'Toe to Toe' with the dragon

[Jan]

PaulH, you've got some nerves! Congratulations! I have never seen anyone getting the Master key from behind! I've never thought of this possibility! Will have to try it myself... when I'm thinking about it... I've never actually used the shortcut on the scorpion level, thought it was pretty useless... now I see it can be important.

[MasterWuuf]

I'm still wondering about the 'Master key from behind' that's being mentioned.
Refresh my memory, as to the whereabouts of the master key.
Then, please explain the two ways to get to the master key.

[Jan]

Watch PaulH's game, it's worth it! You can "skip" its other parts by Quickplay option in the menu - maybe Paul Stevens knows other possibilities how to review Playbacks (both back and forward), but I don't.

PS: Master Key is that key near the end of the Knight / Spider level - you need it to get Firestaff. PaulH actually showed us it is possible to access it from behind (or bellow, to be more precise), so that you can avoid the spider area. But I will speak no more, watch the video!
EDIT: The "ordinary" way of getting the Master key is going through the dangerous spider / materialiser / knight area, grabbing the key; and then opening the skeleton stairway, going up and doing the Firestaff level. It's the "ordinary" way. PaulH, obviously, dislikes "ordinary" things.

[PaulH]

You'll like my speed run video then

I have played this game too much lol.

[Jan]

You mean that break-recording... I mean record-breaking video? Meh, that was a pure luck!
Surviving the fall with the knight with 1 HP... ts, ts... and fusing Chaos so quickly... ts, ts, ts, ts!

[PaulH]

Yeah, the 1Hp was class!

I thought it took a bit long to fuse Chaos

[Trantor]

Too long indeed! When will you show us the game below the 30 minutes mark Paul?

[PaulH]

If I can get to the end of the worms in the same time, I reckon 29 mins

[MasterWuuf]

I've tried accessing a few of these games.
I just get a bunch of unintelligent letters/etc.
I gave up trying to watch them.

[PaulH]

Save target as a .7z file (right click on link in Pauls page). Then decompress.

[Jan]

Yeah, it's Save target as. I use WinRAR 3.80 beta 5 to decompress it then. If you have any problems, let us know, the movies are worth it. Don't give up!

And then run the exe file and press Dungeon, and on the starting screen, select Playback from Misc menu - it should work fine. Enjoy the movies.

[Antman]

Cool, I'll have to watch this! Never thought below 43 was possible either. I made a minimal moves game of CSB ages ago I think, it's not on this computer and I'm not sure how many items I used. It was around the same time I tried to make the, very frustrating, no damage movie. Never did finish that one though, it was without saving I think.

Good to see you around as well PaulH! I don't remember many posts from you prior to a couple of weeks ago.

[PaulH]

Cheers Ant! I sporadically come and go lol, do like these challenges!