Tool Assisted Speed-runs are those done with the assistance of programs that allow the player to re-record segments, edit them, time actions on a frame by frame basis to manipulate luck, and all sorts of other funky things that wouldn’t strictly be possible when playing normally. The aim of these is to get to the end of the game, from a clean state, as quickly as possible, though sometimes speed is sacrificed for entertainment value.
While very often this is seen done for platformers, it isn’t limited to that genre alone. In this case, SD3 has finally been TASed, and completed in just under 3 and a half hours by praetarius3. You can watch it on YouTube here, or download from the tasvideos.org page here. Also, if you want to understand some of the things going on a bit better, check out the author’s comments here.
When watching the video, turn on closed captions in YouTube to get some background as to what is going on, as this plays on a non-patched version of the game.
There are times when I can’t quite avoid scratching a hole in my head out of sheer amazement at how bizarre TV commercials can be. This, my good people, is one of those times, and it’s a commercial for Shinyaku Seiken Densetsu, aka Sword of Mana:
Now for the part where we link this back in to MMM: here’s the track from SwoM that plays during the action scene in that commercial.
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Thanks to Ailise again for the info! If it’s not in the appstore now, it should be by the end of the night! You can find it on the iTunes store here for $8.99 USD. The SoM soundtrack can also be found on iTunes and is 25% off until January 5th!
And instead of doing a music update I’m gonna post all the Secret of Mana commercials again because they’re lots of fun!
Japanese commercial
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Big weird monster commercials
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Japanese Flammie TV Commercial
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German Cartoon Commercial
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Mana Music Monday is coming a day early because I found a guy on Youtube who has videos of the Symphonic Fantasies concert that happened yesterday. If you missed it, here’s your chance to enjoy it! I was really impressed by it, it turned out awesome. If you’re interested in the other segments click here.
Well I never got the Children of Mana Commercials up last week, so I’m going to put them all up now along with the Mana Music Monday for this week. I’m gonna be really busy this week and won’t have time to mess with these later.
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The music for this week is the Children of Mana track The Ruined Ground by Takayuki Aihara. I think it’s a really good ruined Temple of Mana arrangement. I could maybe listen to it forever, it’s so serene and mysterious.
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Two more Secret of Mana commercials for today.
Got a comment in the last batch asking why we don’t post any English commercials, and sadly the answer is that there aren’t any. The commercials for the games barely make it out of Japan. The second video for today is from Germany, and it’s probably the neatest Seiken Densetsu commercial there is, despite the fact it gets the beginning entirely wrong.
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Next week we’ll have some Children of Mana commercials, and then I’ll get the respective sections up in each of the game’s pages to keep these commercials where people can find them.
Kassidy went through the trouble of scrounging up Seiken Densetsu commercials from around these here internets and uploaded them all into the news system, so every few days or so we’re going to feature a new commercial or two.
After all the commercials are shown off here in the news they’ll be relocated into the sections of the game they belong to.
So for our first commercial update: Seiken Densetsu 3 – Japan
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Riesz apparently had Duran cast Lightning Saber on her.
Also, Carlie is hilariously short.
Another talented chap over on YouTube, CalebElijah, recorded this electric guitar rendition the theme from Secret of Mana’s Upperland forest. While it’s not my favourite song from the game, he’s done a really good job of performing it. Check out his other videogame renditions over on YouTube.
