Game is awesome. Plays well, is loaded with content. Essentially Metroid on steroids, but god damn are there some puzzles that are crytic as fuck.
I pride myself on playing games without using walkthroughs, and yet I definitely needed to lean quite heavily on a guide on more than one occasion. There are at least 5 times in this game that I was thoroughly stumped and spent several hours trying to crack the next piece of the game without success, only to find the solution was maddeningly obtuse (as in, I would never have gotten it even after thousands of hours).
I wonder what the world record is of a totally blind playthrough of this game with zero external assistance. I severely doubt it's below 100 hours.
Lucas Barnes
I completed Zelda without a guide, if that counts. Milon's Shitty Asshole however…
Ethan Myers
You have to write things down. I'm pretty proud of myself I made it all the way to "eden" without looking shit up, but I just couldn't beat that area without one at that point. Great game tho.
Angel Brown
for actually beating the game
Austin Campbell
Debatable. There is the big fuck you in following the professor when he falls down the hole locking you out of the good booster. And the second one going back to the graveyard for the mushroom thing. Nothing else seemed too bad.
Caleb Gray
About the same, let's see if I remember
I did use the wiki to discover items and locations, but not necessarily how to get to them. Still took me about 44 hours. I remember I restarted at some point and ended up at about 12-14 hours for my first full playthrough.
First play on blind was on hard, 10 hours or so, didn't complete Wind Temple or Hell (even on normal)
Andrew Cooper
Good effort man, that's probably past the halfway point (and the game as you know is fucking huge).
Nicholas Scott
Skipping the professor to somehow magically make a completely unrelated item appear in a future area is pretty dumb and locks you out of the final stage, best boss fight and best ending if you don't do it. Finding the mushroom should be easy if you notice there's a door in the graveyard and come back later when you can reach it.
Sebastian Hernandez
Nope. You can open it very early, and even by stumbling around, get there with only 2 or 3 bosses killed at most if you're in there blind.
I'd say you have a few major checkpoints in the run:
I'd say depending on when you go there, probably 1/5th to 1/4th of the way done the game, MAYBE 1/3rd.
