[TAS] Totally Spies! 3: Secret Agents (DS) in 28:28.368 (old)

Published 2024-05-27

This run is obsolete as I have improved it by nearly 5 seconds. • [TAS] Totally Spies! 3: Secret Agents...

Totally Spies 3 - the third instalment of the portable Totally Spies series based on a show I have never seen. Warning! - There are brief flashing lights around 27:14 to 27:16. This may affect photosensitive viewers.

After finishing my TAS on the first game, I did want to look into the other games. Moving onto the second game would be logical but I decided to dive into the 3rd game instead. I'm glad I did because this run is wild, considerably more so than the other games. I had no idea just how busted this game is until I finished this TAS. I found new, significant exploits mid way through making the TAS multiple times which ended up saving a ton of time.

This game is very different from its predecessors, being made by different developers. This game is strictly a 2D platformer/beat em up with light puzzle elements. While the game is considerably worse than it sounds, it does make for an interesting speedrun as the game is fairly broken.

One of the main gameplay elements in the game is the combat. The combat is slow, tedious, annoying and you have to do so many fights normally. Luckily, this TAS manages to skip every single fight so we never actually have to engage with the combat system. This is achieved in a variety of different ways throughout the run.

There is a lot to this run so if anyone has any questions, feel free to ask. I explain the stuff going on in this run in my TAS runs submission (tasvideos.org/9094S) and I will gladly answer any additional questions you may have.

I am very happy with this run. This run can go lower, there were a few instances where I sacrificed a little bit of speed for entertainment purposes (although we are talking about a very small amount of time), even tighter execution might be possible in specific areas, more playaround can be incorporated to make the run more entertaining and it is possible that there's even more stuff which I did not discover but I am really happy with how the final run turned out.

Also, Sam's the best girl and I snuck her in on numerous occasions, even during a few instances where selecting her lost time. :)