I just picked up on this game, but the game engine is seemingly really easy to figure out (for the most part) so I know just enough to mention this topic to you guys.
My French Coach is a part of the My Coach series of video games. (no I'm not italicizing titles because I'm tired and want to go to bed soon, sorry) As the name suggests, the game puts you through several lessons that teach you skills in speaking and reading in French (for English speakers).
So you guys might be asking: A language learning game? Full of just text? To TAS? Are you kidding me right now?
Well actually, it's a really good game for me to TAS once I completely learn the game engine and such. And the lessons have to stop at some point.
So anyway, there are 2 reasons I see this as a good TASing opportunity. The first is that there is a way you can literally skip 10 of the lessons in the game (NOT a glitch, but still cool). The second is that all the lessons I've seen thus far, in theory, can be done within less than a minute, because all the game is is clicking on text with the stylus. All the minigames require the stylus. In fact the whole game requires the stylus pretty much; there are very few portions I've seen that even allow button presses.
The game starts you off with obviously the file menu, entering your name (which can only be done in 1 letter, which I will do), and selecting your country (you have to select US in a TAS because it's the one that appears first). After that it takes you to a placement test, which consists of 50 questions and can only be done in the 3 in-game-timed minutes that the game gives you. I found that if you answer all the 50 questions correctly in the given time, you can skip 10 whole lessons, which would I think be about 1/10 of the game. That is a freaking lot of time saved. And the placement test is not skippable.
I believe there are probably somewhere around 100 lessons in the game, or less, because I estimated based on the amount of unlockables in the game. Let's just say that each lesson takes us somewhere between 15-30 seconds to complete. So average it out, as 20 seconds. That's 1/3 of a minute. So if we have to do 90 lessons (starting on Lesson 11) and there are 100 lessons, that's about 30 minutes. I know that sounds like a really long time, but that's actually really really really short in relativity to the size of the game. I mean, by the developers' perspective, that game is supposed to be completed in short increments, and could take weeks, months, even years for a casual player who's doing what he/she is supposed to do to complete, because yaknow, learning a language takes time. Plus the really fast text skipping and really fast minigame completions would definitely be a sight to see.
In the TAS publication, one could put, "_____ learns the entire French language in about 30 minutes." lol.
Anyway, tell me what you guys think. And please do. Thanks. Maybe I could even get a helper this way.
