- Grounded: the highest difficulty
- New Game
- No Upgrade: no supplements/parts upgrades.
- Default accessibility options
- Permadeath: limited checkpoints, tracking survival time and number of deaths. I selected "by chapter" because in case I failed I could still go through the the game to practice. It is the best way to route and optimize for a deathless run. Otherwise, the later parts of the game get "underpracticed".
- No Death: because I selected "by chapter", it's worth mentioning that I got through the whole game with no deaths.
This was done in one long sitting in a livestream on September 25th. Unfortunately, there was one small downtime during the final cutscene in the hospital with Nora (Ellie Day 2), but no actual gameplay footage was lost. I merged both streams in this single video for a better experience, but you can find the original streams below as proof:
One last thing: the next challenge attempts or livestreams will be done on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/aether2125). So if you're interested in watching WIP attempts, follow me there.
Aether currently has 124,280 views spread across 9 videos for The Last of Us Part II. Roughly a days worth of The Last of Us Part II videos were uploaded to his channel, or 12.51% of the total watchable video on Aether's YouTube channel.