DISCLAIMER : The voice at the end of the video isn’t mine. Accidentally recorded Discord’s audio, and people were watching my attempts live. They were mostly muted.
This was one heck of a project to work on. The route itself took around a week of planning, and then another week of troubleshooting to make sure it was still doable without the routing mods. Afterwards, a few days following the confirmation, the deed was done.
The documents used for the theory-crafting and the route itself can be found here : https://bit.ly/3enPIHL
In a routed run for Hades, we use mods to see what the game is going to offer in the next room. Doing things like casting and summoning after combat changes the rewards and rooms being offered next, so it allows us to craft a perfect route through the game, that can be recreated by doing the exact same actions without mods! You can learn more about routed runs here: https://www.speedrun.com/hades/guide/jxpkj
Then, we turn off the mods, use the savestate that was worked on, and try to replicate the route created that way.
BIG shoutouts to CGull, who made the route for me to play with, as well as to paradigmsort, Museus and ellomenop in the speedrunning Discord for their assistance in the troubleshooting phase.
Also big shoutouts to the speedrunning and SGG discord Hades communities, for staying awesome the whole way through, and to SGG itself, for making this gem of a game.
Credit to Cgull for the sick thumbnail : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC94W7aTq5eSxLep5mjkSZDQ
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freakin awesome
Madness, absolute madness. The pre-1.0 max heat run (by forgottenkane/EEEdoman) picked up Stubborn Roots in the Tartarus end shop, but here you are not even getting Athena boons. It must be terrifying running this route, knowing that there's no way to regain lost health. And yet here you are, executing beautifully all the way through with that wacky flying saucer of yours. Truly incredible.
Absolutely insane. Congrats!
watching you play zeus shield makes me feel so vindicated for feeling like it was really good early on and then realizing its not meta. This run is incredible, up there with Tail's 60 heat Rama run
This was absolute madness to watch. Gratz man!
Whoa
and perfect cast too 👌🏽 mad congrats
Ah, so the secret to dealing with witches' circle with middle management armor piercing bullets and no deflect is just to give them double damage and put a really strict timer on the game. Thanks!
insert explitives here. great job
Actually one of the most incredible things ever done in the history of this game, and even more impressive was how relativiely quickly it took to do it.
Beautiful play. And an amazing route on c_gull's part. I hope we'll see more of this stuff in the future.