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This submission is for Mutant League Hockey, a Genesis game in the same vein as Mutant League Football. There are numerous deadly hazards, you can kill opposing players, the ref, goalies, etc. It's a very chaotic and fun game.
In my recently developed obsession with extreme early input ending shenanigans, I present to you: Warlor-- er Mutant League Hockey. This game can be won via traditional score based play, or you can murder enough of the other team to make them run out of players and forfeit. The latter choice is obviously the better and more entertaining option.
There is some RNG to this that we had to dodge. If two players get into a fight, you have to menu out of it when they're done, which is an input. Which is bad. We also can't let the period end for the same reason, so setting the timer to 8 minutes (which doesn't even cost us frames to do) gives us just enough time to win and that seed avoided fights. Changing to the Skatium was also crucial to the run, and also didn't cost us frames.
Beyond that, faceoffs don't need to be won, and we can just stand there if we get the puck. Our AI teammates are surprisingly confident and bloodthirsty and do a great job of slaughtering the other team in our stead. This turned out to be pretty entertaining with some drama at the end.
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Posted: 1/18/2023 1:25 PM
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This topic is for the purpose of discussing #7975: ShesChardcore's Genesis Mutant League Hockey "Regular Game" in 00:06.64
Posted: 1/18/2023 3:49 PM
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I took one look at the thumbnail of the encode and assumed this was a game involving the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fighting against clones of Shredder. I am unfortunately disappointed such a game doesn't exist.
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Posted: 1/20/2023 12:53 AM
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ShesChardcore wrote:
... you can murder enough of the other team to make them run out of players and forfeit. The latter choice is obviously the better and more entertaining option.
Indeed, we have such a submission on this site: #3192: Aqfaq's Genesis Mutant League Hockey "Regular Game, 2 players" in 00:42.20 Link to video
Posted: 1/20/2023 10:56 AM
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FractalFusion wrote:
ShesChardcore wrote:
... you can murder enough of the other team to make them run out of players and forfeit. The latter choice is obviously the better and more entertaining option.
Indeed, we have such a submission on this site: #3192: Aqfaq's Genesis Mutant League Hockey "Regular Game, 2 players" in 00:42.20
As much as there is some fun novelty in ending input early and letting the game play itself with liberal assistance of the teammate AI - I prefer Aqfaq's run quite a bit more here, as it actually tries to end the game quickly.
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Posted: 2/13/2023 6:55 PM
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This movie ends with this screen which you have to skip by pressing Start: But the ending screen that should go next is this, and this movie can't reach it due to not being able to press Start, and #3192: Aqfaq's Genesis Mutant League Hockey "Regular Game, 2 players" in 00:42.20 does reach it: Aiming for shortest input in a game that requires input to show the ending, and making the movie so short that the required input is missing, is a situation that feels weird, especially when there's already a movie that does it properly. Speaking of which, I have no idea why #3192: Aqfaq's Genesis Mutant League Hockey "Regular Game, 2 players" in 00:42.20 has never been unrejected. But if it reaches the same ending as if it actually won the hockey game by playing hockey, I don't see anything additional to demand from it for being fastest completion of the Regular Game mode. I personally think that (at least) this mode of this game makes more sense to aim for fastest ending, because apparently the time the game ends at is not the only difference. When it is, we let authors decide. I would instead accept #3192: Aqfaq's Genesis Mutant League Hockey "Regular Game, 2 players" in 00:42.20 and maybe send this submission to Playground if we can agree on the goal, which is still tricky because the game is not fully completed. Opinions?
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Posted: 2/17/2023 12:55 PM
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i think both should be accepted - one for shortest input time and one for ending the game itself fastest.
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Posted: 2/18/2023 11:32 AM
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