It's frustrating more than unfair. Just takes a stupid amount of practice. I've got everything except five of the deathless trophies and tbh I can't be bothered putting in the grind for them. I have about fifty other games in my backlog to get to.
It’s just too many hours of grinding for me and I don’t have the patience for it. I did everything else except these deathless runs and that’s enough for me. That’s my platinum. Same thing for Hollow Knight. I did everything except the Pantheon. That’s enough for me.
Yeah fair enough, it's all personal preference at the end of the day. With Hollow Knight I didn't like to game enough to put the hours in to get good enough for pantheon 5, so I used the invincibility glitch. With Meat Boy, I was stubborn enough to just yolo it
@@thesparkcity I mean, you titled the video "platinum" and shown the PlayStation platinum trophy on the thumbnail. If you're doing it on PC then you clickbaited, all the more reason to not give you my 30 second view.
@@thesparkcity You literally made a clickbait, which is 100% reasonable to get angry at. That makes you an disingenuous PoS and even with your first reply you incited me to feed your view count, hell no.
@@damsen978 brother, you commented 30 seconds into watching the video calling me a braggart, which means you didn't watch the video (hence my reply), so how would you know if I "made a clickbait" or not? Also, how easy is your life that you're getting angry at clickbait on RU-vid
there is no end to this game back then I beat the story four times over only to get sent back to the ship and then I kindly turned it off the game will just continue to send you back to the ship over and over and over
@@thesparkcity i dont remember this was over 30 yrs ago when I was a wee bit lad I just remember that the game does not end I didnt have a memory card from what I remember so I played it in one go over a week and the game just kept sending me back to the ship oh well it was a grand ol time ill never forget the line The Bite of Lightning !
I’m not even trying the platinum. 1 I would have to buy on PlayStation (I own it on Xbox one) and 2 the Xbox 100% has no deathrun trophies which I am so glad about. Still gonna 100% on Xbox tho
@@thesparkcity also just to let you know that video was very high quality. RU-vid’s algorithm is doing you dirty. I hope your channel succeeds and have a great day
@@DonkeyDunk Thanks for the kind words! It did ok for a while, and then I put out another video and the algorithm killed both that one and this one...good ol' youtube
i watched this video when it was new, and it still didn't motivate me to go for this at the time. lately i've been seeing even more new videos of people getting this platinum and decided to finally go for it! i know it's kind of like "baby's first steps" into the world of hard platinums, but for me it's the first time i've attempted something this difficult. i love pretty much all of edmund mcmillen's games and i've finished most of them, this and the end is nigh are the most difficult, with the latter being much, much more difficult than this. on PS it's not as bad, but since i'm playing on steam, there's extra achievements for doing every cartridge deathless AND doing the ENTIRE GAME deathless. that one may truly be my limit, but i want to at least finish SMB. after that, i'll play through TEiN and see how i get along with it, then decide if going for all achievements is worth it. either way, enough about my life story XD i'm glad i came back to this video because it's genuinely a huge motivation to go for this completion, and even for other difficult ones in the future! and not only that, but you gave genuinely good life advice here, what a masterpiece of a video!
I'm glad you enjoyed the video! Idk if I'd say it's baby first really hard platinum, it's definitely still a stiff challenge! My point in making this vid was that you shouldn't put too much stock into how other folks view difficulty of a game. Like I said towards the end, a lot of people don't try this game because they hear about how hard it is and get scared off, whereas if they tried it themselves they might come to a completely different conclusion! Just keep pushing yourself and you'll be shocked at how far you can develop your skills!
@@thesparkcity thank you! yeah i've already done 4 no death runs in a day, and while they were the easiest ones, that's still much faster progress than i was expecting! i'm sure it's gonna slow down soon, but i'm ready and i'm determined to conquer this challenge!
Another thing that I feel makes the difficulty much more manageable is the fact that you can exit to map in a tight spot or when you miss a key etc., and also use different characters prior to Cotton Alley. I'm going for all the achievements on Steam atm, except with Meat Boy only and without using exit to map, but seems like most people definitely take use of both. Like, not using them feels like the actual 10/10 that its listed as, cuz its definitely harder, I remember NickAR saying in his vid that not using exit to map would 'be like an 11/10' lmao which is kinda funny. Obviously Cotton Alley is still the hardest world and it's only Bandage Girl so ye. Prior to that tho a lot of levels can be trivialized with the other characters. It is indeed funny tho that people put it up as this really really impossible plat when there's multiple things in use that make it more feasible. Being forced to do it 1-20 would also make it hellish lol. Obviously still an extremely hard challenge, but could be harder considering what's allowed.
Yeah, I think that's the major weakness of the 1-10 scale, it doesn't really tell you much about WHY the game is difficult. I do think that no quitting to map makes things trickier, but given that you have to play the hardest worlds with only bandage girl, a meat boy-only run wouldn't add as much difficulty as it seems. It would definitely take more attempts, but even the levels that get trivialized with other characters aren't usually *that* insane, we just gravitate towards the easiest options
It's better than final fantasy 10 cuz if you think about it I think final fantasy 10 might be one of the worst RPGs next to emerald Fantasia on a PlayStation 2 and if it didn't have the final fantasy name on it nobody would have given a f*** about that game
Idk if you can say it's one of the worst RPGs haha, there's not really any metrics that support that, it sold well and reviewed well. If you don't like it, that's understandable (I'm not a FF fan myself) but just saying "it's bad" doesn't make a ton of sense haha
@@thesparkcity sometimes but if you put a name on a something that sucks it can sell good look at ET on Atari that game sucked ass and the only reason people bought it cuz it had to eat name on it
@@mushra50 Yeah but then people barely bought it and everyone hated it, FFX most folks who bought it enjoyed it, it didn't only sell on the strength of the name haha
@@mushra50 You're not reading my comments haha, I said I'm not a fan, it just makes no sense for you to say "this game is bad" just because you didn't like it. Just say you didn't like it!
That's exactly how I got the platinums too; I'd just play the levels in order until I got it I also agree that people who got the platinum don't rate it as that difficult; I was just casually replaying the levels once and I pulled off a 1 to 20 deathless meat boy only hell dark world run
Man I just bought this game a few days ago so I can replay it on my old school PS2 it just brings back memories and nostalgia I don't care if it's a terrible game or if it's a great game I love things that make me happy
When I first asked for this game for Christmas my parents mistakenly got me dvds of the anime, and my mind was blown. Sending me down a very unique rabbit hole
I have this game but no working P2 🤬 and my P3 isn't compatible with P2 games they should add this to the PlayStation Network I think it would be a great addition for a free to play
Those first generation model PlayStation 3 suck they're not even fully compatible with all the PS2 games and it doesn't even have none of the PlayStation 2 hardware inside of it all it has in it is an emulator on a chip running off the PlayStation 3's hardware to support it
@@mushra50 oh thanks for saying that I was gonna perhaps buy a P3 that played them all so maybe then could have best of both but guess it be better to buy a P2 sense they DID play P1 games and P2 games you saved me $ 🫡 thank you
Yes, AAA plats are way to easy. This is so annoying bc u getting fast the plat and after that u dont play that much OR its just boring bc its to long. I miss speedrun, hard and other trophied which are challenging BUT not useless collectibles 💀
I love orphen. Orphen himself is such a cool badass character, and I adore his voice. I also love how different he is, he is an old, wise, and realistic sorcerer, he's not idealistic hero, he's jaded and cynical, and knows you gotta look out for yourself in the world. He was one of the first, and honestly, even today, few truly realistic and mature characters.
So I haven't started meat boy yet I was going to but a friend needed help with bo3 realistic so I got that plat and your video really helped me get past the hard parts specifically 8:22 I'm gonna do meat boy soon tho
Very interesting video, I've stop playing after having done 3 worlds without dying, just because I was bored and not having fun at all it was purely tryhard. I should try it again some time... For now I'm working on Crypt of the Necrodancer's and it's a you said but much much worse as I really fear I'll have to accept I don't have the capacity to accomplish it :(
@@thesparkcity it is, so much it becomes absurd haha but I'm having so much more fun with it I love that game ☺️ Even if the achievements would drive anyone crazy
I really do not mind because the "hard trophies" are really just mind numbing and painful to do that i really don't feel like doing something that because its supposed to be entertainment i want a geniune challenge that pushes me in a provactive way not just making me grind collectibles or replay the whole game because of a choice i made 14 hours in so there's a difference between actual challenge and boring monotony
Yeah, I don't really mean difficulty in a tedious sense, like the Dark Souls 3 example I gave in the video. I mean more like Meat Boy, or Crypt of the Necrodancer, things that are hard to do because of the skill they require
@@thesparkcity that's basically just what I thought of when I thought of platinums I've done and pretty much most AAA games but no difficulty based trophies is annoying for sure
I've thought about doing "Super Meat Boy" myself a bunch of times. I usually play more niche games so something like it would be great for gaining some recognition but I always arrive at the same issue. I'm just not interested in playing the game at all in general. I've managed to put myself through some difficult and time-consuming platinums before...but they were always games I wanted to play first and foremost. And ultimately, that's the reason why I manage to push through so many of them. Cause beneath all the trouble and frustration, I was still doing something I enjoyed. It was the kind of realization I needed. So really, I am glad for everyone who manages to finish this, even if it's not quite as difficult as people hold it up to be. It's something I just can't see myself doing since I'm not interested.
I'm the same way! I played Enter the Gungeon for an hour, and even though it's estimated at a much shorter time and easier difficulty, it would still have taken too long for since I didn't enjoy the core gameplay at all. I've always enjoyed platformers, so that helped with Meat Boy, but the challenge itself and the satisfaction of overcoming it became a decent substitute for the enjoyment of the game, at least for as long as I played Meat Boy. But I'll likely never go back and play it again, now that I've done the plat, haha
Try FNAF 2 10/20 mode, crpyt of the necrodancer platinum, FNAF pizzeria, black ops 3, gta 4, prototype, bleed 1 and 2, ESO emperor trophy, crash 4, street fighter 5, ufc 4 without boosting, solo tag, blood of the dead, and voyage of despair easter egg, and doom 2 and doom 1993 co op nighmare difficulty solo so play on split screen set the other controller to the side with no one playing it and play the difficulty by yourself with the newest update all enemies are way faster and respawn faster making soloing those 2 games a 10/10.
I honestly think older games are way harder in my opinion I’ve gotten 5 old platinums and they were very hard like right now I’m trying to get crypt of the necrodancer I am 73% in but I honestly agree that trophy’s are getting easier!!
Yeah, I mean there's plenty of older games that are pretty easy, and there's still newer games that are super challenging themselves, but I think generally speaking, trophies are easier on average these days, especially in AAA titles
This is really similar to the insight that helped me chill out with rally games - don't reset, just keep going if you can. Finish, don't worry about placement, just focus on consistency and how to reduce the number of wipeouts. I had been pretty good at it already, but it helped me enjoy the process more, and I found I climbed the leaderboards in longer rallies as faster, riskier strats made people crash out. Similar with runs of Pistol Whip I've been doing, I learned to finish runs even when they sucked, and then start again, rather than resetting early. It's an autoscroller rhythm style where each level is a song, and it feels especially soul-crushing to reset something like that because the time you lost is absolutely fixed. Doing complete levels every time makes it more fun and gets you to a level of competence in every part of the level much faster.
Totally agree! I used to do speedrunning, and I detested having to reset runs, I ended up just spamming full runs of the game, that's probably where my tendency to not break up Meat Boy worlds came from! Messing around on map screens or character select screens, dying on the same level 5 times in a row, that stuff got to me way more than choking, and I had some heartbreakers during this plat, haha
@@thesparkcity Gotta maintain the love of the game. Also the platinum is awesome. I'm actually more impressed at the way you worked smarter than I am with raw twitch skills or perseverance.
@@excrubulent I've been gaming a long time, but I've never had insane twitch reflexes or anything! But what I lack in reaction time, I make up for in patience (aka stubbornness haha) Thanks for watching the vid! I appreciate the kind words
