[TAS] Totally Spies! 3: Secret Agents (DS) in 28:23.520

Published 2024-06-19

27:32 with RTA timing. Warning! - There are brief flashing lights around 27:14 to 27:16. This may affect photosensitive viewers.

While waiting for this run to be looked at by the TASVideos team, I realised that there were strats I could incorporate to potententially save time. Since the TASVideos team were busy with other projects, I thought I might as well take the time to improve this TAS and I managed to squeeze out nearly 5 seconds. I saved around 3.5 seconds in level 1 and around 1-1.5 seconds in level 5 with new strats/optimisations. There's nothing majorly different about the other 3 levels but I do certain things slightly differently.

This run is wild, considerably more so than the other Totally Spies games. I had no idea just how busted this game is until I finished this TAS. With the game strictly being a 2D platformer/beat em up with light puzzle elements, it can be broken quite significantly with a whole load of wacky exploits. The game has a dumb combat system (and there are a lot of fights in the game) but this TAS manages to skip every single fight so we never actually have to engage with the combat system.

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. It is possible to squeeze even more time out of the run, 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), but I am really happy with how the final run turned out.

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