Ghosts 'n Goblins any% Nes 2 Loops Speedrun in  

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I think he's Canadian

Nice AVGN reference

You wanna cut steak with a plastic spoon? No. Get the knife.

videogamedunkey reference?

@@horizonbumpy2828 It's from the Angry Video Game Nerd.

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@@joey_bonzo that is definitely true, can confirm.

Arthur*

That’s why he’s the Hero! Bad guys don’t go from right to left!

And jumping, with armor on no less! Arthur FTW

Congrats on beating the game, that in itself is already an accomplishment! I didn't figure that out, it is known for a few years now. Unfortunately I don't know how found that one. But you are right, that one makes the stage not only faster but soooo much easier. More often than you would think speedrun strats make it actually a lot easier than harder ;-)

Us kids back in the 80's and 90's paved the grounds for the kids of today to do their speed runs in games that took us years upon years to just beat the game. I remember back a long time ago before the internet beating this game. It was no easy feat and I had no other friends who could even beat the first cycle. These guys come along and make it look easy. This kind of stuff is from decades upon decades of playing these games with 100,000 people all putting their minds together in an effort to squeeze every second they could from these games. Finding these glitches were from accidents and bugs that ended up being used to save time. I am impressed with all these speed runners of today. They are taking up the mantel of what we did when we first got these games. And now they are making this shit look easy. When it took me 3 years to just beat the game fully. A grind that is mind bending. There is no way I could beat the game this fast. Even if I studied and watched every move for move. It takes a masterful skill I just no longer have in my older age. Not only the skill and speed of youth, but also the luck of the draw. I love this stuff!

Even Dark Souls was with save files.

Danke :) Die Fackel ist aber an sich eine gute Waffe, da sie ein bisschen nach oben geht, kann man die späteren Bosse besser und häufiger treffen. Man hat halt nur ein Problem, wenn man nicht trifft ;-)

We always do

I probably had a bit more practice with the game :D

Thanks! I definitely like Genesis Ghouls and thought about running it at some point. But unless I get an actual Genesis it probably won't happen. There's other great Ghouls runners like Teleo1 though, worth checking out ;-)

Ghouls n ghosts is a great game but no where as difficult as GnG.

Congraturation. Not even save stats are helping me.

I never got past the first board

A lot of people are surprised by that ;-) So first of all: all weapons deal the same damage, so no difference there, they differ in attack rate and the amount of shots allowed on screen though as well as the trajectory. The knife is known as the best weapon and that is casually true for sure. It's the only weapon you can have 3 shots on screen instead of 2 and it travels pretty quickly across the screen. Definitely the best for certain parts. Torch casually feels like a bad weapon for many because you get punished hard by missing which leaves the flames on the ground for several seconds and it still counts as having the shots on screen, so you cant shoot again with 2 flames on the ground. As a speedrunner I (hopefully) dont miss too often, so that isnt an issue. what makes the torch so good and preferred is the trajectory. The upwards arc makes it possible/easier to hit all these bosses that keep flying above you. you wouldn't get certain hits in on the dragon and satan bosses with the knife because it just flies straight instead of upwards first. That's why even on loop 2 the torch is picked up on stage 3 before the dragon again. The torch is kinda awful against the unicorn bosses, so I wouldn't wanna have it for them. The Lance btw has a slower attack rate than the other weapons(you can't mash to attack fast, if I remember correctly lance has a "cooldown" of 12 frames while the other weapons have 8 frames), so lance is clearly worse than knife, no doubt. It's only used because you start with it and waiting/farming for a better weapon would be slow. fun fact: the torch is worse in the japanese version, having a slower attack rate(I think even slower than the lance but not sure)

Congrats on beating it! Definitely an accomplishment. You get a new timer whenever you reach the checkpoint of a stage, it's the same for other stages (just not stage 5 and 6 because they don't have a checkpoint).

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@@barsik842 I wanna kill the kamilia 3, тоже является самой сложной игрой, она даже возможно сложней Ghosts'n Goblins

haha :D the knife is overrated, no need for it :P getting the knife on loop 2 is just cause you NEED to change weapons and the knife is the first one to drop, lance would do just fine. torch would be annoying for the unicorns tho...

@@Laxxus1 Yeah the shield doesn't work on the unicorn, but the knife is still the best weapon imo because of its speed

@@gokuuzumaki70 yes and no. There's no debate that the knife is just superior to the lance, Lance is just a worse dagger (although one arremer quick kill in stage 3 is actually easier with lance cause it travels slower). The torch on the other hand is superior to the knife against the later bosses because its' arc makes it a lot easier and faster to hit those bosses flying around over you. That's pretty much the reason why the knife is switched out against the torch on the second loop again. Of course the torch punishes you a lot more for mistakes and failed shots with the flames on ground preventing you from further shooting, so I can totally understand why people on their casual playthrough hate the torch ;-) One could also make an argument for the Shield (you could get it in stage 4 and keep it until the end of the loop) with the ability to block enemy shots but the low range is kinda annoying.

@@Laxxus1 fair points

Software to record and stream is OBS Studio, most people use that nowadays. The Timer is called Livesplit. I play on original US NES console. It's connected to a retrotink (upscaler) so I can play on a modern monitor without additional input lag. I was using a CRT before I had my tink, it's definitely nothing necessary(this run was before I had my tink). My capture card is a 15$ chinese no-name usb hd capture dongle that works like a charm. I used the GV-USB2 for composite capture before I got my upscaler. But you can play on emulator as well without a real problem. emulator always has a bit more input lag compared to real console + CRT but there's more than enough amazing speedrunners playing on emulator, just need to get used to it.

@@Laxxus1 Oh wow, thanks for the info. I have my original NES with a ton of games. I did just get a laptop connected to my TV with an Elgato hd60s+, I just haven't tried it out just yet. And I've been using OBS for a few years now. So I'm guessing it would be about the same then. NES to the tink, tink to the capture dongle, the capture dongle to the TV & computer and use the computer to record with OBS. I'm assuming the timer (Livesplit) is run on the computer as well and just pulled into OBS? Thanks so much for the info, I'm just going to have to play around with my setup and get more familiar with it. I guess I'll have to get a Tink if I want to use my NES or SNES then.

No not interested in it. I played the game and beat a loop but didn't enjoy it very much

Definitely a lot of time went into this ;-) I usually don't practice/play every day, I like to take days off to not burn out on the game/speedrunning in general. Between my very first 1loop attempts and this run were about 5 and a half months with a break of one month where I was busy with other stuff. So 4.5 months where I practiced or did attempts at least every second day on average...so probably a couple hundred hours to get there. Part of me would like to know how much time I invested in every speedgame, part of me is glad that I dont know the numbers :D

You can ignore most of them if you just dont wake them up (dont walk too close and dont shoot them), you only have to fight one of them near the ladder and its honestly the hardest arremer of the game. I briefly show the glitchless way through in my speedrun tutorial here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kn9Y70z_7mk.html (hope the timestamp works :D ), maybe that will help you!

that always works on the nes version, yes. the boost onto the wall in stage 6 is pretty tricky though and they can kill you if you don't do it right.

@@Laxxus1 thanks for that. I can get to the last level but always die. I'll have to work on those.

@@TheGodshatter last level can definitely be rough. If you have more trouble you could take a look at my speedrun tutorial, it might help you a bit in figuring it out.

There is a difference between not being able to and doing something else because it is faster. In my speedrun tutorial I show the intended way, it just doesn't make any sense to do for the speedrun: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kn9Y70z_7mk.html

Well, you NEED to have the shield in stage 6 though, otherwise the game puts you back to stage 5 after you beat stage 6

@@Laxxus1 Why did you sometimes use the torch, isnt it considered the worst weapon?

@@karlhans6678 No, it is not. So generally all weapons deal the same damage and have roughly the same attack speed (the lance is definitely just a worse knife though). Knife is the only weapon which can have 3 projectiles on screen at once instead of two and is rightfully casually the best weapon, it is very easy to use. But the torch is absolutely superior against the Dragon and Satan bosses because it arcs upwards and those guys always fly above you, so often the torch can hit when the knife can't. The problem with the torch comes when you don't know how to play with it and miss a lot - missing will create a flame on the ground which counts for your 2 projectile limit, so if you miss two shots you have to wait for the flames to disappear before you can even shoot again. The worst weapon is by far the Axe btw :)

lol

If you don’t get hit you don’t lose veracity 🧋

It is a sequel, completely different game :)

Food review?

Do not take his reviews seriously. It's just comedy.

It is very hard. 😂 Just because someone can do it, does mean the majority can do it.

@@SamWiseTheGreat It is not that hard. It's mostly just memorizing where the enemies are and stuff. Playing the game without prior knowledge is tough, though.

@@grylltheonion Then it's tough, then. Because everyone went into this without prior knowledge at some point. You could say this about any game, though. Games do tend to get easier the more you play. Unfortunately, even for people like me who have completed the series, I don't play routinely enough to ace it. I come back to complete like... Once every few years? So it's still a headache. I've been playing Ghosts N Goblins Resurrection all day and it feels like moving a boulder uphill...

You want to be as close as possible to the door when grabbing the key. If you stand directly beneath the key you have a longer walk to the door and lose a bit of time.

as long as you stay ducked while at the edge of the platform, you just stay ducked in midair after the platform turns around. It doesn't do anything but it is always fun to do.

@@Laxxus1 Pretty weird, pretty cool too. I'm currently playing this game for the first time since I was a kid and suffering miserably through it, you're a god damn wizard at it, I thoroughly enjoyed your video.

yes. this is the nes version ghost n goblins

@@Chad_Eldridge um. thats what i already said

@@Chad_Eldridge all i said is this is the nes version. I obviously know that the sequel is SNES. i have both.

@@Chad_Eldridge dude...are you seriously arguing with me over a word? get a life...everyone but you knew what i meant

and yes..its a different VERSION, because its on SUPER NINTENDO..not NINTENDO....get a job or something...this conversation is over

If you mean the Arremer seemingly dying inside or behind me: The Framerate of this game is a bit wacky, so sometimes it takes a few frames to trigger the death animation since I killed him right in front of me, so it looks like he is flying straight through Arthur before dying. Hitting him like that is absolutely consistent though. also sometimes the hitboxes actually don't sync up properly and you don't get hit, I had an arremer fly straight through me and not hit me. But it is rare and definitely not something you can use or force.

They have the same health as always. All weapons deal the same damage and the Unicorn takes exactly 10 hits. So you just need to get down a good rhythm for attacking. Since you can only have 2 on screen, by standing close to the boss that is no issue. Lance is a bit slower attack speed than the knife but it barely makes a difference. Some enemies may have different health on the arcade, depending on which version (Arremers come to my mind, I think there is a version where they take 8 hits, sounds like a nightmare) but I'm pretty sure the Unicorn is 10 hits on Arcade as well.

I would argue that there are several harder games on the NES ;-) But it's definitely up there

maybe even more often... But seriously between first learning the game and this run were roughly 6 months, before that I only played and beat the game once a few years prior.

Probably because I suck at using the right tags for it to be found on RU-vid :D

Try it.

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