periwinkle | (1'47"9) Cave Story+ (PC) Hell speedrun (Snake/Blade) @periwinkle. | Uploaded February 2023 | Updated October 2024, 13 hours ago.
Personal best as of 2023-02-16.
I was only going for a 1'48", but I'll take a 1'47" any day :D
FAQ:
Q: What's the point of unequipping and re-equipping the Booster?
A: Unequipping the Booster allows you to preserve the speed from the boost. Otherwise, if you just release the button to stop boosting (or run out of fuel), you'll lose all of your speed. Note that the in-game timer doesn't count up while in the inventory, and so this technique can be done without any time penalty.
If you don't like the use of this technique, I also have a 1'51"5 that doesn't pause at all except to use the Life Pot: youtu.be/M6ZixKELfZk
Q: I saw that previous records used the Nemesis; is Blade faster?
A: It is now. :P
Nemesis was used previously because it allows for a phase 3 "ultra" cycle that starts the fight much closer to the left side of the arena, saving about 2-3 seconds over the usual strat that starts him all the way on the right (see youtu.be/vD8q9y42ifw?t=185). But sometime last year, I discovered that an equally fast (and actually even slightly faster) phase 3 ultra was possible with the Blade. Moreover, Blade is better than Nemesis for phase 1.
If you're not going for a world record-level time, though, I would recommend using either Spur/Blade or Snake/Nemesis, as this will make it easier to activate the last two Deletes at the same time (by using the Spur or Nemesis), whereas with the Snake/Blade combo you have to use missiles for them, which is quite precise and probably more difficult than I would bother learning initially.
Q: Do you use a turbo button?
A: No, I don't.
Q: Is this category dead?
A: No, of course not! There's always going to be more time to save. In particular, there's a decent chunk of time that can be saved in B2 (by doing more Booster unequips), and the movement in both B1 and B3 can be tightened up a bit in various places. For Heavy Press, I swapped to Blade near the end of the fight to conserve some missiles, but if you got luckier with missile drops from enemies then you could spam missiles for the entire fight and probably save a few tenths there. Then, of course, the Ballos fight can always be mashed faster...
All that being said, I'm quite happy with this time so I don't have any plans to return to this category anytime soon. Maybe if a new strat is found...
Twitch VOD with commentary: twitch.tv/videos/1740229808
Personal best as of 2023-02-16.
I was only going for a 1'48", but I'll take a 1'47" any day :D
FAQ:
Q: What's the point of unequipping and re-equipping the Booster?
A: Unequipping the Booster allows you to preserve the speed from the boost. Otherwise, if you just release the button to stop boosting (or run out of fuel), you'll lose all of your speed. Note that the in-game timer doesn't count up while in the inventory, and so this technique can be done without any time penalty.
If you don't like the use of this technique, I also have a 1'51"5 that doesn't pause at all except to use the Life Pot: youtu.be/M6ZixKELfZk
Q: I saw that previous records used the Nemesis; is Blade faster?
A: It is now. :P
Nemesis was used previously because it allows for a phase 3 "ultra" cycle that starts the fight much closer to the left side of the arena, saving about 2-3 seconds over the usual strat that starts him all the way on the right (see youtu.be/vD8q9y42ifw?t=185). But sometime last year, I discovered that an equally fast (and actually even slightly faster) phase 3 ultra was possible with the Blade. Moreover, Blade is better than Nemesis for phase 1.
If you're not going for a world record-level time, though, I would recommend using either Spur/Blade or Snake/Nemesis, as this will make it easier to activate the last two Deletes at the same time (by using the Spur or Nemesis), whereas with the Snake/Blade combo you have to use missiles for them, which is quite precise and probably more difficult than I would bother learning initially.
Q: Do you use a turbo button?
A: No, I don't.
Q: Is this category dead?
A: No, of course not! There's always going to be more time to save. In particular, there's a decent chunk of time that can be saved in B2 (by doing more Booster unequips), and the movement in both B1 and B3 can be tightened up a bit in various places. For Heavy Press, I swapped to Blade near the end of the fight to conserve some missiles, but if you got luckier with missile drops from enemies then you could spam missiles for the entire fight and probably save a few tenths there. Then, of course, the Ballos fight can always be mashed faster...
All that being said, I'm quite happy with this time so I don't have any plans to return to this category anytime soon. Maybe if a new strat is found...
Twitch VOD with commentary: twitch.tv/videos/1740229808
