Game:

Returnal (2021)

Duration: 38:47

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After that last death, I started farming comfortably through Echoing Ruins again, and started seriously getting my butt handed to me. After a few skillless deaths, and realizing my situation was not at all what I thought it was, I managed to farm up some powerups again in the Echoing Ruins before returning nervously to the Fractured Wastes. Also, I was hoping to get more story at the house, but when I saw it again, the light wasn't on, so I couldn't go in and I don't know what's next there.

I was expecting to fight a boss in the Fractured Wastes at some point. But I finally realized in this leg of the journey, the difficulty in this biome is just getting the three keys, facing the advanced creature fight guarding each key - all three in one run. The worst of them is the yellow challenge room encounter. I was glad to beat that one.

I didn't figure out that I only had one key until I approached the Vault thinking I had them all. Then I ran the other two paths to get them again.

This video stops just before I enter the Hadal Vault, completing this biome.

Chapters:
0:00 Arrival
1:10 Farming the Regular Path (I forgot I need its key, I get it later)
14:53 Wait how do I ever get across this? Is there another upgrade?
16:57 Starting the Challenge room path
17:10 Screw you drone
17:36 Challenge room
20:05 Whew I beat it
22:04 Challenge Room Key
25:09 Regular Path Guard
25:19 Ow malfunction damage
26:16 Regular Path Key
27:00 Starting Portal Room run
34:28 Portal Room Guard
35:00 Well that was easy
35:36 Portal Room Key
36:18 Opening the Hadal Vault not going inside yet
36:35 So what's in the locked door now that I already have the lava upgrade?
37:58 Where the Cube interface? Oh here dah
38:40 All done, I have all three keys

Biome 5 complete - 94 deaths, 39.5 hours.

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