/vr/ - Retro Games

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN3V-dlF36o

What do you think, /vr/, is this a tool assisted speedrun? Why or why not?

I know that it's an old video at this point, but I watched this the other day and I've been wondering. The guy has a whole series of well-played vidya videos on his channel and he claims that none of them are tool assisted. He has tens of thousands of views over the years and apparently nobody has been able to prove him wrong. So either he's really good player, or a really good troll.

Personally, I'm inclined to believe he's more likely the latter. There's just too many things in this and other videos he made that come down to chance, or luck. And somehow they all work out to his favor, which logically seems like something that would become increasingly unlikely with each and every time it happens consecutively.

Many times the things he does rely not just on hitting the right button inputs but would also require insanely fast reflexes. The average human brain physically can't react quickly enough to accommodate certain things he appears to be capable of in this and other videos.

Plus, if you just look at it, it really does resemble a TAS. Every movement is very precise and perfectly executed, sometimes to the point of being frame-perfect. The overall playing style has that clean, sort of highly efficient quality of a TAS. Even world record holders in this game, whose videos are also available online, aren't able to replicate this effect so well.