"I fucking did it!"
Those words burst from my mouth, my arms jettisoning upwards in triumph.
CLEAR was the glaring message blazing across the puter screen in front of me.
I had triumphed over the ultimate trial in the game.
"Damn right! I fucking did it! I crushed this goddamn game!"
Overwhelmed, a single tear made its way down my face. Considering the brutal six months it took to conquer this game, I couldnt help but be overe with emotion.
Tower Defense & Dungeon Attack RPG, .
This was an old-school game, a classic that had stood the test of over 10 years.
In it, you drafted and trained heroes to protect the city, plunging headlong into the dungeons beyond to secure victory. All the while youre strategizing in a turn-based RPG.
You positioned your characters on the map and manded them individually.
If a hero that youd poured time and effort into was killed, they were gone for good, establishing the games notorious difficulty.
The game was a global sensation in its prime, but now its just an old classic. So why am I only now claiming victory?
Firstly, nobody had ever conquered it on the highest difficulty.
That difficulty, Hell, bined with Ironman mode, where progress was saved automatically. This bination, known as Hells Ironman, had remained unbeaten.
The game kept every players victory data on its server and ranked it. However, Hell Ironman had remained unbeaten.
Some had beaten the game on Legendary difficulty in Ironman mode, and others had turned off Ironman mode to beat Hell difficulty. But Hells Ironman had seen no victor until now.
But today, 10 years after the game was launched, a champion has emerged. Me!
Challenging the impossible is human instinct.
Like surmounting a peak that no one has yet scaled. So, I took it on.
And the second reason.
- Damn, RetroAddict finally did it.
- Congrats!!
- Lmao, gotta respect the persistence of the RetroAddict.
- First in the world, well done.
- Thanks for the grueling work over the past six months.
Chat messages came pouring into the chat window on a second monitor next to my game screen.
Seeing the chat log, I could only smile.
"I fucking told you all, didnt I? No matter how damn hard it is! Games are made to be beaten!"
I am a game streamer, specifically a streamer who plays challenging classic games. My ID is RetroAddict.
As for the number of viewers, its surprisingly large.
Nostalgia always draws a crowd. Watching a battle of high difficulty is always gripping content.
I typically pull in around 3,000 viewers, but as I approached the final stage, that number climbed past 10,000, and with the news of my victory, more viewers were flocking in.
[MissionFairy has donated 100,000 Won!]
- You can brag all you want today. As promised, Im sending the donation.
One by one, regular viewers who had pledged to donate upon my victory started to follow through.
[ShittyGameConnoisseur has gifted 50,000 won!]
- Damn, now what am I supposed to watch for the next six months if youve already smashed it?
[BlackBox has gifted 10,000 won!]
- Thought I was investing in a sure thing when I bet you couldnt beat the game... Damn, you played me.
[DogBarksAtBoringStreams has gifted 30,000 won!]
- Cant bark at you today, good job.
"Ah, thanks everyone for the donations. Ill keep giving it my all!"
As the generosity flowed, I thanked my viewers, echoed their ments, and they responded with palpable joy, their chat messages ricocheting off each other.
The chat room was a party.
For the first time in a decade, a player had crushed a level no one else had. Could there be a more illustrious acplishment for a gamer?
My viewers, having acpanied me on this odyssey, reveled in the victory as if it were their own.
- Such a damn shame the Holy Maiden fell in the final battle. She was only an R-grade, but she carried us all this way.
- He had no other choice... if he hadnt distracted the boss with the second squad, he wouldnt have even gotten this far.
- I yelled when the third squad got wiped out. They were a team of SSR heroes, his strongest, but they didnt make it.
- I was freaking out when everyone except our main man Lucas from the first squad bit the dust.
The viewers had bee emotionally invested in the characters over the last half-year, and mourned those I lost in the final battle.
In this game, you "pull" and develop heroes using in-game currency.
Based on a bination of luck and grades, heroes are picked from categories such as SSR-SR-R-N and then cultivated.
Every viewer had a favorite, watching the stream through the lens of their chosen hero.
From the badass SSR-grade powerhouses to the N-grade underdogs who punched above their weight.
"In the end, they all fell..."
I allowed a wry smile. The sheer brutality of the game didnt afford progress without sacrifice.
Despite my best efforts to keep everyone alive until the final stage, all but the main character fell during the climactic boss battle.
Well, my objective wasnt everyones survival, but reaching the ending...
- Hey, you freaking did it! You saved the empire!
- Heres the link to the moment our hero Lucas took down the boss solo >>here < Next >
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