Dear Diary,
Huh, I actually pulled it off. I was able to complete the no-skills run on Hard Difficulty in about 2 hours and 45 minutes, netting me the Formidable (Hard Difficulty), Elite (No skills), and Supersonic (Under 3 hours) achievements! Hard mode was a real pain in the ass, there were a lot of moments where I felt “trapped”, so I had to do a really long sequence with no energy to save which resulted in a lot of unnecessary deaths. 191 deaths in total, I would say over 150 of them could have been avoided if I wasn’t so impatient.
After finishing that feat, the 100% run that I did next was a walk in the park. This was also my first time exploring the bonus areas introduced in the definitive edition. There’s a lot of instant death obstacles there, so I should do my best to avoid it in One-Life difficulty. I was able to get the remainder of the achievements except for the two no death ones.
Only one challenge remains, to complete the game in One-Life difficulty legitimately, without manually imposing on the save files. I don’t expect to get the achievement anytime soon, but I’m sure as hell going to enjoy the ride while it lasts.
I’ve also started dabbling on video recording software. Currently, I’m trying out OBS studio 17.0.0. The recording seems to look pretty good but the settings could still use a bit of tweaking. It gets extremely choppy at certain points, especially during the Ginso Tree escape. I end up dying in the Black Root Burrows because I get trapped between a wall and an instant death beam. I’m not super familiar with the environment in the Black Root Burrows, but a few deaths in One-Life mode should remedy that. I figured having the Dash ability will be useful for the Kuro instant death sequence immediately after the Forlorn ruins, which I am not 100% comfortable with the movement during that sequence.
Without further ado, here is a recent failed One-Life difficulty run. Please note that this is my first time uploading anything to Youtube, as well as the first time I’ve used OBS to record anything, so I don’t expect the quality to be top-notch. My play style is extremely… let’s say fidgety, so it causes me to slip and fall a lot. I am in no way perfect and I make a ton of mistakes in this video. There are a lot of close calls, especially in the Moon Grotto instant death beam area, so I’d say I got pretty lucky to get that far. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCGcJt_hfes
Yours Truly,
Tumalu
Ginso Tree with no deaths O_O SUCH SKILLS
I’m preeeeetty sure they “fixed” some of the things that were giving me a bunch of trouble in the original version. If I didn’t stand in a really specific place it wouldn’t trigger the enemy from above to jump on you and then you’d get swallowed by the water. I feel like the water isn’t as dangerous in the definitive edition too, I had one run where I was just in the water for two hits and I still managed to jump/bash out.
Dear Diary:
Tumalu is amazing. Those achievements are literally impossible for me to get I dont know how you did it. Congrats :)
You made me wanna play this game hahaha I knew it was hard, but man, this seems harder than I thought, and of course I would like to test my skill as usual ;p
Really congratulations…. and good luck with your one death run… this looks hard, but if someone can get it, is you! \o
Congrats :D
And wish you best on your one-death run, I died so much in that game that I think it’s enormous achievement to earn this ach legi way (so without save swapping).
Thank you! I will need all the best wishes I can get! :)
This game doesn’t frustrate me at all because of how beautiful it is, so I don’t see myself rage quitting anytime soon.