Here is another game that the
Angry Video Game Nerd has reviewed.
To put it plainly, this game is ridiculously, infuriatingly hard. There are four events in this game that you must beat. Hot Dog Aerial, Speed Skating, Figure Skating, and bobsled.
Hot Dog Aerial is a 3 run skiing event where you must jump off and do tricks in the air to get a score out of 10. Sadly in my WIP I use the same trick combination each time because it is the only one so far that allows for a perfect 10. Even with TAS speed though it is ridiculously hard as it becomes frame perfect when you have to choose your moves and how long you hold it.
Speed Skating is by far the easiest event in this game. I get a time of 21.2 seconds which is twice as fast as any realtime run I have found though there could be a better one out there somewhere. I am fairly confident this is the fastest the run could be but it could possibly be improved by a couple of frames. The opponent actually gets a time of 24.0 which would be nearly impossible in realtime as well, but it turns out the opponents have cheaters AI where they only go around as fast as you do so if I sucked he would finish in 30 or 40 seconds.
Figure skating is the hardest event in this game and one I have yet to perfectly figure out. In this event you are supposed to do a set of seven tricks that require near frame perfection to land let alone get perfect scores on to get a final score out of 6.0 points. This is where I have stopped in my WIP because I cannot figure out why I am stuck at 4.9 points. You lose 1.2 points every time you do not land a trick and lose .2 points every time you land a trick but do not perform it accurately enough. I do not crash so the only points that could be lost are the 0.2 for not landing accurately enough, but that would result in an even number of points off and I have an odd. This is the event I currently need help in because I am stuck. It might be that it is not registering one of my tricks but I can't tell which one it would be.
Finally bobsled. I haven't attempted this one yet but I believe it to be similar to speed skating and that I could perfect it as well.
If someone wants to help me figure out how the hell to get a 6 on figure skating here is my
WIP and here is the
gamefaqs walkthrough which describes the points breakdown.
EDIT: Also Japan is chosen as they have by far the shortest National Anthem, no other reason.