lore->Luminoth Lore->History->Golden Age
Light of Aether
Origins
Our Heritage
Paradise
The Stellar Object
??????????????????

I don't know what the 6th one is, and don't want to beat Emperor Ing until I find it. If anyone knows where it is could they be so kind as to clue me in. I probably walked right past it and didn't even see it :?

Will post my time after I find the scan and complete the run.

Red Scarlet:

registered on 2004-01-20 01:26:46 pm.

Gender: female

Location: My house

2004-11-26 07:35:29 pm

I('d) like to watch (some MP3 runs)

Saving Aether: Agon Wastes-Agon Energy Controller (purple)

Prime Hunter:

registered on 2004-08-09 06:04:32 pm.

Gender: male

Location: USA

view all posts by Dragondarch

2004-11-26 08:07:05 pm

If that's the one I think it is, it's behind the rocks on the left as you enter the area. You can't see it from the collector, so I've missed that one quite a bit too.

Dragondarch:

registered on 2004-04-21 04:55:50 am.

Location: The Spiritual Realm

Dragondarch

2004-11-27 03:25:16 am

OK, that was just an evil location for a scan...but anyway...

15:48 - Hard
100% Items
100% Scans

Kinda sucked, but was still looking for crap this time...and having to backtrack for a couple items I couldn't find didn't help either.

Prime Hunter:

registered on 2004-08-09 06:04:32 pm.

Gender: male

Location: USA

2004-11-28 10:24:35 pm

My latest run (About to face the Emperor)

- 4:31
- 25% Items
- 95% Scans (Hopefully 100% by the end FINALLY)

You can cut out 3%, if you take out an extra energy tank, missile, and beam ammo: That would make things A LOT harder however, at least for me Evil or Very Mad

Red Scarlet:

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Gender: female

Location: My house

view all posts by ShadowJedi

2004-11-28 11:47:04 pm

I('d) like to watch (some MP3 runs)

I think you have 96% scans if you have everything but the final boss.

ShadowJedi:

registered on 2004-05-22 10:58:55 am.

ShadowJedi

2004-11-29 04:58:09 am

I finished the game on with 96% scans (with the last boss), 68% items and a time of 14:26 yesterday.

Anima Zero:

registered on 2004-06-11 01:20:46 pm.

Location: Somewhere near a computer...

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Anima Zero

2004-11-29 09:49:20 am

Just finished the game last night. Got a time of...

16:22 with 81% items and around 80% scans. Going to start up a hard mode file today.

Dragondarch:

registered on 2004-04-21 04:55:50 am.

Location: The Spiritual Realm

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Dragondarch

2004-11-29 12:50:10 pm

Did a pseudo speed run the other day:

Normal 100% - 5:53
No Speed tricks or sequence breaking since I suck at that kind of stuff in both MPs. Also using a route that I was making up on the fly...only had to backtrack for one item I forgot about (curse you Aerial Training Site!)

Prime Hunter:

registered on 2004-08-09 06:04:32 pm.

Gender: male

Location: USA

2004-11-29 01:58:52 pm

Quote from Red Scarlet:

I think you have 96% scans if you have everything but the final boss.

If I missed something AGAIN...

I think I got everything up to this point however: I have the guide and was using it to get what I missed: Could be a 6 instead of a 5 though: Won't be sure until the end I guess...

zell99:

registered on 2004-11-25 04:39:35 pm.

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zell99

2004-11-29 03:31:45 pm

4:58, 100% normal
used my personnal route up to Quadraxis, then I pretty much used Radix's route (modified a little to accomodate the items I took earlier and the ones i didnt) I didn't care much about my run because so many tricks were discovered (I didnt use any, did all the puzzles the long way) so all the cleanup was done in one go without restarting

Red Scarlet:

registered on 2004-01-20 01:26:46 pm.

Gender: female

Location: My house

2004-11-29 03:35:13 pm

I('d) like to watch (some MP3 runs)

Awesome zell. ^^
I should finish mine up today too.

Forte:

registered on 2004-11-29 04:24:55 pm.

Location: the Death star

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Forte

2004-11-29 04:27:27 pm

heh, I joined this board for this game, my first run, sucky as it may be, was 15:00, 79% on Normal

Prime Hunter:

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Gender: male

Location: USA