Can You Beat Half Life Alyx Without Hurting a Headcrab?

If you had come to me three years ago and told me that Half-Life would have a new sequel, I probably wouldn't have believed you nor would I have believed you if you had told me it would be a virtual reality exclusive title when I started the game and looked at the impressive view in front of me. I still had a bit of disbelief tugging at the back of my mind. The valve would never make a new set. There are too many memes that say no. It wasn't until I threw a book at a sunbathing cat and saw the incredibly detailed animation that followed that I was able to accept that I was playing a new VR game with the polished consistency that comes with Valve titles, but I'm already pretty excited with how good this game looks. and how cool all the character animations are, it's time for me to explain the real reason why I wanted to make this video.

The Half-Life

headcrab

s have been one of the most iconic enemies in video games since practically the beginning of the Half-Life 1 video games. - they cemented them as terrifying enemies that want to do unspeakable things to you to turn you into a zombie and then Alex showed up, of Half-Life, and lined up for

headcrab

s because of that fact, I decided I wanted to challenge myself and see if I could do it. Defeat Half-

life

Alex without

hurting

a single headcrab. I would have done the challenge, can you be Half-

life

Alex without killing a single headcrab? But I don't know how YouTube's algorithm works and I didn't want to kill my video before.

I even had a chance to finish processing the title, the challenge is really whether or not I can finish the game without killing a headcrab, but since I try not to hurt them in the act of not killing, the title still fits, the game begins. When you try to navigate the city to find your father, you instead encounter a group of combined soldiers who really don't like you trying to close doors or prepare their weapons. I accidentally exposed myself as a button enthusiast and a big soldier. I decided to continue embarrassing myself with the scare you gave me.

I woke up in the back of a pickup truck, but this time, instead of the neighborhood hustler, Larry, I saw two combined soldiers taking me to who knows where. I was never able to find out where we were. they go because the drone with the grenade decided to test how quickly the truck could go from operational to lying on its side with two dead combo soldiers in the front seats, the drone offered me an Xbox 360 party chat headset and then King punished me for trying. to destroy the exterior of the van with his fingers, he was quickly sent to King Shail prison and I met Russell.

Russell is presented as a fun and kind character, but like Hannibal Lecter, it only takes a quick trip to his refrigerator to discover that he is actually a giant. I tried to get him to confess to his crimes against the headcrab, but I got distracted when I saw breaking the fourth wall sitting behind him. I went into the next room and did a little masochism with my hands to get the gravity gloves they ended up with. coming from two microwaves were spinning sideways when I went out to test them. Russell tried to recreate that trailer shot but ended up shooting me in the ankle.

However, the pain ended up being worth it because I traded a perfectly good gun for a useless Achilles tendon while playing with the gravity gloves I found a familiar face passed out on a couch instead of putting it on a rocket I took it with me on the train midnight going who knows where I tried to wake up a guy who had obviously attended the same party as my friend, but was completely lost in the sauce. I tossed my gnome friend to free my hands to pick up more useful things, like Alex's

half

-life monetary resin form after committing another act of manual masochism and injecting my hands with alien bug juice.

I tried to wake a kind gentleman to inform him that his lungs were exposed to the outside world. I got distracted when I saw the gnome resting in the mud and decided to send him where he belongs in a human mud pit one puzzle later I was opening the vault door to a quarantined part of the city and practicing my favorite pastime since puberty in a strange fungal growth. Then I encountered the first crab of the game unfortunately. was stuck in his morning because our meeting was interrupted by a barnacle that had other plans for the little guy, so I had to save the scumbag on my way back and kill the barnacle before he could recreate that Newgrounds video with Raven and Starfire from the early 2000s, you know, now is a good time to explain a part of this challenge that requires a little explanation in my mind.

Headcrabs resting on zombie heads are Schrodinger's cat from the Half-Life universe. I don't know if they are alive. or dead until I free them from their zombie hosts, so I aim to only shoot the zombies that are under the headcrabs, if the headcrab detaches and doesn't start moving, it was dead before I found it and there is nothing to can do if he comes out and is alive. I successfully freed him from a lifetime of protecting a zombie from UV rays. I tried upgrading a headcrab at the weapon upgrade station, but it was perfect as it was and I opted to take a nap after using propane. tank in my gun to release some more headcrabs from their parasitic hosts.

I encountered the first live headcrab in the game. Look, the game clearly expects you to kill the two headcrabs in this area, but you can easily walk past them to the loading area right behind. I met a new friend while he was trying to look for resin in an office and came across a very creepy floating green behind his eye. I found two headed crabs that had clearly tried pole vaulting without knowing the proper techniques and a bunch of alien graffiti after I freed them. a little more cardboard and complete the puzzle that didn't even take me 20 minutes to solve the first time I played the game I entered a hallway that had very sinister vibes, the headcrab trapped in a cage was a bad omen, but before I was able to contact Pete by phone, I found myself in a hallway that somehow reminded me of the one in the event horizon after ringing the dinner bell, I met my favorite character in the game, unfortunately, in the context of this video, he's pretty much one of the most evil bastards I've ever had the misfortune to encounter, it doesn't take me long to realize that the headcrabs, cages and hooks hanging in his house aren't there for aesthetic reasons .

The only positive aspect of this area is the amazing animation. work on display, but is easily overshadowed by the atrocious treatment of headcrabs Fortunately, it didn't take long for me to encounter a living headcrab and an armored one. I was especially careful to avoid shooting one of the strangely glowing headcrabs. I did this and dodged them to get to the battery for the next area two. of the little ones ended up in a hole in the ground and I found myself face to face with my favorite weapon in the game, the shotgun, the shotgun is the perfect weapon to free the headcrabs from the zombies below them with a quick shot To the next one.

It was a pain to navigate the area. I wanted to move the headcrabs to a lower part of the hallway to have uninterrupted access to the weapon upgrade station at the end of the hallway. This meant having seven headcrabs follow me and fall to a lower level. In one part of the hallway I died several times trying to do it and every time I thought I had baited all the headcrabs in the area, a new one would eventually appear. I successfully upgraded my pistol with the bullet magazine, an upgrade that allows you to hold twice. the amount of bullets without having to reload after seeing one headcrabs shake what its head grabbed mom gave it and being surprised by another that blended in with the empty shells on the floor, I quickly jumped across an unnecessarily dark room to get the flashlight that was in this chamber where I met the only headcrab variation that this game couldn't have made cute if I had tried the poisonous headcrab, luckily I had a break from dealing with headcrabs in the next section where I met a hack man in a hallway that sounds like a sick metal band name and I found myself in the aftermath of what seemed like a rude rave that had been interrupted by some angry Bionicles but I wrote Bionicles I met sea barnacles but I wrote Bionicles I'll keep it anyway found in an area that really just serves to remind you over and over again that red things and video games usually explode after narrowly avoiding a flying propane tank.

I was able to take a brief stint above ground and enjoy the fresh air and skyline that reminded me of the town of Dunwall from Dishonored before hacking into a console and fixing it with a disgusting circle of flesh after breaking a handle. I had to hold a lever to let the train go the wrong way. A few minutes later I ran into my father who was hanging around waiting for me to give him a hand, but it was too late and he died cutting the plot of the Half-Life series. Just kidding, he was actually saved by alien voodoo magic.

I recreated that shot from Valve's Twitter trailer and found myself looking at the vault where everything was. The game focuses on getting there. I avoided

hurting

and being hurt by three headcrabs with a handy crate and took the elevator downstairs while watching a poisonous headcrab do its thing. I tried desperately to find a redeeming quality in him, but there was nothing to be found at that moment. I freed a headcrab from a zombie with just a few tiny explosions and encountered one of the first new varieties of enemies introduced to the Half-Life series in over a decade, before I got a closer look.

I took a room that reminded me a lot of an environment that could have easily been taken straight out of The Last of Us. The zombie corpse in the next room covered in alien mushrooms further increased the illusion that it was actually the last of us, but fortunately this was not the case. the last of us: I did my part to reverse the damage done to the earth by the combine and rubbed an alien's belly to make it easier to grab his balls. The next section of the game represented the first real obstacle in this video challenge in the form of This guy I thought was a new form of headcrab when he first played the game, but when I encountered it in this game I found myself with a difficult decision, For one thing, if it's a headcrab, I can't continue with this challenge. because you need to kill it to advance the story, however I think the challenge is still alive because for all intents and purposes whatever it is, it is closer to a dog than a head, no other headcrab variant has a tail and everyone The other headcrabs try.

Jump on your face and stay there. This guy has teeth that look much more like a dog or cat's mouth and shoots lightning bolts from his stomach. Needless to say, I decided it wasn't a head hold and chose to turn it off. Because of his misery, I didn't feel better about leaving a cute blue alien dog, but doing so meant I could continue with the challenge in this video. I got a brief glimpse of sunlight at some much-needed vitamin D before Delving even deeper into the bowels of the city, I encountered some poisonous headcrabs who used clever distraction tactics to lure me into a closet and me.

I came face to face with an armored headcrab who turned out to respond positively to threats of force, who would have thought? I ran into another one of the things I will henceforth refer to as Sparky and watched him do the opposite of what the pre-teen aliens did in the Alien movies after watching him change his mind about which side of the zombie's chest. I wanted to be. I put him out of his misery and called the elevator to come down. I upgraded my shotgun by adding a grenade launcher. I baited a poisonous crab that passed by me.

I thought I was a fool until I almost killed myself using the aforementioned grenade launcher alone against a zombie. a few feet away and proved myself to be the fool I embarrassed along a ledge that didn't play into my fear of heights at all and stumbled upon some interesting environmental narration: three zombies were desperately trying to get out of a room with the boarded up plank. door I helped them overcome their obstacle with a free grenade and discovered the source of their panic. Another of the zombies must have had a serious injury to keep him in the bathroom even after death.

I found an unleashed combo rifle and enjoyed the cool reloading. animation and continued to see if I could cut the power from the relay to the vault. I cleared a score off the board and made an easy shot on one attempt. I saw a headcrab hit his cute little head and plummet to a non-lethal distance and I ran into another one, I tried to explore his feelings for the dummy, I didn't want to be someone who would be embarrassed. I made sure to reunite him with his mannequin girlfriend andI continued on my merry way, it wasn't until I saw the scene with the sun on the horizon.

The beautiful city landscape stretched in front of me and I remember how beautiful this game was. I then dodged the crabs' futile attempts to turn my head to their next position and checked on my leg crops. The harvest will be plentiful this Last year, a zombie generously cleared the path of mines for me and I reminded the combine soldier why it's a bad idea to keep explosive barrels of propane on your back. This challenge was relatively easy up to this point, but this poisonous headcrab turned out to be a real pain in the ass for some reason or another.

Born without a sense of self-preservation, the first time I found him he jumped into a barnacle tentacle and was quickly chewed to a pulp into a pulp when I tried to free him the second time I tried to save him from dying in the barnacle he was caught but I killed the barn before he had a chance to chew on the four legged friend, after saving the scum once again I was able to shoot To give the headcrab another lethal blow in an act of gratitude, the headcrab attempted to jump on my face and kill me.

This video does not solve the fear. I felt justice when Russell's drone scared me, but it worked in the end. When the Combo soldier took revenge on my be

half

, I added an autoloader to my shotgun and encountered a Combo scientist who had evidently gotten completely lost in the sauce. I was able to enjoy one more beautiful look at the horizon before starting one of my favorite chapters. of any video game, Jeff, I'm also going to take this opportunity to talk about character animation one less time in this video. Take a few seconds to appreciate how Valve meets every NPC in this game, looking and sounding like they're really there in front of you.

Thanks for the money inside this guy, the effect is even more convincing in virtual reality. Larry introduced me to Jeff by wasting a bottle of perfectly good vodka and we parted ways, but not before he could appreciate his fancy hat. It wasn't until the third playthrough of the game that I realized that all the nails and screws on the top of his hat were to keep the barnacles from grabbing it. Then I started the section of Jeff's game. This entire encounter is one of the most perfect executions of suspense. fear and disorientation that has ever been implemented in a video game and the horror was exposed by Jeff's treatment of this poor headcrab.

The initial horror of the first time I played this section had diminished considerably, but I could still appreciate the way the game played. The designers made me get closer to Jeff for one reason or another despite all the attempts I made to distance myself from him, unfortunately, just when I got stuck appreciating one of the coolest enemies of the last decade of video games, Jeff he had to go and establish himself as an enemy of the headcrabs and therefore my enemy. I gained some catharsis by safely finding a headcrab, an event before taunting Jeff and luring him into a trash compactor.

I got revenge for the countless headcrabs lost to Jeff's vile goo, but I didn't spend much. time gloating about a giant opening door and a creepy hole in the ground, later I was upgrading my combo rifle one last time and moving on to the next part of the game, this part of the game, in strange words, is very interesting and fun in a normal match, but for the purposes of this challenge, it is not because from this point on interactions with headcrabs become less and less frequent after my first time. I also find this part of the game much less interesting because most of the combat takes place against antlions.

The antlions watch. Great, don't get me wrong, the animations and behavior are a clear step up from previous Half-Life titles, but fighting them feels like the only fun part of Half-Life. Alex, you shoot the glowing parts until they die once you've fought. an antlion, you fought everyone despite my disappointment at the antlion's behavior, the game still had some nice surprises for me, this headcrab helped me back up my claim that headcrab secretly adorable little harmless creatures that want to protect our scalp from harmful UV rays. This headcrab I also found that the idea that headcrabs are really just a threat to themselves was reinforced as the game progressed.

I discovered something that encouraged me to continue with the challenge: whether the headcrabs could figure out the fact that I meant them no harm. I found that they became less and less hostile as the game progressed, this was evidenced by the fact that this headcrab tried to give me a hug after I denied advances to him and his friends. I found and climbed a nice staircase leading to the surface and got rid of a harvester. soldier with a quick clean shot as I neared the end of the game I found the environments becoming more impressive as time went on and watching the vault fall only to be trapped by some sort of combined tractor beam I was reminded that I was playing a new Half-Life game, who would have thought I was totally dialed in to combine soldiers after making sure the grenade launcher wasn't primed and then died from a trip mine that shouldn't have been activated by outsmarting the soldiers. lasers with a cube and ran into a familiar problem I had to kill a barnacle before it had a chance to get its dirty paws or tentacles or whatever on a headcrab, I caught a grenade out of the air like a complete badass and found myself face to face with the vault that had gotten different.

The vibes of many areas of the game in this area totally reminded me of cities that appear in dying light. I found the controls that needed to be used to lower the vault and didn't mess everything up. I can see it moving and then it just so happened that I ran into the last living headcrab in the game. I didn't know at the time that I was the last, but something told me I would be at least one of the last if I knew I would be the last headcrab alive. encounter in the race I would have let him jump on my face one last time after leaving him behind.

I encountered one of the tamest enemies in the Half-Life series. I defeated him easily and started the endgame from this point onwards. Very little to do except walk through the vault and enjoy the views. I came across one of the viruses. Jimmy Neutron. I found out that one episode bullied a ghost and I found a gravity that was screwed up in all sorts of ways. I also found the last headcrab in the game. only this time it was a dead poisonous crab, the vault touched my head a few more times with a few more attacks on gravity, and then stole my loaf of bread.

Luckily I was able to get revenge for every loaf of bread lost in the combine when Earth was invaded and I found myself freeing who I originally thought was going to be Gordon Freeman and with that I successfully completed Alex's half-life without hurting or killing anyone.