#argh. may have to speedrun to beat him who knows

[skrunksthatwunk]

my beloved older brother has slotted yakuza 0 pretty high up in his video game queue and every time he mentions he's gonna play it i start shaking, vibrating with motion over it,, I'm so excited heehee

[ageless-aislynn]

Frens, I am doing a heckin’ silly thing:

I’m trying to beat Halo: Combat Evolved... on Legendary. I’ve actually already made it through Pillar of Autumn, Halo, Truth and Reconciliation and The Silent Cartographer and am about to start Assault on the Control Room.

I anticipate a lot of dying and starting over in my future. I didn’t know if I was ever going to finish Truth and Rec because, darn it, Cpt Keyes KEPT GETTING KILLED. That man is not only a kidnapping magnet, he runs straight at enemies like sword Elites because he seems to think he’s invincible. Pro tip, Captain: YOU ARE NOT. YOU GET MURDER DEATH KILLED VERY, VERY QUICKLY.

I wish I had the option to throw him on my back and keep him safe. Or, you know, lock him in a room until I can clear all the enemies and then he could just make a nice, leisurely stroll to safety, lol!

(Actual tip: try to stay in front of him but when he’s crowding up too close and is in serious danger becoming unalive, turn and run back the other way; he and the marines should follow you. Then try to outrun him to take out the enemies before he rushes them himself and is MURDERED STONE-COLD DEAD IN .425 SECONDS 😲😣😉)

Silent Cartographer is, oddly enough, one of my most fav levels to play, even on Legendary. I learned a lot of helpful tricks to get through it when I learned to speedrun for the par time (I’ve got par times on all of CE and Halo 2 *is so proud* 😍👍) and I use it to just go and play on for fun. I also accidentally blew myself out of the map in the Hunters’ courtyard in the Legendary run and I’m totally going back later to do it on purpose and see where all you can go from there. 😎 I ended up recording some of this run and there were several funny glitches in it. I may put them together in a video or as GIFs or something. We’ll see. 🤷‍♀️

343 Guilty Spark, The Library, Two Betrayals, Keyes and The Maw are all looming ahead of me once I get past AotCR. Weirdly enough, I’m not dreading the Library the most because I just managed to get this achievement:

I played on Heroic but you can’t die without having to start all of the way over again and that was a PILL, let me tell you! I died so many times right at the very end and just wanted to

BUT! I learned some strategies to get through that’s going to really help me on Legendary. Plus I finally feel safe in saying that I’ve mastered the grenade jump at the start that lets you deload most of the enemies on the first level, so that helps. I’ve also come up with a fairly reliable strat to get the shotgun as soon as possible and you NEED that to get through.

Also, I just beat CE on Normal and Heroic and sorta learned how to navigate 343 Guilty Spark and not get AS lost as I used to, lol! Two Betrayals is the one I’m dreading the most, honestly. Those bridges, ARGH.

Anyway, if I make it through, I’ll let you know. 🤗 I hope I can, it’ll mean a LOT to me to have gotten good (and lucky, huh) enough to get through CE on all of the levels of difficulty, especially looking back on how much Easy kicked my behind the first time I played it, lol!

Wish me luck!

⬆ D’aww, the first screencap I took in CE when I originally played it back in June, 2022! I was SO LOST at that moment and couldn’t find where the prison cells were on Truth and Rec, lol! *nostalgia* 😂😉

Love and smiles to you all! 💖

UPDATE: I made it through Assault on the Control Room! I was able to do the bridge jump, which lets you bypass one of the rooms and having to come back along the second bridge and thankfully was able to hijack a Banshee on the snowy bridge and fly it right to that final hanger without having to fight my way down, then across and THEN back up all those levels of the pyramid-ish building where the hanger is on top. Then I just Banshee bombed everybody who ran out of the hanger and walked on in! I’m so excited, frens! This honestly means a lot to me. I know it’s just a game but it’s something I never thought I could play or at the least wouldn’t be able to play with any proficiency. And to be working my way through Legendary, even using skips and shortcuts and the like, it’s still HARD but I’m getting there and that just... It makes me happy, no matter how silly that is. 🤗🤗🤗