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Released in March, 2008 by Matt Thorson, FLaiL is a surprisingly difficult platforming game with some very impressive art assets and a hugely addictive 'throw yourself in a direction midair' mechanic that will test your dexterity and skill like very few games ever did.

 

Note: Runs are timed using the score, because it counts down like a timer.

Individual-levels run in score 244580:

World 1:

Stage # Score Date Player
1-1 1280 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
1-2 1280 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
1-3 1270 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
1-4 1290 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
1-5 1260 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
1-6 1240 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
1-7 1250 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
1-8 1260 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
1-9 1290 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
1-10 1260 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan

World 2:

Stage # Score Date Player
2-1 2020 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
2-2 1990 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
2-3 1990 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
2-4 1940 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
2-5 2010 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
2-6 1940 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
2-7 2050 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
2-8 1960 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
2-9 1990 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
2-10 2020 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan

World 3:

Stage # Score Date Player
3-1 2520 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
3-2 2450 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
3-3 2410 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
3-4 2530 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
3-5 2640 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
3-6 2570 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
3-7 2570 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
3-8 2530 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
3-9 2460 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
3-10 2510 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan

World 4:

Stage # Score Date Player
4-1 2870 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
4-2 3070 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
4-3 2870 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
4-4 2930 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
4-5 2860 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
4-6 2910 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
4-7 2880 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
4-8 2890 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
4-9 2910 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
4-10 2890 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan

World 5:

Stage # Score Date Player
5-1 3240 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
5-2 3250 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
5-3 3230 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
5-4 3390 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
5-5 3500 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
5-6 3320 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
5-7 3280 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
5-8 3290 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
5-9 3290 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
5-10 3310 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan

World 6:

Stage # Score Date Player
6-1 3760 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
6-2 3670 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
6-3 3620 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
6-4 3660 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
6-5 3770 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
6-6 3700 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
6-7 3730 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
6-8 3750 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
6-9 3640 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
6-10 3770 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan

World 7:

Stage # Score Date Player
7-1 4410 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
7-2 4170 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
7-3 4140 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
7-4 4220 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
7-5 4230 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
7-6 4090 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
7-7 4030 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
7-8 4230 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
7-9 4100 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
7-10 4080 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan

World 8:

Stage # Score Date Player
8-1 4650 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
8-2 4460 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
8-3 4530 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
8-4 4450 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
8-5 4730 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
8-6 4510 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
8-7 4630 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
8-8 4590 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
8-9 4640 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan
8-10 4660 2010-11-09 Charles 'Arcanod' Nannan

Author's comments:

Total score: 244.280 Playing time: ~15h (it may appear quite low, but I had already finished the game one year ago, so I still had a good knowledge of it)

Thanks to LLCoolDave for sharing some of his videos. It allowed me to improve my scores in stages 2-4, 2-7 and 2-9.

If you want to give the game a try before watching the run (and I advise you to do so), you can download it freely on his official website: http://mattmakesgames.com/games.php.

As for the run itself, it's pretty self-explanatory and doesn't need specific comments. Some stages are certainly still improvable by 10 or 20 points, but overall I think it is really solid. This is the advantage with short levels: they give us the chance to achieve perfect times. :)

Also, you'll notice that the videos of the five last stages are not totally smooth like all the others. That's because I had to record at 30 fps instead of 60 (all the levels were recorded with Fraps), probably because of all these blue rays animations which require too much resources ? and Fraps records the whole screen instead of just the game window, which certainly doesn't help either. If I am recording at 60 fps, the game is slowed down slightly ; at 30 fps, the game speed is flawless (in other words, I can play in perfectly normal conditions, which is the most important), but the video quality suffers a bit. I hope it won't prevent you from enjoying the run, though.

Anyway, feel free to send me a PM on the forum if you have any questions or want to give me your impressions. I would be really glad to read and answer them.

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