ronek is doing a SMRPG lvl3 run

[蹴飛冥]

If you've never played Super Mario RPG, get out this topic now and play it <_< If you have played it, you may know that the lowest possible level to beat the game is level 3. I've attempted low level runs before, but nothing like this. I'm doing this on console not emulator so there are no easy cheap savestates. In this topic I will update my progress <_<

Day 1: Beat the first half of the game, fairly easy. Currently at the sunken ship, with 4 star pieces, at the bandana reds before Johnny. Annoying, three mandatory battles in a row, each with a 1/6 chance of being able to continue...atleast I can save inbetween, but it's gonna take a while. I'm afraid when I get to Johnny, he will absolutely be a one hit kill on atleast Mario... it might be a tough fight. But we will see <_< Also it is extremely annoying to get frog coins in the first half of the game, so much time spent jumping on Wiggler's head >_>

[LinksDarkArrows]

Let's think of all of the non-skippable bosses here, shall we?

(Just off the top of my head)

Hammer Bros
Croco
That Sword Guy <_<
Belome
The arrow guy with a nefarious laugh
Croco 2
The guy made out of bombs
The Wedding Cake
Bandana Reds (Aren't those the tentacle guys in the ship?)
Johnny
Axem Brothers
That weird guy and the shaky boob lady from Nimbus Land
Birdo
The sword thingy


that's all I can recall. If I remember correctly, you fight Belome a second time.

Now... please. Tell me which of these you can skip. And if you can't skip any, how do these equal up to three levels?

[蹴飛冥]

I'll run through it..

- Hammer Bros, Croco, Mack ---> grow to level 2
- Belome, Bowyer --> grow to level 3
- Punchinello (the boss in the mines) gives you 0 experiences... after you beat him, you can buy the "lucky jewel" item in the town. You can use this item ten times and it lets you play the "lucky" mini game after battle, you must purposely fail this game after each battle to get 0 experience, if not you must restart (what I meant by 1/6 each battle from this point on...)
- you can skip Booster, but you need to fight Knife Guy and Grate Guy, use Lucky Jewel x1
- the cake (so annoying), use lucky jewel x2
- the squid, 2 battles with bandanna reds, then Johnny (lucky jewel x6)
- yaridovich (x7)
- After you beat Yarid, you can buy the Lucky Hammer from seaside town which is the same as the luck jewel but has infinite uses. Then the bosses required left are:
- Belome 2, Megasmilax, Valentina, Czar dragon, axem rangers.... then I don't remember all the required bosses in bowser's keep/smithy factory but there is quite a few..

[LinksDarkArrows]

That Lucky Jewel/Hammer answer question.

I may have to do this after I finish my first completion in years.

[蹴飛冥]

You should try it LDA

I'm at Johnny now. So far I have beat him 4 times, but I'm not losing the lucky experience game so far :x. So frustrating, I just want to get out of this ship already >_>

[蹴飛冥]

Finally got lucky on the lucky game on Johnny after 20 tries :x

Now I'm at Yarid, he's not as hard as I thought and I have beat him twice so far, but no luck on the lucky game yet... what sucks about him though is that he is a 8 minute battle as opposed to the easy 3-4 minute battle that was Johnny :x

[Crono]

Is that possible ? I don't remember a lot of this game, i'll play again, but can you use geno's whirl? or you learn them leveling? Anyways amazing job ''

[蹴飛冥]

Crono: read the third post for explanation on how to avoid growing levels... The party I use is Mario - Princess - Bowser, Mario because he has to be there, Peach for healing, and Bowser for being a powerhouse... atleast he is for now, against these current bosses <_<

[Crono]

Still awesome are you recordering it right =)?

[蹴飛冥]

I never thought to record it o_0... when I get to Smithy or Culex though I will hook up the SNES to the vcr and try to get one of those epic battles on tape, at the very least

[LinksDarkArrows]

Isn't Culex optional? If I recall correctly, you need to go through a bunch of stuff to even open the door. *continues game* I love this Mushroom Kingdom castle area setup. <3

[蹴飛冥]

yeah Culex is optional, but I won't feel like I really beat the game unless I beat him too... and plus, he gives you a pretty awesome item for beating him, and that item may help me for when I get to Smithy.

You playing the game now LDA? How far are you?

[LinksDarkArrows]

r1k said:

yeah Culex is optional, but I won't feel like I really beat the game unless I beat him too... and plus, he gives you a pretty awesome item for beating him, and that item may help me for when I get to Smithy.

You playing the game now LDA? How far are you?

Since I just started, I'm only up to the first time we visit the castle. I'm remembering all the steps from 10+ years ago.

[蹴飛冥]

It is an excellent, tremendously fun game Great graphics and music as well, glad somebody else here at smashvids enjoys it too

[蹴飛冥]

Alright, I'm at Belome 2 now. I've beat him once already, but overall I am having a difficult time beating him =/ He has about 1100-1300 HP, and the clones that he makes don't instantly die when Belome dies =x It's my own fault for not stocking up on items before I came here though =/

[蹴飛冥]

r1k said:

Alright, I'm at Belome 2 now. I've beat him once already, but overall I am having a difficult time beating him =/ He has about 1100-1300 HP, and the clones that he makes don't instantly die when Belome dies =x It's my own fault for not stocking up on items before I came here though =/

edit: Finally at Nimbus Land

[Crono]

great job ronek! you should start taping here =P the Axem rangers fight is fun, and i really don't see a way to clear it in level 3 so yeah vid vid vid XD

[蹴飛冥]

thanks

I'm at Dodo and Valentina now... so hard x____x I passed it one time so far but I failed the lucky game, but in that fight I used 3 Red essence and 3 rock candies

[marth1]

one of the best games ever

[蹴飛冥]

marth1 said:

one of the best games ever

fo sho

I made an effective (but time consuming) Valentina strat, ultimately nothing can go wrong unless Dodo's first attack on Bowser is Multistrike and I don't block it (but I'm getting better at blocking it) or if Valentina starts off with water blast; but if I get past those two barriers, the rest of the battle is cake

[蹴飛冥]

beat Valentina (switched from my 2 red essence, 3 rock candy strat to a much faster and more effective 1 red essence +10 fire bomb strat, only takes 5-7 min a battle), beat the Czar dragon (he doesnt give coins so the lucky game is easier) and the axem rangers (also dont give coins, i made the right guess on them on the first try for the first time ever XD)

went back and beat Jinx's first two fights, but the third fight is d**n hard o_0. I'm gonna try to defeat Culex and Jinx for their items before I continue to Bowser's keep.

To demonstrate how hard Jinx is, he was the first to act in battle, used Bombs Away on Mario and dealt over 500 damage . And Mario's HP max is only 33

[Crono]

@ the damage
Anyways, any progress yet? I hope you didn't gave up, and *coughstartrecorderingcough*

[蹴飛冥]

I've been away for a few days, but I gave Culex a try... to put this in perspective, Princess has 50 HP max, and I have the best armor equiped to her (the lazy shell, which reduces most attacks down to 1 damage or so) and Culex's normal attack deals over 90 damage :x. Culex has over 4000 HP, so I've decided the only way I think I can win is to get a whole lot of red essences (3 turn invincibility). Currently I have 4... I think if I can get about 10 that should be enough for an easy fight. It might be a pretty boring video though...

[marth1]

haha
it doesnt seem very possible

[蹴飛冥]

i am at boomer/exor

there is 1/6 chance of winning lucky game on boomer and the battle takes about 1-2 minutes to take down his 2000hp, and exor comes immidiately after and there is a 1/3 chance of winning the lucky game... so there is a 1/18 chances of me beating this part... its annoying =p