Battle Realms ZE Speedrun
This is a speedrun of Battle Realms Zen Edition Kenjis Journey choosing the Dragon clan on normal difficulty. I will explain a lot of the strats in a following reupload of this run with post commentary.
There haven't really been any runs of this game, so I will just state the rules that I think are reasonable to use.
1. Timing of the run starts when you click on "Kenjis journey" and ends with the death of Nightvol in the last level/the start of the cutscene which is triggered by Nightvols death.
2. Saving/Loading is not allowed in generell. However there is the exception of the slow down glitch accuring. This is a special case because it is fixed by loading the game again and not allowing that would be pretty lame. Resetting sadly does not achieve the same result. If it would, I'd prefer to reset.
... btw. the saves I do sometimes are accidental. I use strg for some commands and I often use 's' to command my units. So sometimes I just fail to let go of strg. I am pretty sure you would notice it though, if I spliced those parts. I'll just change the quicksave keying next run. It really annoyed me to have those saves in between though.
3. No difficulty changes during the run. The categories would be 'easy', 'normal, 'hard' and furthermore differentiated by the choice of the clan. So it is self evident why changing the difficulty would make a run illegitimate.
In order to show that you actually use the specified difficulty you show your game settings at the start and/or end of the run.
0:00 - Showing off settings
0:10 - Intro Level
1:33 - Level 2 Destroy keep
2:28 - Level 3 Beat Shinja
4:15 - Level 4 Kill Warlock
5:20 - FAILED Swanspool
7:15 - Level 5 Swanspool
9:43 - Level 6 Wolf
15:55 - Level 7 Serpentholm
24:28 - Level 8 Korils Lotus
41:37 - Level 9 Reach the dragon
43:17 - Level 10 Otomo dies
47:32 - Level 11 Serpentholm 2
54:30 - Level 12 Obtain Ninjas
55:13 - Level 13 That one difficult Lotus level
1:14:38 - FAILED Level 14 Final
1:20:58 - 2. FAILED Level 14 Final
1:28:12 - Level 14 Final
1:39:03 - Final Fight / End / Credits
The run is okay. I lost the last level twice which is very annoying. But other than that it went pretty well. Serpentholm 2 was a PB for me, though I didn't really grind it out. A final level failed twice makes the run only okay sadly. I don't have a consistant strat to get Zymeth out of his spawn location yet. If I figure something out, that level will be way more consistant. It also depends on many other factors, which I will explain in the following commentary video. That level really deserves to be last in terms of difficulty for the speedrun.