Well, it has been some time now since I have been doing speed runs, and I am long overdue to getting back to this wonderful hobby... During the time I was trying to figure out what to speed run, I was juggling many different games in my mind; always coming up with plans, but never really doing them... Then recently with the inclusion of crash team racing, I suddenly found out what I can do...
CRASH TAG TEAM RACING!
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Don't question me on that...
Anyway, the idea of a speed run on this game is simple: The runner must collect 65 crystals in order to complete the game... The crystals can be gathered by completing races, activities or by simply finding and collecting them... I have the route all planned out too and will be posting my route as I complete it... I'm hoping that by this weekend, it will be completed, but for now, I'm going to post my W.I.P in case I should redo any segments if I need to...
Segment 1:
The Goal in this segment is simple, get coins... Before going into the park, I spent little time actually farming; as long as I had 500 coins before the first race activity, I would be good (and trust me, I will need as much coin as I can get for the later segments)... This part though was irritating beyond all hell for me since the platforming in this game is awful and I had to restart for the beginning because the game can't tell I want to grab onto a ledge... You also notice I was freezing a bit near the end of the enterance since the game needs a moment to recognize which way you are jumping, otherwise you will jump into oblivion or not grab the ledge... Before racing I went to speak with N. Gin really fast because he is vital to this speed run (but won't be used until segment 4 or 5)... After getting what coins I needed, I went into the first race (Tiki Turbo) and completed the following activities...
Fastest Lap: I admit I hate fastest lap since it is designed to be done when at the faster speeds (faster or insane) and the only way you can get those speeds is if you unlock all the characters, and that would take much longer so I do it at the default speed... Drifting in this game is also pretty bad since it isn't like other games where you can hop and then snake; this game you press the brakes once and hold it, and if you let go once, the drift is over... At least it was done in a time that I was happy with...
Run 'n Gun: Much like Fastest lap, Run 'n Gun will only be done in this part of the park since Crunch's weapon makes it too easy, while the rest of the weapons aren't as good in targeting moving targets... Easy enough... also just to mention, I always try to get the record, there is no special for getting perfects so gold+1 is always the goal...
Crashinator: Because Cortex has better handling than crash, I use him here... Crash can work but he can't manuver as well and would miss much more of the plants than cortex does... I do miss a few, but then as I said before Gold +1; that's all that matters...
Race: So finally I get to the race... The goal for this race was to get as many kills as I can since kills during races gives you more coins... Still, when you are the gunner, the driver doesn't drive as well as you do, but can still drive good enough, while being the driver, the gunner will attack, but is too stupid as to which person to target if there is more than one... I tried to get a few hits in, but didn't have much luck, but it didn't slow me down at all... During my first boost, my partner deattached from me when I didn't expect it, but luckily you can keep part of your boost that isn't used if you are destroyed or detached... so I decide to clash again in order to reload the gunner and get another free boost... I also found out that I can normally get destroyed about 1-3 times during each race (due to luck) so the first takedown didn't hurt me much since I caught up fast (penalties when you crash as few in between, you practically start at the speed you were going, so maybe a few seconds lost, but can be regained just as fast) and also helped that my former partner took a hit for me so that I can go back in front... From here I get blown up again by a heatseeker but again no lost since I am still in front... Also another strategy for races is to drop items behind you at all times... Reason for this is because the AI is nice enough to drive into your drops and give you extra boost power when you aren't drifting...
After the race, I save and call it a day... So there you have it, Segment 1 of I'm hoping to be 8... I'll hopefully be able to post more segments coming up, but for now, I hope you enjoy the first segment...
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Crash Tag Team Racing Speed run- Segment 3by mas8705232 views
I have been working on a speedrun of this game too and I found out that you only need the raceing crystals and the field crystal to have enough for the first area and for the secound area(if you get the crystals you get from the secret shortcuts) you only need to get the racing crystals and feild crystal and you should have enough for that area too.
LancexTxWx 4 months ago
@LancexTxWx I've experimented a bit with the crystal collection for this game and actually from what I determined, if you do all the crystal races and activities in Mystery Island, buy and collect them in the area, all you need to do is all the rolling thunder, and run n gun events and two fastest laps (and a rolling thunder in rings of uranus) and find and buy the other power crystals, and that's the run right there...
I'll post my updated segments 3 and 4 after the verification on SDA...
mas8705 4 months ago