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TV commentary:

Teen Wolf- So that's the final big bad? ( spoiler cut )

Game of Thrones- Heh, I know the show is blase about that sort of thing, but still. ( spoiler cut )

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Whoops, one thing I forgot to mention last post about Game of Thrones. isabel79 prolly knows this already, but I guess that Mets Thor guy was in last night's ep as ( whoops, I guess I should put this under a spoiler cut )

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More Superhot blather- Slowly making my way through hard mode. Although like I was complaining about the speedrun mode, a lot of it is just doing things perfectly. Using the Elevator level as the example yet again:

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I always use elevator mode as the example because its one of the few levels where the enemies armaments are set, and since its so small and short, there's little variation in how it plays out. Other levels you take two steps left, or move one second slower and the level plays out totally differently.

But I digress. Since the enemies aren't as "slowed" and the bullets move faster, you have to run this perfectly. Any slight pause and the enemy will get a bead on you and fire, immediately killing you as soon as you go into real time. So I punch the guy on the left, have to quickly and perfectly move the cursor onto the middle guy- any pause and you get shot in the face. Then I have to continue my rightwards trajectory so the guy on the right can't track me and fire.

And as seen in the video, I got lucky- I punched him at the exact moment he tried to shoot, killing him instantly. Then its all a matter of grabbing one of the flying guns, shooting one of the guys, immediately tossing it at the other guy to stun him long enough to grab the other flying gun and shooting the remaining guy. Then, tossing the pistol at the right shotgun guy as the elevator door opens, immediately jumping to him and perfectly grabbing the shotgun and firing it at the left shotgun guy in one smooth motion, immediately tossing the shotgun at right shotgun guy to stun him and get him off my ass long enough to punch him out with a 5 hit combo.

So like I said, you got to run it perfectly, and hope for a little luck. I mean, I feel I only got past the lab level because after taking out the first three guys, the guy who ended up coming out of the door to your immediate right in that lab room was unarmed, and I managed to draw unarmed, pistol or katana guys for the rest of the fight. Its like, if they don't have a gun, they're as good as dead.

Or the "desp" level (which apparently stands for Desperado's bar?), I tried that level about a dozen times, and when I finally beat it, it was because one enemy acted differently- you start out beating up some guy in a bathroom stall right in front of you, run out the bathroom, take out a guy charging in, then there's a bartender behind a bar with a shotgun. The way I play it, I immediately run forward to put a pillar between me and him, jump on top of the pool table, grabbing a billiard ball as I do and then tossing it to stun him and make him drop his shotgun.

Now, I can blow him away with the shotgun, immediately turn to the guy coming out of the door to the right and take him out by tossing the shotgun at him, grabbing his gun and shooting him, but then with the increased speed, I had been having trouble taking out the three guys behind me before one of them shot me.

The time I finally beat it, the guy after the bartender comes out of the left door way instead (behind the bar is a hallway connected by the two doorways on the left and right) So since I'm standing on the bar with a shotgun in hand, the guy coming out of the door and the bartender running away are close enough to take out with one shotgun blast.

Which gives me enough breathing room because I then move forward towards the left door and off the bar which puts me in an advantageous position, because now I only have to deal with one of the guys behind me, as the pillar and pinball machines cover me from the other two. Indeed, one of the guys on the left takes out the other trying to shoot me. So its all a matter of blasting the one guy on me, and then tossing the shotgun at the remaining guy as soon as he clears the pillar and we can see each other, allowing me to rush up grab his gun and finish him off.

So like I said, passing some of these levels involves a bit of luck.

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A few more Superhot hard mode vids.

The train station:

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I don't know if its because the previous few times I'd played this level was for the various gimmick challenges and wasn't able to shoot, but normally I'd have to use the advertisement board in front of the first assault rifle to block his shots while I got close and then dodge rifle fire until I was close enough to get the gun from him and shoot him with it. So it was weird this time around that I could just shoot him with one of the pistols I got off one of his buddies.

But yeah, also of all the times I've played this level, not sure why I never thought of hotswitching into pistol guy, jumping onto the barrier to punch assault rifle guy and grab the rifle to finish him and the last two guys off. EDIT:Rewatching this vid at 0.25x, that's not what exactly happened. i threw the pistol at assault rifle guy first before hotswitching into pistol guy. THEN I hopped on top of the barrier to grab the rifle and take the last three guys out.

Also, I must've been in zen mode here, because this is the precisest I've been ever been with the assault rifle.

The train:

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So, once you drop into the train car, you're always hotswitching into one of those guys at the end. Depending on the mode, I either kill the center guy and then hotswitch into one of the guys in the side and take out the other guy, or if I have no way of killing the center guy from across the way, hotswitch and then take him and other guy out. But for some reason, this is the first time I've grabbed the assault rifle and used it.

I guess maybe its because it sometimes gets shredded by the shotgun blast from that first shotgun you grab before you drop down. Or when I hotswitch into one of the shotgun guys, I immediately punch the other shotgun guy and grab his shotgun, forgetting all about the assault rifle on the ground. So I use it against the guys who appear on the other end, but since its a shotgun, it doesn't have great range, and I end up charging up to them. Grabbing the rifle, I can take out other shotgun guy and the two guys who appear from where I am, and then just turn around and deal with the final guy.

But yeah, look how ugly my shooting with the rifle is compared to the first vid. I basically just spray all over the place, its a miracle I managed to take both the guys at the end out.