I feel disoriented from the stress of the utter chaos from the final encounter. P'good game.

An actually pretty alright final boss encounter. Finished him off Close and Personal.
A decent, if exhausting, experience overall.

Cleared episode 1 and the first level of episode 2 on Hard.
Lots of enemies. Lots of ammo. 1 38
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The Earth Trial platforming "challenge" was so stupid.
Shamblers aren't much of a threat in this expansion due to the lava nails.

The only underwhelming mission was the Stonemasons imo. Part 1 of Astrologers was kickass.

Solid quake levels with minimal bullshit.

Was off to a great start but then The Lost Mine decided that jank obstacle avoidance would be the play of the game.
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These traps are fucking obnoxious. I enjoy the more intense enemy encounters but all the bullshit "GOTCHA"s only detract from the experience. Having to trial and error your way through an instant death lava-tiledrop maze is not fun. Oh wait it's trivialized by walking slowly omfg. I'm still lost though. The Black Cathedral is annoying. The Crypt has a great OST. Mortum's Keep is obnoxious.
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Struggled with Armagon because I forgot that pillars aren't just useful for kiting Shamblers. Jej.
Mediocre expansion overall.

Once the prodean enemies were becoming common I gave up on performing deathless clears on Ultra Hard. I dropped down to Very Hard for the final encounter after two failed attempts.
The penultimate mission was the best one.

Smooth sailing until E2M4, forgot about the switch being tucked away in the lava pit. Sandy Petersen strikes again.
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Completed Knee-Deep in the Dead and Shores of Hell on Ultraviolence without quicksaves. 3 15
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Defeated the Spider Demon. Managed to clear the whole game on UV without loading a save after death. Looked up how to complete E3M7 again though.

I spent more time fussing with the controls to try and wrangle this piece of garbage into something resembling a playable videogame that doesn't make me feel sick. I don't think I succeeded.

This is a fucking miserable experience on Hard.
Can't get past Kamino. 3 9
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Fucking garbage on Hard. Now I'm stuck on Rhen Var. Chain wiping to droidekas rolling to the other side of the map to sweep the imbecilic allied units over and over again isn't fun.
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Gave up and switched to Medium. Rhen Var Clones, and Yavin Rebels were my limits.
An all around lower quality experience compared to BFII.

Completed Episode 2. 2hr
Unlocked Cauliflower Brain.
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Cleared 15 waves of Endless mode on Normal.
Completed Episode 3 on Hard and repaired the Clock.

39/40 eggs collected. Missed two cards, Pom & Sage. Consulting guide to track them down.
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Collected the two cards and then grabbed the last egg.
Didn't realize doing so would trivialize the final encounter.
Cozy game.

I think I accidentally set the difficulty to easy, as the ingame levels all claimed to be difficulty 0. Didn't see the selector switches until postgame.
Really cool conversion, really annoying final boss.

Much easier than Covejank

I'm a teensy tiny bit pissed off by only ever dying to getting stunlocked.

Spent over two hours on the final puzzle in the next morning before admitting defeat and looking up the solution.

Acquired Morana and Djinn.
UE Fatal Error during the Upyr Powisle memory cutscene.
5h 25m
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Made peace with father, considered reforming the coterie, slaughtered the Orkhana chief with the aid of Abaurycy, and went after Rasputin. Became the Royal Thaumaturge.

Got bored of chasing 100% item completion and finished the game. I'll do a Hero Mode 3 Heart run later.

Electrifying

Mind bender. Very cool.
Shorter than the others.

I'm very stuck on a later level and don't have the faintest clue as to how to solve it.
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It was the penultimate level, yeesh. Took longer than all the others.

Hunted Glavenus and Fulgur Anjanath in the Special Arena with BRS. We also captured a Savage Deviljho for the first time.

This was such a slog to finish. Navigating the overworld feels so cramped and sluggish. I just gave up at the end and was begging for it all to be over asap. I have such distinct memories of the final cutscene, I guess I really did finish my old cartridge save file.

I think I keylocked myself from gaining some super missiles in the Swamp Palace.
Had to consult the spoiler log for the Titan Mitt, I need the Book of Mudora first, which is held by Sahasrahla who I completely forgot about.

Fuck the digging minigame.
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Resorting to guide for remaining 7 heart piece locations, Magic Cape, and Bombos Medallion.
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Lost patience during the Ganon fight from being knocked off the ledge and having to redo the entire thing and ended up attaining a hollow victory via save-state abuse.
All collectibles collected.
I won't be marking this as mastered until I pull off a zero death run as Link to the Past actually tracks continues as a form of highscore.

Decided to look up Upward Thrust. I did actually TRY to enter the chimneys in Darunia. Meh.
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Cleared the Labyrinth and Ocean Palaces. Learned about a heart container north of the Ocean Palace while verifying that there wasn't anything else worth collecting in the palace besides the Flute.
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wandered back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and still couldn't find the village hidden in the forest. Apparently you need to just "know" to use the hammer on a random fucking tile.
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Fuck. This.
I keep dying over and over and over and over and over and over and walking back and back and back and back and back and back and back and back and back TO THE SAME FUCKING ROOM. Save-state time. I have no more patience for dragon heads shoving me off pillars into lava.
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Used the state one time to bypass the clusterfuck of dragon heads on lava-pillars and defeated the boss effortlessly. Ughhhhh.
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fuck. getting. to the cross.
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I have completely and utterly lost all patience with this garbage final stretch of the game and am now savestating until I reach the last fucking palace. - Made it with a save state at the start of the canyon. Yeesh.
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No way was I going to have the patience to clear the Grand Palace legitimately.

I finally stopped giving a shit and looked up a walkthrough for Level-7. Turns out I had the right idea. Just bomb every fucking wall until you're allowed to progress. Garbage dungeon. You're supposed to bomb through into an empty square despite the game having previously set up expectations that you should check the map to figure out where to bomb in order to not waste the precious resource. Unforgiveably fucking obnoxious.
I'm losing my fucking mind trying to clear Levels 6&8. Screw this I'm looking up the heart container locations. Only two I found naturally were the Raft and Ladder locked pieces.
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Looked up the location of the Red Ring and Silver Arrows. Finished the First Quest.

Not enjoying this so far. It's cool to see tweaked mecahnics but exploring has been uninteresting. I also just wasted I don't know how long walking back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth because the fucking mission log lead me to believe I couldn't progress in the room I'm supposed to have found a path through.
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Subversion starts out kinda boring after the cool intro, but ends up becoming more interesting later on. I wish more of the zones felt unique compared to vanilla.
IGT: 6:09
Items: 74.5%