Downtown Special: Kunio-kun's Historical Period Drama! | QUALITY-UP World Record (Switch)

Описание: ダウンタウンスペシャルくにおくんの時代劇だよ全員集合 RTA

Here's the story of the River City school play, where Kunio and friends gamble in the chance house, bonk everyone in ancient Japan with a machine-gun wagon, and squeal with fear as every common grunt approaches at the speed of sound.

Slow "Benny & Clyde" clan fight in Ecchu, then a pretty clean run with minor timelosses...until a huge streak of slowdowns due to bad luck near the end. Still a pretty solid run; I would've been satisfied with this run if not for the big losses near the end. More time can be saved with better luck and similar execution. But getting THAT luck, while also having the rest of the luck be at least as good as this run's, is...quite a large ask.

Thank you so much for the initial example, TommyBoi. And thank you for all the great suggestions, willbobsled.

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FAQ:

Q - What is Medium Difficulty, Any%?
A - It means "complete the game as quickly as possible on its medium difficulty mode." The runner starts from the beginning of the game and attempts to beat Asajiro (Todou). The run ends when the player loses control upon entering Bunzo's home.

Q - What does "Quality-Up" mean?
A - I am playing this game through the Double Dragon & Kunio-kun Retro Brawler Bundle, a collection of re-releases on the Switch. Every game featured in the bundle has an Original option, which emulates the original Famicom/NES versions, and a Quality-Up version, which removes the console slowdown and makes various changes for each game. Quality-Up actually changes the story mode in this game, so we have to do an additional gang fight and cutscene! Even with the extra requirements, this game was SO PLAGUED by slowdown on the original console, the Quality-Up speedrun finishes SEVERAL MINUTES faster.

Q - You spelled it "Meduim Difficulty"!!!
A - I know - at the time, it actually was out of my hands; it's how it was spelled on speedrun.com, and the splits data automatically populated from there. I have since become a moderator for the game, and fixed the spelling.

Q - Why don't you hit enemies while they're rolling on the ground?
A - They will never actually die when they're in this state. You can deal damage to them, but only to a certain point - the game only starts reducing characters' secondary HP layer, called Willpower, when they are either fully standing or fully laying down.

Q - What platform are you playing on? Is it emulator?
A - I'm playing on the Quality-Up version of this game supplied on the Nintendo Switch title, "Double Dragon & Kunio-kun Retro Brawler Bundle".

Q - What about the thing in the corner of your webcam??
A - Characters from a YouTube webseries called Diminish.

Q - Why don't you do [insert idea here] instead?
A - Good question! TommyBoi21 was the first to try to lab this game for speed, and he came to a lot of great conclusions. Since, I've added my own strategies, like buying the instant map movement item, collecting the early clans in Kawachi, and many other things. But there may be things still to find! So PLEASE, I would be THRILLED if you try this out for yourself, using any method you want!! Tweet at me with your findings and PBs at @seireasong, and/or message Seirea on speedrun.com!

Q - What's the point of this?
A - Speedrunning is a fun and extremely challenging way of adding replay value to your all-time favorite games, or any game at all! The first time I tried speedrunning River City Ransom EX (GBA) in 2015, no speedruns existed on the official speedrun.com leaderboards, so I had to create the page myself. I left it for years and forgot all about it. Then Redd92 beat my world record, and once I found out, I felt a brand new competitive fire! It motivated me to create entirely new routes for categories in that game, so I could experience new challenges with one of my favorite games ever. It's been indescribable fun, and triumphing over the game like this after it beats you down feels absolutely otherworldly.