Werewolf: The Last Warrior, released on the NES in 1990, is a challenging platformer about some guy who can change into (guess what) a werewolf. Dr. Faryan and his band of bio-monsters have imprisoned the world's population, and the only thing that can stop them is some hot furry mano-a-mano action. The werewolf is also helped by some hobo, but then he dies.
Best time: 0:15:27 by Andrew Gardikis on 2008-04-07.
Author's comments:
Frezy_man posted a bounty for this speedrun and that was the main reason that I speedran Werewolf. I bought the game and I really liked it. If I knew about this game before, I probably would have speedrun it before Frezy_man posted the bounties.
I'm not satisfied with this time, so I think in the future I will improve upon it. I have been trying to improve this record for a while now, but I getting killed at least once. I'll probably start playing Werewolf again after a few other speedruns.
Playthrough:
- Level 1 - I start out as super werewolf!!! (or not)... I wonder if a TAS could manage to have super werewolf ability at the very start somehow, I don't doubt its possible, but I've tried and couldn't manage it. Starting off, I beat the first boss pretty quickly, and I managed what I called the "start glitch" which skips the werewolf cutscene (Saved maybe 3-4 seconds). This level went pretty well, I had some very minor mistakes and my boss battles went well with the strategies I came up with.
- Level 2 - This stage went decently. I can't seem to jump over the huge gap without being super werewolf and being super werewolf at that point is not a good idea because then I won't have it for the final boss battle. I do this weird latter glitch that keeps me on the right side of the screen. I thought it was a little helpful to do this right before the "giant head" boss (I think that's his name). After beating the first boss, I become super werewolf. I thought this was a good idea for a few reasons: I don't have to climb each beam like I would as normal werewolf, I kill the end boss a lot quicker, and for the third level I don't have to climb up one latter. While super werewolf I made really stupid mistakes, but they worked out alright, I didn't really waste too much time in this level, I think it could have been just a few seconds faster.
- Level 3 - I mess up at the beginning and it took just as long as if I had taken the latter because of my mistakes. Alright... after I climb up the ladders I'm usually pretty good with this part, but not today. This part of my run is pretty embarrassing. I kept getting hit by all the enemies flying around, and I eventually turn back into human form. Not only that but I do some accidental backward flips, this was one of the worst parts of my run, the battle against Fire Man in this level was pretty slow as well, I saved the bullet I obtained earlier. In this battle I reverted back into human form once again, but I think the method I used at the beginning of the battle made up for the loss of time at the end. Level 3 was definitely the worse part of my run and I didn't want to send this in for this reason, but I decided it wasn't as bad as I thought. At the end of this level, the screen FLASHES INSANELY and it does this for a good 10 seconds, kind of annoying when I was doing these attempts late at night.
- Level 4 - I start off as a human and get the first werewolf power-up. I play this level pretty quickly, a lot of enemies slow me down because I know if I get hit I will die. I think people who have played this level will be amazed by how good I was at avoiding death. I get hit a few times right over the cliffs, but I manage to live every time. The rock almost blew up and killed me, but I had a quick reaction to destroy it before that happened. The "Giant Head" boss was annoying because he charges pretty fast toward me after I use my charged "A" move as werewolf. Thankfully, right after I turned into a human I killed the "Giant Head" and turned back into a werewolf. In the next area, I love how I can just walk through the different items as I please. I hit the items I want, but the main one I need here is the heart. Once you jump into the items you will obtain them, I wait until I'm right before Monster before getting invincibility. The battle with Monster was fast, I get his health down very quickly with the charged "A" move as werewolf. It looks like I mess up at the end because I'm not hitting him at all, but I'm just waiting for him to come down to hit him with my last charged "A" move. The lower you kill monster on the screen the faster it goes to the next level. It was the best decision to wait for him to come down because the charged move depleted his remaining health. This level was one of the best.
- Level 5 - Not too much to say on this one. I accidentally made a few mistakes at the very beginning. The method for this level is jump high and slash to kill all the fish. This usually works out. I played quickly and climbed up the last wall then did a back-flip to avoid one of the flying guys which I wasn't sure if that was going to work as I planned it, but it did. Then I reach the 3 bosses. I don't want to use my charged "A" move at the first boss because then I would have no life for the others. All three bosses move back and forth around me, and they were pretty easy to beat, not the most exciting boss.
Anyway, hope you enjoyed my run, I had a few mistakes, but overall I think I did well. I did this all off of memory!!
ENJOY!
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