u/sukeban777
All Orbs/No Deaths?
Has anyone completed an all-orbs run with zero deaths yet? I haven't been able to find any, and am curious if there is a hidden ending or something (although I doubt it).
I'm currently working on doing it myself and have the first 4 chapters planned out pretty solidly, but I still have to find and route the orbs in the rest of the chapters before I can start practicing a full run.
I think it would be a fun speedrun category since it follows the scoring metrics that the game tracks, so I'm hoping there are other people interested in the idea.
Looking for feedback. (Please read description.)
For context: this is a hot mess of an autistic special interest project. I'm not really looking for technical feedback because I already know that aspect is a disaster. Video quality is poor, aspect ratio is inconsistent, volume is all over the place with overlapping audio, etc.
The full project is an entire TV show that I condensed into an 80 minute movie while attempting to keep the narrative intact. I also replaced the entire soundtrack and tried to edit every scene to fit the new music.
The original show can't decide if it wants to be a gangster drama or a Saturday morning comedy cartoon with poppy music that felt out of place to me, but I love the premise and I tried to turn it into a serious, "cool" action/drama movie through nothing but hard cuts and soundtrack replacement.
I suppose what I'm looking for feedback wise is a vague kind of "vibe check" and maybe my curation/application of music, how it matches/progresses with what's on screen, etc. It's not synced like a music video or a trailer, but I did make an effort beyond simply slapping a song over a scene.
In my mind, I sort of took this existing audio and video and tried to build something like a 1st draft storyboard of the movie I wanted the show to be. I'd like to know if, to other people, it seems like I have any hint of an eye/ear for this or if it's totally just autism that should to stay a hobby lol
The format of this upload is: opening credits, followed by a grab bag of partial scenes that I felt were more or less representative of the full project. Most of them start and/or end abruptly for the sake of keeping them sample-sized and consequently have no continuity between them. (15 minutes is already a big ask; I wasn't about to link a literal feature-length film edited in free software on my cheap phone and expect anyone to click on it.)
Thanks to anyone who does take the time to watch/respond!
Is there such a thing as a career as a "cut-only" editor?
This may just be a nonsense idea to anyone who does this professionally. I really enjoy editing, but I don't have any interest in text, effects, digital motion/animation, etc.
I really just like taking a large amount of footage and chopping it down into something concise, at most maybe syncing it to music for something like a trailer. I can spend a dozen+ hours on a project using only the split, delete, and move tools.
My main editing hobby is trimming down feature films. I'm a huge movie buff, but most movies feel bloated to me (probably just ADD tbh). To me, most movies have maybe 30-40 minutes of footage that simply doesn't need to be there. I buy movies, make my own edits, and then never watch the originals again because I like my versions better.
Definitely a weird thing, I know, but I'm curious if there is any work in that type of editing specifically. (Also, does anyone else do this to movies?)
[TOMT] Chinese Action Movie (Donnie Yen(?) vs Leather Jacket Woman)
I've only seen one fight scene from this movie so that's all I can describe. The main character is a woman (unknown actress) with a black leather jacket and a ponytail - fairly nondescript. The scene takes place after she infiltrates some kind of hideout in a jungle, with sort of traditional/wooden Chinese buildings.
She fights a man in one of these buildings. I'm fairly certain he's played by Donnie Yen, but not 100%. What makes me second-guess is that an actor like that should be easy to track down, but I've scoured all of his films that I can find to no avail. I think it's more likely that it's just a more obscure film though than that it's a different actor.
I can't say much about the fight itself that I think would be helpful, other than that it ends with Donnie(?) being thrown onto a pile of grenades. The woman then throws a grenade onto that pile and leaps out of a window with an explosion behind her.
I got the impression that it may be a Chinese web movie with no physical release, which is somewhat common.
The place I originally saw it was a Chinese YouTube channel that uploads full movies, but there is never any information about the movies and the video title is always a vague clickbait descriptor like "The Chinese Commando Girl DESTROYS The Bad Guys".
There are hundreds of these channels and they are all virtually identical, so following that lead has been an exercise in futility. There's also no guarantee that particular upload even still exists.
If this rings a bell for anyone it would be greatly appreciated! I really just want that scene, I don't even need to know the movie so if by some crazy chance someone happens to have just that fight with no information, that's all I need. Thanks!
Chapter 1 (Full Chapter) - All Orbs, No Deaths, No Major Glitches/Skips, ~15 Minutes
Not really a true speedrun, but I'm interested in routing a fast, smooth run through the game that actually involves playing the levels instead of glitching past them. Call it a "good faith" speedrun, although I'm honestly not too pressed about hyper-optimizing for time as long as it's quick, fluid, and fun to play.
I've worked out all segments up to around chapter 4 so far, but this is my first go at a non-segmented full chapter.
For now I'm mostly just trying to get each section down to a smooth "all orbs in one go" run rather than a true speedrun, but I've found some good skips like in this video where you can jump the enemy barrier to avoid combat requirements.
Only partway into chapter 4 so far, but I think I'm on pace for a full game all orbs in 2-3 hours if you were to splice all the footage together. Hoping this can be a useful starting point for routing a full all orbs speedrun, but I'm sure there's room to cut the total time down significantly.
Playlist of all footage is here if anyone is interested, sorted by chapter/checkpoint in line with the level replay menu, updating as I finish each section: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMHwOZjSbHGcFmKnGeNUJ1DQx6R9zmemc&si=jJa2nv3WAcdyhxwi