152 insights into my soul

Finally!!!!

Endless Warehouse 150+:



Got the kill 3 dudes with one shotgun blast trophy (at the 2:20 mark), and broke my endless streak record with 150+ kills to boot! Man, it gets really intense the further you go on. Anyways, reviewing the replay, my mistake was not realizing I missed the guy who spawned by the door with my shot, but to be fair I had a whole bunch of other guys in my face at the time.

Some more Endless Superhot vids:

Endless Hall 79:



Still chasing the 1987 kills trophy. While I don't post every run, going by the the vids at the end of this playlist, and adding those totals to the minimum number of kills to unlock everything in endless mode (1350), and a guesstimate of the number of kills from all other runs, I should be very, very close. Unless the trophy is bugged, which would suck.

Also still have yet to get the three kills with one shotgun blast trophy, and as you can see in this vid, going for it got me killed- again, these guys seemed perfectly grouped for such a shot, and I somehow managed to fire in the exact spot that would hit NONE of them! bbv('This is total BS!')

Endless Office 81:



I really need to get better at reading the environment. Rewatching the end moments, I see the flash of an enemy spawning in the elevator to my left, but I'm so caught up in killing the guys on me that he kills me without me even seeing it coming.

Some more Superhot endless vids:

Lab18 Endless:



Stairs Endless:



Frickin frick, I was so close to 100! What's frustrating is I knew someone was coming from down the stairs on my right, but I was so concerned with not getting killed by the heavily armed guys in front of me that I didn't check back with him and got blindsided.

That was so dumb too, I tossed an ashtray at one of the AR guys so I could get his rifle that what I should've done was toss the ash tray at one, the dogbowl at the other, and hope the corner provided me enough cover from shotgun guy who got me in the interim until he was close enough for me to punch and steal his shotgun.

And I am still freaking incredulous that I have not yet gotten the three kills with one shotgun blast trophy. As I aaid, there are so many times where they seem bunched up perfectly. But I guess I don't take into account bullets don't fly through enemies, and two (or in really bad cases, only one) take the brunt of the blast and end up shielding the other guys from the pellet spread.

Okay, I finally completed impossible mode today, so this is the last of these superhot vid posts.

Stairs impossible:



I really would like to complete this level without hotswitching, but haven't figured out how to do that yet. I mean, you have to move immediately, as there's a guy with an AR right above you ready to fire, and keep going until you catch up to shotgun guy ahead of you. Its the standard punch him for his shotgun, but the problem is there's so many guys and little cover. If you shoot him, try and toss your shotgun at pistol guy and take his gun, the other shotgun guy running up the stairs will get you.

You can shoot pistol guy with the shotgun and melee guy who's shotgun you stole to death, the problem is you have to be fast and there's only a little patch of ground where you're protected from both the AR guy at the top of the stairs, and shotgun guy charging from behind. Indeed, in this vid, I got lucky and the spread of pellets managed to just all barely miss me. Now ideally, I woulda hit the shotgun guy with the fire extinguisher I grabbed off the wall, but yet again, it accidentally impacts against the pillar I was just using for cover and ducked out of. Good thing he's close enough for me to melee and grab his shotgun, and that he and shovel guy are close enough to take out with one blast.

At this point, the only active enemy is AR guy at the top of stairs, and he has the high ground, so charging at him would be suicide. Especially since another AR guy is about to appear at the top of the stairs since I just finished killing the first wave of guys. So I have no choice but to hotswitch.

I have to still be fast though, grab the piece of rebar from the wall and toss it at assault rifle guy who appears to stun him and I can get a hold of his gun to finish him off. Now, the remaining guys are coming from below, so I take a drop of faith off the top platform, toss the shotgun at the first guy, so I can get his pistol, shoot him, throw that empty pistol at the next guy, and so forth until they're all dead.

Office impossible mode:



Only thing to say about this vid was I thought I was going to be able to hit all three guys with my shotgun and finally get that trophy. But I only get two with the blast. bbv('This is total BS!')

Station impossible mode:



This plays out pretty much like hard mode, except since I only have one bullet, when I toss my weapon at the assault rifle guy coming out of the door on the left and hotswitch into the other guy, I need to take him out with a melee before grabbing his rifle, because I need that bullet for the guys across the tracks. I pop one, then have to circle in place behind cover to waste time until my hotswitch refreshes and jump into the last guy.

I guess if I had more guts, I'd toss the rifle at the remaining guy to stun him long enough for me to jump the tracks and finish him off. But things went so smoothly, I didn't want to risk it.

Train impossible mode:



I realized if I shot the shotgun between the center and right guys, I could take them both out without having to use any of their own weapons on them after I hotswitch into the left guy. That freed up both the shotgun and AR for me to use against the guys who appear at the other end of the train.

So I quickly grab the AR to take out shotgun guy, toss it, then grab the shotgun and shoot it to take on pistol guy. Then I quickly turn around and toss the shotgun at the guy at the controls of the train. Unfortunately, the shotgun never reaches him, it gets shredded by the incoming rifle fire. But at least it blocked those shots. And since he's still too far away, I have no choice but to hotswitch into him to end the level.

Gate impossible mode:



Since the guns are only one shot, I have to be frugal with my shots. Start off the same way, hotswitch into guy in the booth, grab shotgun, and blow away shotgun guy outside. Toss the shotgun at the pistol guy running through the other door, but since I need his pistol to take out the guy by the truck, I finish him off with a melee since I'm shielded from the rest of the enemies right now.

So now I have one shot with the pistol that I can use to take out truck guy, then toss it at the pistol guy appearing outside the door. It would be tempting to use that discarded shotgun to take him out, but the rushing AR guy is the bigger threat. So I shred him with the shotgun, toss the shotgun to prevent pistol guy from picking up his pistol, and then melee-ing him to save the pistol for one of the AR guys.

Pop off a shot to kill the left guy, and I was hoping to get through this level without hotswitching again, by tossing the empty pistol at the guy on the right in the hopes I can rush him. But I miss, so I have no choice but to jump into him to end the level.

Lobby impossible mode:



Hey, managed to do the final level without having to hotswitch at all. Like in hard mode, I cut down the first guy, toss the sword into the second and grab pistol guy's pistol and quickly pop the guy charging me from the far door on my right. I don't have time to see if the shot hits, I just listen for the shattering sound indicating I got him. Then I go into the side room.

Lucky for me, the assault rifle guy usually there has charged out the other door as I ran in. I give chase through that door, tossing the pistol at the AR guy to my right to make him drop his gun, and then grabbing the AR dropped by the guy I killed with the katana toss to finish him off.

I toss the AR and quickly run over to grab the fresh AR from the guy I just killed, which I use to kill the pistol guy who appears. Toss the rifle, I'm about to pick up pistol guy's pistol, but opt for the shotgun instead. I use it to blow away the assault rifle guy who appears, then toss it at the shotgun guy who appears so I don't have to worry about getting shot while I take care of katana guy.

Punch him, take his katana, chop him down then toss it at the last guy for the win.

My continuing Superhot Impossible Mode saga:

Tirall impossible mode:



In other modes, after I dodge the truck and rush at it, charging at the back of the truck will usually get the AI to fire into the side of the truck trying to hit me even though the truck is in the freaking way. That closes the distance fast enough that I can dodge his last few bullets and rush him to take his gun and kill him.

But those bullets are too fast in impossible mode, so I instead have to duck into the alcove in the left, grab and toss a bottle at him so I can close the distance grab his gun, and cap him. Of course, since this is one bullet mode, I can't actually use the AR against the 3 pistol guys who appear behind me.

So I have to duck back into the alcove and circle in place to get time to "pass" so they'll close the distance. At the point is all very inelegant, I'm just tossing everything I can at those guys, and as you can see, the first guy I hit with the tossed assault rifle has recovered and has his gun back in hand by the time I toss the bottle I just grabbed at the second guy (lucky for me, his gun goes flying way off, and so he opts to charge me unarmed rather than grab the pistol), but since they're bunched up, he can't get a shot at me and I have time to pick up the last bottle to toss at the third guy.

Then its grab that guys gun as it flies through the air, shoot the pistol guy since he's the most dangerous threat, toss gun at middle guy and start to melee, but since its impossible mode, I'm unable to finish him off before the other guy gets out of stun. So I have to punch that guy to get him to back off so I can get back to finish off the other guy. It helps that the one guy opts to go for the pistol on the ground instead. He's not fast enough though, and I punch him to death.

Serv impossible mode:



I'm not sure if jumping over those desks is any faster than just going around, but I do it anyways. This is one of my favorite levels because of the racks and racks of guns. Its like the time ultimate Bullseye and Punisher fought, and they end up in the room with all the tools and weapons.

Again, one shot per gun really isn't a big deal, because the enemies are all on you that you don't have time to wait for you gun to reload anyways, so you'd already be tossing it and grabbing another gun to fire.

Heh, sorry for the Superhot video spam as of late, but the game makes it so easy to upload the videos.

Gate Hard Mode:



The hardest part of this level for me is once you kill the first three guys (shotgun guy by the doorway, pistol guy who rushes into the room, rifle guy by the truck through the window) after you hotswitch into the guy I assume they intend for you to hotswitch into.

I mean, the pistol guy who appears outside the door is easy enough, but then you have to deal with three assault rifle guys, one charging towards you and two from across the way. The speed demon in me would toss the shotgun at the pistol guy, grab his pistol, shoot him, toss it at charging assault rifle guy, grabbing the assault rifle, shooting him, ducking behind the wall between the other two assault rifle guys, popping one, and hotswitching into the other to end the level.

The problem is I'm not good/fast enough to do that, one of the assault rifle guys cuts me down before I can finish that sequence. So the less cool way I do it here is draw pistol guy in, toss the shotgun, grab the pistol, shoot him, circle in place like an idiot to get my pistol to reload to pop AR guy as soon as he appears, fart around some more to get my pistol to reload again (I could step into the open and grab the AR and use it, but I find myself eating a bullet from one of the AR guys if I try), then quickly step out the door pop guy on the right and hotswitch into guy in the left. And all that jinking around to get the pistol to reload just seems so inelegant.

Lobby hard mode:



With an assault rifle guy charging towards you and enemies busting through from both sides, the hardest part is surviving the first few seconds. I believe I've mentioned this level before, my preferred method is to charge left pistol guy, cut him down with the katana, then toss the katana at assault rifle guy and going into the room to the left. Of course, my success rate with actually hitting that guy with the tossed katana is maybe 30%. I mean, rushing into the room gives me protection from him if I miss, and him having to follow me in gives me some breathing room, but its not as pretty. And that means I have to cover two directions instead of just one.

Of course, the next step is taking out the guy with the assault rifle in said room. Now, the cool way to do it would be to grab the pistol guy's pistol in the air after tossing the katana and beating assault rifle guy to the punch, but alas, I'm not that smooth, so I hotswitch instead, which as I've said I loathe to do if I don't have to.

If I was ballsy, after hotswitching, I woulda grabbed the katana off the wall, charged back into the lobby, toss the sword at the approaching pistol guy, grabbed the shotgun by the wall and take on all comers. But, I opted to go back for the pistol on the floor instead- I was lucky, the assault rifle guy died right by the opening, so after I take out pistol guy, I'm able to pick it up, making fighting the last three guys that much easier since I don't have to wait on a reload between shots if I were using the pistol or shotgun.

Meeting hard mode:



Now this is one of my favorite levels, and requires some quick improvisation depending on how things play out. The beginning is easy enough, toss phone at first pistol guy, grab his pistol, shoot him, toss pistol at guy behind window in the monitoring station to get him to drop his gun, punch second pistol guy coming out, shoot him with his own pistol, then shoot guy in the room, then quickly round the corner and pop shotgun guy.

This is where things end up varying wildly. Now there's two unarmed guys who will charge you, a pistol guy on the left, and an assault rifle guy on the right. I usually toss the pistol at assault rifle guy to stun him and then grab the shotgun and hopefully take out the two unarmed guys when they bunch up and charge the door.

The problem is things often go wrong with that toss. It hits one of the charging guys, or one of the buildings in the model on the table, or hits the edge of the doorway and careens off in the wrong direction. Which if that happens, my hope is I can take out at least two of the guys as I charge in, toss the shotgun at AR guy to stun him him, jump onto the chair to the left, picking up the shotgun, shooting him and/or pistol guy if he's still alive and hopefully not accidentally shred the assault rifle.

As it is, a different scenario plays out- I manage to stun AR guy, but my shotgun blast only takes out one of the chargers (though it luckily takes out the pistol guy). If I had bigger balls, I'd jump onto the chair, quickly pivot and take the remaining charging guy, before focusing on AR guy. Instead, I back out into the hall, waiting for the shotgun to reload and taking out charging guy as soon as it does. Now, this actually has the added benefit of drawing assault rifle guy out after he grabbed his weapon back.

Since I'm worried about shredding the assault rifle with the shotgun blast, I toss it at him, grab the AR, shoot him, then take out as many guys as I can charging from down the hall. (Annoyingly, I have to duck in and out of cover to "pass" time to get them to spawn and move forward) I eventually run out of ammo, so I toss it at a guy to stun him, back up, grab the shotgun, blast a guy, back up for a reload, shoot the next guy, but since the guy after that is right there, I have no time to wait for another reload.

Toss the shotgun at him to stun, grab the AR that's still in the air from the guy I previously shot, grab it, and take out the remaining guys.

Started up impossible mode, which as I've said, is just hard mode but guns only have one shot.

Corridor impossible mode:



This level is ridiculous, since the bullets move so fast in this mode, you gotta take it nice and easy, carefully dodging until you make your way to the middle to pick up the pistol on the floor. Now you got to shoot and immediately move, because whoever you line up with will shoot you at the same time if you linger for even a millisecond. The annoying thing is since you only have one bullet, you have to dodge the remaining guy some more, because if you toss it from too far, since they're stunned for far less time, he'll easily recover and just grab the pistol of his fallen comrade before you can get to him and now you have to do some more dodging.

So you just got to get close enough to toss so that you can reach him before his stun wears off and then finish him off.

Drop impossible mode:



Now, the trick to this level in this (and fullstop mode for that matter, since that's also only one shot per gun) is knowing there's a pistol right behind you- that way you shoot the guy with his own pistol (after tossing your own pistol at him to stun him), you have another pistol that actually has bullets to use on the pistol guy out there.

Now, the other trick is to know the pistol guy will move a short distance before stopping at the exact same spot every time to try and shoot you. So you just shoot as soon as he hits his mark, don't bother seeing if it hits, because you need to hop over the car and close the distance with the guys who are about to appear and rush out of the doorway on your left. Particularly since they're faster in this mode and you won't have anything to shoot at them with. If you're not already there, with two pistol guys firing at you from different directions, you'll be toast.

So its shoot pistol guy, jump over car, close distance with door guy who comes out in the open, toss pistol, grab pistol, shoot, toss pistol at guy behind pillars, and grab his pistol. Since the angle stinks and the unarmed guy who comes from around the van is a little too close, shoot him, then hop over car to catch up with the now unarmed guy coming from the pillars and melee him to death.

Subway impossible mode:



Nothing to say here, just good old fashioned quick reflexes.

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:



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.

Beat all the levels in the katana only challenge. Man, some of those levels are brutal when you can't shoot, forcing you to get creative:



So basically, I drop down, toss the katana at the guy with the assault rifle, hot switch into the guy to his right, grabbing the sword right as it kills assault rifle guy, then quickly using it to kill other shotgun guy. Then, I have to book it to the other end of the car, toss the katana into shotgun guy, somehow manage to quickly move into the car without getting shot by pistol guy, grab my sword from the floor and kill him. Then I end it by hotswitching into the guy at the end with the assault rifle.

I loathe beating the last guy that way though, it seems cheap to beat a level by hotswitching into the last guy. Also I am shocked the pistol guy never fires off a shot before I'm able to grab the sword and kill him.

Then again, I've learned you are deceptively fast, take the dreaded elevator level for example:



I'm shocked that I'm actually able to kill all three guys in the elevator before they get off a shot, and then quickly rush out and kill the two shotgun guys before they shoot also. Also, its kinda funny seeing these clips in real time and seeing how little time actually elapses when you're not experiencing time dilation.

Anyways, the other challenges I've unlocked so far are interesting:

-AD2013: the description says play the game like its 2013, which has me wondering if there was an earlier version of this game. Anyways, punches auto-kill, but there's no melee weapons and no "throwables". Not sure what the latter exactly means though, because I had actually misread the parameters and though all you could do was punch, I only realized you could still use guns after a few levels. So I dunno if you can at least toss guns, or only once you're out.

-Ghost: Another one where melee punches are auto-kill. You can hotswitch from the very beginning, but can't use guns.

-Hotswitch: You can just hotswitch from the beginning.

-Fullstop: Time actually stops when you're not moving. However, enemies bullets move faster, and any gun you pick up only has one shot.

-Throwing: You can't shoot, but tossing a weapon is automatically lethal. Also, it takes 5 punches to take out an enemy instead of 3.

-Bare hands: All you can do is punch, you can't pick up weapons. And unlike ghost or AD2013, you still need 3 punches to kill an enemy.

There are some other challenge mods I haven't unlocked yet. But there's also endless mode, which as I've mentioned before is you're dropped in a specifically designed area, and you just play until you die. Enough kills unlocks three other modes for a specific area. There's a timed mode where you see how quickly you can kill 20 guys. There's one where you see how many you can kill in 20 seconds of game time (i.e., the time that elapses when you actually move), and one where you can see how many you can kill in 60 seconds of real time.

So yeah, several arenas x four modes, plus all the challenges, there's tons to do in this game once you beat it. Well, if you're someone who just likes mindless killing.

So when I was going through my tumblr feed this morning, one of those posts from someone I don't follow but tumblr thinks is relevant to my interests shows up. And it was a tweet or post or something from Selena Gomez sending prayers for Christina Grimmie. And I was like, wait, did something happen to Christina Grimmie? Before I looked it up, my mind was going through the possibilites- was she sick of some disease I was unaware of and succumbed to it? Was she in a car or plane accident? Never in a million years did I think it would be some sick loser (hey, he shot and killed an innocent girl, that makes him a sick loser as well as a pathetic scumbag and a piece of fucking shit! There is no excuse in the world for that) shooting her outside her concert.

I never watched the Voice, but I was aware she was on it. I just knew her from her early youtube covers. She seemed like a sweet girl and an amazing talent:



It disturbs me that she was just starting to hit it big when some maniac cut her down. I'm sad the last video she ever posted on her youtube was a short shout out to the fans telling them to come out to that night's concert. She seemed so happy and excited. And only a few hours later she was gone. Seriously, what the fuck?!

So randomly web surfing, I discovered the voice actress for Gaige in Borderlands/Lucy in Fairy Tail is actually pretty cute. But then I found this vid:



which I did not realize until halfway through that she was acting out Rachel scenes from Glee, which gets kudos in my book. (Though -1 point for saying NYADA wrong)

TV commentary:

The Originals- Hmm, so we finally learn Lucien's plan. ( spoiler cut )