Game:

AM2R (2016)

Duration: 55:01

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This is a slight modification of a challenge run I had the idea for for a long time, and am only now getting to. The original idea was a damageless 100% run on fusion difficulty with insanity mode enabled and no HUD (more on them below). Recently a challenge to the community was put out for the first completion of the Dread mode mod to AM2R with 100% items, fusion difficulty, and insanity mode enabled.

Dread mode: A single hit kills Samus, with the exception of the power plant explosion and the Queen's drain (her hits still do kill). Also the mod does add in a shinespark shortcut between areas 2 and 1.
Insanity mode: All saves are disabled, and power bomb drops are enabled. In combination with Fusion difficulty, Metroids and the cacti in BG3 no longer have drops.
Fusion difficulty: All enemies have hard mode AIs, and Alpha and Gamma Metroids are even faster than on hard mode. Also damage dealt to enemies is halved compared to normal, and damage dealt to Samus is 4x what it is on normal, but the latter doesn't matter with Dread mode.
No HUD: Samus's energy, ammo, the Metroid counter, and the map are all hidden on the main screen, they can still be seen on the pause menu, but I won't be using that too much.

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SPOILERS for the run here:
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This is the first run I got to speedbooster, and it got so much further, only to die to a stupid mistake. All I had to do was wait for the powerbomb to do its job, but for some reason I decided that since it exploded the boss was already dead and jumped into him. I cut the recording here, but continued off of practice saves I'd made and died some more later so not an absolute loss. I fully expect to die to the final boss the first time I get there on a full run anyways.

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