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Hello and welcome to the
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja 4 TAS
in 41 minutes and 45 seconds.

I am l555444333222. I was the author of this TAS,

and I'll be commentating on the
strategies I used on this.

In order for this run to be as
fast as it is, you need to have

a save file from one of the previous
Ultimate Ninja games,

so you can get the save file bonus.

I'm going to be using that to buy
some special items that boost my

attack power and allow me to use Rasengan
as many times as I want.

In the beginning, there's not much
you can do to save time other than

just cutting these corners as sharply
as possible.

Using Rasengan from a distance here
saves time, because you move faster

when using Rasengan than you do by
normal walking.

Normally, when you go across this
bridge, it falls down right
before you get to the end of it,

but if you position yourself on the
very edge of the bridge,

you can actually avoid that happening.

So taking the optimal path, going as
close to the edges as possible, is

actually even faster than it already
would have been.

Also, when you do a jump from the ground,
you waste one frame because Naruto stands still

for one frame before a jump.

The early fights in this game are all 3D fights.

The best strategy to use for them is to just
gather all the enemies into one spot

and use Rasengan on all of them at once.

Whenever you finish a fight in
under 15 seconds, you
get a huge experience bonus.

This game scales the amount of
experience and money you get from a

fight based on how long it took to
beat it.

This run gets so much extra experience that I
was able to skip one of the fights in the cave.

Using a shadow clone jump saves
ten frames over walking normally.

Remember how I said jumping
is slower than walking?

That only applies to jumps from the
ground.

So you'll notice I actually walk off
all of these platforms

and then do a double jump.

Doing a double jump doesn't lose one
frame.

So it's actually faster to just walk
off the edge.

The loading zones between each of
these rooms are all rounded a little bit.

They don't follow along where the
dotted line is.

So if you aim towards the center of
them, it actually saves time over

going to the closest corner of them.

This fight is a lot harder to optimize than the first
one, because all the enemies start

off on opposite ends of the room,

and so it takes longer to gather them
all into one spot.

Now we unlocked dashing and shadow
blurring.

This is the fastest form of movement
in the game, and is also incredibly

difficult to control in real time.

This is the reason I wanted to make
the TAS.

The difference in the level of
control you get from a TAS compared

to real time is enormous, especially
for a move like this,

which feels incredibly clunky in real
time.

Did you see how Naruto glowed for a
second there?

That happens whenever you do an attack
at the same frame that the fight ends.

That's the glow that he normally gets
when you teleport behind an enemy.

Whenever a jump is too far to be made
by shadow blurring across the gap,

It's always faster to just use the
shadow clone jump instead of
using a jump and a double jump,

because shadow clone jumps allow you to
move faster.

And it even makes up for the fact
that it has a startup animation.

It's just that fast.

At the very end of a fight, when the battle report
starts showing up,

You can actually make it show up
faster by pressing circle at the perfect time,

shortly after naruto starts
celebrating.

You can also get rid of it faster by
the pressing circle after it's

completely shown up on the screen.

When I go through loading zones,
you'll notice how I stop using shadow blur

the instant I touch the zone.

This actually saves time on the loading screen,

because whenever you
leave a room, you get a letterbox
effect on the screen

And that effect only takes place when
Naruto lands on the ground.

So if you're shadow blurring, that
letter boxing effect takes longer to

start showing up.

And it can actually extend the loading screen.
I think that's because it behaves like a cutscene.

So the point is, you have to land on
the ground as fast as possible

when you touch a loading zone, or
else the loading screen will be longer.

Picking up this experience is
unnecessary,

but it's faster than going around it.

So I picked it up.

The text box is really quick, so it's fine.

All of the fights in this game can be skipped
by going around the very edge of the room.

However,

if you time your shadow blur
properly, you can actually go right

through the fight trigger and
disable it.

So even if you stop using shadow blur and
go back to where

the fight trigger was, it will no
longer be there.

I use a different route than the RTA
route in this TAS.

For this part, specifically,

it's faster to go back towards the
entrance of the cave first,

and then talk to all the people
in the village.

This is where I buy all the items with the
money I got from the save file bonus.

I ended up not needing two of those

because I found strategies that help
me save time and therefore save items.

This new route is quite difficult to do in real time,
but it is much faster than what RTA runners do.

We skip over a large portion of the
canyon by doing this precise double jump,

instead of going around.

I also took a shortcut on the way
back to the village,

but this one is much, much harder,
and it's probably not worth going for

in real time.

This jump right here is incredibly
precise,

but if you manage to do it, it saves
a lot of time.

I also found a glitch when doing this
TAS

where I actually clipped through this
canyon over here,

and it's actually faster to do that
than landing on it.

RTA runners would take a shortcut
from this room.

They would go up that elevator and then wait
for their chakra to recover,

and then go up the next elevator
and then go through the door
and break some boulders

and finally, they would end up further into the cave.

But if you can move perfectly, like a TAS,
it's actually faster to go the long way around

instead of having to wait for your
chakra to recover multiple times.

You normally end up in this room
if you took the shortcut.

If you want to be able to control the direction of
shadow blur immediately after doing a
triangle jump,

you're going to have to let go of
shadow blur for at least one frame,

to reset yourself and then
start another shadow blur.

This fight is where I put those items
that I bought to good use.

I also found out that you can do more
damage to this enemy by hitting it on its legs

than you can hitting it from the
front or behind.

The teleport attack and dash attack are equally
as fast, down to the frame,

so I did it one way, one time,
and the other way, the other time,

just for variety.

From what I can tell, these capture sequences
are deterministic and don't use any RNG.

So kakashi will always go to the same
spot every time,

and itachi is the same way.

The position they choose to go to is
based on your position.

For all of these fights, I always RNG-manipulate
some kind of helpful item.

In this case, I got an armor break seal.

RNG manipulation is a lot more powerful in this
game than it is in the previous
Ultimate Ninja games.

In Ultimate Ninja 2, charging up your
Ultimate Jutsu doesn't manipulate the RNG.

And in Ultimate Ninja 3, it does manipulate the
RNG, but the frame on which you
do it doesn't matter.

So you can only choose between two
different options.

Either you get the RNG that doesn't charge
Ultimate Jutsu, or the RNG that does.

However, in Ultimate Ninja 4, the RNG is going
to be different depending on which frame

you decide to charge the Ultimate Jutsu.

So you have many more options for
what item you want to get.

And oftentimes, RNG manipulation
doesn't even cost time in this game

like it does in the other games.

When figuring out what I wanted to do
with these fights, I did a mix of

watching the RTA run and experimenting
with the combat strategies myself.

And this is the strategy that I found
that's easily applicable to RTA runs as well.

When you get a combo of 20, you
get Show Mode with Kankuro.

It increases his attack speed and his
power,

and it allows him to use his second
level Ultimate Jutsu.

I found that using a teleport attack to close the
distance is faster than using Rasengan
from a distance.

However, in this flight, it's actually
faster to use Rasengan to go the

distance, because you want to hit him
towards the wall so that you won't

have to travel any distance anymore.

For some reason, this fight trigger
couldn't be skipped by just shadow blurring
Straight through the zone.

I actually had to go around.

That's probably because it had a cutscene
associated with it, too.

Guy's Night Phoenix can be cancelled by using
a ninja tool halfway through it.

I used that to get a little bit of
extra chip damage.

And I also picked up energy pills from
that dummy, just so I could use it infinitely.

Neji has a similar strategy.

They both have really strong jutsus, so
I make sure to abuse them as much as possible.

They're also very fast,
so they're perfect for this.

Tenten, on the other hand, isn't very good.

Her ninjutsu is bad, her taijutsu sucks, and the only

way to make it a little bit better is by
throwing 40 projectiles at the enemy
to activate Ninja Tool Mode.

which boosts your speed and attack power, and
allows you to use your second-level Ultimate Jutsu.

If you hit a falling enemy on the same frame he
touches the ground, the game will make him stand
up and take the hits instead of hitting the ground.

I've been doing that on almost every fight but
this fight is where I do that the most.

Lee has a really good throw.

It's very easy to combo with it, so I use it a lot.

I use a different strategy with Guy
in his second fight,

because he can buff himself with
the 8 gates using his taunt.

It's equally as fast as
his other strategy.

That jank you saw at the end happens when you
kill your opponent by making him hit a wall very
close to the ground.

He instantly touches the ground,
instead of

freeze framing and then slowly
dropping to it.

It doesn't save any time over
a regular ending, though.

It just looks funny.

Sakura has a move that can lower the
enemy's defense.

It's her neutral back ground attack.

If you do the inputs for a jutsu immediately after
the inputs for an attack, you can do it even after
the enemy has died.

Itachi moves to a position based on
your position,

so I make sure to stand as close as
possible to that spawn point,

and then wait for him to teleport, then
continue moving to his spawn point as
soon as possible.

Itachi's AI is incredibly hard
to deal with as a TASer.

He uses substitutions and
blocking a lot.

It is really difficult to get the RNG I needed to
combo him while also doing RNG manipulation
for item drops.

Doing both of those at the same time
was absolutely agonizing.

And it took hundreds of attempts for
both kakashi and Naruto.

And that's the run! ^o^

This TAS took about 3 months to make, and I think
it turned out pretty well.

It could probably be about 10 seconds faster if I
had done more experimenting with it and
fixed a couple of its imperfections,
but that's not such a big deal.

I hope you enjoyed it anyway.