After 11 Years... the HARDEST Spelunky Challenge is Over. (Chain Low% Eggplant)
1,049--Spelunky HD Chain Low% Eggplant World First* Completion (27:17.086)
It's finally over. Chain Low% Eggplant has a long and storied history as a challenge that couldn't ever be completed without essentially getting so insanely lucky that you skip all the difficult and technical steps.
Chain Low% Hell requires you to beat Hell without any major skips -- you have to get the Ankh, Hedjet, Sceptre, and Book of the Dead. No Bookskipping, just beating the hard ending with only your starting health and resources.
Chain Eggplant% requires you to beat Hell while also striking Yama with an Eggplant. This requires you to have a lot of technical knowledge of strats, needing to be able to carry the Eggplant past the Moai and manage a Hired Hand to make it past 4-1. This run also bans skipping the book, but notably allows getting an Eggplant on 4-2, essentially skipping all the necessary challenges of the run.
*The 4-2 Eggplant is the reason this isn't a world first completion -- Spef managed to execute on a 4-2 Eggplant during a Max Chain Low% Hell run 4 years ago, getting the first completion then. I still have a ton of respect for this run, as it requires insane dedication to even get a chance at -- but I wanted to be the first to do it from the very beginning!
My attempts stuck to a strict rule to not skip any steps. I exclusively obtained Eggplants on 1-2 and would be forced to complete every technical and challenging step within the run to be able to complete it. It was an absolutely insane grind for a number of reasons...
Didn't get the Eggplant for an hour? Missed the Black Market? Couldn't get past the Moai without an Altar or Mammoth? Robot character randomly gets itself killed? Guess you have to reset, on all of these, on 99% of your runs, even if you played perfectly without any mistakes. And after all of that, you'll have to contend with 4-1, the most difficult level in the run by far. It's an insanely unforgiving category!
Having finished the run, I can now look back on it and say that it's my favorite Spelunky run ever. Previously my Pacifist Chain Triathlon deathless completion was a niche favorite of mine that was an extremely unique type of run that appealed to me a lot. But this has finally topped it, I think, and I don't know what it would take to beat this. This run is everything I could have ever hoped it would be.
Chapters:
00:00 - Start
01:30 - Jungle
02:00 - Black Market
06:43 - Ice Caves
08:20 - Moai
12:00 - Mothership
14:38 - Anubis & Temple
18:59 - City of Gold
20:22 - Olmec
24:52 - Hell
28:25 - Yama
33:01 - The Final Whip
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