Difficulty : Normal()
Emulator : BizHawk 1.11.8.2
Takes damage to save time
Uses death to save time
This is an improvement of my previous rejected movie of 12860

() Hard difficulty only change how many time you have to finish the level, this is useless and because of the transiton we loose a lot of time
The Game:
Asterix and the Great Rescue is most likely the hardest Asterix game. You can use either Asterix or Obelix, but I chose almost exclusively Asterix
Gameplay mechanics :
Items:
Various potions for various uses
Gold: Useless in any%
Sickle: Grants invulnerability for some seconds
Bomb: Grants invulnerability, increase speed for some seconds
Heart: Gives an extra life
Chicken: Gives 2 life points
Chalice: Restores all life points
Magic potion (Asterix) or boar (Obelix) : Ends the level
Main issues of the game:
You can't turn around immediately because of the animations You don't get back life points between levels and recovery items are rare

Level by level comments :
Gaulish Village:
2:
I chose to didn't take the potion at the left and turned to the right at the beginning, it costs some life points but saves time
3:
I took the chicken to restore some life points
4:
I took Obelix because his bigger hitbox allows me to take the boar without getting on the ship
5:
Intentionnal death to take back all my life points
I saved 2 seconds by going through the background instead of coming back on the plateform
I skipped a little part of the level thanks to a frame perfect jump on the elevator
7:
Duplicate the clouds.
First big zip on the wall, 1 minute save here. Normally, we can enter the wall by going on the pixel le plus proche du bord mais j'ai pas réussit a le faire ici. The only way to clip in the roof when you can't go on this pixel is to way when the cloud will dissapear.
I didn't take the flying potion, this allowed me to skip the part where you take it.
8:
Intentionnal death
I didn't take the flying potion, this allowed me to skip the part where you take it.
Little zip on the door, a few frames saved.
Glitched texture, I don't know why x)
10:
BOSS: When throwing a fish, Asterix doesn't move with the carrier, so you can't throw more than 6 fishs every time

Roman Encampment:
1:
Death abuse
Grace au dégat pris, je n'ai pas été projeté en l'air en passant, sur la barriere, ca m'a permis de skip une grosse partie du niveau.
This little barrier need to shots, by using a cloud, we can save a few frames
3:
I skipped the last part of the level with clouds
4:
I skipped a part of the level with a cloud
6:
Little skip with the cloud
Little zip with the cloud in the roof
8:
The cloud position and the jumps were very hards because the spikes have weird hitboxes
BOSS: I managed to hit every single rock

The Forest:
2:
By saving my bomb potion I didn't have to get other bombs which were a little bit out of the way
6:
I duplicated the cloud potion to skip a small part of the level
7:
Very cool zip which saves a lot of time
BOSS: You must alternate between A and B as fast as possible to beat the boss, and this is a TAS

Germany:
2:
The eagles were hard to optimise
I took a damage to use the flying potion later.
3:
Some clips are possible on the sausages
I finished very quickly the level by skiped directly to the end with a cloud
5:
Optimising this bomb was a nightmare

Roman Galley:
2:
This autoscrolling is very borring so I tryed to make it a bit more entertening
3:
I jumped on the seal on the very last frames
4:
I saved a lot of time by killing the 2 romans with a bomb because else they need 3 hits each
I was fast enough to take the potion before taking the damage
5:
Very optimised level
I've saved a bit of time by falling on the platform below
BOSS:
I can hit him 3 times on the left, but only 2 times on the right
Very hard boss because I needed to take damage to hit him
Rome:
1:
Very stupid level design
2:
By using the passage below, we can save a bit of time and gain a bit of life because there is a chicken
5:
Big zip which skip all the level
BOSS: Death abuse

Thanks to theenglishman for his TAS of this game; to Core Design (Game creators) and to Exonym for his awesome WIP !