(TAS) Momodora Reverie under the Moonlight
WARNING: Contains rapidly flashing scenes.
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This is a Tool-Assisted Speedrun.
RTA Timing: 9:41.65 (difficulty selection to last hit on queen)
Back when I learned how to speedrun Momodora Reverie under the Moonlight in Summer 2018,
I also really wanted to TAS it.
To my dismay, that wasn't really possible at that time due to lack of tools
(unless you are hitachi the madman. Mad respect).
Anyways, a few years have passed, a lot has happened and now we are here! How nice.
As always, I wasn't the most active in the Momo community, but I did my fair share of trying to come up with strats and breaking the game, and what do you know, turns out I succeeded as you can watch now.
Therefore, I will use this opportunity to thank everyone who made this TAS possible.
Let's start with Kilaye, the creator of libTAS (the tool I used to TAS this game).
https://github.com/clementgallet/libTAS
Kilaye has been putting a lot of energy into this amazing tool and added new features and fixes time and time again.
Even catered to my special needs because Momo didn't want to run through the WSL setup initially - but they made it happen anyway.
Really thankful and happy.
Then I also want to thank Nova, a friend of mine, with setting up some Linux stuff and especially the dual boot (my PC got to live on *sweats bullets*).
Big shoutouts go to my TASing buddy Ladnok who helped me a lot with exchanging ideas, testing things and just keeping me sane.
Especially after the initial discovery of all the new tech they were a godsent because there was just so much to do and figure out.
Working on things together is just so much more fun to me. I think on my own I might have given up at some point.
And then, when we both were at our wits' end, Jaddo casually dropped by and made Barrier Skip a thing.
Trying to skip bosses? Comparing whether it's worth to do so for skipping their item drops? Routing different possibilities?
No problem, just ask Jaddo and you can skip all of the above with this one simple trick
(it's not simple).
I also want to thank the people in the Momo Community.
Like I said earlier, I am not the most active, but considering my limited social abilities, I think I still found my place there so that's nice.
Shoutouts to Vizen for brain storming ideas and hey and Shep for hanging out in my chat when I streamed.
And like, it's just nice to have a place where I can dump my TAS stuff and have people talk about it and give feedback and all that.
So thank you everyone in the community.
Lastly I also want to thank my friends in #flawless and my lil Sis as well as the people on twitter who still follow my works after all this time.
Oh, and TrogWW for streaming some Wind Waker TASing not too long ago which really motivated me to keep working on Momo and to finish this project.
And finally, the obligatory "I am sorry I forgot to name people". I guess this always happen when you start naming single individuals huh.