Impossible Ninja Gaiden Challenge Finally Completed After 30 Years!

Hello absolute legends, when it comes to difficult video games there is one franchise that always seems to top the list and of course it is Dark Souls. Soulsborne games are universally praised for being extremely difficult yet fair, allowing players to make the most of their abilities. To cleanly navigate through difficult

challenge

s, on March 20, 2019, Happy Hob achieved one of the greatest gaming feats of all time by completing the entire Soulsborne series without taking a single hit. Consecutively defeated Bloodborne Dark Souls Dark Souls 2 Dark Souls. 3 and Demon Souls in absolutely flawless fashion, an achievement that took a total of 17 hours and one that I would love to cover in the future.

When you have very difficult games, there is always a small subset of players looking to push the limits. than it's possible to finish a game without taking a single hit or incurring a single damage is an obvious way to demonstrate your total mastery, while these days Dark Souls and similar games tend to take center stage in this conversation. 30

years

ago it was the Nintendo Entertainment System that made the most notoriously difficult games available to play, such as Battle Toads, Ghosts and Goblins, Contra and Silver Surfer, they were all very difficult to complete and yet players have done the same. which seemed

impossible

to finish them without being touched by the game's enemies. there was one game in particular that was considered legitimately

impossible

to beat in such a way, a game that is famous for its difficulty and that game is

ninja

gaiden

similar to dark souls

ninja

gaiden

is almost unfair to the casual gamer if you don't know what you're up to. doing, you will be destroyed if you learn the ins and outs of the game;

However, you can make pretty quick work of it, as speedrunners have proven over the

years

, as for beating the game without taking a single hit, that's a completely different story for over 30 years, No one believed it could be done, but on December 23, 2020, the impossible was achieved when player Slackinator

completed

the entire game without losing a single life point. In this video we will learn why all. I thought this feat was impossible and what Slackinator was able to do to get the job done, the key to this achievement is actually crazy and honestly it's mind-blowing that someone was able to pull this off.

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You'll notice that No Damage is in quotes and this is because it's not technically a No Damage. Run in the final boss fight, protagonist Ryu takes damage from the demon's head as he detaches himself from the body and rushes forward. This kamikaze hit can't be avoided, you can't jump on it and cutting off the head has no effect since his health is too high in his video, foolproof tactics overlaid the text, this attack is unavoidable in the description they said, the only one problem is that there is an unavoidable attack in the third phase of the final boss, otherwise I have made it through the entire game without taking a hit, either o This particular race is not completely legit, it is up for debate, it uses some dubious strategies that have extremely low chances of succeeding, leading some people to believe that he used save states or some sort of tool, but the prospect of completing the game without taking a hit wasn't necessarily crazy, at least until the fight with the final boss in December 2013, player magnus zero uploaded a segmented run without damage again and it was proclaimed that the damage received in the fight with the final boss could not be avoided in the they uploaded a video, they said and there is the cheap shot that did not it can be dodged yes unless you hack you can't dodge even recently in september 2020 the gamer press continued to post a segmented no damage run of ninja gaiden at the beginning of the video he said this about the final fight but In this video I will take you step by step through this classic Nintendo game and show you how to avoid taking any damage, at least what can be prevented to begin with, because this game actually contains a single unavoidable hit against the final boss when the head comes off, it's not physically possible to avoid taking damage from that, especially since since the item is taken from you before you get here, you can't rely on non-spin iframes either, which means it's a guaranteed hit. by design and therefore something we are simply forced to accept, so that will be the only hit I will take in this game.

Needless to say, it was accepted as a universal truth that being hit by this particular attack was as certain as death and taxes, at least for a human player, although it was definitely a fact that taking damage from it could not be avoided. the boss fight, the game code theoretically allowed for head killing in 2004, Boltar created a tool-assisted speed by completing the game in 11 Minutes and 20 Seconds, the entire race contains the usual shenanigans that a human could never do, but the final fight was particularly interesting in this tool assisted run, they were able to kill the demon's head before it hit the ground, this tells us that like any other enemy in the game it has a set amount of health and will die if that health is completely exhausted.

In fact, we know that the head has exactly 16 hit points, which is the same as the demon's tail and heart. It detaches from the body after 11 hits, meaning it has 5 left, so technically if you were to hit it five times before it fell, you could destroy it before it hits you. At first glance, this doesn't even seem possible, the animation of standard cut is pretty. slow and when you jump you can only do about two slashes before falling to the ground, but there is a technique that allows us to attack much faster and it is called slash cancellation by pressing both the attack button and down on the d-pad at the same time.

At the same time, Ryu will perform an extremely fast attack, how fast, exactly, is so fast that you're essentially only limited by how fast you can press the buttons, obviously a tool-assisted speedrun doesn't have to worry about restrictions caused by the human nerve. system so that he can hit the demon's head 16 times in about half a second, this is much faster than a normal person could do. People can smash pretty quickly, although in 2017, ninja gaiden world record holder arcus uploaded a tutorial showing us how fast he could execute slash cancels, so again the other hand can do it left and right if necessary and this is only used against the two final bosses, but I thought I'd show it now since I have the webcam here so yeah, once again you can't.

I can really see it well from this angle, but yeah, I'm going to tap, tap a with my middle finger and squish it like this. Personally, I consider myself a pretty fast clicker in Mario Party 4's domination minigame, where you count how many clicks you can make in 10 seconds. It would almost always come out on top, so how fast can I click? On clickspeedtest.com, the highest I could achieve in a single second was 14 clicks, which I think is pretty respectable, but would it be this? be enough to kill the demon head, we can actually calculate the crushing speed required to do so from the exact moment the head is hit by the eleventh slash to the moment it hits the ground is 0.334 seconds, so you must make five cuts.

It cancels in a third of a second, which is equivalent to 15 beats per second. I've tried and I just can't press a button that fast, but canceling the slash is much harder than just pressing a single button like I did in the click test. Slash Cancel requires two buttons to be pressed at exactly the same time, so not only do you have to press at inhuman speeds, you also have to press two buttons in perfect synchronicity, and you have to do it on a Nintendo controller. This is something that is just a small step. The percentage of people who could ever do it, no matter how much practice they put into 15 beats per second, is extremely high, but it seems to be on the cusp of what's possible.

In May 2016, YouTuber Sin uploaded a tool that did not help execute damage. demonstrated a more realistic demon head kill instead of doing all 16 hits in a single jump, he would set up the kill by doing three jumps with a total of 10 hits and then perform the final flurry of 6 hits in 2017, a viewer on the broadcast of Arkansas asked him to try it. the tass just kills destroying it before he could dash forward using a save state and repeating that section many times he was

finally

able to make it there he destroyed the demon's head. This was the first time we saw verifiable proof from anyone. actually achieving this and being able to kill the head would not only be useful in a no damage race it would technically be a time saver for speed races as well as in the world record race done by arcus he gets hit by the head causing he was pushed back and incapacitated for half a second, so if he had managed to kill the head, there was potential to save up to a full second.

Ultimately this would never be used in sprint races, it's simply too difficult the chances of making it to the end. at a record pace and then achieving this crazy death are too low, but it opened the door to a no-hitter and proved that it was at least theoretically achievable in practice, although essentially it was still considered impossible, which may sound strange given that in It was actually performed successfully, however, there is a big difference between performing the same trick over and over again using a save state and managing to perform it on the first try at the end of a 15 or 20 minute damage-free run;

There are many strategies that exist that are humanly possible but will probably never be done in a real sprint race. One of the most well-known examples is the infamous no-mat strategy in Super Mario 64. In the Rainbow Ride stage you can get the big star house in the sky without riding the mat. It was a theoretical strategy that could save almost a minute in speed racing. of 120 stars, but it was something that had only been done in tool-assisted matches in 2019, speedrunner Zaya became the first person to successfully perform the strategy on a single star. attempts, but does that mean it will now be implemented in full runs of the game?

No, definitely not, and there are very few people who think it ever will. For all intents and purposes, an undamaged Ninja Gaiden run was still out of the question, but several years later. In August 2020, the question was asked again, this time in the Twitch chat of slackinator, a speedrunner who holds multiple world records and specializes in classic NES titles. Slackinator was provided with a clip of Arcus performing the demon head slaying three years earlier in 2017. Of the video game

challenge

s, he decided to investigate the feasibility of a real 100 percent damage-free ninja gaiden run. He began working on the mash practice and vowed that if he could successfully kill the head on one in 20 attempts, he would officially do it.

I started attempts on the first legitimate run without damage three months later, he was ready and in November he would start routing along in this video. I've been focusing on the final boss fight, but the rest of the race is still incredibly difficult, aside from the dubious video uploaded in 2012, no one has ever been able to complete an entire race without damage in a single stage, just making it to the final fight. with the boss is extremely difficult, but Slakinator would need to do it many times due to how crazy the final kill is that he needed to be able to. to complete a run not only consistently but also relatively quickly, since if each attempt were too long, the routine would simply be too long on November 25th, he would get his first completion with just one hit from the demon's head, oh, one hit away there's there's a ninja gaiden defeated with one damage two weeks later on December 9th he'd get the first kill with a demon head in a no-hitter in history yeah oh we've got shrimp we've got the damn oh my god we got them, no, oh no.

Be careful at this point, oh, we have the mash in a race, oh, unfortunately, killing is not the only thing you have to worry about, as the projectiles launched by the demon canhitting you while mashing, so even if you do everything perfectly, you can still get unlucky and in this case that's exactly what happened. He killed the head but was hit by a single projectile immediately afterwards, which was inevitable. Slackinator would not be deterred after two more weeks of grinding, on December 23rd he would do this. I did it right, it's okay, just relax, the first time, oh my God, it happened, it was the first try today, oh, I'm freaking out, shaking, calm down, oh my God, it happened, oh, I never thought it would happen, Guys, not really.

I think I was going to be able to do that, for the first time in over 30 years, one of the most notoriously difficult games ever created had been defeated perfectly, an achievement that was considered humanly impossible until the very day a great Congratulations to Slackinator and I recommend you go and give him a follow on Twitch. Let me know in the comments if you want to see more video game challenges like this on this channel. Personally, I'd really love to start digging deeper into no. successful races and other crazy feats as always thank you very much for watching legends I hope you are having a fantastic day and I will see you in the next video.