No-Damage Run: Difference between revisions

Many tool-assisted [[Speed Run]]s are also No Damage Runs, since the player can control the character precisely and manipulate random events in his favor. You'd think it would be "most", but taking damage or even dying actually saves time in many games, thanks to [[Mercy Invincibility]] and the often-resulting knockback from taking damage which usually ends up being the fastest way to move or respawn points strewn across long travel distances, so they can be used for [[Sequence Breaking]].

 

 

Still another variant, especially used among the ''[[Doom (series)|Doom]]'' community, is the "Maximum Minimum Health" run, where the player attempts the level on [[Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels|"Ultra-Violence" or "Nightmare" mode]]. Their score is the lowest health they had at any point in the level, or, if they didn't take any damage, their final health at the end of the level.

* Required in ''[[Meat Boy|Super Meat Boy]]'' for a series of achievements titled "Iron Boy" runs, which require you to complete an entire world without dying. The achievements start out relatively easy with the first few worlds, but eventually get harder, going all the way up to Impossible Boy, which requires you to beat [[Brutal Bonus Level|the Cotton Alley Dark World]] without dying, which is somewhat of an inhuman feat, considering the game's difficulty. Only 0.1% percent of all Steam users who have the game also have this achievement, and a good majority of them are cheaters.

** Although, depending on the world that is being played, the game will let players use alternate characters (with the exceptions of [[Minecraft|Steve?]] and Meat Ninja) for the run, and let players play levels out of order, so it's more flexible with this trope than other games.

* In the very first ''[[Super Monkey Ball]]'', beating all 70 stages of Expert, Expert Extra, and Master in a single no-death no-warp run would actually be acknowledged by the game with a special message during the credits (which varied depending on which monkey you chose to play as). In addition, the Play Point values were set up so that such a feat would net you exactly 9,999 Play Points; die once or use a single warp to skip a level and you'll end up with less.

* Beating ''[[VVVVVV]]'' unlocks a No Death Mode, which challenges you to play through as much of the game as you can on a single life, much like the Impossible difficulty in ''[[I Wanna Be the Guy]]'' above. All checkpoints are removed, you can't save, [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|one room is modified so that]] {{spoiler|you no longer need to die to nab the Shiny Trinket in it}}, and dying ends your game and kicks you to a results screen. Successfully completing the entire game in No Death Mode awards you a [[Cosmetic Award|trophy]].