Kirby 2 deserves to be done in SGB mode given how beautiful it looks in that.
There are few things I'd like to test if you did not :) 2-1 You could take fire ability, then bird, then use fire ability to break blocks at the end of level... 3-1 Isn't rolling down after getting stone ability faster? (after seeing your behavior at long vertical stage I think rolling is ineffective... never saw that in action though) 3-boss which victory dance is faster, with or without fish? or are they same? You don't seem to need fish in bonus level, so if free dance is faster, you should drop it after boss is beaten... 4-1 Just wanted to say that frames where you get fire ability are cool =)
The WIP looks fairly good, though I have one question. Against the third boss, why not use Kine + Stone to attack the boss rather than ditching Stone? You can attack it through the entire battle rather than just when enemies come out.
Also, as far as the girl blob. As far as I know, it is random. But I do know that the level that will cost the least amount of time to find the Girl Blob, in case you can't get it on a first pass, is level 5-3 - you get to choose who to use right at the start of the level. If you need to go back for Rick - who as far as I know is a a requirement for world 5's Rainbow Drop - that's the level to go to.
If you can actually get rid of both walls blocking the Rainbow Drop in world 5 without Rick and survive the second one, I commend you. I don't think it's realistically possible on a console, and considering the angles and tight spaces I don't think it's possible on an emulator either. Rick + Spark acts like Beam from other Kirby games, and it's the sweeping and range that allow you to break both walls surrounding the drop. Coo and Kine can't make it past the first wall, and if you try to jump to reach the second with solo Kirby, you don't have enough time to recover before dying from the bottomless pit in front of the second wall, no matter how little time you spend using Spark. (It's not even close either.)
It seems that after I defeat Dark Matter (the boss coming when you have all Rainbow Pieces), you can choose from either sound, bonus or boss. Sound means you can simply listen to the soundtrack from the game. In bonus mode you go through all the bonus stages again, and in boss mode you get to face all the bosses once more, without any abilities. Would any of those be valid in this run? I think it would get repetive to go through the same stages all over again, but that's just me. Thoughts please.
I very much agree with this post.
Forget party hats, Christmas tree hats all the way man.
