Jarlyk | [TAS] Local Citizen Assists Knight in Avoiding Tourist Trap @jarlyk | Uploaded March 2022 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
So, going this direction was actually a mistake as I completely forgot about the lever blocking access to Lemm from below, but this skip from May is extremely funny, so I figured it was worth encoding before I revert. Enjoy.
So, going this direction was actually a mistake as I completely forgot about the lever blocking access to Lemm from below, but this skip from May is extremely funny, so I figured it was worth encoding before I revert. Enjoy.
![[TAS] Local Citizen Assists Knight in Avoiding Tourist Trap](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XjpZU02raMs/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Local Citizen Assists Knight in Avoiding Tourist Trap
So, going this direction was actually a mistake as I completely forgot about the lever blocking access to Lemm from below, but this skip from May is extremely funny, so I figured it was worth encoding before I revert. Enjoy.")
![[TAS] Dismantling the Devout](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XwPKahvOdAM/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Dismantling the Devout
When you cant touch the floor and dont have any spells, the Devout can be a surprisingly tough obstacle. This is a snippet from the upcoming floor-is-lava tool-assisted speedrun, where we try to minimize time spent on the ground. Among other interesting implications of that goal is that we need to avoid drop floors where possible, meaning that we have to fight the Devout twice, courtesy of patch 1221.")
![[TAS] 0 Geo: The Baldurs Revenge](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Y1f6nhYEmpE/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] 0 Geo: The Baldurs Revenge
No fancy music video this time, but this room took a while to get to work and I just had to share the ridiculousness. One more step toward the tool assisted speedrun of 0 Geo TE with Gathering Swarm.")
![[TAS] Reckless Dives in 0Geo](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Y5DjpCy_r04/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Reckless Dives in 0Geo
A perfectly safe series of dives to exit Sanctum without picking up any geo.")
![[TAS] First Try (in this timeline)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YocGFuPtMgY/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] First Try (in this timeline)
Pay no attention to the 20 minutes of trial and error behind the curtain to get this to work...")
![[TAS] False Knight Dance Routine in 0Geo](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZGCc5q3XT0s/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] False Knight Dance Routine in 0Geo
This TAS is heavily based on the Any% NMG TAS by ConstructiveCynicism (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBpo9j-I4kI).")
![[TAS] Dancing without setting foot in the ballroom](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZRziEKA2RAw/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Dancing without setting foot in the ballroom
This segment took a ridiculously long time, as the Watchers take a lot of hits when your only damage is base nail and glowing womb. Im pretty happy with the final result, however. This is part of my upcoming TAS for the floor is lava challenge, which aims to minimize the time spent on the ground.")
![[TAS] Cant Touch This](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Zc-tMbuu4w0/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Cant Touch This
As part of the Ghostbusters TAS for Hollow Knight, I thought it would be fun to go through Glade without actually deflecting Revek. Please enjoy the resulting segment. If you have thoughts on this format for short clips of the larger TASes, let me know; experimenting with #shorts")
![[TAS] Dash-Through Needlepoint Lesson](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/a4jMRuiPA9U/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Dash-Through Needlepoint Lesson
This Gorb fight and surrounding movement can probably still use some work, but Im mostly happy with how it came out. Weve got both Fury and Strength now, so Gorb dies a fair bit faster than Hu or Xero.")
![[TAS] Sundered Any% in 33:01 (No Commentary)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/a9tPAfag6iY/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Sundered Any% in 33:01 (No Commentary)
[TAS] Sundered Any% in 33:01 (No Commentary)")
![[TAS] Sharp Things and Laser Beams (0Geo)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bMqcRwac_4A/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Sharp Things and Laser Beams (0Geo)
First draft of movement through Crystal Peaks to DDark in the 0Geo category. Not a lot of risk of geo pickup here, but some fun movement in this section. Still needs a bit of optimization work, but reasonably happy with how this is coming along.")
![[TAS] Sundered Any% in 33:01](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bPCLz72D2Js/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Sundered Any% in 33:01
This is a Tool-Assisted Speedrun of the game Sundered in the Any% category, which beats the game in 33:01 RTA (32:46 IGT). After all the Hollow Knight lately, it was refreshing to work on something a bit different and I hope you all enjoy watching it as much as I enjoyed making it. This game isnt super well known, but the speedrun is actually quite interesting, with a lot of technical nuance and with a high skill ceiling for the movement.
If youd prefer to watch an unedited version of the run without commentary, thats available here: https://youtu.be/a9tPAfag6iY
Thanks to all the folks on the Sundered Speedruns Discord who helped me learn the tech for the run and gave suggestions for routing and improvements.
Technical notes:
This TAS was developed using libTAS, which unfortunately is not fully stable for this game. Due to issues with desyncs, it had to be developed in 26 segments, which then were spliced together for the final video. The actual gameplay state is fully contiguous, but its not strictly reproducible, since I could never get the game to sync longer than about 20 minutes at best and thus the endgame segments were all created by just never closing libTAS.
Also, while its always true that TAS really cant be compared with human runs, Id highlight that its especially true for this game, simply because TAS is able to know so much about the rng in advance. There was also some rng manip used for crits in the end game fights, though not extensively (on the order of getting two rolls to get a crit instead of one by slightly tweaking input timing.) A highly optimized TAS could do much more extensive rng manip and I think the route could be cut down quite a bit further too, such as removing the entire Negociator split and maybe just keeping moonjump for the entire latter half of the game.")
