Hello! I'm Vani, and I've been playing this game for... a long time. Since the spear bois could turn mid-combo, if that helps you. I remember getting to 2BC with achievements, then turning them off by using Custom Mode to only have the Impaler, my favorite weapon at the time, still not being able to do it, breaking my spacebar out of rage. From that day on, I swore never to touch this game again.

Years later, I decided to try again. I bought the game a second time, all DLCs, a fresh start, and it literally consumed my life. Where before it was my favorite thing to rage at, this time, I decided I would not be allowed to play anything else until I beat 5BC. I watched guides, learned new playstyles, and to embrace our lord and savior Mushroom Boi, and his close friend, the Repeating Crossbow. The only weapon.

When I started Dead Cells, back when I was an angry teen, I was a bit of a loner, but this time, I had friends I coerced told about Dead Cells, and we started playing together, although I still had muscle memory from my angy days. We nicknamed the Royal Guard "Rushing Roberto", a joke about him being a knock-off Charging Chuck from Mario, among other silly stuff that will remain as fond memories for me.

this next paragraph contains spoilers about 5BC, skip it if you want to avoid those.I did get close to give up. I found out about the tower, fondly nicknamed "The Fuck Room", where the Apex Key was, and obviously, died to it. When I got there again, a 50 min, 39 green scrolls run, I decided to throw it away by going there again. Yup. I'm not smart, if I can beat this game, anyone can. I did eventually get the damn key to unlock the weapon that I haven't even tested to see if it was worth the suffering yet, and, of course, it did cost me yet another run.

I spent the whole day, all of my braincells, possible damage to my fingerbones, and probably can never play Hades again given the amount of muscle memory I have for my cell boi, but I did it. Was it worth it? Yes, so worth it! The feeling of watching the credits after that journey is better than sex! If you're playing this game, don't give up, fucking go for it.

Anyways, I'm just in a very happy post-nut state right now and jamming to credits music. Thanks for reading.