I'm pretty sure you only need to equip the necklace when you deal the final blow to Nova's second form though S+ ILs are the best way to go, but I'd recommend sticking to some form of scoring. This is what killed my interest in this game in an RTA setting. So in order to make the game good for speed running, you need to make up very arbitrary rules such as disabling auto dodge.

I should mention that I never fully tested whether or not luxcalibur is worth the time getting since I stopped around here.Įdit: Here's a pastebin Sairaan wrote up about boss damage with skills like luxcalibur and damage in general: Problem being that level 13 requires alot of exp, which may make any time luxcalibur saves moot with how much stuff you need to kill.

It's the strongest skill in the game and the best way to deal with bosses (it can do half a boss's hp to certain bosses as shown in video). This item can make ILs tiring since you have to reset constantly just to start out with a really large score bonus that's useful in both S+ scoring and speed running.Īnother issue for any% was getting enough exp to obtain luxcalibur. I've got low times in stages just auto dodge spamming and not knowing the stage layout fully while getting a high score required actually learning the stage layout.Īs for anything S+ NG+ both scoring and speed running, there is a lens that makes it so you have a 4% chance of start a stage with 1000 kudos (you can make this 8% with two equipped). With how the game's structured, scoring (especially in an IL setting) is encouraged over speed running. It's better for ILs (both NG and NG+), but NG+ has one issue which I'll mention below. Problem is it's not RTA safe (Cannot get hit. S+ Rank is the category that has actual skill to it. Good/Bad ending aren't that different minus collecting jewels and two boss fights You can technically speed run this, but there really isn't anything interesting to it. any% pretty much came down to mindless auto dodge spam. In the end, the game ended up being bad for speed running, but good for scoring and okay for S+ ILs (But one thing ruins this somewhat for NG+ ILs). When the game came out, I spent about a week working on it with a few people. It makes it 2 casts instead of 3 from what I've been able to do. The strategy for dealing with the final bosses at low level, without the prevasion charm for the Any% true ending route will take some work, as its really the only point in the game in which the game will actively try to punish you the prevasion charm makes the rest of the game trivial.Īstrasphere usage is required for the midboss parts where they want you to kill X number of enemies, as destroying the white orb thing on the ceiling causes the mini boss encounter to terminate.Īs for the secret boss, I've been seemingly able to get him to short change his first phase and make him go into the part where you can harm him by standing/hovering right next to him. Any% bad ending doesn't have to worry about the jewels or doing the final level. Of course how you approach the levels depends on the run you are doing. Running past every other one and tanking energy use and damage is easily the fastest way to beat the game. For example, the only enemy you should be killing in the opening stage is the required ones.

The interesting thing about routing this is that the prevasion charm makes the generic enemies pretty trivial.

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