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[[Exactly What It Says
Some [[Nintendo Hard]] games required the player to perform No Damage Runs as a matter of course. This also boils down to making your run entirely of [[Flawless Victory|Flawless Victories]].
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A variation common among [[Shmup|Shoot-em-ups]] in particular is the 1CC, or "1 Credit Clear", meaning that the game is completed without continuing (dying is still permissible). Given that Shoot-em-ups will often provide the player with infinite continues, most fans agree that to claim to have beaten a shmup requires a No Continue Run. A No Death Run (aka 1LC, "1 Life Clear") is even more impressive, especially considering that most Shoot-em-ups have the player as a [[One-Hit-Point Wonder]].
Still another variant, especially used among the ''[[Doom (
If a No Damage Run is too much for you, you can instead strive for a No Death Run or a No Continue Run.
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* In ''[[
* This is part of the reason why the Combat School missions are so damn hard in ''[[Metal Slug]] 7'': In order to get the best possible score, you not only have to clear the challenge in the fastest time, but do it without dying once. In a [[Shoot'Em Up]] where your character is a [[One-Hit-Point Wonder]].
* ''[[
* ''[[Ace Combat]] 6'' awards you with the Platinum Ace medal if you go through the story mode and avoid any damage.
* ''[[Little Big Planet]]'' has the "No Lives Lost" challenge available in all levels, also known as "acing" a level. Get through an entire level without dying once (including use of the Try Again command if you get stuck in a level), and you get some extra [[Collection Sidequest|goodies]] at the Scoreboard. Required to get [[One Hundred Percent Completion]] in Story Mode, because completion is measured by how many items you've collected in all levels, and items given by No Lives Lost definitely count. Some levels, like Survival Challenges, are literally impossible to do this, because to finish you MUST die somehow (usually part of the challenge, like collect Score Bubbles while staying out of the [[Exactly What It Says
* ''[[
** It's also a bonus if you don't take any damage during a stage (or a match). Combining it with [[Pacifist Run]] gets the [[True Neutral|Switzerland]] bonus.
* These types of runs are frequently required to unlock [[New Game+]] modes in the various installments of the ''[[Resident Evil]]'' franchise.
* Required (until one reaches the secret boss, at which point it's lifted) to get each character's second ending in ''[[Bushido Blade]]''.
* ''[[
* If you don't die any time during ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
* ''[[
** A bonus mission in DMC 3 requires you to defeat a patch of enemies untouched to receive one [[Heart Container|blue orb fragment]].
** ''[[
* Required to beat ''[[I Wanna Be the Guy]]'' on the highest difficulty, since you're a [[One-Hit-Point Wonder]] and can't save your game. You will not want to try this, as [[Badass Boast|only TWO people have EVER finished it on that difficulty.]] [[I Wanna Be the Fangame|One of them went on to make a fan sequel.]]
* Similar to ''[[I Wanna Be the Guy|IWBtG]]'', only much less difficult, is ''[[Rocket Knight Adventures]]''' Hard mode. The default difficulty is Easy, by the way.
* ''[[
** [[
* One of the bosses in ''[[
** Especially in the Wii version's "Hard" mode which removes all [[Heart Container|Heart Containers]] from the game, against enemies that do increasing amounts of damage.
* To get the 'I Will Survive' trophy/achievement for ''[[
* Several [[Lego Adaptation Game
* ''[[Painkiller]]'' has this as an optional card condition for Orphanage, the first level in the expansion pack ''Battle Out of Hell''.
* Both ''[[
* The Papillion suit in ''[[
* In ''[[Fable
* It is possible in some ''[[Hogs of War]]'' missions, and you even get a nice medal for it, however, in the course of the single player game any pig that dies in more than two invidual battles is [[Killed Off for Real]]. It's nigh impossible to finish the entire game without losing at least a few good pigs.
* Subverted in ''[[In the Hunt]]'', if you got to the final form of the [[Final Boss]] one one credit, you'll get the special [[Downer Ending]] where you submarine ''doesn't'' escape the exploding enemy headquarters (after beating said boss). If you want the good ending, you'll have to [[Do Well, But Not Perfect|see the continue screen at least once]].
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* Completing ''[[Ketsui]]'' with no lives lost, AND no bombs used, AND at least 120 million points, grants you access to a harder version of the second loop.
** Similarly, ''[[Mushihime-sama]] Futari Black Label'' has a [[True Final Boss]] that can only be challenged by completing the entire game on God Mode (no, not ''that'' [[God Mode]]) up to that point on a single life.
* ''[[
* Required in ''[[Meat Boy
** Although, depending on the world that is being played, the game will let players use alternate characters (with the exceptions of [[Minecraft
* ''[[Bit
* 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 ''[[
* In ''[[
** One of the Checklist challenges is to defeat Level 3's boss with only 1 Kirby. Since pretty much every attack KO's a Kirby in one hit, this makes a no damage run a necessity.
* A requirement for most of ''[[
* ''[[Night Striker]]'' combines this with [[Pacifist Run]]. You get a pacifist bonus at the end of a level if you complete it without getting hit, AND not firing any shots. Very hard to pull off, especially in later stages.
* Completing a mission map in ''Dragon Saga''<ref>the game formerly known as ''Dragonica''</ref> without taking any damage earns you the "Fly like a Butterfly" medal, which boosts your maximum HP by 100 points when equipped.
* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]''. Typically, the sorts of people who do this also import the [[Updated Rerelease|Final Mix]] games, and play them on [[Harder Than Hard|Critical]]. Blocking is mandatory.
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* Finishing the original NES version of [[Ninja Gaiden]] is [[Nintendo Hard|already difficult enough as it is.]] Completing it in a single life is widely considered one of the hardest gaming challenges you will ever undertake in your gaming career.
* To obtain the perfect ending in [[Crash Bandicoot]], you have to break all boxes in every stage without dying. This gets [[Nintendo Hard|REALLY]] hard in the [[Difficulty Spike|later stages]]. This was no longer the case in the sequels.
* Some of the more recent ''[[
** ''[[
** The 2011 port of ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog CD
** ''[[
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