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Started a blindvisor (blindfolded) run

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2014-06-26 05:21:48 pm

im even further than that too! i have 3 more vids not uploaded. The first one is sequence breaking the spaceboots. i get them quick and then get lost for 15 minutes looking for the damn spaceship haha! the second vid is me sequence breaking the first missle expansion in the chozo plaza then picking up the morphball and then saving just before the wasp boss fight thats SUPPOSED to give you the first missles. the 3rd video is me just picking up another missle expansion two rooms away from the save station then returning.

Iv beating the waspboss several times but then died on the way back to the save station in the acid water. im gonna give that another go today.

2014-06-26 05:30:00 pm

red chamber dream

that was a pretty entertaining watch. go go go!

2014-06-26 05:58:25 pm

huh, why would you skip Hive Mecha and then go fight him anyway? Seems to defeat the point of skipping him, lol

2014-06-27 06:57:21 am

well i suppose from the spaceship i coulda just tried to make it to the next save AND THEN picked up missles and morphball then returned, but i just figured id get em before saving. i have to get hive mecha cause the energy tank immediately after it will greatly help with anything next. charge beam will be after that and then morphball bombs next. i think there may be 1 or 2 M.E. i could pick up and then itd be time for flaahgra (my first TRUE test of patients with doin it blind).

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SuperSkeetBro: 2014-06-27 06:59:36 am

2014-06-27 06:57:52 am

oh wait. also im picking up the energy tank in chozo plaza before getting chargebeam.

also after flaahgra i may make a few attempts at the infinite speed powerbomb in that lava room in chozoruins

2014-06-27 08:19:37 am

Arbitrary MP2 categories only !

you need boost to reach that Power Bomb Expansion with Infinite Speed

2014-06-27 10:01:15 am

I run this here hotel of an evening

and some sort of cutscene to relieve you of IS after getting the expansion. have fun making it to that save station!

2014-06-28 01:41:24 am

so thats why i couldnt get it when i did it without blindfold! i pulled off the glitch but it wouldnt collect the powerbomb. no matter ill just return before fighting thardus (thats the main reason for sequencebreaking the PB).

In terms of the cutscene needed, i heard the powerbeam doesnt work properly after unmorphing. if i can still get through doors obviously im not hindering any further by my visor beings blocked out haha. eitherway i can make it to the elevator that brings me back to the talon overworld.

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Odylg: 2014-06-28 02:02:11 am

2014-06-28 02:01:07 am

I run this here hotel of an evening

you can get though blue doors using bombs. other doors can't be opened because beams don't fire (or something like that) despite the sound playing.

wait, you couldn't get the powerbomb?

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SuperSkeetBro: 2014-06-28 02:33:28 am

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SuperSkeetBro: 2014-06-28 02:27:45 am

2014-06-28 02:26:08 am

oh ok thats good to know and wont be a problem so long as the glitch doesnt prevent me from returning to morphball. I can easily (as far as a blindfold run's difficulty) navigate to a cutscene.

i didnt have the boostball. but i did get the glitch to work. dont know if MaskedKirby thought boostball is required for the glitch to trigger or just required to pick up items from far away.

Also i beat Hive mecha last night (well 7am actually. hadnt slept) while drunk haha! and then took off my blindfold and noticed my camera ran out of space and only recorded a few minutes of it. FML! so i decided to call it a night until my dog decided to pee on both my blankets cause i yelled at her for getting into the garbage. so since i had to wait for that to get outa the washing machine i decided to do the run again on a new file. didnt take to long to get to the save station without the blindfold, but then took another 2 hours before i succeeded the blindfolded portion again. Just thought id give this small disclaimer about my run seeing as my runtime when im finished may not add up to my total playtime on video. In case there is anyone out there being completely anally a purest!

oh ok thats good to know and wont be a problem so long as the glitch doesnt prevent me from returning to morphball. I can easily (as far as a blindfold run's difficulty) navigate to a cutscene.

i didnt have the boostball. but i did get the glitch to work. dont know if MaskedKirby thought boostball is required for the glitch to trigger or just required to pick up items from far away.

Also i beat Hive mecha last night (well 7am actually. hadnt slept) while drunk haha! and then took off my blindfold and noticed my camera ran out of space and only recorded a few minutes of it. FML! so i decided to call it a night until my dog decided to pee on both my blankets cause i yelled at her for getting into the garbage. so since i had to wait for that to get outa the washing machine i decided to do the run again on a new file. didnt take to long to get to the save station without the blindfold, but then took another 2 hours before i succeeded the blindfolded portion again. Just thought id give this small disclaimer about my run seeing as my runtime when im finished may not add up to my total playtime on video. In case there is anyone out there being completely anally a purest!

2014-06-28 02:29:19 am

I run this here hotel of an evening

just to pick up the items

2014-06-28 06:47:42 am

uploaded part 3a! the first 3 minutes is just me sequence breaking the spaceboots! after that i fall off the cliff near the gunship but end up getting lost trying to find it. My camera split the video into 2 files so i have to upload them seperately. part 3b will be uploaded in an hour if you wana search for it. but for now im off to bed. video is in the first post of this thread.

2014-06-29 12:42:32 am

uploaded part 4a. another split video segment. I sequence break the first missles then the vid is split in the tunnel leading to the morhpball.

2014-06-29 05:03:29 am

Just did the loop around chozo ruins to collect the energy tank in the chozo plaza, then save in the same spot! This is the longest segment so far with 48 minutes but wasnt too hard. Only two attempts but it took awhile to navigate. Vid wont be up for a few days. Still uploading the others.

2014-06-29 05:17:26 am

loving low%

WIth how many Energy Tanks do you want to attempt to beat Flaahgra? All 3 in Chozo Ruins that you don't need to wallcrawl for, right? There're basically all 5 Energy Tanks in Chozo Ruins which you WOULD be able to get before Flaahgra, but one (the one in Hall of the Elders) requires the IBBF wallcrawl and the other (the one in Training Chamber) requires Floaty Jump which basically makes no sense because you don't even do a Varialess Magmoor Run after Flaahgra. And for Floaty Jump in Chozo Ruins, you would even have to defeat Flaahgra in the first place so it doesn't make any sense anyway. Just go fight Flaahgra with Charge Beam, all 3 "easily" obtainable Energy Tanks you can get - blindfolded - and get some Missile but those aren't really needed yet - as Charge Beam also stuns Flaahgra. But it'd probably be better to already now get some more Missile Expansions than usual.

To which point do you already know the route you're probably/ perhaps going for? Until Thardus? Anyway, keep making progress; looking forward to seeing that final screen saying you needed like 30 in-game hours ;-)

WIth how many Energy Tanks do you want to attempt to beat Flaahgra? All 3 in Chozo Ruins that you don't need to wallcrawl for, right? There're basically all 5 Energy Tanks in Chozo Ruins which you WOULD be able to get before Flaahgra, but one (the one in Hall of the Elders) requires the IBBF wallcrawl and the other (the one in Training Chamber) requires Floaty Jump which basically makes no sense because you don't even do a Varialess Magmoor Run after Flaahgra. And for Floaty Jump in Chozo Ruins, you would even have to defeat Flaahgra in the first place so it doesn't make any sense anyway. Just go fight Flaahgra with Charge Beam, all 3 "easily" obtainable Energy Tanks you can get - blindfolded - and get some Missile but those aren't really needed yet - as Charge Beam also stuns Flaahgra. But it'd probably be better to already now get some more Missile Expansions than usual.

To which point do you already know the route you're probably/ perhaps going for? Until Thardus? Anyway, keep making progress; looking forward to seeing that final screen saying you needed like 30 in-game hours ;-)

2014-06-30 06:22:24 pm

I am going to get all 3 energy tanks! Probably not anything more, not unless its easier getting those blindfolded than beating flaahgra blindfolded with 3 tanks. doubtful. for now my next thing is to backtrack to the gunship and pick up the missle expansion that required the morphball. next i may pick up another missle expansion (forget the rooms names) in talon overworld. to describe where thats at, in the room with the halfpipe you normally need to take to go get the spaceboots there is a door that leads to the elevator going to chozo ruins and another, higher up in the room, that can lead to magmoor caverns i beleive but requires a wavebeam or icebeam, i forget. just before the door there is a M.E. under a bridge that kinda looks like its hazardous if you drop into. Thats what ill pick up and then save again at the station im at NOW. from there itll be a simple trek to the next save station closest to flaahgra, the charge beam, and the morphbombs. next is charge beam, then morphball, then any other obtainable missle, and finally flaahgra. after that i dont have anything planned out. most of the game will most likely be the naturally route with a few exceptions here and there. for example ill probably pick up the wavebeam early unless that sheegoth proves to need more missles and tanks.

I am going to get all 3 energy tanks! Probably not anything more, not unless its easier getting those blindfolded than beating flaahgra blindfolded with 3 tanks. doubtful. for now my next thing is to backtrack to the gunship and pick up the missle expansion that required the morphball. next i may pick up another missle expansion (forget the rooms names) in talon overworld. to describe where thats at, in the room with the halfpipe you normally need to take to go get the spaceboots there is a door that leads to the elevator going to chozo ruins and another, higher up in the room, that can lead to magmoor caverns i beleive but requires a wavebeam or icebeam, i forget. just before the door there is a M.E. under a bridge that kinda looks like its hazardous if you drop into. Thats what ill pick up and then save again at the station im at NOW. from there itll be a simple trek to the next save station closest to flaahgra, the charge beam, and the morphbombs. next is charge beam, then morphball, then any other obtainable missle, and finally flaahgra. after that i dont have anything planned out. most of the game will most likely be the naturally route with a few exceptions here and there. for example ill probably pick up the wavebeam early unless that sheegoth proves to need more missles and tanks.

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SuperSkeetBro: 2014-07-01 06:36:42 am

2014-07-01 06:00:35 am

part 5 posted. nothing exciting just a quick missle expansion.

EDIT: i have ALL of my videos currently in the process of uploading. part 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, and 7c! yes the last one was so big my camera split it into 3 files. this will most likely take literally over 24 hours to upload them all and they wont have annotations or even discriptions but you will be able to find them on my channel as soon as they finish uploading.

2014-07-02 04:39:57 am

part 6a and 6b are up. Adding annotations have grown tiresome for me so i havnt done them on these yet.

2014-07-03 02:12:41 am

part 7a 7b and 7c are now up and thats ALL my vids! i may do one or two more segments before i go to lasvegas for a week. GOING TO EVO! anyone else going?

2014-07-05 07:34:10 am

So the other night i backtracked to pick up the missles behind the gunship. Succeeded with ease on my first try. Took 5 minutes. Then tonight i picked up the missles at the frigate crash site (no gravity or grapple yet). That one was freakin tricky! Was thinkin bout leavin it for later but i think im gonna need as much help with flaagra as possible.

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2014-07-29 03:43:20 am

So its been awhile since iv made any updates here. Iv posted several more videos crossing the span of 5 saves and i have 3 more saves (5vids) uploading tonight!. Im currently at 16% and 5:54 run time. i have 45 missle, morhphball and bombs, space boots, charge beam, and 3 energy tanks. All im doin now is collecting 7 more viable missle expansions and then finally facing off against flaahgra. Honestly i thought i woulda been there alot earlier but i kept finding more and more missles that were viable to collect blindfolded. Some may not have been worth it but i figured im prolly gona need almost all of them by the end of the game anyways for wavebuster ammo against the last few bosses.

2014-07-29 03:44:54 am

also i didnt edit the new videos into the first post like before. it was starting to look cluttered so im only putting the more interesting sections on that post. if you wana see the rest just search for it or subscribe to my channel.

2014-07-29 06:06:25 am

just picked up another quick missle expansion and tested playing flaahgra blindfolded again and i am pleased to report its very doable! i didnt beat him but i came close and with only 50 missles wich i ran out of during the final phase of the fight. First scan his tentacles immediately as the fight starts, this will differentiate between tentacles and flaahgra himself when using your scan. After that the key is use two or three missles to keep flaahgra constantly paralyzed. go in and out of combat lock while circling him and shooting. eventually you will hear the sound of the panels moving into place. once you get to the last solar panel do a scan to insure wether a tentacle is to the immediate left or right of you. once confirmed lock the final panel in place. go back into scan til you find the tentacle again and walk towards it quickly before it dissappears. once you take damage you know your in front of the tunnel. morhpball and move forward. you dont have to be exact just close. repeat for all the phases. the last one is tricky as sometimes the last tentacle is completely on the other side of the room when you shoot the last panel into place.

just picked up another quick missle expansion and tested playing flaahgra blindfolded again and i am pleased to report its very doable! i didnt beat him but i came close and with only 50 missles wich i ran out of during the final phase of the fight. First scan his tentacles immediately as the fight starts, this will differentiate between tentacles and flaahgra himself when using your scan. After that the key is use two or three missles to keep flaahgra constantly paralyzed. go in and out of combat lock while circling him and shooting. eventually you will hear the sound of the panels moving into place. once you get to the last solar panel do a scan to insure wether a tentacle is to the immediate left or right of you. once confirmed lock the final panel in place. go back into scan til you find the tentacle again and walk towards it quickly before it dissappears. once you take damage you know your in front of the tunnel. morhpball and move forward. you dont have to be exact just close. repeat for all the phases. the last one is tricky as sometimes the last tentacle is completely on the other side of the room when you shoot the last panel into place.

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SuperSkeetBro: 2014-08-01 07:12:05 am

2014-08-01 07:11:33 am

picked up 5 more missles putting me at 21% and just under 8 hours! iv decided not to pick up the missle in the chozo plaza that usually requires grapple, but can be achieved with a ghetto jump. But next is the last missle expansion (in the vault) before flaahgra!!!! its a bit long of a segment as im doing the same traveling i did for the chozo plaza energy tank. cant wait to finally challenge flaahgra!!!

2014-08-01 07:31:18 am

loving low%

Can't wait for seeing how one defeats Flaahgra blindfolded; your strategy seems to be very advanced/ elaborated, though. Good luck!

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