This is far and away the most difficult accomplishment I've ever had in any game. Not physically. Even just my 2 runs on Congregation are each individually harder than this. But mentally, this level destroyed me to an extent that literally nothing gaming-related has ever done, and even most very personal things have never done.
I started playing this 2 days after I beat DARKENED, and instantly made quick progress. I got to the ending on the third day of playing the level (and I barely spent much time playing it the first 2 days) so I guess I sorta tricked myself into thinking it would be easier than it was. I ended up getting extremely sick and taking a break day, then coming back to it for another 2 days where I basically played the level as a full time job, playing upwards of 6-8 hours a day. Those hours culminated in me dying at 95, and then slowly losing all consistency while still having many ending fails.
I was so certain that I was going to beat it that day and had multiple friends in and out of call all day all wanting to see me beat the level and letting them and myself down and slowly realizing that the completion wasn't gonna happen that day hurt so badly.
It started getting to a point where I wasn't just mindblocked at a section or two. It was the entire level. I could barely play it anymore, so my friend Monday convinced me to stop playing for a day, and that day turned into 8 days straight of not playing the level.
Fast forward to this Sunday, where I came back to it and got 2 ending deaths within an hour of coming back to it immediately. Sure, unlucky, but this had me extremely hopeful that I could beat it. Then I took another break day, and yesterday came back and got multiple even further ending deaths, which was really disheartening as usual. And then lost consistency and stopped for the night because I was half asleep.
In my playsession today, I was so confident that I was going to beat it tonight that I literally dubbed a bottle of Gatorade "victory juice" and chugged the whole thing halfway into my session. I set myself a hard limit of 10:30PM, and if I didn't beat it by then I was going to just get off and try again tomorrow. 10:00 rolls around and I've accumulated even more horrible fails (89, 92, 93) and I'm losing hope, but then an INSANE attempt happens. I'm gonna beat the level. 96%. The second to last click. I have practiced the heck out of the last section so many times and yet in normal mode I die to the same click that I pass 99/100 times on a start position. I keep playing, pissed off. 15 minutes later, 96 a second time. At this point I was about ready to cry, and had little hope of beating it before my time ran out.
It's about to be 10:30 and I'm losing consistency even more, and my friend Denali who has been silent in call for probably over an hour at this point says he's gonna head off for the night, and that made me really really annoyed, so apologies but that's what you're gonna hear partway through the predrop. I'm sorry Chris, you didn't deserve it but also it's kinda funny and I think maybe you pissing me off alongside the level caused me to be so angry that I gained superpowers, because that attempt I finally beat it.
I have no clue how many attempts this took nor do I care. I never opened the attempt counter. The level isn't even all that bad of a level, just has some gross chokepoints here and there. But my luck was absurdly bad. After reading it you'll probably see why this level was so painful to continue to play. Here's my fail list below.
Fails past the duals: 63x7, 64, 65x7, 66x4, 68x7, 69x3, 70x4, 71, 72x8, 74x3, 75x4, 77x2, 78x6, 79x2, 81, 84, 87x6, 88x2, 89x4, 90, 91x3, 92x2, 93x2, 95, 96x2 (Total: 84)
Thank you so much to Medu, Nathan, Noah and especially Monday for supporting me through my way-too-long journey through this level. You guys mean the world to me. And Chris, I love you bro, but please participate in call more LMAO.
If you read all this way, thank you. I pray that no level ever does such horrible things to you.
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