[TAS] Arcade Trio the Punch: Never Forget Me... by illayaya in 16:27.72

This is a tool-assisted speedrun. For more information, see https://tasvideos.org/6335M
TAS originally published on 2025-01-05

Trio the Punch: Never Forget Me... (トリオ・ザ・パンチ) is a rather bizarre beat em' up developed by Data East for the arcades. It later saw a port to the PlayStation 2 as part of an arcade compilation called Oretachi Gēsen Zoku. From what can be discerned, there doesn't appear to be any sort of coherent through-line connecting all the levels beyond jumping from one setting to another. You choose a character, go through a level, get some words on the screen, then move on to the next level. These levels often don't follow standard game-play conventions, with bosses appearing at the start of some levels and certain levels having only a few enemies before the end-level boss.

illayaya ( https://tasvideos.org/Users/Profile/illayaya ) improves their previous TAS ( https://tasvideos.org/6190M ) by 8.55 seconds, thanks to not switching to Santos until much later in the run, as Kamakura has better mid-air speed and a projectile weapon, compensating Santos's W-fist attack throughout most of the game.

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