

Outside of fights, there's the occasional mistake, but overall I feel that I did very well in minimizing them. I feel that all (most) of the battles in this run are quick enough where most players could not match my time, even with the same deck, class, level, quest magnus, and TP goals (I say most, because I still think my Sandfeeder is terrible in retrospect, but whatever, it's one bad fight). That being said, I am still very happy with the results of this run. Every fight I've ever seen, from those in my own run, to random videos on Youtube, to crazy Japanese guys exploiting many difficult to obtain magnus, could be improved by a significant amount of time. Until you get every card dealt to you in the exact order you want to play them, and have the enemies do the exact moves you need them to do, you aren't perfect. Perfection in this game is impossible- with the way the battle system works, you can always get a bit better. If anyone made another BK:O run, it wouldn't be perfect. If I make another BK:O run, it wouldn't be perfect. If this wasn't my absolute favorite game, and I didn't enjoy playing it so much, I probably would have cracked.ĭespite all the work, this run is not perfect.
SAGI BATEN KAITOS FREE
I planned for this to be a fun project on the side, but it ended up consuming most of my free time for about a year. If you're ever tempted to do a run for this game, take my advice: don't.

Jewyama - For being patient through my questions about rules and processes of speedrunning, and of course helping get the run up on the site.Jiano - Returning the arbitrary inclusion in run comments, despite doing very little.Enhasa/AquaTiger/Hearth - For supporting the run and offering some suggestions when I was in the planning stage.Their runs of Pikmin 2 and Metroid Prime 3 (respectively) inspired me to do this run in the first place, and helped motivate me towards perfection as I tried to keep up with their play quality. Miles/Paraxade - For being the two people I most frequently discussed the run with, even though they never played the game.VorpalEdge - For telling me to redo segments when others would hesitate to, making my run that much better.FDD - For testing the rot time of Mountain Apples and just generally supporting me throughout the run.With a time of sub 8 hours (barely), this is much better than my original estimate of 12 hours, my mid-run estimate of nine hours, and the back-of-the-box time of 60 hours.īefore I go into detail about the run, I'd like to get some thanks out of the way: After around a year of effort, and a thousand hours of hard work, this run is finally done.
