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 VVVVVV Official Website VVVVVV is a first-rate indie platformer made in a Commodore 64 style. It was released in early 2010 by Terry Cavanagh (website), a guy known for a bunch of other indie games including his latest, Super Hexagon. The first challenge of VVVVVV is pronouncing it. Say "the letter V six times," say "Vee," say "Vee-Six," or if you want (my personal preference), just make a loud "vuv" sound lasting at least 6 seconds. That should do it. Anyway, once you've got that down, the second challenge is a speedrun to go get the flat-out amazing soundtrack, PPPPPP, by Magnus "Souleye" Pålsson. You can preview it on Bandcamp right here. I am linking PPPPPP again here in case you missed it because it is that good. Of course, the main challenge of the game is the platforming. It's a really thorough exploration of a one-button mechanic: rather than jump, the protagonist flips his gravity, walking along ceilings, floors, and tiny, tiny platforms as needed to make progress. The level design adds elements that combine with the flipping mechanic to keep things difficult and interesting without changing the core gameplay. Deaths are common, but checkpoints are all over the place. On the one hand, this means you don't need to worry about losing a lot of hard-earned progress to deaths. On the other, the frequent checkpoints give the levels a chance to present surprises and strong challenges back-to-back. Even though some parts of the game may make you want to claw your eyes out as a result, like that one shiny trinket, you always feel like you're just one step away from a breakthrough. That's the kind of hard game I love. What you can expect from this LP I'll show off all the levels and trinkets as well as other little secrets as best I can. This will involve a little backtracking, but I'll keep it tight. I may also show some choice player-created levels. If I've missed a big secret or something you really like by the time we clear the game, let me know! There are also some notorious challenges in this game, including a certain part with a timer that I am terrible at. I'll record the best runs I can of those segments. If you can do better, then by all means show off, but please don't show them until the LP gets there. Let's go!  The main tunes you heard this time: Presenting VVVVVV | Pushing Onwards  This time you heard: Passion for Exploring | Potential for Anything  You heard these again: Passion for Exploring | Pushing Onwards  This time you heard: Predestined Fate  This time you heard: Pressure Cooker  This time you heard: Positive Force  You heard this again: Positive Force  You heard these and they are great: Predestined Fate | Positive Force | Popular Potpourri  Cool tracks: Plenary | Pipe Dream  Your favorite intermission track: Predestined Fate BONUS: Watch as Apt Funk V-ranks the time trials!       BONUS: unpronounceable speedruns the hell out of Intermission 1! Click here for the video and tactics!   BONUS: Kefit cleared No Death Mode Click here for the post! Phiggle fucked around with this message at 12:47 on Dec 2, 2013 |
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Paul.Power posted:Awesome, glad to see this being LPed, it's pretty much the only hard game I've ever beaten (three shiny trinkets aside). 
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Update time! Let's go check out the damage on the ship and find our first missing crew member. There's also a certain new element in play: Music you heard this time: Passion for Exploring | Potential for Anything The next one might take a while due to editing and the holidays, but I'll try to move it along. (i'm going back to it later) e: wow, double update 
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Dec 23, 2012 00:26
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Paul.Power posted:Going back several pages to the Laboratory update of VVVVVV, inversion planes are a really neat idea, although they only achieve full dickishness later on. The Diode room at the end is kind of mean, to ensure that you can't try and play the level backwards from the exit teleporter. But then, most of the areas have something similar in them (with one exception... I've been sick recently but as soon as my voice becomes listenable again the next update will happen.
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Paul.Power, that exception, so to speak, is definitely getting covered, as well as another thing you'll probably enjoy. The bonus videos should be pretty fun! Maybe Oysterman could have some funny "conditions" for his refight? I'm assuming there will be refights eventually, and I always thought vanilla refights in the MM games were a little tedious. One of the MM2 romhacks (Deus ex Machina?) had changes to the refight boss rooms that forced you to use different tactics, and I thought that was great.
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Update time! This time it's a pretty long level. It's the same old mechanics of the first level, but on steroids - and some of the game's meanest trinkets. You heard these again: Passion for Exploring | Pushing Onwards
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I only cut out three deaths, actually. It had just gone on long enough already. I also got asked whether it was okay with me for people to submit speedruns and other expert stuff of their own. I'd love to see that, but I think they'd be better for after this main playthrough is over. I'll be trying to do some of them myself too afterwards! Phiggle fucked around with this message at 01:06 on Jan 19, 2013 |
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Yes, actually. They just take away the spikes and rename the screen to Imagine Spikes Here, If You Like. In no-death mode (which is a very fiendish thing), it's the same change and is renamed I Can't Believe You Got This Far. The exit through Exhaust Chute also just kills you in that time trial, in case you were wondering. Actually, I changed my mind a bit. If anyone wants to show off stuff from the space station levels, go for it! There are cool tricks to see. Just leave the Laboratory alone for now if you would.
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The latest: Final: Dectilon's Legend Run An excellent guy by the name of Locomalito (website) has made a number of free standalone games in an old-school arcade style. They're generally really fun to play, but they're also built to "80's gaming standards" of difficulty. In other words, tricky, challenging, and generally quarter-gobbling if you were to play on an arcade cabinet. You might remember when Dectilon (and much later, myself with his help) took on his excellent shoot-'em-up, Hydorah. Well, Maldita Castilla is Locomalito's tribute to a different genre: ye olde medieval side-scroller. Think Ghosts'n Goblins with some tweaks. Dectilon asked me to play through this one blind with him like I did with Hydorah. He actually ran the idea of the LP by Locomalito, who gave us the thumbs up to show it off here. Expect a healthy dose of editing around deaths in later videos, because like the games he's making an homage to, the game gets pretty cruel! Round 1 - the competent leading the blind to BAD END  Chapter 1: Tolomera del Rey  Chapter 2: Road of the Harpies  Chapter 3: The Alcazar  Chapter 4: Swamp of Malaventura  Chapter 5: Cursed Forest Round 2: To the final level and MEDIOCRE END  Chapters 1-5: All Tears, Full Run (about 56 minutes)  Chapters 1-5: All Tears, "Highlights" (condensed to about 32 minutes)  Chapter 6: The Realm of Pain Round 3: GOOD END by GOOD PLAYER  Final: Dectilon's Legend Run Also of interest(?): Let's Race Maldita Castilla, with Dectilon, Phiggle, RobotGoat and Some Strange Flea, from the Let's Race thread! Follow that link to find another, especially funny race of the game! Phiggle fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Apr 14, 2013 |
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Nidoking posted:I love the new banner! Bright Man is a recent addition, isn't he? Or was Mega Man Dongs always part of the intended lineup? NAME REDACTED posted:If there're any actual speakers of spanish, a better translation would be nice.
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Update time! It's an escort mission that largely won't make you tear your hair out. Also, Apt Funk, I'm throwing your V-rank time trial into my main post, and there will be more big levels for you to run through soon. This time you heard: Predestined Fate
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Maldita Castilla update! This is probably the last stretch of me looking like I can play the game at an okay level. Brace yourselves. Chapter 2: Road of the Harpies Phiggle fucked around with this message at 21:42 on Feb 1, 2013 |
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We're back to main levels now, and after a chat with some of the crew, we'll enter one of the less intense, but more fun, areas of the game. Enjoy! This time you heard: Pressure Cooker
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These VVVVVV factoids are very cool, thanks for sharing them!Suspicious Dish posted:"Edge Games" is a reference to Tim Langdell and Adam Atomic's Edgecrement with the Pac-Man sprites more than anything gameplay related. Six Of Spades posted:Oh! It seems the end of the video cuts off prematurely?
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In Maldita Castilla, there is a point where the difficulty spikes and you hit a sort of brick wall. This is that point. The wall happens to have faces. Chapter 3: The Alcazar For reference, the previous 2 levels took 20 minutes combined.
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Awesome, Dectilon is going to post a great run of Maldita Castilla! But given that my soul has already been sold for continues in this run, we might as well see it through to the bitter end. Tonight, turtle soup dines on me. Chapter 4: Swamp of Malaventura
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Yeah, and misadventure is a good way to put this playthrough! There's only one chapter left but we'll show more after this playthrough ends.
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gently caress you, game. (soundtrack, we're still cool) This time you heard: Positive Force
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unpronounceable posted:drat. How long did it take for you to get that? I can't count how many times I've gone through The Gravitron, but I still haven't managed a deathless run. I think the best I've done is 2 or 3 deaths. Thanks! I was stuck on 2 to 3 deaths for a long time. I practiced at small intervals for a couple of weeks, actually. It's just really hard. I wanted to learn it though, because all my best no-death runs have petered out rapidly there. HenryEx posted:Not gonna lie, i thought VVVVVV was pretty terible as a whole, but the Gravitron was the first (and only) legitimately fun thing in the game. It helps that it has like the single one really good BGM from the sound track accompanying it. I think this is a really polarizing point in the game, probably because it's so different from the rest. Other people have also said they love the Gravitron, but maybe me dying so many times on my first playthrough ever left a bad taste. I'm okay with it now at least. It's enjoyable but a major shift from the main levels. Terry Cavanagh's most recent game, Super Hexagon, would be great for people who love the Gravitron. I'll cover all the dialogue from the intermissions in a bonus update. In terms of strategy if you want a deathless run: I'm not really an expert, but the best thing for me was practicing the transitions between phases to learn something I could do consistently. A major hurdle was getting ready for the 30-second mark, when the blocks start to come from both sides. It definitely helped when I worked on getting into the middle of the screen by the time they start coming. Also, bear in mind that the space between blocks expands a bit with each death. I eventually thought it was better to start over after a lot of deaths so I didn't learn something for later phases that wouldn't work with the smallest spacing.
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This playthrough of Maldita Castilla has come to a long, winding, confusing conclusion. Chapter 5: Cursed Forest BAD END has been achieved. But don't worry. Another playthrough might be in the works, and Dectilon has more to show off in this game soon! edit: Dectilon posted:Maldita Castilla has yet to reveal it's dirtiest tricks! Phiggle fucked around with this message at 23:10 on Feb 17, 2013 |
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Time to rescue the last crew member and enjoy a great level gimmick! You heard this again: Positive Force
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For NES, I think FCEUX is really good. It has an AVI recording option as well as a keystroke recording option. Usually I'll record keystrokes first, then play them back in the emulator with AVI recording turned on to get a video.
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Apt Funk posted:VVVVVV V-Rank Time Trials
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Maldita Castilla is back! We have a few loose ends to tie up. Dectilon wasn't satisfied with me landing the BAD END, so he helped me find all the tears and get to the main event: the final level. That video will come in the next day or so. In the meantime, this trek through the first 5 levels comes in two flavors. Chapters 1-5: All Tears, Full Run (about 56 minutes) And if you don't have the patience for that one, here's another version: Chapters 1-5: All Tears, "Highlights" (condensed to about 32 minutes)
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MEDIOCRE END is upon us, and the level's title is no joke. I abbreviated the final boss fight a lot because of what a pain it was. Pain! Get it?! Okay here's the video already. Chapter 6: The Realm of Pain Next time: Dectilon's playthrough! (PS, good luck with your new job, GuidoAnchovies!)
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It's about time we made our way to the ending. You heard these and they are great: Predestined Fate | Positive Force | Popular Potpourri I really like the design of the final level of VVVVVV, especially the visuals, despite the fact that it leans a little toward needing foreknowledge of certain rooms to pass through them without cheap deaths. I think you could expect more deaths on your first several times than you might see here. Anyway, enjoy the ending, and I'll be back with bonus footage, tricks, and maybe some user levels!
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In our previous playthroughs of Maldita Castilla, Don Ramiro was first destroyed by demons after not even getting into the Realm of Pain. The next time, Death extracted his soul in exchange for the stack of continues I needed. Well, it's time for our last run, and since Dectilon is at the controls, he'll do a whole lot better. Get ready to see the best ending, plus a tactical breakdown and evisceration of this game's challenges. Final: Dectilon's Legend Run A couple of times, we reference a race we did of the game, with RobotGoat and Some Strange Flea. You can find that here, from the Let's Race thread here. If you want to see an even faster demolition of the game, you should have a look! It's impressive, especially considering how hard this game can be. There is also another race of the game in that thread that was especially funny, and here it is directly because why not. Thanks for watching, and definitely try the game out if you haven't yet!
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I used SCFH and VirtualDub's capture mode. If you check out the OP of the Let's Race thread, there's a little tutorial under Guides on how to use them together. Dectilon used Open Broadcaster Software's local recording function, which won't be lossless but does at least pick up the game without lagging it. I was using windowed mode, if that helps.
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It's been a while, but here's one last video to wrap up as many loose ends as I can! Cool tracks: Plenary | Pipe Dream Flip Mode inverts the game, which adds difficulty to the same puzzles by messing with your muscle memory and timing (and occasionally your ears). Analogue Mode is great for like 5 seconds. Vermilion turns out to be a very helpful first rescue, so we'll see where he pops up. But the main events are the sequence break and the reward for getting all 20 trinkets! Check it out. And one last extra for completion's sake (no commentary) - the dialogue from the intermissions for each crew member, since they can be pretty funny. Your favorite intermission track: Predestined Fate Thanks for watching! Phiggle fucked around with this message at 15:10 on Apr 25, 2013 |
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unpronounceable posted:The deathskip trick as you rescue Violet is actually pretty easy if you know how the timing works. You just have to press V and R on the same frame when you clear the message box. I didn't mention the flipped titles in the video, but it was reflected in the banner for the playthrough at least.
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We have recorded something else that you will enjoy that will be ready soon. There is not going to be Gradius from me. But you will like what's coming. Hint/spoiler: There is Gradius music in it at least.
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Holy poo poo. I was hoping this was the surprise you were getting at early in the thread! Thank you for this. Sorry about the nausea 
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>>  THE LATEST <<Wily 4: Final Farce  What this game and LP are about A couple of years ago, Dectilon introduced me and the Mega Man threads to Minus Infinity, a romhack of Rockman 4 by PureSabe and (now?) some other hackers that defies description. It's especially hard in the beginning, as you take on fully modified and expansive stages with minibosses, colossal enemies, and practically the entire cast of Mega Man and Rockman World mooks. It gets easier once you start picking up the wholly modified boss weapons and possibly secret items (see the table below), but it's a stretch to call the game anything other than hard - invincibility time is lowered and levels are designed with surprising traps and gimmicks. "I watched the old stuff (or didn't) and don't want to sit through all of it to get started. Just give me the gist of it." At the time we first recorded it, the game was in beta - the fortress stages hadn't been finalized yet, so we weren't able to make videos for certain levels. Well, the 0.01 version is here, complete through to the ending. I'll be taking the controls starting at the first new stage, Cossack 4. Feel free to watch the highlight reel below to get a feel for the game. Our playthroughs from before of the mostly-intact beta stages are also linked, most of which feature Dectilon's super skills. (Watch my run of Cossack 3 at your own peril.)  (note: will probably convince you to watch the rest/get the game)  THE ARSENAL The weapons and powerups in this game are ridiculous. They get demonstrated a lot, since the buster is probably the weakest weapon in the game, but for the sake of completion:   [IMG]http://lpix.org/1197012/rockbustericon.png][/IMG]                              THE TUNES This game has a diverse and expanded soundtrack. Go here if you want to see the sources and hear the originals. Be aware it's a comprehensive list, so the names of levels we haven't covered yet will be in there. Scroll gently! Also, there are some other spoilers if you click onto other pages on the site. (Under "Secrets" for example, but you could have figured that out.) THE VIDEOS  Ring Man, played by Phiggle  Dive Man, played by Dectilon  Drill Man, played by Dectilon  Toad Man, played by Phiggle  Skull Man, played by Dectilon  Dust Man, played by Dectilon  Bright Man, played by Phiggle  Pharaoh Man, played by Dectilon  Cossack 1: Blizzard Sky, played by Dectilon  Cossack 2: Laboratory Maze, played by Dectilon  Cossack 3: Purification Plant, aka "Phiggle's Bizarre Adventure" aka sorry this took an hour HIGHLIGHTS up to Cossack 3  Cossack 4: Four Towers  Wily 1: Fatal Miscalculation, beta version, played by Dectilon  Wily 1: Fatal Miscalculation, 0.01 version, played by Phiggle  Wily 2: Rushed Out Products, beta version, played by Dectilon  Wily 2: Rushed Out Products, 0.01 version, played by Phiggle  Beta Version Extras  Wily 3: Wily's Labyrinth - Part 1  Wily 3: Wily's Labyrinth - Part 2  Wily 4: Final Farce Phiggle fucked around with this message at 18:57 on May 9, 2013 |
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alcharagia posted:Do you keep the Killer weapon that you go into the Cossack fight with for the rest of the game? unpronounceable posted:Someone else collected all the sources. One of my favourite tracks in it is Diveman's Stage.
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But Dectilon played Cossack 2  Actually the Shock Guard you get reduces you to 1 bar of health on spikes. I found out about it when I was doing a bonus video for after the beta playthrough. You can see all the Recycle Inhaler pickups at the end of the beta highlight reel, and I'll repost the whole bonus video when it's time. I wish we'd known about the Shock Guard and other pickups beforehand though. It would have been so useful. As it worked out, my play in Cossack 3 is beyond shameful. 
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Smart Car posted:Speaking of the recycle inhaler, does it work on the weapons dropped by the bosses in Cossack 4? Considering it works on practically every other special item, I'm kind of curious if it works on those too. Cheez, I agree with Nidoking. No reason you couldn't still do a thread on it if you wanted. If you're just getting started like you say, you might want to go to the Sandcastle with a sample first for some feedback. But clearly there's a lot to show in the game!
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^^^^ nice job! Definitely looking forward to what you have to say about the Laboratory. Minus Infinity continues! As we mentioned before, for continuity's sake, we're playing through Wily 1 and 2 a second time. I spent some more time showing the boss this time around. Wily 1: Fatal Miscalculation, 0.01 version, played by Phiggle Wily 1: Fatal Miscalculation, beta version, played by Dectilon Phiggle fucked around with this message at 18:39 on May 2, 2013 |
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In case anyone was wondering how far you can take the vehicles in MI Wily 1: You can get in with everything but the turret, including the jetski. There's one low overhang that gives the jumper a lot of trouble, but since it can jump off the water once before sinking and ejecting Mega Man, you can get around it.
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Olesh posted:Quick note on Rockman Minus Infinity: I'm told that there is, in fact, a weapon switching mechanic in the game - A and B on the 2nd controller. There is, and I like that it's there. I'm not really able to make good use of it yet because I don't have the order of the weapons committed to memory. If nothing else, being able to hit both buttons at the same time to skip back to the buster is really convenient. Not being able to skip the extras gets a little old though, particularly the three Rush powers in a row with the exact same color scheme.
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