Nov 22, 2023

I had a really rough time with this hack, especially with lategame. Recently I've been getting really annoyed and pissed over nothing and way too quick, so something like c15 reds (7:46:12) ended up being one of my worst grinds and the choke counter doesn't even look that bad. It's just that every single death past 2 reds never happened in practice and I kept getting more and more nervous. I was literally shaking before even reaching the first red.?

I had a very bad time with many stars, but especially GG (6:07:15) sticks out. I spent countless hours trying to get better at the fly guy strat, but no matter what I did or how much I practiced I couldn't get it in attempts. Looking back I should've just practiced intended, since that is a lot more consistent. During my first session I choked with both 5/5 secrets and to the last jump of the WC star and for the next hours I only got bsed on. At some point I couldn't take it anymore and took a break. When I came back I still had an awful time (I remember my first 3 attempts back all died to a game crash in the first room), but it was still slightly better than before.

The last star I want to talk about ia B3 secrets (6:38:38), since I developed quite some nice strats. First I found a way to skip the reclimb, but it's a pretty precise lj, so I went for the reclimb anyway, Right after the first secret I found out you can just go through the wall, which skips going back and also skips a very precise jump. It's a bit tighter than it looks, since you get pushed out if you jump too far. For the third secret I found out you can go to the glittering path, instead of doing a very precise jump back.?

So at first the heart was outside of the cannon, but it got moved (which I will talk about in a sec). Doing intended just wasn't an option, since it pretty much requires a non retryable firsty and even with firsty I mostly didn't get it. I planned on doing 10-12 firsties in the main hall to skip that, which should already say enough how awful intended is. But then I figured out you can actually activate the heart with a wallkick and barely make it up. After some more messing around I figured out the corner strat, which made getting to the pipe almost free. I still choked twice past that. Once to collision and once to the last secret, since that is just awful. You can just not see anything and you easily can get collisioned on the ceiling.

So as I said the heart got changed to prevent getting to the pipe that easy. When I did that I actually thought that strat is intended, but I guess it wasn't. I am glad it was still possible, because I don't know if I could've gotten the star otherwise.

Anyway this isn't only against arters, but rather against all creators who does that:

STOP BUFFING STARS ONLY BECAUSE YOU CANT DEAL WITH SOMEONE FINDING SOMETHING YOU DIDNT THINK ABOUT. Thank you.