Answer to an ancient question about speedruns
Added 2021-11-17 06:26:27 +0000 UTCSOME TIME AGO, in some sort of ancient episode, I (brandon sheffield) wanted to talk about a particular skill test video I had seen on youtube, in which someone, in "some castlevania" beat a boss with only punches. I sure could not remember what it was! But I just stumbled upon it again. Turns out the boss was Julius, and the game was Aria of Sorrow. Please enjoy, complete with a bitcrushed version of "love is in danger," one of the top songs you should be drifting in your honda to.
P.S. remember annotations? They were great. Now they're gone and we'll never know all the stuff this person had to say about their amazing GBA battle against Julius Belmont.
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ah yeah, I (brandon) saw a few things like that, trying to gamify video and stuff. There was also someone who did detailed commentary on an illbleed playthrough that was fantastic, but all that stuff's gone now! sadness.
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2021-11-17 18:42:46 +0000 UTCYoutube annotations were such a useful feature. One of the most clever uses of it that I'd seen was when someone "ported" an old Star Trek FMV game to Youtube, putting all the video footage up piecemeal and using the annotations system to create the gameplay flow. They were timed and everything so if you didn't pick a choice you'd be shuffled off to another video "pointing out your feeble human ignorance": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVo2kVVChU0
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2021-11-17 16:48:06 +0000 UTC
