Pocky & Rocky by d4gr0n in  

My thoughts exactly

Nice! That's one of my favorite TASes too.

It really is awful if you don't have 2 bombs

I mean, he did die in one second, that is pretty awful by boss standards. If they were a normal enemy, I'd understand, but I expect a boss to withstand at least 10 seconds.

Yup. That's what happens when you win the frame rule for sage manip and get more bombs. Sometimes I'm not so fortunate in my runs which I'm not going to lie, I wish I wasn't so lucky here, just to show off the backup strats I had for some of the fights. Just for you though, here's what the run looks like when I'm on the other end of the luck table. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-u3DTs0AGMZY.html

Level 3 on co-op is rough. It's so easy to kill your partner just due to the typical reaction to slide due to the moving walls.

They also changed Pocky throwing Japanese charms to playing cards, the devils in the background art of the last stage to mutants, and in some versions threw out all the cutscenes so they wouldn't have to translate them into more languages.

@@kestral63 I have the European version, and it has all the cutscenes, but without any text.

Or Will Arnett

He's playing on the Japanese version, and he mentions at 1:23 that "the only major difference [between the Japanese and English versions] is that the bomb cap limit is 3 and not 4".

He mentions it. He said it gets powered down after 3 hits, but he optimizes the run to pick up powerups so even when he damage boosts he never loses it.

Hold the melee attack button, and it charges. Once fully charged you can release it to turn into the statue. (If you do this with Pocky, she does a spin attack.)

I'll be honest here. I spoke purely from the viewpoint of the game's very slow progression within the speedrunning community itself which for a more known and widespread event such as this from the casual eye, my statement there would obviously come off as very confusing. ProJared's review most certainly did alot to put the game on the map of those less inclined to dig through the massive SNES library for sure. I guess a better comparable for this game would be the game I ran at SGDQ, Rocket Knight Adventures. People know of both games, they have heard of both of them, but neither game has exactly been a popular speed game which I guess shouldn't surprise me.