Azure Dreams GBC Speedrun FAQ V2

Azure Dreams GBC Any% Speedrun FAQ

Q. Why do you collar Kewne at the start of the tower?
A. It skips the tutorial text, which speeds along the tutorial and saves a lot of time (probably about a minute at least).

Q. Where does this speedrun end?
A. It ends as soon as I clear the dialogue box before the credits, after clearing the top of the tower. I wont be doing any of the basement floors in this run; I still need to route them.

Q. How do you deal with enemies in this run?
A. Mostly, it is pure luck that decides if I can deal with certain enemies. They have to not resort to using their special abilities to put me to sleep or paralyze me to often; fighting two at once is often a guaranteed death. However, if I get caught by enough monsters AND happen to find really good equipment, I can actually fight back, even at 10 levels lower than the enemies level due to the sheer amount of attack and defense some weapons/shields give. Orbs are also very effective early on but I will be using MixMagic to defeat most enemies, as well as debilitating orbs such as the SleepOrb.

Usually however, I wont find such weapons or shields. I have to instead resort to abusing all the items I find; most items are beneficial to throw at enemies. The best ones are: Burnseed (Automatic MP drain to 0, forcing a monster to stop moving for a LONG time), Halfseed (halves enemy movement speed), Wind Gem (insta-kill any non-boss monster), Fire Gem (insta-kill all non-boss monsters on the floor that have spawned in your range), Ovaseed (instantly turn any monster into an egg) and Dormint (puts an enemy to sleep), to name a few.

Q. Why are traps sometimes good?
A. Traps can sometimes be beneficial; for example you can get Bounce Up traps and they put you on the very next floor, which is useful if you can't find the elevator quickly for the current floor, or if you're in a sticky situation. Most however, are completely harmful.

Q. Which ones are harmful?
A. Sleep is by far the worst one as it can last for a long amount of turns and monsters ignore defense if you are asleep. Paralyze is the same but it lasts less turns usually. Poison can be annoying, as can Falling Object as the damage they deal is quite large. Explosive Trap is usually the least effective but sometimes it can destroy a nearby item, sometimes a really good weapon, orb or seed.

Q. How long will the run take?
A. It could take anywhere from under an hour to a bit over an hour; there is quite a lot of variance in this run as you have to deal with the RNG you are given.

Q. Are you playing on emulator or on console?
A. I am playing on emulator, as I don't have the right equipment to do console streaming, as well as no longer owning this game in any form.

Q. OMG YOU DID THE WRONG ACTION WHY ARE YOU SO BAD AT THIS GAME?!
A. Sometimes the correct action isn't the most obvious. Sometimes I am actually just that bad haha.