Guitar Hero World Tour - Trapped Under Ice (Metallica) 100% FC - 1st Place 446,820

Requested by Ivalice less than 24 hours ago.

I have been playing GHWT as of recent. I’m already up to 1st place on 67/86 songs on ScoreHero. I also surpassed Fug’s 2010 record of holding 1st place on 307/660 songs in the Guitar Hero series, this song puts me at 310/660 1sts. Still working on a Satch Boogie FC, that will allow me to grab 1st overall on this game (and likely permanently).

As for this score, I got an extra 200 points by doing a massive extra squeeze on the last activation. Took around 30 minutes to pull this score off. This song isn’t particularly fun to squeeze I must say (I put off squeezing this song for a reason). Each activation gets harder than the previous IMO.

The first squeeze is a double double squeeze, where you need to squeeze the note you activate on, squeeze the last note of the SP phrase you are overlapping, then squeeze in the YO chord at the end of the act. And this is the easiest squeeze in the song. 2nd act I managed to get a tick off of, regardless it’s pretty tight without much room for error. 3rd act I got good ticks on (although I’m sure you can get at least 4 more points if you do a reverse tick squeeze there).

4th act is painful. It’s already one of the hardest sections in the game to begin with, and you need to squeeze during it. The GHWT engine will eat your strums if you don’t play everything extremely precise, meaning you could end up strumming a note on a downstrum one run and the next on an upstrum. To get around this I mentally broke the strumming apart mentally into the opening six notes, then into groups of four notes, playing each group precisely together. This set me up to get a good squeeze in on the second orange there, which I did. And then there is the last act. By far the hardest squeeze in the song (I’m the first person to ever hit it for a reason). It took two runs past the 4th squeeze to get it, since I oversqueezed it the previous time. There really is hardly any room for error there, and it’s awkward.