(WR) SaGa Frontier Emelia's Story English Speedrun in

This is an offline run performed on 9/16/2024 using a PS2 with fast disk speed turned on.

The start of the video I was messing around with my wires to try and get a slightly better picture.

This run was pretty good. RNG overall was good, minus a deflect and the Diva fight not going perfect. I'm going to try and work on a manipulation for the Diva fight that's similar to the Japanese version so we can start skipping Luminous, Kyo, Shrike, and Owmi and go straight to Trinity 2. I had one really dumb moment and accidently bought an extra spell in Luminous, but that didn't cost me the run thankfully.

Breakdown by splits:

Despair - No slimes, pretty decent movement. The only time I can save here is if Nidheg doesn't use Supersonic and kill Annie or Liza.

Shingrow - Got stuck on the stairs going back to the base. Good line cut, good RNG in the arena. Best possible fight against Goblin. No buckler drop though. Only time save here is everyone getting less stat ups and not hitting corners.

Baccarat - Not the best shooting training. Slightly slow dodge on the pickbird. Talked to a gnome. Maybe a second or two of time save here.

Trinity 1 - The boar got an attack off on the first encounter. Bad RNG on the second encounter (2 enemies and both of them got to attack.). Better RNG can save about 13 seconds or so.

Luminous/Omble - Silence's ghost was a bit high up. Took time to quick save. Not the best menu. Good ghost fight. Don't think there's much time save here at all, maybe 0.5 at best.

Shrike - Bought an extra spell in Luminous by accident! This caused me to get one less Flower Amulet in Kyo. The menu was okay, could be a bit faster by a few seconds if I remembered everything right off the bat. Good dodging. One of the skeletons deflected Silence's Mystic Sword. Quick saved a few times. There's about 8-9 seconds of time save here.

Owmi - Quick saved before Silence's absorb just in case. First try Silence absorb. Think the only time save here is slightly better lines, 1-1.5 seconds at most.

Trinity 2 - Quick saved before doing the first dodge and took that dodge a little slow to be safe. Everything else was fine. MAYBE a second at most to be saved.

Diva - Slow menu because I forgot what item to put on Emelia. Safe-ish dodging on the first few screens. Quick saved a bunch. Slightly slow menu moving people around. Diva did a LOT of lightning attacks which eats up a lot of time in animations. I went into this fight around 42 seconds ahead of the old record and only ended up beating it by 10 seconds because of all of the lightning attacks and lightning barriers. It's hard to say how much time save there is here. Though if I get lucky and Diva does all gaze attacks before transforming and takes out Emelia and Asellus the fight can be won with just White Rose, Silence, and Zozma. I lost nearly 17 seconds on this split and on my old splits the fight had a few more turns, so that goes to show just how long the lightning attack animations are.

If I were to try and improve this I'll have to get a run that's perfect going into Diva. No quick saving at all, good RNG through the entire thing.