Oopla,
Overall, this is a solid run for a first submission, but I had some curiosities on potential improvements after watching through the run.
Specifically the following things I either suspect as areas where improvement is possible, or areas where I'd encourage testing if you haven't already. While not blatantly sub-optimal, these areas just drew my suspicion while watching through. Without actually fully testing all these myself, I can't claim they qualify as sub-optimal play and thus wouldn't outright prevent acceptance of the run.
- Room at Frame 8438 - I suspect the last enemy may be able to be killed against the lowest section of ceiling to save some time exiting the room.
- Room at Frame 8852 - I think its worth testing if switching the order of kills would be faster.
- Room at Frame 11226 - I'm confident the sword enemy can be defeated quicker, you don't hit him before turning back left.
- Room at Frame 13411 - I suspect the red guys can be attacked on the way up to the ceiling instead of just flying straight up there.
- Room at Frame 15219 - Again, I suspect the red guys can be attacked on the way up to the ceiling, possibly going left first instead of right?
- Room at Frame 15490 - May be faster to try going right first instead of Left?
Also, a significant chunk of time can be saved at the very end of the run. As TAS timing is based on the frame of final input, the last input needed to beat the game is actually on 18364 of this submission. Everything after that just adds unnecessary time to the run and should probably be cut (unless you REALLY want it in there from a stylistic perspective).
So...Which these options would you like to proceed with?
1) Have me judge the run as-is.
2) Have me truncate the run to frame 18364 then judge the run without other potential improvements.
3) Investigate the potential improvements yourself, and provide a
userfile with any updates so that I can update the submission and finalize a judgment.
4) Have me do a detailed analysis of the
entire run while implementing any improvements I can. Include me as co-author (assuming I find improvements) and allow another judge to judge the resulting run.