The Challenge of the Gods

[Farnham The Drunk]

The Challenge of the Gods

This challenge focuses on 3 simple things: No Death, No Save, Single Segment. To my knowledge, it has never been done before...
I thought it would be great and practical to have a place where we can keep track of who makes it the furthest cause there are a few people running this now...

So, these are the rules:

​- New Game, Master Ninja (all weapons level 1 file is not allowed)
- No Saving allowed at any point (checkpoints are not allowed either)
- No Game Over Screen (Talismans are allowed)
- No returning back to the main menu
- Karma Window Displayed
- Must be Single Segment
- No Invincibility Glitch
- No Out of Bounds
- No weapon menu glitches (clipping through walls that aren’t considered out of bounds)
- Despawns are allowed
- Healing from Statues is allowed
- VIDEO OR IT DID NOT HAPPEN

I will try to keep this leaderboard updated at all times... So These are the runs so far:

1) Farnham The Drunk

Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

Part 4:

FINISHED


2) MIZUTORA93

Hugged it out with a VERY lonely Gaja... (Gaja fight for the Cast Iron Key in Chapter 6)


3) d_Nought

Cooked to a crisp by a Mage in Chapter 2 (on the roof before dropping down to Rasetsu)


4) DigitalT

Got confused with dog food by a Fiend Dog at the start of Chapter 2


5) S1lver6d0

Cheated by Rasetsu in chapter 1


I hope that more people are interested and insane enough to give this a shot ;-)

[Murphy's Ghost]

In between Chapter save allowed or no? Seems like no, if you die at any point you start over?

[Farnham The Drunk]

Yes, if u die (game over screen) at ANY point, u start the whole game over.. talismans are allowed tho.
No save allowed, anywhere, not even boss checkpoints

[JTB123]

Are all fights and Tests of Valor a requirement? This run sounds pretty juicy I have to say.

[Farnham The Drunk]

Are all fights and Tests of Valor a requirement? This run sounds pretty juicy I have to say.

Despawning is allowed, so far nobody has attempted the rod of trials fight... We try to despawn as little as possible tho... For example, skip the talons to not make the rod fight spawn, and instead just fight some mages and IS ninja near the cherry tree... Despawning also is less essence so its a delicate balance... Very stressful haha... I would love to watch u give it a try on stream ;-)
are u interested in trying something like this? you are such an amazing player, i only can imagine what strats u would bring to the table!

[Massaca]

So in short, a no cheese perma-death run. Neat. If this was like 2010 I'd be getting really angry at the archers this afternoon.
As an aside, are the twitch embeds broken ("misconfigured") for you guys too?

[Farnham The Drunk]

So in short, a no cheese perma-death run. Neat. If this was like 2010 I'd be getting really angry at the archers this afternoon.
As an aside, are the twitch embeds broken ("misconfigured") for you guys too?

Haha, well, depends on what u mean by "no cheese" cause despawning is allowed... But it is hard enough as it is...
Hmmm yeah i actually do not know how to embed them so u can just watch them here, but u can just click on them to watch them on twitch...

[JTB123]

Are all fights and Tests of Valor a requirement? This run sounds pretty juicy I have to say.

Despawning is allowed, so far nobody has attempted the rod of trials fight... We try to despawn as little as possible tho... For example, skip the talons to not make the rod fight spawn, and instead just fight some mages and IS ninja near the cherry tree... Despawning also is less essence so its a delicate balance... Very stressful haha... I would love to watch u give it a try on stream ;-)
are u interested in trying something like this? you are such an amazing player, i only can imagine what strats u would bring to the table!

I am tempted to give this a go, sounds like a blast honestly. I'm not streaming right now but would still be able to record it. This is dangerously close to the kind of run that could pull me right back in to what I'm stepping away from right now but it'd be cool to get one done.

[Farnham The Drunk]

I cannot believe what i am sying now, but i actually did it yesterday...
it was a 12 h run and my PC crashed in the middle of it during the stream and that is also why my karma score is a lil different in the next vid, and i know that many of u will maybe say its not legit now, but i know what happened and all the people in my chat know what happened, so i am ok with that! Also worth mentioning is that the first couple hours are very laggy due to my internet provider doing whatever he wants, so pls excuse the lag, it gets better later in the run, so again, sry for that...
So thx everyone for the support and motivation, IT IS DONE!
When DigitalT came to me with this idea, i said to him he is insane... But here we are...
Now the question is, who will be the next to do it? Cause in the mountains of Autumn, there are many who walk the path of the Ninja...

Such is the fragility of evil...

[Royta]

Can confirm, watched most of it live and the run is fully legit in my eyes. Was there when the PC crashed. I don't think I've ever been as terrified when you went up against Liz and Zed near the end. When you fell into the lava, fuck me that was tense.

Honestly never thought this would be possible. Only game that hasn't been zero-deathed now of this calibur would be Vanquish on God Hard I think (single segment). Seriously man, fantastic job. One thing that I did find interesting was that your stream was the first time someone got to chapter 5, and immediately that was the winning run. Showing that the game's hardest parts really are the first 3-4 chapters imo, which is what I've always felt.

Again: golden run, you should be proud!

[Farnham The Drunk]

Can confirm, watched most of it live and the run is fully legit in my eyes.

Thank u man, especially for supporting the fact that it truly is a single segment run... Means a lot!

[Royta]

No problem man and if anyone doubts it send them my way! ;)

[Royta]

Can confirm, watched most of it live and the run is fully legit in my eyes.

Thank u man, especially for supporting the fact that it truly is a single segment run... Means a lot!

Btw any chance you'll upload the full run on YT or something similar? Would love to rewatch it again on there and share it around.

[Farnham The Drunk]

Can confirm, watched most of it live and the run is fully legit in my eyes.

Thank u man, especially for supporting the fact that it truly is a single segment run... Means a lot!

Btw any chance you'll upload the full run on YT or something similar? Would love to rewatch it again on there and share it around.

I just uploaded a little compilation video on YouTube, but i do not plan to upload the full 12h run, since i can only upload 15 min videos and because the run is already on twitch, everybody can just watch it there ;-) i linked it in the compilation video as well... And the first 3 hours are unwatchable anyway because of lag... A real shame but it is what it is...

Funny/Rage Compilation:

Enjoy lol

[Murphy's Ghost]

That's pretty wild, congrats.

[Farnham The Drunk]

That's pretty wild, congrats.

Thank u mate!

[JTB123]

Congrats on bringing this down man, I'll watch as much as I can over the weekend

[Farnham The Drunk]

Congrats on bringing this down man, I'll watch as much as I can over the weekend

Thank u mate! Enjoy! (Oh, beware the raging screams with a not so good mic, just in case u wear headphones lol)