Legend of Legaia Speedrunning.

[K73SK]

Woooow, that seems almost a lie! lol

[Nightshade]

Maybe it's real.

Maybe it's Photoshop (TM).

(I lived it. It's real. Now, onward for an 8:20.)

[GoldenPower89]

Not bad. Only 149 battles? I guess the Evil Talisman really cut down on the encounters.

[Nightshade]

That, and not messing around. Notice how many of the treasures in the game I deliberately didn't pick up because it would be a waste of time to do so.

It's also amusing that of all those deaths, they all came in the final battle. Apparently, Final Crisis is bugged, so it still deals damage to dead characters, and it re-kills them. I don't understand it.

Of the 49 battles I didn't run from, 32 of them are forced:

3 Puera fights (Noa must be L2 to leave the Training Grounds)
Golem
Caruban
Viguro x2
Songi
Zeto
Berserker
Xain
Songi 2
Kemaro x2
Saryu
Dohati
Gaza 1
Gaza 2
Che
Lu
Gi
Koru
Puera
Puera x2
Zora
Caruban 2
Berserker 2
Caruban 3
Berserker 3
Rogue
Jette
Cort 1
Songi 3
Cort 2

Of the rest, more than half of them were in the first 28 minutes of the game, to get Vahn to L4 for Caruban. After that, I fought a couple of battles to get Vahn and Noa each the Vera and Nighto spells, a battle for Gala to get Theeder, one for Gala to get Orb, and one more to get him Spoon (not needed, by the way; I didn't use it even once).

Every other battle, I ran.

[K73SK]

I have to say that you did much better than I could in the game, that's for sure. lol

[Nightshade]

I've done some re-routing of the game and identified some mistakes and places for improvement. I need to purchase some equipment so I can record A/V footage off the console in the interim, but expect the next run to be 20 minutes faster.

[GoldenPower89]

Are you playing it on an emulator or PlayStation? I ask because recorded emulations tend to lag a lot.

[Nightshade]

I'm playing it on an old-model, fat PS2.

[K73SK]

My old fat PS2 would always lag as soon as Lang did some of his hyper arts... So I got a slim and now everything works perfectly on it. How can you survive!?

[Nightshade]

Don't worry, it lags on this too. There's probably time savings to be had from lag time as well, but I'm not going out to buy a new PS2 also...