Although strange, these games are "yes" enough for my liking.

Too abrubt for what it is, but good enough to be published. Yes vote.

The SNES Umihara Kawase runs are some of my favorite on this site. This movie exchanges some speed for adorable graphics, and otherwise is frighteningly like its forebearers. Easy yes from me :)

This feels strangely unoptimized to me. Maybe it's fast, but some parts have this weird feel to them like it was slower than it had to be. Like the part with the two giant jumping fish, the character stops, then launches herself towards a door when it sort of looks like it would be faster to just run straight. I'm not voting because I don't feel I understand the game mechanics enough to be able to make an informed decision.

Oh yeah, I wish samus could do that. Maybe she could, if she just stopped wearing a ton of metal on her body.

Maybe it's just that a fishing line is much more versatile than the actual grappling hook (but cannot support as much weight)...

Easy Yes vote.

This feels strangely unoptimized to me. Maybe it's fast, but some parts have this weird feel to them like it was slower than it had to be. Like the part with the two giant jumping fish, the character stops, then launches herself towards a door when it sort of looks like it would be faster to just run straight. I'm not voting because I don't feel I understand the game mechanics enough to be able to make an informed decision.

That Field is probably the most straight-forward to optimise in the run. The giant fish jump up the slope and walk down it. To move to the left I must wait until they have jumped. If I can't get past the second fish before it reaches the top of the hill I must hang in to the ravine to avoid it when it walks back down. Walking speed is very slow in this game, unless I'm covering very short distances (or, as is more often the case, traveling too quickly leaves we in a suboptimal swing position by the time the hooks latches on). To remedy this I can use the tension in the wire to get a speed boost. To do this I latch onto the ground and walk away from it. I then release the direction and jump. The jump pulls me towards the hook and when I land I release the hook and jump again to throw myself to the left. The further to the right I am when I jump the more velocity I receive. When bypassing the first fish I delay slightly so that I just pass under the second fish when it jumps. The resultant velocity decreases every frame and so Umi is not traveling fast enough to pass under the fish as it comes back to the ground which is why I need to boost a second time.

I was going to give this a meh, but then I played this version on the DS release. Playing the game certainly helps put the crazy physics abuse into focus. Yes vote, though I'd love to see improvements. How old is the heroine supposed to be, anyways? I had assumed she was an elementary school student, but the art for the menu on the DS version would indicate that she is well into puberty at least.

I was going to give this a meh, but then I played this version on the DS release. Playing the game certainly helps put the crazy physics abuse into focus. Yes vote, though I'd love to see improvements. How old is the heroine supposed to be, anyways? I had assumed she was an elementary school student, but the art for the menu on the DS version would indicate that she is well into puberty at least.

I tried playing the DS version too; it's not nearly as easy as the TASes make it look. Also Wikipedia sez she's 19, and her name is also Umihara Kawase.

Oh wow, that video is sick. Yeah for anyone knocking how easy it looks, this game series is really effing hard just playing normally (not saying anything of speedrunning it). There's a reason you start with 8 lives (10 in the original). You have to do a lot of speed/momentum management by lengthening, shortening or releasing your line at the right times.

I vote yes, although I do get what mmbossman said. I don't feel like it "ends," instead it just shows credits. But the run was decent enough.

Did you actually try the 0 - 11 - 23 - 14 - 15 - 35 - 24 - 29 - 30 route? When I tried (and failed) to do a speedrun of this, I decided this was the fastest route. But I don't remember why, probably just because it was easier than your route, which obviously doesn't matter much in a TAS. Anyway, voted yes. I've wanted to see a TAS for this since I discovered it.

I TASed both this route and the route that you suggested. Like you said, that route seems like it would be faster (because it is easier), but Field 24 is a boss field and takes far too long to beat making that route ultimately slower.

Here is an HQ encode: http://www.archive.org/download/MukkisPsxUmiharaKawaseShunIn0210.23/umiharakawaseshun-tas-mukki.mp4 http://www.archive.org/download/MukkisPsxUmiharaKawaseShunIn0210.23/umiharakawaseshun-tas-mukki.mkv HQ Stream: http://aktan.site90.com/?vid=MukkisPsxUmiharaKawaseShunIn0210.23/umiharakawaseshun-tas-mukki_512kb

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