EDIT: Read
this post for the new, entertainment oriented run.
I don't know why, but I just can't help it to make one TAS at a time. My Pocahontas TAS isn't complete yet, but that didn't stop me from making this one.
For all those who have played the game, understand a little better how it is, and how this TAS can be rated. The Aquatic Games Featuring James Pond and The Aquabats is an "Olympic events" style game. In each event, you need to show your skills as a gamer and do your best. In this TAS, I show how hard the game can be pulled in some events, but in others, you just have to hold on for a certain time limit. Here is a description of them all, as well as my comments on each:
- 100 Meter Splash: Press A and B alternately as fast as you can to build up speed and win the Frog in a race.
This one was easy. There was nothing I could have done to improve the entertainment.
- Kipper Watching: Some beach balls randomly appear on-screen. Your job is to stop them from hitting your seal friends, by knocking the balls off. The longer you survive, the better. 2 minutes minimum.
This one had no entertainment whatsoever. Just bump, bump, bump. The ones who watch this are recommended to fast-forward.
- Hop, Skip and Jump: A, B alternately to build speed, press C at the mark to Hop and Skip, and press C again when the angle shows as closest to 45º as possible.
I just had to figure out what was the lowest angle possible to qualify. The minimum distance is 800.
- The Bouncy Castle: Jump on the mattress, press A to twist, C+Left to do a back somersault and C+Right for a forward somersault. Do 6 stunts as fast as possible.
I could swear that I made it 2 seconds earlier on the real console. Which means: NEEDS IMPROVEMENT, badly.
- Feeding Time: Fill up your basket with goods, and than give them to the fish below you to keep them from showing up, and being fished to death.
This event is so boring! Even though I fed almost all of them before they even show up.
- Shell Shooting: When a shell pops-up, jump on it to make it fly, and then collect it in your basket. Launch the shell you have and pop all the balloons.
I got really impressed by this one. Maybe could have been faster: 2 shells went towards me at the same time, and I had to jump. Also, I should apply the "jump after collecting" technique from the beginning.
- Tour de Grass: Up, Right, Down, Left to speed up, and then jump when you reach a crab to avoid losing speed.
It was suppose to be simpler, but it ended out a bit complicated. And it turns out that you don't loose speed when going upwards, if you are at max speed.
- Leap Frog: A, B alternately to build up speed, C to jump over (electric) fences and water.
Ok, people. This is where the run gets "o.O". The second fence is IMPOSSIBLE to jump according to what I've tried/could have done. It IS possible to jump over it, but somehow that got corrupted in this run. Maybe, MAYBE, this won't happen in the next version, probably the final.
Get it here.
(I don't know why I didn't do this with my first TAS...)