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Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen (1990)

Duration: 6:44:00

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WR as of 6/30/2019 (Until Giga D took it back 5/16/2020)

This run had both great execution and great RNG.

Half the commentary was me praising my Return/Wing menus; I made it to Esturk without ever hesitating on the town list or warping to the wrong town (at which point I had a panic attack trying to find Riverton). The biggest mistakes I made were forgetting to equip the iron claw for the tournament, which was an 80 second time loss, and wagoning the Hero instead of Alena right when I knocked Necrosaro into the last phase which could've been CATACLYSMIC... but it wasn't. I used Message Speed 8 for most of the run, and I was focused on mashing almost the entire time.

The big RNG time losses were: a death to Sampson because he herbed, two deaths to the Lighthouse boss (Expel missed & Nara never got a chance to cast Sleep), a death in the colossus near the end of the dungeon because Beat/Defeat apparently never miss, and a nasty death in the Silver Statuette cave in chapter five, right at the half plate chest. Probably could've avoided the last one; I really don't play that cave smartly.

This run could definitely go sub six, but I don't think I want to grind for it. There are some more tiny optimizations that could be added to knock maybe two more minutes off an average run if I invested a hundred hours researching and practicing them, but each one I dig into is more work or less reward than the last. And even if two minutes were knocked off the run, to PB I'd still have to grind for the RNG that would currently yield a 6:07. We'll see how it goes.

The important takeaways for me are that A) I don't see anyone beating this with safer strats than the ones I used tonight, and B) WR has female hero again.

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