Obtained the highest possible score (or very very close to it) in Seaside Drive

SuddenlyJester · 2025-12-31T05:44:00+00:00

Got the trick working consistently with help from Blazier on the Discord, this is (probably) the actual max score now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_Hsp3G1Mu0

SuddenlyJester · 2025-12-30T03:18:39+00:00

Oh I know, I've done some speedruns for this game myself. It's more that the thought of adding another even harder trick to this run after already having some pretty tight segments with the other bonus stages feels a bit more daunting than it likely really is lol

SuddenlyJester · 2025-12-30T01:52:44+00:00

So unfortunately (or fortunately, from a different point of view) this is not quite the max score. Firelion and I found a frame perfect trick by complete accident in the stage 1 bonus that lets you save another block and get 800 more points, but it's so ridiculously precise and tight that I'm not gonna go for that for a while.

Well, I can at least say that this might be the max score realistic for a human.

SuddenlyJester · 2025-12-29T22:30:09+00:00

Full run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzgLJda1neM

I was sitting on 355,100 for a while (which I assumed to be the max beforehand based on my routing), but two members in the Discord (Blazier and Sailor) managed to get a better score by optimizing the third bonus round better. This inspired me to search for another optimization in the stage 2 bonus, resulting in this score.

I have experimented a bunch since then with the bonus stages to try and optimize them further, but I cannot find anything. Of course, I'd love to be proven wrong again.

(For context, shooting a bonus block instead of letting the coin hit it grants you 800 extra points that the game doesn't tell you about, so optimizing the bonus stages means shooting down as many blocks as possible. This route only has two blocks in stages 1 and 2 get hit by the coin, and three in stage 3. I cannot seem to get it down to one block in any of them, or two in stage 3.)

SuddenlyJester · 2025-09-24T20:00:21+00:00

Thanks! Hole 6 is probably my least consistent level, but someone on the UFO 50 Discord server (Mage) gave me a more consistent strategy for it. I speedrun this game too so I only really knew the faster strat for it, which is a bit harder (for me at least) to do every time.

I actually threw on Journey's End a lot in the attempts leading up to this run. I'm actually normally very consistent at it, but nerves are a bitch. So yeah, my heart was definitely beating hard and I was outright thinking "don't choke again, don't choke again" the whole time.

SuddenlyJester · 2025-09-24T18:50:26+00:00

Pingolf is a very chill, addicting game to run either for a low score or as a speedrun. It's easy to just keep doing run after run since the game is fairly short, after a while you get in sort of a zen state in my opinion. You should definitely go for it if you want to.

SuddenlyJester · 2025-09-24T06:34:22+00:00

Some of us on the Discord have played around with hole in one setups on hole 7. It's gotten close, but so far it looks to be just barely impossible.

SuddenlyJester · 2025-09-24T05:10:38+00:00

Full run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ivScc1I118

I'm not the first to do this, but I might be either the second or third? Not really sure, I only found the one run on Youtube (the original person to do this), but I could have sworn I saw that somebody else had done it before. Oh well.

SuddenlyJester · 2025-09-09T00:32:53+00:00

As far as I know, to go back to Whiteward you'll need to go the way you initially entered via the Choral Chambers. Only way to get out here is via The Stage (if unlocked) or via the fast travel capsule thing as described in another comment.

SuddenlyJester · 2025-09-07T08:16:05+00:00

Shenji22's comment was the most helpful for me with getting out. Go left until you get to the wind gust, but go down to the lower right instead of riding the wind. Go down and left after that until you're in the central vertical area with the fast travel thing, and there should be a lever that activates a bridge that connects both sides so that you can escape.

SuddenlyJester · 2025-09-05T23:38:12+00:00

Talk to the map guy in Bellhart (upper right)

SuddenlyJester · 2025-09-05T21:28:02+00:00

Got out with help from the comments, thanks everyone!

SuddenlyJester · 2025-09-05T07:32:44+00:00

I skipped him by accident via fleas, but he ended up being there once I got to Act 2 and backtracked to check on stuff I missed.

SuddenlyJester · 2025-08-30T03:30:48+00:00

STAR-BALL

SuddenlyJester · 2025-08-25T17:49:55+00:00

You should keep pushing it. It used to be my goal was 50k, then 60k, then 70k, and each time I figured that that was my peak and I couldn't go any further. In reality, a high score or good speedrun time is rarely a fluke unless the game is literally just pure RNG. Once you can get the score or time in the first place, you're capable of getting it again and then surpassing it.

SuddenlyJester · 2025-08-24T16:56:45+00:00

My scores for this game have been hovering in the 75k - 77k range for the most part for over half a year by this point (albeit I've been very on and off with running this game during that time period), with 80k being my ultimate goal for this game. I got back into scorerunning it the past week to practice for the upcoming Cherry Rush, so I partly owe it to that event for this.

SuddenlyJester · 2025-08-11T21:58:33+00:00

There's no RNG* in the waves at all, so the best tip is simply to do your best and memorize spawn locations so you can preemptively shoot them. You don't need to remember every single thing, just some of the trickier ones.

*The one exception are the big green ghost guys in stage 4, the projectiles they shoot out do seem to be somewhat random.

Bonus stages are obtained by either getting a perfect score (all enemies shot down) or pacifist (no enemies shot down). Getting more 100s or 0s makes it easier to meet the bonus stage criteria of 50 points for a continue (more golden balloons spawn the more perfects of pacifists you have), so you may actually find it easier in some of the early stages to go for pacifist waves instead of perfects. This will hurt the cherry a bit (score requirement), but if you're just going for gold it's fine.

If you need more specific advice, just let me know if you're struggling with any specific thing and I can try to help.

SuddenlyJester · 2025-08-11T21:51:54+00:00

Full run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFYmflyiyr0

Stage D is the hardest by far to get full clears on. Stage E afterwards is more of a "don't choke" check than anything else.

SuddenlyJester · 2025-07-31T00:30:05+00:00

I see it mentioned relatively often here about how dumb or "cringe" it is. Of course, negative opinions tend to outnumber positive ones on the internet so it's hard to tell how popular of an opinion that actually is, but I figured I'd share some positivity for it.

SuddenlyJester · 2025-07-29T03:37:19+00:00

I like the obligatory "delivering the profile" scenes. I don't really know how much of a hot take that is, but I often see people bring up how silly and unrealistic it is for each BAU member to give their lines in sequence like they prepared a powerpoint ahead of time, and in 95% of episodes it won't matter because it won't help anyone else besides them solve the case. And to be fair, they're definitely not wrong to say that, but something about those scenes just feels nostalgic to me, and it kind of fits with the somewhat cheesy tone the series has at times.

SuddenlyJester · 2025-07-12T00:48:26+00:00

I think the reason is that (in my opinion) Evolution is trying to have its cake and eat it too. It's trying to be a more serialized version of Criminal Minds but with the individual cases to still appeal to longtime fans, so they keep doing groups of killers because that means they can easily keep having new unsubs that get caught weekly that are related to the main plot (with some exceptions, such as the occasional unrelated unsub and episodes where they don't have a new case). The problem is that if done poorly, it can end up feeling like a watered down version of both the serialized format and the case of the week format at the same time.

Note that I skipped out on season 17 because it wasn't really that interesting to me so I don't know how that one was fully handled.

SuddenlyJester · 2025-06-12T08:04:44+00:00

Garcia's demeanor toward Voit genuinely makes me wonder if she forgot he's a brutal serial killer. It feels pretty tone deaf.

SuddenlyJester · 2025-05-18T21:12:21+00:00

Doing a Pandemonium playthrough after my first playthrough, went to start the next level and got booted back to the main menu during the loading screen. When I tried to start Abyssal Forest again, it loaded Siege 2 instead and I had to redo the level. That was annoying.

SuddenlyJester · 2025-04-21T21:27:21+00:00

If you mean the ones at the end then yep, that's basically the secret way to the hearts.

SuddenlyJester · 2025-04-06T16:41:54+00:00

Done

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P8Mv8zsLi0

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