- Siren 2 deathruns have kicked off!
- Ristikiehtova released a compilation album with many rarities from the past. However, I feel inclined to warn you that it’s not an easy listen.
- New Kotinäky is coming along at a nice pace. About 18 minutes have already been made…
- I’m still waiting Ilja to get off his ass and upload Serpenthia’s “Of Descent and Betrayal” to Jamendo! It’s just a lot more convenient site than Mikseri.
So, now that the Siren deathrun challenge is finally over, I think it might be fun to share some thoughts I had while doing it.
A theme central to deathruns is PC suicide. One of the basic methods for quick game over is murdering your own sidekick. As a natural pacifist, I still wonder what got me into this thing. TBH, I did feel bad when shooting my sidekicks. I make wry jokes to make it through the cold nights!
My favorite type of runs were the ones that could in other contexts seem natural, albeit very strange deaths, such as Kei’s D3 12:00. Other than those I liked the levels where I had to use my creativity to get the fastest results, such as the three last Kei levels. Luck manipulating on levels like Kyoyo’s Yesterday or Tamon’s D2 18:00 was the worst stuff I had to do IMO, as it takes time and the end result is not that impressive in any case.
Now, some statistics follow.
Shortest run: A tie between Tamon’s Day 2 10:00 and Reiko’s Day 1 23:00, 00:01:24.
Longest run: Kyoya’s Day 1 08:00, 00:46:72.
Character dying the most amount of times: Yoriko, 5 times.
Character(s) dying the second most amount of times: A tie between Harumi, Risa, Tamon, Kei, Kyoya and Miyako, 3 times.
Character(s) dying the least amount of times: A tie between Akira, Reiko and Tomoko, 1 time.
A big part of me is wanting to at least attempt Siren 2 deathrunning, so I guess that’s what you will get at some point in the future. Anyone have any games to recommend? I just want to get some discussion started on this subject.
I get a convenient space to keep my videos in order and perchance a few new fans.
http://forbiddensirenfan.webs.com/speedruns.htm
Support them by joining the forums, f.e.
An interesting sub-genre of speedrunning is deathrunning. It hasn’t garnered much attention, possibly because of its more simplistic and brutal nature, but its results can at best circumstances be almost as interesting. A bad part is that in most games measuring time is not easy since you might only get to see your time whilst saving!
Objective: Lose the game as quickly as possible.
Different sub-categories may include “Takes damage to save time”, “Uses chasms to save time”, “Pacifist run”, etc. as in normal speedruns. Though “Uses death to save time” is a bit redundant mention.
A sadly inactive Forum exists dedicated to this matter. Come on! No one’s around any more?
During these few weeks I did a couple of deathruns. An ongoing series is for Forbidden Siren 1, where dying is really easy and, consequently, death runs really quick. See two parts of my progress here:
Also, as a more ambitious take-on, I deathrunned Silent Hill 3. It’s actually quite a difficult game to do a deathrun on, since it takes a lot of luck to get hit by the worst attacks and running is more difficult than it seems.
Any suggestions?
Here’s a playlist containing all the videos I’ve done:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FFC6F56829CA4337
NEWS: Now also strategically ordered at Forbidden Siren Fan.
