Why to speedrun Darkwing Duck?
   My reason is very simple, this was my first game I ever play in my life. It bring me back childhood memories when I used to play NES with my brother.

A couple of game mechanics (Explained by Joka):
* It takes a few frames every time Darkwing lands before he starts walking. That's why you'll see me try to jump right when I land, in a few place.
* You can't stand on the arrows while they're flying.
* Arrow Gas does 3 damage, Heavy Gas and Thunder Gas do 2 damage. However, the sprite has to show up for that. If you shot anything point blank, it will still only do 1 damage.
* Arrow gas still does full damage when it's falling, after being cancelled.
* I kill some enemies that I don't actually have to kill, for a chance to get extra gas drops.

Let's talk about the route:
1. I start with the this level because of the randomness of Liquidator fight.
2. Then I go to the Bridge grabbing the Heavy Gas to get an easy kill on Quarter Jack. (Strat thanks to my brother)
3. Next is the City Centre where the only important thing is to grab the Arrow Gas to get a 2 cycles kill on Wolfduck.
4. I picked this stage as 4th back when i was playing on emulator because the early jump in the Bushroot fight was really hard to execute since the audio cue wasn't 100% consistent.
5. Definitely this stage should have been wise to pick as a 4th stage because of the crazy Arrow Gas strat. (Strat taken from TAS Videos)
6. I leave this level to the end because depending of the amount of Gas Energy I have, I can skip some Gas Energy in order to go faster.
7. No choice allowed here :)

About the Run:
1. Sewers (Liquidator)
     Good: Great Stage and sweet boss RNG.
     Bad: No Gas Energy drops from enemies and had to go for the Energy Gas.
2. Bridge (Quacker Jack)
     Good: Solid Stage and perfect boss fight.
     Bad: Still no Gas Energy drops from enemies and got hit by the green guy.
3. City Centre (Wolfduck)
     Good: Lucky Gas Energy drop from helicopter and perfect boss fight.
     Bad: I had to go the upper route at the end of the stage to save gas and to avoid RNG lag.
4. Woods (Bushroot)
     Good: Got more Gas Energy and a decent stage.
     Bad: One hit in the boss fight.
5. Warehouses (Megavolt)
     Good: Crazy Arrow Gas strat successful.
     Bad: RNG in the boss.
6. Tower (Moliarty)
     Good: Perfect boss fight.
     Bad: Two Basketball Rats threw me a ball and I had to go for the Gas Energy.
7. F.O.W.L. (Steelbeak)
     Good: Decent boss fight.
     Bad: small health drop cost me one second longer to do the intentional death and failed a jump over a guy having to go for the Full health box.

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